The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-09
LIVE TOPICs ABOUT TOWN.

after several yelled rebufs, asked the
dweler in the Ghetto II she had ever heard
Of Tolstoi and his teachings.
81 have a letter from him there on the
table" she answered, to the astonishment
Of the settlement worker. we have cor
responded for many years. A month
rarely passes that he does not write.
This truthful statement had the desired
result. The young woman retired, de-
termined not TO try to comfort anybody
else who did not send for her.
Several persons had endeavored to dis
lodge the woman, but she stuck valiantly
to her post in the middle Of the front seat
Of an open car. Presently her husband
showed some signs of annoyance.
"Why don't you slide along?' he said,
by persistently clinging to that spot yol
are dividing families and breaking OH
incipient love Matches =,
II can't help that" the woman replied,
Il wouldn't move for pay. This is the best
seat in the car. Any woman who is at all
wise makes a dash for it, The motorman
stands just in front Of me- With him for
background the front window makes an
excellent mirror. | took particular pains
with my hair to-day. BY sitting here can
watch it and keep it in shape. You may
move if you like, but nothing short OF an
accident can bulge me-.
A New Yorker left town on the 1880 A.
NJ. train on Tuesday. to visit the old folks
at home and escape the racket Of the Fourth.
He arrived In the village Of his birth, on the
line Of the Erie, at 230 o'clock and found
twenty boys firing off cannon on the vii
lage green, within stones throw O, the
house. The young patriots worked the
old blunderbuss at the rate of five rounds
an hour until sun up, and the tired New
ha iAaa off, going m Slnap.
Then frecra ckers began to pop under
his bedroom window Next came the call
for breakfast and an hour later he boarded
q train bound for the city. He had beau
tiful sleep all the way in.
There Is one hand organ in town that has
q snap. 1t ia a sort OF official musical pur-
yeyor to the car barns. Several times
day 1t comes to halt in front Of one or
another of them and grinds out tunes for the
delectation of the different shifts OF en-
ployees. 1t has appreciative audiences.
Conductors, motormen and starters re-
ward their enterta iners literally.
Several other hurdy gurdy men. noting
the prosperity of the car barns regular,
have attempted to butt in but without sue
cess That particular musician has e5-
tablshed a reputation among street rail-
way employees. and the newcomer VINO
can Gust him will have to play some very
fine music indeed.
Some one once defined an actor as one
who had travelled under a stage name 40
long that he had forgotten who he really
was. The way of the vaudeville performer
Is harder, for he frequently has to change
| his name to match the name Of some one
else. team name is valuable asset
and it does NOT ray to change it. Some
] - yvill
out and there IS a rush to tlnd some one
who has name almost similar.
A team at one of the roof gardens last
week used 70 be known as Klein, OFT Broth
! ers and Nicke1son Now Nlckerson mas
! dropped out and Nicholson is in his place
| Caron and Herbert was name to con)ure
with, but Caron died Herbert BEGAN"
! Caron and a man by the name of Farnum
became Herbert and SO the team name
survived. An act at local theater TINS
week is Keno. Walsh and Alelrose. instead
Of Keno, Welch and Melrose, and Grey
and Ora han are on a beach program in
stead of Grey and Graham.
Police Capt. Gala ghcr's room at the
/ West Forty-seventh street station has been
! banked with flowers ever since the captain
was transferred there couple of weeks
ago. The other night deaf and dumb
woman applied at the station for nights
| lodging. She wrote on piece OF paper
which she handed to the sergeant that she
would like to stay there for tho night
| Then as she turned, her eye caught the
flowers in the captains room, the door Oh
which had been left open.
| Before the sergeant could explain to her
| that only prisoners are lodged at the statloh
houses now, she wrote again asking MN
if any one was dead in the captain g room.
| Then without waiting for an answer, she
| into the street to look Tor q
free lodging place where they had no wake
going on
Alter the conductor and the messenger
boy had vainly informed the young man that
there was a vacant seat ahead, the stout
man took shy at him.
"Sir" he said, there is room for you to
sit down"
Il know that" returned the young man
.but l don't want to sit down. I'm toe
tired"
The stout man gasped. TOO tired to
sit down? Good l.ord!'
-Yes," said the young man, I've been
sitting all day. | need rest. The only
way I can get it is by standing in street
car, I'd do it if was the only passenger
well" growled the stout man, stand
Nm if YOU want to, but for heavens ga Ike
stand on the corner OF. some place else
where you won't walk all over my feet.
The Young nan murmured an apology
and moved up to a vacant seat, but he con-
tinued to seek rest in his own way.
When the automobile was making lite
way it was advertised that 1t discounted
all the troubles that beset the horse owner
combination Of henzin vapor and electric
spark could not get SPAWN or the heaves
Put that the machine has some horse kinks
of it's own was proved the other day on the
Ocean Parkway.
A cerise chariot was chugging south.
wa rd at rate not al all contemplated by
the speed laws. wind was headed in
the opposite direction at a rate that surely
called for police interference, The cerise
chariot had soooted by Mike Minden's
and was due at the island within the second
minute or so.
suddenly the breeze picked up a wan,
ad supplement OF a Sunday paper and sem
II sailing right down upon the chauffeur
In vain he tried TO dodge. The paper caugh
him banketwise and envelopad his head.
Then the machine proved itself as skittist
as range broken cayuse. When it wal
ali over and the damage was reckoned ny
two sidepath saplings were shorn shor
~ n google eyed headlight had gone Il