The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-25
NEW YORKLSM,S.
From our oton Correspondent.

nerne,ratea IN very warm as in very cold
weather, and perhaps the reason Is that ex-
tremes meet here as in everything else, AMI the
same proportion of liquor is swallowed in July
as in December. At any rate most Of the as
saults and batteries, homicides, and murders,
that dis6gure the annals of New York have their
erlgin IN that indlscoverable quality, in malt,
and spirtuous liquors. which disorders mans
brain and converts him into temporary demon.
The BowerY is cons antly being bloodied aud
blackened by such outraces as this. 1t swarms
with lager beer saloons at the back OF which
men and women, the 10 vest OF their sex, exhibit
themselves in songs and dances, aud to which
admission, in consideration of the quantity of
beer drunk is gratis. These places are perhaps
one shade better than the brothel Easements Of
Broadway where night after night is to be wilt
messed the remorseless aurement, the worse
than dea,h of boys and young men, fresh to
New York whose fathers and mothers are pray
ing for them at home with all the patient inefi-
cacy of fond and pious hearts.
Among the 10 west of these low places Is the
Atlantic Concert Saloon, a Bowery basement
At this place on Wednesday morning, at two
O'Clock, two men involved themselves in
quarrel with youth there named William
Kramer, pursued him to the sidewalk, and
mauled and beat him to death. The cause o.
the quarrel was some venial but unconsdered
criticism about one of the "pretty" waiter girls
presents deusive institution with which
beauty is the very last attribute any one but
greenhorn would think of absorbing connec-
ton. This murder, which is politely termed a
homicide, was followed up, on Thursday even
Ing, with the murder of a policeman on FRS:
avenue, as early haltpast ten O'Clock. The
murderer is wretch named Real, who only a
forv olyo had ham ed hav
made similar attempt, but was set at liberty
on giving the necessary bail.
That the Board of Health should exhibit a
genteel disregard for sanitary measures has
ceased to be an anomaly. Health officers amuse
themselves with publishing cards for the pre-
venton an6 cure OF cases of sun-stroke, and the
amelioraton of the sutfeTings of horses and
other animals exposed to the heat but pay little
attention to the preclusion Of causes OF public
disease. Many of the streets of this city are at
present in filthy condition. The cholera Is
invited to make itself at home, and lavish in
duce Gents are given to every form of epidemic.
If the city escapes, it will be in spite of, and
not because of, the Board Of Health, unless,
indeed, that body speedily changes its tactics.
1t met on Thursday, when it transpired that
more than Two hundred deaths from dIarrhGa
alone had occurred since the preceding Satur-
day noon. OF the two hundred miles of streets
in the Metropolitan District many have
their cutters choSed up with refuse'
and their sidewalks strung with garbage boxes.
As for the network OF lanes and alleys which
interlaces many neghborhood shut in by
brown-stone fronts that conceal the rottenness
behind. many parts of Five Points are Paradias
ical compared with them. Dr.. Harris, the
Registrar of Vital Statistics, believes that cop
peras and caIbonic acid would make gooi
disiptectant, and that a quantity sufficient to
disin,ect the entire city might be obtained at an
outlay Of little more than three thousand dol
lars, or about one dollar for every ten gallons
of the liquid. The only result of this "health'
meeting, however was the ordering" that four
of the Wards should be dsinfected by next
Tuesday.
So far from everything being lovely, and the
''goose" hanging high, with the taIors, at pre-
sent, that indispensable class of workers has
just been proclaiming It's equality with the rest
OF mankind by demanding an increase of wages
to four dollars per day. They met on Thursday
evening in one of the smaller halls of this city,
and organized and unorgauized shops alike sent
their delegates. In this age of the world 1t
seems as though har d. work was almost ready
to compete with brain-work in the pay which il
demands. Many smart reporter in this city
what the tailors are demanding for
the labor of the neede; and the
number of other strikes made with
varying success during the spring and early
part Of summer seems to hint tnat hand.labol
is magniiying it's office, and that the hewers o
wood and drawers of water aspire to place
themselves ON par with the subtler workers o
intellect. If these tailors' demands are not &C
ceded to, the strike is TO take effect after mex
Monday. The jourueymen bricklayers are alsC
on a strike but the weekly stipend the striker
receive from the Protective and Benevolen
Union, has been cut down from $l2 per week Il
nearly one-half that amount.
'Barbe Bleuen and ad'ile Irma are successe
here, because they are the only amusemen
novelties in this city at present. While admit
ting that Madame Tostee is rot so young as sh
used to be, aud that her voice is certainly no
of the richest and rarest, it is beyond cavil tina
four aItstes, total strangers TO US, even by re
putation before, have won such immediate an
pronounced success. Consequently the publ
is looking longlngly for her return in the fall
From the moment when, three.quarters of
year ago, she came upon the stage at the Frenc
Theatre and announced, little nerVously, pei
haps, her love for the military, the large hearte
public took her into ITS capacious bosom-whic
is as accommodating as Aoraham's at tn
lowest calculation-iorgaye her her man
''severe indispositions," and forebore shown
avestige Of ill.humor whenever 1t pleased he