The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-08
NEW YORKISMS.
From our o,on Correspondent


1 am confident that should not be In a condl-
tion to write this letter at early an hour in
the morning; for, after Sunday afternoon
spent at Hoboken, the fumes of lager beer and
Rhine wine would be found too ponderous for
w een to master AllSunday, HobolSen is the
l2ser beer barrel from which New Workers
draw their supplies. The ferry boats
begin to fill early in the morning, and
only begin to empty late at night
Ever since the establishment of tna
Excise Law, Hoboken of Sunday has
been the Mecca of thirsty mouths. 1t may he
true that stolen waters are sweet, md that
bread eaten in secret is pleasant; but they are
not found to be so sweet or so pleasant when
police spies and steol.pigeons are hanging
round, and when detectives liuser In every cup
of surreptitious SUNDAY tea" that is rails I'D to
the imbiber's mouth. Hence the Sunday rush
to Hoboken. There no Sunday liquor law OBJ
tains. There no odlous lnformers lurk In con-
cert.saloons and restaurants; there lager
stands no higher than root" beer on the scale
of iniquity, and all kinds and degrees OF liquor,
from claret up to "cock tails" are placed on one
sweet liquid level
Yet who are the people that go2 Not precisely
the kind you. the reader, or l, the writer, would
care to make friends or acquaintance of. Tney
are, in the majority of cases, very harmless
probably. These girls, in desperate attempts at
the prevailing mode Of bonnets, probably have
done nothing more than the majority of factory
girls; and the young men who are with them
If they betoken any immortality at all, II Is the
very healthy immortality of being little over
fond of the society OF the opposite
sex. Yet there are some rough faces
That red shirted youth, with the scarcely
healed cut over his left eye, is perpe.
tually squirting with a strablsmus Of general
malevolence rather than with any absolute
physical defect and those three men, in their
shirt sleeves, who, for the last three hours have
been calling for illimitabe whisky punches,
look as If they would be all the better for the
restraining influences Of their wives II wives
they have. But as a German woman, herself
the wife of a saloon keeper, expressed 1t to me
yesterday, German husbands are not so 'goot'
as English and Americans. The German likes
to make his wife work, and stay at
home and mind the house, while he
goes Off to the concerts, and the gardens and
the music, and somewhere else with an in.
tensely comprehensive shake OF the head by
himself!' TheGermaR woman m ay have jealous
reasons for speaking she did. The greater
part OF the Sunday visitors to Hoboken are not
Germans, however, and the sprinkllng of wives,
sweethearts, mistresses. and little ones is very
large indeed. A five minutes ride in one ofthe
large, but not handsome, ferry-boats which
leave Barclay street wharf brings You to this
great reservoir OF beer. Once landed, there are
at least two hundred beer saloons
from which to choose, besides the many
gardens One of the shadiest and best of these
lies nearest the ferry, one mile saves you the
long tramp over the plank path that leads up
to Hudson street. A fountain is In the middle,
but like most fountains of its species, it is not
playing. Indeed 1t may as truly be said of most
fountains in public places that they are for the
purpose OF concealing water, as IL has been said
of language, that 1T is for the purpose OF con-
cealing thought An abundance OF tall and
broad willows casts a delightful shade, and
Imagination gives to the fountain vim thatart
has carefully slowed away. A large wooden
building, with bills of fare placarded outside,
invites to terror rest d rants where any deli
cacy can be had, from picked pigs feet to quail
or toast. The space between the seat5 Is con-
tinually reset with very small children swell
tering under very large baskets OF bouquets,
five cents each. Red lemonade, of the same
price glass, is for sale in baskets under every
green bush. Spruce beer, and "root" beer, and
soda water and sarsaparila, betray them
selves at every table by the incessant
popping of corks; and Lager beer, of an
amber color and destitute of froth, is slipped
with all the slow luxuriance of still cham.
payne. sunny walk up Hudson street
brings one TO Schroders Hotel Garni, where
multitudes of young cenarles tweak and
hutter in gaily- painted cages, and where
Madame nerSeII can De seen any nOur Oh
Sunday afternoon, sitting on the second story
front balcony, calmly surveying the throngs IN
the streets, with the curiosity of amiabe
sparrow. A few yards further up Hudson street
brings one to Fourth street, and Fourth street
conducts to winding walk of glarlng dust
along the river, and fl lnked by the bastion-like
foundations of the stephens estate. This
Stephens by the bye, owns the whole of Hobo
ken, and is worth some S30,00O,C0O. And
here the first thing that strikes the
gazeIs' eyes is the quantity of people
whose occupation it is. not to have any. The
number of Blind Bartimeuses whom one en-
counters between Fourth street and the Ey'
sian Fields, becomes aimatter of perpleXlty to
keep account Of One might think that some
private blind asylum had broken loose, and
that the recreant pupils had each ambitiously
adopted beggary as profession. Within ten
minutes walk l counted six blind men, one
blind woman, and two blind boys. Some bore
a placard on which was inscribed, II am blind
and deaf" and If they were dumb, too. har
mony would have been saved good many out
RACES upon its ear. One or two held tin cups
with nothing in 'em Qike Sir Charles Gold
streams Vesuvius) and some presented
hats whose capacity was equally tested.
All spoke in the same whining
lugubTious key "Pullease help a bLlOlnd
man, !" and a more dirty and vlllainous. looking
set never saw. Compassion aud charity apart.
the presence of these obj ects renders a jaunt 10
the EIysiau Fields any ming but elyslan. The
Fields reached, q collection Of rude tables with
broken legs and benches with broken backs Is
seen. Oysters are sold six for twenty cents