The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-16
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

Not many men can pass q window In
which miniature yacht Ia displayed.
though It be ever 90 crude product that
attracts their attention. In Twenty-third
street there is shop whore models OF oil
kinds are made for inventors and exhibitors.
and It's window L. crowded with ships, tugs,
steamboats,, sohooners and other craft until
II resembles nothing 30 much as the Erie
In at the excellent examples Of the model
makers art.
'Never heard Of man being made sea-
sick by swimming In rough water7' asked
the physician whose bailiwick Is down by
the sea. sWhy. I've had half q dozen
cases the past week. Since the Health
Department warned bathers from the still
water Of Gravesend Bay many swimmers
have been going down to tho Brighton and
Rockaway beaches, where for some reason
the water has been rougher than for years.
The first day ~ rough water makes many
ment Identical With seaslckness and follow
ing the same causes. Any expert swimmer
will tell you that half an hours floating In
rolling water will put the swell OF the sea
into the nerves 30 that for an hour after
he feels as though the earth was N mo- mo.
Of sailor
This legend appears on the door OF the
rathskeller Of q somewhat famous uptown
refreshment establishment:
During the heated term this RATHSKELLER
VIII BE- t0Sna Sn tho coco es FARE
Beats all, the ingenuity Of these New
Yorkers,s said stranger, reading the sign.
where else Is. there enough enterprise
to move the cellar to the roof for few
weeks business2'
Il don't want to be director OF pilferers;
80 I won't say where I live. but it's well
inside Of Greater New York, said an ele-
waited road passenger. ~ moved there
and Ia We had ample proof that
there are parts Of New York where thieves
are scarce and where the people are not
afraid OF them. have been amazed
to see full wash lines hanging out over
night-not only In one lot, but In half q
dozen q them Inoted one ling last last n night
and nothing but q low hedge separated
II from the street. I take 1t as an enoour.
q ging sign that the worlds growing honest
-They talk about women being vain,'
said the window dresser Of big store,
4but have como to believe there Is more
vanity among men than among women.
In one Of my windows there Is mirror,
80 arranged that one standing on the side
walk may get full length view OF himself.
It has been there for week, and ! have
S Sssn moye msoss na 'n that men
halt, adjust their cravats and waistcoats
and move on, apparently anxious that no
one shall notice what they are doing.
Fewer women stop, but those who do want
to know II their hats are on straight make
no pretense and care not how many may
be watching"
Il saw In THE suN tho other day that
Mexican gamblers bet on which lump Of
sugar fly will first light. There Is little
cafe In Canal street In New Orleans, where
that game Is beaten said Southerner
yesterday.
11he cate Is run by creole and he serves
snails such as you get nowhere else. When
Of live snails for racing. A snail doesn't
70 very rapidly under ordinary circum.
stances, and they have. to be jockeyed
along with burning matches, under which
four feet may be covered In fifteen
pays for the absinthe.'
1The summer vacation Is one Of the most
useful OF business CUSTOMS declared an
employer. BY means Of vacations the
employer gets line on his men. For
instance, Mr.. A is away two weeks and
his work Is done by young b, who accom-
plishes more and makes suggestions that
are worth following. That means that
D.. In n
work from that time on.
Then perhaps old c takes a month and
leaves his assistant In charge. II things
10 to pieces 1t means that G needs q new
assistant or that G Ii selflsh about develop
ing a possible successor. In any case we
have learned something mighty interesting
and useful"
A student OF old New York had been
about his knowledge, when Mis-
sourian asked him suddenly:
sWhere's Broadway alley7'
While the other heeitated third man cut
in with.
.I'n bet 1t isn't anywhere near Broad
You're right said the Mlssourian. ITS
further from Broadway than the Fifth
Az! Avenue Th r .... Is from Fifth avenue
Its down began the history student.
"Wrongl It isn't even down In the older
part OF the city. 1t connects Twenty-sixth
and Twenty seventh streets and Is half
way between Lexington and Third avenues.
And I've never seen 1t on any map OF New
York