The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-19
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

Herr DIPPED Of the Metropolitan Opera
House force. who was on the bridge In the
GARNER" performance when the structure
gave way, had not fully recovered from the
shock OF the afTa when he came down
into Wall Street a few days later TO visit
some friends in an international banking
house. He was seated on a diVan chatting
with his friends when an electr.J iignt glQbe
above him burst with bang sCattering
over him shower OF glass. Herr Dppei
rose in the air like pole vaultet. uttering
things meahtime in his famed cePr tenor
tones. When he descended and explained
he was readily pardoned
This is passing for the latest Nat Good
win story;
The actor was standing at a street corner
in London when a man went up to him and
said; Can you tell me where the post
office s?"
Yes, said Nat and walked away. FL
teen minutes later he etrolled back to the
same place. The man was still there.
Do you really want TO know where the
post Office s?" said Goodwin,
Yes. said the man, and walked away.
To Commissioner Shields came the other
day would be citizen who was black as
tho ace OF clubs. His name he gave as Wal
ter Wellington O'Hara. He wanted first
papers.
THAT isn't French name. is it, asked
Clerk Donovan Of the naturalization bureau:
-Ah guess IL amt, replied the colored
gentleman.
ITO whom do you At present owe alleg-
ance?" asked Mr.. D novan
ITO the Queen o. Holland, replied Mr..
O'Hara. =,
you are cosmopote, aren't your
observed Mr.. Donovan.
All guess ah must be- answer: I'd Mr.
OHara And he went forth highly pleased.
Down in the Wall Street commission
houses ono OF the greatest perquisites OF GUS
toners is the reading Of the quotations as
they come out on the tape from the uokers'
For this privilege not little strategy is
employed. as the person upliited on the
high stool near the instrument may be
readily compared TO the star boarder OF
the boarding house. In one house with
particularly large clientele the honor IS
shared by two old men longtime customers
OF the house. There is no rivalry between
them. The older voluntarily surrenders
his place when prices begin to go down.
he is a bull eternally and cant bear 10
read of declining prices. At the younger
old man is a bear forev he abdicates
the throne when prices begin TO go up.
After one Of the Munroe 4 Munroe bank
rlptcy hearings recently. Commissioners
Alexander, before whom the examinations
take place. missed his umbrella.
If discover who took that umbrella !
will certainly have him arrested" said the
Commissioner.
Two hours later Samuel Untermyer re-
turned the umbrella with apologies that
he couldn't use II because he already had 40
many. The Comm ssioDer has not vet sworn
out a warrant for Mr. Untermyer.
The policemen who guard the fifthavenHe
crossings have had their hands full sino'
the two autornobilJ shows began a few
days ago.
1t has been more luck than anything
else that has pGeNertC Il serious accident
on the avenue in the ,ast few days since the
devil wagons began to swarm here. said
ono crossing guardian The town Ia
full Of strangers come 10 buy autos or
course the dealers take them for a spin
along Fifth avenue. Then there are Others
who Jolly dealers into giving them a free
ride BY pretending that they want TO buy
The number Of machines that pass Thirty
fourth street has increased tenfoid since
the shows opened
There's no accounting for tastes in dress.
Men have been seen in dinner coat and silk
hat. in frock coat and opera hat. in dress
coat and derby hat; but it remained for
one man to attend "A matinee at the theatre
where Arnold Days company is playing
you Never Can Tell in dinner coat
yesterday. He was correctly dressed for
an evening performance but he appeared
to know what he was about. Perhaps. like
a