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CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOXD PAGE:
CONTINUATION OF- OUT OF THE DEPTHS.”,
THE THAW.
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.
AMONG THE COWBOYS.
NUMEROUSLY MARRIED.
AN ARKANSAW CONVERT.
HE WAS A CURIOSITY.
THIRD PAGE:
MASONIC MATTERS: Victory: Make Ha«te Slowly: The
Sixth Masonic District; Our German Brethren; Cres
cent Lodge; Pert-on al; Masonic Emblems Among
Savages; Commandery News; Scotia and the Orient.
SIXTH PAGE :
OH ! JESSIE, WHAR YO’ GONE ?
CONCLUSION OF “HER THIRD DAUGHTER.”
SWITCHED OFF.
OUR MONETARY SYSTEM.
THE DETROIT SOLOMON.
TOM'S WIFE.
BETTER THAN ROASTING.
THE TALE OF A SHIRT.
HOW THE INDIAN TOLD.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
SEVENTH PAUIS:
MY LOVER’S BARK.
MANASSEH’S SONS-IN-LAW.
THAT FATAL DIAMOND.
A NURSE’S EXPERIENCE.
PRUSSIAN JUSTICE
“ NOT THE WORST OF IT.”
AMERICAN FABLES.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
HUNTING A LOVER.
THE FALLS NOT RECEDING.
THE RAILROAD TRAIN.
-| |||g ——BCKaE
Thespis.—Dion Boucicault, now play
ing at the Star Theatre in bis latest succes, “The
Jilt," was born in Dublin, Ireland, December 26,
1820. Little is known of this actor’s early life as it
is kept a mystery. Ide married Agnes Robertson in
London, England, in 1853. In August, 1853, in
company with his wife, he sailed for America, and
appeared at Burton’s Chambers Street Theatre. In
April, 1854, he made his first appearance in Philadel
phia at the Walnut Street Theatre. He was engaged
as dramatist at the Winter Garden Theatre, N. ¥.,
during the season of 1859-60. In the meantime he
lias played various engagements in this country
and in England and Ireland. Of his later produc
tions “ The Shaughrauu *’ was the most noted.
This noted playwright’s career has covered a space
of over forty years.
L. S.—To remove grease spots with
out injury to the fabrics, is sometimes easy, fre
quently most difficult, and often impossible. Much
may depend upon skillful and persevering manipu
lation, and although various agents are oftentimes
valuable, yet good soap is the chief reliance. Grease
spots may generally be removed by the patient ap
plication of soap and soft water, but other means
are also employed. Ox-gall is an excellent and deli
cate cleansing agent. It is a liquid soda soap. It
removes grease and is said to fix and brighten col
ors, though it has a greenish tinge which is bad for
the purity of white fabrics. Use the ammonia near
ly pure and then lay white blotting paper over the
•pot and iron lightly.
Frank M.—The saw now is usually
made of steel. The Egyptians used saws of bronze
and applied them to cutting out planks from logs.
The saw was single-handed and the log was set on
end and secured to posts set in the ground. The
inventor of the saw was deified by the Greeks and
called by some Talus aud by others Perdix. The
saws of the Grecian carpenters were like the
Straight frame saws of modern times; the blade set
across the middle of the frame with the teeth per
pendicular to its plane. The block of wood to be
•awn was clamped down upon a bench and the
workmen stood upon opposite sides of this, one at
•ach end of the saw.
C. G. —Ember Days ara certain days
In each of the four seasons set apart by the church
for fasting, prayer and conferring of holy orders.
They are the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday im
ftiediately following the first Sunday in Lent, the
feast of Pentecost, the 14th of September, and the
13th of December. The weeks in which these fasts
Occur are called ember weeks. The name is proba
bly derived from the Saxon ym&ren, a circuit, i. e.,
the circular days.
Anony.—lst. Washington’s Birthday
is a legal holiday in all States except Alabama, Ar
kansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas,
Maine, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon,
Tennessee and Texas. 2d. Strictly speaking, we
have no national holidays but July 4th and Cnrist
inas, together with Thanksgiving Day (usually the
last Thursday in November), and fast days, when
ever appointed by the President, are legal holidays.
D. T.—During the war soldiers on the
field sent their ballots to a friend in a sealed en
velope, the friend presented thia to the chairman
of the Board of Inspectors of Election, who broke
the seal and deposited the different ballots in
their proper boxes. This law existed only until the
conclusion of the war.
Health.—The following is the proper
temperature for different living apartments : Nurse
ries, asylums, schools, 59 deg. Fahrenheit; work
ehops. barracks, prisons, 59 deg.; hospitals, 61-64
deg.; theatres, lecture-rooms, etc., 66-68 deg. In
dwellings in the United States custom requires
from 65-70 deg.
A. C. K.—Shorn was one of the three
sons of Noah-, according to most commentators the
eldest. Ho was the progenitor of the southwestern
nations of Asia, being the father of Elam (Susiana),
Ashur (Assyria), Arphaxad (Chaldea), from whom
descended the Hebrews and Arabs, Lud (Lydia) and
Aram (Syria).
F. O’C.—Any skin trouble is not
to be trifled with. Not’knowing the cause of the
redness of your ncso it would not be possible for
its to suggest a‘remedy. Even it we did we would
not feel justified in prescribing for you, but would
advise you to consult some reputable physician.
A Correspondent.—“A bets B that
the game of base ball between the Chicago and New
York clubs on August 6th. 1885, was a twelve inning
game. B bets that it was a ten inning game. Who
is right ?" Bis correct. The game referred to was
played in ten innings.
Tbmpus.—The Gregorian calendar
was adopted by Germany in 1700 and by English
law in 1752, when the Julian calendar, or old style,
gave place to the new style by dropping eleven days
from the month of September, 1752.
A. L. C.—The Second Adventists—or
idvesitists—are a religious sect who believe in the
speedy second advent of Christ and the end of the
world. They owe their origin as a body in the Uni
ted States to William Miller.
H. S. F. — “In the gamo of double
binocle (two-handed). A took a trick, melded forty,
•nd called out. B claims he must take a trick be
fore he could call out. Who is right ?" A’s claim
U perfectly correct
Kline.—“ Nanon,” comic opera by R.
Genoa and F. Zell, was sung in the original German
at the Thalia Theatre, January 1, 1885, and pro
duced in English at the Casino on June 29th follow
ing.
F. A. M.—lf your building should
burn down, you, in all probability, would have no
difficulty in arranging matters satisfactorily with
the Insurance company.
F. C. G.—Seidlitz powders are made
In Imitation of Seidlitz water, the product of cer
tain saline springs in Seidlitz, or Sedlitz, a village
of Bohemia, near Bilin.
