The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-05
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

| tuo cupIoHo SOuTt was MIuou IUCclGy
receiver for tailoring establishment
just after the appointment was announce
he was met In the Court House corridc
by a lawyer friend who occasionally enjoy
a receiyership himself.
DOG; always falling IN for the gSod thing
In the way Of a receivership When ! &c
one It's usually some picaytine busines
that doesn't pay me for my trouble.
wish ! stood In your shoes now, with fin
TAILORING business to rum.
just for fun III make deal with you. 70
IS, cash down. IN assign to you all tn
commissions coming to me out Of till
.That's . co." said the lawyer. and tn.
sxs Ss dr scp rhin sy ths round e.
an empty store. With Just the cutters benci
and some loose puper lying around. Every.
thing else had been removed. There
being nothing to receive. there will be nc
commissions.
Though artists and photographers for
newspapers and periodicals often encounte,
objections from those whose pictures they
are after. they ordinarily succeed. Never.
theless there IL one place which offers in.
superable obstacles to them.
In the Unit States courts the man with
camera is requested to leave 1t at tho door,
and the sketch artist is promptly reminded
have q theory there that even a prisoner
should not be subjected without his con-
sent to the reproduction Of his features.
Marshal Henke1 enforces the rule as strictly
as II 1t were part Of the Constitution.
A travelling man who visits New York
only once a year, and that always In sum-
mer said the other day as he was crossing
the North River on one Of the new ferry
boats:
'One Sunday last summer, when hap
pened to be In the city, there was an article
in THE Sum about the names Of cities used
on the ferryboats Of the East and North
rivers. On this trip. we have seen the
he Vest Point. Some Of the other e%e names n
l remember are Chicago, Pittsburg. Gin
cinnati. Montclair,. Newburgh: and COM
muters who cross the river every day must
have noticed a dozen other cities, and
several Of the States.
additions to the fleet in the Elmira, the
Binghamton and the Scranton. II the
railroads set many more Of their, cities
adrift in the river its population will soon
pass that OF the metropolis ITSELF
why uOct oVeTy OHo nate 10 Duy
matches?" asked the cigar. store man as
customer walked from the store after
pocketing the box which had been handed
to him with the expectation that he would
take one. "The matches we give away
in a month are big item Of our expense.
Men who will spend dollar for cigars or
drink and never give 1t second thought,
halt when 1t comes to paying a cent for a
box Of matches. And they are offended,
too, II one match is handed out when they
ask for light
what a difference thirty years makes!"
the end OF the Grand street horse cars with
a friend. '1When I first went to work on
that road the cars were the finest Of any
horse cars in the city. When Tweed and
others lived on the lower East Side they
SONS we're never thought Of. for the cars
seemed small palaces. When car returned
from q trip II a scratch was found on 1t
1t was put up for repairs. The company
built q car fifteen years ago which was
considered to be the finest In the city. 1t
was christened the parlor car
On the bill Of fare Of a restaurant down
town on which eve rything gets its charac-
teristio designation in long unhyph enated
German, the American word hash one
day appeared. A customer demonstrated
with the proprietor, saying that this was
"unpass"
The next day the bill Of fare was revised
and hash gave place to zusammengehack-
NIT zwie-
beln und kartoffeln gemischt, which might
be translated as Observation-Disclosures
beef, with onions and potatoes MIXED.
Il have a never failing barometer said
the veteran conductor on tho l25th street
crosstown railroad to one Of his passengers
as the car reached Fifth avenue.
DO you see those pine trees9" said he.
pointing to cluster Of pines on the top Of
the hill in Mount Morris Park. well, they
are nv barometer. Whenever a storm Is
coming the trees are almost black, but
when the weather is clear and no storm Is
they are bright green In color.
During the whole time nave been en- work
and prepared myself accordingly"
An uptown hat dealer has just closed an
interesting exhibition. He had on display
twenty derby hats, one for each OF the
last twenty years. 1T was odd how got
those hats, he said. 'I'ye been in business
Just twenty years When l opened up
/ sent derby to an uncle Of mine upstate
for present.
1.-THE next year sent another. and have
done the same every year since. He wears
them on Sundays only, so that when his
new hat comes along the old one is still in
good condition. Early this summer l
visited him. and he told me he had stored
in the garrett many hats had sent him.
At my suggestion he got them out, and 1
brought them here to show. They include
oyarvthipp from the old time so,lp plate tn
changes in styles Of headgear in twenty
years"