, 1875-02-07
GOTHAM.
Mr.. Bergh Looking Out for the
Horses---Items Of Gossip.

Horses---Items Of Gossip.
] Special Correspondence Of The Chicago I4io.tns
| NEW foRT. Feb. 2.-Thoae Of US WHO exulted
over cur mild winter. with no ice or SNOW up to
the New Year, have been obliged to change our
! tone. The month Of January, just passed. has
left record Of unusual severitv,-the cold being
intense, and poor people dying in our hospitals
| Of exposure and starvation. Every day has its
heartrending history; and -salmost nightly, men,
maddened by drink. conjoined With despair,
fling themselves carelessly into death BY suicide,
and women, out ct employment and hopeless.
throw themselves from the ferry-boats, under
the congealiug ice-hoes into the sullen waters
Of the rivers. Yet, as the extremes ct life al
ways meet, there has not been so successful =
month for amusemeuts in many season.
ALL THE THEATRES
are putting on new and costly representations:
and several OF them arc closed for fsw days
before the "grand opening" to rehearse the
splendo1s OF the new scenic and spectacular
dramas. The beautiful Mra~ Rousby, in "'Iwixt
A1e and Crown" drawa immense houses at tho
Lyceum; the "shaugraun," at Wal1aek's, and
tTwo Orphans" at the Union Square, still hare
undiminished popularity; the new. play,
"Woman Of the Day. is fast building up the
waning prosperity Of the Fifth Avenue Theatre;
aud the new opsra~bouffo, 'Giroae- Giroaa,r
which set Ill Paris wild with its bri1liancy and
music, is announced for the Park Theatre on
the 4th. Then Booths is closed for week, to
open with imported actors and actresses and
Nj. Charles Calvert, manager Of the Princess
Theatre, in Manchester, has come over to per-
sonally superintend the arrangements Of the
grand play OF Henry T." at. that theatre.
Among the other scenic effects . real chime Of
bells is to ring in the return Of the King after
the battle Of Agincourt- The admittance fee to
the Hipprodrome has again been cut down to
meet public opinion, and IS cents will now admit
one to all parts Of the arena, whether to wit
ness the grand trotting carnival or {
the knights Of old in tournaments
Apd yet, with all these amnsements,
and multiplicity of balls, the solemn Lental
f $50 begins in few days, when the fashions
bio "oria is supposed to give up its worldliness
tor q few weeks at least.
aruE KHED1yE's DIAMONDS.
There has been constsns throng Of ladies,
and OF gentlemen as we'll, crowding into the
room at the Custom-House where the Khe-
dives present Of diamonds for Mrs. Fitch, nee
Sherman, was on exhibition. On Monday they
were kaEEH u 41AAkJ u Qd 6MOHDs aa. p1 lA&uJ
wealthy and fashionable ladies' bent up" p"earfs TO
the Custom-Houaa officials, imploriog just one
feminine peep. Carriages stand in lines before
Tfany's substantial edi6ce, and all New
York has been, or d gong on z,i it Inc
with the tide .s What Will She Do With It7"
since the necklace il SO heavy, With it's rows Of
as to weigh pounds, and Is only fl
Ted for some great royal reception. and not ae
or,;to f1rn Ia a1.At%1 -
Il tho $500 900 necklace is hidden away In W1s.
Fitch's home in St. Louis, how rerpiexed and
will be the family ly-dreams Of burglars
and robbers; il they are locked in some bank
vaults, the fear OF robbery, and bank-e1pIosion,
Ind fire, still remains As. I overheard one
lregsY scion Of Madison Avanue-dom remark,
- Why don't she return them, as Lieut.. Fitch j.
20 poor, and get the hhedire to give her their
7alue in money, and then invest it IN house
and lot? I" II this speech was not tingsd With
feminine envy, am not : judge.
-. OUR HUMANE SOCIETY,
1nder Mr.. Betgh, has all i1s forces employed
from early morning until night. The snon falls
cleaning force are not able to remove it, and it
ies in slmy, blackened slush, and rctards trayel,
clocks up street-car lines, and impedas progress
The street-caK companies shovel sand and salt
IN the tracks, and are arrested for the ofense;
6 clipped horses have their owners brought up
% receive reprimand, and the dainty Jehus
Who daily sit, with tur-lined oyereoats and snug-
? wrapped in lap-robes, behind their shiyering
arrlages go within Stewards marble entrances
o shop and to dawdle away the long hours, have
,een compelled to coms down from their tucked
Ip and comfortable seats, and cover up, and care
or the health OF, their handsome horses. Load
ID teams have been almost hourly halted, and
lalf of. their load put off; aud The oyertaxed
nd straiuing horses kavo been. assisted, with
omething besides blows, and kicks, and curses.
'endors have had poor, hak-starged horses taken
rom their wagons; and keen and watch
ul supervision OF all the quadruped creation
as been experienced since the heavy falls
t SHOW now laid in great. bulky masses, and
,ado travel not ouly unpleasant, but dangerous.
III! if our poor, teneneut-housad, halfstarsed
hildren could have half the care aud kindlness
Int the brute creation enjoy under the humaueef-
orts OF 5Ir. Bergh, what revolution 10 morals,
nd what an improvement would there.t b.
Then a child feels that Ills home has nothing OF
onfort in it, that be must expect only heading
nd curses, aud is taught to steal, and lie, and
agahond life from the teachings OF childhood
ntii the:heavy prison doors shut in upon his mis-
aent manhood.
THE T1SroS-pEEcHER TRIAL
eyelops little new. Each side promises astound-
Ig revelations, and, in short, very bomb
leil, to burst suddenly in the camp OF the
aemy; and it is expected that discomfort apd
smay will ansue in consequence; but 40 ar,
lara has been no such revelation, and the ula
i'll drag on into April o. May probably.
Balls parties, aud kettledruns crowd eaeh
her. The marriage OF the eldeat son ct Lester
'allack has been the greaE event of the Taek-
here is q new sensation rumorsd, IN
suit for hreach-of-prouise against prom
ent light comedian Miss Alice
mining, OF the Lingard troupe, has become
10 Of the members OF the Fifth Avenna CON-
my, and Mra. Grundy wonders at it. Her var
tile talent will fit in we'll With the beautiful
cos and stupendous dressing Of this very stIl-
company. The Boulevard has become one
st sleighing road, and every one is out to see
ID enjoy the trotting. REuIAH-