The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-24
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From Our OlSn Correspondent
NEW YORK, March "a, 1871.
Strawberries on BrOadway.

strawberries on BrOudway.
There they are, COOL crimson, throat-alluring,
perchcd and arranged enticngly In little baskets
and amid green leaves. They glow from behind
the plate-gass OF Taylor's and other large
fashionable saloons, and present q temptation
that Is above and beyond all reason, these first
delicious pickings of the genus frdgarid. At the
low price of one dollar per basket the poor pomo-
logical epcure may eat six mouthfus of straw
berries, and have just enough to give appe-
tite finer edge.
The "Binck DominO.o
The public was very much disappointed on
Tuesday night. 1t rushed to the Academy of
Music expecting to witaess the Black Domino,
which had been elaoorately announced. Upon
arriving, the hnndbis informed it that owing to
the impossibility of completing the preparations
ii was postponed, aud that Fra Diauolo would
be substituted. Now Fra Didrolo is light,
pretty opera, but the audience was not disposed
upon that occasion to see the prcttiness of IL.
Half the people went away: the opera dragged;
Mr.. Castle did not seem to please, although he
never lspcd more liquidly; the intermissions
were desgnedly long to protract the entertain
ment as late as eleven; not a single encore was
demanded. The critics and the ConnOisseurs
hobnobbed together and pronounced the affair
a fraud. One discontented critic (who can't get
his contributions accepted by PunchineLlo) said
was Fraud Diavolo.'
Apropos of PunchinelJo, let me confdentially
advise Philadelphia funny people that it pays
five dollars per column for prose and ten for
poetry.
stewards Completed store.
The completed store of Mr.. A. L. Stewart will
be opened on Monday. The scaiIolding and
pent-houses which surrounded the new addition
at the southeast corner of Ninth street and
Broadway were pulled down yesterday, and the
remainder of the week will be occupied in fur
nishing the interior. The completed structure
is to be bounded by Tenth street on the north,
Ninth street on the SOUTH Broadway on the
west and Fourth avenue on the east, and forms
a most superb monument to the Genius of
Money-making. Survey this imposing building
by night when the full moon is shining upon it,,
and the hour is sufficiently late for the struggle
and roar of Broadway to have subsidized for the
time being, and you have an exquisite architec-
tural effect which would DC romantic If the
trademark were not SO indelibly stamped
upon it.
The Soaring SorOsis.
The Sorosisis getting old enough to be treated
with some show of respect. 1t has just cele-
brated its second anniversary. 1t endures when
feminine associations of sterner pretensions have
melted away. Where is the Womans Suffrage
Association? And what lesson does the success
OF SOrOSlS teacnE lnaJ STOCKINGS, ana not
stocks, are the proper sphere of woman? That
the ''yoke" which sits most gracefully upon her
is the one which is related to gussets and bands
l will not commit myself by saying this, but 1
will ask whether the Sorosis hourishes because
it has more strength than Womans Suffrage
Associations have, or because 1t is too weak for
any one to take the trouble to crush? Perhaps
the velvet voices of the literary ladies who
mainly compose 1t are too feeble to invite an
opposition which the huckaback intonations
(to carry out the simile) and 'crash" principles
of the strong minded women lure to their own
speedy destruction.
specie Payment.
There are two ways of telling whether man
has been drinking in New York. If his breath
smells, that is quite sufficient proof of his
crapuous tendencies. If he has specie about
him, assurance is doubly sure. The practice OF
giving specie in change to those who purchase
drinks is growing in favor with bar-keepers and
tavern proprietors
Triangular Bedain.
There is a certain little triangular spot in New
York where something new, night and day, is
continually going on. l believe there is nc
other spot in all New York where a crowd is
sooner collected or dispersed You look one
moment and see grey -colored waste of paving
stone, over which few pedestrians hurry mo-
enough to give it life and character. You look
again, and see a crowd which has arisen al
rapidly as q ripple on lake. This triangular
Bedlam is thus situated:-It is bounded ON the
south by the Daily Times building and branches
off into two streets known as Nassau street ant
Park Row; to the north ii branches off into Centre
and Chatham streets; on the west it is bounded
by rails of the eastern limit of City Hall Park an(
the fruit-yenders' stalls in the vicinity; th
East ii is hedged in by the Tribune, the Sunda!
Times, the Sun, the Nelcs, French's Hotel, etc
Every itinerant Snowman, with a hand-organ
monkey, or a dancing-bears, makes that his van
playground. There wagons filled with hide
shift their loads; there blackguards bully an
drunken men defy the police; there the cele
brated arlnless individual whites sticks with
knife held in his toes; there the almost-equall
celebrated cocoanut woman proves that he
heart is as hard as her cocoanuts with all tn
milk squeezed out and wallops her drunke
husband for the delectation of the passers-by
1t is emphatically gay old corner. On wind
days within its bounds, the air is filed wit
rumpled petticoats and the ground palpitatt
with blown off hats. Upon that arena, too, yo
catch sight, from time to time, of most of tn
newspaper men-great and small-of New Yorl
for it is the vestibule to all the newspaper Office
of any Importance and during the twenty-fou
hours the whales and minnows of journalism a
go tapping by.
s'Answers to Correspondents"
II is my suspicion-it is more than my susp
cion, it is my belief-that New York newspaper
dailies and weeklies, more annoyed vii