The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-02
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The Gift Enterprises.
There are so many swindllng gift enterprise
concerns in New York city, that it Is impossible
to walk along any thoroughfare without running
across more than one would care to keep account
of in his memory.
Before some of them policeman is stationed
whose duty is simplicity Itself.
If he sees you are about to enter, all he does
is to tap you on the shoulder and tell you you
had better not.
By this means Justice is satisfied.
So is the policeman.
And the gift-enterprse swindlers escape.
In fact, they are never brought up in court.
1t is one of the easiest means extaut of making
living, Occasionally some gued greenhorn,
who has lost his last penny in responding to
their swindling advertisements, writes to the
Mayor about it, demanding that justice shall be
done him and means taken to get him his money
back. The trouble is that the fellow is afraid to
do hinlSelf Justice.
In one hundred cases you will not find one
who has the moral courage to have his name
printed in connection with the affair. Hence
the giftswindlers of this city, which is the great
centre OF them, are notorious all over the
Union. Complaints by the score are lodged at
the Mayors office, and are never pushed. The
swiudlers are successful because the swinded
are ashamed of publicly owning their folly.
All Quiet In Houston street.
The four corners formed by the intersection
of Broadway and Houston street have hitherto
been the most repusive and dangerous of any
quarter OF the city at all pretending to respecta-
bility.
On account of murderous fray which lately
occurred in a saloon within hail of one of these
corners, special policemen have been stationed
there, with orders to allow no more than two
people at time to stand on each corner.
Hitherto = well-dressed person was never GER
tain Of passing that corner in safety, particu-
larly If he wore diamonds or a watch.
People were jostled and robbed there at mid
day under the very eyes of the police; the atmo-
sphere around was heavy with the aroma of
panel. houses: and the neighboring street was
named Murderers Block.
The True story of Nilsson.
A ridiculous puff has appeared in one of the
daily papers here with reference to Christina
Nilsson, the Swedish primd donna.
The Righteousness of the story does not con-
sist in the announcement that she will come to
this country in the fall.
That she will sail for this country early in
September is pretty well determined. 1t is the
statement about the salary that is SO untrue and
absurd.
receive fifteen hundred dollars, in gold, each
night
You may safely set down the amount she is to
be paid as Just one-half that sum.
In New York music is more fashion than an
art, but it is not the fashion enough to warrant
any manager in paving any primd donna
fifteen hundred dollars in gold for each per-
formance.
The Parks at Night.
Since the warm weather commenced all the
parks of the city have been largely visited,
manly by two classes of fpeople-working people
VINO go thither to learn what fresh air smells
like, and vicious people who wait and watch
there for wicked purposes.
The vicious people have been largely prepon-
derating for the last two years, and means were
never taken to repress them.
No decent woman or man either can sit in one
of these parks half an hour at time without
hearing words and seeing sights which shock.
There is dark and oozy slime of depravity
slowly feeling its way beneath the fountains
and the green rustic of the trees.
The police-those blue and brass purifiers of
the metropolis-are to change all this, COM
nencing with the first warm night.
Moving Day
is presumed to be par excellence on Monday, but
already the streets are threaded by every de-
scription of vehicle which can carry furniture.
The New Workers cling to :his institution of the
first of May.
SsuA il ,eady to believe that they actually
enjoy the misery in taking possession of the
fifth floor, at the same momS.' 'na' ano'hef
party is bundling out.
1t is impossible to persuade them that the
Philadelphia plan is better. Did you ever meet
New Yorker who did not maintaih that evil
was good, If the evil happened to be one of
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