Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-05-27

War-The New Comic Opera, etc.
Special Correspondence of The EVENING STAR.
NEW YORK, May 26-The social season win be
wound up tomorrow by the annual parade OF the
coaching club. 1t is one OF the most important
events of the year, and always closes the season
SO enectually that any one giving an entertain
ment afterward would be hooted at as an outlaw.
The season has been on the verge OF death for a
month. So many marriages occurred in April
that there was reaction at the beginning of May,
which was assisted by the uncommonly large
exodus TO Europe. Every one Is going abroad this
year, 1T would SEEM Many society people will
participate in the last month OF the London sea-
son and then return in August to the midsummer
festivities at Newport They Will, in all prob
ability. be accompanied by "a lot of dukes and
things" as was the case last year, and will infuse
new life into the end Of the season. But that II
future; the present Is the Coaching Club which is
the very cream OF swell organizations Any man
OF ordinary competenceean stand the expense Of
membership to the most expensive social club,
Dut how many men can afford a coach two extra
gro0ms' nve thoroughbred horses and an extra
stable? Stabling IS high in New York and thor
oughbredS rare. good coaching club horse Is
never run with anything but the coach now for
lear OF spolilng his shoulder FORM At least that
Is Wnat the enthusiasts claim, no matter how
n0nSenScal 1t sounds There are twenty odd pri-
vate coaches In New York, but this year only
are owned by absentees in Europe, families where
death has stepped in or by members who are
quarresome e., Those who handle the ribbons will
be Colonel William Jay. Colonel Delaney Kane,
FREDERIC Bronson. Fairman Rogers, Colonel l. H.
Reed, F.. X: Sturgts, August Belmont, j. v.
A. Schermerhorn 1t is worth noting that thor
oughbred blood bays, which were SO stylish last
year, have gone out OF fashion and chestnuts and
every COACH and the annual dinner will be at the
Brunswick AT least q, 900 people will turn out to
gaze and envy and go home disconnected The
COacnlng Club has refused to accept any more
members, and 1t has lead to some Ill feeling which
is seen In the small number OF coaches that parade
this year. Another driving club has been success
fully organized, but it is composed OF T carts, not
coaches. They had their first drive on Tuesday,
starting from MIR. William Rhinelander's In
dinner. The carts were all in regulation form, and
were well driven The cart club looks like a
success ts There are many good society people
a Dlt OF the glamor away from the coaches. An
other club wherein the horse plays the most i'm
Portant part Is talked OF among club men. 1t will
ue CaIeo the Horse Fair Club, and will be devoted
TO the annual exhibition OF running, trotting draft
TICK, saddle and carriage horses, cObs
hunters ana Mexican and other ponies. New
York can contribute some magnificent animals,
and the club would do much to encourage the an
preclatlon or choice specimens Of hOrsenesh There
is an apparent corner in clubs this week. Ihave
10 announce the projection OF still another, which
Is not at all hOrsey, but entirely esthetic It will
De an ingenious attempt to combine the best points
me qualifications among other things, are that a
man shall have made and exhibited and sold a GER
IAN numDer OF art works or shall have written and
puDilshed DOCKS on art SUBJECTS shall have been
not less than three years an art critic for a news
paper or magazine That's all about clubs for this
week. '-''O
THE GIDDY USHER.
The young man at the theater who shows you to
your seat with the air OF owning the whole show
IS having his dream OF greatness realized. In
comparison with himself the star on the stage Is
OF no consequence at all. But the difficulty has
been That he has worn his claw hammer, button
hole bouquet, and parted his hair in the middle
aht SGangea IT, 10 no purpose He has been appre
money in his pocket. But the custom of giving
Denents has come to prevail to such an alarming
keeper, the stage-carpenter, the merry scene
Shifter and The frisky call-bOy The custom is not
a a new one, but it has grown So A ben
theater next Saturday night. Besides, the usher
is being recognized in other ways The chief
usher at Booths theater has been presented with
OF MS 6utton-hole bouquet. Two of the lights at
Harry Miners theater, In the Bowery. have been
nOnored IN the same extravaganza fashion. Word
comes tnaL the badge mania among theatrical
people mas reached st. Louis and Chicago. 1t is
not not SAFE TO predict where the custom OF giving
benefits and badges will end. VIII it not Include
The much-abuSed but useful supe? Heretofore it
has generally been believed that all you could do
for Supe was to kill him.
DEACON RICHARDSON
That good and true man Deacon Richardson. of
Brooklyn, has been unceremoniously stigmatized
as a fraud and scoundrel, and kicked out OF his
church by his brethren, who declared him
unit for Christian communion. For many years
the Deacon has made the loudest prayers in the
D1ouS city OF churches while his words were full of
Cody maxims. Tradesmen said, however, that it
in a bargain with the good man, and any one who
tried TO get the better OF him must stay up all
night. The Deacon was a pillar Of his church.
fraud, but the Deacon only smiled and raked In
The dollars His most notorious act was his abuse
OF the sunday papers, but he was caught trying to
push railroad through ON Sunday a week ago
lt was not theoretical pushing, but the good and
true Deacon was working hand to hand with his
"a the S od dne no gay order to get section
and cheat the government. II this religious hum
plugging goes On much longer. man who belongs
the fact becomes known.
ROSE C0GHLAN
Is superb as La Belle Russo at Wallack,s It. ia
impossible to get seat after seven o'clock and It
looks as though the play would run forever She
plays thoroughly bad, scheming woman, fasci-
natingly beautiful and passionately immoral No
wonder the house Is packed. One class of play
goers patronizes such goody -goody plays as
"Esmeralda" and "Hazel Kirke" Another class
goes In for what it enjOys-"Camille" and ssLa
Belle Russe.n The latter makes the more brilliant
audience by far, and it goes without saying that
an actress is never so interesting as when wicked
In the third act Miss COghlan lies on sofa or
d1yan while her enemy tells her husband the story
OF woman who was a perfect tigresS in her
vicious and immoral life. The husband does not
suspect that his wife is the woman spoken Of but
she waits The denOa1Iaent on the sofa and writhes
about like beautiful serpent as each shot is sent
nome Her poses are neither respectable nor in
good taste, but | observe that every masculine
eye IN the house is On her and nothing draws them
away. Men look at her with expressive faces
and nothing short OF an earthquake will distract
their attention. She is certainly a beautiful
woman.
HUMBUG IN BROOKLYN.
went over to the big village last evening to see
the latest humbug that has created an uproar
among the supplemented villagers Brooklyn
is harvest field for the charlatan-particularl
If he practices his act under the guise OF religion
1t is religious fraud this time. The Rev. DR..
Monck Is healing the sick by the hundreds by the
laying on or hands, and everybody struggles to
find an ache or pain somewhere about them and
rush OF to the healer to get rid OF it. Meetings
arc held on two evenings In the week in a little
hall not very long walk from one OF the most
fashionable ne1ghbOrhOOdS In the city. just as I
was about entering the door man and woman
passed In leading wrinkled-faced old woman
who was so MANNED that she was quarter of an
hour going up one flight OF stairs with the assist
ance OF her companions. Other cripples came
hObbling In on crutches One boy was led in who
had spinal disease and walked sideways. Mothers
came In carving babes in their arms wi m rolIo1