The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-22

POmOIORicnI SnIclde
which the green fruiterers who ply their trade
on the Broadway curbstones provide, are being
freely made use of, and cholera morbus must
be expected to be on the increase until the green
fruit shall have become mellow. This will not
be for some weeks, and consequently the
cholera morbus people will have it all their own
way until then. They have the matter in their
own hands Both the cholera and yellow fever
seem kindly disposed towards the city this year.
Hitherto they have tapped but lightly at our
doors, and have not insisted upon coming in
and making themselves at home. We are fer
vently hoping that the season has gone by for
cholera to slay its thousands and yellow fever
its tens Of thousands. The Board of Health to
be sure, are doing all in their power to lay the
city subject to an epidemic. The streets in GER
tain quarters are choked up with garbage, and
wherever the tenement-house element prevails
there do you find also the elements Of contagious
disease. But although the weather of the past
few days has been eminently favorable to con-
tagion, the deaths-even of infants from cholera
infantum-have been few, and less than the
usual percentage of funerals have visited the
cemeteries and burial grounds.
CITY Hall Park
is going to be reclaimed. The greater portion
of 1t is at present arid-looking plain fenced
in by iron rails, around which are posted the
vendors of penny songs, ice-cream one cent a
glass and two spoons at that, solferino-colored
lemonade, Washington pics cholera-producing-
warranted wafiles, oyster soup, seaweed tobacco
and other dclicaces. Ropers-in, bummers
loafers, and the dregs from gambling-hells infest
1t by day, and abominable creatures shade
lower than all these convert it into u SILENT fur
tive pandemonium at night. Let such dispOrt
themselves while they can, for the end of these
fhinma ic at hand tl,,
commencement of the new post office, an effort
is to be Made to reclaim the City Hall Park. The
1ong-contemplated plaza is to be built. Decent
brick is to pave the parched and colorless area
that now extends south of the old City Hail.
and handsome plats of green, fringed with
fower-borders, are to interstice the space be-
tween the old and the new buildings All trees
of respectable growth are to be retained, and
the idea is to make the at present demoralized
City Hall Park one of the most beautiful and
useful spots in the city. OF course, Mayor
Hall will be permitted to fire off cannon there
whenever any of his friends go yachting, or any
other event of national Importance occurs
Frightened Editor.
Yesterday afternoon, one of the assistant
editors connected with one of the smaller Jour
nails of the city was placidly eating his dinner at
the St. Nicholas Hotel-the journalist in ques-
tion has a small private fortune, and therefrom,
and not from his salary, defrays the expenses Of
these palatial repasts-he was suddenly para
lyzed by beholding fixed upon him the eyes of
an immense woman sitting opposite. The inn
mense woman was blonde, horid in feature,
with broad, blue, beaming eyes, and profusion
of fine brown hair cut short, and owing its deli
cate golden glints to the profane touch of no
aureated mixture. Warm as the weather was,
she wore a tight-ftting velvet dress which set
bar 1ly dad HaS r. tbn hoo
advantage. The journalist in question is
small man, a weak man, nervous man. Con-
sequently he may be excused for choking
over his soup, and catching his breath
at the Soupcon that the voluminousy- Cushioned
Germanesque beauty opposite him BODIED him no
good with her fixed look. 1t suddenly occurred
to him that in the journal he represented he had
penned unnumbered editorials rejecting bitterly
upon one Madame Anneke the living image of
this Velyet-robed Amazon. To swallow another
mouthful of dinner under these circumstances
was impossible In vain he tried to 'bOlt' that
plate of soup, in vain addressed himself to the
fish, or essayed to disport his palate among the
ocean of edibes that lay spread out before hin.
Digestion and appetite had dissolved partner
ship, and he was just about to rise and precipi-
lately retreat, when the lips of the female opened
and from them issued these remarkable words
in the most nasal of Yankee drawls-
''Blest if that amt our old neigh5or Sam -.
Haeow der dew Sam ?" and stalwart arm was
stretched across the crowded table.
Sam had the presence of mind to retain his
seat and accept the proffered hand. Recogn-
ton came to him finally and in the broad jolly
features he had taken for Madame Anneke's, he
discovered those of an old flame of his whom he
had not seen for many years, and whom a change
for the better, in circumstances had helped to
make lady Of, and removed from her native
home in Massachusetts,. The fright was salutary
to the journalist, however. The ady's resem-
blence to the famous Madame Anneke is
wonderfully striking; and henceforth he will
abuse that lady no more in his newspaper.
Dramatic Memoranda.
The report that Barney Williams and wife are
soon going to San Francisco, and thence proba-
bly to Australia, is true. Barney, l thfnk-not
that my opinion is of any moment, howeyer-is
foolish for doing SO. He lives elegantly at Bath;
his household, consisting of his wife, his child
"a lovely little girl), his mother and himself,
and six or seven servants. He has fortune of
nearly half million of dollars, and is sur
rounded by everything calculated to make
man happy-even though the man be an Irish
man. The fact is however, he wishes to make
the "nearly half a mill Jon" quite that amount
and so compete with his professional brother
William Wheatey, who lives in elegant wldoWer-
! hood at Coney Island, and with the babble OF
green old age, deals extensively in "reminiscences
of the Black Crook ALI BABA.