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CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE:
CONTINUATION OF “HER THIRD DAUGHTER.”
YOUNG DOCTORS’ TROUBLES.
A WIFE THE STAKE.
JUMPING FRENCHMEN.
THE GENTLE OYSTER.
A MAN OF PARTS.
NINA’S HEART TROUBLE.
THIRD PAGE:
MASONIC MATTERS: Restoration; A Fallen Chief; A
Penerous Offer; The M. W. Q. M. to Visit the Fifth
District; Arcturus Lodge: Independent Lodge; Em
pire Chapter; Farewell Reception; Song in Aid of
the Hall and Asylum Fund; Commandery News;
Lersonal; Questions and Answers; Advancement in
Masonry; An Aspiration; Tidings from the West;
Membership in Lodges; The Consistory; Dakota;
Massachusetts; Maryland; Labor Exchange.
SIXTH PAGE t
PATIENCE AND DUTY.
CONCLUSION OF “ A BITTER CUP.”
THE DETROIT SOLOMON.
LOVE IN A DREAM.
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
SEVENTH PAGE:
PLUCK AND PRAYER.
“OUR MAJOR.”
A CATAMOUNT’S PAW.
KINDNESS.
THE ARCHDRUID.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
A PECULIAR GARMENT.
KEEPING THE SEAT.
AN AMUSING INCIDENT.
THE FORCE OF IMAGINATION.
and
Geo. 0. B.—The first strike in Amer-
Aca took place as follows: # In November. 1809, the
journeymen cordwainers (modern, shoemakers) of
•New York, alleging inadequate pay for their work,
held a meeting and fixed a tariff of prices by which
their labor should be compensated, and resolved
toot to work for less than those rates. The emyloy
®rs having refused to accede to their demands the
cordwainers refused to work and •• went on strike.”
They even went so far as to demand and force the
discharge of operatives who were working for less
than the tariff fixed. The strikers were indicted
for conspiracy to hamper trade and extort money.
They were arraigned before De Witt Clinton, then
Mayor of the city, and Sessions Justices Mesier and
Carpenter, composing the Mayor’s Court, which
then had criminal jurisdiction. They were defend
ed by Mr. Sampson, the ablest and most eloquent
eriminal lawyer of bis time, and by Mr. Coiden,
then one of the strongest men at the bar. The
counsel for the prosecution were District
Attorney Riker and Thomas Addie Emmett. A mo
tion to quash the indictment was made, and after
argument, lasting over many days.wns denied. The
argument of Mr. Sampson upon this motion was
remarkable for its beauty of language, erudition
< and The trial began on July 12, 1810, be
fore Mr. Mayor Radcliff and Aidermen Hoffman and
Jj’ish, and lasted five days. The defendants made
310 defence upon the facts, but offered to prove ex
_ actions by the employers and inadequacy of wages
as justification. This was not allowed, and the
jury returned a verdict of .guilty. They were there
upon fined $1 each, the Mayor, in passing sentence,
remarking that the object of the trial and sen
tence was to admonish, not to punish. The case
may be found fully reported in Yates's Select Cases,
p. 110. This we believe to be really the first case of
labor strike of which there is record.
•a Pugilist.—Jack Dempsey was born
Bt the Curragh of Kildare, Ireland, Dec. 15, 1862;
■weight, 144 pounds; bight, 5 feet 8% inches. Beat
ZEdward McDonald, 27 rounds, 36 minutes, April 7,
1883; beat Jack Boylan, 23 rounds, 26 minutes,
Flushing, L. 1., August 14, 1883; beat Jim Barry, 3
rounds, 7 minutes, New York, Feb. 28, 1884; beat
*Wm. Mahoney, 3 rounds, 8 minutes. New York, Jan.
J 4. 1884; beat Joe Hennessey, 4 rounds, 15 minutes,
uNew York, February, 1884; beat Tom Sullivan, 2
pounds, 5 minutes, New York, February, 1884; beat
.Jim Fell, 2 rounds, 5 minutes. New York, Feb. 14.
J 1884; beat Billy Dacey,9 rounds, 35 minutes, March
<>, 1884; beat Joe H yes, 6 rounds, 17 minutes 30
seconds, April 25, 1884, New York; bsat George Full
pames, of Canada, 22 rounds, 39 minutes, July 30,
a.884, at Staten Island, N. Y.; beat Mike Dempsey, 7
rounds, 11 minutes, Sept. 4, 1884, Rockaway, N. Y.;
foeat Bob Turnbull, 8 rounds, 32 minutes, Oct. 8,
1884, New York; beat Tom Henry, of England, 6
rounds, 23 minutes, Oct. 24. 1884, at New York; beat
■ JTom Ferguson, 4 rounds, 15 minutes, New Y'ork,
INoy. 6, 1884; beat Billy Frazier, 5 rounds, 18 min
utes, New York, Nov. 20, 1884. His fights with Fo
garty and McCoy are too recent to need mention.
1 Francis.— American labor is the best
In the world. A comparison has been instituted 1
between the work of a European employee and one
Sn the United States. It appears that the employees
of the cotton mills in England work up 3,914 pounds
per annum, and those in Germany from 1,200
pounds to 1,500 pounds, while the operatives in
America workup no less than 4,350 pounds. The
amount of wool worked up in England by each
operative, averages 1,375 in America, 1,640 i
pounds, and in Germany, 1,000 pounds. In flax the J
average is 2,080 pounds for England, and 715 pounds
for Germany; in silk, 71 pounds for England, 87 ]
pounds in America, and 59 pounds in Germany. It
will thus be seen that the operative in America 1
■works up 100 pounds of cotton to 67 pounds worked
up by the English operative, and 27% pounds in
Germany; 100 pounds of wool against 77 pounds by !
the English operative and 60 pounds by the Ger- f
man; 100 pounds of silk against 81% pounds by the
English and 60 pounds by the German operative.
* It is consequently claimed that as tho American arti
san furnishes more work in a given time than the j
foreigner, ho is entitled to the higher wages he re
ceives. f
■A. K.—The litchi is a Chinese edi- 1
ble fruit which is occasionally to be found in fruit ‘
stores of seaport towns. It is produced by a small j
tree, n<p\elium litchi, belonging to the sapindacear, ,
the family which includes the horse chestnut, soap J
berry, etc. The leaves are pinnate and the small 1
apetalous flowers are in panicles at the ends of the
branches. The fruit, which is borne in clusters, is
globular, about an inch and one-half in diameter, 1
and when fresh is filled with a sweet, white, nearly |
transparent, jelly-like pulp, within which is a single
seed. The Chinese are exceedingly fond of the pulp 1
and esteem the litchi above all other native fruits. i
The fruits come to us in the dried state only, but
they are dried for home use as well as for exporta- 1
tion. As found in tho stores, the very thin, hand- <
•omely-niarked shell is of a reddish brown color .
and partly empty from the shrinking of the pulp in
drying, which tastes somewhat like prunes.
