The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-24
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unfed wretch who has taken board and lodglng
for himself and family in house that is nomi-
naly irst-rate but in reality fourth-rate, and is
afraid to move away. He trembles at the pros
pect of facing that terrific woman unto whom
he hands the weekly ''spons," and who In return
assumes to surround him with the comforts of a
home and the delicacies of the season. He goes
there on the first of May under the delusion that
near future of lamb, chickens, green peas
asparagus, sweet-breads, and Bermuda potatoes
is to dawn upon him, to say nothing of fruits,
ices, and confectionery. From this beatifc
vision he wakes to daily instalments of hash
salt fish, corned beef, pork and beans, turnips
and tea and coffee, either of which might be
mistaken for the other and no harm done. Some
such deluded being as this must Mr. William
Morey have been, whose case came up yester-
day before Judge Curtis The Judge himself
lives luxuriously in Fourteenth street, near
Delmonico's. and has his meals sent him every
day from that restaurant, so that he is qualified
for sympathizing with gentlemen and ladies
who fare worse than himself. Mr.. Morey's
grievances are especially interesting because
they 80 graphically expose certain detested
phase of New York life-boardng-house exis-
tence. According to his evidence, he engaged
rooms and board last November OF lady resid-
ing in West Fourteenth street. between Sixth
himself, his wife, nurse, two children, and
dog For these he paid $74 per week, and re-
ceived in return, according to his statements,
diet consisting largely of pork and beans as the
piece de resistance (and he resisted it very
stro ly indeed), and peanuts and dates as
dessert. These were occasionally varied with
such delicacies as hash and crackers. At distant
intery Is the lady of the house went to
tn extent of providing poultry, which
is said to have been suggestive of
the farm-yard in another sense than that of
having originally been taken thence. These
things to eat did Mr.. Morey seriously decline.
He told his landlady that he wanted duck, so
ehe went to Jefferson Market aud provided one
whose aromatic properties took away the appe-
tite of every one at the table. She is further
said to have indulged in cheap bouquetsas deco
rations, and to have embellished her table with
poses that didn't smell and poultry that did,
She never swept her stairs down, nor had the
window -panes cleaned. She charged Mr.. Morey
six dollars for q broken pitcher, two dollars and
half for broken chair, and fifty cents for
night-ke. She had boarders who were SO
wanting refinement as to call perspiration
''sweat' ana the gravy of meat 'blood,' and to
make invidious remarks about Mr.. Morey and
family relative to their quitting on airs So
much for Mr.. Morey's side of the story. His
landlady, matronly-looking brunette, on
taking the stand, swore that if her house
was dirty, it was made so by the eternal trape-
sing through it of Mr.. Morey's children and dog;
that on Mr.. Morey's expressing desire for
duck, she got out of bed and with
her own legs (particular attention is requested
to the fact that these appendages were the pri-
vate property of the LADY, went to market and
bought one; that the "crackers" which Mr.. NJ.
turned up his nasty nose at were beautiful egg
biscuit, the best in town; that he was guiltless
of pork and beans, with the exception of q
solitary Saturday night, and innocent of hash
except on Hash-W ednesday Cthe lady is Eng
lish); that Mr.. NJ. was so deficient in common
discernment that he couldn't distinguish pea
nuts from flberts, and that her table was at once
the envy and despair of every lady in the neigh
borhood who received guests" 'If l am re-
duced in circumstances, I'm lady yet were
the concluding words of this injured hostess,
who took occasion to explain that she did not
pretend to keep boarding house and to take
boarders, but only to "receive guests as
companions for her in her more leisure mo-
ments. Nevertheless she claimed FROM Mr.. VI.
three weeks board, 1922 which she said he had
defrauded her out of, and which he claims that
long course of hash, pork aud beans aud
dates and peanuts quite exempts him from
paying.
The Garden Concerts.
very great change has this year taken place
in the character of the garden-concerts held on
the outskirts of the city. The change is more
pereeptible at Central Park Garden than else
where. Two years ago the admission was
twenty-five cents, and the audience was for the
most part composed of loungers, fast men,
loose women, store clerks and statesmen, and
Bohemians of every description. Last summer
an attempt at a better order of things was made.
Mr.. Levy, the cornet-player, was engaged, the
price was raised to thirty-fve cents (doubtless
to pay Mr.. Levy with), and respectable women,
but-by no means those belonging to the higher
circles began to visit the garden. This year
the hall has been beautifully decorated and pro-
vided with means of illumination, the grounds
have been improved, the orchestra of Mr..
Thomas has been enlarged and strengthened,
the enterprise has passed from the old manage
ment, and the price of admission has been
raised to fifty cents. The audiences have won
derfully improved in character. The beer
drinking and the other drinking, the smoking
and the splitting, have been almost altogether
done away with, and plenty of well-dressed
and irreproachable women give the entertain
ment dignity beauty, and drespectability. The one
rival of Central Park Garden is Terrace Garden
situated at the intersection of Fifty-eightt
street with Third avenue. The situation is fal
from being as favorable as that of Central Parb
Garden From the latter you can walk imme
diately into the Park ITSELF aud lose yourself
amid its green tangles and ravelled skeins o.
wildwood. At Terrace Garden, however al
your sources of enjoyment must be found withiI
the limits of the garden itself. There last nigh