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CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE:
CONTINUATION OF “DORIS’S FORTUNE.”
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.
A MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
A PROVOKING RENCONTRE.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE HORSE.
SHE WAS HEARTLESS.
HEROIC DEEDS.
THIRD PAGE:
MASONIC MATTERS: What of the Day; Pergonal
Appeals; Night and Morning; Empire Chapter; Cres
cent Lodge; Notes and Queries; Personal; Templar
Notes; A Royal Installation; The Club of Two;”
Labor Exchange.
SIXTH PAGE :
CALM AND STORM.
“BEFORE THE DAWN.”
A FRONTIER STORY.
JACK, THE BUSHRANGER.
FREAKS OF RICH MEN.
PROBABLY A LIE.
IN THE DARK.
FROM THE FRENCH.
INTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
SEVENTH PAGE:
. MY SPIRIT QUEEN.
HAUNTED.
MIXED MARRIAGES.
SCALPED BY APACHES.
IN A HOUSE-BOAT.
QUEER DIVORCES.
BEER IN BERLIN.
AN OFFICE SEEKER.
AN OLD TIMER.
THE INDIAN FIGHTER.
•* I’D SHOOT THAT NEGRO.”
TWO SOLDIERS.
OUR WEEKLY GOSSIP.
goto nvJ (gjwrto.
W. Tj. M.—Billiards were first in
vented. Bays a good authority, by a pawnbroker.
About the middle of the sixteenth century there
was one William Kew. a pawnbroker, who, during
wet weather, was in the habit of taking down the
three balls, and, with the yard measure, pushing
them, billiard fashion, from the counter into the
slats. In time, the idea of a board with side
pockets suggested itself. A black letter MS. says :
•'Master William Kew did make one boarde whereby
a game is played with three balls, and all the young
men were greatly recreated thereat, chiefly the
young clergymen from St. Paula's, hence one of ye
strokes was named a (’anon, having been by one of
ye same clergymen invented. This game is now
known by the name of Billyards, because William
or Bill Kew did first play with his yard measure.
The stick is now called a kew or cue.’’ It is easy to
comprehend how Bill yard has teen modernized
into billiard, and the transformation of "kew ” or
•’kne ” into "cue” is equally appropriate.
Politician.—The famous phrase, “To
the victors belong the spoils,” originated with Wm.
•L. Marcy, of New York, who, in a speech before the
Senate in January, 1832, in defence of President
Jackson, said of his constituents that they "see
nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors be
long the spoils of the enemy.” The doctrine is
called Jacksonian, because President Jackson had
put the principle so strongly in force, even before
It had been thus epigrammaticaily enunciated by
Mr. Marcy, and because he was the first President
Who did so. Between April 30, 1789, when Wash
ington was inaugurated as President, and the inau
guration of Jackson, March 4, 1829, only seventy
three removals from office had been made by all
the Presidents, including all removals for cause.
During the first year of President Jackson’s admin
istration he made over seven hundred removals,
almost wholly for political reasons.
Constant Reader. —Postage stamps
hsv.s Isnguag. as wall an flowers. When a postage
Stamp has been placed upside down on the left
corner of the letter it means, " I love you;” iu the
game crosswise, “ My heart is another's;” straight
up and down, ” Good-bye sweetheart, good-bye;”
Upside down in the right-hand corner, “ Write no
more;” in the centre at the top, " Yes;” opposite at
the bottom, “ No;” on the right-hand corner at a
right angle, •• Do yon love ma?” In the left-hand
corner, •• I hate you;” top corner on the right, “ I
Wish your friendship;” bottom corner on the left,
” I seek your acquaintance;” on a line with the
Surname, "Accept my love;” the same upside
down, “I am engaged;” at aright angle in the
tarns place, “I long to see you;” in the middle at
right-hand edge, •• Write immediately.”
J. S. P.—So far as known, the term
toad-eater,” as now understood, originated with
Sir Robert Walpole, who applied it to Henry Lane.
In 1742. Two years later, Sarah Fielding, in “David
Simple,” speaks of “ toad-eater” as “quite a new
word,” and she suggests that it is "a metaphor
taken from a mountebank’s boy eating toads in
brdet 1 to show bis master’s skill in expelling poi
son,” and “ built on a supposition that people who
are in a state of dependence are forced to do ths
most nauseous things to please and humor their
patrons.”
N-.Smith.—lst. The proverb, “Rome
wks not built in a day,” is one of those sayings that
are ao old that no record of their originator but*
iVlvea. The saying is also found in the French lan
guage. where it probably antedates the English
adage. 2d. Cleopatra’s Needles were probably
erected between 2000 and 1800 B. C. It is not known
why or when the above name was given to these
obelisks, but probably it was to honor one of the
queens who bore the name of Cleopatra, many cen
turies after the structures were erected.
Will. B.—The worjl elixir is supposed
to be of Arabic origin, applied in old pharmacy to
certain extracts obtained in boiling ; as elixir of
vitriol, etc. In modern pharmacy the name is re
tained for various tinctures made up of several in
gredients. The alchemists applied it to a number
of solutions which they employed in the transmu
tation of metals, and to the elixir vitce, a prepara
tion which when discovered was to endow the per
son taking it with immortality.
Poll.—A correspondent who has had
bfii parrot tlHrty-fiye years recommends Indian
corn (on the cob) as tbs bird’s staff of life. He adds:
•‘ All kinds of grain are good feed. At times, for a
treat, give her nuts of any kind, a boiled potato,
and now and then a chicken bone to pick, and pure
water to drink. Put soft pine wood where the bird
can bite it, thereby exercising her bill. Fresh air
and plenty of light are desirable. Avoid all soft or
soaked food, grease and salt.
A Readeb.—“Can you tell me the
meaning of the phrase ‘A Roland for an Oliver,’
also how it originated ?” This phrase is equivalent
to the ordinary saying " Tit for tat,” or giving a
person at good as he sends. Roland and Oliver
Were the names of two pages attached to the Court
of Charlemagne. Their qualities were so excellent
and so equally matched that Roland was considered
£s good at Oliver and vice versa. This is the generally
Cicrlped origin of this phrase,
Wife. — Should your husband die
IthOUt making a will, you will have your right of
dower in all 6t the real estate he owned at the time
of his death. If the notes you bold against him
were given to you in good faith, for money or
property that belonged to your separate estate, bo
as to render them legal obligations against your
husband, you can bequeath them in your will
ito your nephews and nieces, and they will be valid
Claims against your husband’s estate.
■j. Miss R.—lf you have been using any
thing so mischievous as belladonna to your eyes, no
prouder you cannot see. It is most injurious in
Whatever form it is applied, and we should recom
tnend you to leave off so silly a practice at once. If
test and plentiful bathing with lukewarm water do
pot mend matters, you should ro to an oculist at
©nee, and tell him what you have been doing. The
>eyo is far too delicate an organ to be trifled with.
