The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-02
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From Our DUN Correspondent

From Our Oton Correspondent
NEW YORK, June 2, 1869.
spent the whole of Monday, from eleven in the
morning until four in the afternoon, in verdurizng
Central Park the occasion being the trial given to
the new cabriola-wagonnette that were yesterday
introduced there and essayed for the first time by
the general public. The idea is great one. 1t is
due TO Mr.. c. T. Patt of the Hudson River Railroad,
a man who has an intimate knowledge of everything
that runs on wheels, who dry-nursed in an ON
nibus, and who, if he does not die in a cabriola-
wagonnete is at least "laying hsself out" them.
His design in which he is aided and abetted by Mr..
James w. Barker, is TO afford the public
pleasant drive at twenty-five cents per head.
Yesterday was a magnificent day for the opening
OF his enterprise and the rapidty with which
four pleasure carriages were filled and
emptied and reflled again there are only four
in existence yet attested the worth Of that de-
sign. Each cabrola-wagonnette-let me give the
title in full, according to the phraseology which the
inventor delights in-hOlds twelve persons comfort
ably II is divided into two compartments, the first
compartment forming the cabrioa, and the hndmost
the wagonnete. In the front compartment the seats
run parallel with the axletree; in the second, per-
pendicular TO it. The carpetng, cushions and ap-
polntmens are neat, tasteful, convenient-tasteful
10 the body and tasteful TO the eye. And twenty-five
cents is very cheap. Poor paterfamilias need not
complain now. Himself, wife, and two children, not
including the baby in arms, may enjoy an eghtmile
drive, lasting for one hour and quarter, and curv
noblest parks in the world for the of dollar.
He may take his choice of hours from seven
O'Clock in the morning until nine at night.
The conveyance is one that no one
need be ashamed TO be seen in. On Monday they
were the cynosure of all the equpages, and pre-
sumo they were yesterday also. The cab-drivers
without the Park are speechless with indignation,
and have murmured dreadful threats against Barker
and Patt Their four dollars an hour-the rate at
which they charged party-are taken clean away
from them They loll on the seats OF their coaches,
blinking in smoulderng rage as the new inventions
whisk by. In vain they ofer TO go on their accus-
toned four-dollar drives for onefourth the price.
No will take them up. Their day of eXtortiOn is
AT end. The cabrOla-wagOnnette is preferred The
| propretors have been five years already in pushing
| the matter through The Park Commissioners threw
hundred obstacles in the way. But the thing has
now entered upon a fair trial, and pretty soon the
caorola-wagonnette, with improvements will be
introduced into Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
Is life as fast here as it ever was Yes, 1t is.
| what do you think Of q father aged fifteen and
mother one year less Massachusetts has hitherto
been the Mecca Of puere senilty and precocious
| puberty, and we have all read the recent accounts,
proOaby,of Yankee boy and girl, aged respectively
sixteen and eleven, who made runaway match of
IL, out were subsequently separated by their pa
rehts, VINO apprenticed the boy to a trade, and
packed the girl on 10 boarding school where she
demurely refers TO her husband as ''the old man y
That case has found parallel i'm very elegant and
exclusive FAMILY residing in Wayerly Place The
denoueReu was indeed somewhat premature and
probably neither OF the adolescent parties had
any idea that such extensive oonnubiaI
OAKS would eVentuate from such small
pre-nuptal acorns The young lady who IL inst com.
pleting her fourteenth year. complained OF headache
which, in the eyes OF the family physician, was cana
BILE of a different Interpretation In the course Of
half an hour the elegant repose OF Waverly Place
was broken by an infants wall in the course of
another day. requsition was made at a boarding.
school for boys not q hundred miles away from New
York. for a pupil named Master - and father
mother, and child, whose united ages were few
hours over twenty-nme years, were confronted with
one another; all, doubtless, equally astonished, and
the bOy-father and his baby blubbering with an
Identity OF tone that left no doubt at all as to the
paternity.