The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-03
THE CITY FULL OF VISITORS.
THONGS HERE ON BUSTN ESS
on PLEASURE BENT.

NnlOf MI ONFT NOf"-bVlVu WIZ ~
the IIOle els and the RuDberneck wagons
And How They DO ASK QuestiOnsl
+. Tncle Joe Cannon and Col. Watterson
dor,t stop cracking up little OIL NJ York
a summer resort and II Canadian and
N,ssachusetts regiments don't stop coming
, Fl, town and II the middleaged milliners
from Ragweed Junction and What Cheer
.oo,ipue TO spend the first week Of Sep
tsmber buving goods here n II people
,ers,st in coming from Europe by way OF
Nsw York when they could just as well
land AZ ~Cbicago-if all this crowd continues
d, swamp "our midst" somebody will have
n, onen another boarding house, that's all,
,r mover has New York seen 30 many
visitors. except on Dewey days and like
tensions. as wandered the streets yester-
day,
I. All d,v long the red coats Of the Governor
\ Generals Foot Guards Of Ottawa and the
Dnora sober blue and red uniforms Of the
. \,rth Regiment Veterans Association Of
Boston spotted the streets with color.
Mos, Of the redcoats worked their way to
conev in the afternoon, but In the earlier
hours there we're enough Of them along
Broadway to give a drove of bulls hysteria.
And N was aH HluCn Us OhO AhO W~1 WVtNh
?, try 10 dodge across City Hall Park and
other noints Of interest through the herds
Of Information seekers.
- Added to the soldiers, the returned Euro
mean travellers. the backwoods buyers and
the sInburned refugees from the mountain
and seaside hotels that are now closing for
the season WAS the aftermath Of the Bryan
crowds Of N'braska, Ioway, Nawth Cs1ins
and IawIah. Harry Levy, who uns q Ave
seated sldewheeler auto from Fourteenth
rect TO Coney Island, said last night that
he had carted the entire Lost Cause down
20 Luna once yesterday he did it a million
times,
vas asked so often by anxious old ladies' and
gentlemen, as they pointed toward the City
Han, Of the loungers in City Hall Park that
the i~olngers. willing as they are to work,
crew tired of il. As the day Waned the in
Formation seekers we're told variously that
the city Hall was Columbia University, the
Philadelphia Mint, Bostock's animal show
and Or. Parkhurst's new church.
An that : President Nick Butler settin' at
the window. " added the information bureau
| that stuck to the Columbia University
l theory all afternoon, as he pointed out the
] digffed figure of Marty Reese, major
2 domo Of the CITY Hall sine shortly after the
reign Of Peter Stuyvesant.
4 red headed young driver on a Fifth
l avenue stage. new to the job, had his own
y troubles in the afternoon telling the visitors
seated in the crows nest back Of him Who's
l Who as his craft worked oward the horizon
l But he strived manfully to please as the
! sassy residences were passed n b crows
/ nest wanted to know who could AFFORD such
\ swell hay windows.
' -Oh, one Of de vanderbilts-Willy, think
was always a safe and sane answer, al
though variety could be lent to this occa-
s%ionally by shifting to Oats Jack Astor's
town shack"
The Ninth Massachusetts, Veterans' Asso-
citation. with about fifty guests and their
wives and families, trailed into town late
Saturday night over 200 strong and marched
down to the Broadway Central Hotel. For
this years outing the veterans, exclusively
Irish, accepted the invitation Of the Sixty
ninth TO come to visit the local Irish regi-
ment for three or four days. Yesterday
they marched up Broadway and Fifth
van, to the music Of the Mission Church
BAND Of Boston and attended a military
mass al II o'clock at the Cathedral.
Manager Thomas F. Keogh Of the Vic
toria Hotel, resting from his weeks work
in one of the leather lounges Of the hotel
lobby, said that practically all the Nebraska
home folks had lit out for the golden West
Yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. II
wouldn't be good business for Mr., Keogh
20 admit that the home folks had caused
IIH wear HESS DuL llGy uuu uAhhG u NOb Ol
noise he murmured with a sigh.
Among the many notable strangers seen
on Broadway yesterday afternoon and
evening was Thomas Beebins, the genial
general storekeeper OF Noxen, Pa. Tom
"a in town to buy fall bonnets and dress
goods for the winter trade. Mother Beebins
was also met well and in good cheer.
Sam Hslser, the well known hotel keeper
? who runs the Blue Duck tavern back OF
BRIDGEPORT, also ~sundayed in u midst.
The sun hopes that Sam will call often TO
our thriving burg.
Charley Case Of Ups ilanti. Mich, was
met in front Of the F1atiron building.
terry u looking beautiful since Jim Thomp-
son, Who is a brother-in-law Of Charley,
got b sold job Of sexton back again. New
York has grown some, Charley insists,
slnoe he was here in 1871.
Belle Mcguire, the popular saleslAdy at
The ribbon counter Of Browns notion store
IN OlyDhant, Pa. is spending her ten days
vacation with cousins in Harlem. Belle
motored with forty friends to Coney Island
Yesterday afternoon and reported a sue
oesstul afternoon.
p. A. B. Widener Of Philadelphia, arrived
on one OF the American liners from Europe
on Saturday, but hurried home to the wait
ing folks.
These are but a few Of the visitors that
crowded the streets yesterday to the JOY
d. the Seeing New York double deckers
and hotel clerks. The clerk OF the Inn
perlai and the clark OF the st. Regis said
mat although New York is always filled
with transients at this time never v they
seen them in punches so large as at present.
The clark Of the st. Regis was in a gracious
mood and had it all framed up to go into
"details when his valet arrived at the desk
with important news Of some kind and the
interview was Interrupted.