The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-03
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HA.om Our oipn Oorrespondent.


Advertising Apparatus for Precipitate Inhuma-
tiop. Il quote from memory. But Franz
vester, ofNewark, has beaten both Poe and the
Partisan, by being voluntarily buried alive IN a
safety -oofin of his own invention. Tb' .oon,nDon
run OF martyrs die for the sake q, ,hA,r nrinci.
pies; Mr.. Vester died for tho, sote NJ his patent
His death, burial, art resurrection, have been
witnessed with demonstrations of delight by
thousand srrectators q majority OF whom were
Kew Ior,xers,
Mr. Vester is willing to die, be buried, and
resurrect himself, on the same terms as those Of
Tuesday (namely fifty cents head for adults,
and no balfprice for children), every afternoon
until further notice, He will Immediately com
mence star engagement in every fashionable
graveyard in the United States. And though
he goes to the grave, we will not deplore him,
though sorrows and darkness encompass the
tomb; for in his case the sorrows are recon.
pensed by an. .appetizing arrangement of cold
sandwiches and champaign cider, and the dark
ness considerably alleviated by wooden chin
ney projecting few feet above the level of the
grave. In brief, Mr.. Franz Vester, an elderly
German gentleman who is soon going to play
burying engagement in this city, executed
on Tuesday afternoon his threat of being buried
definite idea of the appliances and modus ope'
randi of this resurrection coffin. 1t is deeper
than the ordinary coffin; the upper part of the
lid works back, and reveals receptacle for
eatables and drinkables; and from the top of the
head part to the ground (supposing the coffin to
be buried six feet deep) extends a wooden
chimney, two feet square, furnished inside with
a rope and ladder-like arrangement. People
using Mr.. Yester's coffus need be under no
apprehension, therefore, If they should be buried
by mistake. If they awake at midnight, touch
on the hesd-pece Will send 1t flying back, and
spread before them abundance OF good cheer,
like the table improvised through a trap.door in
the fairy psntomime. In the case of iuveterate
smokers cigars and matches will be enclosed. The
next thing in order will be for the resurrectionist
TO seize the rope and by its aid and that of the
ladder.like arrangement, Chamber up to the
summit of the wooden box, like subterranean
chimney sweeper. Under this new arrange
ment corpses are requested to be buried in their
everyday clothes, with their latch keys and
some loose change left in their pockets, and
possibly as the system becomes perfected line
OF night cars will be established for the express
aecomm odation of the newly disentombed. Ia
truth, Mr.. Vester's burial was great success.
Nothing became him so much IN his life as his
leaving it and coming back to it again. The
''good bye, old fellow" and remember me to
all the folks" which were called out as the
coffin descended into the grave, were succeeded
by "How are you, old fellow? How did you
leave em all?" as Mr.. Vester reappeared
through the chimney top, after the expiration
of an hour and half 1t is to be hoped that
Mr.. Vester and his safety coffin will soon appear
IN Philadelphia. Manager Sim or Manager
Fox, or Mr.. Hemphill, or possibly Mrs. John
Drew might be induced to give him short
season. l am confident that, now that "real
water has ceased to be novelty on the stage,
six cubic feet of "real earth" would be just the
thing. But Mr.. Vester has struck whitening
blow at the writers of romance, who deal in
burying- alive sensations. With such coffin as
This in use, "Jean Vatican" could never have
gone through one of the most terrible of his
experiences. Next to John Allen, Mr.. vester
promises to become the most popular man in
the States. / shouldn't wonder if both ran for
Congress some day.
The friends here OF Mr. Elliott, the artist
whose remains, 1t will be remembered, were but
a day or two since inferred at Greenwood, talk
of erecting monument there to his memory.
1t is proposed to raise the means out of public
exhibition Of his pictures, inaugurated either
by his personal friends or the National Academy
of Design. In common with other great artists,
Mr.. Elliots popularity is not so extended as 1t
might be from the fact that some of the sweetest,
purest, and truest ofsprings of his pencil have
been instantly snapped up before they could be
placed on public exhibition, and have ever
since remained in their jealous possessors,
cabinets. The warmth with which the monu-
ment topic is at present being discussed, will
probably result in some of these holders of his
last efforts yielding their claim for time, and
allowing a transient publicity to those bJou1
which have hitherto been reserved for the
limited circles of amateurs and ditettante.
What do you think of the idea of starting a
new illustrated evening paper here? One would
think, from the number of new evening and
afternoon papers constantly projected, that all
the old ones had been buried alive In Mr.. Yes
ter's catalepsy coffin. The evening ne wspaper
is q sort Of serpent's eye that fasciuates the
editorial bird to his destruction. Proprietors
and managing editors will not take warning by
the fate OF Euery Afternoon and the Eoentng
Gazette. And yet with the exception OF the
Pos, the Adoeriiser, and the Express, OF
long established growth | don't believe that
of all the dozen evening newspapers in
this city and Brooklyn, there is one as success
full as The EVENING TELEGRAPH of Philadelphia.
The evening newspapers don't seem to flourish
here The penny Ne,os is the most visible in
the cars and stages between and O'Clock P.
M. but the reason is that ii teens with criminal
items cooked" with the most ,tantalizing aud
provocative spice. All that these dozen even
ing papers need for their utter CONSERVATION and
decentralization is an illustrated evening news