The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-29
WE no ALL THE RUBDERiNG
IN THIS NEIGHDoRHooD.

IN THIS NEIGHBoRHooD.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
A battalion chief of the Fire Depart
ment, whose quarters are in Fulton street
in the heart OF the drug and chemical dis
trict, prizes the driver OF his buggy very
highly The driver has n knowledge of
shorthand which the chief finds handy
whenever he is investigating suspicious
fire. for 1t enables him 10 dictate all his
notes to the driver.
From private letter received in this
city yesterday it app airs that Maurice
Grau is not nearly so well as he was He
took furnished HOUSE. in the Rue Chal-
grin in Paris expecting TO spend the winter
there, but tho physicians have ordered
him to the south of France, whittier he
he will go as soon as he Is strong enough
20 make thetrip. He was so we'll last sum-
mer that he expected 10 come to this city
ext autumn, with no idea Of ent ring
busine ~ life imms diately, but to look about
him He had LITTLE id'a of ever resuminR
the dire elton Of OPP ra, but thought last
summer that he might possibly take up
amusemcnts again.
Alonzo Whiteman. the forger who was
captured yesterday after long search,
lived in a small hotel here 50 yeral years ago,
and succeeded in making profound i'm
pre- ssion on the hotel clerks. He was there
under an assumed name. occupying apart
ments that were not very expansive. But
he was called up constantly by the most
distinguished men in New York. They
wanted to know when they could see him
at lunch or dinner and showered him with
invitations. Nobody notioad the similarity
in the voices OF these q ntlemt n's sscre-
iaries, who always k II word who had called
IL was not until the d. Il ctives carrie d away
this popular guest that the hotal employees
could be convinced that ne did not have
q large acquaintance among the rich.
A rule at Bellevue Hospital makes 1t
necessary to notify an inferno whenever
a new patient Is admitted to his ward
This causes the messengers lot OF running
in the night, but they didn't mind it so
long az they found the doctor in the bed
assigned to him. A short time ago, how
ever, the fresh air habit struck the hospital
staff and one of the doctors took 70 sleep
ing out OF doors.
The messengers searched fer this
physician for two nights without success,
and on the third night, after routing out
all the mon in his division, located the
doctor on a fire escape. wrapped in
blanket Things went well for Il week
until finally even the fire escape failed to
disclose him After two hour fruitless
search his fellow internes were again APP
pealed to. The missing doctor was then
found on the roof, seven stones from tho
ground The hospital authorities eS-
planned 70 the inferno that the messengers
couldn't be expected TO travel 20 the roof
every time they had a note for him. 40 the
fresh air advocate returned to the fire
escape
The brewery that burned the other day,
at First avenue and Thirtyeighth street
was ono of the few reminders OF name
oncs famous in New York. "Kip's Bay
Brewery took ts namo from the indenta-
ton in the East River at that point. which
was known to the Dutchmen and carly
English az Kip's Bay. II was so Gale d
after Jacob kip.who owned the land there
abouts Jacob Kip lived on stone street /,
about City feet west Of Broad street
cofe now stands on the site. He became
City Magistrate and secretary OF the Town
{ rlncil When he attained some poIucal
nrominenca he invested in farm lands,
among which was the tract lying along the
East River in tho neighborhooc OF thirty
seventh street.
The horses used by the mounted police
are faithful animals. Not infrequentiy
viii you see one standing alone in the midst
of n crowded street, while it, rider IS short
Ia stir. but stands stolld but alert, Just as
II he realized al we'll as hls rlder the re-
/ sponsiOilities Of his post. Inc CROWDS
may rush by him and push against him'
but he will not move.
Some little time ago a great exte nsion
Of telephone business in Brooklyn was
proposed by a local company through the
medium of slot telephones, which make
1 connection with the person called up only
/ on the dropping into the slot Of the required
| ,ou. A great number OF these instruments
! we're put by the company, free OF charge
/ into boarding and private houses. Many
/ of them turned out 10 be a convenience
/ 10 the househoders, but were anything
! INIT profitable TO the company. Presently
! gangs OF men were sent throughout the CllS
/ 10 gather in the non-payng instruments
/ Ia one instance, the company lnstru
Inent sett err informed the mistress OF q
boarding house thd' he had come 10 'AA'
/ out the telephone.
n out. Then. looking through the bacl
! narlor window, she said by The way
what IS that thing IKE rope training ao'o'
( the end of the gardens!
sOb. said the setter. that is one OF th'
I company. telephone cables
Why. replied the lady simply, OF cours'
II l.; [ just remember. Then she smiie'
| eweefly and the lfDubltu HV'NNA 'SN sA
telephone alone and went sadly away
Alter an interval Of a few weeks anothe
Of the oompany's stan appeared on TN
saue erTlnd. He was met by the husband
who said: Certainly. take down th'
Instrument by all means, but after tina
/ will ask YOU to cut that cable that run
across my garden and 30 save me the trouhl
of doing IL myself That was many
months ago and the telephone Is still dom
business at the old stand.