The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-28
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The Subject of VelOcipe pedism,
having improvised street into riding rink
Bedford avenue connects what is known as the
Eastern District of Brooklyn with Prospect Park,
ana is at present in process OF being paved with
the Scrimshaw pavement, which, when com
pleted, will extend for two and half miles The
Scrimshaw pavement, as your readers are
aware, presents surface almost as smooth
as that of dancing-hal, unbroken by
cutters and ridges. The temptations it
presents to velocipedestrians are therefore quite
Irresistible as Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, every
night proves Velocipedes by the score are to
be found there, and can only be compared in
number and ferocity to those malignant animal
cul@ which inhabit drop of water and which
the microscope reveals in all their native horror.
Only four blocks of the avenue are laid; but If
the remaining number are occupied in degree
proportionate to these four, all the velocipede
Kinks of both New York and Brooklyn would be
required to compete with them. When the
avenue is inished, it is expected to connect Cen
tral and Prospect Parks. The roadway will be
the most magnificent one in New York. and the
only fear expressed is contained in the doubt,
will the Scrimshaw pavement last?"
4 A charming little story, illustrative of
Mr.. A. T. Stewards Graceful Ge nerOsity
and exquisite kindness of heart has just com .
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uptown store, numerous young boys between
twelve and fifteen years of age. The morning
before recent public holiday one of these little
fellows made his way into the solemn presence
of the great merchant, and, with mixture of
4 mischievousness and pure good-heartedness
wished him many happy returns of the day. 1t
was mere outburst of vivacity and simple
heartedness on the boys part. For moment
or two the merchant prince regarded the little
well-wisher with the semblance of a stern kind
liness, which he tapered off with these remark
able words:-
''You oughtnt to be seen here with such bad
shoes as those on. Here's five dollars to buy
/ another pair WITH" at the same time handing
the little shaver that sum- The youth went away
beaming, blushing, and delighted. Mr.. Stewart
had smiled upon him; Mr. Stewart had given
him money; Mr. Stewart was a great man, a
B good man, the idol of that boys heart, the prn-
4 clpal object that loomed up in the benedictory
portions of the prayers of his widowed mother.
Judge of the surprise of mother and son. then,
4 when, the month being ended, and payday
4 coming around they discovered that the munif-
/ cent gift of five dollars had been deducted from
the boys salary. There are some people who
will discredit this story, and believe to their
dying day that Mr.. SIS piety and charity are
ssupendous but the truth is that his efforts after
such reputation are par with his frantic
endeavors to get into good society. The best
society here will not receive him, in spite of his
immaculateness and his millions. The people
whose presence at his grand entertainments he
most profoundly desires, obstinately refuse to
come. With people whose position or whose
native nobility helps them to despise mere
wealth, he is personally unpopular and no
amount of maneuvring has caused him to sue
ceed in being classed as zone of us"
That Missing Englishman,
Mr. H. Percival Stebbing, respecting whom so
many romantic hypothesis have been urged, has
j at length came to light. Hewill be remembered
as the interesting young Britisher the ''scrump-
tious cockney," who went to take his walks
abroad one morning before breakfast, somewhere
towards the latter part of May, and who was
never heard from until June 26. At that date a
4 note bearing his signature was handed to the
proprietors of the Brevoort House, bearing the
announcement that he would call in person
within a day or two. The day or two expended
itself on last Monday when a stranger walked
into the elegant parlors of that exclusive estab-
q lishment, habited in an attire which, to say the
least, was questionable and demoralized. A
sugar-loaf hat was stuck on his head, and pair
of corduroy trousers were tucked
inside the legs of a pair Of dilapidated
boots. The shirt he wore was of the color of
brown Holland, and his general appearance was
emnently suggestive of another kind of Holland
usually employed in connection with gin. All
that could be obtained from the interesting
stranger was that his name was H. Percival
Stebbing, that he had been to Buffalo, and that,
not liking it, he had returned to the Brevoort
House. The web of romance was never more
ruthlessly pulled to pieces by the hand of pro-
sale fact than. in the case of Mr.. Stebbing, in
whose Buffalo adventures the public will dis
cover nothing to console them for his having
escaped the Morgue or one of the police courts,
He will be boxed up and sent home to his anx-
GUS father in London next Saturday.
The Central Park Gardens
have greatly improved since last year in the
quality of their audiences. 1t is there that Theo
dore Thomas holds his nightly concerts, with the
best orchestra in the country, assisted by Mr.
= Levy, the only solo cornet-a-pistonist $50 tC
speak) in the world. Last season American
women were chary in visiting place which the,
regarded as at least equvocal. This season tn,
= saloons are thronged with respectfully and ele
W gantly-dressed women accompanied by thei
husbands, lovers, brothers. and fathers. Their
Il is no reason why this German freedom shoult
not creep into this phase of American manners
At the Central Park Gar lens you hear for TWEEN
ty-fye cents (the price of admission) bette
music than it is possible to get at nineteenth
Ot the grand concerts" given at the re
gular concert halls during the regula
seasons and although drinks of every kind ar
sold in abundance, no one is expected to drin
as the natural and inevitable result of attendin
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