Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-08-12
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
An Inflated Play House-MonopoIisfs and
Their INSTRUMENTATION Prodiaies anY
Their SadFate-The New York Policeman
Specializing Parsons-As to Langtry.
Special Correspondence Of THE EVENING STAR.
NYw yopE Auor,,St II 1900
A CAREER OF MISFORTUNE

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| NEW YORK. August II, 1881
| A CAREER OF MISFORTUNE.
There is trouble at the Alcatar again. Since
the very opening OF this place or amusement it
seems TO have been attended by ill-luck, and a
| natural ending up OF its series OF mlSfOrtunes
| would be its burning down with big audience In
| 1t. People who move into a haunted house are
| said 10 meet With all sorts OF mlshapS So IL is
| with the AlcaZlr. The Norcross opera company,
which is now producing the Merry War there,
no sooner got its traps the house than all sorts
| OF ill-luck befell it, A fresh wrangle broke out
| among the managers OF the house and the men
| who conduct the bar and cafe How these men
| did fight! 1t was Ike cats and dogs for awhile.
MI Napoleon Haines, the plano man, figured
| prominently In this squabble, displaying enough
| energy to show that he could. II he chose, win
applause on the melodramatic stage But it is the
ballet girls with the Norcross company, who dance
nightly for the delectatton of the traditional front
rows or bald-heads. Who are pursued by misfortune
| now. To see these strong-llmoed creatures flying
around as II on air, one cannot think
or their being subject TO the Ills OF life But IL has
| been discovered that they are, and that they are
| modest, notwithstanding the fact that they are
| so meagerly attlred and kick high in q profess
| sional way. Well, their grievance IS that crowds
| OF men have been making peep-show or their
dressing room The Alcazar was not built for a
| theater or opera houSe-does anybody know what
| 1t was built fOrI So with its limited number OF
| dressing rooms, the ballet dancers are compelled
| to dress at the back OF the stage This was hu-
| initiating in itself, and some OF the girls at first
were In state OF mutlny, and threatened TO kick
| out OF their engagement 1t can be Imagined,
! then what a hub6ub was raised when these peep'
erS persisted, night after night In climbing up 10
| the windows ana looking in. The managers were
appealed to, but they were too weak from their
/ recent battle with each other to attend To such
small details. One night William Carleton, the
| tenor, rushed out with his stage dress on,
and knocked down the first offender he found.
! The ballet girls applauded this deed OF yalor,
| and cried "bravo." But the tenors time was up,
and he rushed In on the stage and began singing,
| whereupon the crowd pressed back TO the windows
! In greater numbers than before. Subsequently
| Others went back OF the house to drive away the
mob, but they themselves were ANONYMOUSLY
routed and compelled to take refuge In the Hobbies
| linen the girls put up curtains. The mob
goes on in this Inflated place OF entertainments
The police will be hunting for the offender, sup
pose after the ballet girls have gone elsewhere TO
While away care with their airy graces.
THE COMING POLITICAL ISSUE.
ran plump against full-blooded anti-monopo-
list yesterday He is the head OF OF the largest
wholesale houses in this city. Like all men who
think too much on one subject, his views are
somewhat extreme, but anyone with half an eye
open must see that there is food In the subject
"Yes, am anti-monopollst," he said, "and have
good reasons for being. can't understand at all
why the people can't see things as do The fact
country In their hands, and making it harder
every day for other men 70 earn their bread.
What viii be the result? The middle class,
which has been larger in this country than In any
In the world, Will be destroyed, and there will be
only two classes-a rich artStocracy and the very
@These corporations employ money to advantag
ana give large numbers employment, do they not?"
Very true There is no objection to their CON-
blnlng their capital and carrying on business a
large scale; but they should not have any adyant-
age over smaller fishes"
what advantages do you refer to?"
ITO special legislation. One-half OF the legisla-
fSn at q, WASHINGTON has to DO with Jobs for the
their sort These men and other ringsters
capture Congress, and buy whatever they want
through the legislature at Albany. BY getting laws
passed that bring special advantages to them they
Others"
"What is this fight you are continually having
With the railroad companies?"
