The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-08-07
GLIMPSES OF GOTHAM.
THOSE "SEcRET ACc0UNTs,--AN IN
DIGNATTON lIEETING CALLED.
UnpubIished e Explosion Items-The
Search Under che Sea-Sudden and E1-
trnordInary Activity OF the Boiler I'M
spectors-Phebe Cary's Sunday Even
Ing Recepcions-The Downfall .of a
High.Toned Theatre. ri;
lFRox oUR. OWN CORRESPONDENTS

| - [FRoA OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.
NEW YORK, August 2.
The explosion at the foot of Whitehall street
rather spoiled the Times sensation about the
municipal frauds. People had something else
to.talk about something more terribly fascl.
mating than Andy Garvey's big plastering bill
or Smiths over-charges for awnings. The Re:
publicans, forsfear the excitement would die
out, have attempted to keep it up by calling
an indignation meeting Of 'citizens,n to be
held at the Academy of Music, on next Tues
day evening. 1t is noticeable that all the
sigpers of the call are firms or individuals
lidentlaed with the Radical party, that no
Democratic names like those Of Moses Taylor,
William B. Duncan, (of Duncan, Sherman &
Co.. or Wilson G: Hunt, appear in the list, and
| that those 0rthe great taxpayers like Alex. 7.
Stewart, John Jacob Astor and Marshall o.
Roberts. who usually act with the Radicals, are
likewise absent. So the partisan character OF
| the meeting is evident.
Meanwhile the "ring" is preparing for the
| public. ;ip printed form, a.sfull and thorough
report ofthe accounts of the city for the past
three years. This will be scattered broadcast
before theindignation meeting convenes, and
| is expected to break the force Of the oratlons
| on that occasion. l understand chat Mayor
| Hall intends to prove that the accounts about
which.the Times makes such a fuss extend
over five instead of two years. and that they
apply to many other public buildings than the
| county courthouse.
The ferry boat explosion has come to be
almost an old story, and yetthere are fresh In
cjdents occurring which serve to Keep II alive
| in the public mind To-day, at the Church OF
| the Saviour, in Brooklyn, funeral services were
celebrated over nearly an entire family. In
the aisle stood five cofdns, containing the re-
mains of an old gentleman, Mr.. Uhlmann, his
son-in-law, Professor Marc Cheneylere, and his
two grandchildren, Marie and Arthur Chene-
Were. The remaining members of the family.
Mr. 7h,manh's wife and his married daughter,
| are. lg at Bellevue Hospital. The family
started from Brooklyn, on Sunday, TO go to
Staten Island to spend the afternoon with q
relative. They had scarcely seated themselves
nifty. Professor. Cheneviere's body was blown
into the river, and recovered by dragging the
next day.
This is but one case. Our citizens have been
supping on horrors like 1t until really 1t seems
as ii the reason of some has been overthrown.
| a mAn cAlne luLOE Wy FOuCe tuo OtuSl uiSup y,
trembling as If with palsy, and begged me to
use my Influence. TO. get an article IN g daily
paper calling upon the: citizens to lynch the
| Vanderbilt family, Including the c0mmodore)
whom he insisted were the owners OF the
Staten Island boats. a bereaVed husband,
after witnessing the expiring agonies of his
wife at Bellevue Hospital, started on run'for
| the East River. Nearly hundred people
were in pursuit, and he was caught Just as he
| WAS about to lean into the water.
| THE narrow escapes, as Is always the case IN
| disasters OF this kind, were numerous. Several
/ came under my personal observation. A party
OF three friends left Brooklyn just after dinner
| for the purpose of taking the Westaeld for
Staten Island. They missed the connection
boat at the South Ferry, and were lamenting
their bad luck when they were shocked to
hear the sound OF the explosion and see a
cloud OF steam arise at the Gerry house on the
l New York side. An hour later and New York
] and Brooklyn would have been deprived OF
| halt of their journeymen narbers. The poor
fellows work until nocn On Sundays, and
\ usually enjoy their only halliday holiday on
Staten Island, nearly filing the halt-pasttw
O'Clock boat down. 50,
TT will probably neyerbe known how many
people were killed. The boat was crowded.
Very few escaped without some Injury q
large number, it might be a hundred tor all we
know, were blown. n.overboard and their bodies
have drifted of. One was discovered as far
/ from the scene ofthe disaster as Staten IslaRd
Everybody who has friend missing is natu.
rally fearful that he may have been on board
the fated steamer. The hospitals and police
stations are still besleged by anxious lnquirers
The editor Of an Irish weekly paper, Mr.. Kelle-
her, has not been at his office since Saturday
His friends have become alarmed about him,
1 and upon diligent inquiry have ascertained thai
i the last seen. of him was on Sunday afternoon,
4 about half-past IL O'Clock, when he was walk.
ing down Broadway alone. He did not say he
was going to Staten Island, and yet the Infer.
ence is that he was onTboard the Westfeld.at
the.time Of the explosion; sss .s.
), After the horse Is stolen we lock the stable.
door. A Avlgorous inspection OF the boilers oi
| the New York. feyry-boats began Yesterday
morning. all the Brooklyn ferry-boats are
undergoing examination, to-day. No doubt
the work: will be throughly done for once.
The custom has been TO fee the Inspector and
treat him to champagne, and receive q certi1-
cate In return. The examination. of stea m,
boat boilers has been a mere form. Bit the
| inspectors are the ll7ellest and most incor.
ruptible officials In New York at tho present
i ;moment. Travelling hereabcuts was never
;safer than now. And yet the frightened pub.
.l.lic have abandoned the pleasure:boats in
/ droves.; The Staten Island boats carry only
the regular residents of the island, who seem
to be careful to- congregate at the extreme
rear end Of the deck during the passage.
1 Pleasure travel by sea has dropped off wholly.
| On the other hand, the horse cars and rail.
roads out OF town are hardly able To accom-.
modate The rush. CoIey Island is more popu.
lar than ever. So we will 80 till railroad
| Smash-up turns the stream back to the steam.
boats, and equalizes things.
Z Phoebe Cary, whose death took place al
Newport on Monday, was one Of the besl
known, and probably the most popular, of thai
4 class Of .masculine.mnded women who start
ed the woman's club, or "Sorosls," In this
city. remember her at dinner Of literary
people, at Delmopico's, q couple of years ago
"a stout, jolly, cheerful-lo old maid. She
j'lved for many years with her sister Alice, in 6
house oftheir own In Twentieth street, neal
Fourth avenue. Every Sunday evening the
sisters gave "tea" No Invitations were Is
sued, but all the literary and artist friends O.
4 the hostesses were welcome, and welcome, too
to bring their friends. Alter awhile, the Sun
day evening receptions at the Carys became
q recognized institution In New York literary
life. All persons of good standing in thu
guild made the cheerful parlors in Twentieth
street common ground Of meeting Those
delightful reunions doubtless linger forever ir
many memories. They were broken I'D By
the death Of Alice last winter. Phoebe neyel
seemed to be herself after this af1ictou
Nothing whatever was the matter with hel
physically. She wandered off to the White
Mountains and Newport this summer and BY
the side OF the sea she laid down and died
literally, OF broken heart
Our Srandest temple of the drama has lower
ed Its proud crest and let In the jig dancers
Booths Theatre has been leased to HLotta" fol
O summer season. don't know if you have
Ho1 TO ind koll A.. TNN-