Two Beaders. —If a person is hired
by the month and is dismissed before the expira
tion of the month, he could claim the full pay of
that unexpired month.
G. K. —Police Captain Sanders, who
has saved several lives from drowning and who has
received several medals from Congress, is an expert
•Wimmer.
C. K. J.—Alexander Selkirk, the Scot
tish seaman, was born at Largo, Fifeshire, about
1676, and died on board H. B. M. ship, Weymouth,
1723.
F. K. G.—The first performance in
America of “The Mikado" was given by a small
company at the Chicago (Ill.) Museum, June 29,
1885.
J. A. B.—“ Will you please state what
the correct count in cribbage is for a jack, two aces,
• nine spot and a four?" The hand would count
ten.
F. P. W.—Various cases are on record
of men attiring themselves in women's clothing,
•ome even engaging as domestics in private fami
lies.
C. L. B.—Embezzlement is a wrong
ful appropriation of the goods of another by a
clerk, servant, or other person trusted therewith.
A. L. K.—Greenwood Cemetery was
chartered in 1838, but the grounds were not formal
ly opened for interments until August 15, 1842.
H. Cj F. —For a full and complete
history of the mule we would suggest your consult
ing Appleton’s "American Cyclopedia."
Athletic. —Such a work as you de
■lre can be obtained by applying to the American
News Company, No. 39 Chambers street.
L. H. L.—“ One of Our Girls” was
first produced st tbe Lyceum Theatre, thia city, on
of November 10th, 1885.
w. O. D.—We believe that there are
•uch schools as you mention in this city, but their
exact location we do not know,
K. C. M.—The mean annual tempera
ture of New York State is 48 degrees and California
55 degrees.
L. B.— Apply to the Secretary of the
Home for Old Men and Aged Couples, No. 487 Hud
son street.
Bessy.—lt would be the duty of the
son to 300 that bls mother la properly taken care of.
In Haste.—“ Camille” is the English
veraion of the French play, “ Dame aux Camelias."
J. B.—Aiderman Jaehne’s name is
properly pronounced aa though spelled Yea-nay.
Constant Reader.—For the license
and lull information apply at the Mayor’s office.
Puritan.—We are not in possession
of the facts relative to the veasel you mention.
F. G. L.—A shekel of silver was worth
about fifty oenta and a shekel or gold $9,07.
William Cotton.—We believe the
percentage la ten or fifteen per cent.
M. K. G.—Salt Lake City is situated
4,320 feet above tbe level of tbe aea.
P. Moß.—Apply to Gen. Franz Sigel,
Pension Agent, No. 398 Canal street.
Engineer.—Will endeavor to give you
accurate information in our next.
A. B.—“I read it ‘in’ the paper,” is
the usual way of putting It.
Hoik
NEW YORK, MARCH 28, 1886.
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lished in the United States.
WORK AND WAGES.
Wo have seen, daring tho past weak, tho ex
tensive strikes, under the direction ot the
Knights of Labor, continued and strength
ened. We have seen a combination of monopo
lists, who may be called the Knights of Capi
tal, put up the price of coal so as to still further
oppress the working classes. We have seen
Jay Gould, the arch-monopolist, return hur
riedly from the cruise in his magnificent pleas
ure yacht to take command in person of the op
position to the strikers. Simultaneously with
his arrival there are rumors industriously cir
culated that, on the first of May, a general
strike, all through the country and in all sorts
ot business, is to be ordered. The manufac
turing and commercial interests- are severely
disturbed by such rumors. Contracts cannot
bo made either by sellers or buyers on account
of the uncertainty of production, prices, ship
ment and transportation which a general strike
would involve. It is certain that these stories
are whispered for a purpose, and for no good
purpose. We do not credit them; but the dam
age they do is incalculable, and the public feel
ing is that of distrust and alarm.
Nobody in this country need be afraid of the
demands of the workingmen for more wages
and fewer hours of labor. Usually their de
mands are just, and to concede them is an ad
vantage to all classes. There is a certain
amount of hard work which must be done in
this world, and tho laborers who do it are wor
thy of their hire. No man in America ought to
be compelled to toil for a dollar a day, nor to
work for more than eight hours out of the
twenty-four. It is not good for the workman
to labor so much for so little money ; it is not
good for his family, for his neighbors, for tho
merchants from whom he purchases his sup
plies, for the manufacturers who supply the
merchants, for the country in which we live, or
for the foreign countries with which we trade.
Tho first principle of political economy, that a
benefit to the workingman is a gain to the
whole world, should be Impressed upon every
mind. Pay the laborers liberally; give them
ample time for rest and recreation, and all
classes of men everywhere will become more
prosperous. If the workmen spend their extra
wages they increase the profits of tradesmen
and manufacturers and importers. If they put
their extra wages in the banks, they enrich
the country and furnish a solid foundation for
prosperity. Combinations of workingmen,
therefore, can do no harm. It is the com
bination of capitalists to raise the prices of the
necessaries of life that is truly dangerous.
In a free republic like this, strikes are a
healthy sign. They show that the laboring
men are trying to elevate themselves ; that la
bor feels its equality with capital; that large
classes ot our citizens are ambitious of some
thing higher and better than a life of practical
slavery for their food and clothes. This coun
try would be a failure if its laborers wore con
tented to do the work of serfs, for the wages of
serfs. It is because they are freemen that they
yearn for the enjoyments of life guaranteed as
an inalienable right in our Declaration of Inde
pendence. Communism is a very different
thing from the healthy, independent, manly
action of those who struggle for higher wages
and fewer working hours. It aims to destroy
everything. It is like blowing np society with
dynamite. But Communism is the result of the
oppression of the working classes, of the ignor
ing or refusing of their just demands, of the
sullen and revengeful spirit aroused by tyranny
and injustice. There are as yet no traces of it
in this country. Those who try to preach it
find no listeners. The leaders of the working
people repudiate its dogmas and speak but
reasonably and intelligently. Such facts con
vince us that the distrust and alarm caused by
tbe mischievous rumors of an impending gene
ral strike in May are altogether unfounded and
absurd. The true policy of Americans is to
pay generous wages for all kinds of useful
work and thus forestall Communism and its
terrors. Occasional strikes are like letting off
steam, and, so long as they occur and are
properly regulated, an explosion of the boiler is
impossible.
THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.
