Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-12-07
Our New York Letter.

The First SnoW.---ErtrdDdgd
EceryeUherc.-After as the Deluge.
The Beauty Sho,D.-Iricks of the
Shoavman's Tlade.-Mrs. Laagtry's
Picture as RosaJind.-Ihe NeaU
Opera Io1onthc.-W Winter Wraps
Decline Of the Circular and French
satin.-A Ne,c Cost,tnee.-SWgges-
lions for Christmas Work.
New YORK, November 2Sth, 1882.
The first snow which made its APP
pearance on Sunday, kept stablemen
busy until late atnight, getting cutters
and in fact every imaginable vehicle
that moves on runners, ready for the
demand. Unfortunately the flakes
though coming thick and fast soon
melted away, and thus the white cover
ing which overlaid the ground, had not
that durable texture necessary to
create perfect sport. The past few
winters have been anything but favor
able to sleighing, should there be
plenty of snow this year, the sleighing
carnival will eclipse everything ever
seen in New York. There are literally
thousands of people in this city who
will set up sleighing traps, who a year
ago could not afford it. All the bro
kers and dashing youngsters who
drove dog carts and village carts at
the watering places last summer, have
sold these instruments of torture and
invested in cutter. 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 a 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 this
year in this blessed town of Gotham,
and people are spending it in an after
us-the deluge style.
The deluge of course will come, and
according to such prophets as Uncle
Rufus Hatch, very soon. Things
looked decidly panicky last week in the
Stock Exchange. Conservative and
shrewd people who-watch the signs
of the times says that this was the
first mutter of the coming storm.
The Beauty Show, or to put it more
elegantly the exhibition of feminine
loneliness at Bunnelfs Museum, closed
last Saturday, and little girl Wild
used to earn five dollars week at the
ribbon counter in a Sixth Avenue dry
goods store, gained first prize 800,
Now that the show is over, there isno
harm in telling how ingenious George
Starr, Bunnell's invaluable manager
worked the scheme. l was in the
Museum one evening. and after laugh
ing heartily over the collection of
would be beauties, and making a men,
tai note of the care and thorougEness
with which two rural deacons were
examining the limbs of the tatooed
girl, ran across Starr just as he was
| urging the fat woman to laugh more
and eat more farinaceous food, since
she was fast getting too thin for exhib-
ition purposes. '.tWhat do you think
of the beauties!" he asked. Il think
that they all have q 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.
'sThey are just the ones we wanted,
he replied. "You must know that ou-
business depends mainly on the patron
age of the ladies. Now supposing we
had had several genuine beauties, none
| Of tile snide american Mrs. Langtrys,
| that are being carted ABOUT, but gen.
uine beautiful women. what would
have been the RESULT Would the
women have come to look at them!
Not much. Their visits might have
given rise to comparisons, which, as