The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-05
Boa Shooss
T.. q riSl A II Tifr
sTI.t

Inside YOU will find a very piaasan;
spoken young woman who. the chances
are. will tell Won that Mr. 1T il out or
exceptionally bnsy But + Won loite-
around a while you will come face 20 face
with AN agreeable man who makes no
attempt 60 dcny that his name 10 Tilt.
: Tint and nothing else.
! For twenty five years the general pub
Z lie has been unacq,iainted with the fact
I thar there il a person IN this town who
/ owns no Initials. frs name or addend,in
I to his name In the recent rule Of Eag
! land u was not uncommon Ia see official
( statements .manating from Buckingham
Palace signed -knollys pronounced
Nole- hut that was not because he didn I
own an antepenutal syllable. II WAS at
/ tributable 10 tn" European custom Mon
arch& have affixed at the end OF their
correspondence Just "A first name with a
mineral after =, But these cases are
different
Here IL perfectly good American
Ci,izen who has never known what u ia
to he called nv anything but TIht.
As has been animated THE SrS was
beaten on this item twer five years ago
Dne Of the newspapers of thi5 city EN-
ployed a man " ho was friend of a cousin
of lint and he printed piece abou; ham
twenty five years ago. Mr. lint Is -
now
1T happened this way said lint 10
a SCN man who asked him about II yss-
terday; my father thought that perhap@
I wouldn't like the name that he gave me
My mother thought that perhaps
wouldn't like the name she gave me
And so they decided 10 leave 1t To- me
Isntil got old enough Io "hoo-e nne for
myself.
We'll. IL went along and | found that
was no, exactly endowed a. o;he- per-
sons. The boys az school want ed to know
what my name was. aud l told them
Tint. Ii they wanted to know anything
about nv f'r-; name told them Tint.
That was all there was TO ~. and 50 what
do you suppose they called me? You
guessed RICH, 'sl~ first time Tint' lust
that and nothing more.
And so his Ch,ld h DOd pas=esi.
Once in while -oUe over inslstsnt
companion wanted II know Just why
/, was thar there was no first name. and
after a while Mr. TiTt began ans wsring
by physical proves. But a. "A rule
there were few uue-ie' Such things
spread.
And then It cam. 30 the time when
he would have 10 vot. h" and his father.
who was one Of the original members
OF IN. shook firm. vent 10 the family
counsel and asked him W hat about At Tn"
lawyer looked up everything that had
happened IN that line since the common
Law was written and discovered hat the
only case OF a one named man was a rag
picker IA Bo@ton That larson seemed
10 bs able IN =; rIggl" along without much
trouble and without anything like police
interference. and 80 M Tit thought
ne would risk A. RE lives over N BROOK
lVn and he found hal IN his town a. n
then vas and IN New York there were
only four or five. TI~t- and all 81 them
were cousins. and he dIdn think the
~ouId do snyt hing dI-a gr'-abe about Il
40 I d-c,dsd laid Mr. TIM. that
Their. wasn't any u~s. worry ing about n
II he name had been good 10 m- up 10 The
tune I was -. what WAS ne. -ensa III put
ting anything 10 ~,
90 course II u had been Jones or Smith
or Brown that would have been different
But TINT had line ON every Tint IN New
York and II any mail Went a-trav he kn-S
he could bring IL back More than that.
his father and his uncle had estn hlished
"A business in shocks. and Their" wasn't
any trouble abou' his stepping into II
In. first time lift went to vo'" the
inspectors Of election wanted to know
what about II he told them that " was
Just Tint. and there wasn't any Use in
arguing II got by
fre'tY INV gov enough aipnk
in the world TO start y bank account
The receiving teller took "A good look AZ
him when he shot through sample. Of
his signature and wanted To know Why he
was -fIngy with the ink But 10y the
t,u. "A couple Of CheCH- had come. home
without a murIn'Ir the teller allow, q that
" must y. all right And right ~ This
minute. TINT has t~o lani- accounts both
VI which he oJ-red with the one word
Tiff
Some Of Tifft's trouble comes with the
clerks IN department stores or all peo-
pI,- vino are Insi-t.-ni about knowing ::
mans initials Mr. Tiff thinks that the
count .r jumper il the worst He can get
by with "A hundred business associates 4
where he can't pass ~ over the head Of
one dry goods person And the grocer |
wants TO know and the butcher wants TO
know. and 80 does the deIIcai essen dealer |
But 70 all OF them Tint whispers the one
word Tint and that's all The only thing
that has saved him. apparently. is that he !
haa lived in just Two Assembly districts ,
over in Brooklyn all his life and folks are
getting used TO ~ They Just put him
down as queer and let IL go AZ that
Now there are two Young lifts and the
odd part Of il ~ that both Of them have
perfectly good front names The idea ~
a junior Tiff or OF Tifff I'd didn't look
gospi 10 him and besides IL didn' look
good 10 Mrs Tiff. which - more impor-
.ans
be il said for those who haven't die
tionary handy that shocks. painted on
Tiht's door. are the parts OF a box. it's
SIDES and iiS top and bottom. before IL
~ assembled