The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-09

From Our o,Sn oOrrespendent
NEW YORK, May y, I67U.
Dangerous Hotels.

From Our Ogn CO7respendenG
NEW YORK, May ., 1870.
Dangerous Hotels.
How many of the hundreds of hotel guests
who wend their way in elevators to bedrooms
en- the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth story
brood on their way up on the chances of fire
during the night2 How many of them satisfy
themselves that there is a FIRE escape? How
many of them are perfectly certain as to their
being o satisfactory number of buckets? How
many of them bestow thought upon the engine
and the hose And is there traveller that
ries q rope-ladder in his valise? Yet few such
precautionary thoughts and pains as these might
be well, for the hotels of New York are poorly
off in respect to all the articles by which
fire may be exiting uished or escaped
Without mentioning the inferior hotels,
which are scarcely better provided than base
ment houses in this respect, those of Broadway
are alone quite sufficient to make their guests
dread going to led. Committing oneself to re-
pose under such circumstances seems scarcely
better than committing oneself to the flames,
and the arms of Morpheus and of the Rre-fend
become almost identical.
Empty Houses.
The May-meving horror being over for
another year, it is fair to calculate that the
houses new remaining empty will remain so
until that year has expired. The avarice OF
those landlords who would rather see their
houses remain empty on their hands than re-
duce their rents, is exemplifed in the fact that
there are larger number of empty houses now
in New York than at aay corresponding season
from which data have been taken. In Clinton
place, for instance, there are 10 empty ones; in
Amity street s; on Fourteenth street, between
Fifth and Seventh avenues, q in Nineteenth
street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 4; in
Varick street 12; in West Washington Square
3; in Irving place 81 in st. Marks place 6; in
Orchard street 13; in Tenth street 5; in Eleventh
street g. in Twelfth street 6; in University
place 4; in Macdougal street z; in Vandam
1 street g. and in the same ratio all over the city.
Amusements.
Mr.. Fechter ia going to play Hamlet" again,
probably for one week. He evidently don't care
for the critics. prides himself on seeming not to.
, Even his admirers amongst them seem to have
come to the conclusion by this time that he is
not an intellectual actor, and that histronic
, genius is not to be conceived of as existing
apart from intellect. Senator Revels lectures
here on Wednesday. l nave heard it said that
this gentleman used to be a clergyman. hope
not for in these days Of Good Samaritan Sc
ducers, gin-and-milk thump- -the-cushions, and
pulpit frauds in general that circumstance would
not of itself be in his favor. That unique exhi-
btion named 'Mrs. Jarley's Wax-Works" is to
be brought out tomorrow night, at Steinway
u Hall, tickets two dollars each. A lady adver-
tises herself, without giving her name, pupil
| of a celebrated elocutionist," and promises that
she twill lecture in New York during this
month. Subject-''Peetry." l hope she will
have large audiences, her claims that enor-
nous. Mr. Grau, that polyglot impressario, has
get a sensation at last. 1t is the German trage-
dienne, Madame Marie Niemann-Seebach, who,
he says will give one hundred performances in
this country, commencing next September The
salary is not stated, but perhaps it was so enor-
nous that MIR. Grau was afraid of awakening
the anxieties of the public with respect to there
being nothing left for himself. Mr.. Clark pro-
duces Mr.. Stockton's play of For os. Goose next
Monday night This is the first time that cul-
! tured writer Mr.. Stockton, of the Morning Post
of yeur city, has been represented upon the
stage of New York. Miss Kellogg is TO attempt
''Leonora" for the first time in public on next
Monday evening. This is everything that is new
among amusements at present.
n Choristers and Christians
/ do not propose to suggest any question as to
the right or wrong of choir-singing in churches.
Some congregations SO decidedly object to 1t
that they do all the singing themselves, and
"shut down" on musical professors of all grades.
At other churches the chants, intonations, and
solos absorb by far the greater interest In the
services, and the sermon is merely endured as a
necessary evil. This is especially the case in
New York. large proportion of the choir
singing is done by Italian opera artists who are
paid high salaries, and discharge their profess
sional duties as though they were behind the
footights, and eager for an encore. If they can
do this, and at the same time make their peace
with God that is good thing for them. They
certainly cannot complain that Providence does
not behave towards them like gentleman.
But now our fashionable churches, where Italian
opera singing is carried to the furthest stretch,
are beginning to complain of the trifing and
chatter which these goddess artists too often
keep up among themselves during the pauses
between the music 1t is the cid dilemma of
propitiating the God with the man, and yet sat-
isfying the Mammen ALI BABA.