The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-21

Chinese vs.. Irish Labor.

struggle between John Chinaman and Biddy
OFlherty will be brief and bloodless, beautiful
andbrght. She has had long run, and has at
lenth run herself into the ground. Mr.. Koop-
mashoup, the celebrated Chinese cooe agent
is already looking around him, making up his
mnd as to what can be done relative to Cecs-
It'd importation into this country. writer in a
recent number of the Atlantic Monthly has pre-
dcted that ere many moons wane the help
i our kitchens will be Mongolian. Almond
ged cooks will manufacture our mutton broth,
md copper-complexione Ganymedes will take
he places of the Celtic pages of to-day. San
Francisco editorials aver that one Chinese male
cook is better than q score of Irish feminine
dittoes. New York is the city where the first
experiment in this new kind of labor is to be
made By-and-by Mongolan Francatcl will
supersede the culinary ethics of Professor Blot;
and the GALAXY, which is devoting good deal
of attention to kitchen literature, will come out
with series of articles the edibility of rats.
The coolies will be desirable acquisition to
the kitchen. True, housekeepers complain that
theyhave had broken china enough there already,
but when the coolie comes it will be the English
that will be broken, Mr.. Koopmanshoop, the
coole agent, does not intend confning his OBJ
servations to the North. He will go South in due
time, take note of things there, and, if he re-
the importation of Chinese help on a big scale.
! Let the wearied housekeeper, then, whether she
live in Philadelphia or New York, in German
town or Hoboken, allow her eye to rest on
this Mongolian rainbow of hope Her life need
no longer remain scene of culinary terror.
The Biddy epoch is well-nigh over. The hour
is at hand when the intelligence-ofllces shall
be crowded with cooks and chambermaids seek
ing situations and finding none; and three
months from now / expect to see Bridget
OFlanigan offering her services at one dollar
per week, and rejected at that.
Crowded Street Cars.
plan has been suggested by which the dis
comfort, from which business men suffer so
much, of riding to and from their places of susi
ness in crowded cars is to be done away with.
The passenger cars which traverse the avenues,
though theyrun at brief intervals, are so crowded
morning and evening" that no one who does not
, occupy seat from the time the car leaves the
endor commencement of the route stands much
chance of getting seat. Directly passenger
car reaches the terminus of n route, it sIboarded
by score or two of people, who do not even
wait for those within it to 'disembark.' The
car is full before it is ready to start,
and so much the worse for those who get in
after. OF course this is particularly the case at
merest chance you obtain seat when once the
car has left its terminus. The sexes are put on
perfect equality in the rush that is made for
seats Men are bad enough in this respect in
Philadelphia, but they are worse in New York.
Few indeed are the occasions when man rises
and gives his seat to a woman. Be she old or
young, rich or poor, fashionable or dowdy, re-
fined or coarse empty-handed or weighted with
q bundle or baby, it is, as q rule, all the same
to him. He keeps his seat and ignores her pre-
sence. l don't believe that even Miss An
thony or Mrs. Stanton would at morning or
evening, be treated, in one of these ave-
nue. cars with the common civility
which, in almost all other circumstances, men
show to women. 1t is one of the repulsive
isms of the city, this barbarism of the city pas
senger railway cars Every car is jumbled,
jostled mass of legs, arms, and bodies squeezed
together most heterogeneously. Comfort is out
of the questions and it is in this plight that
business men and women are forced to ride
down town in the morning and up town at night,
three hundred times year. This state of things
a certain person proposes to remedy. The
name of that person is Fisk. He has been
mentioned once or twice before in
these letters. He is Fisk without the
Sc" and is distant connection of
Thompson with a p. Like 'BIr. Toodes'" friend,
it is very handy to have him in the house (par-
ticularly the opera house,, because he is all the
time suggesting nice little convenient things,
and entering into nice little engagements which
he breaks as readily as the commandments. His
last idea, however, promises well. He wants to
open a ferry line, running up and down the
North and East rivers, stopping at any number
of points intermediate between the termini, and
charging only ten cents for the round trip. His
plan is to kill two birds with one
stone, and hit both business and plea
sure The new ferry is intended both
to relieve business people from the discomfort of
our crowded cars, and to provide them with
cheap daily jaunt. Steamers will leave the
docks at the foot of West Thirty-fourth street,
and at Fulton ferry, every hour The idea,
say, is good one; but will it ever be put into
execution? am afraid Mr.. Fisk is laying down
a perfect Nicolson pavement of good resolu-
tions in a certain place Like Signor Blitz, he
manages to keep dozen plates up at once-only
now and then a solitary platter which has escaped
his notice for the moment tumbles over,
and goes to the demnition bow vows. That's
what's the matter.
weddings in n Police Court.
The Fifth avenue churches are not the only
places in which fashionable marriages occur
Jefferson Market Police Court is sometimes
favored with an aristocratic wedding. Not very
long ago the nuptials of a Bourbon prince was
solemnized there, and on Monday another noble
doye-tailing of blood and birth was consum-
mated The bridegroom was Count Leon Eu-
oene de Saint CLAIR, third Baron dOlney, OF
Eronca and the bride was Miss Louisa Fanny