1 Nellie.—To make an arnica lotion,
take one ounce of arnica flowers, dried, and put
them in a wide-mouthed bottle; pour just enough
ecalding water on them to moisten them, and after
ward about one and a half pints of spirits of wine.
In case of a burn or bruise, wet a cloth in the ar
nica and lay it on the part affected. Renew the
application occasionally.
Book.—The modern names of sizes of
books are derived from the folding of paper. When
the sheet is not folded, it is called a folio, and this
size was very fashionable throughout the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. The folio sheet doubled
becomes a quarto; another double constitutes the
pctavo of eight leaves or sixteen pages.
Cabpet.—A rag carpet should not be
Washed as long as it can be avoided. It soils much
easier after being once washed, beside fading, if
there are any grease spots, a little hard soap rubbed
on, then washed off with hot water and well rinsed,
j« a good way to remove them; or some aqua am
monia is equally good.
Wall Street. — “ What is the mean-
Ing among brokers of • seller 3,’ ’buyer 3,’ ' regular
lale?’” Seller 3. means that the stocks so d may
be delivered at any time within three days. Buyer
B, means that they may be demanded any time
Within three days. Regular, means deliverable
next day.
J. H. S.—lst. When a policeman has
Served twenty years and upward on the force, he
can apply to be retired on a pension, but it remains
in the discretion of the Commissioners whether it
Is granted or not. 2d. In case the pension fund be
comes exhausted the city is liable for such pension.
Old Reader.—The salamander is a
kpscles of lizard. It is harmless and offers no re
resistance when captured. There is nothing in the
euperetition or belief that once prevailed, that it
Jias the power of resisting fire, to test which, many
have been Cruelly destroyed.
Annoyance.—There is no law prevent
log the ringing of church bells or the crying out of
peddlers; but in case of sickness an injunction
could bo obtained from a police justice, when it
was shown that such noises were deleterious to a
eick person.
H. A. P. —Ist. We know of no impartial
history of the Franco-German war. The time Ib not
?et far enough removed for that. 2nd. You write a
air though not a business hand.
O. P.—Brigadier General Albert 8.
Meyer (Old Probabilities) was born at Newburgh,
N. ¥.. 1828. Died at Buffalo, N. Y., August 24, 1880.
F. C.—lst. We do. 2d. We have
plenty of short stories, and, unless yours are out of
the ordinary run, we have no place for them.
Frank. —It is usual in the trades, when
a man works six days iu the week, that ho shall be
paid double wages for Sunday work.
R. S.—The President signed the bill
for a bridge across the Kill von Kull from New Jer
sey to Staten Island.
Peter D. —William Ewart Gladstone,
the English Premier, was born iu Liverpool, De
cember 29, 1809.
O. F. G. —“ Where shall I apply for a
position on a yacht?” Apply either to the owner or
tailing master.
Lodge.—ln writing to your wife it j s
proper to use her Christian name, as Mrs. Mary
Doo.
J. R.—The steamship Oregon left
Liverpool, on her last trip, on Saturday, March 6th.
F. J. T.—The voting for members of
parliament has been by ballot since 1872.
V.—Both expressions being slang they
ao fsrtieulM mtsaiag.
NEW YORK, JULY 11. 1886.
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lished in the (Jnited States.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
What is it ? When the great Barnum ex
hibited an idiotic negro gild under this title, he
defined her as a connecting link between the
human and the brute creation. Civil Service
reform may be defined as a connecting link
between President Cleveland and the mug
wumps. We do not know of anybody else who
takes any stock in it. The Democratic party
repudiates it, denounces it, and makes an idol
of little Governor Hill because he openly op
poses it. The Republican party can do a great
deal better than any Civil Service reformers
have yet accomplished. The Prohibition party,
which is coming np on the political horizon,
like a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand, that
may rain down a deluge, will have nothing to
do with it. Cleveland and the mugwumps
have it all to themselves, and even they are
not agreed about it. According to the mug
wump organs, the President is a firm apostle
of Civil Service reform; but the President’s
own agents, the men whom he has personally
appointed to office, labor with all the industry
of which they are capable to make the new ism
—Civil Serviceism—inoperative, ridiculous and
contemptible. Lookers-on are said to see the
most of the game; but wo defy the shrewdest
observer to d stingnish heads or tails in the
game which Cleveland and the mugwumps are
playing.
The principal representative of the Chief
Executive in this section, is the Collector of the
Port of New York. He holds by far the most
important office in the gift of the government.
It used to boa proverb that, as the Collector
goes, so goes the State. Well, Collector Hed
den was chosen by the President as a substi
tute for Hubert 0. Thompson, who happened to
be under a cloud, which has not yet lifted, on
account of his management of the Department
of Public Works. He is Cleveland’s own man,
as well as Thompson’s man. If anybody wants
to know how Collector Hedden manages Civil
Service matters, let him not consult a Repub
lican paper, like the New Yoke Dispatch. We
might seem prejudiced. We might appear to
take a partisan view of things. Wo might yield
to the temptation to close our right eye so as to
“ get in our left” upon the fat boy in the White
House. No; let the anxious inquirer about
Civil .Service in practical operation, read the
Mugwump organ, the Times, which is a staunch
supporter of President Cleveland through thick
and thin—and especially thick. That hard
working, and, in some respects able, journal,
which inserts a J 1,200 advertisement to neutral
ize its Bell telephone editorials, has got the
Civil Service reform so badly mixed that it con
stantly praises Cleveland and pitches into Cleve
land’s Collector. It is another case of Hudibras
and his squire, Rolpho. In one part of the
Times is a column of eulogy upon Cleveland for
bis devotion to Civil Service reform, and in an
other part of the same issue is a column of
wailings from Custom House employees, who
have been kicked off their official stools and
thrust out into a very cold world by Collector
Hedden, the very- person whom the President
selected to illustrate the Civil Service policy.
We have no sympathy with patronage eaters,
the “ feeders at the public crib,” as they used
to be called, but we thought that Civil Servi
cism was invented to keep These fellows tied to
the crib by halters that would last a lifetime.
We do not believe in the new ism, but why do
not those who believe in it make it work?
There is no room for Civil Service, with its
aristocracy of pampered officials, in this free
country. The ridiculous doctrines that old
Butler—not Ben—makes Hudibras and his
squire favor,are not more absurd than the rules
of the Civil Service Commissioners, which sub
stitute mere pedantry and stupid technicalities
tor the sound qualities of honesty, fidelity and
capacity. But Butler was consistent in his ab
surdities, and that is more than can be said of
the Civil Service reformers. Can the stream
rise higher than its source ? Is it likely that
the Collector would disobey the President?
Would Hedden remove from office, without
cause, against the wishes of Cleveland ? Could
he wilfully violate all the Civil Service regula
tions without the consent of the Chief Execu
tive ? The Times is in such a tangle over this
matter that it commits the wildest blunders.
Either President Cleveland must dismiss Col
lector Hedden or the Times must cease to eulo
gize the fat and frolicsome idol of the Mug
wumps. We do not care which horn of the di
lemma is preferred. Either way makes the new
ism more ridiculous.
