The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-01-15

that he prefers to hear the American negro melo-
dies rather than the choicest operatic airs
\ feature in the management of the Phil
harmonic concerts this year is the sale of the
boxes at advanced ~;ttes. SpeouIators in tickets
took their places before tie Office the day pre-
vious TO that on ylio' ,lo was to occur, and
stood in q c.-c -, ard until A. NJ, the
nour OF the sale, the-, securing the best boxes
i1 she house. they nyw offer taem to the dis
appointed public at rates about 100 per cent. in
advance OF the legitimate price. The general
admission ls-1ains, however, at the former price
or 10 ior the season of Is rehearsals and six
concerts so that it is only the intending Occu-
rants of the - Irritation boxes,'' they are
called in the Academy of Music, that suffer by
the operations of the ticket spectators. The re
hearsals maintain their established high character
for musical excellence.
Another artistic phenomenon of New York
must not fail Of q notice in these chronicles. 1t
is the so-called Vanderbilt Statue a vast
bronze peducnU erected upon the front of the
Hudson River railway depot in this city. 1t is
full of railroads, ears of corn, birds of freedom,
plOw-shares, poultry, rising suns, steamboats,, and
Vanderbilt 1t was made by man who knew
knows, and contracted for by the ton and the
cubic yard. 1 am afraid to say how big it is,
how long and how high it is, how many beasts,
birds, and fishes it contains, or how many hun
dred thousand dollars it cost. 1t was immensely
expensive but it is not difficult to say just how
much it is worth 1t is worth the market value
of SO many tons of bronze, nnnuS the cost Of
tearing it down and breaking it up into service
able form.
Yet some OF our city papers already using
their influence to have this monstrous production
of vanity and vulgar taste erected, an memOrldm
efernana, in the Central Park. 1t is bad enough
that whole nation should have been plundered
by the unpunished rapaeity of a civilized robber;
but it is clear case of injury plus insult when
that nation is called upon to bow down before
the bronze calf that he has made,
The consolidation of the Hudson River and
Harlem Railroads is now spoken of as a certainty
and a new railway station W i'll be erected at the
corner of Fourth Avenue and Forty-Seeond street.
More noticeable buildings are now in process of
construction than remember to have seen going
up in New York at any time before the present.
The immense Cathedral OF st. Patrick, in white
marble upon Fifth Avenue; two large insurance
buildings upon Broadway; the imposing structure
of the Young Mems Christian Association the
picturesque Hospital for the crippled and rup-
tured, on Lexington Avenue, in the pointed style
of architecture; the last supplement to A. I
Stewards retail shop; his house on Fifth Avenue,
and another private dwelling upon Park Avenue
at the corner of Thrty-Ninth street, which, if
not half so costly as the great merchants marble
pile, is more than twice beautiful; Decker's
piano warehouse upon Union Square; these and
other buildings of importance are fast changing
the physiognomy of this city. New York has
never been a beautiful city; but those of your
readers who may revisit it after an absence as
brief as five years will find that it is giving
promise of something better than tenement
houses. CALANUs-