Minnie M.—lst. To remove green flies 1
on plants, choose a still evening and let the plants 1
be quite dry. Arrange them together in a close ,
place. Put into an iron pan or a flower-pot a few
red-hot cinders that do not smoke, upou which lay *
tobacco or tobacco paper; a cloud of smoke will (
soon arise. When the frame is well filled with
smoke, remove the pan and be exceedingly careful 1
that the tobacco does not break out into a flame. 1
2d. We believe that there is a class in stenography .
at Cooper Institute. Address the secretary for in
formation. 3d. Try keeping the scalp clean and ap- t
ply vaseline to prevent the hair from falling out.
4tb. You can have a letter addressed to you at the
general post office and call for it. sth. Apply to the 1
office of a railroad running to the point you men- i
tion. There full information can bo obtained.
1
Violin.—Gravelotte is a village of ,
Germany in Alsace-Lorraine, on the Moselle, eight
miles west of Metz. Here, on August 10, 1870, the
first and second German armies commanded by
Gen. Steinmetz and Prince Frederick Charles, under
King William in person, obtained a great victory
over the French under Marshal Bazaine. The
battle of Gravelotte decided the fate of Metz. It 1
was probably the bloodiest and the most hotly con- '
tested battle of the war, the loss of the German’s
being about 20,000 in killed and wounded, and that
of the French, who occupied positions and acted on
the defensive, about 13,000.
E. A. S. —The Revised Statutes says :
“Every person who shall be convicted of breaking
or entering in the day or in the night time any
building within the contilage of a dwelling-house,
but not forming a part thereof, or any shop, store,
booth, tent, warehouse, or other building in which
any goods, merchandize, or valuables shall be kept
for uso, sale or deposit, with intent to steal
therein or to commit any felony, shall, upon con
viction, be adjudged guilty of burglary in the third
degree. Burglary in the third degree shall be pun
ished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding
llvo years.'*
Philo.—The act referred to was not
passed last winter, but was passed June 10, 1885.
The act itself does not prescribe tho time when it
shall take effect, except that it declares that "after
the passage of this act” shall be subject to a tax of 5
per cent. Seo. 12, title 4, chap. 7, part 1 of the Re
vised Statutes provides that, unless a different time
•hall be prescribed therein, every law shall com
mence and take effect throughout the State on and
not before the twentieth day after its final passage,
as certified by the Secretary of State. This act took
effect on June 30,1885.
Odd Fellow.—ln relation to your
query we have received the following: "In answer
to ‘ Odd Fellow * in Notes and Queries. I would
cheerfully inform him through you that the head
quarters of the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows
are at No. 26 Delaney street. Their meetings are
held every first and third Thursday in each month,
at 8 o'clock P. M«
“ Yours respectfully J. B.”
Several other readers have kindly supplied the
same information.
Several Readers. —On the point in
draw poker you mention, the "American Hoyle”
says: “If a card bo accidentally exposed by the
dealer while in the act of dealing the player to
whom such card is dealt must accept it as though
it had not been exposed.
W. H C.—We remember no proclama
tlon by either Presidents Johnson or Grant pardon
ing deserters. Under those circumstances you are
' liable to arrest, but there is little probability of
your being arrested.
Murray.—The matter was settled by
the courts two months ago. Two assessments of
two dollars a month have been paid by the officers
and ex-officers since the decision was made.
John McCullough.—The Academy of
Music has the largest seating capacity of the thea
tres of this city. It seats 2,433.
L. DeH.— We know nothing of the
gentleman’s religous faith. That is a matter that
concerns no one himself.
Brooklyn.—The fastest mile made on
a railroad in this country was in fifty and one
quarter seconds.
o. W. H.—We have no record of Hon.
James W. Husted being defeated as a candidate for
the Assembly.
A. and B. —A deserter from the United
States army loses his right of franchise unless he
Is pardoned.
J. D.—We are not in possession of the
date of the incorporation of the city you mention.
E. MoD.—The time of enlistment in
the United States Army is five years.
T. H. 8. —We are in the eighty-sixth
year of the nineteenth century.
8. L.— Boil your meerschaum in sweet
on.
NEW YORK, MARCH 7, 1886,
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lished in the (Jnited States.
ANOTHER RAILROAD STRIKE.
For three days the city has been threatened
with a riot. Timid people have been frightened
by rumors that the street railroad strikers had
made bonfires of the cars and had sacked the
offices of the companies. Battles with the po
lice have been invented for the extra editions of
the papers, and the militia have been called
out by the imagination of trembling capitalists.
Tho truth is not 60 bad as all this, but it is bad
enough. The strikers on the cross town roads
have used violence to prevent the running of
the cars. A thousand policemen, with Super
intendant Murray at their head, have been
necessaryto preserve order along the route.
Some slight damage has been done to person
and to property, to say nothing of the incon
venience to which the public have been sub
jected. This is wrong—very wrong. But
whose fault is it? Who are to blame? Tho strik
ers suffer the mostsummary punishment, be
cause the police can easily get at them with
clubs, but are the strikers the only persons at
fault?
Let us say, to begin with, that whoever
advises the workingmen to violence is no friend
of their cause. We wish that we could indeli
bly impress upon the mind of every striker that
the man who suggests stoning drivers or throw
ing cars from the track is their, worst enemy.
No matter what position he may hold among
them or m their organizations, he is either a
fool or a rogtio to give them such advice. We
have no doubt that, in many cases, the fellows
who clamor most loudly for violence are em
ployed by the monopolists to seduce the work
ingmen into a violation of the laws. The
moment the strikers use force they put them
selves in the wrong. The whole community,
which has sympathized with them up to that
time, then turns against them. They are at the
mercy of the clubs of the police. If they resist,
they become rioters and then every good man’s
hand is against them. Should the riot be
temporarily successful, the troops would be
called upon to fire into the mob. What next?
Is the rioting to become a revolution ? Are the
guns of the forts and the navy yard to pour
shot and shell into New York ? Any sensible
person can see at once that the workingmen
can accomplish nothing by violent means and
that peace and order are indispensable to their
welfare.
But, having frankly stated this side of the
subject, we now ask some consideration for the
strikers. They have been very cruelly treated.
Underpaid and overworked, they had a right
to expect that the companies which employed
them would deal as fairly by them as other
companies in the same business. There had
been strikes upon other roids, and the com
panies had conceded the demands of the men.
According to the ordinary laws of trade, no
strike upon the cross-town roads should have
been necessary. The directors should promptly
have conformed to the schedule of hours and
wages adopted by their associates on the other
lines. We use the word “ associates ” inten
tionally, because all the street railroads in New
York are practically under one administration,
and this fact explains the indignation of the
strikers and the action of tho companies. The
men feel that they have not been fairly dealt
with. They know that the companies are try
ing to trick them. They were forced into a
strike, because their just demands would not
be granted without it, and we cannot wonder
that, in the bitter weather, with families starv
ing at home, some of them lost their temper.
