The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-05
Five ToPres ABOUT TOWN.

The famous rainy day route In the
financial district will be heightened 200 feet
when the new Wall Street Exchange build
ing Is completed. The route now extends
from Maiden lane TO Wall street and will
roach TO Exchange place before the end
Of the year. It is formed by the corridors
OF four big Office buildings, each OF which
extends through the middle Of the block
from one street to another. In using the
corridor t~horougheare, which lies midway
between Nassau and william streets, the
only while performing a hop, skip and jump
across three narrow streets.
Afternoon visitors to Chinatown are often
entertained by a game Of one old cat in
which a Chinese boy takes part. The boy
wears the costume of his native country,
but 1t doesn't interfere with his play. Fur
thermore, he is the leader and the best
player in the game, although all his com.
where one old cat Is the principal summer
game.
In the last letter she sent TO a friend in
this city Eleonora Duse denied that she
would be seen here this eeason. She ex-
planned that the trouble Of arranging an
American tour would be too great now that
there was no necessity for her to work as
hard az she has been compelled to for the
last few wears. This change in her plans
is due to the fact that her daughter is en-
gagged to be married. It has been for many
years the effort of the actress TO accumulate
a comfortable dot for this daughter chat
she might marry when she wanted to.
Now her engagement to an Italian writer
has been oun and the wedding will
take place this winter in Italy.
Signora Duse educated her daughter,
who is her only child, in an exclusive board
ing school in Dresden, and the young woman
was never brought into contact with the
profession to which her mother belongs.
Her father, from whom Signora Duse OBJ
tanned a divorce many years ago, has been
for a long time attached to the Italian Con-
sulate in Manchester. Now that the young
the actress intends to take her ease in the
pursuit Of her profession.
Two ~hoodlums riding on the platform
Of an Eighth avenue car attempted to rob a
woman who, they discovered, was old
fashioned enough to wear a dress with a
pocket in it. They succeeded in extracting
the contents OF the pocket, but subse-
quently learned, to their chagrin, that
the booty was not a pooketbook, but a
leather bound prayer book. Having no
use for the 6%evotiopal volume they gave
it to the conductor with instructions to
return it to the woman, who had gone,
insioe the car. The conductor Approached
her, holling out the prayer book gingeriy.
Guess you must have lost this he SAID.
Some fellows out there on the platform
picked it up and HANGED it over to me-
"Give it here, quick the woman said.
Il want TO see"
Rapidly she turned the leaves till she
Itol - n1nHaf focfana1 wppn
the RACES at the back. From this she
drew two ten dollar bills. 9,
81 forgot all about leaving them in there
she said. Thank goodness, they didn't
get lost"
the bills greedily.
Jay said one of them, lis no name
for US fellows
. Every summer there ia one color in millin-
ery that fails to have the success the de-
signers expect for it. Last year green
was this neglected shade and during the
preceding season there were plenty OF
mauye hats to be had as late in the year as
one wanted them. An inspection OF the
windows of the Fifth avenue hat shops In
August always shows which tint failed
to come up to the expectations Of the mil
liners. This year il was undoubtedly pink.
For one reason or another taste seems TO
nave Geoided against pink hats this summer,
and the result Is that they may be bought
now in large variety and at small prices.
Ever since the opening Of the Pan-Ameri-
can Congress at Rio de Janeiro there has
been e notable increase in the number OF
South Americans who have presented
themselves in the United States Circuit
Court to declare their intention Of be-
coming citizens Of this country. Formerly
the South American who appeared TO for
swear allegiance to his native land was
such a rarity that the very fact was certain
to be made a matter of comment among
the attaches of the court. but since Secretary
has been carrying everything before
him in the Brazilian capital it has been no
unusual thing for five or ak natives OF
republics lying south of the Panama ditch
line to make application in a day fox first
citizenship papers. Most of the applicants
give the country of their nativity as either
Brazil or Colombia; 81 several Of the Brazilians
have said that Secretary Roots visit to Rio
has been responsible for their wishing to
become North Americans by choice, and
the Colombians, 1t would seem, have since
their arrival here come to look at the Panama
Canal affair from another viewpoint. Thu
V~enezuelans are notable by their absence
from the list.