The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-27

will shine in the operate sky this sea-
son is also uncertain. Ed Mapleson.
on his last visit to this country was
good enough to say that the Americans
did not deserve to have good music and
singing, because they were incapable
of understanding it when they heard
1t; but this ungracious remark was
made at the close of season SO disas-
trOHS that some allowance must be
made for the mental condition of the
disappointed Englishman. Americans
are good judges of music and will have
none other in their operas; more than
that, they cherish love for what NAV
be Called home melody" that has
placed them in the front rank Of the
world as musical people. Even Ma
pleson's great artists admitted this,
and many of them when in New York
acknowledged that nowhere in Europe
could pianos be found of a purer, rich
er, sweeter tone than those. for exam
pie, in the Weber warehouses at Fifth
avenue and Sixteenth streets. This
was no small praise, for Italian must
cal artists are not greatly in the habit
of extOlllng the instruments made in
other lands, in depreciation of those
manufactured in their own; and the
qualification felt by Mr.. Weber at the
high commentator bestowed upon his
pianos found hearty endorsement
throughout the music-loving portion
of the American community.
Tn n liffIo voan~o kh0~,
shall begin to realize that "The mel
ancholy days are come, the saddest of
the year" Picnics and fishing parties
will give way to balls and theatres.
Already the weather. portion of the
city's population are fastening back
from their country homes, and New
York is putting on its autumn garb.
At Coney Island, where by the power
of wealth and enterprise, the bleakest,
most barren and most uninteresting of
sea shores has been transformed into
the most frequented and popular wa
tering place in the world, pretty girls
are no longer seen wandering with
their escorts on the sands, dressed in
the quaintest and most becoming of
attlres, the newly invented seaside
suits of dark-blue flannel. They either
wholly avoid the ocean breezes, which
now begin to have a nipping and an
eager tendency, or brave them more
warmly clad than is necessary during
the pleasant summer months. AS for
Rockaway, cast into the shade despite
its noble beach, by the more quickly
reached strand of Coney Island, it is
deserted except on Sundays; no, not
wholly deserted. 1t is haunted day
and night by about twelve hundred
men, who might with much truth say
"There is no flying hence, nor tarrying
here" They are the unpaid laborers
brought from all parts of this country
and from Canada, by the Rockaway
Beach Improvement Company, to work
on what is undoubtedly the largest
hotel in the world, and to-day spreads
its vast length of nearly a quarter of a
mile along the strand, and all unfur.
nished and unpaid for, is guarded by
policemen by day and by watchmen at
night to prevent its being burned
down by its disguised and disappointed
builders. The men who worked or
this stupendous structure have not re-
ceived cent of pay since June 18th
and when last week Receiver Rice, fol
the COmpany's affairs are in the hands
of Receiver, offered, with the consent
of the Supreme Court, to pay off the
entire sum due-about $12O,00O-ir
receivable bonds bearing interest al
six per cent. and with no stated date
for redemption, the men laughed the
proposal to scorn, pelted the clerks il
the office with fish caught from thu
waves adjoining, and hanged Receiver
Rice in effigy. The Office was closed
the next day, but some New York cap
ltalists have since then agreed to casl
the bonds at par and take measures tc
have them redeemed. 1t is hoped thai
before many days have elapsed the
trouble will be over and the men or
their way to their homes. BIC.