The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-01
LIVE ropes .ABoUT TOWN.

Commissioner MoAdoo referred Ii not
founded on fact. Many customers OF these
street vendors are the brokers who can
afford to eat anything they want, but do
not scorn to buy fruit from street stand
when it looks emitting. The wealthiest
clientele of all these street merchants Is
said to belong to fat man who has be-
come as much part Of an Office building
on Wall Street as the stone coping against
which he has leaned for the past five years
He sells out OF n clean, glasstopped box
excellent candy made by the most expen-
sive of the city's confectioners. He always
sells the one brand Of 1t, and soon after the
luncheon hour every day the little box is
emptied. And the men who are his best
customers are not persons OF limited means.
'We run across many strange experiences
in our work. said tenement house in
spector the other day to group Of friends
4but the one that gave me the queerest SEN
sation came to me last week. A tenant
over on Chrystie street told me very con-
fidentially:
"'There's a woman an her daughter In
the cellar an they've been dead three
weeks
Filled with horror insisted on making
thorough investigation OF the place.
Very reluctantly the woman accompanied
me to the cellar A long search failed TO
discover any bodies. A collection Of old
cans and small box OF ashes were the only
contents Of the cellar.
"'Where are the corpsesT demanded. :.
"Corpses?' replied the woman. 'Corpses?
There amt no corpses They we're In
eliminated three weeks ago..
The drop a nickel in the slot machine
has been adapted to various and divers
purposes from selling collar buttons to
dispensing gum and fortune. but an enter
prising bathing pavilion manager at Coney
Island has brought In a new idea by pro.
yiding an insurance policy for the nickel.
the date being registered by an automatio
stamp. 1t insures the bather against
death by drowning
The proprietor reports that the machine
has been showing a handsome profit on the
investment Thus far there have been no
The duties Of chambermAid In the
modern hotels are very different from what
they once were. Whether she has pink
cheeks and white cap or Is old and wrinkled,
she is relieved Of the hardest part Of her
work. She no longer sweeps, as that
function is now performed entirely by the
machine used In cleaning public building g.
stretches from one end Of the corridors
to the other. All other kinds Of sweeping
have been abolished from the new hotels.
The tricks Of the shyster lawyer are hard
to beat. One OF the tribe, whose Ignorance
Of law is Offset by his nerve and his oily
tongue, recently opened an Office in Brook
lyn. Appearance Is everything to the
shyster and his room was planned accord
ingly. Shelves extending to the ceiling
cover three Of the walls and on them APP
parently are stacked hundreds OF law books.
by the sight of this library, which, as
matter Of fact, il not composed OF books
at all There are a few real volumes, but
the rest are mere shells bindings that look
like books and serve the same purpose as
theatrical props
THE memory Of the slooum disaster
seems to be exerting as much OF an in
huence upon the steamboat excursion
business this summer as last, said river
man. you don't see the barges loaded
down with people on their way to some
park on the Sound as you used to- and
Sunday school excursions on steamboats,
this season can almost be counted on one
hand. ! suppose it'll be several years
before public confidence in EXCURSION
steamers is restored to the point where 1t
was a little over year ago"
1t was a warm night and the doors Of
Broadway restaurant were wide open. At
the table nearest the street three men were
eating when a woman. not ragged nor yet
we'll dressed, lodged in from the side
walk.
Il don't know you gentlemen. but I'm
hungry and want you to give me quarter
apiece she declared You're having a
good dinner and want one, too. III sit
down and eat with you il YOU say So and
she made move as II to take chair.
S he his SAID Of as
panions quickly followed suit and the
woman glided out. The head waiter ar
rived just in time to see her disappear In
the crowd on the street.
That's twice this week she's done that
trick here he said. Hungry Certainly
handling, and it makes good; but it isn't
going TO work here any more II can
help it.
The man with taste for eccentric STYLES
in headgear has better opportunity to
crafty them this year than he ever had.
There were never such varieties. In one
of the Broadway shops three hats have the
bottom of the brim colored to match the
band The bands were dark green, red
and blue.
Two Southern women, sisters, every even
ing walk ten times around the Harlem
block in which they live. They travel
rapidly, too. They say they would vary
the route except that their athletic gait
Won d attract too much attention.
Our neighbors are used to our two mile
and have ceased to notice
it," one OF them explained. when we
go away for the summer we will take the
walk on tho piazza Of our hotel 1t keeps
our compilations fresh and our weight
down. We have kept 1t up for five years,
and we always walk at top speed, for slow
pace is not exercise
"The question is" said the young man,
whether the joke is on me or Jones.
you see, Jones came to me.
4 ought to have my pay raised five
a week. says he, but hate to tackle the
boss. How would you go at it,
Why don't you write to him, saying
that Mr. Jones is deserving young man,
who has done good work for the firm, and
ought, to have his pay raised IS a week.
says !. Then sign it Lewis Jarvis and
send it in
by Jove, that's a great idea says he.
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