It is an open secret that we have a profound
distrust, which we believe to be justified by
events, o! the Democratic party in connection
with national affairs. We do not admit that the
Democratic party has any settled, comprehen
sive, patriotic policy, and wo hold that the whims
and cranks of the various factions of Demo
cratic politicians, North and South, are injuri
ous to the best interests of the country. Never
theless, these opinions do not prevent us from
giving the Democratic party its due in relation
to municipal matters. We do not agree with
some of our partisan contemporaries that, be
cause New York is a Democratic city, the Demo
crats are responsible for all the official corrup
tion which prevails here, and tor all the bribery
which is now being exposed in the Board of
Aidermen. Let justice be done, even though
the Democratic party gets some credit. The
Democrats are not nearly so black as they are
painted by several of the Republican papers.
Nobody can deny that the large majority of
the people of this metropolis are honest and
honorable. This being so, it logically follows
that since this is a Democratic city, the majority
of the Democrats must also be honorable and
honest. We take this to be the fact. Far be it
from us to asperse the majority of our fellow
citizens by attempting to argue otherwise. But
New York allows itself to be misrepresented
and disgraced by its representatives. Our citi
zens of all parties do not, as a rule, select the
best men for office, and the reputation of the
city suffers from the corrupt crimes ot the ras
cals who are put in representative positions.
We will go further and admit that only a por
tion of our office-holders and prolessional poli
ticians are wicked and depraved. New York is
by no means the den of thieves which some
journals describe. It has some of as good mon
in office as can be found in any part ot the
world. But, as a little leaven leaveneth the
whole lump, so the corruption of a comparative
ly few scoundrels in power brings the whole
metropolis into odium. We do not blame any
particular party or faction for this ; but we do
insist that ths pure, respectable men of all par
ties and factions should combine to punish and
remedy it.
All fair-minded persons must concede, how
ever, that, as tbe Democrats are in a majority
in New York, they are justly held responsible
for the present condition of our affairs and
ought to be prompt and zealous in rooting out
the evils which are now scandalizing us at home
and abroad. Mayor Grace is a Democrat; but
be deserves credit for his plucky fight against
the railroad robbers and jobbers and he should
be heartily supported by his own party as well
as by all good citizens outside of his party.
Sheriff Grant is a Democrat and a Tammany
Hall Democrat; but when he was a member of
the Board of Aidermen none of the railroad
ring dared to approach him with offers of thou
sand-dollar bills for his vote, and his whole
party should rally around him and make his
integrity a standard. Senator Daly is a Demo
crat ; but the measure which he has introduced
at Albany, to have the Aidermen elected, not by
wards or districts, but by the whole city, is
a reform movement, calculated to elevate the
character of the candidates and increase the
efficiency of the Board, and, therefore, every
[NEW YORK DISPATCH, MARCH 28, 1886
honest Democrat should be in favor of it. The
worst city of ancient times would have been
spared had three good men been discovered in
it, and the same principle will apply to the
Democratic party. But wo insist that tbe party
must come forward to the support of such men
and their measures. And Republicans must
not leave Aiderman O’Conuor alone in his rec
titude, and Jacob Cantor, who did such excel
lent work, last week, must propose an Act to
establish Spring elections, ana must join Sena
tor Daly in making the Aldermanic elections
general.
New York city is like an express train which
has been boarded by thieves in tho disguise of
employees ot the road. The engineer, con
ductor, brakemen and train-hands are not all
in league with the thieves, but, if the passen
gers sit supinely and do not assist the officers
to turn the rascals out, the treasure will be
stolen. We are naturally proud that so promi
nent a Republican as Roscoe Conkling should
take a principal part in exposing the frauds,
but we give equal credit to the Democrats who
authorize and assist him.
What we should like to see is a general upris
ing of all the able-bodied passengers to got rid
of the wretches who are depleting our treasury
and smirching the fair fame of our city, and for
this we are willing to sink all partisan issues.
If a measure ba beneficial, we do not care
whether a Republican or a Democrat proposes
it. It an official be worthy, we do not care
whether he belongs to a Democratic or a Re
publican organization. We expect our Demo
cratic contemporaries and brethren to bo as fair
and frank in regard to municipal concerns.
The bills to elect Aidermen by the vote of the
whole city and to hold our city elections in the
Spring promise immediate and practical re
forms, and we hope to see them endorsed by
both parties and carried almost unanimously.
All of us are New Yorkers, and we cannot afford
to be robbed and disgraced by a few officials
and monopolists who play upon our partisan
ship in order to accomplish their nefarious
schemes. A union ot all honest citizens at the
polls is bettor than Lynch law or the revival of
the Committee of Seventy, but it is now really
tho only alternative.
A BILL TO BE WATCHED.
Rollin M. Squire, who, as Commissioner of
Public Works of this city, is obliged to carry in
his pocket a map ol the city in order that he
may not lose himself, is just now disporting
himself in away that needs careful watching.
It is well known that Mayor Grace has become
convinced that Squire is thoroughly incompe
tent for the office ho fills, aud in the interest of
the community bis Honor is desirous of remov
ing the alleged poet and placing some man in
his stead who knows whether Canal street runs
north and south or east and west. Squire
knows that his position is shaky and to head off
any movement seeking his retirement he has
formed combinations with political tricksters
representing every political faith. Beside,
there is now before the Legislature abill known
as the Burns bill, which contemplates tho con
solidating and reducing of the number of bu
reaus in the Department ot Public Works.
The provisions of thia bill give to Mr. Squire
powers that were never before conferred upon
any one man in this city. It will place, if pass
ed, under the immediate supervision of the
“ egg-flip ” Commissioner, the construction of
all the proposed armories, the bridge across
the Harlem, now under charge of the Port Com
missioners, and all the work of improving the
upper portion of the city which at present de
volves upon the Park Commissioners. There
are four bureaus to be created, over each of
which Mr. Squire will have the power of ap
pointing either Bostonians, poets or members
of the 1884 Board of Aidermen.
The first of these bureaus is the Chief Engi
neer’s Bureau, which will have charge of the
“erection and construction, maintenance, and
care of all structures and property connected
with tho supply and distribution of Croton
water, the laying of water pipes, the construc
tion and maintenance of wells and hydrants, the
construction, location, care, management and
maintenance of public baths, tho construction,
reconstruction, repair and maintenance of sew
ers, the locating, erection, establishment and
maintenance of the public urinals and drains.”
Next is the City Surveyor’s Bureau, to which
charge is given of “ the construction and main
tenance and regulating and grading, curbing,
guttering, flagging, paving and repaving the
streets, roads, avenues and places of the city,
the removal of incumbrances on the streets and
sidewalks, the supervision of the lighting of the
streets, roads, avenues, squares and places, the
construction and maintenance of bridges over
and tunnels under the Harlem river, the filling
of sunken lots, and the regulating of street
vaults and openings in sidewalks and streets.”
