The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-29
NEW YORKLSMS.
From Oar otOn Correspondent.

fanatics, "thuggism" is respectable compared
with what 1t is as practised here In New York.
oy the guardians of the public peace These
guardians are distinguished by their blue coats
and brass buttons, aud the bludgeons which
constant practice has given them such superb
ority in handling. The more amiable of these
functlonsries are seen lounging inside the doors
of theatres, bidding the street song.selers,
mostly old women and young children "move
on" and gesticulating quite as much with their
bludgeons with the less imposing
means of speech wherewith nature has
gifted them. In fact, l believe there to be no
more brutal set of policemen IN the world than
the policemen of New York. Their clubs are
to them the symbols of an amount of blood
thirstness which can best be expended on the
weak. the timid, the poor, the unresisting,
They share in the crimes they are assumed to
protect. Against their afidavits there is no
appeal, and 1t is seldom justice is inclined to
listen to the defense of the culprit when the
latter is friendless and poor. When it is remem-
bercd that only very lately Judge Bowling
rendered a decision of sixty cases in ninety
minutes, little justice can be hoped from thi
coalition between police magistrates an d
policemen. Consequently, the latter prac
tise thuggism to the top OF their
bent. They use ubs ald pistol
murderously. They insult ladies and gen
tlemen, and they assault the lower classe
who can lay no claim to these titles. Instances
are becoming numerous and notorious, In which
women, for no other crime than that OF stand
ing or sitting still, have literally had their head
mashed and reduced to je!ly.like clots OF gore
by the scientific application of pohceman's
club. In one of my recent letters l mentioned
the case of q young woman thus assaulted and
jellfed, while sitting in Thompson's Parade
Ground. Perhaps in some of these cases some
show of reason existed for the arrest, but take
the very worst of them, and consider by what
right one of these blue coated and brass.
buttoned gorillas wells himself under the
protection of the law whilst he batters hum an
being to mass of blood and bones.
You will not think these epitketS too violent
when briefly rehearse few facts which oc-
Cured on Saturday evening, and which there
fore have probably by this time reached in some
form or other the eyes Of the readers of THE
EVENING TELEGRAPH. On the night in question
the Gretchen Lodge, a harmless private society
consisting of Germans, was holding meeting.
In the midst of its transactions the front door
was violently pounded, and two of the blue.
coated gorillas be ore mentioned thrust them
selves In, under the pretense of having heard
pistol fred, and seized and beat almost to in
seDsibility two Of the principal members.
of the Lodge. The victims were then dragged
off to the station-house and the meeting dis
solved. Will anything be done to the blue
coated gorillas2 1t is question. During the
warmer months it nigh almost be said to be as
much as a mans life or respectabiity was worth
to make d habit of frequentng any of the public
nvIx. ~. .t.1
rently placed every on level. Tn'
female who escaped the entire season without
being insulted, and the male who did not feel
strongly tempted to defy the blue-fannelled
gorilla to his face, when told to move on, and to
assault him then and there, were few and far
between. And thus thuggism among the Null
berry street myrmldons has grown and gro wn,
until it has reached its present dimensions.
Nothing particularly startling occurred yes
terday. Sometimes think that, next to making
money, all New Yorkers really care about is
amusements and the fashions. Everywhere you
90 Graus opera bouffe troupe is being talked
about. All along Fourteenth street, between
Fifth and Sixth avenues, little below which
the renovated Theatre Francaise is situated
ladies 10 parlors and boudoirs, ladies' in car.
riages and servant girls at basement windows
watch the members of the troupe as they wend
their way to rehearsal; and the first opera is to
be- instead of GeneuieUe de Brdbant, La Grande
Dslchesse. And as for me, am as bad as the
servant girls and the ladies, for when the hands
of the clock betoken that the cavalcade is abou
to move past, rush to my windows to
learn how those houris of the footlight
look in the plain, unhattering sunshine. Wha
pretty names they all have, and what pretty
toilettes! With what well.bred unconscious
ness they pass between the peeping groups OF
Fourteenth street, prattllng their quick jargon,
and apparently delighted with everything New
Yorkish, because everything is as yet ne v.
And whilst Mr.. Grau IS busy with his French
people at his theatre, Mr.. Bateman will soon be
busy at Pixies Opera House with his amalga-
mated troupes. Fanny Janausheck-she OF the
herself taken the theatrical ribbons. Between
acting ON the stage and counteracting in the
treasury, she has enough to do. Next Monday
week Mr.. Forrest will begin an engagement at
Niblo's. ] should be glad to see that immense
house filed once more, now that his declining
years are upon him. His frugal fare for years
past alone enables him to act now with httul
resemblances to his former strength. 1t would
be delicate and gracious act in Edwin Booth
10 invite him to open his new theatre.
At about O'Clock last night the English
beauty and burlesquist appeared upon the stage
of Woods Museum, In Burnands burlesque OF
IIiOn. am thankful that was not obliged to
write out my impressions last night, ere the
excitement of having beheld Miss Thompson
had entirely subside1; for although past my
youth, and not entirely stranger to acting,
own TO a predspositiOn TO fall In love with
every new actress that comes out, provided she
be beautiful. In excavation might
modify the pretty French actress repar-
the papers, and plead that no sooner learn to
like one actress than another appears whom