The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-24
NEW YORRLSM,s.
from our ovn Correspondent.

NEW YORK, Sept. "a, 1868.
One Of the novelties talked of for the coming
winter season Is a skating rink. A Joint stock
company with $75 900 capital was formed during
the summer that has just elapsed and suitable
lot of ground has been secured and leased for
ten years. between Second aud Third avenues,
and Sisty-third and sixty-fourth streets. Tue
area Is $4,000 square feet, and this spacious
inclosure is to be covered. 1t will further be
rooted with corrugated iron. The windo VS.
are to be of ground glass, and in the
evening this immense pavilion will
be illuminated by globed jets projecting
from the arches in the root. Creature comforts
will be spundantly provided for by the hotels,
bars, and restaurants which are already peeping
forth in the vicinity. The Rink is TO be called
the Empire City Skating Rink. The building
will be completed by November l, and will pro
badly be ipaugurated by the performances of the
New York Athletic Club. No season tickets
will be issued, and the price of admission will
be Fifty cents per head, with a reasonable reduc-
tion when tickets are disposed of wholesale I.
Next summer, Max Maretzek it is whispered
intends starting a Jdrd,n MIbihe there But
since the summer of '68 is Just over, perhaps
1t is q little premature to speak of the sum ner
OF &c.,
The day is not far distant when the move
ments of modlstes-I mean OF dressmakers and
bonnet. .makers-will be chronicled with the
same minuteness with which the movements
of the distinguished IN the other walks of life
are noted down. No eminent lawyer, physi-
clan, divine, author, Journalist, or actor can
now go to Europe without an editorialet being
made of 1t in the newspapers. From the grow.
ing attention that Is being paid to the subject of
the fashions and the fact that at the "open-
irofrcn NJ In skoxv
after column in the principal journals OF the
day, and have elaborate descriptions piled
upon them which are only equalled by the
mlnu'eness n1Iha % OF tne repor.s OF the campaign
when Madame lie Brun (nee BROWN, the Four
teentb-s rect modist sails for Paris, 10 inspect
the fashions there, she will have the crcum-
stances OF her departure noted on the editorial
page OF all the tour large New York papers.
The Openings" OF these ladies still continue
and the passage-ways that lead to where the
pretty and priceless fabrics from Paris are for
sale are literally choked with fine laces. In
dress, as in everything else, the season that is
upon us is gong to be more brilliant than that
OF last winter. Neither in fashion nor in any
thing else can there be retrogression, unless
the retTOgression results in an anupodes of
position.
Mr.. Charles Fl. sweetzer has gone out of the
Mail and Mr.. James s. Johnston, for MANY
years in the business department OF the Epen,no
Post, has gone into II. AS au editor, the i'm
preston that Sweetzer gave to those who had
man hampered to death by imaginary worries
hardly knO wing what he was about and misdi.
rectine large quantity Of energy. During the
summer ne took to compiling ronte-books to
various places OF resort aud as the book con-
sisted simply in doing what has been done
hundred times before his success as plodder
:. and adaPter wa was brilliant. Take. my word for
and am glad to see that Mr.. Johnston is about
to eject fresh life into it.
new system OF gold telegrap by has recently
been employed in the Broad street gold room.
number of wires, dlverging from that room,
communicate with all the brokers' rooms in ali
parts OF the city. In the gold-room is seated an
operator before whom is a mechanical arrange
ment representing the digits. When any of
these deits are touched the same numh hers i'm
mediately betray themselves in any brokers'
office in the city. Formerly countless boys were
hired to transmit the intelligence which is now
instantaneously made known. No doubt, how.
ever, the wind will oe tempered to these shoru
lambs, though in what way know not, for the
army Of boot blacks needs no additions.
Mr.. Grau's much-talked-of troupe arrived
here On Tuesday all in health, all In good
spirits, and, hope, good voice. Geneoieue de
Brob0nt was at first announced as the opening
opera. Bat 1t is doubtful now whether that or
the Grand Duchesse will be given. The season
commences next Monday week, and will con-
tinue indefinitely, for months. The present
opera boa.fe company at Niblo's will remain
there until the end of October, when, it is whis-
pered, the Irma and the Tostee branches will
coalesce and do something startling at Pixies
lndguluCent ACdutuy. oTdnyeIy rdplU mas Deen
the growth OF opera boufe in this country. 1t
is now just about year since 1t was first brought
to this country, and we have now two troupes
firmly established In the affections of the public,
and third troupe that will shortly be 80.
-Wallack's opened last night, Gro Wded, of
course. The performances were Simon Bernard
and Dedrer Than Life. The latter, as the ad yer
tisement truly asserts, combines dramatic and do
mestic interest, and the two plays presented most
of the best members to the audience. Rosa
Elyinge was not among them, however, being
reserved for a more brilliant renfree. Oliver
Dyer, the man that did for John Allen, is
going to lecture tonight on what he has seen
during the last five years among the
bucket shops and gin palaces of New York.
hope the women will like what he
says. and that Pdckdrd's Monthly will be suffi-
ciently advertised thereby. At Pixies, "a stupid
catchpenny play, called 'ls68," is deservedly
failure.
There has been some tall talking this week at
the Office of the ReUotut1oa, about the urder-
valuation of woman's services. A good deal of
common sense was interarded with triyiaity,
and the only conclusions as yet arrived at are
that the Working womeD's Association hold a
special meeting next Monday evening, at the
Office of the Reuototion, and that the President
of the National Typographical Union be not
invited to attend. ALI BABA.