The third of this series is known as the Archi
tect’s Bureau, and to this bureau is to be given
the charge “ of the erection or construction and
maintenance of all buildings erected belonging
to the city, or constructed, repaired and main
tained at the expense of the city, or paid out of
the funds in the treasury of the city, and of the
care of all the public buildings belonging and
rented to the city, the chief officer of which shall
be called the City Architect, who must be an
architect of at least ten years’ experience.”
The last in this list of jobs is what will be
known as the Water Register's Bureau, which
will collect all revenue derived from tho sale
and use of water. Should the aesthetic Bos
tonian succeed in having this bill passed ho may
appoint and remove a Deputy Commissioner of
Public Works, heads of bureaus, and such
clerks and assistants as his own sweet will may
suggest. Those who are pushing this bill with
all their strength is Squire himself, Maurice B.
Flynn in conjunction with John J. O’Brien, of
this city, and the Chairman of the Democratic
State Committee, who at present enjoys a con
tract for building a part of the new aqueduct.
Should this bill be passed the manifold evils
which would be poured upon the heads of the
respectable citizens and taxpayers of this city
cannot be enumerated in this brief article.
Designing politicians like Flynn and the
O’Brien’s, and cunning carpet-baggers like
Squire and his retinue have no good object in
view in any bill they foster, and it is to be
hoped that the Legislature will kill this Burns
bill the moment it shows its corrupt face.
JAEHNE’S ARREST.
“ Though the mills ot the gods grind slow
they grind exceeding fine,” and though Aider
men may trample upon the rights of the people
and use their positions for dishonest purposes,
the time comes at length when justice asserts
her rights and a felon’s cell opens wide its door
to receive the victim. There are some criminals
high in political places who are so entrenched
that the arm of the law cannot reach them. Then
public clamor through its formidable ally—the
press—comes to the rescue and the corrupt
official is driven from his stronghold into jail or
into exile.
It has been a great many years since New
York has opened its morning paper and read
that one of its Aidermen was actually lodged in
ite city’s prison. Such, however, was the case
on last Monday morning when Vice-President
Jaehne, of the Board of Aidermen, bad become
an inmate of tbe Tombs prison.
To the city’s shame, be it said, its Common
Council has for long years past been a disgrace
to it. Instead of gazing upon a body of re
spectable and intelligent gentlemen adminis
tering to the wants of the city, the taxpayer is
lorced to look upon an assembly of donkeys,
for the most part recruited from the dregs of
the city. Men who have begun life by retailing to
ragged children cheap liquor and beer, have in
a few short years assumed the position of
statesmen and taken a seat in the Common
Council. In some cases these statesmen not
only represented the criminal class, but actu
ally belonged to that class themselves.
The people ot New York are an easy-going
class. Misdemeanors and felonies have been
committed from time to time by its offi
cials, but the people seemed indifferent to the
reproaches that were continually being cast
upon them, and while they busied themselves
in the marts of trade or enjoyed themselves
amid the whirl ot pleasure, their city legisla
tors robbed them of millions. A day ot reck
oning came at last. Jaehne was accused of be
ing a “ fence.” Then he was indicted for tak
ing bribes, and finally, upon information that
he was going to “skip,” he was rearrested,
I lodged in jail, and his bail increased to $25,000.
The arrest of Jaehne really looks as though the
people were about to be avenged. It looks as
though others equally as guilty as himself are
to be overtaken and punished. Let the good
work go on.
WHERE THE AFRICAN IS CONCEALED.
Senator “Jakoy” Worth has a bill now be
fore the Committee, the object of which is to
prevent tho dumping of mud or other heavy
refuse in the harbor. Upon close observation
the seeker after information will find in this
bill a mysterious African, healthy, lively and
cute. We must not be understood as opposing
any measures that tend to stop the dumping of
refuse in the harbor, but what we do oppose is
a measure which ostensibly has this object in
view but which really is a cloak to a scheme by
which certain individuals are to be enriched.
It is current gossip all over that “Jakey” Worth
was made a Senator through a “ boodle ” col
lected by Maurice Burna Flynn—in fact an er
rand boy of Flynn and Squire who draws $5 a
day of the city's- money for doing these people’s
dirty work showed certain persons on the
Brooklyn Bridge the '* boodle ” that he was tak
ing over to “Jakey’’-and it is only fair to pre
sume that “Jakey ” will return kindness while
the opportunity presents itself.
Just before the Senate Investigating Com
mittee began their labors, a resolution was pass
ed in tbe Board of Aidermen calling upon the
Sinking Fund Commissioners to lease certain
grounds in tbe upper part of the city, and to de
fray the expense consequent upon the erection
of a crematory on this property. A company had
been formed, which proposed to destroy all the
city’s refuse, garbage, etc., free of cost, upon
tho above mentioned conditions. Nothing was
said about the Street Cleaning Department
That bureau was to go on as usual, spending
$1,000,000 yearly, and delivering to this cre
matory company all refuse, garbage, etc. This
latter by a certain process was reduced to a
fertilizer which the company expected to sell at
from $15.00 to $25.00 a ton. Bat and John
Keenan, Flynn, Squire, and some Boston
friends of his, and probably “ Jakey,” are
understood to be the incorporators of this
schema, and the object of Jaiey's bill is to cre
ate public discussion and bring forth glowing
descriptions of the dangers that are impending
in the event of the harbor being choked up with
refuse and garbage. The Aldermanic resolu
tion has laid asleep during the exciting scenes
of the past month or so, and no doubt will re
main where it is for some time to come. The
moment it is awakened the Dispatch readers
will boar of it.
A LOOK AT THE NAMES.
On June 30th, 1884, Aiderman McLoughlin,
Chairman of the Committee on Railroads, offer
ed the petition of the Broadway Surface Rail
road Co., which was referred to the Committee
on Railroads. On August 6th, 4884, the Com
mittee on Railroads reported the Board in favor
of granting a franchise to the Broadway Rail
road. Aiderman Grant, now Sheriff, moved to
lay the report on the table, but the motion was
lost by a vote of 20 to 1. On motion the report
of the Committee was adopted by the tollowing
vote:
Yeas—President Kirk, Aidermen Cleary, De
Lacy, Dempsy, Duffey, Farley, Finck, Full
graff, Jaehne, Kenney, Miller, McCabe, Mc-
Loughlin, McQuade, O’Niel, Pearson, Reilly,
Rothman, Sayles, Shells, and Wendel.
Nays.—Grant.
Absent.—Waite and O’Connor.
On August 18, 1884, Mayor Edson vetoed the
resolution. On August 25, 1884, one James M.