THE HOME RULE ELECTIONS.
The returns from the Parliamentary elections
in Great Britain show that Home Rule is post
poned for the present by the votes of the peo
ple of England. The Irish people are almost
unanimously in favor of the measures proposed
and advocated by Gladstone and Parnell. The
sturdy common sense of the Scotch people is
decisively for justice to Ireland. Gladstone has
been defeated by the English people, who have
been deceived by the false issue raised by the
tyrannical Tories and misled by the coalition of
the old Whigs, under Lord Hartington, and the
recreant Radicals, under John Bright and
Joseph Chamberlain. But this check to Home
Rule is only temporary. ■ The Gladstone bills
will be superseded by fuller add more ample
measures. The whole civilized world is against
England, and right must eventually triumph.
The British empire is divided upon the Home
Rule question, and the noble attitude of Scot
land is significant of the future.
As we suggested, last week, the treacherous
Tories misrepresented the issue to the English
voters. Gladstone put the point plainly and
simply that the people must choose between
conciliating Ireland and coercing Ireland.
Coercion had been tried for centuries and was
a wretched failure. Conciliation could not
possibly be worse and promised to be a thous
and times better. The Tories ignored these
truths and asked the English people to vote
Yes or No upon the question whether they
would allow Irish conspirators, supported by
American money, to dismember the Empire?
To this question there could be but one reply.
No people will deliberately vote for the destruc
tion of their country. So the Tory trick suc
ceeded, but the English voters will soon see
that it was only a trick. There was no con
spiracy, Irish or otherwise, to annul the British
Union. There had been no American money
contributed for such a purpose. Gladstone was
no more a disunionist than his Tory opponents.
On the contrary, he ngued that Home Rule
would conduce to a more perfect union—that it
would create a union of sentiment, loyalty and
interest, Instead of the mere “ paper union ”
that now exists. But the English people were
humbugged by the Union cry and they voted
accordingly. The work of the future is to
educate them up to the true issue. Then we
believe that they will vote as Ireland and Scot
land have voted.
A great deal now depends upon the conduct
of the Irish. They are naturally disappointed
and dejected at the prejudice and obstinacy
which the English hava displayed. But, it they
lose their temper and allow despair to drive
them into rioting and rebellion, they will appa
rently justify all the falsehoods which the Tories
have invented against them. The proper role
for Ireland is that of a martyr to English injus
tice. She has appealed to the polls and should
bear her temporary defeat patiently and peace
ably until time and truth shall reverse it. Anv
disturbances in Ireland, any expressions of
disloyalty, any outbreaks of hatred and con-
NEW YORK DISPATCH, JULY 11, 1886.
tempt, will give the Tories the opportunity they
seek to enforce their coercion policy and try to
stamp out liberty. That black-hearted savage,
Lord Salisbury, who wants to imitate Cromwell
without his strength and genius, would be only
too glad of the chance to still further oppress
poor Ireland. That pert coxcomb, Churchill,
wonld rejoice to see his libels upon the Irish
people made true by a premature rebellion.
That recreant, Chamberlain, would claim that
his apostacy was warranted by the impatience
of the indignant Irish. Calmness and order are
now the watchwords for Erin. The whole world
is with her and is working for her, and she has
only to wait a little longer.
We know that it is easy to preach patience at
this distance from the scenes of violence and
outrage inflicted by England upon the Green
Isle. Americans can hardly appreciate the dif
ficulties of maintaining order, because they
cannot comprehend, in the freedom of this
blessed country, what a foreign despotism real
ly means. But, after all, the Irish in America
hold the key of the situation, and to them espe
cially our advice is addressed. They would be
called upon to furnish the sinews of war if war
should be declared by Ireland. They can im
press upon Ireland the policy of peace. The
English people are stubborn and mistaken;
but they can be convinced and converted. The
wonderful eloquence of Gladstone is not lost.
His words are in the air and must influence all
minds and hearts to the love of freedom and
justice. John Bright, whose past services still
endear him to us, will yet be heard again in
sympathy with Ireland. A persecuted people,
struggling peaceably for existence and the right
of local self-government, must be victorious in
this enlightened age. All things come to those
who know how to wait, and this is the lessen
which must now bo impressed upon the Irish.
Let them demonstrate their capacity for Home
Rule by a restraint and patience that shall more
than redeem disaster.
NEW EXCISE BROOMS.
The new Excise Board has at last got into
working order and the now brooms of the De
partment are immediately to bo put into mo
tion, and are supposed to make a clean sweep
through all sections of the city, in the last
Legislature Assemblyman Charles Smith, of the
Eighth District, successfully carried through
that body a bill so amending the present excise
laws governing cities in this State having a pop
ulation ot over three hundred thousand inhab
itants, that liquor dealers not only can have
justice granted to them but honest excise
boards will be greatly aided by the wise pro
visions of the act, and considerable trouble and
annoyance overcome. One of the provisions of
the act stipulates that any liquor dealer who
applies to an excise board for a license and bis
application is denied and license refused, he
can apply to any Court of Record, or a judge
thereof, for a writ of mandamus to review the
action of such Excise Commissioners as may
have refused him a license, and the board in
answering the mandamus shall include all evi
dence and all papers on which the action of the
board in refusing the license was based.
President Woodman, of the new Excise Board,
has expressed himself decidedly in favor of Mr.
Smith’s bill, inasmuch as it not only gives justice
to the applicant for a license, but helps an Ex
cise Board out of many difficulties. Mr. Wood
man says that there are many places in the city
where liquor is sold and where respectable men
and women frequent. These places likewise
foster men and women of very questionable
character, and the question to arrive at in this
case is whether these places are rnn in the
interest of the reputable or disreputable patrons
of the establishment. In the event of the Com
missionere failing to agree on the subject, the ap
plicants can carry their cases to the courts, and
whatever action these tribunals take in the
matter, the Excise Commissioners are relieved
from all responsibility. Again, applications may
be made for a license for a saloon in close
proximity to a church or a school-house. The
present Excise Board have declared that under
no consideration will they grant a license for
such a place. In every ease the courts can be
applied to, andfcf they decide against the Com
missioners a license must be granted. It is to
be hoped, however, that no such decisions will
ever be given.
Taken all in all, Mr. Smith’s bill is one of the
best home measures that has passed the legis
lature in years, and if more such were pasejij
the public would be njuqU ’oahefited.
IS JUSTICE DEFEATED ’
Only a short time ago Giovanni Lorino was
sentenced to four years imprisonment in Sing
Sing, for manslaughter, and he had served six
months of the time when an insurrection of the
prisoners broke out in the prison and Lorino
stood bravely and fearlessly by the officers of
fte institution. For hie conduct on this occa
sion he was pardoned a day or so ago, and is
now enjoying a liberty that justice had cur
tailed over three years. There are many who
are of the opinion that Lorino was pardoned on
a sound theory, arguing that his action during
the insubordination of the prisoners showed on
what side his impulses were, and that his incar
ceration was only one of the accidents of life
and not of innate evil.