But that is a bad thing to lose, and tho result
has boon very unsatisfactory.
We warn the workihgmen that it is necessary
for them to recover their senses speedily, or
they will fall into tho trap set for them by the
monopolists. The plan of the companies is to
use the violence of the few as an excuse for op
pressing the many. They will take advantage
of the recent outbreaks to attempt to restore
the old hours and former wages on all the lines.
They feel safe as soon as they maneuver behind
the police, and the police must protect them
whenever the strikers break the laws. Every
person who has any influence with the strikers
should do his utmost to keep them quiet and
orderly. If they are peaceful they must tri
umph. Only their own illegal acts can defeat
them. If the strikers would organize a police
force of their own to repress too enthusiastic
simpletons and to hand over to the law the
rogues and vagabonds who creep in among
them, it would have a good effect. They are all
right as long as they observe the laws, and
they are all wrong the moment they are tempt
ed to commit any unlawful act.
THE CITY TAXES.
In every tenement, alongside of the favorite
motto, “ God Bless Our Home,” there ought to
be framed and hung this pregnant truth : ‘‘The
Poor People Pay The Taxes.” If we could
thoroughly convince the workingmen that they
are the real tax-payers—that the money which
is stolen and wasted by dishonest and incompe
tent officials, comes out of the pockets of the
laborers—municipal reform would be compara
tively easy. The workingman would then learn
to value his vote, because he would understand
its influence upon his wages, and he would cast
it so as to do himself and the city the most good,
instead of throwing it away upon any peddling
politician who chose to ask for it. They would
study the figures which give the expenses of
the city government as carefully as they are
obliged to study their own cash accounts. They
may not have the time nor the education to be
come political economists ; but they would in
sist upon practical economy in public affairs if
they knew that they had to pay the bills out of
their hard earnings. They now believe that
the rich men pay the taxes, which is not true in
any country, and is especially untrue in New
York.
Here it is an indisputable fact that ninety-five
per cent, of the taxes are defrayed by the labor
ing and industrial classes. The only taxes paid
by large property holders are those upon their
private residences. No matter how high the
taxes may be, they are all included in the rent.
Every man who pays rent is unconsciously pay
ing his landlord’s taxes. The laborer whose
rent is from sl2 to sl6 a month is really hand
ing $4 of that amount over to the tax collector.
If it were not for the taxes his rent would be $4
a month less for the same rooms. Is that clear
and plain enough ? Can any laboring man,though
a fool in other respects, fail to comprehend this
fact? But if he can comprehend it at all, the
rest is easy. He has only to reduce the taxes
in order to reduce his rent, and the reduction
of the taxes can only be effected by electing hon
est, capable and economical officials. The con
nection between the ballot-box and the cash-box
is as intimate as that of the Siamese twins.
Every man can vote so as to make himself richer
or poorer, just as he pleases.
The money stolen from the city by the
Tweeds, the Sweeneys, the Sharps, the Thomp
sons and tbeix- gangs, is stolen from the work
ingmen. To rob the city treasury is to rob the
savings banks. Every dollar that is stolen or
misapplied has to be made good by the poor
laborer. His rent, his clothes, his food cost
him twenty-five cents more on every stolen dol
lar than than they would under an honest
1 government. His debt at the corner grocery is
twenty-five cents on the dollar larger, because
the storekeeper is also robbed through the
l taxes and has to raise his prices. Taxation has
already grown to be an enormous burden upon
l our city and our citizens, and it is annually
more and more heavy. Tho valuation oi prop-
NEW YORK DISPATCH, MARCH 7, 1886.
erty is constantly increased by tho assessors to
meet the enlarged expenses, but without any
equivalent in an increase of business. Yet there
are hundreds of thousands ot workingmen who
vote every year for the rogues who are causing
all this trouble and expense. How long will
they remain blind to their own interests ? How
long will they shut their eyes and ears to the
simple homo truth that the taxes are paid by
poor people, and that tho poor people have the
majority of the votes ?
GROVER THE FIRST-
When the cool and moderate Senator Ed
munds hoard the special message recently
addressed by Mr. Cleveland to the Senate of the
United States, he indignantly declared that it
reminded him of the communications sent by
Charles the First to the English Parliament.
This comparison struck at once the keynote of
the situation. Mr. Cleveland evidently imag
ines himself to be, not the Chief Executive of a
free people, responsible in every respect to the
representatives of the nation, but an autocrat,
who can issue ukases, like the Czar of Russia.
Put into plain English, his message to the Sen
ate is as follows : “ I will not comply with the
resolution to furnish all documenta relating to
appointments and removals. My reasons are
that the documents on file in the departments
are my private property, and, even if they are
not, I will not give them up. Moreover, I will
make it very hot for those Senators who have
asked me for appointments if you bother me
any further about this matter.” Thue an obsti
nate refusal to do his duty is backed by Mr.
Cleveland with a threat. The American people
will new tolerate such conduct in any of their
officials, and Mr. Cleveland will find that he
has arrayed Democrats as well as Republicans
against him by his weak attempt to play the
despot.
The question between the Senate and the
President is very simple. If the documents re
lating to removals and appointments are public,
the Senate has the undoubted right to inspect
them. If, as Mr. Cleveland states, they are his
private correspondence, why are they placed on
file in the public departments? The offices of
the State were not created to serve as letter
boxes for Mr. Cleveland. By filing tho papers
in the departments concerned he has acknowl
edged that they are public documents, and, as
such, must be accessible to the coordinate
branches of the government. The President
makes removals and appointments by the advice
and consent ot the Senate,, and how could the
Senate advise and consent underatandingly
when information on file in the public offices is
withheld ? To keep back such information
ignorantly or thoughtlessly would be a blunder;
but to do it wilfully, arbitrarily and despoti
cally is a crime. The Senate swept away the
defense of ignorance by a resolution specifically
calling for tho papers. The rude reply of Mr.
Cleveland—“l won’t because I won’t”—puts
him completely in the wrong. If it had been
signed Grover the First, instead of Grover
Cleveland, it could not have been a more ridic
ulous assumption of the royal prerogative.
The country has not been fortunate in its
Democratic Presidents. The Fast one elected
before Cleveland, tried to betray the Union to
the Southern rebels. The one who was elected
as a Republican Vice President, and entered
the White House after the assassination of Lin
coln, had to be impeached to bring him back to
his senses. Mr. Cleveland is surrounded by
the same sort of Southern advisers as Buchanan,
and seems to be as pigheaded as Andy Johnson.
