The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-29
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

IL you want 10 earn SOTne easy money
under pleasant circumstances in the summer
evenings apply for a job here as a chair
warner said the head waiter of a New
York hotel that has a root garden. w
have found it impossible to reserve all the
choice tables for which we have requests
over the telephone becaus, of the danger
of O Tending other good patrons who think
they should have a table when they see it
empty, so we nave hit on the scheme of
hir ing men in evening dress to hold down
the tables engaged in advance. The chair
warmer gets $50 a night TO take the table
before the rush begins and hold it until the
man who has engaged it shows up. He is
served with a drink once in a while so as
not to attract attention and really spends
a comfortable evening. The pay and drinks
of the chair warmer are charged to the
man who engaged the table, and he pays
the bill without protest because that is one
of the conditions Of reserving the table"
@There is something weird about these
voices singing. to us through the phono-
graphs" said the sad eyed man. How
do you know but the singers are dead2
/ knew a fellow once who lost track of his
sweetheart, a Southern girl, Came pack
from abroad and couldn't find her any,
where. He went into one OF these phono-
graph houses, put a cant in the slot and heard
her sing. She had drifted to New York
and made a sort of living for herself in con-
certhalls. She had been dead two years"
One OF the most picturesque of the daily
sights Of the city at this season is the coming
and going of the steam yachts with their
owners aboard to and from the yacht
landing at the Battery. From up the North
and East rivers and from down the bay
they come flying in the morning to bring
owners to business in the city and at night
to take them away. Big and little, they
come flying here from all points of the COM
pass, to stop their engines off the entrance
to the yacht basin, and lower a dingy,
or a gig, or maybe a bright funnelled launch
in which to put the owner ashore, on the
float in the basin, in the morning; and at
night they flock here again, to send their
small boats ashore to wait in the basin for
their owners while the yachts hover in the
bay, drifting with the tide, and to be brought
back under one bell, occasionally, into
place again hard by, blue absent flags
nuttering in their rigging, And then comes
the owner to his launch in the ba-irf~ and
with visitors maybe, ladies perhaps, and
out they go, to mount, the gangway at the
yachts side while the launch is hoisted up
and the absent flag comes down, and
away speeds the yacht, and so they go, one
after another, until all are gone, TO come
again in the morning. 1t is one of the pic
turesque sights of the town, the coming
and going Of the steam yachts at the Battery
yacht landing.
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The giraffe is a tall animal, certainly,
however seen; but from some points of view
it may seem much taller than from others
as was impressed upon one mar regarding
the g~irafies in the New York Geological
Park in The Bronx on Sunday. Seen close
at hand in the rark within their enclosures
there, the CRATES seem remarkable enough,
extraordinary but III the PARK, the visitor
gong ron thc,Jsuie ~ Il e re- . a %uI sGe-
w - 'IHS .be ~airgares .bev don't seem
40 RANCE, hnt on sunday his man caught
a glimpse Of The lofty animals under differ
az Observation-Disclosures and ouite unexrectedlv
enC ,hougb nnw seen from ouite a little dis
~" beu hod never seemed 90 tall and
HonderfuI He was walking this mani
49, 49, Nat section Of the aid Kingsbridge
IIau, y roe. ,bat extenGs along he sxtreme
w.. nI f,rn ho,undcrv of Bronx Park, and NOT
ep; Al ~ girofes or hears ar tigers
Iniihnng her err nf yild animals inst Walk,
% ~ oo ,Lie not vet sett led ur a. rect In the
suDut"a, " tbe Iandseane of The nark in
that direction, he Jaw rising among the
trees, at a distance Of about a quarter of a
mile, the tremendously long neck OF some
animal stahdlhg oNGi tneio, Any esHenILy
the nea au 1ilpa he le arm ~ q derrick Il vas
aiuIh re- nn1 VIII tba head onca more nm
an ne branches, Il was one Of the
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gnaaee ~ h atf - ertreordinarv az II
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az u Lttio
uho noyor hv o,r obonoe N II
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az a th"u - Il, or want , Glaze ~ min.
u.nI go nav he SURPRISED 70 know the
re- avtant ~ tho ca rlv morning deman nd
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nnd s;miIar nntritioms beyerages. Men
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