Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-03

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Is ADvERTIsED-aorHAM GRowLERs-MR BLAINE
IN NEW Y0RK-MR. CoNKLING's MOVEMENTS
BRIEFS, ETC
special Correspondence Of THE EVENING STAR
| NEW YORK, December 2, 1881.
"Where Is that man Gould going to stop - is the
question one hears very frequently As rule the
| person questioned asks for an easier one Yester-
day he got hold OF the Gold and Stock Telegraph,
the DAY before OF the Grand Opera House, the day
| before that OF an important link In the railroad
system OF the west, and thus he goes on and on
adding to his possessions. What viii he do with
| them? Nobody knows. 1t was said the other day
| ey one VINO has ways OF being informed, that
should the Lord call Jay Gould suddenly home or
otherwise remove him, his affairs would be left in
terribly mixed condition. Whenvanderbilt died be
left his In shape that they went on very much as
before, only young Cornelius and the rest began t.
quarrel over the will. But the policy OF Vanderbilt
pe'e was continued by Vanderbilt JUS, and there
was no difficulty in maintaining IL. For the most
| part the Vanderbilt stocks, as they are called,
| apply only to the Hudson River, New York
| Central and Lake Shore railroads 1t was
the name of the vanderbilt system M ever ytT
since, for It has been preserved almost In
sweep from side to the other OF the continent,
| penetrate Mexico and are hooked on to Europe by
means OF cable. They consist OF two newspapers,
both daily, an Opera House, steamboat lines, min
eral lands and forests. 1t does not seem strange
that it should be said were he to die what a muss
There would be But the Opera House is TIE oldest
days OF its glory jim Fisk managed it himself,
and produced there the Twelve Temptations,
spectacular piece with the then youthful and
bouncing Aimee appearing in America for the
nrst time. May be they were more temptations
IMAM IL that Is all Itook, and they were eleven too
many The auditorium was beautiful in its colors
OF white and gold and the splendid lobby was a
fstr and delight to thessr The areh
| decay mas Smeared the cOlOrs while moth and use
nave ma - worn 10, out the properties and given an
glorious interior. Mr.. Gould says he
TOOK it in trade and he will sell it If
mind many "reminiscences of the old place. II was
there that Fisk insisted In directing a rehearsal,
while Max Maretzek was the musical conductor.
me musician dubbed the proprietor right merrily
with his baton for the interference s. n PIKE,
the great distiller from the west, who had al
Cincinnati, built it and it became his financial
ma,iSOieum. Clifton Tayleure subsequently be-
came It's manager and failed. as did Augustin
Daiy..lt,s prosperous winter when Mr. Daily
can't find place to do that-and some others.
But the hey day of lis time was when the Tempta-
IONS were thefe-were they ever absent?-prob-
ably not. There was full dress rehearsal on the
Sunday night before the opening and 1000 people
We're there. They mingled mC'e or less with the
ballet. and there was a $3.50 lunch served by
| Fisk In the foyer with tubs OF punch and no end
OF champagne. There was great difficulty in get
| Ting the theater clean for the performance the
next night They did do it, though. Mr. Gould will
not nave anything to do with such things Indeed
| III.
But, see nobody has answered the original question
yet.
PATHS ADVERTISEMENT
1t is simply remarkable phase Of our American
lie now operate and theatrical stars are adver-
tised. The methods employed to introduce some
patent medicine are not lees vulgar Talk about
art Well. it Is all very well, but il takes adver-
Using when it Is of the lyric or dramatic stage to
bring it successfully before the public. The pen
atty that actors and singers have to pay for their
success is not the years OF study and hard work.
but the accorded privilege they are forced to yield
| for the newspaper press to say about them Just
what it wishes. Their managers must paragraph
their dOngS, work up sensations about their being
interviewed, to manufacture talks with and expose
| their domestic and not always idylic lives. No
better Illustration OF this can be given than applies
| TO PATHS recent appearance last Monday night,
| Was. believe, in Brooklyn. The horses were de-
| tached from her carriage, and a crowd OF gentle
men drew her to her notel it was published.
Does any one believe that throng Of ent husiaStc
gentlemen. clad In faultless evening dress, made
| ulouS people they Will be undeceiyed ii they
read the facts The enthusiastic gentlemen
| Of theaters. They waited at the acadr my door
until the audience came out and then they ran ex-
ctedly to the stage door, calling out, 'She is COM
ing A part of the crowd followed them, the
driver helped unlock his team, the crowd got
little excited, and that was the way it was done,
| and the people said, "That Is splcndid." Abbey
| worked up '-thats the technical phrase-Bern-
before the sale Of seats began he hired people to
stand in line to be ready to buy tickets They got
81 90 Tor twelve hours standing there. and people
thought the seats were at a tremendous premium.
But they were not They were given into the
hands OF spectators to sell at any figures they
management puffed Itself with Indignation be-
cause the law would not permit it 10 send those
spectators away There is scarcely a theater in
this city that does not pay more spectators
to hawk seats In front OF its doors. They are there
night after night, even when the theater is empty,
but greater or less number of people think that
the play is attracting such crowds that the specu-
| lators have gathered to reap OF their SequinS.
Then they dash in, too Nothing attracts so much
| as full houses. So the managers have learned, and
the first night OF any performance always is to a
crowd and usually to clacque. There is an usher
the charge being s15 for ten men in full
dress suits and seats for them, and Tor greater
or less number at pr2portionate rates Now when
opera company and Patti, and the spectators
come, too, and offer seats for five dollars that are
advertised at three doll as, and the management
says he Is trying to prevent that outrage on the
people, don't believe him. He may not be lying,
but II he was in New York he would not be re-
garded as preserving truthful relation to facts
1t is fact that cannot be authOritatively denied,
that the methods or theatrical and operate man.
agement, II applied to any other business, would
ensure its failure and disgrace in the eyes OF its
patrons very, very soon-not that there are not
they must resort to these claptrap ways else they
do not nor cannot last.
| GoTHAMs GROWERS.
Every community contains considerable num-
Der OF people who like to growL Even the most
obscure paper has corps of contributors who
sugar their pill of complaint by signing them
| selves sold subscriber ''earnest reader" or
assert an untruthful plurality by the signature
.many citizens" Sometimes it makes interest
ing reading. The Herald once catered to this
| weakness by publishing tri-weekly a column that
| it called a complaint book to receive the
oerbursting INDIGNATION OF an abused population.
| 1t SO happened that it became feature of the
| paper and subscriptions were frequently received
Tor the issues OF the paper that contained these
complaints But New York has some pet
grievances, chief OF which Is the elevated railroad
management. These criticism, while sometimes
| fair enough and the abuses complained of amply
justified in the facts are much more frequently
the result OF personal spite. The other day l was
riding up town On the Sixth avenue line on train
made up of four cars, all OF whose seats were Oc-
cupied and whose aisles and platforms were filled
| with people before the station at Park Place was
| reached. There was positively not room for
another person anywhere and the train pulled
| slowly by the station without stopping saw the
editor OF newspaper, In whose columns con-
| stantly appear hints to people travelling on the
elevated railroads how to take care of themselves
plunge at the train and try to board it ny willy.
The train man shouted at him sharply to look out,
and really he was endangering his life The next
day that editors paper was filled with cOmnaintS