The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-27
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
NEW YORK, Aug. 20. 1880.

New York is essentially city of
sensation that much used and
greatly abused term. Her people, in.
deed, affect to deride the efforts of
those caterers for popular diversion
who at short intervals place before
them dishes that could only be appre-
ciated by appetites to cloyed to enable
them to enjoy simpler food, but the
relish with which they partake Of the
highly spiced repasts served up for
their delectation best proves that the
producers knew very well what they
were about.
1t DR.. Tanner was in search of pop
ularity, he did wisely and well in Sc
Letting New York as the scene of his
forty days fast. Not that the impress
sion he made upon the community is
likely to last long; as far as he person
ally is concerned, it is already dying
out, and though II dispatch from Lon
don yesterday, signed by the brothers
w. and M. COllinson. contains an offer
to bet the abstemious doctor $4,000
that he will not be able to perform the
feat again, watched day and night by
the CollinsonS, it will be difficult to re-
vive public interest in the great faster's
further achievements. It should be
said, however, that Tanners example
has stimulated a number of specula-
tors to engage competitors for fast
ing match" to take place in this city
at an early date, in which a valuable
prize will be awarded to the man who
abstains longest from food and drink
and among the patrons and supporters
of this remarkable scheme appears the
well-known name of ex-SurgeOn Cen
eral Hammond. At a lecture recently
delivered in Republican Hall, New
York, Miss Emma Hardlnge Britton
attributed DR.. Tanners success to the
life-giving qualities of the atmosphere
of this city. Thousands, she said, were
about him, filling the ala with new
animal life. In it a pale, emaciated
figure that was quickly recognized as
DIR. Tanner, arose in the body of the
hall, and protested against the suppo-
sition that he had so gathered life from
the lungs of his fellow creatures.
1t is difficult to say, SO early in the
season, what the dramatic attractions
at the different theatres in the city
will be during the autumn and winter
months. Many prominent actors and
actresses are expected from Europe,
and among those whose coming was
looked forward to with an interest be-
gotten of pleasant old-time recollection
was Miss Adelaide Nelson, whose ter
ribly sudden death in Paris was an
nounced by cable a few days since.
Following close upon the report of her
demise came rumor that sent thrill
of horror through the whole theatrical
world-that the gifted actress had died
by unfair means, and police investi-
cation would have to be made. Later
accounts, however, have done much to
diSpel this suspicion, and dispatch
just received from Paris reads as fol-
lows: "a post-mortem examination
of the body of Miss Adelaide Nelson
attributed her death to dropsy OF the
heart, accelerated by Indigestion, a.
disease with which she has been af-
fected for years. She felt quite i'll On
Saturday and consulted physician
who recommended perfect quiet. In
the evening she drove in the carriage
with her maid to the Bois de Bolounge,
and shortly before midnight she was
seized with sudden dizziness and
tainted. Her terrified maid ordered
the coachman to drive to Restaurant
du Chalet, where a physician was
summoned, but all efforts to restore
Miss Nelson were futile, and she died
at half-past three o'clock ON Sunday
What new and old operate stars