The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-03
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From Our Olon Correspondent

BY what claim do they make Gotham their
headquarters, adulterate our Newly orkisms with
their Virulent Anglicisms, suddenly disappear
from first-class hotels, vitiate the metropolitan
stage, and introduce fresh element of demorali-
cation among the police courts The aurife-
rously-haired blondes of Britain commenced the
onslaught, and English dramatic critics, the sons
OF English gentlemen, and impecunious English
vagabonds, have kept it up. Lydia Thompson
and her sandy-haired songstresses found us ripe
for victimization, and since they commenced
their work, British Bohemians of every
grade have been pattering down upon us in
small driblets. The more penness of these find
IN hotel and restaurant keepers what they con-
slider fair game. One of them went, on Satur-
day, into the Western Hotel, in Courtlandt street.
with an immense appetite under his vest and
ten cents in postage currency in his vest pocket.
He ordered dinner. By-thc-way, why cant
dinner at such places be served up c. O. D.-I
am not referring to the fish which
these initials might stand for, but
to the mercantile principle known as
''cash on delivery" To return to the English
man in question, however, he ordered a bowl of
soup, some blue fish, one dozen broiled oysters,
two plates of roast beef, two plates of boiled
mutton, five cups of tea, bottle of Pale East
India, some doughnuts, and all the vegetables on
the bill of fare. Having disposed of this frugal
meal and satisfied the inner man. he prepared
TO satisfy the outer One-the man at the desk
near the door. Approaching him. with all the
delicacies he had swallowed assimiating them
selves into a homogeneous whole, he rendered
the ten cent piece in payment thereof. The
clerk apparently did not understand the rule of
'partial payment" at least not as the Bohemian
intended to enforce it, and the result was that
Albion's gormandizing son was taken before
Judge Bowling, and sent to the island for
three months.
Miss Lydia Thompson,
who deserves mention as blonde actress that
made some sensation last season at NiblOs, babe
farewell to every tier and wiped her weeping
eyes on Saturday night to house crowded in
every part If notes, and jewelry, and cham
payne bottles, smuggled among presentation
baskets of fruit and flowers be the just tribute to
artistic worth, then is Miss Thompson the
'artiste" she styles herself. If they only the
flimsy expressions of frivolous taste, why then
no one need be surprised mt such Miss Nancy
ish wordists as Richard Grant White writing
silly stuff about her in muddle-headed month
lies Miss Thompson pleases by the magnetism of
her joyous animal spirits and beautiful physique.
blonde of beauty is a joy forever when
the eternity is limited to season of forty-nne
weeks She can dance well, sing IA little, and
pronounce the words of her part distinctly. Her
figure is very fine, and so is the opportunity she
gives the public of beholding it. She smiles with
freshness and joyousness which belong to the
woman more than the actress, and which are very
winsome and beyond the reach of stage trickery.
Having conceded these merits, there remains no
other within my cognizance; and since the pub
lie choose to be satisfied with these, Miss
Thompson, in Il certain sense, deserves the great
success which, taking the season rs a whole,
she has won. She now goes West and South;
returns here in March, 1870, and goes thence to
California and Australia. Some day or other,
perhaps, when Miss Lydia has ceased to be at
tractive, she will write moral articles against the
Nude Drama in PdcEGrdS Monthly. For my
part, / prefer the Naked Drama to the Naked
Truth, and spangled breeches to cheeky
twaddle.
Mr.. Murray-not Dominick, but William
II. H. Murray-who lately published book
entitled
The AdirondacIxs or, Life in the Wilderness,
has been doing very bad service to the old
visitors of those romantic and beautiful forests.
His book has circulated more among New
Workers than the inhabitants of any other State,
and has induced thousands to spend the summer
in a locality hitherto almost unknown. 1t is
calculated that no less than five thousand souls
have visited the Adirondacks since the first of
June, whereas in former seasons one-twenty
fifth of that number would probably have
been an exaggerated estimate. The
guides who formerly would be
engaged for party of two at $3.50 per day
now demand ten dollars per day, and there
one guide to every fifty persons. The register
books at the hotels and resting-paces in the
,,;o;n;ty of ha WiIderneas are dpriSiVelV scrih-
bled with the name Murray" written by sneer-
ing and disappointed sojourners in quest of
health, and underneath appear the fatal
stigmas, fraud, -" 'humbug," pill" and other
epithets descriptive of the opinion entertained
of him by the writers. For all romantic pur-
poses. and especially for New Workers, with
whom the beauty of the Adirondacks was a
boast, Mr.. Murray, with his books has effectually
DESTROYED the interest of the Wilderness. He
has filed it with fashion-mOngers and drawing
room diLettante, who romanticize on balsam
boughs and carry on a convalescent Irritation on
hemlock branches. AT the present moment the
Adirondack forests are full of gentle dyspeptics,
who enjoy their disease and play at getting well.
The idea that is at present occupying the New
York mind is how to effect
Rapid Travel Throughout the City.
IL is not very long since the tunnel and the
arcade railways underwent very animated dis
cussion, maintained both by press and people
The arcade offered very great advantages, but
was finally abandoned owing to the very greal
opposition shown it by property-owners.M The
Tunnel idea was also abandoned on account o.
! the immense amount of money and time tina
would require to be expended upon 1t. Genera
Viele the Baron Haussmann of New York. has
,,at idea which he is trying to realize. 1t is u