Lyddy secured an injunction restraining the
Aidermen from passing the resolution over the
Mayor’s veto. On August 30, 1884, Judge Bart
lett dissolved the injunction upon the request
of Lyddy. On the morning of August 30, a few
moments after the injunction was dissolved, a
special meeting of tho Board of Aidermen was
held, at which Aiderman Waite presided. Ai
derman Jaehne then called up the veto meas
ure of the Mayor vetoing the resolution of the
Board granting a franchise to the Broadway
Bailroad, aud moved its adoption, notwithstand
ing the objections of the Mayor. The.following
was the vote:
YEAS-Cleary, DeLaoy, Dempsey, Duffy, Farley,
Fullgraff, Jaehne, Kenney, McCabe, McQuade,
O’Neil, Pearson, Reilly, Rothman, Sayles,
Sheils, Waite and Wendel—lß.
Absent—Kirk, Grant, Finck, O’Connor, Mc-
Loughlin and Miller.
On December 5, 1885. it was attempted to
repeal, rescind and annul the action of the
Board on the 30th of August, 1884, and upon
the recommendation of the Committee on Rail
roads the Board again toes action upon the
resolution granting the Broadway Railroad Co. a
franchise to construct and operate a railroad on
Broadway.
The vote in favor of the Broadway Company
was as follows:
Yeas—President Kirk, Aidermen Cleary, De-
Lacy, Dempsey, Duffy, Farley, Finck, Fullgraff,
Jaehne, Kenney, Miller, McCabe, McQuade, Mc-
Loughlin, O’Neil, Pearson, Reilly, Rothman,
Sayles, Sheils, Waite and Wendel—22.
Nays—Grant and O’Connor.
—a——aea—a
Jay Gould’s Return.—Recruited by
a trip in his steam yacht, at an expense of one
hundred dollars a day, Jay Gould has returned
to refuse two dollars a day to the employees
upon his roads. He sits in his Fifth avenue
house, where his living costs him fifty dollars a
day, and insists that a dollar a day is enough
for a laboring man. The evening of his arrival
he passed in his library, at work. The Snn and
the Tribune reporters saw him there and de
scribe the interviews. The next morning the
result of his work was apparent in elaborate
editorials, published by the Sun and the Tri
bune, arguing that workmen had no right to
unite against capitalists, but that capitalists
were perfectly justified in combining against
laborers. These editorials were so identical
in ideas and phrases that they seem to have
emanated from the same mind and pen. The
inference that they were written or inspired by
Jay Gould is not unfair under the circumstan
ces. But Jay Gould’s editorship has hitherto
been fatal to every newspaper with which he
has been connected, and we warn the Sun and
Tribune against the consequences of accepting
him as one of their staff. The Tribune has al
ready done a great deal of harm to the Republi
can party by its attitude toward the working
men, and is now under sentence of boycotting.
It should cease to claim to be a Republican pa
per, or live up to the principles ot the party.
Secretary Manning.—Stricken with
paralysis, in danger of another attack, and as
sured by bis physicians that, at the best, his
recovery must be tedious, the Secretary ot the
Treasury has placed his resignation in the
hands of tbe President, who has refused to ac
cept it. But the close of Secretary Manning’s
connection with the Administration is almost a
certainity. It is not too much to say that he
was the strongest, the most popular, and the
most trusted member of the Cabinet Be
ginning life as a page in tbe Legislature at AL
bany, Mr. Manning worked his own way up to
tbe control ot the Democratic party in this State,
and the editorship of its State organ. His ex
perience as a financier was only that ol the
president of a country bank; but in the im
portant office ot Secretary of the Treasury, he
has acquitted himself honorably, and his sound
financial principles have given confidence to the
business community. His removal from pub
lic life will be a decided loss to the country;
but to his party the loss will be irreparable.
Adopted Indians.—An official report
shows that twenty thousand Navajo Indians are
supported at tbe government expense, upon
eleven and a half millions of acres in New
Mexico, and that they ask 640,000 more acres,
so as to be perfectly comfortable. Thirty-five
of their children are being educated at an an
nual expense of $27,000. This gives an average
of six hundred and twenty acres of land to every
poor Indian and of nearly SBOO a year to every
poor Indian child. Many white men would
think themselves rich if they were thus provided
for by the nation. But a curious phrase in the
report shows that the white settlers are not so
silly as to miss the opportunity of sharing this
kind ot poverty with the poor Indians. “Adopted
Indians ” are mentioned, and that means that
white men have taken a band in tbe twelve mil
lion acres and the $27,000 school fund. An
“ adopted Indian” is a new feature of civiliza
tion, and the happy term will become popular.
Mugwump Slanders.—We are sorry
to see that the Times has varied its eulogies of
Grover Cleveland by attacking Superintendent
Murray for not shooting down the strikers who
brought tho street railway companies to terms,
and Inspector Byrnes for ingeniously entrap
ping Aiderman Jaehne into a confession. It is
difficult to understand tho tactics of the Times,
which is “ so English, you know ” that British
gold is often supposed to bo the basis of its
froetrade articles. But, as the English police
did not shoot down the London rioters, why
should the Times abuse Superintendent Murray
for treating the strikers temperately, judiciously
and succossiully ? He prevented disorder and
kept the crosstown line open, and why should
he be blamed for thus doing his duty ? As for
Inspector Byrnes, there may be more in the
interest of the Times in the Jaehne confession
than meets the naked eye. There was once a
scandal about the Times and the Brick Church
Property, with which tho Board of Aidermen
had something to do, and, it we are not mis
taken, the Times now derives a revenue from
the city from a rental of public offices in its
building. Has Inspector Byrnes made the
Times writhe by putting the screws upon Aider
man Jaehne? When our mugwump contem
borary begins to unjustly abuse the police it
must not be surprised if suspicion as to its niQ
tives is aroused.
Knickerbocker Rights.—The decis
ion of Judge Van Brunt, that the Bowery is an
old Dutch road, and that, consequently, none
ot the owners of real estate along the Bowery
have any rights in the thoroughfare, is not to
be allowed to stand without an appeal to the
higher courts. Tho Dutch government took the
land for streets absolutely; the Dutch trans
ferred their rights to the English; the English
passed them over to the corporation of Now York.
According to the argument presented by the
attorneys of the Elevated roads, the Legislature
can open, close, widen or narrow any old Dutch
road without any reference whatever to the
owners of property thereon. But if the histori
cal facts about the Dutch laws are correctly
stated, have not the real estate owners acquired
any rights during the two centuries that Lave
elapsed since tho Dutch relinquished the gov
ernment of New York ? Are we to be bound
now by the rules and regulations of the Knick
erbockers of two hundred years ago ? The Ele
vated attorneys are very ingenious, but it
seems to us that they must have a poor case
when they go back so far to bolster it up by
Dutch precedents. Their roads have almost
destroyed property on the Bowery, and there
should be some compensation in equity.
