New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-01
CITY ITEMS

CITY ITEMS
The Winter Garden will be closed tonight on &C
count Of dress rehearssl for the piece oil oiVer
Twist 10 be presented for the 6rst time tolnodoN
Thursday evenng-tbe cast being Mrs. "a''''"
Heron S,oepe as Nancy Skies, D. W. """'N d. '"'
jew George Jordan as Bill Skies &c
Tuv ocropoox * BosroN-0n Monday night next,
,bs f,os rlav of the Ocoroon will be brought out at
tbe National Theater in Boston. 1t Is to be trans
Dorted from this city. The original scenery az the
Winter Garden which rakeu to the New Bowery,
= a. 90 ON. and Messrs Bouiace, Fox and Cushman,
with Fanny Herring and Mrs. w. G. Jones, also go 10
IN their parts in the play. The Sisters Lucille aud
Helen Western commence at the New Bowery on
Saturday night.
CHILDREN Bound WEsr.-A company of 30 boys
ard girls from the Chldrens Aid Society, left
the city yesterday afternoon under the charge of Mr.
II. Frieigcn. A majority of them were desttut
BOYS, who had neither home nor friends. There wa
considerable variety in tue avOcaions they had fol
lowed in tie endeavor 70 live honestly. Some ha
been bOo,-blacbs, some oyster-opeDers, some ha
worked previously on canals and farms, aud there wa
one who had " fdoed occasionally" All were glad
to nd themselves Of bese precaious ways Of living by
going to homes in the Wet
OPFNfNG LETTERS Francis A. Williams, OF o2ib
Wet Unity fourth street. yesterday preferred COM
plant against Henry Williams, charging him with
having. on the 9th of Dece nber last taken letter
from the General Post-Oficc, addressed TO Francis
Williams Toe letter is alleged to have contained
f,.G tho ia n
have taken aud by changing the date thereof to have
obtained the cash upon it fom the office of the Adams
Express Company The complainant having made
affidavit to the above statement, Henry Williams was
brought before Justice Osborn charged with grand
larcency and forgery, and locked up for examination
SypAN-CHAIRs.-The beiIg carried about in box
with windows by two bsndbsrow fashion, ma: Its adyan
80 Ire labor might be chesT We are told that there
ore hundred thousand without work in New ork City
How deshtiu it would promenade Broadway unseen
by Lsc0uytyan 81 avi curtains which see through
sujoy 4 writer in sn EHgh magazine thus speaks Of toe
fashion formerly existed at Bath IN those days ine!e
were hiresbe cabs carriage omnibuses and the only
available oomoVes the sedanchairs for which there
primo ones being Pump room, sud ia front Of
the Assembs rooms TIE ehsrmen were peiliar rae long
since passed awey-sout hgwny hroadthoulqeTed le9ws
esdn HghtbGe ock sqrouts Pu,3 oreech white stocAlg
cooked hate but these in my ooyhood began to place
to The customary udeg shd d-spPeaed altogether IN the ht
OF the ootpsve which they anbed st si1med.
hour pace Tohesy sweeping INTO the benn al VINO were NOT
"''''' Home Journal
The old hand barrow sedaD.chair has given way to
4 }ar more comfortable vehicle in that ancient inland
watcIing-pace, where Beau Nash was the ar5ter
eegantsQrup of he equity old lords, and ldgety dOwa
gers of past generation who resored tither TO drink
the waters play cards, talk scandal, and make eligible
Inatches for their poriobles younger children. The
Bath Chair a. il is called, and have known it
for the past 20 years, Is cross between barolche,
and an OveI-grOwn 'peram0ulator," Oh three wheels
propelled by man-power, from behind, the occupant
of the chair directing the course of the vehicle by
means of the handle attached to the swivel.wheel
in front Ii il also drawn forward by the chairman by
the same handle, when the person using the vehicle
so desires. These chairs are still popular in Bath
and a long line of quiet, geutlemanly old charmen
in spoless white necs-cloths, polished shoes and
weI5rushed coats daily stand in front of the
pump-room, waiting TO be hired. They are
easy. comfortable carriages for one person, and
NAV be hired for about IS cents hour For invalids
they are espe tally adapted, rolling along almost
no.stessy aud with The least percepble Jolt, where
ever &he pavement is tOlerably smooth. OF course
they are not fit for struggle with omuibusses, hacks
ind dgays the sereets but permitted to be used
upon the side-w elks. And they 30 compact tina
they take up less space III crowd than would he re.
quired BY the YEA er of jupe of the average amp-
,ude We saw one Of thee useful lit c vehicles in
Broone street a few weeks ago, in which equity old
EnRFsh gentleman, who had probably brought 1t over
with bim vas taking an airing. It excited good deal
OF curiosity but most Of thoie whom we heard COM
rnent upon it, thought it capital idea. Ii would not
we tbiuk in view Of the UnconsjOnabe charges Of
our metropolitan iehus be a bad speculation for some
-cnte Yankee to get mp few and bring them into
ias ION. They have certainly comfort and cheapness
10 recommend them, and for the use of ladies Oh
shopping excursions woH'd prove vastly more con-
venitnt than a hack since they may be drawn close
ND TO the store door, so that the occupant could
alight without soiling her feet Fashions long since
dead are constantly being revived, end who knows
but we nay yet 1--we 70 rec the bellies of New-York
rolling along the fashionable eide of Broadway in
their Bath chairs, while their beaux walk along DO
side them. They ave in general use at mos. Of the
English Spas, at The C,ysol Palace at Sydenham, and
many o,hi public pares. We believe that Mr. Supt.
Olmstead intends 70 introduce these elegant and
useful vehicles into our Central Park If 80, they
cannot fail 10 commend themselves 10 ladies and per-
sons in delicate health who viii make the Park their
resort.
TH2 WEATHER on THE HUDsoS.-The prolonged
warm weather has almost entirely opened the Hudson
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