He should occupy his leisure moments, not in
writing insolent messages to tho Senate, but in
studying the history of his immediate Demo
cratic predecessors. If he insists upon going
the same road, to what better end can he possi
bly arrive ? The whole people of the ceuntry
are already against him. The House of Repre
sentatives is hostile to his policy. Now he has
placed himself in open antagonism to the Sen
ate. Who or what is he that he supposes he
can stand, single-handed, in opposition to all
Americans ? What promises of Southern sup
port has he received to encourage him in this
farce of a one-man rebellion? Neither King
Grover the First, nor any other king, will ever
rule this nation, and Mr. Cleveland crowns the
mistakes of his life by trying to turn the Presi
dent’s chair into a despot’s throne.
MR. CRAVEN’S CHARGES.
When the gigantic scheme of constructing a
new aqueduct for this city was begun some
years ago, the Dispatch counseled the tax-pay
ers to watch closely the movements of those
engaged in the work. It was estimated at the
commencement of the work that twenty millions
of dollars would complete the structure. The
Dispatch said at the time if the people got off
by the payment of fifty millions they would be
lucky. While that sum has not yet been ex
pended, the amount is gradually being reach
ed. As a sample of what may be expected in
the future, Engineer H. 8. Craven, during the
past week, in a letter to the public, explains
some queer workings of this Commission. En
gineer Craven had been requested to resign his
position as Engineer of Construction, but in
stead he wrote a letter to the Aqueduct Com
missioners, refusing to send in his resignation
and at the same time preferred charges against
the Chief Engineer whom, he alleges, is incom
petent for the position he holds, and beside em
ploying servants in his private household
whom he carries on the pay roll of the city.
Furthermore, Mr. Craven explicitly states
that the cause of all the antipathy against him
is because he found considerable fault with
certain work performed by one of the contract
ors on the new aqueduct. Mr. Craven states
that Maurice Burns Flynn, whose questionable
methods regarding the paving of certain streets
in Cincinnati, recently, caused him to leave that
city very suddenly, came to him on one occa
sion and told him that he saw too much, made
himself too officious, and if he did not change
his attitude he would find himself bounced com
pletely from the aqueduct
It would seem from recent developments that
Mr. Craven had the fear of honesty more at
heart than the loss of his position, and so kept
right on seeing too much and making himself
too officious. Then the Aqueduct Commission
ers demanded his resignation, and when he re
fused to hand it in, they did as Flynn said they
would do—bounced him. To draw it mildly, it
would seem that Flynn controls the Aqueduct
Commission. In that event, may the Lord have
mercy on the tax-payers of New York city. We
will say, however, to Mr. Flynn, in all calm
earnestness, that if he attempts any monkeying
with this Commission, after the manner he has
done with the Electric Subway Commission, be
will find he has reached too far.
The American Model.—Fronde, the
historian, is wrong in some of his views about
Ireland and England, but in other respects he
seems to have a glimmering of the truth. In a
recent interview he said: “ I am convinced
that, before long, we shall have to assimilate
our form of government in some way to the
American model. Talk about corruption among
some sections of the politicians in the United
States ? They don’t do a fraction of the mis
chief that party maneuvering does with us. All
the sufferings of Ireland are due to government
jobberies and the exasperation of one section of
the people against another. It has been said
that if Ireland were inhabited by a legion of
angels, even they would lose their temper if
they were treated as the Irish have been.”
These strong words become even more power
ful when we remember that Froude is an op
ponent of Home Rule and has hitherto been
ranked as one of Ireland’s most eloquent
enemies.
Jersey Lightning Doomed.—Jersey
lightning had a run-in with the Legislature now
in session at Trenton on Tuesday last, and, for
the first time in its existence, got floored. On
that day the House passed a bill preventing any
retail liquor dealer having a government license
from selling in less quantities than one quart.
The bill went to the Senate, a strong temperance
body, and the next day the liquor men in the
House moved to reconsider the vote and passed
a resolution asking the Senate to return the bill.
The Senate refused to do so, however, and the
bill will probably go to the Governor. It is be
lieved that ho will veto the measure, and there
is ba’un u Gilead yet for the liquor advocates.
Accredited Leaders. —Tho scheme
discovered by some of our esteemed contem
poraries to hold a conference between Mr.
Cleveland and “ the accredited leaders of tho
Democratic party,” so as to reconcile their
differences and agree upon some political
policy, withered, like a wood, in the rays of tho
Sun, There were several difficulties in the way
of carrying it out. One was that tho Demo
cratic party has no accredited leaders. It has
discredited loaders in plenty, but not one who
can claim the confidence of tho whole party.
Another difficulty was that the Democratic
party has no policy about anything, and,
consequently could not agree upon any gen
eral plan of operations in practical poli
tics. The leading Democrats, who are not
to be confounded with Democratic leaders,
hate each other so heartily that they could
not bo locked in tho same room for a con
ference without danger of mutual extermina
tion, like that of the Kilkenny cats. They
spend the time of Congress in abusing each
other's measures, and Mr. Cleveland would
kick like a mule if he woro asked to trust him
self in their company. For these and other
reasons, therefore, the consultation scheme is
impracticable, and we are very sorry for it.
The Democracy are too much scattered to suit
us. Wo should liko to see them flock together,
like other gdeso.
Vested Rights,— The Times, as the
organ of British interests,h is a groat deal to say
about the vested rights involved in the contest
between the railroad companies and the strikers.
How about the vested rights of Jake Sharp and
the band of conspirators now on trial for rob
bing the city of its principal highway and brib
ing and corrupting our officials? How about
tho vested rights of the Philadelphia specula
tors who bought tho Jake Sharp gang out so as
to cover their tracks? How about the vested
rights of the companies to which tho Aldermen
have just given seventy miles of our streets?
Upon what principle do these vested rights dif
fer from the older vested rights secured by the
same corrupt means ? The street railways have
paid thoir stockholders a thousand times the
money ever invested >in them, and it is time
that the city should make some fair profit out
of. thorn. Have the people no vested rights in
their own thoroughfares? Have American la
borers no vested rights in food, rest and com
fort? The Times should takeoff its English
eye-glasses and look at American subjects from
an American point of view. There are no vest
ed rights in this country, according to the
British standard, but there are certain
inaliable rights, among which are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. These aro the
rights which our laboring men claim and must
enjoy.
The Real Conspirators.—Th© cry of
conspiracy has now been raised against the
railroad strikers ; but the real conspirators are
the companies which have banded together to
oppress their employees. For thirty years the
managers of these companies have been grow
ing rich by tyrannizing over labor and laborers.
They have compelled the men to work like
slaves for seventeen or eighteen hours a day at
starvation wages, and they have squandered
the profits extorted from such slavery in riotous
living, disgraceful debaucheries, corruption of
courts and legislatures, and other criminali
ties. Now, when the men rebel, they talk about
conspiracy. But, if the employees will carefully
keep within the laws, they can never be again
enslaved. The time is rapidly approaching
when American labor will be satisfied with
nothing short ot a proportionate reward for its
toils, and the monopolists are hastening, rather
than delaying, this time by their resistance to
the moderate demands of the laborers and their
tricks to escape Irom their own solemn agree
ments.
