The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-12-02
Our New York Letter.
Regular corr. spoudence of ADVOCATE.

NEw YORK, Nov. %, 1852.
The first snow which made its appear.
Once on Sunday, kept stablemen busy
until late at night, getting cutters and il
fact every imaginable vehicle that move.
on runners, ready for the demand. I'm
Fortunately the fakes though coming
thick and fast soon melted away, nnG
thus the white covering Which overlait
the ground, had not that durable texture
necessary to create perfect sport. The
past few winters have been anything bu
favorable to sleighiug, bat should there
be plenty of snow this year, the sleighine
carnival will eclipse everything ever seer
in New York. There are literally thous
ands of people in this city who will SCI
up sleighing traps, who year ago could
not afford it. All the brokers and dash
ing youngsters who drove dog carts an6
village carts at the watering. places last
summer, have sold these instruments oi
torture and invested in cutters. The
"Sealskin brigade" as the nabobs among
owners of fast horses are termed, will be
largely augmented by people to whom
the trotter was known only as q tool,
wherewith you induced your best friend
to bet all his money on your horse and
then you sold out to your competitor.
The fact is an immense amount of money
has been made in this blessed town of
Gotham, and people are spending it in an
sfter-us-the deluge style.
The deluge of course will come, and
according to such prophets as Uncle Ru-
fus Hatch, very soon. Things looked do
cidedly panicky last week in the Stock
Exchange. Conservative and shrewd peo-
pie who watch the signs Of the times say
that this was the first mutter of the COM
ing storm.
The Beauty Show, or to put it more
elegantly the exhibition OF feminine love-
illness at Bunnell's Museum, closed last
Saturday, and little girl who used to
earn five dollars week at the ribbon
counter in Sixth Avenue dry goods store,
gained the first prize 500. Now that
the show is over, there is no harm in tell
ing how ingenious George Starr, Bun
nell's invaluable manager, worked" the
scheme was in the Museum one eve
ming, and after laughing heartily over the
collection of would-be beauties, and maxi
ing mental note of the care and thor
oughness with which two rural deacons
were examining the limbs of the tatooed
girl, ran across Starr just as he was urg-
ing the fat woman to laugh more and eat
more fsrinaceous food, since she was fast
getting too thin for exhibition purposes.
"Wbat do you think of the beauties?'
he asked.
Il think that they all have great deal
of beauty to get. How in the world did
you manage in this city, which is full of
pretty girls and women, to secure such
Indifferent samples"
"They are inst the ones we wanted
he replied. "You must know that our
business depends mainly on the patron
age of the ladies. Now supposing we had
had several genuine beauties, none of the
snide American Mrs. Langtrys, that are
being carted about, but genuine beauti.
full women, what would have been the re.
sui? Would the women have come to
look at them? Not much. Their visits
might have given rise to comparisons
which, as you know, are odious. AS il
Was, there was not a woman who came
here, who did not leave with the firm
conviction that if she were willing e
compete she would have a practical wall
over for frst prize. The consequence,
was that she came again and brought he
friends with her, aud il must not be for
gotten that each Of them voted for som
particular candidate. This was five cent
each trip. "iizness is li2u,ss, my boy.
Aud now, as a fitting climax Starr La
hung new photograph Of Mrs. Langtry
in the main window of the Museum. Ur
derneath it is the legend "The 500 cas-
prize winner to be seen inside" Tai
about genius. the show business monol
oi;zas it.
AproPos of Mrs. Langtry Last Sa
urGay il vas announced that Sarony Ia
taken Hrs. Langry'a photograph {
K Rosslind in The doublet and hose. l.
erybody Gocked to Sarony's establish
= ment in Union Square to see, But O
, the shock 20 poor masculinity's cUIiosit
. The picture was there, add a besutir
Y one too, but it did not 60 any furth
/. down than where the tnnic which rencb
e the knees ended. 1t stopped short, iii
o the serial novel in the story papers,
i the most interesting part, But, perha
= Sarony, who is an artist, acted wisely
. so doing, He mar have believed tbs
+ like StrephOn IN the new opera of Il
IS anthe. she WAS half II mortal and half
u fairy, and that the fairy part was Ii
I" Srephon's the upper one. Some of L
u gushing newspaper writers spoke OF b
e thoroughbred ankle" on her Grriv,
q I myself cannot help agreeing with maj
= people that as RoEgliud, she ought
have worn boots Instead Of silk no
J which sets of the defects rather +
= strongly.
e Tie new opera Iolanthe was q genui
@ artistic success last Saturday night, al
y after people have seen once, they W
Y come again TO listen to its ehRrmiI
!, melodies and laugh themselves hoar
i over the Wit OF the libretto aud the ge
i ial obscuuiy Of the plot II is rHth
,. more intellectual than either Piunfor
s the Pirates or Patience. bu, jdst for ihi