The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-17
LIVE T0PIcS AEoUT TOWN.

A few downtown business men have
! organized a pedestrian club Al. We above
Fory-dftL street and they walk home
!ery afternoon when the weather is not
TOO rough, taking as far as possible diff
erent route daily.
'Our object is twofold said one Of the
members we want outdoor exercise
and we want to see New York. One day
we go straight ur Broadway. The next
so walk along the W ast 8 de- following the
river front to Forty-second street.
Next we go home by way Of the Bowery
and Third avenue Another route is
through East BrGadSay to Rutgers Square
and tnen north 10 Second avenue.
we have discovered twenty different
routes. including combinations OF cross
streets BY following this plan We get
otherwise we would never see and better
elen OF the varied life OF tho city
Walking under such conditions does not
grow m jnotonous, rs IL would perhaps II
va took the same route every day. w
encounter plenty OF novel sights winch
sapply interesting topics Of talk
Uncle Sam L. no moro careful about cor
recting signs when bis tenants move than
are hi4 nephews. In the Post ONCE build
ing the directory on the first door wall
bears he legend: United States Treasury
Secret Service.
merchant sent one Of hls clerks re-
Gently TO consult Secret Service man. No
such person was 10 be found In the Post
ONCE building.
why they moved over TO il0 Nassau
street more than year ago, explained
/ an attendant.
Here IL tho very latest Sim Ford story.
Its truth Is vouched for by members OF
/ the Stock Exchange, who are telling It
| about.
| A broker took Mr.. Ford to luncheon
( downtown While they sat talking James
! S,illman. president Of the City Bank came
/ in The broker introduced Ford and
( Sdllm4n.
Il am glad to meet a man whose name ia
! in eyerybOdy's mouth said the banker
! putting GU, biz hand.
IS And am glad 10 meet man whose
/ name l. in Erery5o1y's Magazine, was MIR
| Ford's quick reply.
The history clerk at Bellevue Hospital
| registers an average Of 100 patients a day,
| and na;u ally he encounters names which
! are queer He got one name the other
/ dav which he said ought to 90 in some
/ body's hall OF fame. bartender walked
| into the hospital with an unmisiakHble
/ case OF alcoholism and registered as Stony
I Lonesome.
Ona Pennsylvania ferryboat bound train
ward from Twenty-third street the other
| afternoon two women met. Ono was In
half mourning and her friend asked why.
We'll you see, my dear explained the
woman In black : am going to Florida
for two months. just couldn't afford to
/ buy a lot Of spring clothes and wear them
/ out down there, leaving me in need of
another outfit when ! rcturn. 20 | just de-
II. T.la - IL Il
my husbands relatives had departed.
IA have just as good time at the hotels
and won't have TO put on diGerent gown
every night
"One OF the Joys Of my life said Jersey
commuter, : Is tic pleasure | get in crossing
the river. 1t is tonic always stand at
the front Of the beat and take deep bToaths
OF sea air.
storms and cold make no difference.
The air on the liver IA more invigolating in
stormy weather q an at other times. lLeIe
/. nothing 70 good for the health as cori-
| Gus dTaughts Of sea air, as much as tie
lungs will hold.
when the tunnels are finished we will gain
in time, but know many who will miss
their daily trips across the river on the for
wLrJ decH Of ferry LCGt,
Extract from letter written back 10
New York by a Kansas City girl who had
been visiting here
Il never believed. my dear, that you
had really become an acclimated New
Yorker until / heard you pronounce girl
IA though there were bubble IN the middle
Of thewoTd.
The keeper OF the jefferson Market court
prison summoned a Bellevue ambulance
in hurry the other night for prisoner
who had suddenly developed wild deliI-
! ium. When the ambulance arrived, after a
! peIilous run over icy streets. the deiiTious
one was chasing himself around the cell
Hold out your hands commanded
the surgeon
Seventeen different attacks Of ague all
at once couldn't have made the mans
hands shake more than they did when
| extended.
Il think you're n faker.- remarked the
doctor. but Pm afraid you'll make trouble
for me # don take you.
The ambulance had scarcely started
for tho hospital when the patient took
sitting posture on the stretcher and began
20 laugh.
TINS is a cinch- he said. a man 3
a fool to stay in cell all night when he
! can not p1pd Rod al RollaI1le. L work