The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-09
GOTHAM IN A FOG.
PERILS OF THE STREETS IN SLIP
PERY TINES.

PERILS OF THE STREETS IN SLIP
perry TINES.
The Ferries Impassable-The Amuse-
mont Record-The Scorched Actors
| Retreat-Charles Reade's New Work.
| A Magazine for Commands.
lFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
New YORK., January 4.
We certainly have no reason to complain oi
a want OF variety in the weather; within q
week we have seen winter in all Its different
gulses. The "hard freeze" was succeeded by
the most furious snow-storm OF ten years, and
yesterday came the thaw, with the thlckest
fog ever seen out OF London, general drip.
ping from the caves of houses, and puddles
fearful to wallow in at all the street cross
ings.
The fog was q genuine sensation. 1t was
not yellow like that they have OF the Thames,
but like the Thames fogs 1t penetrated into
| the interior of houses and chased you down
| to your very t;eakfast table. The muf1ns
looked hazy, and Biddy melted away ghost.
like when she went for the coffee. For time
houses on the opposite side Of. the street we're
| Invisible, and hasty waylarers tumbled against
each other In passing. The ferry boats on
both rivers stopped running for several hours,
| and when they recommended their trips there
| was an actual collision between q Jersey City
and Pavonia boat, 10 which the latter was
| nearly sent to the bottom. A Wall street
| boat started out from Brooklyn at eight o'clock
A. NJ, and after wandering about helplessly
| 10 the river returned at nine o'clock without
| being able to ind New York. The passage In
clear weather is made in from three to five
minutes.
Imagine the fifty thousand merchants,
clerks, woSkingmen, shop girls. &C., who live
In Brooklyn and do business In New York,
throDging the terry houses The greater part OF
the morning In vain attempts to get across.
How many heartfelt prayers went up tor the
completion OF that great bridge, whose lofty
unfinished tower overshadows The Brooklyn
side within few feet of Fulton Ferry. The
people living In the upper streets OF New
York were not much better off. The horse
cara made their way down town with great
difficulty, and thousands were forced to
walk-and such walking. The rain had
| washed the snow from the glazed Ice, and
broken leg threatened at every step. The
middle Of the streets were piled with melted
snow, and the crossings were pools OF wafer
rldged with slippery Ice mounds. While at
tempting TO leap alrS from one OF these to
another, found myself on ny back splashlng
in the mud and snow. with two uEsympathetic
newsboys near by, hilarious.
There was danger also In walking the
streets. piece Of Ice slipped from the roof
of building In Broad street and struck q
man on the head, fracturing his skull and
prostratlng him. I saw him carried into a
brokers' ONCE, and then stood with other
wise men aud gazed gapingy upward to the
dangerous roof. Suddenly more Ice came
tumoing down, and the crowd scattered fran
tlcally, your correspondent making as good
time as any body. mention this as sample
incident IN the days experiences OF almost
all who went abroad. But the weather has
changed for the better. The sun shines glo-
riously to-day, and the air Ia as warm as that
of spring time.
Amusements have not been we'll patronized
lately on account Of the condition OF the
streets. New York Is truly city OF magnil-
icent distances, and one can hardly get to his
favorite theatre without walking or riding q
mile or two. With intrequent horse-cars and
slippery sidewalks even Booths Richard the
Third" Is not enjoyable. But the theatres and
concert halls are all open and STRUGGLING to
pay expenses. The wlping out Of the Fifth
Avenue Theatre by fire, on New Years day,
leaves the field with one competitor less. Mr..
Daly, the unfortunate manager, has one other
theatre still on bis hands-the Grand Opera
House-in which he Is running local spec
tacular piece.
Mr.. Booth is playing one OF his best charac-
ters, Richard III, nightly at his own theatre.
Sothern is giving "Brother SAM" the COM
panion piece to his Dundreary, at Wallack's,
and "Leo and Lotus" keeps ION Its legsn lit
orally at Niblo's. Another new piece by John
Brougham is underlined for Monday night at
the Union Square Theatre. 1t is founded on
one of Robinson's novels. Rubensteln is back
again, and Is giving concerts In conjunction
with Theodore Thomas's fine band, at Stein
way Hall. Brother Beecher ls advertised 10
give new lecture advocating compulsory
education. at Association Hall, next Thursday
night; admission 81.
Augustine Daily being burned out, with an
expensive company on mis- hands, Miss Daven-
port gets $3.50 and Geo. Clark SIPS per week.
has been Obliged to find shelter somewhere,
and has accepted Mr.. A. T. Stewards offer to
use the old church on Broadway, opposite the
New ork Hotel. This building was original
ly the Church OF the Messiah, but the congre-
cation moving up town, MIR. stewart, Inc
purchaser. turned 1t Into theatre. a sert OF
fatality seems to hang about the house,
though 1t Is conveniently located; ev"ry man
ager who has taken 1t has come to grief. The
last was 30 unfortunate that nobody else
could be induced to venture Into the unlucky
SPOT, and 1t has been tenantless for TWO sea.
sons. Mr.. DAILY, bravl0g late, has gone into
it at last, and we shall see If ne can break the
malign charm.
Charles Reade's new novel, ''The Wander
Ing Heir" has been published in completed
form BY the Harpers. 1t is readable, as all
his stories are, but the same familiar charac-
ters appear in new dresses and with new
names. The hero Is dilution of Griffith
Gaunt; the heroine is the young lady you met
in "White Lies" and Soul Play" and "Pat
Yourself in His Place." The plot is borrowed
from 1.-The Adventures of an Unfortunate
Young Nobeman" In Burke's Romance OF
the Arlstocracy," and nearly all the person
ages who figure 10 it are historical. Reade
introduces his tavorlte feature, q trial In court
indeed, two of them, and, as In Foul
Play" he lnvents an original and unique situ-
aLion for his lovers. The book Is selling from
the stands like "hot cakes"
An oddly In the way OF periodical lltera-
ture is the first number OF q new monthly
magazine called "The Table," edited by Barry
Gray. We lave periodicals with all sorts OF
queer missions, but hardly any with one 30
queer as this. 1t Is devoted to the refine
ments of the table, and it's contents are aoont
gastronomy, t"e art of eating properly, bills
Of fare, &C., beginning with "My First Dlpner
In New Orleans" by that bon utuant, Colonel
T. B. Thorpe. Let the cooks rejoice. NYA.
ALL ABOUT PETROLEUM.