The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-08

from Our 0iOn Correspondent


. rrt POuItIco Pavements.
1t Is with this kind of pavement that Fifth avenue
Is supplied at present 1t is otherwise known the
concrete and in this early stage OF its use has been
proved to be fraud Of the deepest dye Three dol
lars per square yard is the rate at which the nhabl-
tants OF Fifth avenue have paid for bargain which
on dry days fills the street with dust OF the worst
Kind, and I'm wet becomes transformed into one big
black poultice. The corners OF the intersection
of Fourteenth street and the avenue are almost
impossible, owing to the slippery mud with which
the pavement is poultlced. How the brilliant little
bottine8 that pedestrianate thereabouts manage to
get across without detriment to their pedal polish is
more than can understand; and the spectacle of a
neatly booted gentleman hesltating on the curb be-
fore he takes the fatal plungeyor giving the every
where-present crossing-sweeper five cent piece to
purge the way for him, is sight as wholesome as it
is frequent. Perhaps, also, this poultce
pavement has something to do with the
increase OF the bootblacks' customers along that
fashionable thoroughfare. Certain it is that
rous bootblacks have set up their chairs their Stools
and their knee-pads there, and that they seemIto
thrive Nor has the failure Of the concrete pave
ment thus far hndered its being laid down else
where. The dsmayed inhabitants OF Seventeenth
street survey with speechless Indignation the pre-
parations that are making to poutice that locality.
Already the fatal coat Of tar is spread and to-day
the workmen are at work securing full con-
ception to the gutinous idea that was yesterday in
embryo there. All this is done to put money into
the pockets OF contractors. Already many parts Of
Fifth avenue have had the concrete stripped and
cut away by the ruts manufactured by heavy vehi-
cles and are bald In spots like old bachelor bare
footed on top OF his head before his time.
Madame Anna Bishop
will make her first appearance in this city next
wednesday evening, after an absence OF four years
In common with every other pr5nlo donna that ever
existed and that ever will exist, Madame Bishops
voice has grown better as it has grown older and it
is understood that she brings back from her wander
fraah aa
menced. By-the-by, what books these muchtravelled
prime donne ought to be able to write what lee
lures to deliver, When Madame Bishops voice is
quite gone, and presume it will give token soon
enough not to take by SURPRISE theecturers field
is still open to her, and there is a chance OF our
being RECALLED with sort of Lola-Montez- -Ida-Pfef-
ferism like the conjuror's two rabbits rolled into
one She indeed may be said TO have learned in suf-
ciency what she teaches in songl hard tack, occa-
sionally, may be termed hard luck, and shipwrecks
may be classed with shattered hopes. Among her
assistants during the coming concerts are Signor
Georgia Ronconi, NJ. Kowalsk pianist and composer,
and Jeems Pipes of Pipesvie, alias Mr. Stephen
Massett The tickets are low-priced, being placed at
one dollar, including reserved seat.
The WOmnn's Council
met again on Saturday afternoon at Pac&ard's Train
ing School Rooms at the corner of Twenty-second
and Broadway DR.. Anna Densmore in the chair. No
business of any Importance was transacted beyond
the registration of the names OF such ladies as
wished to enroll themselves members OF the parlia-
ment new design that was broached was the
publication of new paper, to be called the WOnan's
World The title is excellent, and the next thing is
10 find good editress. Sooner or later she will
come to light.
Since the private view on Wednesday night the
Academy of Design
has been deserted the attendance certainly not
raging more than twenty people. Some OF the pic
lures are so palty to disgrace any serious coec-
tion of works of art, and it is these very ones,
regret to say, which elected most attention
ALI BABA,