Open Sessions.—The secret sessions
of the United States Senate are now condemned
by such Republican leaders as Senators Sher
man, Logan and others, and the party must
not be placed in the false position of refusing to
endorse them in order to ratify tho personal
piques of Senator Edmunds. The work of the
public should be done in public. If there is
anything dirty or disgraceful about it, as some
Senators have asserted, publicity will prevent
the dirt and disgrace. Even a manure-heap, to
which the secret business of the Senate has
been compared by tho Senators themselves,
loses its vile ordors when it is exposed to the
air and the sunshine. We protest against the
Republican party, which represents the people
and trusts the people, being put in antagonism
to the people upon this question. Senator
Logan, who received an immense popular vote
for the Vice-Presidency and was first selected
by the Republican Senators as the constitutional
successor of the President, is a sounder adviser
in regard to open sessions than Senator Ed
munds, who comes from the little State of Ver
mont, and who has prejudices as narrow as
Vermont’s boundaries.
Somewhat Delusive. —The China
trade is, indeed, very delusive. The bulk of
domestic products, except cotton goods,
shipped to Hong Kong, are not consumed by
the Chinese, but by foreigners at the treaty
ports. The fleet of steamers and sailing ships
and men-of-war in Chinese waters consume a
great deal of flour and provisions of various
kinds, and without this demand our exports to
China would bo insignificant. Let this fact be
borne in mind when speaking of the China
trade. A blockade of the treaty ports would
interfere with us but little, because the French
forces would be compelled to Uraw oupplioo
from us, and, indeed, large purchases in cer
tain lines of provisions have already been made
on French account. Yet all this will go to the
credit of Chinese consumers, when, in point of
fact, the Chinese stomach has not been edu
cated to the point of appreciation, much less
consuming, our breadstuff's and provisions.
We buy Chinese produce and pay in coin, or in
exports of provisions and breadstuff's to supply
the floating foreign population engaged in the
China trade. , . .
“A Queer Personal.”—This is the
heading of one of the most entertaining news
paper articles we have encountered in years.
It is published iu the Texas Siftings ot March
27. The writer inserted in the World of March
7 a “ personal” advertisement of a supposed
young lady of high “ birth, education and posi
tion” who yearned “ for the sympathy and love
of some gentleman ot standing.” Inside of two
days two hundred and sixty-one replies had
been received, and since then thirty-two more
have reached the advertiser. The Texas Siftings
publishes many of the replies, and they are
most interesting reading, abundantly proving
the truth of Shakespeare’s saying, “ What fools
these mortals be I”
A Startling Discovery.—One of those
startling revelations which now and then come
to the surface, had its denouement in Tucson,
Arizona, a few days ago. Mrs. J. C. Williston,
of Ohio, has been for many years an invalid,
and her painful sufferings have been at
tributed by physicians to a cancer in the
stomach. She recently started to travel for her
health and had reached Tucson, where some of
her friends suggested that she go under the
treatment of a “ medicine man” of the Paiazo
Indians. It was not long before the fact was
discovered that a lizard, which was safely re
moved from her stomach by the Indian treat
ment, had caused the lady’s sickness and suffer
ing.
unfit for his position.
He was fat enough to start a boarding-house
with, and as he leaned up against a policeman
the latter sighed and wondered where he’d get
a wagon big enough to load him with.
Be had evidently been out with the boys, for
his hat was cocked jauntily on one side and his
voice had knots in it.
“You’re a per-thar is a perleeceman; aintit?”
“ Aeh ?” said the club knight astonished at
sueh assumption.
“ You’re a perleeceman ?”
“ Be Heavens Oi’ll show ye of ye don’t take a
walk around yersel.”
“Do you—that is—do you know anner—that
is annersing ’bout civil service.”
“ About phwat?”
“ Civ—that is—civil service.”
“ Ah! go drown yersel.”
“ Do you know diffrenee ’tween diabetes an’
diaphragm ?”
“ Oi’ll give ye a welt that’ll break ye inter
three halves av ye don’t hist yersel.”
“Do yon know difference ’tween phle
botomy and phleheadomy ?”
,‘G’an, now.”
“ D’y’ know why is difference ’tween peritoni
tis and pericardium?”
“ See you here, young man ”
“ D’y’ know how is difference ’tween aroholo
gy an’ aesophagus ?”
•• oi’ll ”
“D’y’ can tell difference ’tween truth is
mighty and will prevail, an’ cheese is mitey an’
will get stale ?”
“ Oi want ye ”
“ Could you ’form me difference ’tween ety
mology an’ at a sardine sandwich ?”
“ Fur wunst more Oi ”
“O’ll bet you can’t even dissect difference
’tween Paradise an’ pair o’ two dice ?”
The policeman turned him round, made him
raise both his coat tails, pinned them up so that
he had a full view of 'the man’s laundry, and
then kicked end kicked uutU tqea were »ore,
•‘That’s the difference atune me an’ a dommed
fule I” he ejaculated as he ran the man into the
middle of the street,
“ Glad I got an answer; but it’s wrong. Goo’
day. You’re no more fit to be a perleecoman
than a cat.”
Then he moved onward, left and right oblique.
HE MADE A MISTAKE.
The conductor was carrying the full comple
ment of 2,240 pounds to the ton. He was as
full as three aces and two kings. This was
evidenced by the fact that he had to hold to
both sides of the doorway to keep himself from
falling apart.
As the car moved up street he saw a passen
ger hailing him, and rang the bell.
When he discovered that it was an Indian
tobacco sign, he made a remark about the boys
fooling him, and borrowed a chew of tobacco,
which he tried to stick up his nose, but finally
delivered correctly.
Further on down street ho hauled up for a
telegraph-pole, but, as it didn’t show any in
clination to ride, he rang the bell again, and in
formed the platform passengers that “ some
people wus too fresh.”
The car had progressed but about a block
when a woman with a basket entered. He po
litely took the basket from her, and, after she
hftd taken a seat near the door, he deposited
the basket into ths middle of tho street, via the
dashboard.
A passenger rang the bell, stopped the car,
and reclaimed the basket.
“By Jiminy 1” ejaculated the astonished con
ductor, “ I though there was something wrong.
That’s the second mistake I’ve made to-day.
They say when yer make two you must always
make three. Wonnor what nex ’ll be I”
On the way down he stopped for two lamp
posts and told one of them it'd have ter go on
the front platform if it wanted ter smoko.
In changing a bill for a passenger he handed
the bill back and then put the change in the
passenger’s pocket, mistaking it fbr his Own.
Finally he entered the car to collect a fare.
In doing so he dropped the coin between the
slats.
Then he got down on his knees and began the
search. He compelled several passengers to
sit with their legs around their necks while he
did so.
