The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-14
N n WY o r. K1s M s..
From Our o'0n Correspondent.
The scrimschnyy Pnyements.


Before the Scrimschaw (sometimes known rs
inc Concrete) pavement was laid down in this
city, whether it would answer or not became n
mooted question. The upper part of Fifth ave-
nue. is now paved with it, and it is found to be
just the thing, smooth enough to parlor-skate
over or to play at billiards or ten-pns on. In
tact 1t is practical evidence of the superiority
OF the Concrete over the Abstract, for when the
Scrimschaw pavement was only a theory, its
practical success was greatly and almost univer-
sally doubted.
Telegraphic Communication
between this city and Brooklyn is shut off for
the present. No one seems to be much afflicted
at the fact, no one indeed seems to be aware of
1t, although it is fact that since Wednesday not
flash OF electric intelligence has passed between
the two cities. On that day, while the rocks at
Hell Gate were being blasted, the cable commu-
nication was broken, and has not yet been
re-established.
The new Woodruff Saloon
Palace Sleeping Car
arrived yesterday afternoon from Wilmington.
Del. 1t is built for the Central Transportation
Company, to run direct from Jersey City to
Sacramento, and went yesterday on a trial trip
as far as Elizabeth and back. 1t is to leave on
Monday for Sacramento, bearing away the
Congressional Retrenchment Committee, and
about three dozen ''guests, who will be carried
gratis on condition of paying full fare
Yesterday afternoon the first of
The Erie Railway Cabs
appeared on Broadway. OF course, it attracted
a vast amount of attention, and was saluted by
the gdn,inS with "Three cheers for Fisk" 1t
was painted of a light grey color, and accom-
modated four persons.
You remember the fact of young lady. at
Glen Cove L.. l., recently
Marrying Her Fathers Conchman.
The gentleman is now perfectly willing to re-
sign the lady, on condition of receiving ten
thousand dollars and no questions asked.
If you want to taste, as well as touch, Califor-
mia gold, 1 advise you, when you come to New
York, to buy some of the
California Bartlett Penrs.
When they first arrive they sell for sixty or
seventy cents apiece. Those which arrived
few days ago have passed from rpeness into
rottenness, and can now be bought for ten cents
apiece.
You may perhaps have noticed in some of the
New York newspapers persistent mention of
A Person Named BrentnnO,
who gratuitously supplies them with periodicals
of every description He is by birth French
man, and by nature penurious and, notwith-
standing obstacles which would have blocked the
progress of less indomitable men, has built up
business which many merchants more abuu-
him. Some years ago his store-which, consider
ing the business that he does is one of the
meanest looking little holes along Broadway
became the resort of young bloods and eccen-
tricity-hunters, from the mere fact that the late
Menken used to make her literary purchases
there at five o'clock in the afternoons The poetic
equestrienne was wont to examine his stock with
Mazeppian imperturbablity, notwithstanding
the warm regards showered upon her by dozen
fast young men.
Park Row and Broadway,
upon the sides which are to be occupied by the
new Post Office, are utterly impossible. A
wooden fence twelve feet high is flush with the
curbstone, and the crowd which surges around
that point of the city is three times its ordinary
compleXity. The fruiterers and newspaper ven
ders who formerly made it their mart have been
compelled to move further up and this has not
tended to the relief of Broadway in the vicinity
of Canal street. Yesterday afternoon the joint
committee of the Common Council, with the OBJ
ject of cha nging the site of the new Post Office,
held an adjourned meeting. No one being pre-
sent on the part of the Government, however,
the meeting was adjourned until next Monday,
in order then to receive any proposition that the
Government might wish to present. The return
from Washington of Mr.. Mullett, chief architect,
will by that time be looked for and something
definite" be done.
Did you ever hear of
Pink POOdles?
Strange as it may seem, that is the canine caprice
of the hour. In the midst of the shower tina
Yesterday afternoon distributed its salubriOus
wetness over the city, a little pug-nosed poodle
dyed of a brilliant pink, made its debut
Broadway, near Union Square, accompanied by
q Young ladyewho evidently held towards it the
relation of nursery-governess. This canine
coloring is only an old fashion revived. 1t came
to q dead stop some few months ago, and now
promises to renew a spasmodic existence.
The squabble between the
TaiIors and Their EMPLOYERS
has subsidized very quietly, both parties claiming
giving employment to two thousand men, have
given in. The strike will probably end to-day,
and by Monday the tailors will be holding their
noses to the needle pertinaciously us though
no ambitious dreams of fifty per cent. increase
of wages had ever disturbed their tranquility.
The shop-tailors purposes are as crossed as their
legs, and will probably remain so.
The SOrOsis
has lust been doing a good thing. This is the
appointment of a presentation committee to
wait upon Miss Ida Lewis, the Light House He
roine. and present her with a testimonial from
that pentemauIy body of females. The COM
mittee consists of Mrs. Croly, Mrs. Wil6our,
Mrs. Van Brunt Miss Fuller, and Miss Frost,
and the testimonial is composed OF the S9roslan
INSIGNIA enlarged of solid gold and richly ena-
melled Is presentation constitutes Miss Lewis
an honorary member of the first Womans So
ciety in America When the Sorosls meets, TWO
duties generally lie before it,which 1t despatcnes
with equal alacrity. These duties are-loquaclty
and lunch. At this last meeting, however, the
fact that its subject was a woman, one OF lne
IS I,arc