The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-01
Nv ToPIos AROur TOWN.

In big apartment house on the upper
west Side near Central Park the tenants
pay their telephone bills every day. They
used 70 pay them weekly. but often there
were disputes about calls. The tenants
finally evolved the plan now Ia use. The
switchboard operator makes out a slip
az each call IL made 10y tenant and in the
evening these are presented for payment
Inc tenants are not apt 10 forget the calls
they, make in any one day and there is no
trouble now over disputed calls. The plan
pleasea the superintendent Of the building
even more than the tenants for he leads a
comparatively easy lie now while he used
20 have his hands full settling rows
In the tenement houses the janitors
are more important percentages than most
people think, said an agent for a large
real estate owner recently. If they arc
reasonably intelligent, as most Of them are,
they have duties much more important
than cleaning halls, tending TO ashes and
garbage and 80 on.
I'm many houses under my supervision.
there are from fifteen to twenty families,
each paying a small rent, and YOU can
imagine the difficulty / would have II
attempted TO collect the rent myself In
most cases don't do IL, but leave Il to the
janitors, and find that they collect more
closely than | could and prevent sudden
-
Besides that the janitor ID relied upon by
many tenants. especially those unable 10
speak English, for pointers in regard to
employment and many other matters Of
Importance
Milkmen are the most wideawake hustlers
for new business in this city, according to
man who moved yesterday. He moved
10 Harlem, and while his traps we're being
carried into his new home the hustling milk
men began to descend on him. The first
arrived as the van backed up TO the door
Before the van was unloaded, twelve
appear cd, each trying TO corral the new
tenant and all ready TO prove that they
we're selling the purest Of pure milk.
When Mrs. Newlywed was nicely settled in
her Harlem fat all her girl friends fastened
to call and see her home. 1t was very pretty
and the darling little buffet in the dining
| room was the envy OF all.
When the bride left the room one in
! quisitive miss raised the dainty curtain
around the cute buffet and the secret was
/ out.
| Being pressed for room. and not needing
/ the steam radiator in the spring Mn Newly
wed had taken an unused leaf from the
dining room taGle. laid it across the radiator,
/ arranged a spotless curtain around IL, and
/ spread an embroidered cloth over the top.
| Then she hung a pretty mirror directly
] ONtT lIt center n hnlulnk Nlldlllk hloll
and few cut glass dishes rounded out the
buffet.
A trade Journalist quit the advertisement
getting game a short time ago to engage
in a cigarette enterpris, His sense Of the
! value Of advertising inspired him to under
/ take the mission Of having smokers adveT-
tise themselves He daily visits acGuaint-
anoes in business houses in Manhattan
| soliciting orders on monogTammed cigar
cites. II preferred, only ones initials are
/ printed but should the purchaser insist
upon it, his crest is reproduced in NINA
ture on the paper wrapper. Mr.. Hustler
ia declaring dividends. He says that in
| many instances those who never smoked
cigarettes before now use them beca use of
the suggestion Of eIcusveness attaching
to this private stock fad.
An unusual slot machine has been in
stalled on the building line in front Of a
basement cigar store in Broadway Il ia
| labelled Pure Plain Soda and has a self
adjusting tumbler-rinser. The directions
read: Pull knob away out; drop one cent
| in slot; push knob back The Board Of
Health permit Is hanked by cruciform
designs printed in red.
Children display great ingenuity In find
ing new amusement. II is a common
sight to see youngsters tobogganing down
the steep steps OF secular school IN west
! Seventeenth street With board holding
two boys il glides down the stone steps
as nicely as If 1t were running down a snow
| bank
On a windy day children can be seen
around the Flatiron Building with impro-
vised sails attached TO wagons. Gusts Of
wind blow the wagons along few feet
and the children have as much fun as II
they we're in boat.
The most energetic Of the theatrical
press agents has a new cheap advertising
scheme Every night he telephones "a
a couple Of the big hotels at the dinner
hour and has a boy page in the dining room
cry out the name Of the show he Is boom
ing. He does not yell out the fun name
Of course but when boy calls for Mr.. -
he Is apt TO remind the diners that there Is a
show in town in which the name figures
Once reminded Of II, they may 60 and SEE
the show