The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-02-21
Editorial Correspondence Ct the Journal ]
NEW YORK.
The City ia Winter, outside aud inside
BuStle and BUSiness-AmusenentS The
ODera-M Mirdoch-THe Theatres.

attractions and the streets and walks are Sc
deep in the mud and miro that walking i,
almost out of the question and riding tedi.
Gus and uncomfortable process. Besides {
keen salt breeze is serious damper to the
enthuiasm of out door sightseeing and the
mental photographs one takes of ARCHITECTURAL
beauties aud graceful proportions, on these
chilling days, are extremely hazy. A yisi
to Trinity Steeple ard look over the city
from that high vantage ground; drive
through Central Park, magnificent, stripped
as it is of its leaves and flowers; an hour IL
Greenwood Cemetery and walk up Broad
way, will suffice unless ones appetite fol
sightseeing is wonderfully sharp.
To compensate for the loss of these sum-
mer attractions, the visitor finds New YorE
at home. The season" is at its height
| Churches are crowded, theatres and operas
are throDged, lecture rooms and the thou
sand other places of amusement are filed
One sees more of the people and less of the
city.
New York is bee hive of industry. This
is the dull business season and yet the hustle
and hurry of Broadway is startling to a
stranger. Hard work seems to be at the
maximum here. Every man seems to be
burdened with business cares aud RESPONSE
bilities like Stewart or a Clafin. Every
man hurries as ifa fortune or life depend
ed on his reaching somewhere in the least
possible time. There is zone of what the
artists call "repose" and one wishes that the
Stuyvesants and Wouter Van Twillers had
willed little of their placid blood TO their
heirs with their houses and lands.
The first point visited in New York was
Trinity Steeple. My recollections ofa visit
m ade some twenty-five years ago were
chiefly confined TO the horses and boy drivers
on the Erie Canal and the great crowd of
people at the ferries. At that time the
Canal was the great highway of travel for
western people. The New York Central
Railway was in running order from Buff
falo, Tut was yet an experiment, and not re-
garded as exactly safe and reliable. So this
is practically my first visit and large city
always bewilders a stranger. 1t will well
repay one 10 climb few hundred feet aud
get clear idea of the general place, and the
details will naturally fit into their places as
you take them at your leisure. Trinity is
on Broadway, "down town." only few
blocks from the Battery and in the very
heart of New York. Looking north from its
steeple, 300 feet high, you can see Broadway
with IFS multitude of men and vehicles, its
marble fronts and elegant parks, as far as
Madison Square and the Central Park be-
yond. A little to the left is the Hudson
with the "Palisades" just outlined in the dis
tance. West is jersey City and Hoboken.
Down Broadway, south, i; Bowling Green,
Castle Garden and the Battery and stretch
ing to the southeast, the Bay and Staten
Neversink. Directly below on the cast, is
narrow Wall street with the Treasury Build.
ing and Custom House and beyond East
River, Brooklyn with its Navy Yard A
half hour fixes nearly all the points ofinter-
est. The plan of the city is admirable. Be-
low Canal street, which is really the diyid-
ing line between the new and the old city,
the streets are irregular, especially east of
Broadway, but above every thing is regular
and plain. Running north and south are
some twelve avenues numbered from east to
west, and cutting them at right angles are
the streets which are numbered from south
to north. The houses on the avenues are
numbered from south to north, and on the
streets east and west from Broadway as far
as Madison Square. When Fifth Avenue is
taken as the starting point, Broadway is par
allel with the Avenues to Madison Square,
where it veers to the west and cuts streets
and avenues without any reference to plan.
There are cars on five of the avenues and
many of the streets, and on Broadway the
omnibuses furnish cheap passage to almost
any point.
In the line of amusements the "stars" are
Just now out of the city. Neither Booth,
Forest, Dickens nor Ristori are here. Maggie
Mitchell is playing "Fanchon" and Little
Ba: efoot" at The Olympic TO full houses. l
saw her in the former and was delighted, of
course. She locks as young and plays with
as much vivacity as ever, they say. There
were many new points" added to the text as
by the "Monumentals," some of
them very effective, but otherwise their ren-
derirg of the play was remarkably clever
imitation of the regular stage
Murdoch made his first appearance in New
York as reader last week and was well re-
eeived. The large audiences which greeted
Dickens, Vanderhof, Murdoch and Charles
Etynge, promises healthful reaction from
the great furor caused by such sensations as
the "Black Crook which appeal only the
eye and car. Those spectaclCs will always
have their patrons as long as there are more
people who have eyes and ears alone than
there are of those who have eyes and ears
and fair averageof brains, but they do not
belong to the highest order of amusement. |
heard Murdoch read scenes from Scott, |
Sam Weller's discourses on ''Weal Pies"
Holmes "One Horse Shay" Jean Ingelow's
High Tide" and the speeches of Brutus and |
Mark Antony. These last were read with |
wonderful power. The dramatic talent |
which can, without any of the ac-
OF the stage, representsev char
acters at orce, is certainly of the highest
order. Murdoch's reading is intensely |
He uses all the action that be- |
longs TO the histrioDic art, and uses it with |
effect. Dickens, they say, is
mere story teller. He places his book before
him for appearance sake but never uses it.
If it falls by accident he goes right on. He
makes few gestures, all bad ones, and trusts
Dnly to his voice and eye TO move his audi
ence. l hope to hear Yanderhof' before |
leave the city.
Just now the Italian Opera is in full blast
Slrakosch, at the Academy of Music, and |
Maretzek and Grover at Pixies magnificent
new Opera House, on Eigth Avenue, are
fierce rivals, both doing their best to suit the
popular taste and fill their own pockets. La
Grange and Brignoli are the stars at the
Academy, while at Pixies is a long list |
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