The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-04

railroads than has any one else since
tho panic. and Ia sometimes talked % a.
the new Hartman. has q curious habit
Of repoae In his ofice when the days work
10 done. The few people who Sc him
then Sc him sitting on the floor. like q
Turk or tailor fashion, with legs crossed.
hack against the wall and arms around
both legs below the knee Often he
reets In this way for an hour or more
chatting with friends. business associates
and snbordinates and denying himself %
all callers.
We are used 70 all kinds of receptions
and audisnces.' said a member Of a
theatrical company just returned from
tour over the country. but We were
hardly prepared for the Kind Of house
that greeted us In a Western town.
large one. tOo--this winter. When the
curtain ro@e row upon row Of children
confronted ~. Many % them had their
dolls along and the eXpeOtAnt look OF the
little mothers was really disconcerting
The play was The Dolls House.
Two flrsmen met In a downtown street
the other day and one said to the other:
Hello, Tom. Where are you now9'
I'm with the pa iamas company up on
City IslaDd.' was the Response
IL IL considered a piece of good luck Co
be assigned 20 Engine 10 on City Island.
where tho men crease their trousers
every day and 20 TO bed in pajamas and
are disturbed only by the Growing Of
rooeters or tho cackink, - industrious
officers and men In the company and they
are envisd by the smoke and CRIME COW
cred fire fighters OF downtown. In l0Os
the company responded 20 Just eight fire
alarms. In the same year Engine So In
James J. Hill used to patroniye the
lntsr-Met on his trips 20 and from his
ofiice in the Mutual Lafe Building. In
vATiably he travelled on the subway or
elevated. just a. Mr.. Hartman always
did. but latterly Mr.. Hill has been con-
tributing To that cost Of high living
which he deprocates In his speeches
An automobile takes him 20 and FRO now
Friends suggest that u the farmer along
tho Great Northern has his touring car
Mr.. Hill may he pardOned for travelling
ia q like vehicle. They point out also
that Mr.. lille automobile 10 a small one
and that it has q limousine body which
and relieves him from all charge 81 o.
tentation and display. Moreover. Mr
Hill still wears the same old hat.
1T IL not easy 20 -tar,le New York
pedestrians any more remarked a man
who has lived in Manhattan all his life
Yesterday l saw four elephant. march
ing along with turbaned keepers on their
backs and not person gave them more
than a passing glance IL u not long ago
when they would have attracted a crowd
Dime novel publishers say that New
YORK boys have lost their taste for Indians
and despsradoes. Its not the Shiny Sam
stun that the boys like nowAdays.' said
one Of them. We have TO keep a lot OF
writer's at work here changing the old
stories around to fit the new wants They
put in AeroplAne- instead Of pinto ponies
and have the hero toss the villain on a
skyacrapar instead Of from . clih. Dime
novsla have TO keep up with the times
just the same a. everything else in this
town. But IN the country We can sell the
old standbys just a. We always did
Il went into a department store not
long ago said a young woman. TO pick
out a nscktis for my husband. In one
case they had an assortment that was
DO men Buy those thing-'' l asked
tho clerk
NO. nam he replied. the ladies do
Nine out VI every ten women Who come
hero go buy = necktle for man select
IL from that case
II one cares TO prove for himself how
much quicker and more sensitive = camera
10 than the human eye. all tho elements
for demonstration are AZ hand IN upper
Broadway. Ia the automobile show
windows are photographs u racing ma
chimes snapped while going from sixty
to eighty miles an hour. The wheel spokes
stand ont IN these pictures and every line
In the drivers faces can be disc"rnsd.
Look az one Of these pictures. then
turn and look steadily across the street
I'LL 1u automobile crosses your line u
vision az moderate speed. The whole
machine will seem little more than a blur.
unless you follow its motion with your
eye. which the camera does not do. As
for the spokes they are not d'stinglIshabls
and the Nheals seem solid from huh 20
rim. Il takes a quick eye 10 recognize
an acquaintance IN an automobile ~ u
| dits through the line Of sight
1T is only a call for q second hand
brIsh.- said n hAirdresser TO - patron
A. she resumed operations after an IN
terruption. "Ons would think there
would be- little demand for WORKOUT hair
brushes. but ws save all those We are
ready to discard and sell them again Co
the owners OF long haired cats. The
ordinary kind ~ brush ~ 81 little Use in
keeping tho thick fur in order. hut there
is nothing better than the expensive
long bristIed kind found in an up to date
hAirdresser's shop