New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-04
LYDIA THOMPSON,
ELIZA WEATHERSBY,
PAULINE MARKHAM,
NErTIE HOPE,
LIMA EDWIN,

fANN1 CLARmON L.
Crosby Opera House, Chicago. February
2l, 1870.
We have already reported the cowhiding
affair, in which III, Storey, of the Times,
was csstigated by Miss Thompson and Miss
Markham, Mr.. Henderson participating in
the transaction.
The Chicago papers are full of a report
eral Cas- resulting therefrom. These are
some Of the obnoxious paragraphs in the
Times, Of the twentieth ultime, which ex-
cited the ire of the blondes:
"The other day, the Times placed the
Opera House on a level with snake and
other exhibitions. In doing this, the Times
is uninteutionally guilty OF insulting the
latter, aud it haslens to apologize"
1--WE should do injustice to the lager beer
dance houses of the city if we should say
that Crosby's Opera House had fallen to
their level. 1t has gone below that. They
are eminently decent in comparison
''Bawds-at the Opera House. Where are
the police?"
1.-The latest model artist show-at the
Opera House."
GA bawdy house the Opera House."
The Times of the succeeding day had
other paragraphs, which We quote:
BLUNDER.-The omission from the arti-
Gle in yesterdays Sunday Times, on the
Social Evil, of notice OF the nymphs at the
Opera House.
A house of ill-fsme that ought to be
pulled" The Opera House.
We extract the following from an editorial
in the same paper:
The public may not yet fully appreciate
the justice of the crusade inaugurated by
the Times against this abandoned crowd.
The present troupe have not yet played i'll
an American city, unless it be in New Or
leans Of Sunday nights, where they have not
been . stencil in the nostrils of the re-
putable community. In New York, the
women have been openly denounced by the
newspapers for their Iewd demeanor in pub.
lie; III st. Louis they played to empty
benches, the press forewarning the people
Of that city concerning the character of the
exhibition; in Indianapolis, even, where
there is weak press ana q pliable public,
they met the same opposition, grounded
upon the same sense OF deCency. If it were
in Chicago alone, or from the Chicago
Times alone, that such disgust is manifested,
there might be some reason to think that
the party and their performances had been
misrepresented and abused; but, when the
same treatment is meted out, TO a greater
or less extent, eUerylchere, there Can not be
any room to doubt, that the blame rests en-
tirely with the troupe, and it is really as
disreputable as 1t has ever been represented
to be.
That this batch of women should make
an appeal to the public under these circum-
stances, is simply insulting TO the public
judgment. That they have made an un-
necessary and lewd exhibition of their
persons, such as would not propably be
tolerated by the police in any bswdy. house;
that they have made use of broad, low. and
degrading language, such as men of any
self-respect would repudiate even in the
absence of ladies; that their entertainments
have been mere vehicles for the exhibition
of coarse women and the use of disrepufable
language, unrelieyed by any wit or humor;
these things and much more can be
proved by any one of respectabllity who has
attended any of their performances.
These are the charges that have been
made, and they are now reiterated. The
women against whom they are made have
male protectors with them, who, if they
were sensible OF any injustice, would take
immediate and direct means for vindicatiol
and retribution, instead OF making any weak
and senseless appeals to the public in the
name OF women. These women must either
corcede the justice OF the charges or change
their prOtectors-One of whom, styling him.
self manager, allowed himself to be publicly
by newspaper man whom he had
insulted IN New York, and afterward whin-
ingy advertised his disgrace before police
Justice.
Our pleasant friend Birgfeld, of the
Thompso on Troupe, together with Mr.. Hess,
of the Opera House, wen. to see Mr.. Storey,
who SO far from manifesting any disposition
to stop the severe criticisms, drew a re-
volver from under newspaper and said
he would shoot any member of the troupe.
and would shoot Birgield. After the arrest
for dlsorderly conduct and riot, there were
at the performance Saturday evening, as
many as three thousand people at the Opera
House, to witness the last performance of
the blonde troupe, and as was anticipated
by great many, to listen to an address from
Lydia Thompson in relation to the recent
encounter with Mr.. Storey. Beckett and
Cahill, throughout the performance of the
:" Forty Thieves" threw in "gags" which
convulsed the house with laughter, and
elected round after round Of applause.
When the nursery rhymes" were reached,