The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-30

From Our 0lcn correspondenL
New YORK, March 80 1870.
Getting Along swImIniogIy.


no sphere occupied by men that cannot be re-
specially filed by women This has been illus
trated over and over again ever since the
women's rights women have agitated themselves
and their subjects 1t was very strangely and
pleasingly illustrated on Monday evening at an
entertainment given at the Brooklyn Swimming
Academy, opposite the City Hall. The illustrator
q Miss Sale E. Brewer, graceful and
daring young swimmst, who seemed to take to
the water as naturally as an aquatic fowl.
Everything pretty aud piquaut that could be
done in water did Miss Brewer transact, her
dress being at once modest and airy-or rather
watery, and her muscles extremely well drilled
to the performance of the feats she had set her.
self Fluiditv and femininity have not often
been brought into such charming contact with
one another. Even Miss Brewers eyes are of
the kind described as 'liquid," and perhaps
this had something to do with her natatory sue
cess. In fact the entire entertainment was a
representation of what especially if
they be young and pretty-dare to do, above and
beyond their rights. If they never did anything
but what was right and proper, they would lose
just so much spice.
New Lectures.
A new lecturess from Boston, and the sma
eastern hubs which supplement that big one, is
to make her debut here on next Friday night.
Her name is Miss Lillian Edgarton, and if l may
venture an opinion based on but one personal
interview, l would say that she bids fair to
make pecuuiary success of it. She is younger
and fairer than most lecturesses are, is an ami
mated, fervd-looklng blonde, has a graceful
and noble presence, full, rich voice, dresses
expensively and with TASTE and takes an anti
suffrage view of the woman-suffrage question.
She has never yet appeared in this city, but
-haof
from the Boston newspapers. She commenced
public life as a reader and elocutionist, but not
finding that extremely remunerative, deter
mined to make oratory subservient to purpose
that smacked little of sensation. So few pub
lie lecturesses have youth and good looks to
commend them, that when one does present
those claims, united to good abilities, she de-
serves cordial recognition.
MIR. Bergh Il Lecturer.
Mr.. Bergh, the protector of animals, has also
been coming out as a lecturer. His lecture
makes the laughabe mption-conveyed in
the form of dream-that he died, went to
horse-heaven, and while there enjoyed the op-
portunity of hearing the confessions of all de-
funct animals. The subject of these confessions
was not the sins of the brute creation but their
sufferings, together with detail of the cruel
ties they experienced from men.
The Pneumatic Underground Railway.
This affair is visited daily by between one
thousand and two thousand persons. The en-
trance to it is at No 260 Broadway, at the corner
of Warren street, under Devlins clothing ware
house. A good many schools are taken there,
special arrangements being made with them.
The hydraulic tunnelling machine by which
Broadway is being bored, the immense eolor or
blowing engine, which discharges one hundred
thousand feet of cubic air per minute, the rail-
way station and wating-rooms one hundred and
twenty feet large and built entirely underground
and the pneumatic passenger-car lighted entirely
with the new Zircon light, all extremely
interesting and we'll worth inspection.
Baron Won Bulow's Case.
Possibly you may remember the case of the
Baron Won Bulow the handsome and reckless
foreigner who carried his "Claude Melnotteism"
so far as to impose upon numerous citizens both
here and in Elizabeth, where he became engaged
to be married to most estimable young lady.
His case has been coming up before the courts
for the last six weeks, and is not settled yet.
The fact is he has fascinating exterior, which
takes immensely with the ladies, and he has SO
managed to ingratiate himself with even the
solid wealthy, and respectable pdter and mater
fanlilidS, that there seems some chance of his
escaping the punishment which his bogus claim
render him deserving of. His untitled brilliancy
is more alluring than the noble dullness of more
genuine nabobs.
Amusements.
Mr.. Booth has been playing 'Macbeth" this
week to crowded houses, which greatly applaud
the man while severely criticising the actor.
Mr.. Booth is so great favorite here that in
whatever part he chose to appear, between
"'King Lear" and Goodies" he would be sure
to draw big audiences. People go because they
like the man, respect his pure blameless life, and
appreciate his tireless efforts to make his the
atre as near perfection ia its way as possible 1t
is pretty sight, too TO watch the artless be-
havior of Mrs. Booth in the proscenium box
while her husband is on the stage. She is more
or less eyed throughout the performance by
every one in the auditorium, but, with apparent
unconsciousness of that fact, she fixes her gaze
upon the face of her husband and follows
him with the fidelity of self-appolnted promp-
ter from the first word to the last. When Mac
beth was announced there was great curiosity
to know who was going to be the LADY Mac
beth, for certainly no stock actress in the city,
with the exception of Madame Ponisi (who is
permanently engaged at the Grand Opera
House,. was capable of playing the part. Public
expectation has not been gratihed in this re-
spect, for the role has been given to Miss Fanny
Morant, most pleasant and large-proportioned
comedicnne, but extremely deficient in tragic
power. new point that Mr.. Booth has OBJ
served is the absence of the ghost of "Banquo"
from the banquet scene. The ghost exists only
in the imagination of the actor, and the new
reading presuppeses degree of culture on the
mart Of the observers that average audiences do