The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-25

From Our 0rOn Correspondent
NH4 NEW YORK, May 05, 1870.

face of the earth. 1t is demolished. l alude to
the old dance house of John Allen. 1t no longer
exists. The heel of progress has mashed it. AS
a dance-house and bucket shop its place knows |
1t no more. John Allen, the least godly homo |
of New York, spent good many happy and |
unhappy hours there. There he educated Ches- |
ter, entertained clergymen, kept the place in
the Bible with extracts from the Police Gazette, |
swallowed raw liquor, and worried down reli-
gion stewed roasted, frozen, fried, panned,
picked, scalloped, and on the half-shell. |
There he swore one minute, prayed the next, |
and labored generally like Satan in Sunday |
clothes trying to be good. His life was
made up of equal proportions of "Shoo-hy,"
"Can-can." Frou- Frou, and gin-aud-milk slung
together in a sort of julep. He was the cham
pion penitent of the nineteenth century, and sank
into peculiar sin one day that grace might
abound the next The revivalsts buzzed
around him like pious flies around wicked
sugar barrel, and he allowed them to feed on
all the saccharne sanctity that was innate
to his nature Finally, after having been
snatched from the burning several times, this
interesting brand flung itself back again and
blazed away in the sparkes of its own pas
sons. He kept a temperance grocery, and
drank rawer whisky than ever, and all his re-
vival friends fell from him like Stats dropping
out of q broken blind And now the very house
which he erst glorifed with his presence is
torn down, and Kit Burns rat-pt is the one
surviving relic of the Water street uprising.
Poor wickedest man. He paid the penalty of
being a too candid publican, and had his vices
vivisected because a Swedenborgian Bohemian
needed sensation.
Mr.. Weston.
That ambitious youngster, Mr.. Edward Pay
son Weston, began his noble pedestrian tour at
fifteen minutes past midnight. While you are
reading this the wires probably informing
you of how he progresses. Not being one of the
reporters who sat up all night to see that there
was 'no deception" I say nothing on that
matter. Besides, that astute judge of such
things, Mr.. Horace Greeley, informs the public
that all is fair and squares so why should l
harbor suspicion? For my part l think the
1880 very laboriously earned. l would rather
give twice that sum to Weston for doing what
he proposes to do than one-half of it to either of
those conceited cantatrices, Patti and Nilsson,
for one evenings warbling. The arrangements
for reporters are somewhat unique. Relays of
gentlemen were expected to relieve each other
from the hour the performance commenced to
that in which it will be completed. Mr.. Weston
himself up to the moment of beginning, seemed
to be in good health and spirits, and firmly pos
sessed of the notion that the $500 could be won.
The attendance at the Rink this morning and
afternoon promises to be unprecedentedly large.
Woman's Work.
When there is Young Women's Christian
Association perhaps an effort will be made to
benefit the numerous girls and young women
= who wait in stores. Why should the young men
be taken SO much care Off Why should they be
made so generally the subject of special lectures,
special services, and special means of salvation?
Is ths male soul of any more value than the
female? Don't stores in which girls and women
are almost exclusively employed stand quite
as much in need of being closed at o'clock on
Saturday afternoons as stores do where young
men and boys oficiste? Yet who ever
hears of the girls and women being granted the
habitual half holiday at the end of the week?
Woman's notorious endurance has become a
reason for piling upon her sufferings beyond
it. The camels back will bear much, and
the straws are multiplied. Think of woman
standing from eight in the morning until eleven
at night! Contemplate these fifteen hours of
statuesque agony. Realize to yourself the
back with q break in it, the falling legs, the
sore and swollen feet, the eyes dazed with in
cessant glare, the brain bewildered with per-
petual rattle and hum, the heart irritated with a
hundred disappointments in the effort to SELL and
dispirited under the sense of miserable wages
and the prospect of an unbettered future. Yes,
these are the tortures which the shop-girl
writhes under all the year round, without re-
spite. The dollar stores along Broadway are
the most illustrious examples of this brilliant
barbarity of fertune-makers, barbarity which
manufactures wealth out of the very blood and
tears of weak white slaves. The Womens
Rights Association could perhaps do something
for these victims. No doubt clerks and sales
men do suffer enough in similar way, but their
part has been already taken. Improvement has
set in for them, and it is time the condition of
the women should be ameliorated. The impu-
dence of the New York saleswoman has be-
come proverbial; but show me the woman who
is compelled to be on her feet the greater part
of the day, compelled to knuckle under to the
caprices of scores of customers and if she be-
come not ''piert" in time, she must indeed be
frst-class angel in crinoline, or an No.
heroine out of Grace Aguilar's novels Let the
women as well as the men have an Early
Closing Association. Because women can en-.
dure 80 much and DO endure it uucomplainingly
don't imagine that the agony can't be piled toe
high. Disease and death among female employees
are the stock from which too many business firm:
realize fortunes
Where Is Hee
Ii may be joke-for the sake of Mr. Fryer
1 hope it is, but that gentleman is said to have
been mysteriously missing since May H. He il
the agent of the Carlotta Patti troupe, and
accompanied that lady during her recent toul
South and West. This is emphatically an age
when people are privileged to mysteriously dis
appear and furtiyely come to the surface again
and perhaps Mr.. Fryer, for reasons best know