The sun., 1910-02-25

visitor the other day in the ONCE in the
Low library building. where Mr.. Keppel
acts as secretary OF tho university. The
visitor, a .youngish man, congratulated
Mr. Keppel.
K.pDs as dS i sdSetSSy sS.Sy ro:s said d Mr.
He stopped in the doorway and remarked.
My names Smith l simply bowed. as
II making a mental note OF that. and the
young man continued. I want you TO re-
member that. for I'll be in the college next
year: and it may help me- And then he
~In spite of Theodore Roosevelt's repu-
tation as a ready letter writer said an
old autograph dealer. -his letters are
very hard to got. They command even
now remarkably good prices as q con-
sequence. Not long ago a patron asked
me to gather for him a Set OF autograph
letters of all the Presidents OF the United
states. IL was three months before
found a letter written by Roosevelt. The
trouble is that he dictated nearly all
that he wrote and they are typewriter
with only his signature done with a pen.
Cleveland and in fact most OF the other
Presidents wrote their letters out by hand
and as a result they are to be found
IN large numbers scattered about the
country"
Nobody is going to poke out a good
eve just for the sake Of getting a glass
eye said the city salesman. but know
n man who makes money on his glass
eye. He goes TO Europe three times q
year on business. While there he does a
little trading in jewels as q side line 1t
rs on the homeward trip that he turns his
glass eye TO good account. In the cavity
back OF il he carries two or three small
hRnf Ina. n, LII l. H.4 r.. 1.wA..
saved is his commission on those stones
alone. The customs inspectors have
never got on to him. Naturally thoy can't
go around jabbing their fingers into
peoples eyes"
One OF the most popular spots in Cen
tral Park is DIR. Tanners well. near the
West Eighty y-first street entrance. A few
years ago the newspapers were full of
the exploits OF DIR. Tanner who said he
could do without food for forty days.
While he took no nourishment for that
length OF time IL was said that he allowed
himself all the water he wanted and that
he got II each day from the spring that
comes out OF a rock near Eighty-first
street and Eighth avenue. The park
authorities afterward scooped out basin
to collect the water and provided cups.
Lots OF persons who remember DIR. Tan
ner ascrihe wonderful properties to this
water and they 90 there every morning
to drink.
-Yee, sir said William Penny. engineer
Of the jefferson Market police court
building. as he proudly showed his badge.
Il was one OF the volunteer iremen OF
New York city, and the old bell which
now rests in the Jefferson Market tower
rang out for the last time on July -N
1855. That night it sent ms on q run
to a FIRE In Barnum's Museum. at Ann
street and Broadway.
The bell originally was in a tower
which stood where the prisoners pen
is now. Engine 70 and Hose n had their
houses on the Tenth street side of the
market. and when the watchman. who
was always stationed in a lookout near
the tower. spied fire and gave the alarm
away we'd 60. The tower and FIRE houses
were torn down TO make room for this
building in II.
Elm 1879 they placed the bell in the
court building tower as an anchor. and
she hasn't made 80 much as a hum since.
! remember asking State Engineer Van
Buren IL the bell was ever to ring again.
He says No. Penny she's only to be
runG down would come tower and all.
She's q big one too; weighs bout Ave
tons, over seven feet high and eight
feet across the mouth. She's over
years old and a relic Of the old
Village"
In a sparsely settled part Of Flatbush.
where policemen are seen seldom. the
have established a neigh
bOrhood burglar alarm syst em. One
man discovered it to his amusement
several nights ago. He was looking
r.. kAA
street near Avenue K After wadins
about in mud ankle deep because Of the
scarcity Of paved sidewalks the house
was found. IL was dark. and after the
man had rung the front door bell several
times he decided to ask the nearest neigh
bors IL they knew anything Of the move
ments OF the persons who were not at
home.
go away from here screamed a
woman who ca me to the door OF the near
est house when she saw that the caller
was not one or her friends. 60 away
quick or I will call the police
But madam said the man, Il am not
a burglar. What In the matter?"
eco away" screamed the woman as
she reached for an electric button in the
vestibuIe
Immediately the house next door be-
came brilliantly illuminated and before
the man had got to the bottom steptwo
men ran out OF the front door OF the place
that had been signalled. In the right
hand of each was a revolver,
The stranger was upbraided for ringing
The bell OF q house In which his acquain-
tances did not live, but he laughed and
said he did not mind it.
An agent for a piano house made
tour OF New York churches on a curious
errand.
Iwant to buy up all the cabinet organs
that have been used in chapeis and mis-
sions to send TO country churches" he
said. -Those churche, are not bank
rup.. They expect TO Day almost as
much az they would pay for q new organ.
provided the old instrument is in good con-
dition The point is the congregation
wants an organ that has been used in a
New York chu--h. There Is q wonderful
potency in that phTHse, New York church