Lent Approaching.—Lent begins on
Wednesday next, and for six weeks to come a
large part of the Christian world will be called
to fasting, penitence and prayer. One need not
be either a Roman Catholic or a High Church
Episcopalian to recognize the benefits that may
be derived from a conscientious and intelligent
observance of the Lenten season. It is very
true, as many object, that penitence is always
in order, but human nature is so constituted
that what can be done any time, or as well one
time as another, is very apt not to be done at
all. Hence arises the advantage of times and
seasons, and any one would be the better for
keeping Lent in sincerity and truth. The sea
son has, moreover, its physical and social as
well as its religious aspect. The abstinence
enjoined is good for tho health, and the votaries
of society are glad entmgh to find in Lent a
period of rest.
ThbNegbo Vote.—James C. Matthews,
a colored man, irom Albany,, has been appoint
ed to the office ot Reorder of Deeds, at Wash
ington, formerly held by Fred Douglass. Two
other colored men, from Illinois, were promi
nent candidates for the office. It is a remarka
ble fact that these colored men were recom
mended and supported for this position by
Democratic politicians, and it shows that
some of the Democrats are beginning to
see the importance of the negro vote, out
side of the Southern States. But one office
does not make a policy any more than one
swallow makes a Spring, and it will be cen
turies before the colored voters forget or for
give the party which kept them in slavery and
has tried to prevent their enjoy ng the legiti
mate advantages of their emancipation.
It Was the Cat.—Ever since “Pina
fore” became popular the cat has been a promi
nent public character. It was the cat which
destroyed important papers in the Sun office,
and prevented their publication. Now it ap
pears that it was the cat which was fired at in
Paris, instead of De Blowitz, the correspondent
of the London Times, who reported that an at
tempt had been made to assassinate him. The
character of De Blowitz is in conformity to his
name. He is always anxious to advertise him
self, and it is probable that he invented the
assassination story out of whole cloth to make
himself more notorious. The cat intervenes
and renders De Blowitz ridiculous. Thus, as
in the cases of “ Pinafore ” and the Sun,, the cat
vindicates its reputation as a useful animal.
A New Cbazb. — A new craze has
struck Washington and is said to be “deucedly
English, you know.” The young women of
that town have taken to wearing a specially de
signed garter on the left log. It is, so. to speak,
a supplementary affair and is never to be taken
off, day or night, for one year. The superstition
attached to it is that before the expiration of
that time the wearer will have secured a hus
band. The probabilities, however, are that such
customs as these give a latitude tor vulgar
familiarity which in the majority of cases are
attended by sad and painful consequences.
A Nice Distinction. — History will
point out at least one important difference be
tween Charles the First, of England, and Grover
the First, of America. Charles lost his head
after be had sent his arbitrary communications
to Parliament; but Grover had lost his head
before he wrote his Insolent message to the
Senate.
ami
OUR FIRST JOB AS DRAM. ED.
The Dram. Editor didn’t feel very well the
other day, and as he was short of copy he asked
us to write up a column or so for him.
“Scoop in some good piece and givens a
spread on it. I don’t care what it is. Choose
your own theatre, and dish it up in your usual
flowing manner.
We had never seen an opera before, and as it
was a cold night, and as the Brooklyn Theatre
is only about a yard-and-a-half from our house,
we thought we’d take in Emma Abbott, in
“Mignon.”
Here’s what we wrote, and the Dram. Editor
said it was “ d rot 1” opened the window,
and spread it in sections along Frankfort
street. He said a lot of other things which are
absolutely unfit ler publication, and which no
man in his right mind or who was not suffering
he pangs of jealousy would utter. We’ll leave
it to anybody:
“ The Brooklyn Theatre was crowded to suf
focation last night by a ’way up audience as-
sembled to witness Emma Abbott, in her bang
up role of Mignon.
“When Manager 'Jack’ Hamilton wasn’t
looking wo snoko in and obtained a seat in one
of the amen pews, behind the bull-fiddle. Next
to the bull-fiddle, Emma Abbott was tho most
prominent feature in the play.
“ The scene opens in front of a house, where
a number of men, attended by two barmaids, in
decotelle legs, are boozing. They are strolling
players. A girl, dressed in powder, and a fel
low with a triangle hat, come out of a house and
sit on the front stoop. Then the men and a
whole lot of low necked girls sing and dance,
and the fellow and the girl on the stoop ap
plaud.
“ Then a gypsy comes along with a wagon
filled with straw and Mignon. He yanks her
from tho oart and insists upon her doing a jug
gling act for the audience. She hasn’t much
clothes on but a wig and a kite-tail dress, and
she is barefooted as far up as the bull-fiddle
would permit us to see. She refuses to juggle,
and the gypsy goes to whale her, when an old
fellow who has tho side of a bird-cage under hie
arm, and who is dressed in a drab night-gown,
comes to her aid. She is so flurried that she
flies to his arms and sings at him. Then he
playa on tho bird-cage and sings back at her.
Then the gypsy sings at both of them and
threatens to whale them.
“Just as he is going to mash the old fellow
all over himself, a handsome young man—Wil
helm IZf'.'ster— Sigtlhr M ioh sol de Laney, rushes
in, sings at the' jypsy and threatens io bust the
gypsy in tho nose if lie’ don’t come off. Then he
buys Mignon of the gypsy, »nd she is so glad
that she cries a song. Wilhelnf then falls in
love with the girl on the front-stoop, and Mig
non gets mad and sings that she’ll make trouble.
She wants Bill to take her with him, and says
that if he don’t she’ll go out and drown herself.
Then ho consents to take her along, if she
dresses in boy’s clothes and becomes his ser
vant.
“ On several occasions, just as he is going to
marry the girl on the front stoop, Mignon
makes him change his mind, and then the old
fellow with the bird-cage and the drab night
gown turns up and offers to take charge of her.
The old fellow finally turns out to bo her fa
ther. She was hooked from Mm when she was
a kid, and ho has been travelling, sort ot off his
base, you know, all over the country in search
of her. Bill, when he ascertains that the old
man owns a palace and is well fixed, marries
her after she has fainted all over him and the
old man several times.
“ The singing was excellent. In some of the
staccato inuondos and pianissimo efforts Miss
Abbott spread hersoP. In the trills, she was
away up in G, and appeared to yank tho bird
like music away up Irom where her stockings
should have been. Miss Lizzie Annandale, as
“ Frederick,” proved herself no slouch, and
Laura Bellini, as the girl on the stoop, has a
good job and should hang on to it. Her voice
is almost sylph-like, and what she doesn’t know
about singing isn’t in a piano. Theodore
Bryant, as the old-fellow, with the bird-cage
and drab night-gown, sings bass like the bull
fiddle in front ot us, and John Crane, as the
“ Gypsy;” William Broderick, as “ Lothario,”
and William Pruett, as “Laertes,” wereaU
wool, double width.
