The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-09-19
GOTHAM GOSSIP
Picked up in the Big City by
a Regular Correspondent
of the BaZOO.
A Promised Sensation-Brutal
MISUNDERSTANDING
Skirmishers.
Dirty and Dangerous Streets The
Blectric Light in the City
A Proposal, Etc.

n 1IOpOooAs SsS.
spe.-ai Correspondence Of the Bazoo.
Nsw fORX. Sept. II, 1882.
Human natnre is 50 compounded that
letter beginning With growi u pretty sure
10 Re resd. | have just returned from q
walk out OF the regions OF litersture and
literary work ia which these sentences are
~ri,ten, scrose iOva Is far H. the North
river. by the piers at which hundreds Of
thousands of people land anc embark every
dav. Living quit near together. as dis
,anexes in this metropolis are regs rded. arr
the Barclay street. COrtl ndt Street and
Liberty Street ferries. served by l-rse aud
handsome steamboats, and i'm every way
worthy of New York; but approached on
this side through such scenes and smells,
such dirt, confusion ana actual danger to
the pedestrian. as are disgraceful. In their
Immediate neighborhood is that Collection
OF miserably old, ricke.v aud
"RArTY" FRAME BUILDINGS
known as Washington 10 .rket, great CEN
ire III food supply. at which are daily re-
ceiyed aud distributed thousands of tons
cs meat. vegetables and fruits, and about
which are innnmerable places OF business
,t kindred sort. The fOOtwslks ad accent
10 the market are we'll nigh covered with
barr. Is aud boxes. and the streets filled with
vehicles drawn by struggling horses driven
~ auarreIsome and prcfsne drivers. Dirt
.i,,ln,ls in every direction. in all kinds OF
weather, and the sights and smells are so
.ickening as TO forbid detailed description.
Through such offensive scenes. noises and
.,dors we'll dressed men, women and HhI'-
.Iren must urge their way. or make a
was,eful de:our. as many do, in order to
their avoidsnc. A carriage is prOcurabie
at any time, of course, but its hire is ex-
,,epsive. and ten to one it will be a dirty
thing, seemingly defiied by its surround
ings. 1t is remarkable that in this ci,y If
elevated railroads, a company has not i~en
formed to provide r.-lief for the embar-
raseed traveller. who are under the untOr-
tunate necessity Of using the Aforesaid
ferries. A railroad carrying people to
Broadway, above the inconveniencies,
DANGERS AND NCLsANCES
OF Washington market and It's neighbor-
hood, for Say two cents, could not tail 10
he = success. One train would he sufficient
for both WAYS, as the distance Is incunsid-
erable, and such provision wonld be AZ
cepted with gratitude by long suffering
public
II becomes your correspondent 10 be very
careful AS 70 what he SAYS about those bel
ligerent HiDerDian patriots who are just
now squabbling over the ninety Thousand
dollars or So which have been collected rs
the nucleus OF a fund to be expended in
the destructior OF British shipping, cities
and what not In the way OF injury In Brit
i,h interests The Irish skirin ist:lag fund
il In the hands of trustees WIN. IL l. alleged.
fail TO render an account of the minner IN
which il has been appropriated To those
who NAV IL .sonabiy expect I" re GIVE such
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. subscribers On two
successive Sundays "A ineellng Of these i,eo
pie has been held. in both OF which ,iena-
onstra,ions again>. the trustees wire oi a
voCIFERoUS AND waRLik CHARACTER.
The second meeting MAS held in shirt
factory on the Bowery. Alter coisl.era-
BILE difficulty In procuring :, chairman, u
huge freshman named l. 'we essu8ne'i thai
dangerous supremacy, a terrible appearing
seIiow who carried blackthorn staff ans.
looked exactly Is though hr would us, il
upon occasion Al one time daring the
progress ni the meeting il looked VERY
much IA II the opportunity would occur,
when a noisy fellow named Gleason d. fec
his authoi ity and chaiiense,i the chairman
go put him out. OD,3ovan Rosa WAS
present, aud made long sp ech, III which
be dealt severely With the trustees b,
name, Devov. the proprietor Of the Irish
Nation. most particularly. He charged
this comprtriot vita. having founded his
newspaper from the Treasury OF tht Skir
mishers, and stated that his Drror'sD sub
scription To the fund did not exceed one
dollar. A threatened fight between TWO
persons present Ill The meeting was pre-
vented bv
THAT "HoLY TERROR
the chairman, and the sambiance of bust
ness order was preserved, chiefly IS the
result of his we'll backed determinatIoE, bv
the appointment of committee la purs,Ie
ihe inquiry as 10 what has become of the
large amount of money Subscribed. There
can be no question that tbe cash is better
bestowed in the personal possession of =
few men who live by persistent agitation
than IN the purchase Of dynamite and the
destruction of property and innocent lives /:
bat the stnpid credaiity of Irish patriotism
is not the less to be iepiprei on this ac-
count.
An interesting sensation has been ere
ated bv The arrival End encanipment OF a
body of g,psies. whose quarters are near
the Central park. These people claim to
be from England. and are taking part la
the rehearsais OF the '.Romany Rye"
THE PROMISED DRAMATIC SENSATION
with which the management OF Booths
theatre are about 10 inaus urate the sea
SON. The picturesque anu snowy ragged
ness and squalor, p-cuiiariiies Of physique,
their tents and wagons. numerous live
stock and crowds of withdrawing, disky-
skinned, dark eyed and dirty children are
quite au attraction to the leisIrely New
Workers, and. il is said women are spend
ing considerable money In the encourage
ment of the s, bills OF The camp who spend
their DAYS in turning 10 financial account
THAR rs l. IN sr,-f api .alt.r.r 10