The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-30
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

third street for a car when a man came
up to me and spoke to me. OF course l
was indignant, but before | could say any
| thing he had me interested. He said:
Il beg your pardon, madame. Could you
do me a great favor? | want you to take
these three dollars and go to the box Office
of the Hippodrome and buy me three 81
seats for tomorrow night. Don't ask me
why, but you'll do me a greater favor than
you know"
We'll. his manner wasn't at all impudent
and he seemed sincere and it looked like
an adventure. l just took the money and
bought the tickets and brought them back.
He seized them, thanked me and vanished
in the crowd. How do you explain it,"
And even when the young man in his
laughter gasped out the words ticket
Spectator" she failed to understand.
A man with a mathematical turn of mind
began last week to figure on the amount Of
lead that the trap shooters are pumping
each winter into the ground. He was
watching the contest between the Crescent
and Boston athletic clubs teams at Bay
Ridge. G. j. McDermott, the vice-president
Of the club. was there andthe mathematical
one asked: Ever figure out how much
lead tnere is IN tn6t HELD
Must be quite a mine, replied Mr.. Mo
Dermott. They have been shooting there
for ten years. The yearly average is about
So, 1000 cartridges. Each cartridge has an
ounce of lead shot In one year that
amounts to more than a ton and a half Of
lead, in ten years TO fifteen tons, and lead
is worth about $40 a ton. | wonder II that
has improved the value OF the real state"
There are a dozen or more shooting clubs
q round \aw y nTk and the mafhpnatipg
one is now wondering if lead mining in this
vicinity wouldn't pay.
From San Francisco to New York In order
to have a seasons yachting is quite a long
journey. F. NJ. Smith, the owner OF the
steam yacht Haouli. that raced against the
Kanawha, makes the journey each spring
because he is fond Of yachting. This year
he is having a sloop yacht built which will
be raced as often as he gets an opportunity
and with it he has hopes of capturing the
first race for the cup given to the New York
Yacht Club by King Edward VII. Mr..
Smith is known as the "Borax King He
has donated two fine trophies to the New
York Yacht Club for steam yacht races.
Workmen employed in cutting down old
trees and cleaning up things around the
Ninth street entrance to Prospect Park,
Brooklyn. had one pa rticularly tough job.
While saving an old stump the rasping Of
so me ma I'd material on the saw teeth led
to an investigation, and the sa wdust was
found TO be full OF brig ht metal filings.
After the stump had been sawed in half
sixteen bullets were dug out of the wood.
The stump was part of a very old tree and
the bullets were of the type made in Revolu-
tionArv times. II is believed they were
shot into the tree in the Battle of Long
Island, on August p, lie.
Il wish they would erect some more
public statues in New York said the man
who observes things, some with broad,
wide steps going up. They are fine for
the children to play on, those steps. There
is one in Madison Square with benches all
around it for the tramps to sleep on. am
very much in favor of more public statues
in New York"
Now that you explain the real advantage
of them, said the art critic, who was with
him, Il am, too
Il call them all Mary said the woman
who needs nine to keep her house going,
excepting the men. They're all John.
/ wasted a great many years of my life
trying to remember whether they were
Margaret, Jane or Mary, and trying TO
distinguish between William and, James.
MY own maid is a Mary, and | never expect
to call a servant again by any other name.
You have no idea how much mental effort
the scheme saves and how much better
this service is. When they know that Mary
means any one of them. they jump. When
they used to have separate names, | have
known them to stand for minutes while
| cudgelled my brains trying TO remember
what the new parlor maid was named.
Always take the name OF your own maid
and never have any other in the house"
Andreas DIPPED dashed into New York
the other day from some outlying place
to rave an operation performed on his
nose between performances of the opera
company His doctor declares thai it will
have such wonderful results that no au-
dience will be able TO tell whether the Italian
or the German tenor is singing. NJ. DIPPED
formerly recognized a difference. When
the name Of Caruso was accidentally put
on the programme for his Mr.. Conried asked
DIPPED if he wanted an explanation made
before the performance began
"Oh, never mind" the tenor said. THE
people will know the difference when they
see me. If they don know then, they
certainly will when they hear me-"
Ever go to a laundryman's auctionps
asked the man who was sorting bundles.
you can get bargains there sometimes.
Here are forty-eight packages that will be
sent to the auctioneer Tomorrow. One
bundle is labelled w. Joblotz. No address.
Will call Now, | wonder what has be-
come of W. Joblotz. who had no address,
and promised TO call? What has become Of
the owners of these forty-seven packages?
Some of the things thrown on our hands
are very fine and as good as new. just
look at that pile Of handkerchiefs and those
shirt waists and collars and cuffs. 1t has
been more than a year since they were left
here. All unclaimed packages are kept a
wear or more, then they are sent around
TO a general receiving station to be disposed
of at auction
MADAM, you will he run over in Just a
minute" said the policeman in a quiet
voice.
The m gave one startled glance
around and scuttled from in front of an
approaching truck horse.
Il used to shout" explained the police
man, "bu I found that it pretty nearly
paraiyzed them with terror every time so
that they couldn't move, and | had 10 pull
them ont Of the way myself. Now | speak
quietly, and 1t works just about twice as
WELL"