“It Miss Abbott would take our advice she
would grow an> extra corn or so, or she may
catch cold some night while wearing such gentle
Spring duds.”
Now, wo’ll leave it to our readers if there’s
anything wrong in that critique.
We always thought that we were constructed
for a Dram. Editor because we know all about
music and can tell “ Only a Tansy Blossom ”
from “Sweet Violence,” the very minute tho
organ grinder begins to turn the crank.
We think the Dram. Editor’s action was caused
by jealousy, although it is freely given out in
the office that he is suffering from Bright’s
disease of the brain, and the office boy asserts
that on one recent occasion he saw him refuse a
drink and finally compromise on a pony ale.
We’ll get our critique in, in spite of him, and
leave our readers to judge who’s the better of
tho two. So, now, there !
EFFECTS OF THE WEATHER.
Jones—“ Good bordig, Browd.”
Brown—“ Good hording, Jodes.”
Jones—" Whad you bagid fud ob be bor ?”
Brown—" I aid bagid fud ub you.”
Jones—“ Yed yar.”
Brown—“ No aid.”
Jones—“ Whad madder bid you ?”
Brown—" Dab bad code m hed.”
Jones—“ So’b I.”
Brown—“ Led’s go dage sub hod rub.”
Jones—“ Cub ahead.”
Brown—" Kercheu. Here cubs Middis Dob
kids and her daughder.”
Jones—“ So dis.”
Brown—“Goo’ bordig, Middis Dobkids.”
Jones—“ Goo’ bordig, Middis Dobkids I”
Brown—" Goo’ bordig, Mids Dobkids I”
Jones—" Goo’ bordig, Mids Dobkids 1”
Mrs. Tompkins—" Goo’ bordig, gebblemed 1”
Miss Tompkins—" Goo’ bordig, gebblemed I”
Jones—" Whad you bagid fud ob ud bor?”
Brown—" Whad madder ob you ?”
Mrs. and Miss Tompkins—" We aid bagid fud
ob you. We god sugh teddible codes id our
hedds.”
Jones and Brown—" Sobe we.”
Mrs. and Miss Tompkins—" Teddible wedder
bor codes, aid id ?”
Jones and Brown—" Teddible. Goo’ day.”
Mrs. and Miss Tompkins—" Goo’ day.”
Jones and Brown—" Oughder go’n hab sub
hod rub.”
Mrs. and Miss Tompkins—“ Did you ebber
hear beeble wid sudge awfud codes as Midder
Browd and Midder Jodes hab ?”
SMALL CHANGE.
Vienna is to have an ornithological
exhibition during the present month, and she,
through Crown Prince Rudolph, desires all
countries to send their best specimens'of live
and stuffed birds. It looks amazingly as if
Bud was endeavoring to worry his way through
the cold weather at somebody else’s expense;
but what in thunder he’s going to do with his
stuffed birds, we give up. Mother-in-law, prob
ably.
Just as a wedding was about to be
solemnized in Raleigh, N. C., the other day, the
not-to-be bride’s parents entered and solemn
ized the addenda of the youthful would-be hus
band’s panties with smoothened hoards. He
doesn’t board with them, now, as the last seen
of him he was scooting toward sunset, very
much resembling a kangaroo, only he appeared
to be pushing himself from behind.
A full-blooded Indian recently gradu
ated No. 18 in a class of forty-eight, at the Buf
falo Medical College. Wonder he didn’t do
better. If we’d ever been assigned to examine
a full-blooded Indian, we’d have passed his
diploma through the window on the end of a
fishing-pole or telegraphed to his parents that
it was all right before he had packed his trunk
and started East.
Mrs. James Browne Potter recently
disgusted a Washingtonian "fashionable audi
ence” by reciting the good old poem “ ’Ostler
Joo” in public.” Some of the female mem-bers
of the audience were so embarrassed that they
left the theatre. Pity ! We’ll bet four cents
that there wasn’t one of them that was attired
in anything but bloom of youth above tho
waist.
Evangelists Jones and Small, now
socking it to Chicago, have gotten themselves
into trouble by assailing the virtue of the local
servant-girls. The servants retort by saying
that the mistresses are as bad as they are.
This makes a triangular fight, and reminds us
of the fellow who remarked that " The minister
was the son of a gun he was after.”
Mayor Grace now appears to be anx
ious to oust Commissioner Squire. It must be
tiresome to be compelled to listen to volume
after volume of poety about rippling rills and
glinting sunshine and shimmering brooklets,
when one wants to scoot across to Kosmak’s
and fire in a Culmbacher and a sweitzer sand
wich.
The wife of Randolph, who once
pulled Gen. Jackson's nose, recently died in
Washington. This reminds us that the fellow
who pulls another fellow’s nose in this wax
scandalously changeable weather is liable to
get overwhelmingly fooled.
A citizen baa begun a suit against a
telograph company for ths non-delivery of a
message. We can’t see what hurt the omission
did. Most of the operators learn telegraphy
before they know how to spell, read or write,
and ten-ninths of the messages look like Chi
nese laundry bills when delivered.
All last week the vicinity of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel looked as if the Italian padrones
had been getting in their fine work again, and
had been importing fresh cripples to work the
town. A series of interviews elicited the fact
that the annual meeting of the baseball players
was in session.
An agricultural, or rather florioultural
journal, informs us that orchids are now grown
which resemble all kinds of animals, and that
some of them fetch as high as $5,000. We’ll bet
the dog predominates. We never saw a darned
orchard without a dog. That’s what makes ’em
come so high.
One of the most fashionable Washing
ton weddings during the past week was that of
Miss Lillian Coffey to Mr. John Chew. What
ever objection Miss Lilly heretofore had to
John’s theatrical habit, it is presumed that she
will forgive him whenever he attempts to Chew-
Coffey now.
And now a Chicago ticket agent has
absquatulated with SIO,OOO, We are not sur
prised at this when we take into consideration
ths large number of fool-questions that a Chi
cago llcket-agent must be compelled to answer
about Western towns with dentist-booming
names.
The Philadelphia syndicate that is io
take charge of the Broadway Railroad scheme,
proposes to introduce the transfer system in
this city. If it would only transfer some of the
aidermen up the river we’d howl “ Amen I”
with all the vigor of a deacon in a reserved
seat.
We do wish that Zukertort and Stein
itz would finish that cOn’bunded chess contest.
We are really and truly endeavoring to swear
off, but every time we see those funny-looking
figures in the paper we are forced to go around
the corner and ask what time it is.
Nearly every day we see an account
of the “death of the oldest fireman.” Hois
becoming as numerous as G. W.’s body-servant.
We always thought the oldest fireman was
down below where naughty people go, anil that
he was still working at hie job.
Fob the next six months the attention
of the courts will pronably be occupied in the
trials of violations of the Excise law. Why don’t
saloon-keepers give the policemen free drinks,
and thus save the time and' expense of the
courts ?
