The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-21
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

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OF a big machinery house to friends at dinner
in an uptown club the other evening. About
two months ago at Nagasaki 1 saw another
New Workers. name o. the hotel register
just above mine. We dined together that
evening. He vas superintendent OF agents
for a paint house and was returning after
bucking up his sellers In nearly every
country IN Europe. in Egypt, In Cape Colony.
India, China and Japan and was going TO
make Canada on his way east. was on q
similar mission for my house and had set
out TO cover almost the same territory, only
l was going TO do some extra fine work in
the Congo, whore the big development
work 10 going on.
The odd part lie that both Of US had been
in New York for more than q dozen yearB
n our ohioes were not more than q dozen
blocks apart and yet neither Of W could
remember that We had heard the name OF
the others company
The army officers from West Point who
were assisting the National Guardsmen at
the war game down the harbof last week
gave a practical illustration Of the way to
secure a range on q battlefield without the
help Of range finders. On the second night
when the small boats came up to fire on the
fort the West Point men had their watches
in their hands. By allowing roughly 100
feet for every second after the flashes Of
their guns were seen and before the report
was heard they guessed tbs distances.
They took the trouble TO verify one OF these
observations from one Of the range finders
which had the exact distance. They were
only sixty yards out Of the way. The boats
at that time were a mile and a half away.
One OF the humorous incidents Of the
recent campaign at Fort Wadsworth was
when the Seventh Regiment found itself
shy Of a signal corps promised by
the Government. Headquarters Orderly
Alexander Perry Of Company X was
instructed to organize one. He offered
all sorts Of inducements TO the men 70
join. One Of those persuaded TO come in
was Private Wright Barclay Of Company
K. Barclay had an easy detail which he
dubbed working in the livery stable
When he ven into the signal corps IL was
work from morning to night, and espe-
cially hard in the wet spell, while many Of
his companions were snug under cover.
The corps had to practise their signals
constantly.
Here | gave up working in the livery
stable TO wiggle around in this mire,"
moaned Barclay In the height Of the down
pour. My bunkies in camp only have to
crawl out when there lie q call to arms"
With this the entire signal corps drew
the last cali TO arms sounded and the battle
was on again. Several hours later the wal
was over, -.,. ..-.
I'D like to know how the stranger in the
city is going TO tell Cooper Union when he
comes to it, said a visitor. There's no
label on Il such as appears on most public
buildings. Looking At the big building as
you approach IL from the Bowery you can
see the word Union carved high up in the
stone, but nothing to tell what union II
is unless you go up to the statue in front
and find that IL 10 Peter Cooper's. You
a 20 around TO the other end OF the
building and you will see To Science and
Art carved on high. II remains for a
trance to inform you that IL really 10 Cooper
Union
In New York city during the last winter
and spring. couples in middle life, cay
between IS and IS. kept the dancing masters
working overtime giving them private
given to the fashionable set. but 10 folks
who in early life had neither the time,
money nor opportunity to learn 20 dance
Women who AXE their babies and them
selves for the fresh air to the small park
squares have adopted a custom which has
not yet reached Central Park. The woman
with a baby carriage does it most. She
carries. attached 10 the gocart. a folding
camp chair, which she adjusts under any
tree she likes or In the most favorable spot.
With the chair she need not worry about
finding a good seat on the benches, and
read or sew while baby sleeps in quiet
seclusiont
From under the feet OF a woman who
boarded a Third venue elevated train
at Fourteenth street last Sunday there
jumped a live something which darted
under a seat. At the cry Of "Mousel' there
the seat, another grabbed a strap In each
hand and lifted her feet from the floor
that a some just Rugged their skirte,
while two made for the platform. A brave
youth pushed back his cuffs, knelt and began
around under the seat with his hand,
whereat the quarry leapt nimbly back into
the aisle and stood blinking for all 20 zee.
+Mousel' snorted the guard, Say, that's
a bullfrog."
Which, despite the settine was true beyond
all protest. The outraged exile was seized
by the guard and hurled out into the street.
How he climbed into the elevated wat not
explained
1T will be a long time before the Villa ms
burg Bridge gets into print as much az the
Brooklyn Bridge" said a policeman who
has done duty on both but is now attached
the brooklyn brluge squho, OUT ola
you ever notice that the span up the river
eets itself mentioned In the newspapers
times some days when the one here
gets a mention?
Last Sunday. for instance. the news
supplied by the Williamsburg structure
included a spectacular FIRE. which ran for
half a column; two runa ways In which
horses we're killed and the drivers
seriously injured, and the capture Of a
team abandoned by hoodlums who had
stolen IL and who escaped while the police
were Watching for them at both ends OF the
bridge. All the mention this old structure
was a tieup, and that's so old It isn't
counting.
sThie one. however. remains the favorite
AZ a jumping Of place 10 the other world.
just watch the papers and sec for your
A visitor stood on one Of the business
streets in the Flatbush section Of Brooklyn
the other day and noticed that every deliv-
cry horse that passed wac wearing a wire
He had just decided that Flat
must have a vicious lot Of horses when
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