Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-03-11
NEW YORK.
OUR MID. WEEK LETTER.

THE PHILHARMONIC AND rHEo. THoMAs RIsToRI'
WORLD EAREwEIL"-A MAMMOTH LiTHoaRAPH
10 f0RfAAIr.
Spseta, Correspondence oftAe Commercial
New YoRK, March 8.
Mr. Bsrnum says thar his Hippodrome estab
hshment, menagerie, horses, performers ant
attaches, cost him $1,000 week larger mum
bsr Of twenty Aye cent stamps than the univer
sal New York nursery-maids and beaux, chill
drsn and MANN, ss-can be coaxed TO turn il
weekly, in these times, by al his unparalleled
gifts Of story telling and amusing. Neverthe-
less, with Roman grit, he doubles his $4,000. thii
wsek-or says he docs, which la exactly tlls
same thing, you know-paying the extra to the
winner Of
THE aRRATEsT rEDi sTkIAN MATCH
ever walked on this planet "Prof."J. II. Judd
who attempted unsnccessfully To emulate Ed
ward Psyson Weston's unparalleled feet" (thA
went 800 miles inside of la hours, At Newark
last falD now stumps him TO stump it again, sne
Tho walker Of lib miles in the first 81 hours il
to get e25OO or, in other words Mr.. Barnuu
bets very confidently s250O that neither Of them
can do 1t /; and the one who does the 500 miles
farthest inside Of the IA hours is to have the
other s2500. But for the first prize, Judd is moi
competing. p. 8. Barnup won the bet.
Tie two men are opposites in physique. Judd
il excessively muscular his professorship'
being not anything in the line OF learning OF
even oorn.extraoting, but simply that Of gym
nastioa. Nevertheless, Time beat him by l3l
miles he having succumbed at the 369th, while
Weston, light and long legged, with thin, soft
muscles, went through after repeated failures,
overdid his 500 miles in less than his la hours,
aud WAS crowned king Of pedestrians. Judging
from the crowd drawn by this new attraction,
Barnum will make = much better profit on his
extra than on his ordinary *5OOO Weston al
to win IL he makes 465 miles before Weston
makes the tO0
CLASSICAL MUSIC
has been sustained in New York by the old
fashioned Philharmonic Society, for more than
thirty years past. This society undoubtedly In
cludes tho best musicians resident in New York,
many Of whom could not bs induced to itinerate
and play in strange and il-adaptsd places, or
tho open air. 1t has also the largest orchestra,
numbering one hundred or more performers.
Among the limited class Of persons who really
aspire to high aesthetic culture, the Phil
harmonic Society has done work Of vast impor-
tance, and prepared the way for the broader and
more popular success OF
THEODORE THOMAS.
progressively raises at once his orchestrx ana
his audiences out Of the best material the public
Affords, by . consumate tact, an artists enthu.
slasm and the most undomitable and persistent
enterprise. Having successfully populaIiaed
symphony concerts IN NsS York and other large
cities, he has, for 3 few Seasons past, extended
his missionary enterprise to the miner cities, re-
gardless of money out Of pocket, and looking
only to the future and the broad collateral ef-
feet, for repayment. In the city Of Newark,
for instance, after one or two seasons either Of
which would have been enough for concertist
OF narrower aims, he is now giving = symphony
serles to large and gratifed audiences under the
primitive timber Of the "Rnk." An unfayora-
BILE place; and who knows but the impulse may
result in music hall worthy Of that city Of mag
ical growth and OF its growing musical culture
ADELAIDE RIsreaI,
the great tragic actress of the time Miss Cush-
man having bidden the age farewell, and become
Of tho pAst Ia also about to retire from the stage
after triumphal progress Of this world q thing
unprecedented in the annals OF the "stars. "
She arrived in this city on Friday night, from
HAVANA, with her troupe Of forty-two actors,
and her immense cargo Of scenery, stage proper.
ties, wardrobes and other baggage appurtsnant
e such n ,.ps. uSp.sSsaSs9assa S aSRess hJaRl
+: p&fs66l lncccssszy " s.ef peefdus1al.eei
ha As q sEsn'a + 1s<sRs nsasr Re Re
wherever she plays, her progress is something
nearly ~ stupendous as that Of Hrst-class cir
Gus and mepagerie in fact, considering that sh'
itineraries the world, and not merely one paitr.
continent, it may be called without exaggerstio'
decidedly more so.
Madame Ristoris New York season OF three
weeks at the Lyceum Theatre, commences to-
night, with an already foregoue jsn, seats be-
ing nowhere to be had without All enormous
premium, il at all. Her farewell tour of tht
world was commenced in Paris last June. Since
then she has done South America and the Wes'
Indies. Next month she will be seen in the
principal Eastern cities, after which, WESTWARD
the star will take her way to the setting sun,
supposed to be located in San Francisco, and
will leave with that other luminary In June, FOL
Australia. China, Japan, and India Everybody ! Q
members her immense popularity in this count
nv at her former visit, when she netted $500, OO0
becoming style good-for-nothing Italian Mar
quis to whom she was married in early life, ane
whose name Of delGrillo she honors in her pri
yste or social capacity. She has been OIL thu
stage fifty years, having commenced at the ag'
Of five, and having now reached that OF hfty
Ave.
MRS. RousBY,
the handsome and clever English actress now il
this country, is to be represented ~ the Lad.
Eliza oeth, her fAvorite character, in all the elab
crate richness Of one Of those costly costume
that have been 30 much celebrated, on one o
the largest lithographic stones ever engraved o
printed. 1t is too large for = tomb stone, bein
on the contrary nearly life size, or Ave feet high
and forty inches wide. The steam press Of Ferd
cent print IL executed, Ia the only machine o
sufficient size for the purpose ever built. III
print itself il an exquisite engraving, done b
the artists Of the co66ern without tile aid O
photography or other mechanical helps, by fre
hand drawing.