Billy Maloney is now sai3 to be sing
ing :
** I love to steal awhile away.
From every cumbering care;
And spend the hours of fleeting day
In humble, grateful preyer.”
Mb. Pancoast’s valet, Van Orden, en
deavored to perform the same office for Miss
Pancoast, and got himself into trouble. He
evidently now realizes the difference between
massage and mashing.
Holland says that he shot Tom Davis
in self-defense. We thought be shot him in the
body. The ease is a queer one in all its bear
ings. [Explanation.— l. Holland; 2. Davis; 3.
Queer—the joke.
Nearly fifty divorces were applied for
in the- local courts during the week. It does
come kinder hard for a feller to get up and go
down into a cold cellar these open, large
mornings.
At the Morgan picture sale a Meisson
nier sold for over sl6/100. We are a little mod
est; but it was our picture, and the Queen di
rected her agents to purchase it for her draw
ing-room.
Several candy firms have been ar
rested for selling candy washed with fusel oil.
If this thing continues, it’s going to keep a
great many men away from church, now, we
tell: you.
If monuments and subscriptions for
bereaved widows could be raised with wind we
could all join Ingersoll’s church and dare
Death to tread on our coat-tails.
Twenty-eight murder trials are on
the calendar of a Kentucky county court, and
the Sheriff has to lock up every now-comer in
order to obtain a jury.
A Pittsburg bootblack recently sold a
patent for a vacuum pump for $28,000.. Now
he’ll shine in another sphere.
The song of the aidermen :
" Oh ! for a cot in some vast wilderness 1 —
Some boundless contiguity of swag 1”
The pugilists all appear to be anxious
to box. Why don't the police box them—in
Sing-Sing ?
Get thee behind me, Satin—is what
the fashionably-dressed girl remarked' to’ her
train.
Wwld at lUwrmmt
•'***>*•***'•
GOSSIP OF THE WEEK.
Mb. Lawbence Barrett is acting in the Now En
gland cities to crowded houses and more than
the usual enthusiasm. March 27th he closes his
regular season, and on the 29th will begin his
usual supplementary season, when Mr. Newton
Gotthold, Mr. Walden Ramsey and Miss Eugenia
Blair will be added to the company for the remain
der of this and next season.
Mb. Thomas Jefferson, son of Joseph Ji, one of
the managers of "The Shadows of a Great City,” is
in the city, and reports the continued success of
Mr. Shewell’s realistic melodrama.
Frederick Warde is acting in. some of the Penn
sylvania cities, where he has been* a favorite far
several years, with.his usual success. March. 19 th
and 20th he will be seen at the Grand Opera House,
in Newark, N. J., and the following week will re
appear in this city at the Third Avenue Theatre*
Monday, March 15th, Mr.. Harry Lacy and Miss
Louise Balfe, supported by an excellent company,
begin a week’s engagement at ths New Windsor
Theatre, in ” The-Planter's Wife.”
Miss E. Edwards, a young concert singer of
merit, will shortly make a tour of the principal
cities. Her voice is said to be sweet and sympa
thetic.
Dr. R. H. L. Walters, stag© director of the Ama
teur League, is to be the recipient of a monster tes
timonial in the shape of a performance and recep
tion at the Lexington Avenue Opera House, on.
Tuesday, March 9tb. The executive committee in
charge is composed of delegates from the leading
amateur dramatic societies of New York, Brooklyn
and Jersey City, and from churches, Masonic Lodges,
Chapters and Commander les, militia regiments and
Grand Army Posts, hospitals, infirmaries and dis
pensaries, Councils of the American Legion of
Honor and the Royal Arcanum, etc., etc., for all of
which he has organized entertainments " for sweet
charity’s sake” during the past thirty years. The
programme comprises Planche’s comedy. "Faint
Heart Ne’er Won Fair Lady,” a scene from the
“ Mikado.” two acts of London Assurance,” singing
by the N. Y. Maennerchor and scenes from the
" Merchant of Venice.” Dancing will follow the
performance.
A new realistic, sensational drama under the title
of “ Proved True,” will be produced at the Grand
Opera House, Brooklyn, on Monday, the 22d inst.
Miss M. E. Fitzpatrick will assume the leading role.
This work is from the pen of Mortimer Murdock.
Pleasure for the Little Ones.—Director Hart
extended an invitation to the children of the Ladies
Deborah Nursery and Child’s Protectory, located on
East Eighty-third street, this city, to visit the "May
Blossom ” Matinee Saturday last, and forty or fifty
little ones were made exceedingly happy.
The Sixty-ninth Regiment Band and drum corps,
assisted by several popular soloists, give a concert
at the Windsor Theatre this (Sunday) evening.
On the train leaving Boston last night at
there was an extra sleeping-car for the accommoda
tion of about fifty journalists, actors, and repre
sentatives of other professions, who came over to
be present to-night at the Bijou Opera-House to
hear Mr. Leander Richardson’s lecture entitled
"We Bohemians.” The Bostonians telegraphed for
seats in the body of the house, which, according to
present indications, will be well filled. The ad
vance sale of seats has been active, and among
those who have signified their intention of being
present are Henry Dixey, Helen Dauvray, Joseph
Haworth, John Mackay,and leading members of the
Mohican and other clubs of which the lecturer Is a
member.
Edward Solomon and A. Thompson’s new
comic opera, •‘Pepita; or, the Girl with the Glass
Eyes,” is being rehearsed night and day under the
personal direction of the authors. The scenery
and costumes, which are unusually elaborate and
handsome, have been finished, and everything will
be ready for the production March 15th, at the
Union Square Theatre. Miss Lillian Russell then
returns to the New York stage in a part that has
been especially written for her, and in which she
will have a chance to display her abilities to the
best advantage. The oast will be a fine one, includ
ing Jacques Kruger, Alma Stuart Stanley, Chaunoy
Olcott, and others.
There was a large audience at the Lyceum Thea
tre Thursday afternoon, when a performance was
given for the benefit of Mrs. John Rickaby, widow
of the lamented manager of that theatre from No
vember last until his death recently. The receipts
were $1,510. Many actors and managers were
present. "One Touch of Nature,” with Messrs.
J. H. Stoddart, Louis Masson, Clinton Stuart and
H. 8. Millward, and Miss Maude Harrison; recita
tions by A. P. Burbank, Marie Prescott and O. W.
Couidock; and the comedy of "One of Our Girls,”
with Misses Dauvray, Vernon and Leslie, Messrs.
Sothern, James, F. F. Mackay, De Vere, Sternroyd,
Pigott, Williams and James formed the bill.
Niblo’s Garden.—Clara Morris, dur
ing the past week, was seen in her most effective
roles—notably in Camille, Alixe, Miss Multon and
the New Magdalen. It is scarcely necessary to
state that the audiences were of the size and qual
ity which have been invariably attendant upon the
performances Of this, the greatest actress, in hetf
special round of characters, now upon the Ameri
can stage.
