The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-05
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

What a lot OF people seem Interested
in the progress Of this building" said a
man who was working on the apartment
hotel at Broadway n Seventy-ninth
street.
One Of the overseers looked out at the
row OF ~loiterers lined up in the shade OF
the scaffolding.
They don't care a rap about the build
ing" he said. They are simply trying TO
keep cool. You may not have noticed IL.
but no matter how hot the day there are
certain spots about town that offer a re-
freshing temperature. These are the
blocks where new buildings are going up.
The scaffolding. the mortar, the vast
chaotic interior combin to produce a COOL,
lures into the shade OF the unfinished walls
dozens OF perspiring wayfarers who, UNI
mindful Of the dirt and confusion. stop
TO enjoy the change Of air."
The Chinatown visitor finds IL unnec
essary now to go to the Chinese theatre
to near the latest popular and classical
Chinese airs Of the day. A Pell street
restaurant has added a Chinese orchestra
to entertain its patrons. While eating
chop suey or some other connection the
visitor may enjoy, or otherwise. the strains
from a one stringed fiddle and a tomtom
in the hands of yellow skinned artists.
The front nameso Of foreigners give Amer
cans lots of trouble" said the stickler for
accuracy. but IL does seem as IL some
of the commonest should be better under
stood. The nam that causes the most
trouble is the Italian equivalent for Joseph.
Nine persons out Of ten spell il Giuseppe,
and Of course it should be Giuseppe. Brook
Ign has been especially a afflicted this week
by faring posters Announcing that III
Trovatore' is being sung at the Orpheum
Theatre and that the opera Is the immortal
work Of Giuseppe Verdi
Il seems that the wistaria, which was
originally a Japanese plant. il not the only
one named after an American. The gar
denia,- said a native of South Carolina
now in New York, "is named after DR..
Garden, while the brilliant scarlet flower
40 popular at Faster and Christmas, GA lied
the ~poinsetta, takes its name from Joel
Poinsett. who brought the flower from
Mexico, where he had been Minister from
this country. He brought back with him
the first plant OF the kind ever seen in this
country. Both these men, who gave their
names 10 popular flowers, moreover. were
natives Of South Carolina"
This looking glass" said the clerk at
the soda fountain. was put TO a new use this
morning. | have got used 10 seeing people
stsnd here and primp before keeping an
engagement. but it really did give me
something OF a shock TO see this corner OF
the store turned into a kind OF d~ressmaking
establishment. A woman wearing a blue
wolfe dress and carrying a paper OF pins
introduced the custom.
81 lust want TO see,' she said, If my
skirt IL even around the bottom. l have
no long glass in my room and i can't get my
dress turned up even around the bottom
10 save my soul. DO you mind IL l examine
IL here for a minuteT
1T didn't matter. apparently, whether
I minded or not for. before I could answer.
she began to twist and turn in front OF the
glass, She discovered several places that
either hitched up or sagged an inch or 30.
whereupon she calmly put that paper Of
pins into commission and proceeded to
rectify the length of that skirt"
The freaks Of falling buildings were we'll
illustrated in the recent collapse Of the
tenement at Lafayette and Walker streets.
All the furniture found in the ruins was
removed TO the Elizabeth street police
station. Among the stun taken there
was a large thermometer with its glass
tube unbroken.
I've seen millions. | don't know but
billions. Of men and boys stop 20 compare
their watches by the c~hronometers in jew
ellers' windows" said q man who thinks
his watch is a good one. and who likes him
self TO so compare it. but ! never saw a
woman do that; did your"
II saw what struck me az a move thing
in the railroad line the other day" laid a
man who makes occasional trips to the
suburbs. Il was coming back to New
York. 1t was a Sunday. The train I got
was a fast one. not stopping for forty-fve
miles on one stretch. And when it came
along. what should be just back Of the en-
CINE but two freight carsi They contained
Ash. l was told. which mad to be rushed to
the markets in the CITY. Still the sight OF a
fast train composed OF two freight cars
followed by half a dozen solid vestibuled
parlor cars appealed 20 me as something