The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-26
LIVE rorycs AEorr TOM.

LIVE TOIyCS ABOUT TOUN.
One of the guards at the Fourteenth
street subway station has hit upon n scheme
which il moro effective than the old Step
lively and Both gatesl' cries. His APP
peal is Quick connections. Train on oppo-
site track now waiting," The train isn't
always there. but travellers, apprecating
the courtesy, hurry where they formerly
| fingered to show their contempt Of the
step lively" command
TIL street car company keeps an inspec-
tor at the Carnegie Hall corner on concert
nights to look out for accidents when tho
crowd comes out. The same ma IN is al
ways there and he has become a. clever as
Broadway cop in plotting women across
and helping them aboard cars. He takes
r greet interest in the music, too. After
the crowd IS safely inside he gets a chance
to hear a biz of Beethoven himself now
and then He admires the Philharmonic
and Boston Symphony orchestras about
equally.
"But wait till the Peoples Symphony
have few years more practice in this
hall, ne says This Is their first season.
In five years they run them other folders
pretty close.
The cabbies have not sued the subway
for damages yet. but there isn't much doubt
that it has made some inroads on their
trade The West Forty-second street sta
ton Is very handy to the theatre district
and also 10 the West Side residences up
town There is still some novelty about
the trip and many young men who used
to think they must hire a cab ara brave
enough TO suggest an underground ride
to the young women az kind of lark.
Once the ice is broken the second time il
easy. No such well dressed mob ever
stormed the elevated as now blocks the
subway at Forty-se cond street when the
theatres close.
One home loving Harlemite does not
mourn very loudly over those occasional
days between the flight OF the latest cook
and the coming of another.
MY wife is so busy attending societies
for the good of Others that when she has
a maid in the kitchen | never sec her. But
when she has to wash the dishes | am per-
mitted to dry them. and then get chance
to talk over old times when she did her
own work That dish towel Is life savers
The piled up snow in City Hall Park
melted 50 fast under the warm rays of yes
terday's sun that the water ran in small
rivuet over the concrete walk near the
entrance to the subway station, much TO
the annoyance of the newsboys gathered
there
They solved the problem of keeping their
feet dry by building dam with earth from
nearby excavation, thus diverhng the
miniature brook 80 that their business
was not irterfered with
One man uptown makes a good living as
a sort of walking pawnshop He has built
up big business by house to house can
wasting. and he usually drops around on
the DAYS that the rent IL about due, His
advances on diamonds are LIBERAL but he
gives no tickets. His customers under
stand that If they ever have enough money
at one time TO get their stuff out Of hook they
may have it If he has not disposed of 1t. II
he has found a purchaser for that particular
piece they may choose another from his
stock which is just as good, but at slight
advance. The persons who patroni1e him
have no sentiment attached TO their dia-
monds. When they have money they want
jewery-when they are broke they part
with it without pang'
Spick and span as n belle AT a ball. the
hattleship Maine was a picture bucking
against the tide under the Brooklyn Bridge
Yesterday afternoon, outward bound from
the navy yard. Fresh palnt-black on
tops. yellow on pipes and deck works, and
red below water lne-glistened IN the sun
shine and sailors and marines were grouped
along the sides
On the Bridge, near to the Brooklyn
anchorage, were tnFee women WHO "dFtp
their handkerchiefs az the Maine foated
by and the signals were answered from
group of officers standing beside HE
raft and we'll in view.
"A pretty bit Of sentiment remarked
a Bridge promenader Husbands bidding
their wives farewell, no doubt ."
~Yes, or adieus to sweethear.s--n may
the two never meet = replied cynic. bat
it is a pretty scene.
John r. Hegeman, president Of the Metro
poitan Life Insurance Company, is great
believer in advertising, considering it one
of the requisites OF success in business
Mr.. Hegeman belongs TO a Baptist church
in New Rochelle The congregation has
lust completed a fine white marble build.
ing. Being somewhat in debt. they de.
sired TO build up their organization Mr.
Hegeman had made and distributed among
the members of the congregation a cam
paign button TO be worn on the coat lapel
The button bears picture Of the new edllcr,
and the words, / belong 10 Salem Baptist
Sunday School. Won't you join us;'
There would be good margin Of profit
in serving buckwheat cakes said the
proprietor of popular lunch room the
other day, If my patrons were not 50 liberal
in the use Of butter and syrup. They pile
them on to such an extent that make very
little out OF their order Some who are
not content with using the last drop Of
syrup will resort TO the sugar bowl. Some
men who used to order a steak or chop
now make meal out of plate of cakes.
TAPESTRIES FOR THE GOULDs,