The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-26
ngW Y0RKISMS.
-.om our oson Correspondent

I""'O NEW York, Jan. 20, 1899.
The gentleman who is supposed TO supetlh
,.nd the morals and manners OF the ponce VI
This city and to have brought It's Various
departments 10 degree ofperfection unequaile"
onywhere else In this country, has lately been
,yinninq extremely leeden opinions nom gen.
,Iemeu and others whom III habits induce to be
mt late upon the streets, and in such condition
+bat IL is ten to one that they do not make
acousintance with the inside OF a station ssouse
heEore morning. In other words. 1t has hitherto
7oeeu the custom to have general overhauling
.ot six o'clock in the morning
"a all such arrests as may have
beeB made the previous night, and to pre-
sent the culprits at that early hour at the bars
of 4be various police justices. This was handy
nav of doing things all around. The magistrate
came brisk and early to his work, and you
nav be sure Justice is none the less justice Tor
heins compelled to wash and dress itself, ana
.dmi,ister the law breakfastless, SO many
minutes before dawn, The professional oun-
mer could be reprimanded ana dismissed, OF
I,seut up," as the dement's OF MS case seeuieu lo
domaud, the time-dishonored cyprlan coulo oe
80 40 +bo shades of Blackwell's, or the haldy
1ess desperate shades OF Water street whence
aho came. according to the appetite of his
inc before him; and the respectable
nId marty. not necessarily Of the name of
Iobnson. who became chow came you so,j
without exactly knowing how, might be dis
roissed with a mysterious flourish of the hand
and whisper, or 'qock this party up till he
hos time to send for his friends" according to
the degree of hobnobbery the respectable old
marty might be able to communicate to the
boson of the Judge. Now, this happy condition
of things is changed. According to special
enactment of Superintendent Kennedy, the
policamen are not permitted to takeIVgrant
charges in court before nine o'clock. Hence
when the string of drunk and disorderlies is
,orv large the examination is not concluded
until high noon, and respectable old parties
have the eminent bliss OF figuring before full
courtroom of spectators and the Implying eye
Of reporters. For reasons best known to them
selves the respective police Enthusiastically
Justice Dowlinp-are wroth with the Superlu-
tendent for iusttutlng this change, and have
rushed INTO sarcastic print as means of speedy
cure.
nJames Logan has become standard dish on
The newspaper bill of fare but it is beginning
10 lose its SAVIOR. The sauce piquante with which
II was over. garnished is found TO be losing its
Initiating properties. Perhaps too many cooks
have spoiled the broth, The time is past when
used to visit police headquarters cSHrg cSHrS cav;
and whatever was known in Mulberry street
was at my finger ends, from the fact that those
fingers had been handling, some halt-dozen
times during the day, the dispatches and
returns that lay piled in the telegraph-room,
the inspectors. and the chief clerks
office, Those times say are past aud Heaven
be thanked for it. But can imague-because
l can remember - the feverish anxiety with
which the police reporter of every newspaper,
preat and small, in this great and small Gotham,
visits all the departments at headquarters
several times every tWenty-four hours, from
noon of one day until A. M. of the next, with
every nerve tingling for intelligence of this
James Logan. The present report is that he is
in Great Britain. Why not say Eastern hemi
sphere and have done with it? My own idea IL
that he is ''up in a balloon" and that nC
detective will ever discover the parachute hi
will come down in.
BRoUGHAM's
opened last night to gorgeous crowd-gor
geous in its combination of wealth, fashion, ant
beauty, gorgeous in the character Of the ap
proyal it stamped on each of the artists as he o.
she appeared. Miss Effie Germon was there
looking more radiant and delicate than eve
saw her look before. never beheld any youn!
woman whose slight yet beautiful physqu
seemed more bent upon giving the lie to tn
representations of the entire medical facult
of philadelphia, who, two years ago, KEEP
handing in their certificates and decla1in
under oath that she would never live to trea
ihe boards of the Walnut again. But, in fact,
know of no more "healthy" sight upon tn
New York stage than, in her own peculiar linz
Miss Euphemia Germon. Mr.. Brougham, VIII
exhibited more than his usual bashfulness an
iuaptitude at expression, managed, no oweyer,
bungle gracefully through half-a-dozen sci
fences on his own behalf.
And SO the matter at present stands.
ALI BABA,