The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-19
NEW YORKLSMS.
From our Otpn Correspondent.

veys have already been made along the route
pre.cribed by last winters legislation; number
Of contractors in Europe have been consulted
with and have made proposals, the gst OF whlcn
h for them to get the road under ther own
exclusive control; and numerous surveyors have
been here during the summer, in solemn, con-
clave with the representatives OF the company.
Who is to build the road, however, and when 1t Is
10 be commenced, and more important still, when
IL is to be finished, are questions which no Jen-
kins has the hardihood to answer. No stock
has yet been subscribed for, but plenty of busi'
ness men are ready 10 take stock as soon as
the company shall be ready to dispose Of it. The
various features OF the plan, however, have
been so long simmering, and so thoroughly
discussed, that not many days will elapse before
more definite announcements than have as yet
been vouchsafed will be made by the directors.
MIR. James Gordon Benefits house went and
caught fire on Thursday morning, and Mr.. James
Gordon Bennett says that $40, 900 damage was
done. In the midst of the destruction the vene-
rable Scotchman was seen fighting his way
through the smoke towards the library, and
bearing forth upon his shoulders the lies, the
black mailing, the large and small deceits, the
endurance, courage, enterprise, audacity, cum
ming, mean. mndeduess of many q year, in the
shape of files OF the Herd d. In my opinion
"0thello" Benefits occupation will never be
gone so long as "Othello" Bennett has the use
of his faculties. There is fascination to him
In the sound of the midnight press, the
sequel OF his own fancied omuiscience, which
he cannot forego for even million of million
of dollars. His grey old mead will be seen in
the vicinity of Broadway and Fulton streets 30
hong as his legs can totter and his brain think.
Those files OF the Herald which this world-cele.
brated journalist trembed under as he bore
them to place of safety, were as dear to him
as his own flesh and blood would be were he
striving to rescue them from the bottomless pitt
This indomitabe heather of the Christian world,
II his journal lasted till the Day of Judgment
would have the earliest and fullest reports of the
private lives of the sheep on the right hand and
the goats on the left, when the final reckoning
was made.
A Workingwoman's Association, in which
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Miss Susan b.
Anthony largely figure, has just been esta-
blished here. meeting was held yesterday
morning, in the Office of the Revolution, No. 81
Park Row. The object OF the association is the
ameloration and elevation of all women in
New York who labor for living Miss Anthony
explained this object in few brief words. She
Or-
ward her hobby of female suffrage, and proposed
that instead of the association being called the
WOrkingwomans Association of the city of New
York, it should be called the Workingwomans
Suffrage Assocition of New York-female suf
rage, according 10 her ideas, being the shortest
way OF obtaining and retaining their rights.
From this proposition Miss Anthony begged
leave to differ. She thought that the objects of
hatf no nod
were no political cast given to it. Many young
workingwoman of New York would be kept
from joining such an association If they thought
1t was going to be of political, rather than of
benevolent, mutual, and social nature. Finally
she title first proposed was adopted, and Miss
Anthony was elected a delegate to the National
Labor Union to be held in this city
next Monday. That the leaders of these
female labor movements do work, there
10 no question. The nightly repose of
Miss Anthony and of Mrs. Stanton is we'll earned.
Perhaps the time will come when crinoline will
enter largely into every political cam pagn. But
do you like the prospect? Does the reader fancy
hi. own wife, or mother, or sister, as a rival
with loud-mouthed demagogues, whose only
knowledge of principle is that the less they have
OF 1t the better is their chance of obtaining
place, and whose knowledge of the genuine
requisites for office is about as limited as their
knowledge of the rudiments of grammar and
rhetoric. Not conservative myself, l reverence
that sort of conservatism which delights to see
woman in society and beside the hearth, in her
own pure proper sphere.
Every countryman who has come to town has
gazed, with an astonishment only equal to his
reverence for "Humpty Dumpty," at the i'm
mense structure which takes in almost every
yard of the four blocks comprised between
Ninth and Tenth streets and Fourth avenue and
Broadway. This structure is the store OF A. 7.
Stewart, the largest retail dry goods establish.
ment in the world. The new half which has
been added to 1t was commenced last May, aud
the entire building will be opened, with formal
ceremonies, on the first of the coming Novem.
ber. The small space which prevents the square
being complete is, l believe in the possession of
owners who do not deem it to their
best interests to accept Mr.. Stewards
tempting offers. Still, the store as it is
k sufficiently imposing and magnificent All
the epithets that express grandeur might aptly
be showered upon it. 1t gives the idea of CO.
lossal strength. Each of the columns in the
basement weighs from eight to ten tons. The
entire structure is lighted by daytime by m cans
of an enormous dome, which concentrates and
showers down all the collectable light into
every Granny and creyice. At night all the gas
Jets in the building are simultaneously lit by an
electric battery of seventy or eighty cups.
Between fifteen hundred and two thousand mem
women, girls, and boys are in Mr.. Stewards
employ, and morning and evening the spectacle