The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-27
XATHIMS OF THE
w JEWELLERS.
The Jag Made Sleuth-From High
balls to Hansoms-The Beg
ging Inebriate.

After joyous exhilaration has passed into
intoxlcation many men display curious
preferences.
One New Yorker invariably becomes a
private detective after a certain stage Of a
jag. His business is then to shadow people.
He doesn't care whom he shadows, but
usually he prefers tall men, who show their
guilt by sitting quietly in a hotel corridor
reading a paper or a magazine.
Having picked out his victim he prepares
for a long siege Of shadowing. He selects
a chair near the unsuspeoting crimina and
watches him intently. II the object Of his
suspicious goes to the cigar counter he is
followed and his every move noted. In
variably the shadow admits his business to
the hotel clerk in a tone which can be heard
several yards away and usually the hotel
clerk gets a cab and sends him home.
Another New Yorker becomes fond Of
theatres after he has passed into semi
oblivion. Ordinarily he never enters a
theatre.
On red letter nights he visits them all
and shows his contempt for the play by
waddling laboriously to his seat, remov-
ing his hat and coat and hen Immediately
putting on his hat and coat again and pro-
oeedinR outdoors and on to the 9 theatre.
He has b cen known to collect people he
never met before and tai them with him
on his tour Of inspection.
A clerk Of 80, whose salary Is modest,
shakes off the ties of home and friends
occasionally and drinks all the highballs
he can. In the last stages his sole desire
lie to ride in hanson cabs regardless Of
cost.
He doesn't go home. He simply rides
-.J " W. UVL@n he k~n - @~a
cab, or the color Of the horses tail, he climbs
out and another. In the small
wee hours, when his money is spent, he trips
along home on foot and wonders how he
will feel in the morning.
The hobby Of another convivial person
of mature years is sea bathing. Rolling
about mefF1y- IN rhe swHshfng foam is his
only ambition.
A little patch Of green turf in front Of a
boarding house supplies as good bathing
az any beach on the Atlantic coast for this
r~evelIer. He has been discovered several
times sprawling about on the grass. He
had folded up his coat, covered II with his
hat and dived madly of the edge Of the
sidewalk.
The speech making inebriate is too COM
mon to be interesting. The gentleman
who suddenly remembers he needs a new
pair of ~suspenders, buys them and changes
on the street causes alarm, but is other
wise harmless. The man who throws coins
to see newsboys scramble for them Is becom-
ing rarer.
4 wealthy young chap has been discov-
ered begging money to purchase more
after he was already inebriated. His pock-
cts may be comfortably filled with his
own money, but after a certain period he
realizes the tremendous waste OF buying
drinks out Of his personal resources and
proceeds to ask the price from any one
who will listen.
1ha list of idiosyncrasies ia very large.
1t would be much larger if contributions
we're made by those directly concerned.
Such contributions are not forthcoming for
two reasons, namely, the actors wouldn't
tell on themselves If they could remember,
and secondly, they can't remember.