The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-22
LIVE rOPICs ABOUT ROW..

IL any people on earth INA as many
changes in their amusements as do the
New Workers." said a merchant from the
West. II came here two weeks ago on
my annual buying trip and stayed for a
week. l went to a different theatre each
n lunched after the show in a different
cafe. ! got to know the music and the
entertainments offered pretty we'll. Then
l went to Boston for a week to finish my
stocking up and came back here. Now 1
find it all IL different. There are 40 many
new shows that | won't get to see them
all. The music in the cafes is all new. The
old timers Of two weeks ago are out OF date
The women have changed their style Of
dress in the week was away. The stores
are all showing different things. It doesn't
take more than ten days out OF New York
for one to get clear behind the times"
Polly, the green parrot at MoGowan's
Pass Tavern, has an accredited G Of
"a years. Gabe Case got Polly fromSa sea
captain who said the parrot was 20 years
old, and the date of the transaction was
thirty-four years ago, On the death ofthe
! famous roadhouse keeper the talking bird
host of McGowan's Pass Tavern. Com
modore Vanderbilt and the "Sealskin
Brigade" knew Polly at Gabe Cases old
place on Jerome avenue. Polly is a voluble
speaker, except on "reminiscences OF the
New York road, that on which she would
be an authority.
For over twenty years the man at the
door of the Empire Theatre has been taking
tickets along Broadway, and in all that
time he has never seen a show. He's been
at the Empire for about ten years. He
hasn't even seen Peter Pan"
Seldom, if ever, he gives out a door check
hat xyann anfn He l,,af an,nra1nra tho
faces, He v gives a door check to a
woman. And he's never been fooled.
Peter Cooper Hewitt, surrounded by his
baggage, was standing on the pier of a
liner just in from Southampton when a
stewa I'd came up to him with something
wrapped in a small piece Of paper and re-
marked: You left this in your stateroom.'
Mr., Hewitt opened the package and re-
lost that for dollars he said. "One of the
most difficult things to get in the world is a
good razor etrop. / have bought costly
ones and some not 90 costly, but / did not
find the ideal strop. until ! discovered this
in a London shop. ! paid only a shilling
for 1t, but money can't buy it now"
With the advent of the latest snowstorm
the spirits OF the Park Commissioners
perked up considerably. Every winter
the beautiful" is relied upon to clean the
statues in Central Park. This year the
supply OF snow was 80 meagre III the
few scant ooatings, instead Of washing the
only seemed to increase their dinginess.
The situation was ala rming. IL looked as
II somebody would have to attack the sta
tues with soapsuds and a sorubbing brush.
interviewed and now Tom Moore and Bobby
Burns and all the rest Of the big fellows
that hang out in the park have merged
spick and span without the expenditure
OF a cent by the Park Department.
when it comes to consuming gas in large
quantities blind people take the lead" said
an inspector Of the gas company. Il know
two families where both husband and life
are blind. Every jet is turned on full tilt in
their homes at night and is kept going at
that rate clear up to IL o'cloc . n that
Partially for light is not a whim peculiar to
those two couples. All blind people feel that
private homes and Institutions where the
blind are cared for the gas bills vouch for
their strange fancy
A close observer will notice that seven
out of ten women who wear elbow sleeves
and long gloves do not put their fingers into
the fingers Of gloves II they carry their
mu1B-dnQ TnOSt "OI1tu carry NUNS tnlS
time Of the year.
why do we not?" remarked a woman Of
whom the question was asked. Simply
because there is no need to wear out the
fingers too soon when long gloves cost at
least So. so a pair. There Is quite q differ
pelled to pay almost twice as much for the
new gloves as the old style walking glove
cost"
A. IL 49, 49,. A. I--I
board in the branch office Of a stock broker
in a Fifth avenue hotel there stands during
business hours a group Of we'll dressed men.
They appear in fur coats, patent leather
sh oes and wear other attributes Of elegant
attire such as pearl pins and silk hats.
The most expensively. attired Of these
men are florists. They have their stores
in the neighborhood and no millionaire who
wanders in in his leisure to glance at the
ticker seems more substa ntially prosperous
than they are, so it Is not 80 difficult, after
all, to understand why flowers cost 80 much
in New York.
al thought the clocks were queer enough
at Naples, said the travelled man, where
you start for Rome at 10 o'clock In the after
noon and get there at Ave minutes past
% o'clock at night, but this is what I
overheard on a Broadway car the other
i What time is it2' asked one woman Of
the other; can you see the clock from hereT.
Yes said the other, craning her neck
to look at a tall cock hat stood on the side
walk it is twenty-five minutes after NJ
NEVIS OF PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
The Run OF "GalIops" at the GarrIck
Theatre to BE Extended.
David Gray's hunting comedy "Gallops"
will continue at the Garriok Theatre FOR
another month. When the new Garrick