The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-13
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

The managing clerk OF big downtown
law firm tells this;
i had to attend court over in Long Island
City the coolest day we've had this winter
! When / left the building | headed for the
nearest saloon. l laid down ten cents
asked for whiskey and took about -four
! fingers. Then l went to the door and
looked for car. There was none in light
IN ave minutes went up for another drink.
| This time | laid down a quarter and took
about the came size drink as before. The
! bartender handed me ten cents change.
Say, how about this?' / inquired. i
took the same AS / did before
Yes, said the harkeeper. i noticed II.
That's the answer"
One Of the big ocean liners was being
made fast TO her pier the other afternoon.
Impatient friends on the pier were signalling
and shouting bits of news 10 equally iInpa-
tent friends on deck. Among the announce
ments was this, hurled from the lips of a
small girl in a very large velvet hat
oh, mamma, we've had the greatest
time this morning"
Something perhaps the restraining gest-
ure OF the long suffering governess made
the mother. who leaned against the deck
railing, raise her hand in warning TO her
daughter.
Never, mind, dear she shouted back
tell me later-
But the little girl was not to be suppressed
She formed a inegaphone with her small
gloved hands and fairly shrieked:
Il can't waitl The cat had four kittens
this morning and James says he's going 10
drown EN-. Can't we telephone him TO
save 'em till you get home-pleasel'
The embarrassed mother nodded feeble
assent and the small girl dnrted toward the
public telephone station.
STAINED glass windows make splendid
targets for small boys.' said the stained
glass artist, G. c. Chenes when made
the windows In the st. Vincent Hospital
said to Mr.. Myers, who donated them;
You'd better let me order wire netting
for these. The boys will get at them
oh. no. said he they are perfectly
safe. They are on the fifth floor. We
won't need wire netting
"ln three days he sent hurry call to me
were on the fifth floor all right enough
hut the small boys had caught sight Of
them
THE longer 1--we in this town Of ours"
said an old resident, 'the more am con-
WINGED Of It's cosmopolitaulsm. For in
stance, take breakfast In Greek reetau-
rant, an Italian barber ehaves me- Rus
sim furnishes my newspapers, patronze
French laundry, ] ride on q car manned
by n German motorman and an Irish con-
duotor and my dealings with Jews are too
humorous 10 mention. 1t seems to me
that the only suggestion Of an American
L can see Is the wooden Indian In front Of
a Cuban cigar store
Ten years ago" observed the proprietor
OF plano wareroom. nobody dreamed
that the mechanical plano player would
ever have the popularity il has to-day. There
are about forty different styles manufact-
ured and the yearly output il something
prodigious. II is 4 well known fact that
three -hfths Of the purchasers of pianos
have no knowledge OF music and buy the
instrument merely "a an ornament or
course, II took considerable outlay in ad-
veriising to make the public acquainted
with the machine. but II was money well
spent, es the increasing demand all over
the country shows
How do you like your new barber7'
asked an upper West Side woman OF her
best beloved.
He is not a barber, my dear, he's a
scalper. when il comes TO cutting hair; he
also shayes at cut rates
A new slang phrase for sentinel was
sprung on the Magistrate of one OF the |
police courts Yesterday. Two boys were
charged with having stolen coal from rail |
road trims. and one Of the boys denied that |
he had taken any Of the coal. He said he |
had merely acted as the -Chickeye' while |
the other boy pilfered.
The display OF Navajo rugs at the Sports
mans Show has attracted a great deal OF
attention, the variety offered being large
and the prices reasonable.
To a prospective purchaser one OF tho
Indians was explaining the meanings Of
the designs woven into the rugs. The basket
designs, he said, repr esented the harvest.
The rugs with the colors " rked into steps
were storm rugs. Presently he put down
a rug with crosses woven in it. The visitor
inquired what was tho significance Of a cross !
in an Indian blanket
IAN / can tell you IL that it's n CROSS
said the Indian. Then he added "And |
II the cross is a sign Of Christianity, then | |
can assure you it was known TO the Indians
for centuries before the white man ever saw
America"