The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-02
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From Our Oisn Correspondent
NEW YORK, July 2, 1870.
Central Park Garden.

Central Park Garden.
So remarkable a change has taken place in
the character of the audiences attending the
Central Park Garden concerts as to warrant
more than passing notice upon it. These con-
certs have been given now for several years, the
music having been invariably furnished by Mr..
Theodore Thomas and his orchestra. At first
the entire affair was rather rough. Tables aud
chairs were placed in large open area out-of-
doors, which, by figure of speech, was called
a garden, and the orchestral performances took
place in a large bare looking hall, spacious
indeed but entirely without any pretense to
elegance or ornament. This place was the
.avorite resort OF every Bohemian who
experienced difficulty in getting
rid of the evening agreeably and
who needed some gentle excitement of the
free-and-easy description. The women were
fast, the gamblers and fancy men were abun-
dant, and both the hall and the garden were
places OF assignation for various shades of SEN
suality. Gradually things have grown bet
ter, but the leap from the respectability of
last year to the refinement of this has been so
wide and sudden that the Bohemiaus of old
would never recognize their former haunts
again. For instance, the hall has been very
beautifully frescoed, and the balcony of private
boxes has been handsomely carpeted and fur
nished. Elegant eating and drinking saloons
connected with the main hall present every
thing that could be wished for in palate-pleas-
ing point Of view. The garden has been pro-
vided with lights, foliage, fountains, and
flowers. The music has entirely lost
it's ''Can-can" character, and on certain
nights is almost of entirely classical
nature. The audience-most surprising of all
is not merely eminently respectable, but num-
bers many of the most elegant, exclusive, aud
fashionable people to be found in all New York.
The grounds in front of and around the concert
building are impossible from the number of
private carriages that throng them. Elegant
and irreproachable women, who, year ago,
would have scornfully smiled at the possibility
of their being seen in such place, sit COM
placently at the same tables where men are
drinking beer and smoking cigars, and seem to
think 1t all right. The whole thing has strange
and foreign air which only ones familiarity
with the American type of face at last dissipates.
In the many times / have been there during the
present season, have never seen loafer or an
ungentlemanly act. The entire assemblage is as
decorous as though the doorkeeper had the gift
of telling a lady or a gentleman at a glance, and
the power of excluding all who did not come up
to his ideas upon that head.
Madame Lanner's Troupe
Madame Lanner's ballet troupe has arrived
Grand Opera House. They reached this port on
Wednesday, but with the resilency of their pro-
fession threw off their fatigue and commenced
work at once. Though ostensibly Viennese,
they number various nationalties. One remark
able thing about them is that they are all
blondes without exception on-natural-born blondes
/ without any of the bleaching process which
so many of the pretty British burlesquers went
through. Probably there is not one dancer
| among them who is as good as Lupo who has
only lately had the opportunity of showing what
she can do. When her handsome and
! absinthe. loving brother was alive she was
| obliged TO play second to him, and had
! little chance for displaying that remarkable
muscular power for which, since his death, she
has become celebrated. Madame Lanner herself
is not SO much danseuse as she is directress.
Bertha Lind, the little Swede, is very blonde
and quite beautiful Madame Lanner and the
principal members of her troupe have taken
furnished house in Twenty-fourth street; the
others have scattered themselves around among
the various French houses of the city where
they can get claret for breakfast and not be
compelled to drink terrible tea and coffee, as
the barbarous Americans do.
stay-aI-Home Consolation.
Upon Broadway, a little above Union Square,
is meat and vegetable market, upon one of
stalls OF whlch ID placard bearing tnls an
nouncement:-''Marketing sent to the country. "
What orld of significance there is in a simple
statement like this How true it is that not
one in twenty of those who rush to the country
obtain tithe of the qualification they seek !!
What consolation it is to the man who must
stay in the city all summer, to reflect that he is
much better off where he is, that he gets more
for paying less, and that what he does get is of
2 better quality than he could reasonably hope
ior among dusty roads and green fields! After