The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-09
LIVE roPIcs AMOUR TOWN.

walkers In the crowd. The dog is jealous
Of their rate Of speed and allows no OBJ
staoles 10 block his way When the crowd
grows TOO thick for the pair 10 make suih-
ten;Iyrap.d progress the dog parks sharply,
and there IS such a threat in the sound
that pedestrians Immediately separate and
allow him 10 lead his master along as rapidly
as he wants TO.
Magazine editors sometimes Say that one
picture will do a. well as another so long
as Il is pretty. recently published art-
icle on fencing for women emphasizes this
theory. The pictures illustrating 1t were
certainly taken no less than eight years
ago, when their subject. an actress was
preparing 70 appear in a play IN which she
had to fence. Since that time she has
married and retired from the stage. Her
pictures have been resurrected merely be-
cause they are pretty and have presumably
been out Of view long enough to be for
gotten.
i've kick coming, said the stouttheatre-
goer to the polite young man IN the box
Office. I'm always reading in the news
papers about how much attention the
theatre manager pays 70 details ia his
theatre. on the stage and OF. Maybe he
does Well. here's a practical detail
think the public would Ike 10 have the
manager pay little attention 70.
Only IN inc case Oh Ollt lltdbN III nan
a dozen. maybe fewer still do tickets show
at what time the performance begins or
where the theatre Ia. This is a real griev-
anoe with many theatregoers There are 40
many theatres in New York now that 1t -
hard TO remember them all. Yet each
manager seems 10 act as If his theatre was
the only one in town and everybody must
know It's customs
Even in the advertisements the time is
not always stated for the evening per-
formance and hardly ever for the matinee
III forgive a few short errings in stage
details II your theatre will tell me on its
tickets what time 70 come around TO see
your show"
The polite young man promised to tell
the authorities about the stout theatre
goer's kick
He was the only passenger on West
Farms car early in the morning and he
bad an Inauguration bun with him When
two young women entered the car he
arose with difficulty and. removing his hat,
said with polite gravity.
Have nv seat, ladies. | insist
Then. replacing his nat, he suspended
himself from a strap and paid no further
attention 70 them.
Many Of the strangers within New Yorks
gates made a pious pilgrimage to the old
Roosevelt home in East Twentieth street
last Saturday in default Of being able to
witness in the ceremony ut Washington,
The house, which is just east Of Broad
way has long been given over 10 bust
ness purposes, salesrooms occupying the
first and second floors. The top floor Is
the headquarters Of tho district Republican
club
Glaring gilt lettering on the windows
pIoclaims the fact that President Roose-
volt was born in this house The rubber
neck wagons al include the place in their
downtown routes,
The stranGest relic OF an opera season
that ever came into Max Hrsch's custody
is now IN the box Office Of the Metropolitan.
The cleaners PICK UP queer objects but they
never found an egg 10 the house until the
last night q the SEASON 1t lay in chair,
and Oh IL was written.
Laid during the performance Of Die
Walkuere March g. 1914
! Whence it came and what weird sense Of
7 humor inspired it nobody know Satur-
| day is not a subscription night and there 3
( no means of finding ont who occupied tie
/ SCAT on which il was found
II will be- good news I, great many
people who we're becoming troubled about
the changed character Of the immigra
ton into this country that the Irish are
ginning to come here again in some
/ thing nearer the old time numbers. Last
year SO $40 immigrants from Ireland were
/ admitted at the port Of New y rk This
( was an increase OF nearly + 900 over the
| number in the year before. Women and
! men were in the proportion Of about four
to three and some COO were under Il yenrs
old They br ught wi h them altogether
more tnan million dollars.
New York city did not by any ans
get m 81 Of these immigrants, though
. D. rrgls .f ...,1 t-, ) 10
Eastern States. As showing their SUPER T
character over the imm grants OF the
S'avonic and Latin races II Is only neces-
sary 10 show that Of all the host that came
here less than 200 were detained for
further invest CATION. and OF these al!
bat l2s were ultimately permitted to land.
six were sent la * 70 Ireland as insane,
ll3 beo use u was thought that they m ght
not be able TO maintain themselves he
and MIRO went back because they were her >
in violation cf the provisions the CON
tract labor law. Some 81 900 are now at
work and most Of them IL may be said,
without fear OF contradi ton. are sending
back moaey = the OLD county.
Philadelphia, il seems, isn't tie only town
where the diner can have his telephone
brought 10 him at table without his taking
/ the trouble 70 get up to answer call. Since
/ The credit Of being first in this particular
| regard WIS attributed 20 the City of Rest
/ here hava stepped up in turn Albany
/ Troy. Cohoes. and even Brooklyn. 10 say
/ hat they have the same convenience.
The trouble is says the man who puts
! forward Brooklyn's claim. that your Man
| haftanie thinks he's the whole thing, and
! IL he hasn't got a thing be doesn't believe
! that any other part Of the city has. Let
! him circulate a BIZ, and he II find that other
! folks are not 50 slow.
This ives heard in the Tenderloin:
Hello, Bill Where you hot footing?-
4Hoboken ! want TO get bet down
on the third at New Orleans III be hack
| Ia town ia TWO hours
| In addition to the 10 cents yer monthly
now being published by a theatrical firm,
/ New York has no less than five weekly
napers intended for free distribution TO the
/ natrons Of the theatre by which it is pub
/ rshed. This makes no record OF the in
! Vulnerable press sheets sent out, but APP
| niles only to bona fde weekly papers.
The press agent no longer finds II easy TO
I have his items printed by the daily papers.
! His notes must have an actual news value
/ Tor the general reader. The weekly bule-
I tin is the result
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