The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-31
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

certainly has hers.
Il couldn't stand him., she said, because
he carried his money in a fish scale purse
That seemed to me the limit. To my mind
there Is only one really manly way for n
man to carry money, and that IL TO throw
il around loose in his trousers pockets 50
that when he wants a nickel he has to dig
up change by the handful to get 1t. For
bills, of course, | can stand one Of those flat
leather pocketboollS. They have a business
like aspect. and do not detract from a mans
dignity; but to see a big s~trapping fellow
who has the appearance OF q real live man
draw n little purse from his pocket and fish
around for a dime lis too much for me-
Its funny how one sided men can get in
this city" said a New Yorker, Why, |
know some chaps who always ride on the
right hand side of the car day in and day
out for years. The result is somewhat
peculiar, az was illustrated to ME by a
friend recently. This chap has lived in
Harlem since he came to town about a
year ago, He goes down to business in the
subway and takes his fresh air on the ele-
waited on the way home. 1t was his custom
to sit on the right side of the car until it
became instructive with him, One after
noon he happened to go to the left and it
PloNCN al ~
his great astonishment, he found that in
stead OF reading his paper he was kept
busy viewing the strange sights out OF the
window. The fact is. he didn't know the
first thing about what could be seen on the
left Of the elevated
The Rev. DR.. William n. Huntington,
rector Of Grace Church, said the other day
in introducing a speaker at a lecture in a
private house that he did not sympathize
with the view that fat life of New York
city was a detriment to this town. He
said there was no other way for the great
population Of the city to live and that those
who regret it should make the best of it.
of the I peris6 Clergyman he added. STlhey
are Theoretically sealed: In the cid days
a minister of the Gospel was privileged
to cross the threshold OF almost any dwell
ing, Not so with these apartment houses.
Nowadays the visiting clergyman Is likely
to be met with a placard equivalent to
saying that all applicants are respectfully
referred to the Charity Organization So
ciety."
Although Sir Purdon Clarke has the en-
thusiasm Of a young man in his work in
upbuilding the Metropolitan Museum Of
Art, he confessed the other day that he had
his trials. His desk was Uttered with CORE
spondence and when a oaller suggested
that it must be quite a task to keep up with
it, he said:
at is, and so have been the dinners Of
the winter, which I rave enjoyed hugely
although they are quite a tax. But you
would scarcely realize how careful | have
to be in what l do or say here. To give
you an instance: Lots Of pictures are
brought in here and every con ceivable
means is used to drag out a favorable
opinion from me. Som one will say:
You will admit that it is a pretty picture,
won't your If [ unguardedly say it is a
pretty picture the first thing you know
It will be told about town that Sir Purdon
Clarke admired the picture in question
enthusiastically and spoke in the highest
praise of it as a work of art and that the
only reason the Metropolitan Museum did
not purchase it was because it did not have
the money available at present to do so,
and things like that. In my work here L
find that caution is a most necessary req
uisite,"
There is a style in giving babies names
said a middle aged mother. lust as there
is in clothes. And the styles change COM
pletely every few years; again just az they
do in the case Of what We wear When
my first girl was born twenty-five years ago,
/ named her Ethel. All mothers were
naming their girls Ethel then. And 80
it has gone on. Three years ago the rage
was for Dorothy. At present It is for
Elizabeth or Katherine, with Elizabeth
leading in popularity. Look around among
your aca~uaintances and see if a big ma iority
OF them are not now naming their girl
babies Elizabeth
The young man who has lived in New
York for only six months or so is the most
enthusiastic and ~tireless guide for the
relative in from the country for sight
seeing. There is nothing blase In his case,
the sights are still sights to the guide and
il ia Great to be able to show the town to
some one greener than himself. But he
hat les to admit hat he doesn't know every.
thing. For instance, the raw guide and
his relative were ferryboating to see the
sky line when a dock department tug crossed
the bows of the ferryboat.
aWhat does that D. D.. on the smoke
eta ok meant" asked the visitor.
THAT, why that is one OF the Dayton
and Dubuque Railroad C~ompany's tugs.
You know all those Western lines nave TO
have their fleets of towboats and barges
here to move their freight to and from
the steamship PIERS
Some people live a infinitely exact ex-
istence. An office boy who rides regularly
from Fiftieth street to Wal street on the
subway has figured out that ii he gets
on the front end of the third car from the
rear at Fiftieth street he Will ma hlmseii
on the rear end of the fifth car of the express
TO which he trainers at the Forty-second
street station, and that this car stops ex-
actly opposite the gate at Wall street. The
exactness OF this calculation speaks we'll
for the accuracy of the subway motormen
and for the small boys W of observa-
ton. On the way uptown he reyerses
the proc IS.
RED BUG DISEASE AT PANAMA.
New Skinner Brings in steamship AtratO