A female saw the coin and stooped to pick it
up. As her hand touched it, he looked bewil
dered and grabbed her hand and said:
“ Wunner who left this shovel in the oar I”
Then he tried to put it in the coal-scuttle.
If anybody lost a conductor last week they
may find him in bed with a circumcised nose
and a bunged eye, as the young lady wasn’t the
least bit pleased.
SMALL CHANGE.
“ What are you doing ?” asked the
manager of the assistant manager. “ I have
written that Madame Blanco appeared in this
same piece three hundred times in London. I
know that she’s never appeared in it at all. and
that's she’s never been in London, but I’ll
scratch it out.” “ Scratch it out! Thunder !
Add another nought and put in Paris and
Vienna.”
While a protracted meeting was be
ing hold in a Belmore, Ohio, town last week, a
cyclone sauntered into town, demolished the
church steeple, and a number of the congrega
tion were severely injured. It is thought that
the neighbors had something to do with it, but
as the minister escaped, the thought is not con
firmed.
Newark has just had a very success
ful dog show. It has not been given out, but it
looks to us, from where we sit, and judging by
the facts of the hydrophobia scare which re
cently startled Newark, that Pasteur might
have been the instigator of the show. If he
was, he was wise enough to conceal his name.
A poob soldier, last week, threw a
petition into Queen Victoria’s carriage and he
was immediately arrested and thrown into
prison, from which he has been released by the
graciousness of Her Majesty. It is said that
she first opened the petition and was mad be
cause it wasn’t a subscription for her book.
Congressman Hiscock is the acknowl
edged handsome man of Washington. He re
ceived 110 votes in a recent beauty contest, thus
distancing all his pursuers. Lucky for the
really good-looking Congressman that some
bndy wa know nf didn’t happen to drop into
Washington at about that time.
Mbs. Potter Palmer is said to have
more diamonds than any other woman in
America. That’s all right! but we’ll bet our
straw hat to a brickbat that, although she may
shine in some circles, she can’t shine her hus
band’s boots any better than any other woman
can.
Pasteub excuses himself on the
ground that his Russian patients were bitten by
a wolf and not by a dog. This reminds us of
the physician who wanted all his patients, no
matter what diseases they were suffering with,
chucked into fits. He was hell on fits.
Cashieb Ogilby, of the New Bruns
wick Bank, the man who failed to discover
where about SBO,OOO of the depositors’ money
had disappeared to, has gone stark mad. It
would make us mad, too, to be interrupted be
fore we had packed up a full million.
A veby wicked Kansas man recently
caught his daughter and her suitor sparking on
the front stoop and shot the fellow fatally dead.
Kansas never will become satisfactorily civilized
until her citizens are taught that the bull-dog is
mightier than the horse-pistol.
A maniac recently appeared in a West
ern court-room and cleaned out the ranch, all
excepting tho judge disappearing through the
windows. The judge had probably been on a
New York jury and wasn’t to be scared by a
little thing like that.
Quite a controversy was recently held
in a local court-room over the ownership of a
dog named “ Daisy.” There may be dogs that
look like daisies but we never saw one. We
would think that the smell might dispel the
idea, however.
Mabtin Tuppeb comes forward and
says that he isn’t dead, but is about to publish
a new book entitled, “ My Life as an Author.”
If it had only been “ My Death as an Author,”
what a sale it might have, to be certainlly 1
Thomas J. Tapp is a candidate for
the Postmastership of Louisville. He should
have the place as he would always be on tap,
and could place his name on the window and
everybody would drop, so to speak.
Thomas Nast, the caricaturist, the tel
egraph informs us, has purchased several lodes
in Colorado. Seems a good ways to go to pur
chase a load, doesn’t it? We’ve seen Tom pur
chase several right here in town.
On Centre street, the other day, we
saw a sign: “ Tanner of fine kid,” and we at
once thought that the attention of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
should be called to the matter.
“One swallow doth not make a Sum
mer,” screameth the poet. Nixey, po ; but one
sum o’ (money) maketh the swallow. That
is, if the Summer’s large enough and hasn’t a
hole in it.
A man recently committed suicide in
Riverview Park. He first took poison, then
stabbed and then hanged himself. The family
that raised him must have been fond of chil
dren.
General Hazen wants to be investi
gated. He would probably prove an alibi, and
would blame it all to the weather. The weather
is very tricky, and we’ll leave it to everybody.
A New Yobk man now claims that he
can skate five miles in sixteen minutes. But
he’s an iceman and wants to have a chance to
prove the amateurishness of the Winter’s crop.
It is now claimed that Salvini’s name
is Sullivan, and that he is an Irishman. John
L. should go to Italy, change his name, and
then—well, and then go drown himself.
Captain Cannon recently sued the
.Baltimore American lor $20,000 and the jury
awarded him one cent. He can’t load himself
with that.
A recent suicide attributed his down
fall to a girl in a bakery. May be she sold him
a Washington pie; eh ?
Belva Lockwood is again mentioning
herself as a candidate for President next term.
Somebody should provide Belva with a cradle
and something to load it with.
“ Do as you would be done.by,” is a
good old saying. But if we should do as we’d
been done by a good many people wo know of,
we’d bo in State Prison.
GOSSIP OF THE WEEK.
On Monday evening next tho McCaull Opera Co.
will give the orginal production, in Enlish, of Del
linger's opera comique, "Don Caasar,” at McCaull’s
Opera House, Philadelphia. Tho opera will be pre
sented there for five weeks, after which it will ba
given at Wallack’s Theatre, for the initial attrac
tion of the regular opera season.
Madame Judio will appear in this city, at tho
Star Theatre, in a series of performances that Mr.
Maurice Grau intends shall close her American en
gagement. Her tour in America has been satisfac
tory to Mr. Grau. The final representation in which
she will be seen and beard here will be inaugurated
Monday evening, April sth. The engagement will
continue for two weeks.
Miss Fanny Davenport is in good health, not
withstanding all reports to the contrary, and is act
ing her original part in " Fedora ” with all her old
time power. At present she is filling engagements
in the West, where her audiences are limited only
by the capacity of tho houses. During the past
week Mr. Lester Wallack entered into an arrange
ment by which Miss Davenport will play a two
weeks' season at tho Star Theatre next month, un
der his management.
Manager MurthA has tendered the use of the
New Windsor Theatre for Friday afternoon, April
9, for the benfit of tho family of the late Chief of
the Fire Department, Frank Mahedy, when a host
of volunteers will appear.
Mb. La wrfnob Barrett begins his supplementary
season to-morrow night in Charleston. S. C., when
Mr. Newton Gotthold and Miss Eugenie Blair will
bo added to the company. During tho next two
weeks Mr. Barrett appears in Savannah, Macon, At
lanta and Now Orleans.
