The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-28

less. Bowling Green, the grayeyards surrounding
Trinity Church and St Pauls the little that remains
to us OF City Hall Park, Union Square, and Madison
Square, are about the only green reefs that now
remain along the Broadway route
But then, with all this, the demolition OF the hos;
not otherwise enjoy. 1t will ead for instance, TO
the publication and rehabilitation Of Thomas street.
one OF the fthiest OF all filthy streets In the lower
part OF the city. Marble will speedily be reared
above the mud which impools itself there and where
the slum has hitherto asserted ITSELF the palatial
warehouse will lift its front. There is a class OF
streets which, like wickedest men, only want an
opening provided for them to mend their ways and
come out ali right Thomas street is one OF these.
The destruction OF the hospital has given 1t chance,
OF which doust not it will show Itself worthy.
Mr.. Fechter.
Mr.. Fechter has "spoiled q good mind" so many
times with regard TO coming to this country that his
prospective audiences here are almost prepared 10
be impatient with him in advance, and Messrs.
Jarrett and Palmer, those money-making gentlemen
who some months ago bargained for a season from a.!
him, are disposed to regret having ever had III IN
serious contemplation It is not every actor from
abroad who has the opportunity OF having favor
ostentatiously bespoken him by one OF the tirst
writers of the age, and in magazine which does
not scruple to obtain vast notorlety by publishing
MIR. Dickens in the Atlantic did for Mr.. Fechter,
in large way, what Miss Dickinson, "pre-eminent
in her own fine" did for Miss Logan, whom she
toves, in recent letter But it appears that even
this has not satisfied the fastidious French-Engsh
German. The true story" of Mr.. Fechter's nom
appearance in this country is not much the en0r
nifty OF his demands in regard to salary as his arbi
trary requirements with regard to the selection Of
TiS euppSVi' pS az" V.,,ei @ Spt PiiNneSes. MessLs.
OF the most reasonable men in the world in che
terms they make and the privileges they concede
but the exaCtlons Of the blOndehai "Hamlet"
whom Mr. Dickens admres so much were too
stringent even for them. SO at present it remains
uncertain whether Mr.. Fechter will remain where he
is or drift hither, as he has often allowed to be
announced. A "HaEllet" with yellow hair would not
be quite so much of a novelty upon the American
stage as he and his friends may think. or late
years it has been an aIectation of Mr.. Edwin Adams
In New York, and think may say in Philadelphia,
Mr.. Booth remains the ideal ''Hamlet" of the
period.
A Misunderstanding Medium.
There iS a class Of professional testmedium5, who
never advertise, from some dim sort of conviction
perhaps that there is something of the sort of
discredit attaching to their business which Is cast
upon that OF the quack and the mountebank Mr.
Charles Foster, the mellow-voced beaming, and
rosy-visaged spiritual test-medium of West Fourth
street, in this city, Is one OF this class OF gifted
tails. Curious and interesting his sangunary
caligraphy is-for he proves the immortality OF
the soul by producing on his arm red scrawls pre-
sumed to be autographs of snTit-frends-he very
rarely bazons 1t forth in the newspapers but relies
entirely upon the reputation which gossip gives him,
and the Rratuit0us printer'S-ink laVShed uDOn him
by too credulous quill-drvers and-ahem!-neWs-
paper correspondents Very often his communCa-
tions commence thus :-"Anybody here had a rela-
tive died OF a cancer? ANYBODY here got a grand
mother named Betsy Jane in the angei-world? An!
yes; the lady in green. Well, maam, your grand
mother says she is very happy to see you on this
occasion, and will shake hands with you across the
table. She will also show her name on my arm" =" and
rolling up a lovely white sleeve, the medium dis.
plays an arm of pellucd dazzlingness q think that
will do) on which, in bood-red sinuosities, is in
scribed name, which looks as Horace Greeleys
would look after being shaken up for six months in
Kaleidoscope. You know obscurity is one source
OF the sublime-and the "angel-world" is as sublime
as though obscurlty were all its sources. Yet Mr..
Foster is an excellent clairvsyant q Jolly companion
and not only makes money but saves it.
ALI BABA.