Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-28

Decora ted this Season with Eagles,
 Owls B pd Blue Jays.
 From the New York world.l
 There is store in Broadway, and not the only one of the kind, which is filled from the boxes in the rear to the show windows in the front with specimens of birds prepared for millinery purposes and as this store is near the shopping district there are crowds of women in front of it all day long. The pre- vailing sty le of hat which is formed on one model, and which varies with regard to size only, calls for something more than the monotonous ball fringe and ostrich tips, or the decoration founded upon the mantel lambrequin. Birds have therefore been fixed upon as the proper ornaments for these hats. In the show window of this store, where goods are sold at wholesale only, are all manner of birds and fowl. There are com mon chickens, Spanish roosters, Poland fowl, Brahmas, Russian cocks, pelicans, without their broods and the accompanying hypothet- ical wounding of the mother birds breast |; sea gulls, with their black-tipped wings ; pretty blue jays crows, staring owls, and, in fact, all kinds of birds that can be found in any part of Europe and America. The pro- prietor of tho store said yesterday that the fall outlook for the trade in birds for hats was very promising Said he: 'I never saw women running after birds for their hats as they are doing this season. Last year few small rare birds were worn, but now there is no telling where the demand will stop. You see, you never can tell what 8 woman wants, anyway; and when it comes to hats-well, white pigeons and sea gulls are favorites. It doesn't make any difference whether the ha or the bird or both or either is becoming ; they've got to have what some other woman, or every woman or any ywoman-you know what mean :; some woman wears something that some other woman wants, and the whole thing is so complicated that I am astonished at myself for getting up this stock have.
 ''White pigeons have been leading SO far,' continued the dealer, ''but I think blue jays will soon be ahead The birds are divided into two parts, when it is intended that the ornament shall make graceful curve in the hat. In many cases, however, the whole bird is stuffed and one side is fattened down a little. Young ladies like to have the bird in it's entirety, but married women prefer to have the divided article. You have no idea of the number of persons who are engaged in the business of furnishing birds to us from different parts of North and South Am erica, and besides we import birds from Paris.
 "You can have bird of some kind at any price you choose to fix. Here is a pretty blue jay for $1O; you've shot them often for fun, I've no doubt, and here is a domestic male barn-yard fowl, commonly called a rooster, which is worth $2O, because his tail was imported and entered on the ships mani fest I can sell you bird for hat as low
 
 of everything so quickly that no woman with any self-respect will buy low. priced article. If you want to find out anything about the preparation of birds, go down to North Will liam street There are people in this city who not only stuff dead birds for their grief stricken owners, but for the prospective owners of umbrella hats"
 The reporter went to North William street and stopped before a store on one side of which was tiger much the worse for wear, and on the other side an orang outang grin ming in @ manner that would have been i'm possible for him during his life time, light hearted as he might have been. Inside the store monkeys hung from the ceiling as care lessly as spider webs in deserted house, and feeble bears as hollow as the little girls doll that was stuffed with sawdust tried to sta nd erect with the aid of stout poles There were also in the store lions, dogs, cats and man who was sitting behind a screen as if to pro- tect himself, and who was mounting 6 deli cate canary bird
 Before the reporter had an opportunity to ask the proprietor of the place any ques- tions, young lady accompanied by gentle man entered the store. The gentleman pro- duced the body of parrot from within a number of paper wrappings and asked the taxidermist whether he could fix up" the bird. The taxidermist took the parrot in his hand, examined it for & moment and then jabbed a needle into it. There was a half smothered SOD rom under the young laoy's veil, ana then the gentleman suggested that any furth- CT jabbing of the pet bird might be done in private.
 ''Oh, that's nothing to what I'll have to do with it,'' said the taxidermist.
 When he had laid the bird to one side the bird suffer said to the reporter that he was doing big business this year for millinery houses. Nearly all the birds I get for sale, '' said he, ''come from South America, Russia, Austria and New Jersey. I don't know what connection there is between the birds of a foreign country abroad and foreign coun- try in this country, so to speak, so far as birds are concerned. Talking of hats, my own opinion is that American eagles, six feet from tip to tip of the wings, will be the fa- vorites this winter"
 The M q na fia ct s.re of Hallway Tickets.