The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-21
NEW YORKISMS.
From Our OsOn Correspondent
NEW YORK, Nov. 81, 1868.

oANTANKBRoUs CHORUS SINGER
who having struck her claws into him Will not
easily let them loose.
She has lately been singing solo part with
cresoendo movement, the burden OF which Is
shat the said Hezekiah did tread upon her when
she was down, and otherwise brutalize her.
may be mistaken, but it is my mature
opinion, after an extensive reading OF polce
reports, that managers rs general thing are
not Prone to crook the pregnant hinges except
10 the Tostees and RisGoris of the opera boude
and tragic stages.
It was only last season that charge was
brought against the polyslot Grau for having
kicked out of doors negro woman who ventured
upon the opinion that Ristori was no better an
actress than many a one native to this country.
During the testimony for aud against In this |
Bsteman case it has transpired that these |
choristers eke out their salaries by keeping |
lodging houses and cigar shops-all, OF colI Sc |
of the utmost respCc ability.
In fact, my sympathies return to Mr.. Bqteman
when l reflect that the life of a cdorlster Is
scarcely hard one, considering the few change
of opera and the ample time allowed them 10
o her employments.
A day or two ago the
LAST STRAW
broke the back of the Grecian Bend, and filed
Broadway with laughter.
Clerks and sales women rushed 10 store win
dows and you might have thought torchlight
procession was i'll progress.
After all, it was nothing but radical Grccian
Bender.
Her walking costume was of solferino silk
trimmed with black velvet
The superficial kno wledge of anatomy pos
sess informs me that no spine was ever bent to
that extent by any bat artificial and painful
means.
The extremities Of this female were as stiff as
corklees and terminated 10 tall boots, the heels of
which elevated the wearer two inches beyond
her natural height.
The result was that she exhibited frightful
tendency to fall forward.
BY degrees she recognized the character of
. the excitement she created, which she at first
mistook for admiration.
Then her face began to flush. And there was
no escape. 1t would have been morally impos
sible for her 10 get into stage unassisted and
no carriages were near. So in a few moments
her complexion was as Solterino coloIed as her
dress.
Thus she proceeded along Broadway, the last
straw on the camel's back, the latest Grecan
Bender of the season.
When last seen she was calling policemen to
her assistance, and being helped in a carriage
that happened to be standing in Fourteenth
street, near Fifth avenue.
sshe took her seat something was heard to
crack. The bow, too long bent, had unstrung
itself at last. The silver cord was loossd, the
golden bowl was broken.
In a letter written some months ago l men,
toned that Hobokcn aoouuded with blind men
as much as if blind asylum had broken loose
Apparently every man, woman, and child hail
ing from Hobollen, and capable of sporting
placsrd,
has em,grated to New York, and taken up
lodgings along Broadway.
One OF the lrtbune'S ~eportorial corps of geni
ferreted out ole of those impostors (for proba-
bly, nine-tenths of them are so), and traced her
to a Water street den, where the company was
composed OF number of brother and sister
artists, who "wake-up" stone blind for business
during the day. and drink themselves stone
blind for pleasure during the night.
don't know whether Oliver Dyer is preparing
an article on the "Blind Beggars OF New York.
but If he is not, some one ought to, and shall
confidently expect 10 see the subject treated
shortly in the monthly magazine of certain
New York Commercial College-not Bryant Il
Stratton's.
THE COOPEhS
are preparing to strike for higher wages, if not
for their altars and their fires, next Monday.
They have held iniliatory meetings at the
Hester Street Metropolitan Rooms, and the
delegates present represented some 1900 jour
neymen coopers.
There is very little unanimity of feeling
among the coopeIs themselves, and consequently
there win be less unanimity OF action.
Some wretch who likes the smell of
ROAST HORSE FLESH
has been amufing himself by setting fire, with
the assistance, of some comrades, TO nearly
dozen stables in this city simultaneously.
Eleven fires of this character broke out on
Thursday afternoon at widely distant points of
the city.
Fire Marshal Bracket and Captain Cameron
have been laying their heads together and dis
covering tbat the fires are the revengeful featd
of the odlnlnS and Flibbertgio obets who had
been ousted by the owners OF the respective
stable lofts.
THE FULTON FERRY
mishsp has had the effect Of spurring on the
lazy projects for tunnelllng the East river, as
well as for bridging 1t.
Meanwhile nothing is more true than that
any other than ferry PROJECT subsidies almost
as soon as it is mentioned.
New York has at last got upa
PHILADELPHIA MARKET HOUSE,
called the Central Market House, covering au
area of 10000 square feet, and situated or
Broadway, Seventh avenue, and Forty-eightf