Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-06-17

sTRAwBRRRY sHAsoN-NEw STYLE OF
SUNDAY INSTRUMENTATION VI. FIXED
dR0o-Tug rnIHUHE LAGER REER BUILDING.
Correspondence Of the Commercial.

sTRAwBRRRY sKAsoN-NEw STYLE OF
SUNDAY RNTERrAINMKNrs-FLOAT1N VI. FIXED
dRod-TuE rnIRUHE LAGER REER BUILDING.
Correspondence Of the Commercial.
NEW YoRk, June 8, 1875.
Tho strawberry season this year is quite un-
precedented in the profusion and excellence OF
this prince Of fruits. The prolonged heat and
drought Of the last three woeks, following with
midsummer fervor sharply on cool, lato spring
that had kept tho ground soaking with reoent
snow, has produced = result never seen before
In New York markets. Tho strawberry has
ness and richness Of flavor surpassing itself.
Tho Wilson Seeding, practically the only straw
berry in nnr markaf, and haratosose remarkable
only for its hardness and Acility, has turfod Iso-
sudden summer, until It unquestionably beats
everything known before, for the combination
Of acid and saccharine ingps1ients The retail
price has for woek past averaged only about
twelve cents per quart, against twenty as the
minimum at its height OF the ordinary scason
THE HEAT OF THE WEATHER
has made business very brisk for the oxcur sion
boats which have taken new departure In mag
nificence this year. Gould and Fisks floating
palace, the Plymouth Rock, is engaged in SER
vice not much In contrast with its old Associa-
tons; run by firm Of theatrical managers, not
only ~ . legitimate excursion boat, but %
sunday drinking and concert saloon In safe de-
fance or evasion Of tho law against such things,
and minstering 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 the other
arts Of the progressive age, and subsidizes them
into the service.
IT Is AMUSING, HOWEVER,
to listen to the sstonished and indignant obiur-
cations Of good people who can't get over their
simple faith in Horace Greeley; christian sim
plcity Of character insomuch that they kiss tho
tho feet Of his worry executors and successors.
Thor objurgations, was going to say, over tho
gorgeous drinking saloon just opened in the
one Of the largest lager beer and liquor establish
ments in the city, and unrelieved by . pretence
Of selling anything TO eat The bar in the Times
building, near by, is connected with first class
restaurant which makes all the difference be-
tween virtue and vice, according to our standards.
THE ONLY THING TO SURPRISE
anybody who knew anything of the thoroagh in
difference II not hostility OF the Tribune Asso-
citation always to Puritan morals, is the readi-
ness with which they have sacrificed their pre-
tenaion to frst-class professional building. No
such building could afford to allow anything un-
der banking exchange or insurance office In its
prominent apartments. To lot them
ftr . 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. It is doing as well as they could
ever have hoped to do with building on that
side Of tho park, il they had put "Millions in