The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-15
1--WE TOPICS ABOCT TOWN.

This 10 q story which has been going
around among lawyers ever since Archi-
bald r. Watson. whom Mayor Gaynor
made Corporation Counsel. was welcomed
by his assistants some Of them hsd never
seen him until they stepped into the once
which Mr. Pendleton had recently vacated.
One Of the assistants was seen to gasp
and step out OF the room doubled up
with laughter.
What did laugh forl- said he after
ward. We'll. I'll tell you. For the last
two years I've eaten my graham crackers
and half ard half and cocoa az the dairy
lunch down the street and almost always
ate With a nice looking young fellow VINO
had Just what had except that he saved
the price of the cocoa. | never asked
him HE name aad he never asked me mine.
but to-day looked into that ONCE. and
say. that young fellows the new boss.
What Brooklyn Bridge is Ca IN" Ameri-
can section IN foreign geOgraphle- Mary
land fried chicken 10 60 the American
section in foreign cook books, said the
woman globe trOtter. Each in it, own
department il the representative insti-
tuition oG our country. Authors OF foreign
cook books don't think much Of Amer
can cookery but they can't AFFORD 70
slight Maryland fried chicken. Cook
hooks in half the civilized countries on
the globe nay tribute Ia II. hut no two
10 the recipes are alike.
-Most foreign writers On culinary
topics give half an inch Of space to corn
bread. Usually they call it Georgia corn
bread Then there is some kind % con-
coction called American pickles IN
cluIded IN som~ foreign cook books. We
have no pickles like that IN America.
still they don't taste half bad. Several
new cook boOks got out since Pres, ;
dent Taft : memorable Southern trip tell
how To roast pOssum
We have called to ask tho Park Com
missioner TO plant some Lomhardy pop
lars along our street. said the spokesman
for a delegation Of West Side residents
az the ofice~ OF the Park Department.
Sorry hut the Commissioner cannot
do IL unless he pays for the trees ont ~
has own pocket responded the offictal
The law doesn't permit the Park Depart
ment to paw for trees for city str, ats.
although the department has jurisdiction
over all trees in the streets.
The street trees are gradually passing
away. especially in Manhattan. Last year
SSO dead and dangerous ones were removed
by the PARK Department and none was
planted to replace them. There - no way
Of getting trees for the streets unless the
residents pay for them.
The photographer thinks he has met
an extreme instance IN borrnwing One
afternoon hoy bounced into the studio
and said:
Say. mister. them old maids up on the
next hoor want to know II you won't lend
them a haby's rattle. Their sister has
left her hid with them for the afternoon
and they amt got anything 10 amuse
ham with
What next'- said the photographer
Then out Of hls property room he SelaCs ed
a large silver rattle that many a youthful
subject had looked pleasant over ana sent
u up stairs With his compliments.
Good nature of a del Icats sort hash I
gone out Of has town. not even IN one
Of - hardest parts PARA Row. from
Broadway to BrOoklyn Bridge when the
crowds are heating homeward isn't gra-
CiOus. N isn't even ConSids-rate Vet
the other evening when a hard RAIN was
making Tho going particularly uncomfori
able. a man IN a gray OvercOat showed
that PaTk Row can he both of these He
had an umbrella winch wa-nt more than
enough 20 keep hts own coat dry Tie
held u over he head Of a dinRy old woman
who didn't have a hat and he dad u as
though 70 waS the biggest privtlege he 4
had that day hen he got Ia he bridge
he put her on a ear and slipped the con
ductoT a nickel when she WASH looking
In one 20 those lit'ls villages ~ staten
Island which are l1st on the map Of the
greater city Hermann PiCkledonk H. the
oracle 81 the ptnochl- game m the hack
room ~ Schwartz saloon Recently
the performance ~ professional mind
reader and hypno'tst who WAS PLAYING
a limited engagement m the next largest
village an the road NaS a subject ~ com
n~li not Ws"n ~huftiiugs az the pinoo HE.
table
4 tell you how ! fool that mind reader
Teller sad Hermann Predictions When
I goes me nv the opera nous" to gh'
and that mind reader Teller heRins to mind
read IN t.Ink IN ChermAn