The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-30
THINGS IN NEW YORK.
The workingmen's Interest-The Rage
for r. cal Estate Observation-Disclosures
Great Char1ty-How the Spring Trade
Ia Openfn9-rhe Theatre al World, &c.
A New York letter of the 25th instant says


A New York letter of the 18th instant says
The workingmen are getting ready Tor .
more general and vigorous movement aesinst
capital than they hsye yet attempted. Iney
declare that employers must recognize the
eight hours law, and all other laws and acts
passed in the interests OF labor, and they pro
pose, as the chairman of o large work1ngmens
meeting held las. night said, "to tell the leg
islators that they cannot with impunity ignore
their lust rights any longer Among the mat
ters claiming immediate attention, this chair
man also said, are amendments to the eight
hours law, convict labor, apprenticeship, and
lien law that will provide for the protection OF
to without delay.
THE REAL ESTATE MANIA
suffers no a.atement. Not only in New York,
but all around New York, and especially on
Long Island and in Westchester County, build
ing lots are going of by the hundred at prices
that would have appeared fabulous ten years
ago. In the neighborhood Of the Central Park,
for instance and along the lew Boulevard on
the west side of the city, lots which could ha 'e
been bought in 1860 for $500 to $4,000 now
readily bring $4,000 to s26 0O0. In West
small tracts lately used tor gardening have
been laid out in building lots this season, and
sold at prices which the owners never dreamed
of realizing. But this sort of speculation has
been car lied rather too for, and parties looking
Tor lots are becoming cautious about touching
land outside of the city. Just now we hear
the stereotyped cry that rents and prices OF
real estate can't 60 any higher; tnat both walt
soon tumble with crash, aad that it Is dan
gerous to put money in houses or lots. This
may be half true, but not more. The demand
for house oom in New York must increase
every year, and as the supply on anhattan
Island cannot be increased, think there is
not much danger of prices going down. But
there is an immense amount OF ground on thus
island still to be built upon-enough, should
say, to last fifty years at least; and by the tune
it is covered, Long Island and Winchester
County will be parts Of the city, connected
with it by bridges, and more easy OF access,
perhaps, than Madison avenue is now from the
City Hall. Suspension bridges and under
ground railways will do The work.
eTEwART GREAT PROJECT.
There is no longer any doubt about MIR.
Stewards intent on to build home for work.
ing women, that will long keep his memory
green with that deserving class at least. The
building will stand on Fourth Avenue, between
Thirty-fist and Thirty-second streets, and will
cost, with the ground, about 50 000. 600. THIS
will probably y cover the expense OF fitting 1t up
also. The home will not be elcemcsynary
institution, as some may imagine, but simply
q place in which respectable women and girls
can have the comforts Of homo at moderate
COST. or its success We alre:dy hear many
doubts expressed. The workins-women's home
opened over year ago in Elizabeth-Street has
no. answered the expectations of its friends
The neighborhood is very much against it
few respectable girls would be seen in that
quarter if they could afford to live in a better
one; and occasionally a girl Of not very good
character gets in and causes trouble. This, 1t is
feared, will be danger against which the man.
ayers OF Mr.. Stewards home will have TO be
ons:aptly on their guard. 1t has given the
managers of the home in Elizabeth. street a
great deal Of tr ,uble; in fact. at one time it
threatened to break up tre establishment, and
if it once gets into the larger and botter cstab-
lisament that MIR. Stewart is about to erect, it
Tanv @ nasoas SSS t Woad bs b nSsh bsesf
for Mr. Stewart to put up few blocks OF good
tenement houses f r poor families. on a plan
similir to that carried out in London by Mr..
Peabody. Most of the tenements lately built
in New York are constructed on much better
plan, for heath and comfort, than the OLD
ones, but the rent PLACES them beyond the
reach of poor men. From twenty to torty
dollsrs month is more than these can afford
to pay.
THE SPRING TRADE.
The great e1pecta ions inspired by the prom
ises and predictions of what Grant would do as
soon as he should get into the White House,
have not yet oeen realized by our business
men. Trade is not what it was expected to be.
Buyers from the South and West are here 10
plenty, and the importers and j5bbers are busy
enough showing. goods ana making small
sales; but the activity they looked for month
ago is still to come. The very large houses
are dong fair amount Of business, but the
second and third class are not doing any better
than they did this time last year, when all were
complaining. There is time enough yet for the
wholesale trade to pick up and become quite
lively, and possibly it will improve very much be-
fore May; but this is more OF Q hppe than an cx-
pectation. Except in the large houses on
Broadway, the retail trade is very backward.
This should not be, for the weather tor three
weeks past has been just the kind to make this
trade brisk But the small storekeepers COM
plain that the large ones elcroach upon them
more and more every year, and nave iefG tnem
scarcely o chance to make bread and butter for
their families. have heard OF several dry
goods men in the Bowery and the avenues
having sunk from $4,000 to SIC, 600 in their busi-
ness las: year, while>au the Broadway houses
had good balance on the right side OF the
rage However it may be elsewhere, 1t Is Ger
tainly true tina; in New York the large houses
are steadily absorbing the small ones, and the
process is pretty sure to go on.
THEATRICAL MATTERS.
Mr. Flsk's manager is very busy with prepa-
rations for "The Tempest" which is to be
brought out on Easter Monday night at the
Grand Opera House. 1t is to be produced in
magnificent style. and 1 nope the puolic will
appreciate Mr.. Fisk's enterprise and reaiuner-
ale him for it. But the puolic does NOT always
do its duty to Shakespeare aud the managers
who resurrect him occasionally. MIR. Wallace
produced Much Ado About Nothing" IN
style that never was eXcelled 10 New York, and
while this unapprecistiye public put about
S25, 900 in his treasury during one month, 1t
went down to Nlblo's, where the "Forty
Thieves" were exhibiting their legs. and gave
the manager about 1000 for the privilege OF
looking at them. MaretzcK's season OF Italian
Opera at the Academy closes this week. 1t
has been great deal moro successful than su-
ticipated. The Academy has been filled
everv night since the season opened;
the audiences have been select and enthusi-
astic, aud the manager has put nice little
sum in his pocket after t.::ng expenses. Max
intends to organize strongi.r company fof
the next season. Grau has setl! ed upon Eas er
.Ionday night for the producl lou OF La VIC
Parss.pr,ne, and will make the occasion his own
" TESTIMONIAL night. The announcement that
"La Vie Parisienn." is the nastiest OF oil the
nasty French operas yet brought to New YORK
has awakened marvellous INT crest in II, and
no doubt it will .be we'll patronlzed. The JAR
din Mabllle itself, whera the Can-Can origin
ated is to be represent I'd on the stage anu the
dialogue is of that spicy double eafendre kind
80 popular. n the refined circles o. Ptrlsian in
decency. These are guarantees that ouble-
refined New York will make dead set for the
French Theatre nsx5 week, aad give Manager
Grau bumper at parting. He takes his troupe
! in, fnIy