The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-03-28


Ground must be seventy TO one hundred feet front
and rear and hundred and seventyve TO two hum
dred eet Deep corner preferred and located not lower
down than Union square and within the oAsterly and
westerly nes Of Fourth and Fifth avenues The owner
Of any such properly for sale or lease may address James
H. Hackett, box !, ACT, New York Post Once.
This advertisement seems to mean business.
II is q bold proposition, and we give it place
in our editorial columns on account Of its
originality and its radical deviation from the
old-fashioned way Of doing these things. II
will be seen that Mr. Hackett does not propose
. subscription to buy lot and build theatre,
rs il the USUAL custom, although no doubt, had
he done so, there could be readily found sew
eral gentlemen Of the first class in society to
contribute three or four hundred thousand dol
lars for the purpose. He goes upon the prin-
ciple Of first catching his hare and then cook
ing Il
Now, IL there ID one trait in the character Of
the American people more distinctive than
another II il the vigor with which they 60 into
supplying their wants a. soon As they are felt.
There seems to be something which inspires 70
energy in the fresh keen air of our climate.
coming to US, as it does, from the bold open
prairies of the West-sometbing so different
from the effect of the damp cloudy atmosphere
Of European countries. No matter what we
undertake to do, from building iron-clads to
building theatres, it is done quickly. In Europe
committees sit for years bordering over the
idea of an iron-clad war vessel, wasting noun
tains of ioolscap and rivers Of ink upon q
structure that generally turns out to be Of no
use but when our war broke out we had Q
whole navy Of iron-clads afoat in few months.
1t is the same with our theatres. Ifa theatre Is
burned down in England it may be years be-
fore another is constructed in its place. II is
but few days since we lost q theatrical land
mark by the destruction of Winter Garden, by
which it is said the managers lost some hun
dred thousand dollars or more We heard
something of subscription being raised for
them to set them on their legs again, but we
do not know whether such is the case or not
However, here is Mr.. Hackett-who Is not
exactly in the bloom of youth, although
he looks as young as he did twenty-five
years ago, and indeed some ill-natured
people say that he looks younger than
HIS SUI Uub NC IatncI enjoys TAI
stafian age as well as a Falstaf1an reputa-
tion-entering the field at once with substan-
tial proposal to build a new theatre up town.
He has hit upon good location in selecting .
spot above Vnioa square, and between Fourth
and Fifth avenues. Mr.. Hackest is represen-
tstiye Of the Legitimate drama, and we may
hope TO see that class Of performances, devel-
oped By himself and Forrest and Booth, in
stead Of the blue smoke, blue light drama, in
which we only see the Fourth Of July re-
peated, and are obliged to listen to the rafting
Of tin pans, bells and other. melodious instru-
ments that remind one of . parcel of Chinese
on the war path. We may expect, too, TO get
some original plays on the boards instead Of
the revamped foreign trash with which we have
so long been snrfeited. For these reasons we
wish Mr. Hackett success in his enterprise.
We hope he will get that lot seventy five feet
by two hundred.