Convicts of criminal proceedings often receive
the utmost extremity of the legal penalty when
a milder infliction of the law wonld perhaps
adequately measure the extent of their offenses.
But the time to take note of and modify such
severity is during the progress of the trial or
immediately preceding sentence. There is too
much maudlin sentimentality extended in £ity
toward men after they are cast into prison, for
the atrocity that every one eagerly demanded
should be fittingly punished up to the very hour
of incarceration. What there can be to cast a
charm of interest about a murderous scoundrel
in the deprivation of his license to kill, passes
all ordinary comprehension.
A community cannot sufficiently express its
moral resentment while there remains the pos
sibility of acquittal; but when condemnation
ie certain a feeling of pacification sets in that
presently leads to condonation of the crime
and a morbid sort of admiration of the crimi
nal. This is to ba expected from the very
ignorant, but the rational public has the right
to expect that officers elected and sworn to an
equitable, impartial, honest and fearless ad
ministration of the laws will be governed bv
something more substantial and judicious than
heart-throbs in obedience to sentimental influ
ence.
There are times when it is not only proper,
but eminently humane, for executive clemency
or authority to interpose between the convict
and the letter of his sentence. But it so rarely
happens that any one is sent to prison for a
time beyond the warrant of his iniquity, that it
is a very grave question if the exercise of the
pardoning power is not often in itself equiva
lent to a misdemeanor, and is sometimes
morally tantamount to a felony. The man who
deliberately enters upon the performance of
an act that may imperil a human life has all
the primal elements of a murderer, and if it
chances that the interfering life is sacrificed,
the service of the law should never be slighted
by executive clemency. It is because the
officers of the law treat the mandates of the
law with such indifferent respect that lawless
classes hold a contempt for the law. It is a
bad policy that applies its political slogan,
“ Turn the rascals out,” to prison service.
The Boodle Cases. —District Attorney
Martine has been very bitterly attacked by
some of our contemporaries for not bringing all
the indicted Aidermen and their bribers to
trial at once. These attacks are based upon
the stories credited to the District Attorney by
imaginative reporters. The simple explanation
of the delay is that our officials are awaiting
the decision of the Court of Appeals upon the
points raised in the Jaehne case. If the convic
tion be sustained, the other criminals can be
promptly railroaded. If not, then the errors
made in the conduct of the Jaehne case can be
avoided in the other prosecutions. Should the
District Attorney, against the advice of his as
sociates and the Judges, begin the other cases
without waiting for the Court of Appeals, the
papers which now condemn him would be the
first to abuse him for wasting the public money
by raising the Jaehne points over again. We are
glad that Mr. Martine has recently taken our
hint about talking to reporters. What he has
to s iy now is convincing as to the wisdom of
the course he has adopted.
Wtoml gato.
A Disreputable Locality.—Twenty
fivo years ago certain portions of the Fifteenth
Ward were probably the most disreputable local
ities in the city. At the present time vice and
crime are as rampant in certain portions as they
were twenty-five years ago. It is hardly possible
for a man to pass through Greene or West Third
streets at certain times of the day without being
stopped by the brazen courtezans who infest
this locality and subjected to all manners of
indecencies. At night time women stand in
doorways and windows and hail passers-by
with gestures and remarks that are disgusting
and filthy. What is worse, innocent girls and
young boys, on their way to school or places of
business, are daily shocked by filthy sights and
sounds that are a disgrace to a community
which has such a reputation for good govern
ment and the enforcement of its laws. All the
vice and disgusting scenes alluded to are in
Captain Brogan’s precinct, and that official says
that he is doing his utmost to rid the noghbor
hood of the vile creatures who persist in infesting
it. The IDispatch has frequently called attention
to th s plague spot of the city, and particularly
alluded to an infamous house on Thirteenth
street, between University place and Fifth ave
nue. owned and conducted by an old hag, who
has grown rich in her nefarious calling. Why
this notorious pest house should be abolished
in preference to many others is the fact that its
disreputable windows look out almost upon
a young ladies’ academy, situated on Fifth ave
nue and Thirteenth street. The actions of men
and women in this house can easily be seen,
and the effect of such drunken orgies upon
young girls can readily be understood. The
Dispatch proposes to follow this subject up un
til the evil is completely rooted out.
More Grace. — Last week Mayor
Grace did two good strokes of work. He knock
ed out Sullivan, Mitchell, and the other
prize fighters by applying to them the law
which prohibits athletic shows in places not
duly licensed for amusements. Then he also
knocked out Commissioner Squire, the poetic,
paper-collary carpet-bag ger from Boston, who
had refused to let the Commissioners of Ac
counts examine the books of his department. It
is the duty of the Commissioners to go over the
books, “ as the Mayor may from time to time
direct,” and it is the duty of the Mayor to make
the intervals sufficiently brief to speedily de
tect any errors. At the suggestion of Mayor
Grace, the carpot bagger was served with a
subpena, which meant show the books or go
to jail for contemot. Of course, Mr. Squire pre
ferred to show the books. Now his accounts
will be examined, and this municipal romance
will be continued in our next.
Warm Weather.—Those New Yorkers
who have suffered from the warm wave, will
find some consolation in the fact that the, peo
ple who have gone to the seaside, the moun
tains and the other Summer resorts suffered
quite as severely, and had not the metropolitan
luxuries to mitigate their heated term. New
York city is a seaside resort, and, when it is
cool anywhere else, it is pleasant enough here.
Away up in the Siberian plains is a little village,
with an unspellable name, which is declared to
be the coldest place on the inhabited globe.
The thermometer averages 81° below zero
there during the Winter months. Yet, in July,
the thermometer is as high as 96°, and the
residents feel as if it were about 960°. New
York can thus give points to the coldest spot on
earth, even in Summer. By thinking of such
things and sleeping in bath-tubs one can man
age to keep cool.
What Laughter Did.—That was a
queer ease of Mies Evelyn C. Smith, of Provi
dence, R. L, who recently was suddenly struck
speechless. In company with |a young man,
she was examining a map, when the gentleman
alluded to some section of the country in a
comical manner and caused Miss Smith to
burst out in a violent fit of laughter. While
her shouts were ringing through the room she
suddenly turned pale, choked and fell to the
floor. When picked up she could only make a
motion to her mouth. Since then she has been
unable to utter a word and is compelled to
write on paper whftJver she desires to say.
She Bflys she taels as though she was in a vise,
and though able to move her lips as if shaping
words a£e cannot send out a sound from the
tongue. Her physicians believe the case one of
nervous trouble and think that she will im
prove in time.
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Spoiling For a Fight.—The Canadians
are arresting and fining our poor fishermen for
going ashore to buy ice and for taking their
clothes to be washed. They charged Captain
Dave Doughty twenty-four cents a ton for
lighthouse dues upon his schooner, at Boone
Harbor, although there is no Canadian light
house lor over a hundred miles along that
coast. These straws show which way the wind
blows. The Canadians are evidently spoiling
for a fight, and they feel that they have the
backing o! the Britishers, who take this means
of resenting American subscriptions to the
Parnell fund. If they really mean business
they can be accommodated. There are enough
boys in blue out of work to take a Summer ex
cursion to Canada, capture that so-called Do
minion and annex it to the United States for a
national ice-house.
