The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-04
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NEW YORK, August 4, 1869.
The Chinese Giant, Chang,
has arrtved-thats what's the matter. That ls the
news OF the hour. He is trying TO md accommoda-
uons for himself. None Of the hotels will take him.
and his agent has been brought to the verge Of
desperation in trying to effect satisfactory contract
with him and private clearinghouse keeper. He
is twenty-five years old and nearly nine feet high,
speaks English with interesting celestial twist to
the sentences, and his talk is tall as his person
He is soon to be exhibited at Woods Museum and is
having a drama written expressly for him by
Augustin DAILY. Although material for two three
good-sized men might be sliced off him, he is
only married enough for one, and the
extent Of his family is by no means in proportion to
that of his fame. Chang comes OF a long-linked
family. His elder sister, who is married to manda-
rim, lives in as much seclusion as she can, for
she is slowly towering on TO ten feet, and her height
breaksI through every shelter used to conceal it.
They say the 'growing PAINS she had when child
were agony, she grew to that extent, Like Mr.
Finnys turnip, which obtained poetical celebrity
she grew and she grew but she neer did any harm."
If Augustn Daily (who now has his hands full Of the
Fifth avenue) does not get that play done in time
there is some talk Of revving The Fair MaduO th the
Golden Locks, In order to give Chang the opportunity
OF appearing in the same part in which, some years
ago, Behin the Belgian giant, was so prodiglous.
The TnilOrs of Gotham
have given up making pants for the nonce, an
taken to making pcnics. They demand higher rates
of wages, and for making that demand have been
treated with infinite contempt by the "bOsses."
Yesterday, therefore, they abandoned business en-
tirely-those of them, at least, belonging to the
''Worklng Tailors' Protective and Benevolent
Unon," and mustered in very full force at Jones
Woods. Even concedng that it takes nine tailors to
make man, the representatives at Jones Woods
yesterday must have numbered several thousands.
Nothing happened to mar the occasion. Your
festive tailor is not spoil-sport The only sports
he spols are the untutored young gentlemen to
whom, as result of the tremulousness engen-
dered by strikes, he sends home ill-htting
suits. 1t is said that several houses will to-day
accede to their demands. Yesterday no less than
two hundred custom tallors stood guard at the diff
ferent manufacturing shops ana used every persua-
sion to induce the hands to join them. But it is
neither the journeyman nor the cothier who suffers
most by these strikes. 1t is the middle and upper
classes of people who are obliged to pay the differ
ence in price, Some of these strikers demanded an
increase OF one hundred per cent. The clothing
houses have had more workmen than they cared to
employ, and when the subject is regarded in those
lamps, the demand seems somewhat excessive.
The Demolition of the Buildings
adjoining Stewards retail store, Broadway and Ninth
street, commenced yesterday morning. and it is
computed that within four months the completed
iron building will cover the entire block. 1t will be
magnificent monument to the genius and the mean
ness of money making.
Detectives
have been making very elaborate explorations among
the many Out-of-the-way, obscure rooms with which
Nassau street and the Bowery are hOneyCombed.
They are the lookout for counterfeters, nest of
whom are believed to have ensconced themselves
somewhere in the neighborhood of the park.
Miss Janauschek
has returned to this city, and intends living in
quietude and seclusion in Washington Square, study
ing English, and appearing at intervals in English
tragedy before select audiences OF critics and per-
sonal friends. She has stupendous ambition and
perseverance, These are expressed alike in her in
domtable forehead and progressive chin. When she
makes her mind up to do anything, it means some-
thing. The resolution once taken she sets to work
Immediately. That is Fanny Janauschek. Her
present ambition is to be the first actress upon the
English stage Her private representation Of "Lady
Macbeth" in the spring, before she sailed for
Europe, gave promise that, by arduous effort, she
would be able almost entirely to throw Off the accent
which has spoiled 50 many Teutontc triumphs, and
rendered nugatOry the best ambitions Of thick
tongued Germans.
SSThat'' Seu-serpent,
which has struck sHch terror to the souls OF bathing
gamns along the wharves and piers OF New York, is
again spoken of. Indeed, one OF the suburbs here
has Just organized a company for its capture.
The Board of Health
is energetically pushing on the work OF eXtermina-
ton among the underground tenements. About two
thousand tenement-hOuse inhabitants have already
been routed out and forced to find homes elsewhere
The commissioners engaged in the task meet with
more opposition from landlords than from the tene-
ment occupants themselves. These depart, no one
knows where. Some turn their attention to tramp
ing, and through the glens, and groves, and high
ways, and by-ways OF Europe pursue calling which
comes natural to them. Others augment the hordes
of thieves, burglars, and kidnappers who, during
the summer months, swarm around police courts
like flies around molasses kegs. A few mount one
step higher in the grade of social life, and by dnt of
harder industry and more mouth-pnching manage
to stand the increased expense. That every one Of
these subterranean tenements pest-hole is be-
yond q doubt, and by clearing them out the abused
Boord OF Health has saved itself from an odium it
could not well afford to incur. ALI BABA.
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