The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-28

'ont Our o1rn Correspondent.
NEw YORK, Sept. q, 1870.

Central Park
Philadelphians, I am going to tell you truth
st will be unpleasant to you; but do not care
that so long as the truth is on my side. That
lth is this-you underyalue our Central Park,
you uuiustly accuse us of overvaluing it.
YOU ask us what especial reasons we have to
so proud of it, and to continually invite
ereto the admiration of the world, 1 answer
At these reasons are that a few years ago it
IS the squatter's paradise waste of rocks
tied with innumerable huts where crime,
yerty, disease, and general wretchedness made
II. The task of building a park there was
most as hopeless as the task of overrunniug
hara with oases would be. And yet the mira
; was done, and done, so to speak,
moment. The beauties of
rsdse we're built over the distortions of hell,
d the warm greenness of leaf and blossom
ncealed the cold nakedness of stones. And
II the work goes on. l defy you to visit Cen
Al Park-that great playground for the rich
ID poor alike of New York-without finding
me work of improvement going on. In view
this fact it is interesting to know that the
tai cost of Central Park, including the original
pct of the ground, is nearly eleven million
pillars. Last years interest on the cost of the
nd, and on the improvement of the Park, was
Early $500 600. During last year, also, the total
lmber of pedestrians entering the Park was
Early 3,300,000 equestrians $500, vehicles
S41, 900, and velocipedes $500. The total num-
.r OF visitors during the year is calculated at
B51 900, or an average of nearly 20, 140 per
~. This is doing pretty good business.
White Hats in the Gold Room.
Brokers are queer people-especially young
tokers. A scandalous tradition ascribes to
lem such persstency in making money as
aves them no time or disposition to cultivate
e tender charities of the heart. Occasionally,
owever, some of those caprices which are gene
lily thought to be significant of good-hearted-
ess crop out, and prove that the hard-headed
r0ker has something of the boy in him yet.
Witness, for instance the white hat .fttrore of
[onday. The demonstration was absolutely
oyish, and had something of the artlessness of
dolescence in tiff adolescence may ever, with
lstiee, be imagined artless. On Saturday a
otice was posted up in the Gold Room to the
fleet that after the 25th of September, all white
mats found in the Board Room would be consi-
dered contraband of war, and would be treated
accordingly. This absurd caprice was laughed
at AS childish joke, and was forgotten. Sun
day intervened, and on Monday as many white
hats as ever made their appearance They were
allowed to be unmolested until late in the day,
when most of the business had been transacted.
At last, when matters had slackened consider
ably, the chairman of the subcommittee, by
whose order the notice had been hung up in the
ioid Room, made dash at an old gentleman
upon the top of whose placid head re-
posed silver stovepipe which presented
.he sleek gloss of absolute newness. In a second
.he hat was lying on the floor among the spit
looms, the crown caved in, the brim broken, and
The tout ensemble presenting the appearance of
months hard usage. This was the signal fora
assault by the subcommittee upon
every man, young or old, wearing white hat.
Occurring, as the scene did, where Mammon
is worshipped, and men are continually casting
the natural gold and silver of humanity
into molten image, it was posi-
lively refreshing. 1t was like a breath
from cornfield blowing into counting room.
II had Just so much nature and freshness about
It. 1t was worth while losing the hat for the
purpose of gaining the sensation. The poet
says:-"The sports of childhood
satisfy the child" Sometimes they satisfy the
man, too. Depend upon it, there is a sweet core
N the sordid heart of Wall street human nature
when that human nature can break forth into
such boyish vent as the white hat .furOre of
yesterday.
Che New Opera BonRe.
The New York daily newspapers contradict
each other so much with respect to the moral
and artistic merit of the new Opera Bouffe COM
pany which last night appeared for the first time
in America at the Grand Opera House, that
perhaps the most candid way for me to refer to
It would be to record, briefly my own impress
sions. | attended the rehearsal twice, and [ sat
out two-thirds of the public performance last
night, and have several things to remark, to
witt
l. The tenor Gausins is not to be mentioned
in the same day with Auiac or Carrier. He is
nothing but mass of vocal shakes, with some
slight force as an actor.
IL. The buffo, Hittemans, has a good deal of
comic humor, and slim pretension to a voice.
III. Silly is a homely soprano with a worn
voice, large legs (Which she is always fond of
weaIing) and extremely full eyes, circles around
which are heavily rouged to lend them facti-
tious brilliancy.
". Montaland is a baby faced soprano, with
no voice worth mentioning but who employs
the trick OF introducing the falsetto notes known
as Tyrolean. Her toileties are excessively mag
nifcent, her makeup is elaborate to the last
degree, the interior of her nostrils and of her
ears, even, being painted and certain poiuts in
her acting, layishly applauded by the public,
are iDgeniousy vulgar and ewd.
V. The choruses are large and we'll drilled;
the scenery is beautiful: the costumes are ex-
pensive and picturesque; the music is trihing,
light, aud bright; and the dialogue is full of
unclean jokes.
VI. That is the substance OF the new opera
bouffe. ALI BABA.
rCoMMUNICATED.l