The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-04
NEW YORKLSMS.
From oar O,On Correspondent.


rather at from to O'Clock yesterday morning
in one Of the quietest aud easiest of the places"
that abound not far from either Broadway or
Fifth avenue. The street, Belfair Place by name,
is only three blocks in length, and of an exceed
ingly sombre and respectable character, not
rendered unlike what believe iS called Girard
place, or Girard row, In Philadelphia Almost
every other house Is boarding house. or else
has FURNISHED Apartments, without Board,i
stuck within the windows or beneath the bell
handle.
Stald and heavy people give the tone to Belfair
Place, and have gwen tone to 1t for several
lustres. Bachelors in declining years, uumar-
ried clergymen, literary men Of medium rate,
steady-going bankers who have no great pen
chant for trained racers or risky speculations,
wealthy and spotless widows, rearing young
sons and belonging to good old families, child
less husbands and wives who have grown old
together, and, after the one disappointment OF
their lives, learned to care very little for plea
sures outside the solidly magnificent SUITE OF
rooms which constitute their home-these are
the kind of people who for many year have con
ferred infinite respectability upon Beltalr Place
The sidewalks are OF broad clean hag.stone
the houses, built all of one pattern, are invaria
bly, of brick; the payement-one of the few tha
are laid with cobble stones-is intensified with
tufts of grass; no stage or car starts echoe
there; and the private carriages that stop
solemn doors are driven by serious-lookng
grooms. Those who let rooms inevitably belong
to genteel families, and with regard to those who
rent them, the 'best of recommendations" ar
required. In fact, 1t is a street scandal might
roam through, trying to snuff up tlt-bits in, in
vain. The moral gloom of the place forbds you
t. l>nI;o 1lnE ox,l oil thn
frailties of human nature could ever enter there;
but perhaps secret murder may have been
slowly consummated in one of those dim ram
bling rooms, and the three dull brick-and-
brownstone blocks are in transition state
which will lead them, in after years, to be
spoken OF as haunted.
Imagine then, the moral thunder-shock
which has just been given to that grim neigh
borhood by the eidirCisSenlent which commenced
one hour after last Sunday midnight. What
has since come to light reveals that several
months ago a far-iaced and fla KEN haired feuGte
tOniSe one of the best of the class of New York
Bohemians, managed by his perfect manners
and quiet insinuating mo de of speech (for he
gave no references) to obtain front room on
the third or uppermost story of one of the most
respectable of those very respectable houses.
Equally as insinuating and pleasant man.
nered, however Gor she likewise gave
no references), must have been the
young married lady who few days
previously had taken the back room mme'
diately opposite, these two rooms being the
only ones on the uopermost floor. Three
months passed on. The feui MeOntSte wrote
hard all day, and either visited, or had friends,
young or DID, to see him of evenings. The
young married lady sat in her room and sewed
or sang, and was never seen to receive any
visitor, male or female, made no acquaintances
In the house, dressed with PLAIN richness, and
paid her landlady punctually one month in
advance. During the hot June days the heat
in these rooms next the roof became intoler-
able. He left his door halt open, and she heard
his quill scratch while he wrote. She left her
door half open, and he heard her singing
the "DaeS tui," and sometimes caught
a glimpse of white hand winging
its way like carrier.pigeon across
some flmy blue fabric like sky. One day she
was taken i'll, apd continued so for week,
with no one to attend her but the doctor, the
servants, and the landlady, whose attentions
were extremely precarious. The feuitetOniste
with a very natural and gentemanly interest
inquired after her from day to day, and when
she grew convalescent learned from the SER
wants lutlI sue WIS sduly III uceu Vi bOut
reading, all the books she had with her being
of serious and devotional turn. He sent her
in, with his compliments, a package of the
latest magazines and melodies. Perhaps there
were some poems. 1t must have been go, for
few days after, he overheard her speaking to
the lady of the house of the very graceful powers
as a story writer and poet, of the young
man who occupied the opposite room. This
unmeant, unconscious Aattery was like sweet
tasted lightning to him. Enough. They met;
they looked; they loved. l have no sequel to
relate which any one need blush to read either
in secret or aloud. | know that the general
character aseribed to feuNletonisteS, or to any
that bear about them the slightest Bohemian
aroma is not that of intense moralityi and that
young married ladies, lodging alone, taking
their meals out, and receiving no visitors, are
not cited by maternal heads OF families as ex-
amples of the most shining virtues. Yet that
blessed exception which is the proof of so many
accursed rules, was present in this case, aud
nothing passed between this lonely young man
and lonely young woman but what good people
everywhere would declare no sin. or course
il was imprGdent for them to
continue SO close together when he
was burning with all the unrestranablity OF
first love, and whea her husband was living. For
it was So Four years ago she had married, and
for four years she had endured from her hus-
band all the Observation-Disclosures blows,
pennilessness, foul language, and nameless in
sult-Which it is in the power of q whisky mad