Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1882-09-28
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
Correspondence Crawford Avalanche.
NEW YORK. Sept. 10, 1SS.


avenue" as the New Yorker proudly
terms Fifth avenue, could hardly be
imagined, and with the advent of cool
er weather the promenade has almost
become as much duty for the beau
monde as a saunter on the Boulevard
des Capucines is for Partisan male and
female exquisites. With us, however,
the motive of the walk is nominally
religious one. All the fashionable
churches have been reopened. The
ministers have returned from their Va
cations in the mountains and abroad
and last Sunday they resumed their
efforts TO show their hoclls the road to
heaven 1t is pleasant enough TO lis
ten to them, for, despite the fact that
the aforesaid pathway is said to be
very narrow and is skirtel with briars
and thorns of all kinds, they manage
to lop off many cf the most forward
obstacles and I'll up some of the pit
falls, making the way such that fash
ionable lady can keep right on in her
march to glory without soiling ortear-
ing her skirts. The result is that every
body is at peace with himself, and thus
the avenue 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
co rrv tboca ,vbo,,, DlutuS bos faNora6
rumble up and down the broad drive
way as far as Central Park. Here and
there sedate coach or a recherche
brougham, which ensconces some
wealthy dowager or other person out
of the battle of the world, glides along
with measured dignity, and buggies
. and light wagons of all kinds fill up the
intervals. The latter description OF
conveyance is patronzed OH Sunday
almost exclusively by the German gro
Ger and the milkman, who take their
wives out to show them the sights
The trotters. those with records and
speed above the records, however, have
IL rest on Sundays. During the early
morning hours one may see Foster
Dewey, Shepard Knapp, and other ad
mirers of the speedy trotter, jogging
un the Avenue and through the Park
until the road is reached where they
give their horses a breather" as fal
III Gabe Cases or Judge Smiths. Blu
the afternoon finds the flyer quietl,
doing in his comfortable stall. Ev
erybody Las noticed the flct tha
equestrianisin Is more INDUCED in thar
ever before Calvacades of three, fou
IL five ana even six persons, embracing
?" both ladies and gent!ei.en, are now
lie common sight. a few days ago | ne
the master OF well known rilin
school, AMI lie assured me that he LA
n received so many applications fro!
or would-be pupils that he was compelle
te TO decline some of them, and in pre-
is portion, he sail there We're mor1 Ii
o. dies desirous of learning the noble al
d. than gentlemen. i can attribute til
re- desire for that kind of healthful exc
lie else solely to the love for sport whic
n racing has awakened. There is :
nd much OF it during n season, and IL
&C. newspapers devote so much space
m it, that few escape its influence. Wit
be plenty of opportunities for work, joe
he. eyship is improving and man wou
not be an initiative animal if the pc
formances of our crack Jockeys, such
Donahue, Mclaughlin, Shurer, Feal
and others, did not encourage him
l9' try and do the same. The racing a
ter sociations are taking cognizance
ac- this fact and in the programmes ne
ar year we will find an abundance of I
INT ces for gentlemen riders. Foxhuntin
too, contributes its share i'm encoura
ing the art of equitation. Althoue
T. the red coats Jared but poorly at Ne
Nv port during the summer, they will 81,
lh- ceed better on Long Island during Il
'ter late fall and winter. The farmer the
III! has become used to hounds and hun
red ers, and besides, as there are no Gro
ost to be damaged, the rough rider III
'eu continue his hazardous sport of seei
a'e how near he can come to breaking
eh' neck without actually doing it, withc
u'ii fear of rustic guns.
Fashionable ladies are now nothi
,;., If not English in their appearance
II The Anglomania has seized upon tn
ai.s from the topmost cock feather on TN
80 turbans down to the tip Of their bro
soled boots and guiters. When NJ
=. Langtry comes over here she will Ina
no difficulty in imagining herself
to- home. Nearly all newly imported DIR
D.. goods have fine cloth finish, like Il
- seen on gcntlemen's suitings Ama'
-. cloth, came's hair goods, foule clio
a.. and cheviots are almost exclusiv
H. used for walking costumes Amai
-. cloth is but another name for the cl'
,i,t used on billiard tables. The sew
-, tailors finish Is used in the makeup
Lon, all these materials. The basque is
gen PLAN habit shape with postillion ba
se of ,he front il sinyle- -breasted and is (.
ard, -, H.. s,oil h,,,o,s Tho colin
IL standing. and the pockets are tinisl