The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-02
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

sunday was not on the program. The
extra part couldn't even be called sacred.
The singers, clad in cap and gown, were
piously intoning the final "Amens' Of the
service, when one OF the women, anxio US
to get out In hurry, proceeded to get rid
Of hor costume. She took one hatpin from
her cap and stuck it in the seat behind her.
Then out came the other hatpin and she
jabbed 1t at the seat It wouldn't jab, 30
vent Amen" OF the soprano voice by her side
was turned to profane "Ouch!" and the SER
vice ended with feminine filters mingling
with the tones of the organ
Skirts on stable boys when they are
breaking horse for a woman to ride is a
custom as old as horse dealing. As fact.
the lad makes an impromptu skirt from
stable blanket or lap robe, the essential
the horse and accustom 1t to the drapery.
On upper Seventh avenue and wherever
saddle horses are exercised, 1t is a common
sight, but always an odd one to the unini-
tiated, to see the boys riding in this mas
querade attire.
School commandments aren't what they
used to be- declared q Brooklynite who
insists that they did everything better years
ago. Take the graduation exercises at the
high school last week, for instance. Like
most of the other parents, turned out
expecting to hear six or eight orations In
which the affairs Of nations are settled for
good and all by the brightest boys In the
class, but there was nothing of the kind
There were no essays, only an address by a
member Of the Board Of Education and the
valedictory by a member Of the class, And
the valedictorian wasn't the real thing
either. He wasn't the best student; he got
the honor by vote Of his classmates and
told the truth and declared he was glad
to get out Of school. Who ever heard Of
They wouldn't have stood for it when
was graduated"
One Of the new hotels just opened to
the public has an Office staff Of some ten
men or more. In this lot there is not
single New Yorker Every man engaged
by the management comes from some other
city. and most OF them are from the West
or South. The proprietor selected them
with no other idea than to get the most
efficient, Most Of them when they began
work here were az much strangers as the
guests OF the hotel. The manager who
hired them said he knew no reason why
New Workers should not be successful hotel
clerks. although the fact remained they
were not.
The news from Boston that the famous
Puritan, that successfully defended the
Americas Cup in 1855, had been sold as
junk brought sadness to the heart of many
a yachtsman who remembers well the
Puritan-Genesta races. 1t is common
saying in yachting circles that of all chal-
lengers Lieut.. Hem came nearest to VIC
tory with the Genesta. His sportsmanlike
conduct endeared him to all who knew
him here, and his death within few months
OF his return to England was much re-
GREETED.
The truck of the Genesta was made into
an inkstand when she was broken up, and
was sent to the New York Yacht Club where
it is6ighly treasured.
On the East Side the Star of Israel is a
familiar sight, a six pointed star of two
equilate al triangles interlaced. 1t marks
every synagogue and is frequently dis
played over the meeting places of various
fraternites whose names begin with B'nai.
1t is part OF the magical seal of Solomon
that keeps the djinns safely corked UP
in bottles until some simple fisherman
breaks seal and spell together. But it would
have been far more familiar had it not
been for the labor saving. conceit OF a
woman. When the plan Of the Stars and
Stripes had been drafted by the Continent
tai Congress the stars were Of the six
pointed sort Mrs. Betsy Ross was called
upon to be the first seamstress Of the new
ensign. With charming feminine dlsre-
gard for acts Of Congress she told the COM
stars, and illustrated with a snip Of her
scissors that by folding the bunting she
could cut each star of five points with
single cut and make them true.
The new tenor that Heinrich Conried has
:, ha otrpr,olitop
House is Carl Burrian, a youthful Wagner
singer, who won his first honors at Ham
burg, where he sang for several years until
he went to Dresden to take the first place in
the company. He was invited to go to
Munich to sing while Heinrich knote is
in this country, and he would have done so
but for his contract to stay in Dresden for
a certain number Of years. Now he Is free
to sing anywhere, SO long as he does not
take any regular contracts.
They got out of northbound Broadway
car and turned eastward down Eighteenth
still young but settling comfortably into
from Boston. With them was their son,
q youngster OF eight or nine who kept rum
ming ahead Of his parents with the air OF an
explorer. Every now and then he would
calf back over his shoulder some new mar
vel. He was about in the middle Of the
block between Madison and Fourth ave-
MUGS when a low rumloing reached the
child's cars. "Oh, papa" he shouted back
delightedly, Il hear the subway"
A few steps further on, as an india rubber
like smell issuing from hole in front Of him
reached his noetri,s, he added, And oh,
papa, l can smell It'll"
No photograph shop at Coney Island is
complete this year without an automobile.
The establishments are so modest and APP
parently supplied with such limited capital
it Is Incredible that they could have bought
the machines shown in every tent and shack
in which the pictures are taken. The
photographers gagged the taste OF the
visitors to the island accurately, for every
nine pictures out OF ten show the subjects in
a motor. The small price at which they can
enjoy the experience even in a stationary
vehicle makes the temptation irresistible.