The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-15
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

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which are more or lesS closely connected,
There are never any bargains there
| which Is curious enough in iteelf, because
! In the on season there are few establish
| rnents that do not sell at q reduction. Tho
shop also displays hats IN its y IN lows fer for
J only few hours every day. For while
| In the morning and again In the afternoon
| they are put WOW,
| no faded, shopworn hate, one Of the sales
! women explained the other day. I'VE do
not put them in the windov where they can
I be faded We exhibit them for only
! little while every day. In that way we
keep our stock fresh and are able 20 sell
always at the highest price.
Il cannot take that ONCE prosperous
booking man was telling the real estate
agent. i have the rheumatism now
THAT man has had an Office over for
lists before mused the agent. You see
the big iceboxes in which the plants are
kept seem TO affect the flooring and keep 1t
perpetually cold. He Is the third man who
has refused to rent on that account and no
tenant has ever renewed his lease for these
otherwise desirable Offices,
Florists are not the only Objectionable
neighbors. have one Office which can
rent only IN the winter. Il is we'll situate ted,
hut the back windows look out on an ana
way OF one Of the big hotels and the Kitchens
are Just below this of1oe on the other sloe
Of the narrow space As soon as ne once ono,
windows are opSned In the spring the SINE u
Of the cooking pemeates every corner.
Il ryally destroys the appe tite OF those
regularly employed there. / Rad one ten
ant who came into the place weighing
nearly two hundred pounds who dropped
ffty-three pounds between the latter part
of May and Septe mber.
"Ofices adj ming song publishers shops
vaude vile agents or emplo ymf Mt BUREAUS
are made undesirable by those who con-
gre e te about the entrances, and one build
ilgI manage Is partially unbranded
because a brass band is employed next
door turning out phonograph records
There is great deal more 10 renting an
ofice than The once itself
The display OF green veg IA bles and
salads in the Italian quarter at this season
Of the year Is wonderful to behold Early
in the mon ing there are two rows OF ped
lers' carts lining each side OF Mulberry
street for blocks. On Mondays there are
deIcacies not TO be Rad on other Gays,
for the Italians spend Sundays picking in
the regions about the city the dandelion
sslad which Is 50 much more appreciated
by for igners than by AIne Hcans. This
is brought in and sold on the street from
the bags into which 1t IA put whf n picked
the day before. There sre other disPla
not nearly 20 simple. Ewn at this season
whfn aspa n gus and tcma toes are still
luxuriee 30 tn these vegetables are for sale
IN ths streets Of the ItahanrQuarteT. ..
She was very vinsoms and her escort
obviously was enjoying the task Of show
ing her around New York. The open car
rumbled slowly rast Columbia College,
sOb, exclaimed the winsome maid what
is that bronze tablet?'
The youth looked at her with dancing
THAT. Bessie, lie a glorious tribute to
Columbia's first haLing scrap, erected by
grateful students
The prim looking woman who sat oppo-
site adjusted her glasses and glared at the
Pardon me, she said. but II you are
New Yorker you ought to know better
than that Then she turned 70 the girl:
battle Of Harlem Heights and the figure
Il not q college student this with wither-
ing scorn-" but represents the father Of
our country. George Washington
oh said the girl feebly, and then both
she and the youth looked at the scenery
with unseeing eyes not daring 70 look at
each other.
AN the styles are made for dark men,
sighed the sallov blond as he looked at
a windowful Of green neckties. Nobody
ever seems 70 think Of the other kind Of
men. This summer there are all sorts Of
greens in dannels and shirts and scarfs
but hone Of them is for the sallov man.
Even the light spring overcoats are all
pale gray this year and OF a shade il takes
dark man 70 wear The best that the
blond can do IA try to look neat, " not
gaudy in a dark blue serge
A man from Albany strolled into a cigar
store IN search Of a smoke and some small
excitement.
y don't want a gar yet, he explained
TO the clerk who came forward 70 wait upon
him. where are the machinesi'
The clerk explained that there was State
law against the use Of gambling machines.
and IL was being strictly enforced.
But I'm from Albany-where the laws
come from, explained the surprised visitor.
sSurely. II Il was unlawful It would not be
permitted there, and yet from fifteen to
twenty machines are TO be found in any big
cigar store
HUM snorted the cigar man, mindful
Of the halcyon days OF the slot machine and
the heavy profits. They are too busy max
ing laws in Albany % have time TO enforce
the quality OF the cigar, not the number
you get for a nickel.
Elliot Schenok, who has composed a
grand opera on the subject Of Tess Of the
'Urbe villes,' which Henry W. Savage
is going TO produce. belongs to a New York
family and IL a graduate Of Columbia.
He determined before leaving college that
he would devote himself 10 music, and went
20 Dresden, where he spent several years In
study. On his return 10 this country he
associated himself with Walter Damrosoh
and was one Of his conductors as long as
Mr.. Damrosoh kept bis opera company
The Rialto has just lost corner saloon
that linked 1t to the parts OF New York that
lie further 20 the east and west Of these
frequented blocks Of upper Broadway. II
was an ordinary corner saloon, Of the least
preten tious chaTact or and seemed strikingly
out Of place Ia such a central part Of New
York. II also brought 10 thls region a
client 10 equally at variance with the sur
roundinRs. II was put out Of business by
the agency that does most 20 make the CITY !
streets pTesentab le-the landlords deter |
mination 70 raise the rent he doubled Il
in this case, The same process applied In !
two or three other places would relieve
upper Broadway Of ts most Questionable |