Prohibition in Georgia.—The effect
Of prohibition in Georgia has been to leave
— t’/’*** - f ,a t’ r *
certain cities ill that State powerless to sell a
single glass of liquor. That temperance has
been promoted by this new move has not been
proven to any considerable length. As a proof
that the prohibition campaign down there has
nos made certain editors over temperate in their
language, the following paragraph from a paper
published in the town of Spalding will convince
almost any one.
“ It that degraded, illiterate pusillanimovs scoun
drel, infamous vagabond, villainous coward, igno
minious thief and premeditated malicious liar who
wrote that anonymous letter and mailed it in the
Griffin Postoffice to a certain man in regard to my
self will step down to my house, I will introduce
him to something he needs.”
Some Funny People.—The census
enumerators in Paris are having a difficult time
in getting their returns. They address blanks
to hotels and other places asking to have them
filled out, but twenty-five per cent, of them
were returned. The majority of those filled out
were strained efforts to be funny. Some read,
“ You are too inquisitive others, “ Get your
information from my mother-in-law.” The
query of “ Where were you born ?” was an
swered, “In a bedroom.” “ What is your pro
fession?” was answered, “Expeller of Princes.”
The query of “ What is your position in the
household?” an alleged humorist answered,
“ Sometimes a recumbent, sometimes a stand
ing position.”
A Safe Deposit Vault.
THE SECURITY OF THE NATIONAL
PARK BANK.
Visitors to the splendid offices of the National
Park Bank, on Broadway, withits marble walls, and
high, domed ceiling, will notice on the left hand, as
they enter, a small, heavily .grated door, guarded
night and day, by an armed policeman. Every now
and then a portly gentleman or elegantly attired
lady passes through this mysterious door and dis
appears; but to the uninitiated it is absolutely in
accessible without the “ open sesame” of the Presi
dent or cashier. The password having been obtained
by their courtesy, we enter the little door, saluted
by the policeman, and find ourselves at the head of
a long flight of rubber-covered stairs, which lead us
quietly iu to the safe deposit vaults beneath the
bank building.
At the foot of these stairs, in a handsomely fur
nished room, brightly illuminated by electric
lights, we are received by the manager of the
vaults, and conducted through the subterra
nean apartments. The absolute safety, the unri
valled convenience and the comfortable privacy of
this safe deposit establishment are at once appa
rent. No access to the vaults can be obtained ex
cept through the Park Bank. In case of civil disor
ders, a riot or an insurrection, this is an important
advantage, since most safe deposit rooms are on a
level with the street and can be entered as easily as
a store. But here the valuables are literally under
ground. Beneath them is a floor of solid masonry
twenty-seven feet in thickness. Overhead is a ceil
ing of alternate layers of iron and steel, weighing
more than forty tons, Around are walls built of
massive, granite blocks. doweled together and ce
mented into an immovable mass. The only en
trances are secured by burglar-proof doors, fastened
with time locks, which prevent them from ever be
ing opened except during business hours. And vet
these vaults, secure against burglars and against
fire, are in the very heart of the business portion of
the city, and the securities deposited in them are
available at a few moments’ notice.
Over four thousand persons have already availed
theipselves of these unique advantages of the Park
Bank vaults. The various rooms are filled with
safes of different dimensions, and, of course, each
has its peculiar key. The safes are rented at from
sls to S2OO a year, according to size, and they are
secured by a quintuple system. First, every tenant
must be approved by the Park Bank officials. Sec
ond, special watchmen are always on guard. Third,
the vaults oan only be reached by passing through
the bank offices, which are always watched and
guarded. Fourth, the vaults constitute an immense
safe of iron, steel and masonry. Fifth, the boxes
rented to depositors are safes within a safe, and no
accident or loss can possibly occur after all these pre
cautions. In respect to security, convenience and
privacy, it is claimed for the Park Bank deposit
vaults that they are unsurpassed, not only in this
country, but in the world, and all who visit them
upon business, or to inspect them as wonderful
works of constructive skill, will admit that this
claim is fully justified. In one compartment the
Park Bank keeps its reserve of gold coin, amount
ing to several tons, and this is a striking proof of
the confidence of the officials in the deposit vaults.
But it must not be Imagined that this subter
ranean place of security is gloomy and dismal. On
the contrary, it is elegantly fitted up in handsome
cherry wood. There are small rooms for single de
positors, and larger rooms for commitees who have
charge of the securities of great corporations.
There is a separate apartment for ladies, with aril
the appliances of the toilette. Any lady or gentle
men, who keeps bonds or other securities here, can
transact all business in perfect privacy and with
the comfort of a boudoir or an office. Each room
has a desk,, and we noticed that the drawers were
amply supplied with stationery. In short, having
first made certain the complete safety of the vaults,
the bank officials have also made them convenient
and even luxurious. But such care-and courtesy are
characteristic of the Park Bank, which, for nearly
half a century, has maintained an enviablo reputa
tation in the front rank of business and finance.
(Odd.'i mul Otte.
'TAINT VERY WARM ANYHOW ! IS IT FELLOWS ?
“I will make it hot for the next fellow who
says, ‘ Its hot 1’ ” said a man who met ue Thurs
day.
“Do you know that you are liable to be kill
ed?” was asked.
•• What for ?”
“Everybody who comes around says that.”
“This morning,” said the man “ I got up—”
“No.”
“Yes—else I wouldn’t be here. Well, I got
up and said it’s hot!’
“My mother-in-law, who sleeps in a crib be
hind my bed, to see that I don’t fall out with
my wife, gradually orawled out and said:
“ ! S’at.’
“I tried to snookle up to Beanie, but the old
—she ain’t around is she—the old thing clim
over and said:
“ ’I know it”
“ I snored, but it stuck in my throat.
“ ‘ I’m asleep,’ said I.
“ * You’re what ?’ asked she.
“Then I endeavored to fake up a pretty pic
ture that I was seeing in my dreams. I’d just
got into the ozone, and the saline, and the glint,
and the shimmer, and—but look here.”
I He took us into a doorway, pulled his trousers
: up and displayed a mark that would have done
! honor to an everyday banana or a brick of
I diversified ice cream.
“ I’ve got two more of them on my back"’ he
said; “ want me to prove it ?”
He was getting out of his shirt when we ran
for a car. The conductor said:
“ It’s hot 1”
We stopped the car and our friend told the
story to the passengers, and a man asked where
the stove was and three women froze to death.
THE GLADSTONIAN THEORY.
Several letters having arrived at the Dispatch
office inquiring as to the true status of the now
fight in Ireland, we hastSn to the relief of those
Seeking knowledge:
Gladstone lives in Ireland,
So does Parnell. 1
So does Union.
So does Tory.
So does Conservative.
Gladstone and Parnell are all right, but Mr.