They are unfair. They combine TO keep prices
up; but 1t Is Dot OF this that l complain so much
But they make Determinations in favor OF certain
merchants, who may chance TO have large interest
In railroad, or may have political Influence in their
community. David Bows, the grain shipper; has
made a large fortune by getting special rates on
freights The railroad companies are grasping
everything. You may not believe IL, but IL is so.
They buy up the coal lands, and dictate the price
OF coal, so that you have to pay third more than
it is worth Jay Gould has control OF the telegram
nneS, and eXorbltant rates are charged for teie-
graph messages"
ut is claimed that the rates would be higher IL
tnere were struggling opposition companies"
bah! How is it that they can pay handsome
dividends on stock watered away up-or rather
way dOwn@f there isn't a big mar gin OF profit
The fact is my telegraph bill is several thousand
dollars a year more than 1t ought TO be-"
w nat ) gong 10 be done, what can be dOQp9D
"Nothing can be done until the people get awake
TO the great injustice done them by the corrupt
politicians who make our laws. The politicians
are to blame for IT,"
Mr.. Austin, of the firm of Austin, Nichols Co.,
VINO made these remarks stands high here as
laughs at the idea OF John Kelly trying to make
capital out OF the anti-monopoly cry.
PLAY-CHILDREN.
There never was anything talked OF more than
the production OF the Juvenile Patience" at Wal
lacks theater. The old question OF the propriety
OF allowing children to go on the stage is what the
talk is about One must admit when he sees these
precocious youngsters that all looks Well and that
they are apparently enjoying themselves as much
as they could In any other way-more, In fact, as
people, think, believe that such eXhibitions are
at variance with humane principles The
ment to be mere twaddle. Lester WalIack cWhose
Ideas sad to relate, of what constitute home for
the classical drama have undergone a radical
he has unsuspectingly declared his sentiments
Pulling his dyed mOustache in his enthusiasm the
anee OF Master Harry Hamblin, who takes the part
DER der, I have been trying all my life to
have never succeeded Perhaps this confession
accounts for the peculiar straddle that Mr. Wal
lack has on the stage. MI Elbridge 7. Gerry, OF
equal to that OF the tender and solemn Mr. Henry
Bergh, OF the S. P. c. A. There is no doubt what
StSA AO udo many SOOu IedSOuS lot OppOSlD
Mr.. Wallack5 Juvenile show. Mr.. Wallack's
say, because it Is the prestige of his house that
makes the Show financial success He has gone
into some "reminiscences that takes great deal OF
the glamour OF this brilliant entertainment
Baby Belle Goodman, who was one OF the favorites
In the Pinaf0re Juvenile opera company, which
performed at WailackS theater in 1879 drifted
Into one OF the viest dens OF this city. When she
was discovered by an officer OF Mr. Gsrry's society
she was singing to crowd Of drunken men. It
was late at night, and the atmosphere was reekfng
with the fumes OF liquor and tobacco smoke. |
Oracle Logan, another juvenile performer, was
rescued from Bowery museum She was weak /
and pale, and bore evidence OF most outrageous |
abuse. There are several fnStanceS-Of which /
that OF Ella Mayo Is One-of young opera singers |
dying OF brain disease, their delicate constitutions
not being able to endure the strain. These are |
appalling facts, but the theater where these chill
dren are now performing is crowded nightly, and |
the spectators clap their goved hands in approval
II these hne feathered people were appealed to |
they would say that Mr. Gerry and his S. P. C. c.
might go to the -. They must have their fun.
THE PLAYFUL WAYS OF THE POLICE.
The New York policeman is q study. He is q |
mixture Of cruelty and stupidity that can't be
matched anywhere, unless 1t be In Ireland. As a |
rule he is bigboned and fat His face is rosy, and
II he has been on the force long the red changes
to purple, and his eyelids droop. There isn't a |
rum-Seller his beat that he doesn't know init
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