Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-08-26
Correspondence Of The Evening star.l


Correspondence Of The Evening Star.1
Nxw YORK, August Is
New York Is just commencing to brighten up
Tor the fall season. The sea side and mountains
are sending in their auant couriers of the rush
that Will soon follow, while the coming of the
western and southern merchants adds much OF
the cosmopolite to the metropolitan air Of the
town in season." The hotels are quite full
Broadway is again crowded, the stock market
shows decided signs Of new life, the wholesale
houses and the jobbers expect to do as good q
BUSINESS as the importing trade viii permit In
the present condition Of Europe, and, alto
gether, the calm that came with the exhaustion
OF these summer daysis passing away with them
for the better, brighter, and more crisp days of
September and October. Every one of the
ramined arteries that make up the sum of
human life Is ready or making ready for this
change.
The places Of amusement, as usual, lead the
advance. Niblo's, Booths and wallack's are
crowded nightly. The former, In its new deco
ratiops, is handsomer than ever and furnishes
new attractions in an excellent comedy of
" Under the Palm" with Barrett and Bangs
well known to the Washington public-in The
leading characters. Wallack's is successfully
running In its seventh week Gayler's new drama
Of Fritz, or Our Cousin German" 1t is a
good thing Joe Emmet, the principal artistic,
is capital in the leading character, which Illus.
trates the vicissitudes of a German emigrant TO
this country. and the injudicious judgment of
many declares that he trenches successfully on
Mr.. Jefferson's style. Emmett, until recently,
was Broadway concert-h hall singer and actor,
but has certainly elevated himself as an actor
well worthy Of place at wallack's. He brings
nj of choon
ventionalisms, but burlesques Lydia Thompson
in . song, {" Dat Grecian Bend, which is only
eQualed by Walking dat Broadway Down." or
"Keiser, Don't You Want to Buy a Dorg?"
The play is full Of war gags. At Booths, JEFF
ferson continues "tO drink your good health
and all your familys good health" and to
hope that "y on will live long and prosper" Al
though Mr.. Jefferson has played "Old Rip
In New York nearly six hundred times you have
to secure your seats day or two in advance in
order to see him now. Miss Lima Edwins (who-
ever she may be) opens q new theater on Broad
way, near sth street, in few weeks. The Fifth
avenue Theater, under Manager DAILY, will soon
open the season with dramatization Of Wi,kie
Collins novel, " Man and Wife," The Oates
Comic Opera Company opened the Olympic last
night, with the 90 Little Faust" The French
Theater commences its season on September Is.
Fisk's Grand Opera House is engaged in the
pantomime and ballet business, and seems to be
doing nothing extra as yet for the autumn sea-
son. Bryant's new theater in 23d street Is near
ly completed.
But, after ALL New York is watching and wait
ing. in its amusement, line for Mdlle. Christine
Nils on. She is to be the great musical sensation,
and appears at the Academy Of Music on the
10Th of September. Ex-Congressman Barnes
writes from London to the Brooklyn Rag,e that
he does not 60 into raptsIres over operas, and
was not greatly charmed with Jenny Lind but
in Mdlle. Nilsson, he says, "there Is such fro
zen sweetness in such delightful temperature
that he really encored. This is q figure of speech
something like some of Barnes efforts in the
House; but he goes on to say that she sings like
q nightingale, acts like Rachel, and looks as
pretty almost as Brooklyn belle. She is hand
some, in perfect health, and in charming voice.
Nilsson will appear first in Troriata, and then in
Martha and Lucia di Lammermoor. All the shop
windows are filed with her photograph.
No one seems to profit by the experience OF
new papers started in New York. A new even
ing daily will soon appear under the manage
ment Of Farrell, formerly Of The Herald; but
there is no more room for 1t among the evening
papers than there was for John Young's STANDARD
among the morning papers. Every poseible
feature Of journalism is covered by the papers
already on Q firm basis, and by half q dozen
others struggling for an existence. Young's
paper Is not the success that was promised, and
seems to be run as q personal organ. Yesterday
1t had four or five articles on the Associated
Press In contrast with the new news association
as II the public cared for the ceaseless ding dong
about the sources from which news is supplied
to the press-of which Young Is manager, and
yet omitted q record Of important local events
The Standard Is . poor imitation of The Sun,
without the latter's news enterprise, and with
OUT too, 1t should be said to its credit the reck
less character Of Dana's paper.
The Fifth Avenueites are horrined this sum-
mer to ind that business is actually crowding
into that beautiful street above the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. For two or three years past q
fancy tailor or q fancy carriage store or an art
gallery have been pushed into one block or
another below sd street, and New York had
partially made up its mind to sacrifice that por-
ton Of the avenue; but this new wedge enter
Ing above Madison Square 10 Q little too much
for them. "In ten years." said New Yorker
to mo on yesterday, "these miles Of handsome
brownstone fronts will all give way ~ business
places" Inquired where Fifth afenue would
60. "Out in front Of the Central Park and on
to the Bloomingdale road" was the answer It
looks that way, for 1t Is now built up clear to the
park. Five. years ago Stewsrt's store vas MP
town, now McCreery s. Co., and Arnold, Con-
stable & Co. are blocks above It. All Union
Square b given up to business houses. Tins-
ny's magnificent store on the square at the
corner Of 18th street is nearly finished. Lord &
Taylor move from Broadway, near Canal, into
their new store, corner Of 22d street and Broad
way, this fall. The iron front Of this new store,
seven stories high, Is the architectural success
OF the town. The old Eclectic Club-house.
corner of Fifth avenue and Madison SQUARE, is
converted into . store, and 10 the only business
place on Fifth avenue from that point to Isth
street. 1t is the commencement Of the innovs-
ton.
The Grand Central Hotel, formerly known a
the Lafarse, and the Southern, ON Broadway,
at the head Of Bond street, opened tonight win
grand pomp and Circumstance. It has been al
most rebuilt, and is now seven stories high, with
elevators and other modern improvements. Its
marble front on Broadway 10 most imposing
The Grand Central threatens to over-sopple
everything in the hotel line in town, and 1t
certainly makes good beginning.
There are quite Q number Of WashinQtOnians