The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-01
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" KAY miff0t WDNtfiN NRIIHN N''''
IN Eighth avenue N Decoration Day while
q parade ~ children n mile long marching
two by two filed rast her toward Central
Park. Every one Of the girla stopped 10
klss her. while the boya shook her hands
two NJ a time. ahe called most o. thein by
naine and Sw that each one had u rod,
white and blue cap and n flag. She was
Mrs. Maria NicManua, mother Of The
McManus. Lender Of the old Fifteenth Aa-
eembly district, who was giving his annual
May party for the children Of his district.
There's a woman who knows more
children than anybody else r. New York I"
said a man who was watching her and
who knew what he was talking about
more than 10 any one else. and while she
lives he IL sure to stay on top. She u
working day and night for the poor folks
IN her district and probably controls more
votes than any other woman IN New York
Oacar Hammerstein II learning now 10
sympathize with the woes Of the impresario
It Is an Italian soprano, Luisa Tetrazzini
who Is giving the new operate manager
his first lessons in the singers tempera-
ment. The first thing she did was to cable,
Mr.. Hammerstein that she would not sign
the contract he left with his agent in Milan
unless he paid her $500 more q perform
ance.
Il had to do that Mr.. HammersteIn
told The Sun reporter, because she's
the greatest singer since Patti In her roles
and l must have her. So ] cabled back
she should lave the money. What do you
suppose she did them
sShe wrote me I'd have 10 tell Melba
that she could only sing certain roles and
that no other prima. donna could have any
of a list Of parts she was going to sing.
Can you see me telling Nellie Melba that
she couldn't sing her W roles? But
/ wrote Signora Tetrazzini that would be
all right too and that she could put her mind
at rest.
But she didn't. 1 think she sits up
nights trying to think of something TO
cable me about In the morning. Yesterday
she cabled over / would have to engage a
certain tenor that she wanted to sing with
her. She minated that all would be over
between us unless l consented. guess
I'll have to engage him. / don have to
let him sing, you know
Oscar fell into profound thought for a
minute.
She'll be over here after a WHILE he
said with a smile, "and then-'
Il was going through Sing Sing not long
ago" said Jack Hazard, the %raoonteur,
and told a few stories to amuse the fellows
there. When I had finished one Of them
came up to me and congratulated me.
81 like those %stories,' he said, I have
heard four or five of them before'-I had told
six-'but l can't help liking them
when he went away / said to the keeper:
"'How long has that fellow been here?'
Fifteen years. he answered.
ct seems you can't have a husband and
celluloid sidecombs, too the pretty woman
said. "This was the way 1 lost mine, three,
beautifully rounded of with turquoise
rims. l laid them on the dresser and went
to sleep. Then Harry came home and laid
his cigar down close to the sidecombs.
1t hadn't finished burning quite. 1t smoul-
dered. 49,
dresser there lay the ghosts of my combs in
ashes, the teeth perfectly outlined, the
turquoise forming the shining rims Of what
they had been"
AS soon as the Nassau street tailor moved
up to Fifth avenue he sent out new cards.
Their appearance caused some surprised
comment among his friends.
THAT looks funny" said one man. sVth
avenue. Isn't that a new wrinkle?"
@Not exactly" replied he tailor. "Roman
numerals are getting to be rather popular
in writing the names Of the streets. Fifth
avenue business men are particularly partial
to them. On cards and in newspaper
and street car advertising you may fire.
quently see the address Of some tailor,
h~aberdasher or other tradesman written
WITH avenue. So far the other avenues
nave not adopted the style to any great ex-
tent, but the time may come when the
business houses on all those streets will
write WITH, With, With and IXth avenues
A Lenox avenue man happened to be
alone in his apartment one day when an
employee Of the Water Department came
along and warned the occupants Of the build
ing that the water would be turned of in
that neighborhood at 2 o'clock. The man,
following the advice Of the employee, filed
the washtubs and the bathtub, the wash
boiler, the dishpan, the teakettle, two
pitchers and a tin pail; then haviny done all
in his power to avert the impending water
famine, he went down town. When he
came home at 8 o'clock he found his wife
pounding furiously on the pipes and shouting
down the tube to the %janitor.
Il never saw such a place as this she said,
angrily. +The water, won't run. l can't
get drop to cook with
"But there's plenty Of water said the
and I filed everything before l went out"
Good gracious, said the woman. WAS
that what you did it for? I thought you
out"
At a recent entertainment In a Brooklyn
school the deaf and dumb mother of one
of the little boys in the audience sat next
to him while he interpreted the Rotations
for her. Another mother hearing that the
husband Of the afflicted woman had all his
faculties unimpaired remarked with a
touch Of pity in her tone:
Il don't see how a mar could marry a
woman whose voice he never had heard
and never expected to hear
Maybe ' said her husband, "that is why
he married her,
The wife pondered q bit and then ex-
claimed, sWretch!"