The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-06-08
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
From our special Correspondent.
NEW YORK MAY 09th 1877

There are two streets In New York
which, | believe, form greater contrast
to each other than any other two in any
American city. These are Vesev street
on Saturday night, and Fifth Avenue on
Sunday night. Last Saturday night
had occasion to go down into Nesey
street. This street runs from Broadway.
with St Pauls Church and its quaint old
church yard on one side and the Astor
House on the other. 1t runs down TO
the river, which New Workers always
call the North river, and at the foot of it
is Washington Market. Here the crowd
of men and women, with baskets, is so
thick that one can hardly penetrate it.
Hucksters' carts, with fruit and fish are
drawn up on each side. Lemons and
oranges are for sale, 20 to % for 4 quar-
ter; feather busters at 10 cents; soap, )
cents cake; combs, cents; bows, D
cents; sleeve buttons, tin ware, glass,
clothing of all sorts, shoes, fancy goods
are hberally displayed on the steps lead
ing tc the large warehouses that are now
closed, or in The cellars of some of them.
There would seem to be nothing that one
couldn't buy there for the merest trifie;
while the flaming torches after dark and
the hucksters' shrill cries, the train on
the elevated road rushing by. make it
seem as if pandemonium had broken
loose, while genre painter might find
many as quaint and curious a study rs
in the market places of foreign cities.
What contrast is Fifth Avenue ON
Sunday evening. Here, all is decorous
and dull, as can well be imagined You
walk up or down past block after block
of stately houses, some of them almost
palaces, and from basement to Mansard
they give no sign of life or cheerfulness.
One struggling ray of gas may be seen
from a weak burner in Il hall or base
ment; only that, and nothing more. Do
not suppose that this is because timer
vening blinds or curtains shut it out.
Even the richest of our citizens hate a |
gas monopoly, and so make their houses
look like dungeons. They spend thou
sands on carpets, curtains, and bric-a-
brac, and grudge tens, not only to make
this luxury visible, but to give a cheer
ful look to them from the outside. The
very street lamps seem DINNER on Fifth |
Avenue than elsewhere, and the lover !
might do his spooning, or the foot pad
ply his vocation almost without detec-
ton. The only exceptions to this rule
are the boarding houses, which are
frightened by light in every room.
Especially did notice Stewards house,
and the two above it last Sunday even
ing. They are all palaces in their way,
and each stands quite alone. Not alight |
was to be seen in either. 1 suppose
there might have been one in Stewards |
hall around in Thirty-Fourth street, but |
for all sign of life there was about them
these might be bodily removed to
Greenwood, tenants and all. am afraid |
was vaurien enough to like better the !
noisy Vesey street crowd. That was
alive and picturesque. at any rate.
have Just been looking at a new in
vention which has recently been patent
ed, in the shape of an alarm clock. called
by the appropriate name of Peep o.
Day" Mr. III Dawes, of No 5 Court
landt street is the patentee, and he has
produced an artistic clock at very low
figure, that will go in any position, which
is wound by one spring only, both for
time and alarm, and is stem winder, so
that neither careless or mischievOus
hands can ever mislay the key.
Saturday was Coaching Club Day, and |
the turn out was very fine. Eleven |
drags were in line and were whirled |
along up the Avenue and through the !
Park at an easy pace the whips manag |
ing their teams very finely. 1.-THE start,
q colt belong to the Austrian vice-consul-
Mr Hugo Fritsch, slipped and fell, and
on the return one of Col Delaney Kanes
horses met with similar accident, but
no great harm was done, and all seemed
to enjoy the drive most thoroughly. The
fair ladies leaned back in that thorough
ly aristocratic way, which seemed to say,
this is no new thing for me, oh, We ca
naille who are staring from the streets
below" while the gentlemen secured
their eye glasses in their eyes and suck
ed their umbrella tops. However, this
couldn't last long, for We are not really,
in spite of our attempts TO initiate our
English cousins entirely artificial, ano
after time, the truly stiff and naughty
department which would have done
honor to a Turyeydrop relaxed, and the
girls were girls again, the young matrons
condescending, while the dinner and
impromtu dance that followed, were as
joyous and merry as could be.
The last new fancy abroad IS to invite
the leaders of society. to meet the lead
ing actresses, the former being guaran-
teed that the characters of the latter are
sans tache. 1t is said that the actresses
make no special objection, providing a
similar guarantee can be given on the
other side. About that part Of the ques-
ton rumor is discreetly silent.
Gilmore's Garden is again open for the
summer, and we can scarcely believe
that it is the same place that has seen
such different audiences and entertain
ments. Here, Moody and Sankey con-
verted sinners; Aimee and Strauss
didn't attempt to; Barnum displayed his
Trakene stations and his other wonders
the dogs howled themselves sick and the
neighbOrs crazy for three days; the Car
nival Ball iizzled, and nov the building
is returned to its legitimate purposeand
with magic that recalls the enchant-
ments of the Arabian Nights, the whole
is ike an Oriental garden. with its wa
ferfalls cooling flow, the gay music, the
fashionable crowd in attendance and the
sparkling wine or, more Democratic
beer. There is no pleasanter place on
a wet night, than Gilmoreis.
LOCAL CORRESPONDENCE.