The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-12

Fvm Oar oiSn Correspondent
NEW YORK, NOV. IL, 1859.
Another New Hotel.

NEW YORK. Nov. l2, 1869.
Another New Hotel.
II having been abundanty demonstrated that New
Workers capable OF sppreciating the beauties Of
nrstclass hotel, new one is to be built upon the
site OF the old Lafarge House. The remark
that It Will be the largest contamination OF the kind
witnessed in the United States is Of per-
fectly supernuous and the statement that 1t is to
cost fifteen hundred thousand dollars is equally gra-
tuitous. To the readers of THE TELEGRAPH familiar
with Broadway it may be unnecessary to explain
that the Lafarge House is situated upon that tho
roughfare, between Amity and Bleecker 1t has re-
manned untenanted since the destruction of the
Winter Garden Theatre two years and half
ago. Finally, last March, 1t was put up at auction
by the heirs of the estate, and purchased for one
million dollars by Mr.. T.. s. Higgins. Since then the
plan OF building the biggest hotel In America has
been budding and blossoming in that gentleman's
fructiferous mind 1t Is to contain six hundred
rooms onehalf OF which TO be split up into par
lors. The dining-room will seat seven hundred
guests at once, and about five hundred dollars
to be lavished on furniture aud upholstery. The
walls OF the old hotel fronting upon Broadway are to
remain just as they are but the entrance is to be
enlarged and Of course improved 1t is to be COM
pleted next June, and opened in August under the
name OF the Southern Hotel Making allowance for
deficiency OF present calculations, the entire cost OF
construction and appointments will amount 10 nearer
two millions than one.
The Lecture season.
Lecturers have not shown themselves extremely
brisk thus far During this week we have had
the average two lecturers for every night. Among
them Kate Field, on the 'Back Fly Club;' Prof,
F. L. Ritter, the "History OF 5iusic; George Will
liam Curtis, american Litcrature;' John u.
Cough, on Temperance" :" Mr. AEman, on "Dcvel-
oping Manliness; = the Rev. Charles il. PaysOn on
the "Tyrolese Alps" and the Rev. r. d. Talmagc "a
Philadelphia favorlte) on the "llocEs on which Peo-
pie Split" Next Thursday Miss Olive Logan who's
cautiously criticized by the New York press, is to
lecture at Steinway Hall upon "Girls" Miss Logan
was girl herself-at least, In her book about
ssWomen" she says that ten years ago she was in
her seventeenth year. Being In such near sympathy
with maidenhood, therefore, there is every reason
TO believe she can say something good about it.
Madame Anna Bishop.
The biography attached to the programme OF
Madame Bishops concerts begins with the statement
that Madame Anna Bishop Schultz tlcc Rviere) was
born In London but forgets to mention the date-an
item which becomes OF more and more interest the
more one contemplates her well-preserved face and
figure, and listens to her voice. At the commence
ment Of Napoleon the Firsts Egyptian campaign his
soldiers were thrtngly informed tlaG from the sum-
init of yonder pyramids forty centuries looked down
upon them and iAis impossible to say which is the
pleasanter sensation of the two, to be looked down
upon by forty centuries from the pyramids, or by
two-thirds OF century from the stage OF Stcinway
Hall. The audience at Steinway, which large
and old-fogyish, seemed to consider IL pleasant and
applauded Madame Bishop as heartily as
though she had been younger singer, with
tresher voice. A new element in the conccrt-room
not exactly as piping as his soJriqUct, is deficient in
almost every quality that constitutes acceptable
concert singer Neither in the voice the person
of Madame Bishop is there perceptibe any difference
from those with which she pleased the public here
four five years ago. and at the conclusion of the
performance she carried away enough bouquets to
set up a goodsized florists shop. For that among
other things, presume, are we prime dotHc.
Those Mediums.
Nothing that has been said or done against the
mediums seems enough 20 prevent foolish people
from going to them. At Irving Hall Miss
Tackaberry has been holding forth for the last few
evenings, proving the immortality Of the soul by
allowing her hands and feet to be tied up, and add
ing equally conclusive arguments To those Of Plato
by jngling bells in q dark cabinet, and singing
''villikns and his Diual in falsettO through lips
sealed together with black stickingplaster. l see
you have mad q meeting Of atheists and other sorts
of inndcls in Philadelphia. Wait till Miss TaCka-
berry comes on, and she'll convert you. Nobody
with logical mind can refuse TO doubt the exist
ence OF God after he has once beheld spiritually
united rope adjusted round the tops Of Miss Tacka-
berry's boots; and who that pretends to ray Of
reason could refuse to accept hand thrust through
a lozenge-shaped opening as an unanswerabc de-
monstration of the reality of the life everlasting?
Fisk and Freight.
1t is a mistake TO suppose That Mr.. FISK is dead.
lie has only been hiding his light under bushe for
little while, for the sake of setting it in tall can
dle-stick at a most unexpected moment. Owing to
his industry the tari on freight between Pater
The increase is five cents per hundred weight, or
one dollar per ton, and the order for the increase
obligngly explains thai for "termina expenses"
OF course there are not wanting those who insist
that this charge is Illegal, that the charter OF the
Paterson and Hudson River Railroad Company, over
whose track the Erie cars run, authorizes Il
charge OF only five cents per hundred weight,
that the Erie was afterwards permitted an extra
charge OF three cents for tunnellng expenses, and
subsequently three cents additional on account Of
fhaG aapf fay fhn an
eXpressmen are to hold mass meeting at the opera
house in Paterson, to decide upon what action to
take. The new express line to be conducted
under tile name of Fucr's Paterson and New York
E. press and Mir. Fuller solennly asserts that the
Gete Fisk has nothing whatsoever to do with it
so keep him Erie
SI,OOO,O0O Market!
That is what are TO have at the foot OF Thirty
fourth street. North river in order to keep company
with the new hotels and the new POST once
ALI BABA