Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-05-02


This was room with tiled floor and au i'm
mense furnace occupying one entire end of
the apartment. BY turns we were lead 20 a
water jet, hicb was turned upon our heads.
doubtless 70 wet and cool them for the dry
heat Of the room. Strips OF palm mating lead
over the stoue floor TO four reclining wooden
chars. near the inrnace, and in these we were
placed aud left 70 sumner for some twenty
minutes in a temperature OF lt3 degrees. On
first entering the room the heat was oppres-
sIye. but as be perspiratIon began to start, the
sensation u as ra1her pleasant than other wise.
Shortly the respiration began TO develop in
large beads and then ran down in streams
from the body. II so happened, by ac-
cident otherwise, that an estInabl- bu-
stoutish official of the steams nip company was
seated near the furnace fire; and as the attend
ant Turk from Cork) passed through the
room 20 ascertain how we were cooking, our
steamship friend inquired in what he evil
IDENTIFY intended to be scorching sarcasm II he
could not "make it little hotter z" The
Turk cheerfuily responded that he could, and
wheeled the official to within a couple of feet
OF the gloomy furnace, leaving him there to
sIZZle. Out bounced the official upon the
floor, but finding the tiles at a bIistering heat
back he scooted to his chair, bat meantime the
wood Of that article of furniture had got
an extra touch OF caloric from the glowing
furnace. branding the Official like the bars OF
a hot griddle as he dropped into his seat. Out
he went again in hurry, landing in the mid
die of the floor, where he executed a series OF
lively hops, roaring Justify for the Turk mean
time to wheel his chair away from the fire
The attendant examined our condition
from time to time; and when apparently
all the moisture in our bodies had es-
capped through the pores, supplied us with
copious draughts of water TO furnish ma
terial for keeping up the sudcrfic process
We were next taken TO an adjoining room,
placed on marble slabs. and put through the
shampooning process. the surface OF the body
kneaded and pummeled from head to toe, and
then we were rasped over with tufts OF a sort
OF Russian grass that peeled off the skin at
every touch. Then came the soaping process
after which we were cold d-showered and hot
showered, the contrast being so great as TO
cause the victim to involuntarily gasp for
breath. Next we were taken to the swimming
pool, where we were directed to plunge into a
tank OF icy cold water. The official warmly
and positively declined to submit to this last
ordeal, and beat retreat to his dressing room,
having got all ne wanted OF Turkish bathing
for the present. On emerging from the ice.
water bath we were taken to q cool room.
wrapped IN blankets from head to feet and
left for some fifteen minutes TO dry. We were
not supplied with sherbet and coffee, after
the oriental style OF doing up the thing; but
found ourselves, despite the omission. in
tranquil and amiable frame of mind that told
we'll for the process. Russian baths have
been introduced into New York at an estab-
lishment on Broadway. The process is much
the same at the Turkish baths, with the
exception that hot vapor is used instead OF hot
air for the sweating process. The son of the
orient, who waited upon us, told us that the
baths were patroniZed extensively by the fast
young men Of New York, as a means
promptly SOLDERING themselves after q spree.
The new Herald office, on the site OF Bar
mum S Museum. destroyed by fire, is undoubt.
edly the compietest and best appointed news
paper establishment in the world. With the
exception of the press room the Herald bus iness
l. now in running order at the new building
The press work is yet being done at the old
office OF Ann street. While the immense new
eight and ten cylinder Hoe presses are being
set up in the capacious subterranean pra,s
room OF the new establIs hment The Ann
street building will be used hereafter as the
Herald Job Office
Through the courtesy of Dr. Wallace who
will be remembered as a brilliant and accom-
plished Washington correspondent OF yeae
ago. and who now occupies a prominent posi-.
ton on the Herald editorial staff, we were ena-
bled TO take very satisfactory examination o.,
the different departments OF the new establish
merit. Without entering upon tedious details
II is sufficient TO say that no newspaper man
can go through IL without feeling that every
thing posi- In the way of convenience, com
fort, working efficiency and good taste have
been united IN this establiS hment The London
Times office visited by the writer some years
ago. Is tenth rate concern as compared with
the new Herald Office. james G Bennett Jr.,
now managing editor OF the Herald. has ju st
returned from Europe. In conducting the
Her0Id he has shown himself genuine .,chip
OF he old block" find him universally we'll
spoken OF amongst the newspaper men aud
the be'ief Is that he Will not only manage the
paper with energy, bat being OF a frank genial
nature, Will make many more friends for Il
than has his bgU sqUe father. who. in his news
paper career, has never asked or given odds
We assisted as spectators at the one hun
dEed and thirty third representation OF the
Black Crook al NIblo's. Itmay be OF II. .erest
TO prospective visitors to New York to know
that the gTeatIush to see this piece is over and
that eligible seats may be secured without
q dlfculiy, The house was perhaps two.t thirds
full last night. The Black Crook bills are
headed, This establishment does not adyer-
tISe in the New York HerdId" This seems
intended rs crow OF exultation over the fact
that the play has drawn large houses though
not advertising in the Herald, and can. in
fact. do without the newspapers. The point
Is not quite appreciable. Doubtless the Mer-
Cer-street establishments might maze
similar boast OF success without adyer-
usIhg, but we venture to say that
no theatrical establishment in New York
undertaking TO run with attractions less
piQuant and questionable than the Black
Crook has found occasion for glorifcation
over the result OF their quarrel with the Her.
aid. But il certainly seems strange to see the
other New York papers taking sides with the
managers against the Herald, thus virtually
decryIng the advantages OF advertising. 1t
would be deemed seIf-stultifcaton on in the last
degree for a physician, a lawyer or a clergy
man to underrate the importance Of his call.
ing, but newspaper men do this In a thousand
ways and then complain that the importance
of The press Is underrated.
But TO '.return TO our muttons," or rather
cGires, for 1t is the wonderful richness of the
play at Niblos in shApely legs that is the Sc.
cret OF its success. The play amount. to moth