Nothing can be written in the way of comment
upon her genius, its methods, and her magnetio
loroe, which has not already become familiar by
frequent repetition.
During her present engagement the patience of
the audiences was on two or three evenings—and
notably on Wednesday—severely taxed by the long
waits between acts, occasioned by the illness of
Miss Morris.
She will protwfbly never again be physically any
bettor than she is now. She in all probability
would have been stronger now, and possibly might
have regained the full possession of her health by
this time, had she sought some other treatment
than that of the moxa, as' applied by Dr. Sequard
Brown, in Paris.
She was stronger even in 8»r illness before she
submitted to that terrible ordehl, than she has been
since; there were other methods 4 in medical prac
tice which in other cases similar €> hers had proved
equally as effective as the moxa, ail’d much gentler
in their operative functions. One of these remedies
a woman of her peculiarly nervous nature should
have tried; none of them did she tz»y. The he
roic treatment in surgery and in medical practice
is never adopted save when death is imminent. At
that time her life was not imperilled; her physical
strength had not greatly waned.
She is still suffering more pain and consequent
exhaustion from tbatrone operation than she ever
experienced through the illness which she stHighl
to have cured.
Dr. Sequard Brown, like many other physicians
and surgeons of lesser note, had a fondness for
"the heroic” treatment — because it answers a
twofold purpose; it not only affords opportunity
for a public display of professional skill, but it is an.’
admirable means of obtaining unlimited extent of?
free and laudatory advertisement by the press.
Antf the patient is the one who suffers and too
often pays dearly that the knight of the scalpel may
be glorified and that medical science may have one
more ‘•'extraordinary case ” adided to its record.
Clara Morris is one of these patients.
To-morrow evening and for the week the attrac
tion wiH be the performance of V. m H. Powers's
new and " original” Irish drama in four acts, en
titled "The Ivy Leaf,” the cast being supported by
a specially selected company. The- Chicago Herald
critic pronounces l it “ The best Irish play seen in
that city in many years.” The play will be illus
trated with new and appropriate scenic settings.
Matinees as usual.
The Comedy Theatre.—The- kindly,
round and apparently always smiling face of Tonj
Hart, his full, clear-voiced singing, his merriment
and his unfailing vitality in everything he does,
are welcomed on this stage by what gives him
special delight— audiences limited in l size only by
the holding capacity of the house.
Tony, from his first professional appearance in
this city, many years ago, became a popular favor
ite, and through all the changes and
of a player’s life he has held as "in grip of steel'”
not only his popularity with the general public;
but the good will and- esteem of a very large circle’
of friends in bis private life.
Since the unfortunate separation from Mr. Harri
gan, last year, he has not been idle. With no wordi
of complaint against his former long-time partner
and friend, but with a manly self-reliance, he went
upon the road, starring in an alleged comedy-farce
which proved a failure.
The one mistake he made, however, was in going
on the road at all. He should‘have remembered!
that it was in this city he gained his greatest popu
larity; it was here that he and Mr. Harrigan;
achieved their pronounced successes, and that had'
he began his new ventures hero he would have’
done the wise thing.
A local favorite rarely finds acceptance and appre
ciation outside of his own city.
Now that in coming back to the stage and among:
the people he has so long amused, he need have no
fear of the result.
" A Toy Pistol,” in which he is the Isaac Roast, is
one of Hoyt’s farcical skits, in which the action,,
dialogue and every ingredient is left open for im
provement. Since its first performance, a fortnight,
since, Tony Hart has introduced new matter, and
brought the work down to a proper fit for himself;
and his specialties.
He is well seconded by his company in the cast,,
and the whole performance runs smoothly, and
hilariously enjoyable.
Matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.
Standard Theatre.—Fromthe sub
lime to the ridiculous is but a step. From the
mighty Mikado aud the Poobah to the massive Mes
tayer and the vivacious Miss Vaughn is not one but.
a great many steps. In fact, an entire staircase of:
steps. And pleasant and easy, too.
The Mikado folded his royal robes about him,
waved his paper fan thrice and departed. And in
his place came the firm of laughter manufacturers,.
" We, Us & Co.” Exit the Orient; enter the Occi
dent.
And “ We, Us & Co.” is unlike some of the farcical
fun-raisers which are now on the stage, for with all.
its extravagance of action and individual caricature
it ircleanly and wholesome. It is matter without:
offence.
Its sole purpose is to create laughter and enjoy
ment, without resorting to vulgarity, and it ac
complishes its purpose.
The members of the company are cleanly in .theft
humor. With Mestayer and Vaughn’s show, in tha.
medley of fun, humor, song. Hot Springs, mischief-,
making and general nonsense, the public are already
agreeably familiar.
" I ain’t sayin’ a word—am I ?** " We, Us &. Co.**
will continue here through the present week.
Matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.
New Windsor Theatre.—Mr. James
O’Neill and his company io." Monte Cristo” suc
ceeded in filling tbe New Windsor Theatre at every
performance last week.
To-morrow night a new star, in the person of Mr,
Frederic Bryton, will come forward for publio
recognition and approval.
He is well known in. this city as a handsome and
intelligent actor, and to-morrow evening will bo
seen for the first time here in a cosiedy-xlrama en
titled “ Forgiven,” which, it is said, has been very
successful elsewhere.
The play is in four acts, and tbe scenes are laid in
Florida, New Orleans and New Mexico, Mr. Bryton
appearing as John Diamond, familiarly known as
Jack o’ Diamonds, a character similar to Brel
Harte’s Jack Hamlin, which is said to be an ex*
ceedingly strong impersonation.
” Forgiven” will be given with a good oast and
entirely new and appropriate scenery.
Eden Musee.—The groups represent
ing Ferd. de Lesseps, the famous Panama Canal
constructor, explaining his work to bis childoen;
M. Pasteur aud the Newark children; the Chamber
of Horrors; the hundreds of life-size figures of the
living and dead great ones of earth; the stereopti
con views, and the Winter garden concerts are to
be seen here dav and night. Special evening con
certs will be given afternoon and eveniug.
Benefit of Mrs. John Rickaby.—
Among the attractions in the programme of the
performances to be given at the benefit tendered to
Mrs. John Rickaby by Mr. E. E. Rice at the Four
teenth Street Theatre on next Thursday afternoon,
are Mr. Robert C. Hilliard in the second act of
"Engaged,” supported by Mme. SelinaDolaro and
the Criterion Theatre company; Misses Emma Car
son and Lillian Grubb in duetts, and the popular
humorists, Messrs. Marshall P. Wilder and A. E.
Burbank. The demand for seats is already very
great.
In addition to the above, the second act of “Evan
geline,” including Amazon March; Frazer and Maf<
fitt in "The Comanches;” Rice and Dixey in
specialtiesand "Adonis;” Miss Lillian Conway in
operatic selections and others, will appear. Tha
performance will commence at one o’clock