The Republican journal., 1875-12-16
Observations Of Mon and Things,
BY OUR GEORGE,

| correspondents have attempted description OF
1t, but we never saw one that gave the least
idea OF it, as it really is. The open board as it
Is called, is Il wonderful scene for the stranger
to gaze upon. What it is, or what is done
there, we do not know how it looked to us we
can but family tell. A description is to the
| reality, as sending kiss in a letter or deliver
| ing it in person. Imagine large high room
capable of containing several hundred persons.
Across one end is a slightly raised platform on
which is desk. at which sits a man At his
! right blackboard on which are written the
| names OF stocks and the prices. On the other
side OF the room telegrarhc instrument At
| the opposite end of the room and across it. eX-
| tends gallery into which strangers can go and
| look down on the scene below. There is no
furniture in the room; the floor is of marble
| ana uttered with bits of torn paper. Grouped
| round IN different parts Of the room are knots
OF men, and each group are selling and buying
different stocks. All is quiet when suddenly
up goes hand grasping small book, and a
| voice wells out, " I'll sell 5000 Erie" and then
the crowd waves and surges, and the room is
lliied with yells and screams; hands are thrust
! into the air, fists are shaken under noses each
man Is apparently trying to get into the vest
pocket of the man who sells hats are knocked
| oil Ill the fussle. You feel that the man will
| be Killed; you cannot understand a word that
| is said, though the room is loiser than a boiler
factory; You lean over the rail with mouth
| open, staring and wondering. They crowd and
| push and yell and jump, paper and cigar stubs
| I'LL the air, till suddenly comes Il quiet that
| nearly knocks YOU down, and the thing is over,
and some figures are put on the blackboard.
The Geographic instrument clicks, the act is re-
corded in each little memorandum book, hats
| are replaced, shirt boS0nis smoothed out, brOWS
wiped cigars relighted. and all Is calm till some
other broker has an attack of the same disease.
| when the scene is re-enacted. We stood there
| over half an hour, and all that we heard that
! we understood, were these words, " fourteen
and quarter" and that information hardly
paid lis for our time. 1t is difficult work to
| explain the Bible so that humanity can under
| stand it, but it is plain sailing compared to
| driving the doings of this place into a man
| head. 1t Is the lunatic asylum of the sane.
| The places of amusement have changed great
| y within a few years. Then Wallack's was
| the mp town theatre, now it is the down town.
| George Honey was playing Caste then; he
was cast for the leading part. The ladies call
| Honey a sweet man. We attended the Fifth
| Avenue theatre. Augustin DAILY is manager.
! They have A. DAILY performance there. Clara
! Morris was the star. Clara, you will remem-
| her, Is the lady who went to Paris last summer
| to have Il celebrated French doctor scar her
| back with a hot iron for some spinal disease ::
| we went to the theatre to see her back but
omitted the hot iron. She appeared in Dalv's
| adaptation of the play Of Deborah, entitled
| The New Lear. There is another play called
| Leah, belonging TO Kate Bateman, but this is
| New Leah than hers. Miss Morris is a power
! FIJI actress; her emotion in some parts OF the
| play is at least ten horse power. Her success
| is in her acting and not in her looks. Passing
| up 9th Avenue, at the corner of 34th street is
| the residence of Mr.. A. Il. Stewart. 1t is Of
| white marble, and is elegant and expensive in
every appointment. Unlike most residences,
! it sets back from the street some little distance
| Each window consists of one light of glass. If
| the room gets too warm, you have to 90 ont in
| the front yard and cool off. We did not go ill.,
| side the house. We did not notice Mr. Stewart
| beckoning to us to come in, till we We're nearly
| by the house. All his buildings are white, his
| residence, both his stores and his working Wo-
| mems home, and we fear some OF their heads
! will be white before they get into it. There is
| one singular custom i'll this city. When they
want the sun TO set thev ire a gun from the
| fort, and down it goes. There is more STYLE Of
| the feminine gender 10 be seen on 9TH Avenue
on pleasant Sunday than every where else
we have ever been. There is n certain finish
about the ladies that you do not see elsewhere.
| They are less careless and free than the ladies
west, and less dignied than eastern girls but
notwithstanding these differences, the n. Y.
! girl always leans up against something when
She puts on Il rubber, and ALWAYS glance At a
looking glass when passing it. to see if the glass
| is clean, Just as both eastern and western girls
| do People are pretty much alike all over the
| world, and IT'S second nature for everybody to
| eye plate Of hash for 4 hair pin. We noticed
! Il great many garments trimmed with feather
| trimming, which led us to wonder whether the
angels shed their feathers, rs is the custom on
| earth among such rs wear feathers. An angel
moulting or one with moth eaten wings must
be a heartrcndng sight. The girls part their
hair on one side; they say it does not musS So
| badly if they have occasion to lean it against a
| coat shoulder Striped stockings are dying out
OF rather they are dyeing out the stripes, leay-
| ing the stocking all one color and Of every
| shade imaginable. They have clocks on the
| side of the foot, SO that if the wearer happens
| to expose her foot and ankle, she will know
| exactly when to stop. This takes high rank
| among the other wonderful discoveries of the
| present age. We cannot write as fully on this
| subject as we could had there been a high wind
while We were in the city. Unfortunately for
| us il was very calm all the time we were there
1t is easier to get to New York than it is to get
| away, especially if one happens to have friends
| who urge him to stay, as ours did. 1t took Us
| as long to leave as it does black ash tree, but
we finally did. We left by one Of the Sound
| steamers; we We're particular about this, as
| some of them are unsound, and we can swim
| with the ease of railroad spike. When We
| changed from boat to cars we We're fortunate
! in the selection of our seat. In front Of US
| were two girl babies, opposite us We're two
| baby girls, and Just behind us was little CIR
baby. Ii figures don't lie that made 1--WE babies
1t was early in the morning, about five O'Clock
and it seems these babies had a custom of she'd
ding a few tears about that hour, and they die
not care to break oyer the rule on this occasion
| 1t was TRYING cry-sis to us, but we passed
through it-into the next ear. We noticed one
| thing, however, before we left the cars. We
had observed it before and have had it brough
to our notice snce it was the fact that the nost
of the American baby is always ready for the
handkerchief and it is wonderful why the
| whole race has not been wiped out Of exist
| ence by their fond mothers. But if there i,
| one thing on earth that deserves credit, respect
and a monument, it is mother. If we had the
power we would present every mother in tht
land with gold medal as big as Il dinner plate
If they were not the most loving, patient an(
| angelic creatures in the world, there is not one
| of us but would have ceased to breathe before