The Cecil Whig., 1878-03-09
For The Cecil Whig
BROADBRIM'S NEW YORK LETTER.

GE"Us ToILETTEs SCENES on THE IN
SIDE OF THE ACADEMY A CONVERTED
JEwEss INCENDIARIEs s--KIEPToMANIA.
| ETC, ETC.
If your New York correspondent had
nothing to do but write letters for brutes
OF men, the letter Of this week might have
remaiued unwritten forever; but feel that
something is due to the dear creatures who
led US pap in our helpless infancy: who
spanked Us as we crawled on toward inter-
esting childhood; who destroyed our peace
of mind in adolescence; and who, when
we reached the proud estate of manhood
and set up in business for ourselves, gave
us the sweet privilege of furnishing them
with longtrailed dresses, seal-skin sacGues
and camel s-hair shawls. Something is due
to them, and the appearance of Mrs. NJ,
Miss r., Mademoisele de W at the great
fashionable events of the season must GER
taIniy be matter of paramount interest
to that portion of our fellow citizens to
whom we are under such deep and lasting
obligations.
the Martha Washington reception have APP
peared in all the great metropolitan dailies
with more or less success. Jenkins, of the
! Times, tried his hand at 1.-THE nice young
man who parts his hair in the middle, who
wears sixteen dancing pump and a nine
and half Juuvin; but the result was
miserable failure, owing partially to cold
in the head. Simpkins, of the Herald. sailed
in; but he fell early in the action, and the
cause of his literary defalcation is now un-
dergoing the investigation of his Hioeruian
Superiors. Lillywhite, of the Tribuae, did
his best; but, as Hamlet sagely remarks,
Yet that's not much"
and the feeble effort was buried still born,
without the aid of the coroner. Lavender
Sweet, of the World Jared no better than
the rest and even the Sun. which usually
shines for all, beamed forth with feeble
ray, about the power Of talow dip.
| For five years we have had no Lieder-
kranZ. Moral reform associations aud the
stsngency of excise laws have had a very
| demoralizpng Effect on the disciples of G am
| brinus. a Dutchmau soaked with cold
water is very much like IIottentot IN a
new paper collar and a swallow tailed coat.
He don't feel happy; be is not III his natu-
raj element, aud without lager we should
have no Arion Society, aud without tue
Aron Society, no feast Of song and flow
els; the birds might sing, but they would
l ,,.l,tT Gil.
to wet their whistles. aud for that the most
reliable German authorities assure us there
Is othing like the foaming mug. The old
toast of ' Woman and Wine is relegated
TO dime novels and Ledger stories, - We
males NIT Lager " being now the standard
challenge of the Liederkranz
| 1t is impossible to imagine two things
more entirely opposite in their bearing,
character and intent, than the two ceebra-
tions, the names of which head this letter;
they are the great social events of the sea
son and represent every class of society
from the millionaire of the Fifth Avenue
to the poor German tailor, who, in the sew
enth story of tenement house ekes out a
| miserable existence at three dollars and Il
half week. How did he ever raise money,
| you ask, to go to the masquerade? That's
his business he went, and he paid his way,
and had a jolly good time, aud went back
To his garret, content to lay up his little
savings for the next two months, when he
will sally out again to the MayFest or some
Sangerbund, satisfied to snatch one day
| from misery and Que hour from despair.
A wretched maniac attempted TO get up
carnival in New York about q year ago,
| and barely escaped a coat of tar and feath-
ers for his pains. This, however, was I'M
der the patronage of the staunchest German
society in New York, every man of which
felt a personal interest in its success. Gil
more's Garden, the largest building in New
| York, was selected. All the great brewers
and bakers and candle stick makers. ggan-
| ic sausage firms, eminent pork butchers;
IN short, talented aud conspicuous people in
| every grade of life were there in regiments,
brigades, ard battalionS. Art was not un-
| represented; fourteen whitewashers and
number of distinguished house painters
! lent the aid and sanction of their presence.
| The honorable Terrence DOoley from the
Sixth Ward had been honored with a COM
| pllmentary pasteboard, and he and his wife
| and all the little Dooleys were ont in full
feather, expecting to propitiate the Ger
man element i'll the next election when
| Dooley expects to run for Alderman.
| On the the evening of the 9lSt all New
| York seemed astir. The shadows of night
had scarcely begun to fall when carriages
might be seen IN every quarter of the town
driving hIther and thither like mad. 1t
was evident that the loads they bore were
of no ordinary character, Tor the wheels
groaned and the springs snapped and
cracked. seeming to threaten instant dis
solution to the bolts and bars and braces,
felloes, hubs, and spokeS. Shouts and
songs burst from the merry revelers inside,
whose expectation, wrought to the highest
point, had become SO intense that thy
| could scarcely contain themselves. My
| first anxiety was for costume. | went to
fashionable establishment to select.
tuouSul NOulu 20 dS IL Noll, UuG Tue
mems wolf skins were all engaged. Then
he mildly suggested sheep. l did not
like the idea. l then saw a magnificent
donkey's head. Says |, This is just the
thing" but my wife assured me | would be
instantly recognized, 50 was compelled
70 abandon that idea. She said. if | wished
to escape observation, that | should select
something foreign to my character and dis
guse myself AS gentleman. Smart wo-
man, my wife, and complime ntary. l
concluded to take her advise. | went dis
gused as a literary man, and not soul
discovered ME all the evening. 1t was de-
llghtful to hear the tlattering remarks as
we walked down the floor. That's
Tweed said fat woman in a gypsy skirt
and sunhower bonnet. "Presdent
Hayes" said gigantic brewer; Il knows
him vell he looks SO tignified." There