The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-23
LIVE TOPECS ABOUT TOWN.


! The little house which has been built
around Saint-G audens's statue OF FarraRut
in Madison Square. perchOd upon the
pedestal, attracts daily attention. When
IL was first put up the bronze face Of the
Admiral looked out Of the window like an
Ethiopian Peter Pan. Then n stone ap-
peared beside him, then the glass wa
whitewashed on the street side. Not m
in ten OF those VIII stop to look at the little
house know why il is there. The tenth
paniOns that Daniel Chester French is in
| side making a copy of the statue for the
Saint-Gaudens memorial exhibit. -
The problem Of how to keep the cocktail
from stopping over on it's way from the bar
to the restaurant table finds many solutions.
! The simplest is to serve it in a whiskey
glass. More elaborate il the tall cocktail
glass used at one or two hotels and so con-
structed that the standard size drink
but hclf fills It. The most ingenious method
is the coffee pot shaped silver urn in Which
the drink is brought 10 the table end from
it poured into the glass.
Not oil shop girls are naughty and even
u~nobliging 10 the helpless male shopper.
One of the latter 1T n loss what to buy for
a seventy-year-Old mother got a hint from
another Of the family that a shopping bag
would be welcome. To n blond young
woman ct the counter he explained his
wants, detailed the lady's age and re-
counted her habit Of carrying bundles Of
missionary tracts in her bag. The young
woman smiled. declared that she knew
Just what he wanted and produced IL. He
looked inside and h first thing he sew was
a powder pun.
Just how much the Chinese observe
Christmas in China this man remarked.
Il don't know; never having been there
I couldn't say; but the Chinese in New
York observe il all right. or certainly the
Chinese l~aundrymen do, at least as far as
their customers 20.
Every year we receive at this season from
our Chinese laundryman a Christmas GIFT
done up in a neat package with Christmas
marked on the outside. This year the
package contained two trim little square
packets Of tea, each Printed all over with
Chinese characters. and also, in a box by
itself. a near jade bracelet; all of which
we consider as a very nice and graceful
thing for the laundryman to do in New York.
whatever he does in China"
The latest to enter the already crowded
field of Photographic enterT rise in New
York are the Jaranese, and three now
occupy large studios here. At least one Of
them has succeeded in attracting a clientele
Of rich and influential customers. to judge
by the subjects he exhibits. None of these
new photographers betIdys in his work the
least trace of his Oriental origin. They
are successful in Producing very artistic
and pleasing portraits. but so far as any
national characteristic is to be noticed in
them they might have been taken by artists
from any Western country
The successor to Richard Mansfield was
discovered the other day in a ~southbound
Madison avenue car. He has a long while
to grow in yet. though. Boarding the car
at Fifty-ninth street with a big bundle,
he presented a transfer. NJ good, yoI'n
have to pay your fara," said the conductor,
moving on up the car. The boy looked
duly at his transfer as IL he cid not compre-
bend.
Come" said the conductor. returning,
that's no good. Pay your fare"
Again the boy looken in stupid, pathetic
arr cal at the bit OF ar er and the Eassen-
gers. Two men near him the
transfer and tried TO ~explaia TO the lad,
who began to grow alG. oss fearful The
conductor returned TO threaten two or
three times. Finally ono Of the men said.
as he felt in his pocket How far 90 you
want to go. sonny
Manhattan. A twinkle came into his
eye. The stupidity vanished like magic.
Il was goin' TO Forty-second street" he
said, and made a oh amatic exit on the
laugh.
Street mendicancy in New York is going
back to first principles whea a wheeler
can crouch on a Fifth avenue curb for two
weeks without molestation. Wheezers are
the limp old women who drop like bundles
Of rags on the sidewalk and grind caco-
phony out OF a small barrel organ which
is perpetuallv in had voice. They used
10 cot the landscape Of Fifth NV enue a dec
ade ago, but were the first to disappear
when a systematic crusade against street
beggars was made. Two of them are back
at the old stand again for the holiday season.
One differs from her predecessors in having
a sign printed in Hebrew letters m the.
front Of the organ !
During the recent financial furry while
every one in Wall Street was wondering
what would happen next an old fifth avenue
stage coach came down Nassau street
regularly at noon every day. Inside the
coach was a man operating a hand organ
and advertising a song called on Worry"
through a meGaphone. The stage after
traN ersing the length OF Nassau street
turned into wall street with the organ 60
ing at full speed and the man with the J.. eg
phone still shouting Don't Worry!" 4
broker who happened to See m coach
turned to his companion and said: that's
good advice. but I don't see how We can take
Il these days.
A box marked Fine Undershirts.' con-