The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-10
NEW.YORKIs VS..


From Our 0Un Correspondent
NEW YORK, July TO-
The treasurer Of the Excise Board was busy all
Yesterday at police headquarters refunding to liquor
dealers the excess OF license money paid by them.
II will take probably until the middle OF next week
20 refund all this money, for the queues OF people
forming in front Of the treasurers desk are so long
that those at the end OF them stand no chance OF
getting up TO the until the afternoon Is ended.
Mr.. D. d. Howard, Of this city, who ten eleven
years ago achieved great success in being cham
pion sufferer by what was then known as the Ma
tonal Hotel disease, has sailed for Europe. MIR.
Howard has been invalid suffering from the effects
OF that disease, ever since. The panc-some called
Il poison-broke out at the National Hotel Washing
ton, and for some years quite destroyed the
credit OF that house. Ventilation, fumiga-
ton, deOdorization, choloride OF lime,
were all used in vain. The mlasmatic
fumes generated at that hotel worse than bed
bugs, and all the guests who were not "taken" fed
at the earliest possible moment Mr.. d. d. Howard
is believed to be the only survivor OF those spectral
guests, and after suffering from the effects OF the
disease for ten long years. has gone to Europe with
the hope OF getting well. hope he may do so.
To-day the Harvard -Four, who this
to row on the Henley Course against a four Of OK
ford, the champions OF England, will leave for
Europe in the City Of Paris. They have been stop
ping at the Astor House. The crew consists OF
Messrs. Loring Captain and bow-oaD, Simmons
(stroke), Bass, and Rice They have taken the pre-
caution to provide themselves with cook who Is
presumed to possess accomplishments culinary as
they are conscientious His place is to that the
young eat and drink nothing that will hurt
them, and to exercise general supervision over
their stomachs
One hears very little OF the Midnight Mission just
now, but it has not fallen through, for all that The
managers Of it, however, have to deal with one great
difficulty. They say the fallen women whom 1t
makes it its duty to look after complain that the
wages of virtue is very poor indeed. True, the
M qin 10 Hpath huf 10 offn
fore sin pays its wages in full, and meanwhile it
grants great deal Of credit which is the next best
thing to DEATH If you had vistei the New York
Midnight Mission, as / have done, and heard the
desparng statements of half-lost women who have
tried to be virtuous and found that virtue is "dead
beat" you would not be surprised that the Mid
night missionaries are unsuccessful. The brands
that are plucked from the burning are very few
indeed. They wouldn't make respectable-sized
bonfire Virtue is very LIBERAL good sort of person
TO those who have enough OF this worlds goods;
but to tell the truth, she is apt snub and be mean
to the hewers Of wood and drawers of water Virtue
is too often its own and its only reward. Integrity
has an appetite as well as dishonesty, and it is
wonder the outcast prefers the Devil and prosperity
to virtue and starvation.
The route Of the underground railway Is now being
surveyed by engineers. 1t is expected that their
reports will be submitted in October and that the
road will cost ten millions OF dollars A report was
got up that work was commenced on the pneumatic
railway, but this is not the The projectors of
the pneumatic railway have other fish to fry just
now.
Strangers wandering along Broadway often Won
der where the Numerous 1ower-girs and florists pro-
cure their treasures from. They get them from
Union HILL which is florally one of the most prolific
vicintes Of Hoboken The great floral emporium
of New York find its nucleus in Hoboken, West Ho-
boken, and Union Hill. These three suburbs pro-
duce more largely than all the other suburbs of New
York taken together. They are so extremely pro-
life that it seems shame to be obliged to give the
Broadway nowerbOy ten cents for the tniest of his
bouquets.
There is a just prejudice against Coney Island as
pleasure resort Those parts OF it approached by
the steamers infested by roughs and thieves and
If you imprudent enough to go there on Sunday
afternoon, you to be congratulated If you return
with your watch and pocket-book. For the informa-
ton OF such Of the readers of THE EVENING TELE-
GRAPH may possibly stray thither 1 might remark
that those portions OF the island accessible by rail-
road are much less open to this objection. Though
the rough element may obtain, it is to compara-
lively small extent. The steamboat landings and
the railroad depots separated from one another
by an impossible morass, and hence the class OF
people who nfest the not found at the other.
Messrs. Cassidy and Sherry have taken the Park
Theatre, Brooklyn, and intend bringing out Miss
Ada Webb there who is chubby, saucy, and other
wise suited for soubrette business. Augustin DAILY
has taken the Fifth Avenue Theatre for three years.
at $4,000 per year. Think Of it! He will have to,
fear, ere the three years are up ALI BABA.