The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-06
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TONY.

doing the unexpected, startled the Essex
Market police court the other day ON q trial
OF n jew for abandoning his wife and chill
dren. County Detective Reardon was on the
bridge when the complaining wife came
before the court with a baby In her arms.
There was 30 much baby the Magistrate
could not see the wife. He took one peep
over the baby's head and said; "Reardon,
suppose you hold that baby while l hear
this case"
ReaIdon turned pale. There is Mr.. Wat
son Of the Ghildren's Society Judge. Think
"Of course. He's the very man, " agreed
the Magistrate.
Watson turned as red "a Reardon had
white. Il never was much of a HAND to tend
babies, Judge, he said. Don't You think
| had better call a woman from the audi
ence9" and without waiting for judicial
approval the society agent summoned aid
from the ONE on the benches.
Both principals in the recent scandal in
light harness horse circles, c. X. G.. Billings
and L. E. Smathers, nave really passed to
other. recreations. Smathers has had a
racing, stable, and as a turfman is al ways
! apt to break out again with a string of run
ners, for it is a fever that does not easily
die out while Billingsi is afour-in-hand whip,
motorist n ira weller.
On Blocker street there is a little Italian
%bootblack shop which demonstrates the
futility Of trying to compete with foreign
labor. The enterprising owne r has COM
bined the specialties Of the hatter's and
tailor's trade with that Of the b~ootcleaner's,
and a sign which hangs over his bootblack-
ing stands reads.
Have your hat blocked and your pants
pressed while your shoes are being shined."
Nearly every afternoon a carriage, con-
tanning a man Of 40, and a woman a little
younger, drives up to the parade ground
entrance of Prospect Park. Here the man,
dressed in short coat, sweater, knicker-
bockers and low shoes, leaves the carriage
and starts or an easy run around to the
left of the lake. The woman drives to the
right, and following the roads on that side
Of the park, pulls up at the Plaza entranoe
at Flatbush avenu
The man keeps up a steady, swinging
run, taking to the turf wherever the park
rules permit, and usually arrives at the
Plaza from five to ten minutes after the
carriage. There he dons q heavy ulster,
climbs into the carriage, tucks in the blank
cts and drives down F1atbush avenue.
The runner looks like a professional man
or merchandise certainly .is not an athlete
in training, but he outs out a pretty good
pace.
Devereaux Emmett has at st. James,
L. l., one of the earliest private golf links
to be laid out in the United States, and he
is also on the greens committee Of the Gar
den City Golf Club. This winter Mr.. En-
met has leased Beehive Grange, County
Meath, Ireland. and he has been fox hunt
ing three days a week, with occasional golf
ing at Portmarnock or Dollymount, near
Dublin. He will sail for home this month
and pass the summer golfng on Long Island.
With ice gone up, the housewife now
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man sends up.
"Iceman," she says, gently but firmly.
down the dumbwaiter shaft, you are not
giving me full weight. That twenty-five
pound piece you sent up yesterday weighed
only eighteen pounds and a half"
is that so?" says the innocent iceman.
Il don't understand that. Maybe you got
you think not? Well, you know you ant
always cut it exact. Sometimes a piece
may weigh a little less, but the next piece
may weigh more. 1t comes out all right
in the end.
we've got TO have full weight now, every
time"
+All right" says the iceman, and still
cheerfully; for it is probable that few men
take a more philosophical view of things
than does the iceman.
~Since I've been out in the suburbs
and largely dependent upon hucksters for
vegetables. fish, &c" said a New Yorker
who has been taking country air for a
year, Il have found some things that we're
new to me. A huckster's 'bushel' isn't
a bushel at all. but about two pecks, His
quart is neither a dry measure nor a liquid
measure quart When he offers a quart OF
vegetables he means about a quarter of a
peck.
But these measures do not conform to
any standard. One mans 'bushel' may
others. II they were all of one standard
it wouldn't be so bad, but as il is you must
know your man and his measures before
you can judge whether his prices are any
where near fair