The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-26
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PSom OR osrn Correspondent
NRw YORK. Aug. 25, 1870.
Ganymode.
One OF these days / shall publish book enti-
titled ''Ganymede's Handbook or, Hints to
Walters" Ipresume that the walters of New
York city are no worse than those of any other
city Of the Union, but there are more of them,
and Sc, quantitively, they may be said to be
mu III worse. / admire thoir remarkable memo
ries. do reverence to the charming infalli-
bility with which they occasionally bring you
what you ask for. The tone of tender and polite
egret with which they announce that they are
''just out of your favorite dish is worthy of
emulation. They can see twenty-five cents
further of than most people can, and every five
minutes they will keep moving the castors
hairs breadth, for the sake of the postage cur
rency they hope for at the end. One of the
mott Interesting studies of human life is that of
watching a waiter working for his fee. 1t is
almost as good as seeing editor pay for
adm 'ssion to place of public entertainment. But
still your metropolitan Ganymede has his faults.
wonder whether the original Ganymede had
any when the eagle dumped him in the presence
of the godsi The Waiter of the Period has the
decidedly unpleasant habit of treating his fore
head, during the warm weather, as though 1t
were plate, and causing his napkin TO perform
those services which are generally intrusted to
the confidence of pocket-bandkerchief When
not engaged in contemplating you, as though
you were curious work of art on exhibition
f r tn fast time, he hovers around you as il, by
some mysterious process of metempsychosis, the
soul of O mosquito had passed into him and he
were bent on irritating you beyond endurance.
About the Gotham waiter, also, there are various
other little pecularities that are too bad to mec
ton. Perhaps il will be sufficiently suggestive
to say that, while engaged in attendance, he
habitua'ly fills up the interstices of time with
such little acts and Investigations most people
limit themselves to in the privacy of the toilet.
Sir Francis Dralxe's Descendants.
Yesterday good many people, claiming to be
the de cendants of that notorious buccaneer
Sir Francis Drake, assembled in one of the par
lors of the Brandreth House, at the intersection
of Canal street and Broadway. Could Sir
Francis have looked down he would perhaps
have been grati6ed with such a spectacle of
absolute dsiuterestedness. Sir Francis having
leen dead about 275 years. perhaps he would
lave regarded the demonstration as not alto
gether dsinterested tribute to his memory con-
siderng bow much plunder he secured in the
West I9oies and the Spanish Main, and how he
was babQueted and knightedby Queen Elizabeth.
Perhaps he would have been somewhat disap-
pointed however, upon learning that the object
OI tuls COnFenuOn WAS uOt RratiJuue, nero
worship or pride of descent, but money, a
sordd hankering after the ''prop-utty-prop-
utty-prop uty" which he is supposed to have be-
Queathed, and which is suspected to be unlawfully
n the possession of certain parties in England.
The understanding in virtue of which these de-
cendants of the famous freebooter were gath
cred together is that Sir Francis at his death
bequeathed all his property to his brother
Thomas, mud that Thomas, at has death, be-
queathed the property to his own five sons sue
cesslvey with the proviso that the entire pro-
perty should go first to his eldest son, Francis,
and upon Francis death to Francis male heirs.
At the time of Francis death there were no male
heirs with the exception of son of Thomas
second soo. but upon opening Francis will it
was found that he had violated the conditions
upon which the property came into his possess
sion, aud had made the will in favor of his
female heirs. 1t is upon this point that the de-
scendants who met yesterday at the Brandreth
House base their claims. They contend that
the male descendant to whom the property
rightfuny belonged came to this country, aud
that they are his lineal representatives. The
object of the meeting was principally to deter
mine how much interest was felt in the matter,
and to collect money sufficient to commence
legal proceedings.
The saleswomen
do not know whether or not there Is going
on in Philadelphia a movement similar TO that
in which the New York saleswomen are at
present interested. Some of these saleswomen
are working SO hard to carry their points as to
deserve more than ordinary notice, admiration,
and sympathy. Their demands are far from
being uu asonable. All that they ask for is that
the st,see in which they serve shall be closed,
winter ard summer at seven o'clock, with the
exception of Saturday evenings. One would
think that this request was modest enough. 1t
is no more than the male clerks asked for and
had granted, although they had to fight hard
until they obtained their desire 1t is fact that
has become SO common as to cease to be noto-
rious that the saleswomen of NewYork often work
from eight in the morning until ten at night at
wages the average of which may be placed at
five or six dollars. 1t is no wonder that many
a store giri prefers the splendid misery" of sin
to virtue and starvation. Under similar cir
cumstances. how many of us would be much
better AS yet nothing worth mentioning has
been done to relieve the persecution which
many of them still suffer. The prosecutors, of
course. sordid men who grow rich upon the
anguish OF the weak. The principal workers in
the cause OF the Saleswomens Early Closing
Association hope that, with the coming of
September some good result will make itself
manifest. aud that the tortures due to overwork
in winter may be warded off. ALI BABA.