The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-11

Cerrespsndenee or the Dispatch.
LattinR's Obserpdtoyy- Opening Of Crysfdl
pal6ce- Rasiroads-- Street Merchdats--
Tayior's lee Cream Saloon.
NEW Yonx, July7
Msssrs. Fditoys. Opposite to the main entrance
In The Crystal palace has been erected ~ private
enterprise tall edice called me Lsn a v ,
4 now assembled nearly TO the top by nights OF stairs
but when the building IL fully completed, the sum.
NIT NAV be reached by machinery, which will
draw one up, whether fat or lean, light or heavy,
constructed entirely of wood, secured BY Iron bolts
The view from the upper part, 90 far the stairs
are now completed, 10 magnificent The Crystal
Palace below looks pitifully small the horses ap.
pear about the size of kittens and the people Of
mice. For leagues around stupendous and mimi
table panorama OF the works of art aud nature IL
spread out On the extreme top will be affixed q
Drummond light, sufficiently powerful to be used
as beacon for the harbcr.
The Crystal Palace is now imperviously closed to
visitors until after the official opening on the 18th
inst The President of the IT, g. and portion OF
his cabinet have egnfed their intention TO be pre-
sent and participate in the ceremonies upon that
In addition to the four lines of railroads. upon
which are cars driven that turn out every two
minutes their crowded freight of visitors to the
Palace, one new line went into operation Saturday.
and another viii 60 into operation shortly. There
so ooout CARS Oh cdCn iln6 ana tuey run the
extent of their route, five miles, lot five cents
These cara are inaddition to an indefinite number
OF ounibuses, some of them run every half hour
| and hour during the night.
One of the great curiosities to visitor, is the
immense business done In the streets. Soda water
men, apple women, peanut and fruit merchants,
| six penny watch dealers, news boys, candy and
| cream pedlars, wandering booksellers, umbrella
dealers four.cent men, ("hany ottcle hon the bord
vor vor cents') cake and pie purveyors, oyster
w har ni0 min otr1c
| and scores of others compose this army of street
merchants, many of whom, l am informed, make
money with incredible rapidly One soda wster
man who has his fountains ON the side walk corner
of Fulton and William streets, was told, sold one
day last week. 1924 glasses Of soda water, realiziae
| profit of nearly $40. The best of soda water is
| here retailed at three cents glass
Speaking OF business and modes of making mo-
| ney-thoseA modes which crafty the appetites and
passions are here, by residents most extravaganty
patronized. Taylor, celebrated for keeping the
best ice cream and most superb saloon in the Union
has just opened a complete fairy palace upon
| Broadway 1t extends back some two hundred
feet and is about one hundred feet in width. and
spsrkes with gold and silver ornaments, frescoes,
| embossed and fliagreed carvings and paintings,
making such hall we read OF in the Arabian
| Nghts-but seldom see. Here the ladies and
gentlemen of the beau monde meet and leisurely
discuss the fashionable news of the day, over ices
jeilies and creams The crowd of visitors at times
is so great that scores may be seen waiting outside
of the door for admission, which of course cannot
be given until seats are vacated. There Is plenty
of economy as to time used here-but precious lit
| tie with respect to money. L.