Union, Mr. Conservative and Mr, Tory ar? no
good.
We speak advisedly when we say this, for we
met them at dinner once, and they drank the
contents of the finger-bowls and used their
knives as shovels.
They got so loaded that we had to hire a cab
to take them home. We are not certain where
we lost our watch, and for fear of a libel suit,
we will merely say that Messrs. Tory, Conserv
ative and Union, didn’t have it with them when
we got through jumping on them.
JSntre nous, we found it under the jump.
The other part of the difficulty is best ex
pressed in Gladstone's own words :
“Quevedo,” said he, after we had loaned
him a ’alf sovereign, “you can’t see this thing as
we see it.”
We said: “Glad, if you’d ’a hit the nigger
you wouldn’t ’a got more cigars.”
it;” and then the Grand
Gid Man scratclifid a match on the basement of
his pantaloons and said: “Nobody knows it
better than I do.”
And we agreed with him.
SMALL CHANGE.
“ Timeo Gladstone et timeo all Eng
lishmen dona ferentes to Ireland—’Ta eagla
agan air Gladstone agus air Sassanaig go leir a
bronnadh tabhartas do Erinn I” That’s what
the United Irishman says regarding something,
and although we’re not much of an Irishman
and haven’t any more teeth than we want, or
we’d say it again—them’s our sentiments, and
our address can be found at the Dispatch office
every trip.
What’s the matter with going out
with a regiment and seeing it the Anarchists of
this city really mean business. Personally,
we’ll bet four dollars to three dollars and twen
ty that we can swat any Anarchist in
the city all over his own snoot and the Anarch
ist who doesn’t take it up is no friend of ours
and knows what he is.
The Twenty-third Begiment had a
mock parade at Newport on Thursday. We are
really glad that the “ boys ” are enjoying them
selves. A little lascivation, so to speak, from
the ennui of the button and ribbon counters
mustjnot be irksomeness.
“ Father Curtis has been appointed
Bishop of Wilmington.”— Exchange. We are
glad to see that Weelyum is getting up in the
world, but the wonderment sticks in our head
as to how he’s going to get to Wilmington.
It looks a little bit as if Judge Bar
rett was getting a little bit scared. The first man
that touches Judge Barrett is going to stir up a
little hornet's nest of public opinion that will
start him in business as a coal sieve.
The Imperial Russian Guard has ar
rived at Kichinef. Russia evidently means
war. If the fellows who own the cable care
anything for our advice, they will splice it or
settle the difficulty at once.
And now Waite is in jail. He has
asked for police protection. Waite till the
crow—- [The “Odds and Ends” man has been
summarily discharged, temporarily, with an
inkstand,—Ed. Dispatch.]
Jake Sharp has surrendered the
Broadway Railroad to the Receiver. That re
minds us of the long ago when we got over the
fence with our pockets and belly full of apples
and left a spit for the dog.
“Darling’s with the angels now” is
very suggestive at this period of the year, im
mediately after the “ Glorious.” But most of
them must fly lopsided if they arrive there as
they left here,
Driscoll says he isn’t guilty. That’s
just exactly what we thought he’d do, for we’ve
been through the Tombs many and many a
time and everybody was there lor “ Nawthin’.”
It has often been said that an honest
man is the noblest work of God. A dishonest !
Aiderman is the no-blest work, of the devil. I
The Senate has rejected Henry Ward
Beecher’s son Herbert’s nomination to the Col
lectorship of Wyoming Territory. It does
seem strange that these Boochers can’t get any
thing. |
The Baltimore Baseball Club is going
to bo transferred' to Newark. Next to a circus,
that’s what will kill Newark fatally dead.
GOSSIP OF THE WEEK.
Miss Helen Dauvray is in Paris superintending
the construction of the new dresses with which she
will delight play-goers next season. A great deal of
her time will be spent In Paris,, where she has many
professional and social friends. She writes us that
she will return next month, better equipped than
ever for an arduous season's work.
Tom Keene’s repertoire next season will include
“ Richard 111.,*’ “ Hamlet," “ Macbeth/* ’’Othello,"
“Julius Caisar," “Fool’s Revenge/* - ’’Richelieu,"
“Merchant of Venice,’* “The Wifo," “Lady of
Lyons/' and “ Romeo and Juliet."
During Mr. Lawrence Barrett’s next engagement
at the Star Theatre, which begins August 30th, he
will produce a new drama in two acts, callod “Mer
cedes." It is by T. B. Aldrich, and is- founded on
an incident of Napoleon's wars.
Miss Lilian Olcott is expected to arrive from
Paris to-day, on the “Normandie," During her ab
sence she has been coached in the title role of
“ Theodora," by Sardou in person.
Rhea is in Paris, and, like many othore of her sex
and calling, is devoting a great deal of time to the
important consideration of dress. She returns in
August, and begins a farewell tour of thia country
August 23d, in St. John, N. B.
A rather ominous omen for Mr, De Mille’s rail
road drama, is the unanimous declaration of a select
gathering of actors and critics to whom it wasread,
that it possesses all the essentials to ensure it a
success.
The most unreliable and almost always-erroneous
judgment rendered from hearing a play read is that
of an actor or a dramatic critic.
Nine-tenths of the plays which, when presented
on the stage proved to be dire and irredeemable
failures, were declared by this same style of tribu
nal, to whom they were read, to be certain of success
—“ bound to catch on " —“ a go," and the authors
were patted on the back and dosed with flattery
until their heads swelled to the size of Yale College
footballs.
All the average actor knows about any play is the
part he may enact in it—and not infrequently be
comprehends very little of that. The critics who
listen to the reading of it, do it in a perfunctory
manner and with the quietude of men who suffer
martyrdom because they can't avoid It.
If an actor wishes an opinion of his play which
will at least be somewhere near that of the average
public audieiTce, let him read it to half a dozen
play-goers who, otherwise than what they have
seen from the front of the house as spectators,
know nothing of tho technique of the stage. They
will listen to it as if they were listening to the read
ing of a serial story,, a novel, or the narration of
some event in real life.
If they are attentive and interested in the action
and events and the nature of the characters as the
reading progresses from act to act, and when the
end has come, pronounce it good, the correctness
of the verdict will, in the majority of cases, be en
dorsed by the audience before which the work is
given its performance.
It is the readers, not the authors or the profes
sional literary critics, who fix ths success or failure
of the novels, romances and histories of the time.
The standard by which an audience favors or
condemns a play, Is not that of the actors, man
agers and professional critics.
Mr. De Mille’s play, which was produced at the
Madison Square Theatre, was pronounced “bril
liant"—“sure to catch on," by the coterio of man
agers to whom it was read—but it did not “catch
on" and was not a “ brilliant success “ —despite the
care bestowed upon its production both in the act
ing and scenic setting.
