The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1878-12-04
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
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our uA-tii-4SenE bHoEVg-A44@4e, D4NSN" ~ vii
remember it as thrunged with the unceasing
ebb aud flow Of variegated humanity. From
"early morn til dewy eve,' and long after
wards, the living streams flow on; the early
morning current setting strongly down town;
the midday period of "slack water" when
the crowds of idlers loiter aimlessly TO and
fro, and the female shoppers immolate them
selves upon the altars of fashion; then in the
evening the food tide rush Of business folks
on their way up town to homes, wives, and
dinners. Broadway, Ike an immense artery,
throbs with the lie of the great city, and only
towards the "wee sma' hours " does it be-
come for short time comparatively quiet.
From what has just been said it will easily
appear that Broadway is not the most appro-
pirate place for cattle 10 wander in at their
own sweet will yet the other day Texan
steer displayed so little regard for the eternal
fitness of things as TO select the crowded
thorougt&-re for the scene of his exploits. He
succeeded in producing decided sensation;
tearing half the silk skirt off lady: assisting
an elderly gentleman in an impromptu fan
dango around lamp post; and then tossing
newsboy, who was so astonished at his sud
den elevation that the only cry he could think
Of was Extra," Finally the steers eccen-
tricities were stopped and he WAS led away to
fulfill his destiny at the slaughter house. 1
could if wished make an absurd pun on the
dangers, on land as well as at sea, of leiId
steering, but l refrain.
Ipassed to-day shop the sign board of
which displayed the announcement that the
proprietor was an anatomical shoemaker"
I have before now met with "practical !"
BARRIERS, called so suppose in contra distinc-
ton TO theoretical BARRIERS, (whatever they
may be); but he of the anatomical pretensious
is long way ahead of them. We shall pro-
baby lear soon of physiological tailors, and
chronological hatters, and geological stone
mssons, and-and-but what is an "anatomi-
cal " shoemaker anyhow?
In one Of NY previous letters spoke Of EisOn's
plan for lighting cities and private houses by means
Of electricity. Things look as if this remsrka.
bic inventor has really succeeded in solving the prob
the electric light, aud experiments are soon to be
made in public st MsnlO Park, New Jersey. where
Mr.. Edison has his laboratory. After the process
has been fully developed and the defects eradica,ed
means are to be taken to illuminate by the new
method the city of New York. Twenty or more
engines for generating the electricity are to be
placed at different points Of the city, and from these
centres the wires will radi4ts, conveying the
fluid in all directions; already company with
three hundred thousand dollars capital has been iu-
eorporated under the name Of The Edison Electric
Light Company"
It is not Mr. EdisOn's intention to utilize the falls
of Niagara just present, whatever he may do after
his invention has been pOpularired by success.
The tide Of MongOlian immigration seems to be
beginning to set eastward. Whether things are SO
dull the Pacific slope that even the frugal China
longer earn the price OF his rice and fish
whether the Celestials with their habituAl polite
eOureously quitting that part of the cOan-
try in defereues the wishes of that eminent son oil
Erin, Denis Kearnsy, do not know, bat certainly
tie natives Of the FlOwery Kingdom are now much
more numerous in New York than they used to be.
Laundries bearing on their signs the unfamiliar
locking characters the Chinese with theiI
equally uucOUth sounding English equivalents, u ay
now be in the upper parts of the city, out al
most to Harlem. Some Of these establishments are
quite recent and attract much attention from the
javenile portion Of the community, as much indeed
Fanqui" (white devi) ever excited in
Canton when foreigners there were scarce There is
however for this exhibition of curiosity
the part Of our youngsters, for the wsy China
ms Fnl nfr g.,
Is truly wonderful to behold
The fall elections approaching, and, outwardly
at least there does not appear to be auy great e1
element about them; the faun,ing banners aud
EansPareness of former years being conspicuous By
their absence, The Rag BABY has been resuscita
ted sud Resulted and boasts pretty strong ioI
loving Of its own, called the National GreeubaeE
Labor Party" This new organization is made up o
recruits from the ranks of both Republicans auG
Democrats; bu. chiefly from the latter. The Repub
hsans in general sonnd the financial question
however indefsnsibe their position may be with re
gard TO some other subjects. The Democrats do moi
I appear TO have any policy worth mentioning excep
to beat the Republicans possible at any cost ever
if they have to eOddle the Rag Baby in order t.
/ succeed.
american arts and manufactures took high honor
at the Paris Exhibition. This was especially thl
case in the silverwAre department, Tiffany 4 Co. o
New York taking the grand prize, and that too il
/ spite Of the competition of such old established
houses as Ellington Co. of London. The super
inrsndent Of the silver factory and several Of his sub
oriiuates have had medals conferred upon them snS
c. l. Tiffany, the head Of the hrn, has been made a
/ CheTalier Of the Legion of Honor. The people OF
the other side sstonished at the novel ant
artistic effects produced in silver By the great Ameri
can house, and were delighted with the beautifu
contrasts of color which American improvement OF
japanese ideas has rendered possible in that branch
! Of uznufacture.
1 saw the other day at Tiffany. Union squar
establishment pitcher which is to be presented b,
Capt Pages Of the British army to the Prince o
Wales. L i, of solid silver modelled after the old
Japanese hammered work. It is ornamented on ,h.
side with large and somewhat grOtesque looking
fishes, the hammer marks, which are left plainly
visible the dead surface Of the silver being sup
posed to represent the rippliug water. Percbanc,
the Lonioners nayaook upon those fishes as en-
bleuatieAl of the title of the owner Of :he pitcher
and see in them the "uCh)aIss" of which be is the
/ prince. J.J.P.
- Among the passengers 6y the Zealsndia
from san Francisco. on Monday last, we notice III
Dames of the following old residents whom VI
welcome back to the islands: Mr. and Mrs. J. 7
/ Waterhouse, Mr. Il. McIntyre, Hon. W. VI. Gibson