The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-20

Who Is the best known man by sight
In this town? Once We might have
guessed that 1t was CHAUNCEY DE.
PEW. BILL TWEED. Commodore VAN.
DERBiLT. Inspector WILLIAMS or, later,
Big BILL EDWARDS or Mayor GAyNoR:
and now Is It perhaps Mayor Nit.
cHEL? Who knows? The newspaper
galleries make some faces familiar to
the eye. but does the New York eye
see them when they go by on legs or
In devil wagons? IL any famous or
notorious face. barring Mr.. Roosk.
vELr's, generally recognizable in the
everlasting hustle and jostle OF Man.
haitian! Perhaps the policemen at the
big crossings are the men uncon.
sciously photographed on the great.
est number Of memories. What II
sees habitualiy, IN really sees; the
sandwich man. In Nassau street. for
example. or the dog that smokes a
pipe In the window Of q second story
billiard room.
How unfamiliar are the most famil.
lar faces has been demonstrated By
Mr.. WILSON'S success In walking down
Fifth avenue or no small stretch Of
It without detection; yet Mr.. VIII.
SONS lineaments look benignly at
newspaper readers ut least once n
day. II we nre not mistaken even the
Atlnntcan WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT has
had the sane experience. One would
think that his vnst bulk. like Tener.
lie or Atlas unreinoved. would make
IL Impossible for him to screen him.
self from the public eye, but New
York Is full Of monumental men. Mr..
TAFT has more than one double, and
we dare say that the six feet four of
the former Presidents brother. Mr..
HENRY WATERS TAFT. Il longitudinal
reach unaccompanied with the cont.
mental breadth Of the professor. would
more easily draw the indifferent gaze
of 1.-THE average New Yorker"
What indeed is fame In New York ?
Too many years ago n SUN writer
happened to see standing In Il crowded
elevated car General SHERMAN. then
living here, and his brother. Senator
JOHN SHERMAN. Not !; sou knew
then. But the guard cried with an
almost fearful excitement ms a mau
and woman Of not too patriciau de-
meanor left the ear: you know who
that is! That's I.AiIY aud ScmMirr,
the song and dance pair NJ JAKE
A%BERLk's."
That was In simple days. when New
York. compared tO her present self.
was ns a village Of fellahecn 10 Baby.
lon the great. New Workers, outside
OF the lOungers. have no chance to
zee anybody. Their eyes have to be-
peeled to the task Of saving. or trying
to save, their lives from the omnlv.
orous automobile. The godllke DAN
TEL In hum coat and breeches and blue
dress coat with a 500 note borrowed
Of ABBoTT LAWRENCE nesting for all
too brief n moment under the left cum
-rhe godlike DANIEL majestically ad-
vancing toward the Astor House and
a bottle Of Madeira or brandy, was
the cynosure Of %neighbOring eyes.
Amid the surge and thunder Of the
subway who would look at Mr.. WEB
STIR, clothed like mortal men? At
most some Office boy might ask
Who's de lnjun guy"
How many people recognized Ton
REED when he lived among us? How
many know CHAMP CLARK when he
comes here? Minister or actor:"
might be the careless question Of my
who took the trouble to look at him.
Still We should like to know, II
there were any means OF knowing,
whose face. were It even that Of
SuLzER, Is best known by sight to the
greatest number Of New Workers.