The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-14
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Most Of tho facts on whlch Robert A Gran.
niles. former vioe.pfsaidcnt Of the Mutual
fAfe Insurance. Cosnpany, vac Indicted for
forgery wers turned up by the Armstrong
INVESTIGATING committee. 10 wasn't Until
tho Iaat few days of The inquiry that the
COMMITTEES learned that the NIutual'e man.
aeement had been .doclor!neI Hs report 70
This h how the committee GOT the lnformas
A Mutual Life employee who knew the
facts grew 90 uneasy under The burden OF
his aeuret that he confessed 10 his pastor,
The pastors conscience In turn wouldn't
the seorst for several days he carried 10 TO
the committee,
The young woman who broke her arm
trying TO button q shirt waist up the back
need never have met with such a tragedy
had she lived here In an apartment hotel.
Nobody could hook up the back OF q
shirt waist more neatly than my elevator
boy, . said q dweller In o big West Side hotel.
HE is just as quick an any French maid
he has to be quick, because he only has O
minute to do Il. His partner In Just as good,
and any woman who will take the trouble
TO teach a colored elevator boy 10 button q
shirt waist will find abe has not wasted her
time. All the women / know In hotels have
trained the elevator boys to button their
waists.'
Il am glad said the ~grayheaded man.
shat there 10 still one place in town whore
you can near old fashioned church music
on Sunday. You can't get 1t in church,
You have &c 20 to Central Park to find It.
The oarouse people observe the letter OF
the Sunday law more strictly than the
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have two sets Of music. On weekdays they
grind out some deliciously wicked tunes,
but on Sundays they run mostly to hymns
and give us such perennial fayorites as The
Sweet By and By Shall We Gather at the
River Dare to Do Right and How Firm
when the crowd begins to long for a little
diversion the man at the helm makes a
slight concession to popular taste by turn
ing on Q few tunes with an,operatio setting,
but since these are nothing more exciting
than the Miserere from Trovatore,' the
from Norma they do not make a dis
oordant break b the programme
In the squat last Sunday a little sparrow
that had been Intellectually trying to 90 TO
windward dropped anchor on q weather
vane in Brooklyn. A group Of young
men who wanted to know the exact direo-
ton from which the blast was coming
looked UP at the vane and were surprised
to note that the arrow head was pointing
in the direction the wind, according to their
own judgment, was going instead OF the
direction from which 1t was coming. TIT
young men knew that the vane had been
q perfectly sober and accurate instrument,
and they wondered what was the matter
until they saw that the sparrow, q butter
6ylike speck in the distance, had put the
vane out Of commission. After resting
about q minute on the arrow end OF the
yaue the bird few to the other end. The
vane whirled completely around. The
bird apparently did not like the motion
and jumped to another part, causing the
vane to box the compass several times.
After the force OF the squall had moderated
q bit the sparrow few of the vane resumed
business in thp regulation way and the
young men found that the wind was from
the northwest.
sYes, automobiles are . bit dangerous
at street crossings" said the traffic police
man, "but the biggest is not to be oom.'
pared for danger to a drunken driver,
driving q felt shod horse, harnessed TO q
rubber tired hanson. with the lights out,
Even the quietest automobiles make some
noise, but the combination I AVE just
named gives the pedestrian no warning
whatever, There are more narrow escapes
from horse propelled vehicles on Broadway
than from automobiles. OF course, when
an auto knocks O man down the papers
make a sensation Of 1t, but five men are
hurt by horse drawn vehicles to one by
the horseless kind