The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-03
LIZ ToPIcs .Anour Town.

Charlev Macdonald, board member for
Hartman & Co., passes his or hours or
the links. He wa the first holder of the
American amateur golf championship. He
Is now in Europe and proposes to select the
best eighteen holes in Great Britain for
reproduction. soil, root and branch, on
American soil. Macdonald has been can.
wasting among wealthy golfers for mem
hers and IL SAID to have more than fifty
pledged to give 81 900 each to finance his
ideal links and club.
There have been very few days this
winter when the weather was unfit for play
ing golf, but the ground keepers say few
people have played. The falling off in
winter play is chiefly "a matter of habit.
Last winter and the winter before there
were few days when the air and the turf
were both in condition, and the enthusiasts
gave un, winter golf. Another winter
like the present one will probably cause a
renewal of interest in the sport. 1t might
be noted, too, that golf is getting to be a
rational pastime with most of those who
piay-two or three years ago it was a
disease.
why is a good time in this town like
a beefsteak2' asked a Broadway hotel man
the other day.
Because" he said. answering his own
conundrum, Ithe Westener has set the
price on it. And this is pretty nearly true,
too-the first part Of it. any way. Any
form OF dissipation, mild or otherwise
is getting so expensive that the average
New Yorker is lost sight Of in the swarms
OF out-ot-towners that nightly haunt Broad
way. 1t has been said that IS 900 persons
come into New York daily on the railroads,
exclusive OF the commuters. Hundreds,
almost thousands, Of these are we'll to do
farmers and business men from all over
the country out on a holiday. They de-
scend upon this old own with wads Of the
long green and vie with each other as to
how quickly they can be parted therefrom.
They tip right and left, and rarely In silver,
and leave a wake of insult and contumely
TO the quiet Manhattanite who tips on
the 10 per cent. basis.
The city has risen to the occasion and
prices are gasping for breath in the high
attitudes"
Few of the people who come to have
pictures made understand the art of dress
ing for a portrait" said an old and famous
photographer, Most of them put on their
best clothes, and are all the more pleased
with themselves if their fashion is up to
the minute. They don't stop to think
that these garments will be away out of.
date and will look freakish in a few years.
a woman should dress her hair becom-
ingly without regard to fashion, and should
wear something soft and artistic-just the
suggestion Of a garment; then in after
years the portrait will never look old
fashioned.
"A man? Oh, he ought to drop in in the
latter part Of the day, when he hasn't had
his hair combed since morning and hasn't
seen a mirror for hours. Men always give
the best results when they are snap shotted-
caught and without preparation"
Rainy weather is welcomed by Tombs
recruits bound for Elmira Reformatory. 1t
is only in Indictment weather that buses
are provided for the trip across Manhattan
On clear days shank's mare is the order of
locomotion. The reformatory representative
makes regular visits, and the waiting list
is moved on schedule time, rain or shine.
About 0 A. NJ. a few days ago at the Lacka-
wanna railroad station, adjoining the ferry
house, in Hoboken, commuters we're shocked
to see a sorry lot of ~twenty-one young men,
shaokled n cuffed, with a steel chain be-
tween files, being led toward the train shed.
These youths had been corralled in the
Tombs. As the train conductor saluted the
agent, the latter said: Small
to-day, only twenty-one-just of
age, 80 to speak"