The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-05
NEW YORKISMS.
n.o,, O,lr O1Dn Correspondent.

New YORK, Sept. b.
The city bears very evident marks OF the emu
of the summer season. Leaves are sheuuou
from the trees; the roll OF equipages aiong
Fifth Avenue is nthe increase; mantua'mak
are having their openings; fall fashions are the
talk theatres aud churches are r.,eginning to
fll with the old familiar fc.ces. Ere another
-four weeks shall have PISSED away all the sea-
side hotels will have shut up, and hotel pro-
prietors will be gazing ruefully upon the 'fea-
tureless sands" and gauging the prospects of
the season that will recommence with the sum-
mer Of go. The times have crept upon us
whose first approach is scernible-when
we begin to notice the short days and long
evenings, and the darkness that comes so soon.
II it were not for the prospect of Indian sum-
mer-that second childhood of June-such a
day as yesterday, day of sad, persistent,
ominous rain, would be enough to set us all
talking about stoves, heaters, CRATES and other
caloric appliances.
l said the mantua. makers are having their
openings, and so they are. The short dress
seems to be the style for all occasions, excepting
those of dinners and receptions. Basques and
double skirts are to be very much worn, the
Vatican pattern also being greatly affected.
The antiquity OF one hundred years ago is
being ransacked for the furnishing forth
of fashions to suit the caprice OF the present
hour; so that between the whims of
century ago and the infinite variations
of the present, there is no saying where
these eXtravagances of costume will end. |
never cease wondering at the mathematical
mmuteness with which modistes' descriptions of
ladies' dresses are written, and comprehended
hx,, Lodi
a vulgar and ordinary mind is, l feel convinced,
necessary for the writing and the comprehen-
sion, or the oral delivery of such descriptions
as these. The mind must be at once imagina.
tive and mathematical that can picture to itself
tie distinguished combination of colors, and
the nice harmony with which depth and dis.
tance are represented in so many inches or
fnger-lengths of lace.
Workmen, in various branches of labor, have,
during the past week. been getting up demon
strations Of that indefinite nature which are
generally classed as a Labor Movement The
cartmen, for instance have been holding a
meeting over the grievances they have suffered
in the numerous violations of the statute for
bidding any person having licenses for more
than three carts. These violations the cartmen
charge upon the venality of the MAYORS
officials in conjunction with the Court Iuspectors
but the only result of the meeting was the
UNANIMOUSLY expressed hope that the evil
would be remedied before the end of next
month. The marble rubbers and polishers have
likewise been rubbing ana polishing up their
statistics, and inform the public THAT there is
work in the city tor half hundred mora
ruobers and poshers than are already here.
A portion of the transactions of some of these
public meetings might more aptly be called an
movement than labor one: for
the First Second, and Third Cooperative
Building Societies are busy arranging a picnic
for next Thursday, and the Adams Press
Printing Association is adjusting all the pre-
liminaries of its annual ball, to be held at
Irving Hall on the evening of November 20.
II it were not for bit of reminiscence re- |
tain about Coney Island, which / visited the |
other day, this letter, fear me, would be un- |
usually short; for this melancholy weather has |
got into my pen, and the pattering of facts and /
fancies on the roof of my brain does not at all |
keep pace with the pattering of rain drops on |
the roofs outside. If you want to see Coney |
Island in all its glory and in all its shame, you
ought to go there of Sunday afternoon. There |
is no better place excepting the noonday |
pray dt JOnu AlleuSl IOf getting
your pocket picked. Abandoned males and |
abandoned females flock there from an early
hour on Sunday morning until long after
dusk, and every species of row, and almost |
every species Of crime are perpetrated afer
dusk sets in. Why 1t was called Coney Island |
no one seems to know. Ten years ago it was
as unknown lard to New Workers as Terra del |
Fuego is at present 1t is only during the past
summer that two regular boats ran between this |
port and Coney Island, the one taking the piers |
on East River, the other the ones on North.
Even as lately as three or four years ago, the |
few boarders who chose Coney Island as their
summer paradise, occupied the few |
wretched houses that were grouped |
together at the head of the island. The first
boats that now leave for the island start from
their first piers at 9 O'Clock in the morning.
There are also regular horse.cars, which leave
the Fulton steeet Ferry on the Brooklyn side,
and carry passengers to the circle of hotels
higher up. The greatest improvements are
among the property of Mr.. William Wheatley
there. One of the features there is Wicklfs
old house. Many years will not pass before
Coney Island will be redeemed from its present
ambiguous position, and hold its own among
the fashionable watering places of the United
States. ALI BABA,