The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1882-09-30
Gotham Gossip.
New York, Sept. 18th 1852.

New York, Sept 18th 1882.
: Anything more charming than a
walk of Sunday afternoon on "the
avenue" as the New Yorker proud
~ terms Fifth Avenue, could hardly
be imagined, and with tho advent Of
cooler weather the promenade has
almost become as much duty for
the beau monde as saunter on the
Boulevard des Capucines is for Pa.
risian male and female exqusites.
With us however the motive of the
walk is nominally a religious one.
All the fashionable churches have
been reopened. The ministers have
returned from their vacations in the
mountains and abroad, aud last Sun
day they resumed their efforts to
show their floeks the road to heav
en-. 1t is pleasant enough to listen
to them, tor despite the fact That
the aforesaid pathway is SAID to be
very narrow and is skirted with
brars and tholns of all kinds they
manage to lop off many of tho most
forward obstacles and fill up some
of the pitfalls, making the way such
that a fashionable lady can keep
right on IN her march to glory with
out soiling or tearing her SKIRTS.
The result is that everybody is at
peace with himself and thus the av-
cnue between the hours of three and
five is gay, very gay. Village carts
and dogcarts, vehicles which fashion
says are the only ones fit to carry
those whom Plutus has favored,
rumble up and down the broad
driveway ms lar as Central Park
Here and there sedate coach or
recherche brougham which enseon-
ces some wealthy dowager or other
person out of the battle OF the world
gldes along with measured dignity,
and buggies and light wagons of all
kinds fiji up the intervals. The lat
ter description of conveyance is pat
ronized on Sunday almost exclu-
sively by the German grocer and
tho miIkman who take their wives
out to show them the SIGH ). The
rotters-those with records and
speed above the records, however
have a rest on Sundays. During
the early morning hours ono may
sec Foster Dewey, Shepard Knapp
and other admirers OF the speedy
trotter jogging up the Avenue and
through the Park until the road is
reached where they give their hors-
es "breathor" as far as Gabe Case S
o" Judge Smiths. But the after.
noon finds the flyer guilty doing in
bis comfortable stall. Everybody
has noticed the fact that equestrian
ism is more INDUCED in than ever
before. Cavalcades or three, -four,
five and even six persons, embrae-
ing both ladies and gentlemen are
now a common sight. A few days
ago | met the master OF a we'll
known riding school, and he assur.
/ w tIlO lHhk w nov ANNOiN w %
applications from would be pupils
that he was compelled to decline
some of them, and in proportion, he
said, there were more ladies desir-
GUS OF learning the noble art than
gentlemen. can attribute this de-
sire for TINT kind of healthiul exer.
Csc solely 20 the love for sport
which racing has awakened. There
is 80 much Of il during season and
the newspapers devote so much
space to 1t that few escape lis inAu,
ence. With plenty of opportunities
for work jockeyship is improving,
and man would not be an initiative
animal il the performances OF our
crack jockeys such IA Dodohue,
Mclaughlin, Shauer, Feakes and
others did not encourage him TO try
and do the same. The Racing Asso.
Citations are taking cognizanoe OF
this fact, and IN the programme
next year we will find an abundance
of races for gentlemen riders. Fox
hunting too contributes lts share in
encouraging the art OF equation.
Although the red coats Jared but
poorly at Newport during the sum-
mer they will succeed better on
Long Island during the late fall and
winter. The farmer there has be,
como used to hounds and hunters,
and, as, besides, there are no crops
to be damaged, the rough rider may
continue his hazardous sport Of see.
ing how near he can come to bre ok
ing his neck without actually doing
it, without fear Of rustic guns.
Fashionable ladies are now moth.
ing if not English IN their appear
ance. The Anglomania has seized
upon Thorn from the topmost cock
feather on their turbans down to
the tip of their broad.s oled boots
and Cutters. When Mrs. Langtry
comes over hero she will have no
difficulty in imagining herself at
homo. Nearly all newly imported
dress goods have fine cloth finish,
like that seen on gentlemen's SUIT
lngs, Amazon cloth, oamels HAIR
goods, toule cloth and cheviots are
almost exclusively used for walking
costumes. Amazon cloth ls but an.
other name for the cloth used on
i q