The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-12
NEW YORKISMS.
R'om Our o,on Correspondent.

remarked at one of them pretty little ballet
girl, whom for the sake of convenience, we will
call Jenny. Jenny was about sixteen, was very
pretty, had no occasion to seek to render her
charms more piquant than nature had made,
and was the sole support of an invalid mother,
who was worse than vido wed-had, indeed,
that widowhood of the soul forced upon her by
the occasional presence of dissolute and cruel
husband. Now ballet-girls, as a rule, no wever
resDlendent they may appear upon the stage
(and have noticed that one remarkable point
about them Is their apparent disagreement as to
which shade OF pink in tights is proper repre-
sentahon of the 1esh), are not overpsid, and
Jenny and her mother found It i'm
possible to live mainly on FIVE dollars
per week. A companion of Jenny's whom
will call Blanche, was in as sore strait as
Jenny herself and when matters appeared to
have reached their crisis and both appeared to
have nothing pleasant in store for these turner's
of pirouettes, comes along a smOoth.spoken
feminine devil, Kate Davis by name, who repre-
sents that in her home in New York Blanche
and Jenny may earn a good living in decent
manner, and find as many desirable young men
at their feet as they ever would by remaining
behind the footlights. Enough The two
young, frolicksome fools went with the
Davis. They were clothed with expensive
toileties, and taught arts which cannot men
tion here. After considerable lapse of time,
Jenny's mother, on the point of distrac-
tion, traced the two girls to this city
laid the case before Inspector Dilks, and
by means OF his detectives discovered their resi-
dence. With unspeakable easerness the two
poor misguided young things rushed towards
their deliverers, and thanked the fate which
rescued them before the epoch when reforma-
tion is possible had passed. Happily for the
feelings of the mother, the girls have succeeded
In deceiving her and making her believe that
while absent from home they have been engaged
in mandatory in this city. They swore that,
since they have been living with Davis, they
had brought in TO the old wretch a weekly
average of $l75. This account appeared to be
30 true, for both of the girls very attractive,
and the woman Davis account so false, that
Superintendent Kennedy and Inspector Dnks
ook the liberty of informing Kate that
unless she handed over sum sufficient
to defray the old lady's expenses htther
and while in the city, as we'll as those OF
her going back with Jenny and Blanche, she
must inevitably be locked up for an inde6te
length of time. Kate wept, and stamped, and
swore, but, after dillydallYng a long time,
waiting and drove off. Cases similar to this are
constantly occurring and constantly being sup
pressed. The numerous women who make &C.
ducton their business obtain the title of Queen
in their respective lines, and their homes, be
they humble or gorgeous, are the scenes of such
transactions as by no possibility could enter into
the imagination of thos, who have witnessed
them.
sad of cit tv
only day or two ago. A woman named Ada
lima Peck, and who once held high social
position, was arrested on the charge of being
drunk and disorderly. The name she bore at
the time was Louisa Louis, and she was only
twenty-ive'years old The short time that had
elapsed since she was wealthy and respectable
was of sufficient duration to afflct her with an
incurable disease, and confirm her in habits
which FASTENED her rapidly on tow ward her end.
Her short life comprised series of events whose
climax was a tragedy. Her early marriage was
not happy; her husband procured divorce;
she endeavored to console herself with attach
ments which should be the last consultations of
good woman. Dissipation on every side lent
her helping hand towards the grave. Upon
being arrested she was committed to a cell on
Spring street, and found dead there in the
morning. How many women, with similar
stories, struggle forward for years, TO an equal
fate In the end.
Do you remember the famous Eaton Bour-
ganani case? 1t has come up once more before
the Jefferson Market Police Court and the
result is that Bourganani, the seductive aud
dark-eyed Italian, has been locked up for his
refusal TO pay Mrs. Eaton the weekly stipend of
$40. Poor old lady there is always something
sublime to me in the utter uDreasonableness OF
grand passion. This wretch Bourganani,
robbed Mrs. Eaton, after wronging her out of
thousands upon thousands of dollars, of every
penny indeed that she had in the world. To
render his outrageous acts still more atrocious.
he has entlced away from her her little grand
daughter, and married her. Yet the noble |
though foolish young lady avows that she loves
the knave still; that she is willing to forgive
and ignore his treatment of her. and the losses
his perfdy has entailed upon her family, if he
will only love her and live with her still. When
it is remembered that the man is to all appear
ance not more than thirty, and that the lady is
nearly eighty, the sngularity of this strange
passion will be comprehended. She first saw
him, believe, at ball in Baltimore, where he
likewise attracted the favorable regards of her |
two grand children. At the instance of one OF
them, Emily, he becomes a member of the |
family, and from that moment binds all his |
energies to the gaining possession of Mrs. |
Eaton's heart, hand, and property. Every cent |
OF money she parts with in his behalf. Then he |
debauches the granddaughter, marries her,
and makes a four-y years tour of Europe, and is |
finally heard of as opening oysters in Cana. |
dian oyster saloon. However, they have got !