The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-31
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

At no time Of the year are the stranger
IN New York 80 noticeable as in ueust
> OF course, there are thousands Of Their
here all the time, but August Is the mont
when every New Yorker who Is able leave
town, and the visitor Is more obvious.
On many corner up and down Broad
way and Fifth avenue-usually the wron,
corner-.they stand in groups waiting TO
cars and stages. they all ride on, the rubbe
neck wagon, they all want to see Chinatown
and the Flatiron and to know the highes
pudding and to 60 to the top OF 1t. WheI
tney visit Trinity Church their one idea Il
il St. Paus the Chief shinS Of 1i nteeres s1 ]
Washington's pow.
They take one ridf, in the subway, &C
to Coney Island, look at the st. Regis will
awe and the house Of the Vanderbilts with
generation: visit a continuous show, and
Some Office boys in one OF the tall up
town buildings had fun while A. Roy
Knsbenshue was taking his airship spin
on Wednesday afternoon. Il had been
advertised that the aeronaut would drop
bank checks to the crowds below as he
sped through the dir The Office boys
saw one Of the checks and then found some
blank paper the same color. They cut
hundreds Of strips the exact size Of checks
and mounted to the tower Of the building.
When the balloon was directly over them.
and thousands Of rubbernecks filled the
street below, the boys let fly. There was
stage snowstorm for a minute and then
the rubbernecks began to scramble. 1t
looked for while as though the two cops
on duty at the corner wouldn't be able to
cope with the crush, so determined was
everybody to get one OF the supposed
checks.
When they discovered the hoax a lot OF
people said unprintable things about the
concern that offered the checks
did you ever know that there is only
one man in my line in this town who wears
a beard'" asked Charley the bartender.
shaking the fragrant cinnamon into a
foamy milk punch. And he's so well of
that he doesn't have to shave close like the
rest Of us to hold his job.
Boards are frowned upon in this bust
ness. They look hot and untidy. be they
ever so we'll trimmed. There's nothing
makes a line of hot, thirsty men in front Of
bar relish their drinks 30 much as the
sight Of a, cleanshaven barkeep, we'll
groomed and clad in spotless white, mixing
them up.
We are encoura ged just as much to keep
our faces cleanshaven as our clothes fresh
and white. That's the reason you see so
few boards in the business.
1t happened in an uptown Broadway
restaurant He and she used to dine to-
gether every night in quiet domestic way,
for they had only lately been married. She
was a strict teetotaler, while he well, he
wasn't exactly.
They invariably occupied the same table
and were waited upon by the same waiter. |
They drank ginger ale with their meal but |
hubby, by aid Of tip. inveigled the waiter
INTO putting a good horn OF whisky into |
his soft drink every night.
All went well until one evening the wife |
vas more than ordinarily thirsty. Finishing
Ter glass Of ginger ale, she reached over for
Ter husbands glass, and before he could
top her she had taken a good average sip
he waiter glance that froze what was left
II the liquid, and-the subsequent pro-
eedings interested only the husband.
A young poet has had the almost in
redible good fortune to find q publisher
or his great fve-act dramatic poem Full
4 the news, he sought several OF his friends
a succession to receive their congratula-
ions. Finding not one Of them at home,
70 returned to his boarding house and
old the landlady Of his good luck.
80 you are going to have book pub
shed? A poem7' said she. well, that
} certainly. grand. Now let me give you
bit OF advice, and II you follow it you
hat I'm talking about. too, because 1
ad gentleman boarder once that was
n actor. My advice is: You take your
ook and get some one to dramatic i'll"