We hope, however, that Mr. De Mille will, in this
new venture, meet with the success his work, may
deserve. ’• The Main Line," is a railroad play, with
out sensational effects. It is in its locale,
the incidents taking plaoo 'at a Colorado railroad
station called Rawson’s trq principal character
is a soubretta aty> j Poesy, a mixture of waif and
very M’liss in her style of do
ing thiup' This part will be played by Miss Etta
Hawk'.us, The other members of the company
w uo have been selected so far, are, Misses Dora
Stuart and Lillian Richardson and Messrs. M. A.
Kennedy, Oliver W. Jenkins, M. Stoddart and H. C.
De Mille. The last-named is one of the writers of
the play, his collaborator being Mr. Charles Barnard.
“The Main Line,” which is in four acts, will be
presented at the Lyceum on Septenjbet 20th.
“The Theatrical Club," of New York city, is to
be entirely and exclusively Thespian, and is now in
process of organization, and will be ednipieted with
in the present month. The charter members are
Messrs. Daniel Frohman, Henry E. Dixey, Leander
Richardson, M. A. Kennedy, W. W. Randall, C. A.
Byrne, Harry Mann, Alfred Bouvier, Charles Froh
man, Jay Rial, J. T. Maguire, Alex. Comstock, Jr.,
Al Stewart, Julius Kahn, H. A. Rockwood, Joseph
Brooks, Al Hayman, E. G. Stone, £>. D. Stevens and
Thomas Maguire.
The club will be social and benevolent in its fea
tures, and actors, actresses and all such followers
of the dramatic and musical professions as mana
gers and agents will be eligible to membership. Be
yond these and the dramatic critics the benefits of
the club will not extend.
An initiation fee of SIOO is to be exacted, with
yearly dues to the amount of S6O. A monthly
meeting will be held, at which a dinner will be
given to all members. This will constitute the so
cial phase; the benevolent will consist of sick and
death benefits. In the former case, if a member’s
ailment is of any duration he or she may receive as
much as SSOO, but that will be the limit. up6n the
death of a member the heirs will be paid SI,OOO.
Gambling will be prohibited. The intention is to
lease a club-house off Broadway, somewhere be
tween Twenty-third and Thirty-third streets. Dan
iel Frohman will be president of the club, Al Hay
| ifiah yice-president, and Mr. Randall treasurer.
Mr. George W, Zeebold, who, in the early of
last week, while conversing with a few friends on
Broadway, gave unmistakable evidence of his in
sanity, both in language and action, was taken, on
Friday morning, to Bloomingdale Asylum, by
Frank Bowers and one or two others of his asso
ciates.
Mr. Zeebold resided at No. 252 Lexington avenue,
with his wife and child. He had been acting in an
eccentric manner for a week or two, but his friends
attributed it to business troubles and hoped that
he would soon recover.
Mr. Zeebold’s malady took a peculiar form. Ho
imagined that he was the owner of the Elevated
Railroads, and ne was constantly inviting his
friends to get on board and have a free ride.
“I am going to extend the Elevated roads to
Chicago,” he would say, “and I shall run special
trains exclusively for theatrical people."
He was docile when he entered the carriage which
was to convey him to the asylum, but insisted that
he wanted to ride on his Elevated railroad. It is
believed that a few weeks of quiet and rest will re
store Mr. Zeebold to his normal condition.
Superintendent of Police Murray, Commis
sioner Voorhis, of the Police Board, and Commis
sioners Woodman and Von Glahn, of the Excise
Board, together with Assistant Corporation Counsel
Scott, had a conference on Friday afternoon with
Mayor Grace. It was held in the Mayor’s private
room. The object of the conference was to consider
the application of Koster A Bial for a theatrical li
cense at their amusement place on West Twenty
third street. Supt. Murray said to Mayor Grace
that he deemed Koster & Bial’s a fit place for a the
atrical license. For the Corporation Counsel, Mr.
Scott said that there was no legal objection to the
granting of a theatrical license to Koster & Bial
when their liquor license should be revoked. Mayor
Grace said that under the information of Supt. Mur
ray and the advice of the Corporation Counsel he
would grant the license.
When the case of Harry Lee, the actor, accused
of removing mortgaged property, was called at Jef
ferson Market on Friday, Counsellor Peter Mitchell
appeared for him, and said that the loan of S4OO
had been paid back twice over, and he, the Assem
blyman, did not propose to allow the Court to be
used as a collection agency for any one. Examina
tion was adjourned till Monday.
Offenbach’s youngest daughter made a wealthy
marriage in Paris the other day, and there was no
lack of costly gifts and display at the wedding.
Miss Minnie Oscar Gray, an actress, has brought
a suit against Henry H. Hadley, of Morey letter
fame, the proprietor of the Uptown Daily Neivs, to
recover $25,000 damages for alleged libel. The suit
is pending in the Supreme Court. Miss Gray
claims these damages because the Uptown Daily
News confounded her with Miss Minnie Gray, or
Clausen, who had some trouble with Charles Clau
sen, the brewer’s son.
The Regent is attracting the patronage it aimed
for at the start. The managers are conducting it for
respectable people, and are confident that they will
bo supported by the public in establishing a con
ceit hail where no man need be ashamed to Uke his
wile and lam.iy.
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The final performance of “The Maid Of Ifolle.
ville” wits given on Thursday eveniiig, at the’Star
Theatre, The closing was somewhat Unexpected/
but as arrangements had been made for the prbdutf
tion of the opera in Chicago, commencing-on Mwn*
day next, the management decided to give the cmh--
pany ample time for the change of base and fair
rest. And this'is the explanation given the box--
office.
JVhat will be one of the most remarkabPs'en’tor -
tainments of its kind over held in this city, will ba
the monster testimonial to Mr. James O. Scanlan,
the popular stage manager at the Bijou Opor»
House, next Thursday afternoon. July 15.
Mr. Scanlan is a very sick man, and at tbo first
call to the profession for volunteers to assist, the
following artists at once-placed their services in the
hands of the committee, and will positively appear?.
The Misses Pauline Hall, Bertha Ricci, Maripn Ma
nola, Agnes Elliott, Emma Carson. Carrie Tutein,.
Victoria Schilling, Agnes Folsom, Florence Bemistor,
Lina Merville, Marion Elmore, Grace Thorne,
Laura Clement, and Messrs. Francis Wilson, Roland
Reed, Do Wolf Hopper, Tony PAotor, Robert C. Hil
liard, W. 8. Daboil, Robert Frazer, Fred. Solomon,
Frazer Coulter, Sidney Rosenfeld; Harry Pitt, Ben.
Teal, Atkins Lawrence, Alfred Follin..Murry Woods.
Harry Pepper, Wm. Rising, Francis' Gaillard, Carl
Irving, E. P. Temple, Harry Lucy, George C. Boni
face, Jr., Jamos T. Powers and Pat. Rooney. One of
the features of the performance will be the camp
scene from ’’ Julius Caesar/’ by Shakeepeare (with
the accent on the “ shakes Brutus, Francis Wil
son, and Cassius, Roland Reed.
