Show r IS I'S S N NEW YORK S T II NEW rom ORK- ORK March 17 The 17 The I business of shaving sha seconds seconds' has been perfected i to an a amusing de degree de- de gree ee by br the bugy business man plan Of Of New ew York In Ina a a building at 60 Broadway in inthe inthe the heart of the Wall Vall street treet belt marty many of the offic offices s are equipped with re red l and white signal lamps Watching the lights blink off and andon andon andon on I r inquired what shat they were for Oh they are connected with the elevator lights I Ia's as a's was informed By watching them we can tell when the elevator is passing up and down lown on this floor and thus we can catch it without ha haing haying ing to wait This same man who grabs elevators ele ele- as commuters make trains took me to lunch at one of those places in the financial district where a t bar ar runs as merrily as though had never neer a appeared upon the map And hearing that San Francisco had been one o of ol my home ports he launched Into a tale o of how in m the 1906 fire his father had bad taken him hint and the family to toan toan toan an ark arlt in the duck lagoons of Green Brae Bras etc etc until the clock chimed 4 This rush stuff has more than a little pose to It But all Wall street isn't big busi busi- ness Passing the Standard Oil on building building build build- ing ing which h houses firms of ot untold wealth I noticed a sandwich man parked just outside the revolving doors door anti and the sign he carried read Great Christmas Bargains Shirts BargaIns Shirts 99 Cents Which r reminded minded me that there are more 30 30 clerks than there S This happens to be the season when these clerks messengers and office attaches receive their annual annual annual an an- nual bonus Since business has been unusually good the tho bonuses this year have been fat These rhese bonuses s frequently equal the amount t of salary received S So the market which sooner or later tel gets a section of of the income of anyone who sho tOils within ten blocks of or the street is an unusual amount of small mal margin jn pay play just now S C CIn In In one office two messengers plunged their bonuses bonus s and a wise pool 1001 manipulator tan ran it Into COO One of or the boys a nervous OUS tad lad awakened the other day to find finda a three-point three drop recorded He came into the office shaking nervously ner ner- and begging be to be sold old out I haven't n been-n-n able abc to sleep steep My fy mother m-m-mother says I r dont don't eat and Ive I've lost four tour p pounds al already already al- al ready he ho stammered The other kid hung on When hen I entered J the theoffice theoffice office he was wac on the phone much agitated over O a new nw W drop and the pros of ot havin having to cover er his mar mar- gin He cant can't be a d day di over o 17 17 They all 1111 get the bug 17 hug 17 or 70 iO GILBERT SW SWAN A When hen The tbs winters winter's supply of eggs is consumed perSons person persons per per- sons son who have kept eggs in this wa way vay ma may find it difficult to re- re nOVe e the hard crust which clings to the side of the crol crocks s. s Hot may mav be used ll to get et this material off and if it this fails falls add a few drops of h hydrochloric acid add The area alea sown own to wheat in the Punjab India which contains contain approximately ap au- proximately third one-third of the total for that country countr is estimated at acres This represents a decrease of about 10 per cent as compared with first estimate last season Yo I S C. C J V S 'S f |