The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-14

why City Hall Park, to be sure.
There is always something going on over at It.
Stagnation never broods there. IL is as full OF life as
a drop of water or q womans tongue, or hen on
hot gridde. To-day 1t is parade 0n New York
there is usually parade five days out OF the seven);
Tomorrow presentation of colors; the day after
review the fourth day a mad dog; the nfth ode
termined" suicide; the sixth general arrest Of the
professional loafers there; the seventh discharge
OF cannon. 1t matters not what, q crowd collects
instantly Indeed, City Hall Park might be described
az q self. f.acting crowd collector. The large open
space in front of the old City Hall takes just time
at all to I'LL. The crowd improvises itself with won
derful Tapdity.
You look for II, and it is not, and 10!
Zen while you look the peerless crowd isup
Its day however, is well-nigh over The new Post
once will do away with all its public and private
displays of bummerism. An elegant plaza is to
supersede the present Sahara-ike expanse that
spreads to the south Of the old City Hall.
on Sunday Mr. Chapns church, situated at the
corner OF Forty-sixth street and Fifth avenue,
CLOSED most successful season. In order to add
brilliancy to the affair, q free musical enter
tainment was thrown in, in which some Of the best
singers in the city assisted. Beyond doubt, Mr.
Chapin will be re-engaged for next season. Tn ],
house is always full when he appears and he is on
excellent terms with the treasurer-perhaps should
say the trustees. Children in arms not admitted
except TO baptism; and, owing to the extreme heat
of the weather and the fatigue incident to the artists
This summer New York has become more than
ever resort for SoutheTners and Cubans Between
June and October the rich and the fashionable New
Workers of course out of town, either in Europe
or at some of the American waterng-places. 1t Is
then that the Southerners flock hitherward This
summer has been more particularly noticeable for tn
number OF Cubans who have made it their tempo
rary home. You encounter them everywhere-on
the street. in church. at the theatre in the park, out
shopping busy getting accmated as quickly as pos
sible. Fourteenth Sixteenth, and Twenty-third
streets full Of them, and the twilight pedestrian
along any OF these streets, west Of Fifth avenue,
Will find himself regaed with the sight OF
many a dark-eyed Cuban beauty, exquisitely
dressed and making the best possible use of her
large and ianguid eyes, rolling them with a
sort of drowsy and romantic ogle, as though
they were certain of conquest but were too supine
to make much effort to it, In fact the Cu0ans
seem quite content to make this city their summer
watering-pace. II God made the country, and man
made the town. it took both together to make New
York for it certainly has all the advantages OF the
CITY, with many of those Of the country. The
Cubans have discovered this, and, having located
themselves in hrst-class boarding houses, cry "Ala-
bama here we rest!" They show no disposition to
leave this beautiful city, and don't believe that
Newport, or Saratoga, or West Poirt, or Long
Branch will see much of them this season They are
among the few visitors to Central Park who do not
seem to mind the lack Of shade. The debut OF
Cuban young gentlemen with imputed fortunes ana
dark satanic faces has caused spasmodic revival In
the study of Spanish among linguistic bellies. |
doubt whether half a dozen copies left in the
city of ssSpanish Without Master in Six Easy Les
sons"
At the entrance to the handsome pavilion which
conducts to the auditorium Of Nibo's Garden hangs
quantity OF photographs representing the princi-
pal actresses of the troupe engaged there in various
degrees OF demi-hemi semi-tolettes. That portion
of their attirement which most serves the purposes
OF concealment is what Miss Logan would chastity
term a ten-nch clout. All these photographs are
,bewitching and from dusty to dirty eve they
are surrounded by group OF weak-eyed young meI
with imbecie boards, and taste for female beauty
of the "scrumptiOus" order. Past this gallery OF
beauty Miss Betty Buttercup, of Camden, yesterday
wandered, intent on seeing everything that 1t was
lawful for young woman to see on this her first
visit to the metrop" She passed before these photo
graphs OF the letter-wrting Lydia, the mischief
making Markham, and the winsome Weber. She
thought they were all boys with bare knees
she looked with all her eyes; could moi
drink in enough of them and
no doubt had she felt certain Of not being Observed
would have kissed them every one with good honest
sexual smack AS 1t was, she walked straight up to
Mr. Zimmerman at the box office, and asked for the
man what took them boys picters. She was in
formed that he not in the establishment, and hi
address politely furnished her. ct was on Broad
way but sense Of duty to the readers OF The EVEN
ING TELEGRAPH cOmpels us to state that we posi-
lively refuse to do any gratuitous advertising in hi
column.) "Oh, thought it was here" SAID Bessie
I thought this was his place. Amt this a forty.
graph place, sr?" Mr.. Zimmerman unctuOusly in
formed the young lady that the photographs she had
seen were not pictures OF bare-kneed boys, but Ol
unimpeachabe young women, OF excellent social
position great favortes with the upper circles near
the roof. Miss Buttercup's idol was shattered
Her porcelain turned out to be blue def; she has
gone back to Camden with an unconquerable preu.
dice against bare-kneed boys.
1t is the popular bclief-and it is very wrong
one-that the New York reporter has one eye upon
Stree feeds" and the other on "private axes tC
grind" don't deny that there are some reporters
of this stamp here, and perhaps there are one tive
in Philadelphia. think 1t would not be dificult tC
mention one two broaabrlm Bohemans who exc
out sumptuous living by refined species OF black
mail, who make practice OF Cheating" the proprle
tors of gentlemens furnishing stores, who carry
away whole hampers OF deliCacies and entire boxes
of Havanas from private festivals and whose purple
and fine linen are all paid in brass and cheek the
only kind of c. o. d. they are acquainted with. THAI
sort OF reporter is to be found here but he not
specimen OF the reportoria corps. A day or tive
ago, however, he fOisted himself upon party o
gentlemen, consisting OF officers OF the Army o
the Potomac who were )artakng of dinner a
Delmonico's. He represented himself as a reporter
OF one of the big daies, ostentatiously exhibited
large brass badge, pinned beneath tn,
lappet of his vest, and promised magnificent re
port Of the banquet Accordingly, he was received
with open arms for where is the man who is invul
nerable to the charm OF seeing his name in the
paper? AT any rate, the officers of the Army of thu
Potomac are not nyulnerable, for they gave ou
Bohemian seat at their table, piled him with cham
pagne, and treated him in every respect as frient
and brother Too late they discovered their mis-
take. The next day came but no report with il