The Hawaiian gazette., 1870-02-02
New York Correspondence.

Year Of Horrors-L Fiske, Jr-Great Is Erie-Ad-
tsrtising Extraordinary Shoe Flyi''-- Captain
Hall before The Ansrsean Geographical Socety-Relies
Of Sir John Franklin-77e EsQuiDldnr Sedge
IRON OUR OWN ooRREsPoNDEST.]
NEw YORK, Dee I'd, 1869.
OF the events that stand forth most prominently
in this years history disasters and crimes the
chief The year of grace 1859 is decidedly year OF
horror. Its calendar boast of a combination OF
burniDgs and crushings, of stTanglings and drown
ings of cheatings and robberes and other horrors,
| among the mildest of which are single murders,
so curiously contrived and ingeniousy destructive
that they would make the reputation Of whole de-
cade of years in ordinary times.
Considering the fact that these things the in
evitable concomitants of our highpressure Amer
lean life, and that We have wise Joseph or Daniel
to point out the means of preventing them in the
future, regard the with which these harrow
ing accidents pass into forgetfulness a merciful
dispensation of Providence The resiliency OF So
ciety in recovering from the dread and torture of
these agonizng horrors is natures protest against
being tormented before its time
In New York, advertising not only makes bust
ness, but it is ITSELF OF the most extensive forms
of business. When every body else finds it distress
ingly dull, the wickedest bill poster whose name
is legion, is have his hands full Every night
after the example of the angel who sowe6 tares
when men slept, this great army of bill-stickers
sallies FORTH with pot and brush in hand and faith
fully performs its MISUNDERSTANDING useful in
formation While hand bills of long standing
remorselessly covered up with those of later date
until the strata accumulates to great depth,-re-
minding of the scriptural Injunction, line
upon line, precept upon precept,"-a nice profess
siona etiquette forbds these secular copoIteurs
from tFespassing upon the ground just occupied by
their fellows by OVERLAPPING their newly pasted sheets
with fresher novelties; so that it is for any
pleasantness between them TO be engendered this
account.
The redonbtable James Fiske Jr., finds ordinary
too feeble to trumpet the glories OF Erie and
therefore has covered the side Of the Saint German
Hotel, which stands in the heart of the city, near
the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway, with
large block letters, expressive Of his estimation of
the merits of this great route But finding the day
too short 10 utter all its praises and fearing that the
city may forget that his trains compete with those
gates which, the poet sings, "a are open night aud
day,"-broad is the gauge, and easy is the way,-at
night be Eliminates the monster sign with the con-
eentraed rays of an intense oxyhydrogen jet which
makes his 1000 square feet of advertisement shine
forth with the eearness of MONDAY, informing the
traveller that the Erie" with its stone baasted,"
abroad gauge double track and steel rails"
is the quickest through route, West and Southwest
to Hast Hope, or Ca,r's Rock, II mean, TO Roches
ter, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, &c
But advertising has reached its climax in the
bronze statue aud group, lately SET up by Commo-
dore Vanderbilt in honor of himself, the west
ern front of the Hudson River Railroad Depot. This
work is remarkable chiefly for its immense weight
of metal--100,OOO pounds-for its great dimensions
and for costing s5O0,OOO In the middle, stands
colossal figure of the Commodore; while to his
right are railroads trains of cars teegnphc wires
implements of agriculture, grain fields and reapers;
and apart from this scene of activity is lonely |
female FORM sitting desolate, like Hagar in the
wilderness. To his left, are steamships, wharves,
derricks, bales, tackng, and various other ma
chinery of commerce, while Neptune, with his tri-
dent, basks Ibis hairy strength on a sand-beach.
While score of mariners dwelling this
clever piece of casting in the presence of motley
and very democratic crowd, Wall Street was ex-
pressing its appreciation of the affair." and amusing
itself by travestyng the whole performance in
witty carcature, representing the Railroad King"
as engaged in watering Erie" according to the
technical language of "the street" One can not
help in this connection remarkng the contrast that
this cold blooded, selfglorifcatlOn of Vanderbilt
offers TO the reverental attitude all London took on
the occasion of the Inauguration of George Pea
body's statue, for the performance of whose obse
luies that dear and hallowed shrine of England's
history, Westminster Abbey opened wide its gates.
While speaking of the curiosities of advertising,
we can not refrain from mentioning very droll
little paeard that has for some time been the source
Of world of real fun to all,-from the boys who
sing it the street, to the merchant who spies it
IN his way to business Ii is Dan Bryants Z" Shoe,
Fly! don't bodder me-" which is the refrain of an
lbsurd, inimtable negro melody. This is well.
devised placard, in which alphabetic and picture
writing are happily combined to produce the most
Unique advertising hit of the season.
CAPTAIN HALL ;
At reception lately given by the American Geo. 7