The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-19

Chris Tracy. a wireless sire taper,
whose reputation for separating easy marks
from their money is second only TO that OF
Larry Summerield. waited Inspector Nc
Caferty. chief Of the Detective Bureau,
a few days q o
Il cam TO see WHARF l stood" said Tracy
In q matter Of fact tone.
What do you meanI" asked McCaferty.
wei. l want to know whether can
The best thing for you to do. Tracy.
10 to get out Of town." replied McCaiferty.
4 will tell the men in this bureau to pick
o up every time they see you. Now
Tracy went away with a look Of injured
innocence.
Il wonder" mused a man who heard
Of this visit. III Tracy didn't believe be was
following out an old precedent in going. TO
business. l hav heard of such things
and often wondered how IL wal DONE
A young man who got a clerkship in a
downtown Office was called back by his
employer after h terms Of service had
been agreed upon.
There's n thing I forgot TO mention
said the employer. when VOC come
to work Monday morning bring a pair
Of carpet or felt slippers along. All the
munication with me wear than. I can't
stand the sound Of a football. In most
things 1 am not nervous. but the scrsping
or the s~queaking OF q heavy shoe upsets
me so that l am ft for nothing the whole
day long"
Before leaving the ONCE the young man
observed that most OF tho other clerks
really were shod in soft soled clippers. so,
strange as the idea seemed. be too on the
following Monday joined the noissaess
New Workers. must be especially ssnsi-
tive 70 COLOR said an English man who
makes periodical visits 70 this country. and
l never come here without finding soma
color scheme impressed on ths landscape.
A decade ago l ound that all Tho cheap
restaurants were painted white. that evi-
'dently being some symbol Of quality. Now
l find hat color less insisted on. although
all the cigar and candy stores in town are
painted bright red. That color must mean
bacco. just as white did to patrons Of the
dairy restaurants years ago.
In some Of tho new apartment houses
an inspired architect has placed the push
button that rings the janitor's BEN at least
six feet up from the floor. This seoms .
dren who are thereby deprived Of the lear
delight of ringing IL and seeing the weary
janitor toll up the basement stairs to answer
10; but it meets the entire approval OF the
tenants.
A man who spends most OF his time trav-
/, cling went TO ais favories restaurant a
night or two ago and the waiter who sp-
pesred to serve him greeted him with 3
smile.
Hello said the traveller. Il haven't
seen you in nome time"
NO" responded the waiter, Il served
you last at Palm Beach -,
You have travelled some them said
the man.
@oh my. yes replied the waiter. I'm
the winter I go South and when the season
Ia over I come back 20 town. Then I get a
job AZ n Of the Saratoga hotels for the
ssS %ps SEA ; YSs m .ns / tG SsSsr ,hs p soS up 1,; =
money, sir, il you n TO do we'll in this
business"
The window Of a Broadway store thai
has been vacant for several months wa
occupied one day last week by a large oil
painting Of a lightly clad woman and sport
ing nymphs. The picture was labelled
For sale" 1t was q SNOWY canvas and nine
persons out OF ten who passed that way
stopped to look at 10. A surprisingly large
number stepped into the store TO inquire
into the history Of the picture and the terms
of sale. Before night the picture was sold
The next day another took its place, only
to be followed during the week by five
others. all Of which oun ready purchasers,
When does the artist intend to move
the rest Of his stock in and Mt up the entire
store?" asked a curious caller.
sHe isn't going to move in" grinned the
attendant VINO vas the sole occupan oi
the store. He isn't going to At up. He
isn't going to show any more pictures
down here. He has a studio uptown
. Those pictures he has had on exhibition
here were old ones that he's bad On n
a long while. He found 10 impossible 70
would even look 81 them. Ons day he
saw the possibilities OF this empty window
He rented it just the window-at so much
a dAy. The big ~canvases created such q
sensation down here in q window all by
themselves that they brought excellent
prices from people who wouldn't have
given them a second glance in a regular
exhibition room
-Uncle Sam does not forget tine mer
Who have lost THAR legs in the service,
said the retired army officer. IF you lcee q
leg while Ia the army q benehcsnt Govern
ment supplies you With an artificial LEI
every three years. II In quite true tina
the man who wears a wooden beg will buy
two every year. and they cost considerably
more than SIS, the amount the Government
allows for one. You can, OF course, buy ar
artificial limb for that amount, or at least
the Government AN, for such things arr
bought by the Government on contract
Uncle Sam always gives you the choice o.
an artificial limb or the money. take thu
money.