The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-29

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NEW YORK, April 20, 1899.
In the city OF New York the first of May usually
commences about the twenty-ffth of April Moving
in and moving out are simultaneous. The poetic
idea Of May exists no more The cartmen and the
Bddies are the only 'zephyrs with Aurora playing as
they meet them out a-Mayng", But it is not proba-
BILE that the cartmen will make more or the Biddies
break more this than previous years Indeed, there
is every probability that both make and break will be
less. The price of CARLOAD moved for only one
mile will be $40 the average but then less number
Of carloads will be moved Many people who do move
will move out of the city instead OF over the way,
and the suburbs will brim to the depletion of the me-
tropolis The landlords have raised their rents-Of
course. That was to be expected. The few who
prefer submitting to the extort0n OF landlords rather
than TO the eXtortion of cartmen, will grumbhngy
pay the additional hundreds. The many who scent
prosperity amid the green suburbs will witness the
smashing of their crOckery and furniture with dis
mayed eyes, and dole out the cart-hre the cormo-
rants of greenback with sick hearts, thinking TO in
demnify themselves with the rich cream and the
mellow churnings of the ctys outskirts, and the
fresh breathings of natures double atmosphere TO
he found there. 1t is mainly among the middle class
of houses that rents have gone up. The private
dwelling which rented last year for 5000 will rent
this for $780, and the modest little mansion tina
used to be leased for $4,000 will bring in future $1,000
or $780, The midde-class landlord is for the
most part quite invunerable. He is not to he per
suaded appeased After your having been his
tenant for fifteen years, he will witness your depar
ture with signs of elation. No arguments soften him
You may move yourself and your chattels, but you
cannot ''move' him. ..
A number OF benevolent ladies and gentlemen are
taking q great interest in the establishment OF
public washing place for poor people. Considering
how hemmed in we are, hydraulicaly speaking, the
public baths OF New York are very poor indeed.
Water, water everywhere, and not drop to
bathe in. The proposed plan for using the water
around the Battery for bathing purposes is absurd.
The flow from the sewers renders it very impure.
Governors Island would make a much better in
fact a quite uneXceptionable locality 1t is sur
rounded by pure water, and is now altogether use
less for any other purposes beyond bathing
The Cuban affair, under the auspices OF the 'Junta
Patrotica," opened very brilliantly. How could it
do otherwise when Oakley Hall was absent and
O'Gorman took his place? The seventeen tables are
presided exclusively by brunette beauties. The
American, not the English, blonde was there in full
force They sold the articles on the tables at re-
morseless prices. These fair charitable cheaters
might almost be arragned for obtaining money
under false pretenses, for they bbed about the
ket value OF the various Obets de ueta with spirits
light their compilations and hearts as false as
their hair.
During the recent phantom-photograph examine
ton, Mumler made the paintive remark in reply to
the permission of the Judge for him to proceed in his
business that he could not proceed as it had been
ruined by his arrest. Nothing can be less true.
Notorety is the best advertisement nowadays, and
people who never heard Of Mumler before will now
flock to his galleries and pay down the ten dollars
for the privilege of possessing photographs OF the
dear and dead-the respective ''sainted Maras' and
'1ittle Williams" Mumler is great man. man
only requires to be well kicked TO become SO.
-Four French grotesque male dancers, named Clo-
doche, Flajalet, Normande, and Comet, are to ap-
pear before very long at Nblo's. The Black CrOok
ala he IN no I'm eV
dence of it. The rush to all places OF amusement
proves that the public taste is versatile rather than
depraved. The Forty ThieoeS and Humpty- -DuHlpty
are not the only pieces well attended and well ap-
plauded. The receipts at Booths are second only to
| those at Niblos What the people will not stand is
| mediocrty. They will rather support good panto-
| mime than bad Shakespearian revival.
And so, truly, ALI BABA.