The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-25
Notes about New York.
PAwLET. Vt. May u.

Editor Rutlan6 GlO6e After q winter
spen. in the metropolis, even at 80 delight
fu. and comfortable place as the new
Rossmore hotel, it 10 delightful and nvig-
Grating 10 get back 10 the fresh green
fields, blooming flowers and trees, and pure
air of dear old Vermont. / believe it is
impossible for long resident of the city to
remain perfectly healthy. One needs the
influence of vegetation on health, which is
far more powerful than dwellers in the
country are apt TO fancy. People who
dwell in the midst Of blooming cherry
trees, clover, laurel, heliotrope, and even
the homely and domestic sun~flower, are
surrounded by health-giviDg and health
protecting influences, such as brick walls
aud stone pavements do not possess.
Bret Harte will tell you, if he is wise
enough, that when one of those pioneers
of the far west, who has lived much amid
the wilds of nature, sickens, he longs TO be
taken out into the fresh air, and laid, per-
haps, upon blanket beneath a tree, where
the breezes God sends will cool his heated
blood, or where the odor of vegetation
will refresh and invlgorate him. In this
longing the man but obeys natural in
stinct, and many times he RECEIVERS, when,
if he had been confined to a close room, he
would have died. With the country bred
citizens of New York, spring time prom
ises an alluring charm not to be resisted,
and the season Of fitting to the woods,
hills, lakes, and seaside has already COM
menced. Yet the town il full OF attrac-
TONS The latest musical attraction is the
APPEARANCE oFsoFFENBACH,
the composer of opera bouffe music, at
the Gilmore garden, where Moody and
Sankey drew such great crowds of sinners
all last winter. The garden has ever been
popular, whether Mr.. Barnum was dis
playing his grand procession of the ma
tions, or 2. S. Gilmore was giving his STIR
ring music, or the gospel preachers were
crying: Repent, for the kingdom OF
heaven is at hand !" 1t is always easy to
collect crowd in New York, let the occa-
sion be what it may. If Major Bundy,
who does the heavy editorials for the
Ersning Mail should attempt to lecture,
somebody would 20 to hear him. But il
was hard matter to fill the Oifenbach
garden the opening night. Hundreds Of
tickets were given away, and throng OF
some four or five thousand people was
present as result. The price Of admis-
| slon--one dollsr--is too high. In the
throng who walked up and down the gray
elled paths we saw Clarence Seward, son
of Hamilton Fish, jr., II. Vanderbilt, Mr..
Frank Vincent the author, Mr. Edgar
Fawcett the poet, Francis Phillips of the
Home Journal, Nine. Aimee of opera
bouffe fame, and a host of lesser lights.
| Now and then M. Offenbach left the stage
and took turn with the ihrong. He APP
| paared happy, and seemed to study the
American crowd with interest We ven
ture the assertion 1t was as cosmopolitan q
gathering rs he ever saw in Paris, for
| Frenchmen, Germans, Italians and Yam
| KEGS were present in large numbers. The
music was good, of course, and full of
spirit, but 1t proved to be too soft for the
great garden-too many stringed instru-
ments, with not enough brass. The
second concert was attended by less than
| five hundred people-a terrible falling off !
We should not be surprised If the expert
ment proves to be financial failure, for it
| is said Messrs. Shook aud Palmer have
agreed to pay NJ. Oifenbach one thousand
dollars each night. We hope he may get
his money.
THE HOTEL BUSINESS
in New York, thus far, has not been affect
cd by the opening Of the centennial exhi-
ton n Philadelphia. Farmers throughout