The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-16
NEW YORKISMS.
From Our O1on Osrrepondent.

hrst Stein way Hall was alone In its glory in thls
respect; then Irving Hall began to lift up it's
head and tune its instruments; finally, the
classic Tammany has sounded its horn and
proclaimed itself in advertisements regardless
Of expense. The history of these Sunday con
certs forms q whole chapter In the biography OF
art. The resources adopted by their oringina-
tors are of not very startling description.
Worn-out concert singers, opera singers long
ago retired from the operate stage,
and sunk into the shades of music teaching,
rambling Bohemian choruses, picked out from
the nomadio remnants of Italian opera, musical
moHstroslties, and infant warblers, altar boys
frem Episcopal churches, and specialties
booming up from the scum Of slums and music
halls-tbese are few of the varieties which
form the attractions of the Sunday concerts.
When the fall and winter season commenced,
Madame Gazzaniea appeared for FIVE or six
consecutive Sundays, but the public not appear
ing to appreciate the privilege Of paying one
dollar q head for listening to a worn out voice,
Madame Gazzaniea withdrew, and the
price of admission was 10 Wered by over
half. Since then the sleinway concerts have
got on as they could, sometimes being sand
Wiohed with amateur readings and recitations,
as mildly meritorlous as such performances
usually are. The crowning glories of the Sunday
concert season, however were exhibited last
Sunday evening at the Tammany. 1t was
jubiant affair. The Italian opera chorus was
announced to appear, and some few OF them did
appear, and constituted the best part OF the
entertainment, There was a Bashan-bull tenor
who executed some solos, but object 10 capital
punishment and think there ought to be a law
against public executions like that. The mem
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and "hunkadee" with one another by
means of their various instruments,
and made frantic efforts to catch
up with one another and come in all together
at the finale. The audience was Of that illegiti-
mate character which stamps matinee audiences
of Saturday. There was the manabout town
ogling the fancy woman; there was the embryo
thief gloating on the gamblers diamonded
finger; there was the novel assemOlage ofhard-
eyed women, with brazen relentless brows, and
heavymouslached men with gaudy scarfs and
neckties, and of ''pursy" rotundity of figure.
The aroma of fast lite pervaded everything.
Certain owners of property along Broadway
have begun to tremble under the impression
that an Arcade Railroad is soon to be begun
along that thoroughfare, which means that the
whole length of Broadway is to be dug out to a
depth of seventeen feet, the space to be rooted
over and lined with double railroad track. If
1t is at all likely that the Legislature will
charter bill for a railway of this kind what a
pity that more than half million of dollars has
already been laid out in repaviDg Broadway!
The PAYERS have been hard at work ever since
last summer, and not it seems Gf the report be
true) that all they have done is to be undone.
Well, there was an underground railroad
chartered last year, and that fell through be-
cause there was not enough money to put 1t
through Now if any one railroad is more ex-
pensive than another, that one is the Arcade
Railroad; and the question not unnaturally
occurs, If a less expensive one was not to be
thought of, what are the chances for a more
expensive one? Broadway, besides, is street
that has some few gas s'pipes and water pipes in
it, so that the benefits to be derived from the
proposed railroad ought TO be very great to
overbalance the inconvenience and expense
incurred in its construction.
Captain John 8. Young, OF the New York
detective police, yesterday handed in his resig-
nation. He felt compelled to do this because
of the recent action OF the Police Commission
ers In requesting him to hand over to them all
sums received by him as re wards since the first
OF January. The cause OF the proceeding was
Captain Young's reception of 5000 from the
detective firm of Smith, Peirson g. West, in Bal
timore, for services rendered by him to them in
the capture of Weaver and McQuade, two of
the parties who recently robbed the New Wind
sor Bank, Maryland, OF $1,000 In United
States and Pacific Railroad bonds. The
Commissioners found occasion TO make
the request on Captain Young's re
fusal to hand over to one of his employees
named Irving, a certain sum which Irving
claims as his due. When Young engaged this
man he agreed to pay him 800 for his one days
work, but he was FIVE times better than his
word, and paid him $500. Irving conceiving,
In streak of impecunious ambition, that he
and his principal ought to proceed on the rule
of ''share and share alike" turned up his nose
at the Insignificant $500, and laid the case, such
as 1t was, before the Commissioner who hold
sinecures, and, as a matter OF course, make every
one elses position as hard as possible. In LOSING
Captain Young the detective force has lost
good man. He has the look of detective abou
him. The burglar, the sneak-t thief, the conf
dence man, the sinner In secret-whose ONLY
difference from detected criminals Is that he i
not found out yet, know alar off the ''cut" O
Captain Youpg's "jib.' That forid complexion
those sharp blue eyes, those trim-set sandy whis
kers, the bluff to +the-point manner, that Henry
the-EIghth ensemble, are not easily forgotte
when one has once been familiar with them.
When one remembers the number of boy
between twelve and sixteen years old that ar
employed as errand boys, cash boys, etc., an
the bwretched salaries which some young mel
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