Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-10

REsARKABLE STRAWBERRY sEAsoN-NEw sryIr OF
SUNDAY ENrEnrAINMEHTs--FLoA w. FIXED
dioG-TnE TRIBUNE LAGER REER BUILDING.
Correspondence Of The Commercial.
New York, June 3, 1875.
The strawberry season this year is quito I'M
prccedented in tho profusion and excellence of
this prince of fruits. The prolonged hoat and
drought OF the last three weeks, following with
midsummer fervor sharply on a cool, late spring
that had kept the ground soaking with recent
snow. has produced Il result mover seen before
in Now York markets. The strawberry has
swelled to double size and developed sweet
ness and richness OF flavor surprising itself
The Wilson Seeding, practically tho only straw
berry IN our market, and heretofore remarkable
only for Its hardness and acidity, has turned ten
der and filled itself with grape sugar under this
sudden summer, until it unquestionably beats
everything known before, for the combination
OF acid and saccharine Ingredients The retail
price has for week past averaged only about
twelve cents per quart, against twenty as the
minimum ut its height OF the ordinary season.
THE HEAT OF THE WEATHER
has made business very brisk for the excursion
boats which have taken new departure in mag
niiicence this year. Gould and Eisk's floating
palace, the Plymouth Rock, is engaged in SER
vice not much in contrast with its old Associa-
tions; run bya firm of theatrical managers not
only az legitimate excursion boat but as
Sunday drinking and concert saloon in safe de-
hancc OF evasion of tho law againstsuch things,
and ministoring cheap and respectable Sabbath
PROCLAMATION to thousands of persons who would
never think of entering such place OF Sunday
entertainment on dry land. The art of SHINING
and forgetting God keeps pace with all tho other
arts OF the progressive aSe,and subsidies them
into the service.
1T Is AMUSING, HOWEVER,
to listen to the astonished and indignant obiur-
cations of good people who can't get over their
simple faith i'll Horace Greeley; christian sim
plicity of character insomuch that they kiss the
tho feet OF his very executors and successors.
Their objurgations, was going to say over the
gorgeous drinking saloon just opened in the
basement of the new Tribune building. 1t il
ono of the largest lager beer and liquor establish
ments i'll tho city, and unrelieved by pretence
of selling anything to eat. The bar i'll the Times
building, near by, il connected with first class
restaurant, which makes all the difference be-
tween virtue aud vice, according to standards.
THE ONLY THING TO SURPRISE
anybody who knew anything OF the thorough in
difference if not hostility of the Tribune Asso-
citation always to Puritan morals, is the readi-
ness with which they have sacrificed their pre-
tension to first-class professional building. No
such building could afford TO allow anything un-
der banking exchange or insurance Office in ts
prominent apartments. To let them
for liquor palace is to sink the
whole building at stroke, tall tower
and ALL to a fourth rate social level l am
not blaming them, however, in business
point OF view. 1t is doing as well as they could
ever have hoped to do with a building on that
side of tho park, if they had put "Millions in