The committee having charge of the testimonial
consists of Messrs. Miles and Barton; Rudolph
Aronson. Josef Brooks, Samuel Colvi&e, Tony
Pastor, James W. Meade, Jesse Williams-, Max Free
man and Ed. Aronson. Owing to tbo- extreme
length of the programme the curtain will be rung
up at precisely one o’clock,
In all probability there will be but’one regular
theatre open in New Haven, Conn.-, daring the
coming season, and that one will be the Opera.
House, under tbe management of Mr. Hbrace Wall,
its present lessee. The scenery, furni’uro and
properties and all the moveables of the Carl Opera
House were sold at public auction, in “lota to suit
purchasers," by the sheriff.
Mr. Wall will, therefore, have the entire- Hold of
dramatic amusement of New Haven-iindOirhis own.
control. Since, two years ago, he became the lease*
of the New Haven Opera House, he has- given the.
patrons of the drama ample proof that it is possible
to conduct a theatre in accord with intelligent
taste and a decorous consideration of the d‘emaud&
of refinement in the quality of the performance*
and plays presented upon his stage.
His long experience as a manager, not only of
theatres, but of stars and combinations, and his in
tegrity in business, are qualities that were greatly
needed to insure permanauce to his venture in “tbo
City of Elms.” He has brought about onitreform
in the conduct of a theatre which: it would be well
for our local managers to imitate, and that is reduc
ing the list of deadheads to a limit which will leavo
sufficient seating room for a paying audience. Bet
ter an empty seat than an ungrateful deadhead—is
the Wallian motto.
There is no better way in which a manager’s friend#
can show the sincerity of their friendship and wishes
for his success than to pay for their admission to
his theatre, instead of making their friendship a
qniapro quo for deadhead privileges,
On Monday last the New York Ideal Opera Com
pany, Charles D. Nagle, manager, opened a season
of comic opera at Springfield, Mass. At 2:30 o'clock
on Friday afternoon, the time announced for a mat
inee performance, it was discovered that Nagle had
disappeared, leaving unpaid the salaries of the
members of his company, somo of whom are pen
niless.
Now that, after two or three years of hard work,
Mr. Jerome Eddy has succeeded in making some
thing like a paying specialty of his business as ik
press agent for stars and managers of combina-.
tions, there have come up half a dozen imitatosa
and rivals, some of whom soom to think that t&a
surest way to put themselves in his place is to
knock him out with personal villification* But
Eddy refuses to be knocked out. He is at present
the press representative of the majority of the
leading stars —Barrett and Booth included —and
many of the better class and most successful com
binations in this country. He makes no promisee
he cannot fullfill; he does not seek io forward his
business interests and put money in his puree by
detraction and making false reports concerning hie
rivals, and above all, he has gained the respect of
the press by avoiding the usual method of boring
the editor. He was once an editor and dramatta
’ critic, and he knows how it was with himself.
k It is perhaps not generally known in or out of
the profession that Manager Frank Murtha of tha
Windsor Theatre is an inventor. It is ft faot, neyer
f theless. He has discovered H ».-» oesa for hatohla S
. clams. “TbeiVa Elions in it “-of clams, if not
> dollars. Meanwhile, however, lie proposes to hold
fast to the Windsor,
j It is probable that Miss Victoria Vokes will boa
t member of her sister Rosina's company during
their next Seton’s American tour.
> Adonis Dixey is not to Appoar at tbo Standard nor
• at the Casino when he makes his upon
the stage next season.
Miss Edith Crolius, a young actress who is in
special favor with East-side play-goers, is having a
play written for her in which she proposes to “star’*
it during the coming season. Miss Crolius is young
and studious and will try to deserve, if sho docs not
obtain, success in her venture.
The Casino.—So successfully does
''Erminie,” which is now in its tenth week, still run
along, that no change will be made in the attrac
tion for many weeks to come. The pretty illumin
ated open air roof garden Is also a much-sought
after resort at present, and appears to be a great
boon to the stay-at-homes and transients. Light
and sparkling music is rendered each evening by
Rudolph Aronson’s orchestra at the promenade
concert after the opera.
Mr. Rudolph Aronson sycceyed in
permanent injunction in the United Stated Court
against the parties in Chicago, restraining thoni
from performing the operetta “Erminie." The
judge, in deciding the motion, said : “It was shown
that the orchestration, orchestra parts and libretto
had never been published, and that the name “Er
minie," for what purpose, &c., &c., had been duly
copyrighted by Mr. Aronson in this country. The
defendants/’ he stated, “ were endeavoring to avail
themselves of the reputation made by the com
plainant by his enterprise and skill.”
New Windsob Theatre.—There re
mains but two weeks more of the present season at
this house, which has been a success from the start.
To-morrow night, and during the week, Manager
Murtha will present the sensational stars, the Leon
zo Brothers, in an exciting melodrama called
“Brother Against Brother,” in which several novel
features will be introduced, including a number of
trained dogs.
This (Sunday) evening an entertainment will bo
given for the benefit of the Parnell Fund, when an
attractive programme will be rendered by the Six
ty-ninth Regiment Band, Henrietta Markstein,
Laura B. Phelps, Dan Bully’s Quartette, Lizzie
Hughes, the Columbia Colored Quartette, the Wind
sor Quartette and Mr. Alexander Salvini.
July 19th. N. S. Wood, Mrs. W. G. Jones, Nellie
Sackett, Jos. P. Winter, Maurice B. Pike and others
appear in “The Life of Jack Sheppard, from the
Cradle to the Grave."
Mrs. Parnell will occupy a box at to-night's en
tertainment.
Bijou Opeba House.—With the cool
weather during the past two days, the audiences
at the Bijou Opera House have increased largely in
size, and demonstrated that Roland Reed, in “Hum
bug,” will prove a permanent and popular Summer
attraction, seconded by Miss Loie Fuller.
Mr. Ree d will continue his amusing perform,
ances well into August, when he will give way to a
new musical comedy entitled “Soldiers and Sweet
hearts.” Mr. Goodwin will epen the regular sea
son in the Fall. He has recently purchased Yard
ley and Stephens’s “Jack Shepard,” and this may
be fixed on as the opening attraction. Miss Lou*
Fuller has made so distinct a hit with Roland Reed,
that she will be retained by Miles & Barton for Nat
Goodwin’s company.
Koster and Bial’s Concerts.—With
nearly every place of amusement In New York
closed for the Summer vacation, this popular resort
keeps on the even tenor of its way and laughs al old
Sol and his fiercest rays.
And well they may, for their cold air appiralus,
the movable roof and the incandescent electric light
all tend to keep the temperature down am! the
spirits of their patrons up.
For this evening an unusually good programme is
offered, composed of vocal and instrumental muaic
by well known artists. To-morrow evening an
entire change of programme is announced.
Tony Pastor’s Theatre.—“ Daddy
Nolan ” is still successful, but its con tinman co here
ialimited, since arrangements have been made with
out-of-town managers to take it on the road in
August.
Manager Wheeler has booked it for forty week#
throughout the country, and it has ivodiy
been in groat demand. It is surely one of tbe most
genuine popular bite made in New York .*u recent
years.