The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-10
LIVE TOPECS ABOUT TOWN.

Now that the scarcity Of currency has
caused the substitution in pay envelopes
Of gold co ms for bills a pleasant and profit
able habit which Ia said 90 BE- In vO sue
out West. where gold is always more in
use thar in the East. il understood TO be
finding much favor here. The nature OF
this lie suggested in a question which a New
Yorker who was way out West near Detroit
or Denver or sOmewher IN the neighbor-
rood recently put 90 a native. -
why Is it. he asked. that every man !
see here always has hie hand on his
w-aistcoast pocket M every little while
takes a long turn az rubbing II gentlyF-
That's his gold ust factory was the
answer. He has hat pocket lined with
emery paper and keeps a gold coin in Il all
the time. He renevs the coin occasionally
and then every three months or so he
cleans out the pocket very carefully and
sells the dust. He makes quite a good
thing out Of it,
Il saw by last Mondays Sun that Supt.
Beattie is hoping to do away with the dust
nuisance on Riverside Drive by sprinkling
the roadway with n compound OF oil and
other substances remarked a Jerseyman.
Down on the Jersey coast we've worked out
a better plan than that. though. In summer
time when the dust gets troublesome We
simply wet down our Oad with sah water
right from the ocean. IL cakes the dust Just
az oil does and is OF course much less ex-
p~ensive. Salt water gives out no Odor ana
leaves no traces on fOotgear-
SOf course We know said the visitor.
that you can buy anything on earth in New
York and hat everybody on earth comes here
to buy: but some OF the combinations OF
things that you find dealt in here by the
same house do seem a little strange. For
i0afanca 4 find knro ma whpl0aal In NOnrarn
whose specialities are dog collars and skates.
Isn't.Jhat a queer combination? IL struck
me q but | didn't ask how IL came about
because l didn't want 70 know. No doubt
should have found il all simple enough;
This concern, suppose, either makes Itself
or IL represents manufacturers OF these
two lines of goods. and that's all there is to
IL. but l preferred 10 enjoy the novelty
without looking behind the scenes. Large
town. New York, and l never come here
wlthout discovering something new. or new
at least TO me-
Say, I'm going Il tell you a story about
this recent bank panic that's a true addi-
ton TO the anthology Of human damfoolsh-
ness" said an officer Of a local express
company. Ri ght in the middle Of the
agitation we noticed our business begin
ming 10 fall OF, why nobody could imagine.
till at last a clever young clerk made out
AAiAN II "aH just bNlhhnS VA NbtulAAN AA1A
the same name as that Of a financial institu-
ton then in rather straitened circumstances.
Absurd, isn't il? You'd hardly expect
that any human being who laid claim TO
enough gray matter to keen his hair warm
would quit sending his bundles by the
Diedrich Transfer Company just because
il was named in honor Of the same gentle
man who also endowed the Diedr ich Trust
with its title; but there you are all the
samey. Human asininity. like human dirt,
is various and ineradicable.'
One of the interesting sights Of Fifth
avenue the past week has been the baby
automobile. The little motor has been
the cynosure Of all eyes. especially on the
afternoon when two very charming society
bellies were its occupants. Resembling
much the seashore push chair, the tiny
vehicle threads its way daringly among
its kin of larger growth. and the men in
uniform where the ~thoroughfare is most
~congested seem TO take special pains in
guarding and protecting it.