Miss Myra G'Odwin will be supported in "Sis’*
next season by Mr. George Richards.
Mr. Frederick Warde appears in Troy and Jer
sey City during tho Coming Week, followed by an
engagement in Providence, R. L
The Templeton Opera Company are to play a re
turn engagement at the Harlem Theatre Comiquo,
April 19. producing the ever-attractive "Mikado.”
Mr. Daniel Sully and his "Corner Grocery’*
company will play in the vicinity of New York city
during the next few weeks, visiting Williamsburg,
Harlem, Philadelphia and other places. On April
26th Mr. Sully will assume the management of Tony
Pastor’s Theatre for the Summer and the opening
attraction will be Mclntyre & Heath's Minstrels.
On May 3d "The Corner Grocery” will be put on
for a short run and a new comedy will follow.
Wood, Beasly & Weston Brothers, " The Four
Musical Kings,” go ou the road April 12th with a
strong minstrel party under the management of
Mr. Max L. Clayton.
Len Grover’s benefit on last Sunday evening
netted him, according to report, somewhere near
thirty-five hundred dollars.
Now the question arises, quite naturally, "What
will he do with it ? ** Blow it in” as lucheou for
the hungriest of «• tigers”—named " faro;” start a
company on the road and " go broke” inside of a
month, or put it away as a nest egg for the "rainy
day” which the Future may let loose upon him
when least expected. The latter is the " propah
cap ah,” old fel.
On Monday evening Manager McCaull’s "Mikado”
company will be at the Novelty Theatre, Brooklyn.
This is the first engagement ever played by any of
Mr. McCaull’s companies in the Eastern District.
The company includes Misses Bertha Ricci, Laura
Joyce, Celio Ellis, Nellie MoCartee, and Digby Bell,
Charles Plunkett, Harry Macdonough, Charles W.
Dungan and Hamilton Adams.
" The Lily of Yeddo,” George F. Rowe’s now
Japanese drama, will be produced at the Criterion
Theatre, Brooklyn, on Monday, April sth. Special
Japanese scenes and costumes are to be among the
features of the presentation.
"Proved True,” a sensational, emotional drama,
by Mortimer Murdoch, will receive its initial per
formance in America at the Grand Opera House,
Brooklyn, April sth. This work, it is stated, had a
continuous run ot five seasons in London and tho
British provinces. Miss M. E. Fitzpatrick will en
act the leading role.
Mr. T. C. Faulkner, who, for the past forty years,
made himself familiar in journalism and dramatic
affairs, is to be the recipient of a testimonial benefit
from ins large circle of Brooklyn menus at. iba
Atheneum in that city on the evening of Tuesday,
May 11th. The programme will include a notable
array of amateur and professional lyric and theatric
talent. And it goes without saying that kindly
hearted "Tom” will be made happy by this gene
rous and timely recognition of his deserving.
Bartley Campbell’s "White Slave” played to
nearly $5,000 receipts last week at the Howard
Atheneum, Boston. This company appears in Jer
sey City to-morrow evening. Miss May Newman is
the Liza. The organization, under Harry Kenne
dy’s management, has been very successful this
season.
Mr. Henry Ashley, for many years the dramatic
editor of the New York Clipper, died at tho Sinclair
House, in his room c on Sunday morning last. He
had been ailing for some time, but his death was
sudden and unexpected. In his early life he was con
nected with the theatrical business as agent, man
ager, and for a brief period as an actor. His real
name was Ashcroft. He was extremely methodic in
his work, honest and loyal to the interests of those
whom he served, singular to the verge of eccentricity
in his habits, made few acquaintances, was thor
oughly conversant with the afiairs of the stage, and
kindly-hearted and generous in nature.
He was an intimate friend of the late Charles R.
Thorne, and no one felt the loss more acutely, of
that eminent American actor than did Mr. Ashley.
He was a native of Massachusetts, and was in his
fifty-seventh year. He has found rest at last.
Madison Square Theatre.—Mr. Gil
bert’s comedy of "Engaged” will be withdrawn
from the stage of the Madison Square Theatre after
Monday evening, when it will receive, in this city,
its final performance by the company provided for
this revival by Mr. Palmer. On Tuesday night next,
the bill will be changed, and Mr. Bronson Howard's
delightful comedy of " Old Love Letters ” and Mr.
W. S. Gilbert’s fairy drama of "Broken Hearts ” will
be brought forward.
This programme will be continued for a brief run
only; a new comedy from the French, in three acts,
and with fifteen characters will soon be produced.
Mr. Howard has written nothing more earnest and
graceful than his little comedy of "Old Love Let
ters.” In this play Agnes Booth impersonates
a character in which she will give another proof
that she is the most brilliant of the leading actresses
now upon the American stage. She was its first
representative and she played it so well that the
author indicated his gratification by giving her the
play as her exclusive property. Mr. Gilbert’s
"Broken Hearts ” is a play more than commonly
fraught with tender feeling and moral significance.
Deep sentiment and a bright standard of literary
and dramatic character are attributes of theso
plays.
Wallack’s Theatre.—The final per
formance of Robertson’s comedy of "Home 'and
of the comedietta "A Happy Pair,” was given
last evening.
This latter addition to the evening’s programme
for the past week, gave Kyrle Bellew and Miss Annie
Robe an opportunity to appear as Mr. and Mrs.
Honeyton.
Mr. Bellew in this new departure from the line of
work in which the audiences of Wallack’s have been
accustomed to see him, did not score an over
whelming success. Although he had an all suffi
ciency of rehearsals, and the part of Honey ton is
not a long one, he was imperfect in his lines and
sadly " mixed ”as to the business. However, ha
improved in this regard during the week, but in no
performance of the character did his work suggest
him as a comedian.
Miss Annie Robe could not have given a mora
graceful and delightful portraiture of Mrs. Honey
ton had the character been created for her. In this
impersonation she gave a most charming as w«£l as
convincing evidence of tho versatility of her tAent.
To-morrow evening Mr. Wallack’s comedy-farco
of " Central Park, or the House with Two Doors,”
will be revived, Mr. Lester Wallack appearing in his
original character of Wyndham Otis.
Standard Theatbb.—Tha drama of
"Blackmail,” which held the stage of this theatre
during the past fortnight, was given its final per
formance last evening. It attracted a moderate
share of patronage.
To-morrow evening the first performance In this
house will occur of what is termed "an American
Japanese comic opera.” It bears the title of " Tha
Little Tycoon.” It has already been performed in
the present season at Philadelphia, where it had
something of a run, was regarded with much com
mendation by the critics, and won, upon its merits a
a large share of popular favor.