The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-26
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

LIVF IOFfNo bVt
How rapidly real estate appreciates in
value in New York is shown by the recent
purchase of the property in Vesey street
on which an evening paper ia to erect a new
building. The site includes three lots, the
middle of which, % Nesey street, was bought
at auction for $128 ,OOO. In 1882 this lot was
sold for SIS, 500, so that in sixty-four years
it has increased in value nearly 700 per cent.
This particular lot was at one time the site
of the residence of Bishop Hobart. who was
buried under the chancel of Trinity Church
| after a funeral attended by more than 5000
people. For him Ball Hughes monument
was erected in the same church.
There is a new method OF keeping the
lustre in pearls. 1t is not always possible
for their owners to wear them and keep
| them alive in the way the jewellers recon-
mend. As the wearing of pearls is now so
much more common than it used to be
many women in New York would be bur
dened by the load Of pearls they would be
compelled to wear around.
Il divide them among the servants"
one matron of wealth declared the other
day when explaining the reason why her
pearls looked bright and ] give the hand
soonest strand to the cook. You see it's
so warm in the kitchen they are certain to
be kept at the right temperature. The other
women servants have the rest and my maid
collects them every night that L am going
out in evening dress and want to wear
them"
The feminine visitor from the South
was telling a friend of the woeful ignorance
of some Western people she had met the
night before. my dear, it was bad enough
when she told me she had never read David
Copperfeld'; but what do you suppose she
said next? I simply wouldn't have be-
lieved it of any Twin, breathin', human
bein'."
what on earth was it?" queried her
friend.
"She wanted to know" and the soft
Southern voice rose to n dramatic shrek,
"if a mint julep was anything like mint
sauce that you put on laayaml'
just before the close OF the dinner of
the New York Chapter of the American
Institute of Architects at the University
Club the other night il was announced
that the gold medal given by the chapter
for the finest piece of work done in the
past three years had gone to Carrere &
Hastings. The medal was not awarded
last year, as the committee decided that
no work exhibited was worthy OF the dis
t~inction. The house that won the prize
is the summer home Of Randolph Guggen-
heimer at Elberon.
A %patrolman named Philips. attached
to the West Forty-seventh street station. is,
on looks, the smallest cop in the city. He
is Just big enough to get in under the civil
.--.,an r,,lar GOD he IA@Ita 10th .nnallnr
and younger than he is. His whole appear
auce is that Of an eighteen-year-old boy
playing policeman. A few nights ago
Capt. DAILY put him in plain clothes and
sent him to help on a raid. He was in
structed to make his way on a subway
train. At the gate he showed his badge to
the ticket chopper.
"Where did you steal that badge?" asked
the chopper.
Il didn't, said the cop.
The blazes you didn't!"said the chopper,
And, pulling out a police whistle, he blew
a blast which brought two policemen to
arrest Policeman Philips for impersonating
a policeman.
Since then Capt. DAILY has kept Philips
at clerical work.
A citizen who rides in the subway a good
deal has a new theory. 1t is that the sub
way has resulted in folks staying up later
than they used to-some folks, at any rate.
The citizens business keeps him up until
after midnight, and he explains his theory
thus:
Frequently the subways train are com
fortably filled going up town as late as 2
or 8 o'clock in the morning, more 80 than
used to be the case on the elevated. The
ease with which a good many West Siders
can get home late at night, their homes
being within a stones throw Of the subway
stations, may be the cause Of their staying
downtown later than when their dwellings
were less accessible