Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-05

THE GREAT WALKING MATCH CLASSICAL MUSIC,
THk PHILHARMONIC AND THRo. THoMAs- -RIsTORIs
WORLD FAREw ELLA MAMMOTH IITHo0HAfH-
Ic PORTRAIT
Sptcml Correspondence efthe Commercial
NEW YoRK, March 3.
Mr.. Barnum says thar his Hippodrome estab-
lishmen., menagerie, horses, performers and
attaches, cost him $4,000 week a larger num-
Der of twenty-iye cent stamps than the nniver-
sal New York nursery-mads and beaux, chill
dren and mammas-can be coaxed to turn in
weekly, in these times, by all his unparalleled
gifts of story telling and amusing. Neverthe-
less, with Roman grit, lie doubles his 55OO0 this
week-or says he does, which is exactly the
same thing, you know-paying the extra to the
winner of
THE GREATEST PEDESTRIAN MATCH
over walked Oh this planet. "Prof."J. H. Judd,
who attempted nnsliccessfully to emulate Ed
ward Payson Westons unparalleled " feet" (that
went 800 miles inside OF 1Ii hours, at Newark,
last fall now stnmps him to stump 1t again, and
proposes not only to emulate but to beat him.
Tho walker of 1l5 miles in the first "a hours Is
to get 52500 or, in other words Mr.. Barnum
bets very confidently ?250O that neither of them
can do it and the one who does the 800 miles
faithest inside OF the la hours is to have the
other S2500. But for the first prize, Judd ia not
competing. Il. y. Barnum won the bet.
Tie two men are opposites ill physique. Judd
is excessively muscular his professorship"
being not anything in the line Of learning or
even corn-extracting, but simply that OF gym
nastics. Nevertheless, Time beat him by l31
miles he having succumbed at the 369th, while
Weston, light and long legged, with thin, soft
muscles went through after repeated failures,
overdid his 800 miles in less than his IA hours.
and 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 $4,000. Weston al
lows Judd 50 miles odds that is Judd is allowed
to win il he makes 465 miles befor Q Weston
makes the 500.
CLASSICAL MUSIC
has been sustained in New York by the old
fashioned Philharmonic Society, for more than
thirty years past. This society undoubtedly in
cudes the best musicians resident III New York,
many OF whom could not be induced to itinerate
and play in strange and ill-adapted places. or
the open air. 1t has also the largest orchestra,
numbering one hundred OF 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.
This gentleman Ia a true builder in art who
progressively raises at once his orchestra and
his audiences out of the best material the public
affords, by consumate tact, an artists enthu-
sasm and the most undomitable and persistent
symphony concerts in New York and other large
cities, he has, for few seasons past, extended
his missionary enterprise to the miner citles 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 a concertist
of narrower aims, he is now giving a symphony
peries to large and gratified audiences under the
primitive timber Of the Rink" An unfavora-
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 RrsToII.
the great tragic actress of the time (Aliss cush-
man having bidden the age farewell, and become
of the past) il also about to retire from the stage
after triumphal progress of the world thing
unprecedented in the annals OF the STARS. '
She arrived i'll this city on Friday night, from
HAVANA, with her troupe of torty-two actors,
and her immense cargo of scenery, stage proper
ties, wardrobes and other baggage appurtenant
to such an unprecedented humber of travelling
theatrical ladies and gentlemen. As everything
and every person accessory to her performances
has been made or trained in Europe under her
own Buperintendence and accompanies her
wherever she plays, her progress is something
nearly az stupendous as that Of iirst-class cir
Gus and monagerie in fact considering that she
Itineraries the world, and not merely one paltry
continent, it may be called without exaBgefatloi
decidedly more ro
Madame Ristors New York season OF three
weeks at the I.yceum Theatre, commences to-
night with an already foregone jam, seats be-
ing nowhere to he had without an enormous
premium il at all. Her farewell tour OF the
world was commenced in Paris last June. Since
then she has done South America and the West
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 lumnary i'll June, for
Australia, China, Japan, and India Everybody O.
members her immense popularity IN TINS count
ry at her former visit, when she netted $500, ,O00
She is immensely rich, and able to support in
becoming style good-for-nothing Italian Mar
| auis, to whom she was married in early life, ana
whose name of delGrillo she honors in her pri-
| vate or social capacity. She has been OH the
| stage fifty years, having commenced at the age
| of i've and having now reached that OF htty'
| five.
| sIRs. RoUsBY,
| the handsome and clever English actress now in
this country, is to be represented rs the Lady
Eliza oeth her favorite character, in all the elab
| orate richness of one of those costly costumes
| that have been much celebrated, on one o1
| the largest photographic stones ever engraved ol
| printed. 1t is too large for a tomb stone, being
on the contrary nearly life size, or five feet high
| and forty inches wide. The steam press OF Ferd
Meyer < Sons, this city, on which this magnih
| cent print il executed, il the only machine ol
| sufficient size for the purpose ever built. Inc
print itself is an exquisite engraving, done by
| the artists of The concern without the aid oil
photography or other mechanical helps, by free
hand drawing.
Md. & Del. Railroad