National Republican., 1882-04-08
BOSTON BREEZES
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
PATHS Recsptlon--A Fire at the Theatre-Some.
thing About Restaurants - Women's
Drosses-D Displays in the Stores
The Navy.Yard Sale.
Special Correspondence ofrnr RrrunLlcAN.

until the shuttle OF window photographs brought
to the top that pretty, conscious picture OF "La
Diva" with the we'll known applique head -drap-
cry and neat poster made the announcement Of
a series Of three operas, La Traviata" Lucia"
and Faust" But IL was the traditional "word
to the WISE" for Boston waxed as enthusiastic as
she held consistent with her dignity, and such
crowds as poured into the vast auditorium of the
Mechanics Hall, where the financial inspiration
of some brute ordained that we should
see the Patti See, not hear, for 1t is
safe TO assert that certainly not more than
five hundred people, out of nm average seven thou
sand there every night, really heard her sat in
the eleventh row. and simply heard an aggravat-
ingly-lovely upper note now and then. She would
not strain her voice, of course, and consequently
the series was q fiat failure, viewed artisticaly
The opening night was all that electric lights,
fiat auditorium-about three hundred by four
hundred-a paper proscenium In a greatbarn, and
a viely dressed audience could makoit At the end
ofthehrst act the curtain, in falling became ignted
and for few seconds, as
THE PLANES FLEW UP TO THE ROOF
along the curtain, the house was breathless
Within two minutes 1t was torn from the cords
above and trampled out on the stage Patti ran
out In her piquaute way and showed herself un-
hurt. The audience behaved well, and have
been ut loss ever since whether to account for II
in The pride of Boston brains or Boston thrift; for
OlleT inul mus bIOOu III ll0e seven nouns 10 Rcl
seat that cost SO he hcsates about abandoning II for
possible panic The only auditors who ran were
the general admission fellows and they ran for
the vacant reserved chairs during the slight con-
fusion that cnsued. There was no enthusiasm
one single recall, and each night one basket of
flowers, 1t must have struck the petted iavorte
of Europe HB n bit odd, to say the least. Boston
doubt css imagined her much impressed by its
cold, intellectual approval, while she probably
cried beneath her breath, " BarbarfansW In the
troupe
WAS A LIVELY LITTLE LADY,
well known in San Francisco, the daughter of the
| proprietor of the Mason Doree-Mle. Helen Din
geon--and jolly little record she has, too, even
| for naughty San Francisco The receipts for the
three operas were $4,000 of which Madame PATHS
share was $4,000, Happy Patti Congress should
| be consistent and tack an amend to the Chinese
| bill with n view to preventing these fair bar.
barlans from making their thousands and tens OF
thousands in the United States and then flying of
tospend thomin another hemisphere ,spurning too,
our mode of dress, and codes, religious and moral
| have been struck with the Independence OF
theatre at night In way that would seem prepos-
ferrous in Washington, New York, or Chicago.
| either, although the chances are greatly in favor
| of their being homely. have found verified all
| the traditions concerning Boston women. and a
for to offer the opinion that this is the rallying
point of
THE WORST DRESSED AND PLAINEsT WOMEN
In our broad land You can spend hours prone
|
| ternoon aud not meet In all the pushing crowds
| three really welldresScd women Judging from the
New York standg3int; This question of style
York leads, with mixture of French and English
San Francisco dresses very wei C lots Of style ~
woman would say) but with decidedly French
tendency; Baltimore women, as, indeed
throughout the South. dress beGom.
| styles. But Boston is about a year behind New
York, with an odd provincialism pervading that Is
std genTts, while Washington Is cosmopolitan
feathers, the shop windows of Jordan Marsh &
CO. are the largest I have seen IN this country
Why the windows themselves would make re-
| spectacle sized dry-goods store, on one occasion
| containing $4,000 worth of silks alone.
THE DISPLAYS ARE SOMETHING WONDERFUL
even to grown;up eyes. One week is represented
of goods, waxy clerks Qiie.size) waiting Oh fas-
eiuating, waxy demoisellcs, seated and standing
flirting, buying, lettering gossiping;, Then it will
with a looking-glnss lake near by, covered with
pond-lilies; and again the entrance OF the Patio
in two hundred gross of buttons and quarter of Q
mile of fringe and gimp. l had Il chat with the
artist in charge ian American, by the way) aud hC
on the Boston world in all their unique glory
one a miniature copy in silks of the great organ II
the Music Hall and the other reproduction il
He has been the father of ll6 designs since Sep
tember, and seems to be person of no small i'm
portHnce, having his own work room, full of pic
lures and books, drnughtsman aud a gang o
men under him 1t may be of interest to lear
that this great New England emporium covers
little town Of $500 busy men and women, boys ant
girls. a stranger in Boston would be struck witt
, THE ABSENCE OF GOOD REsTAURANTs.
The Mo nearest spPrGach, + YoT9gs Hotel H., sor
Poodle Dog" in Its exclusion of the fair sex
but as for anything approaching Delmonico's
4 orWormiey,s aud WelckeTs, there Is none, unles
IL be ParkGrs, and there the resemblance is onl
in price Women, women everywhere. decIar
itgivesa man feeling as II he were sneakiig on
OF the responsibilities of Office to see how PAINFUL
plain 1t Is that there are not enough of US to, G
round. Women are the walters in even first-clas
, restaurants weary, slip.shod girls, wit
> spllen, white American faces, aud that indesorib
! ably impudent way of treating one as If smpl
Z in temporary tolerance, a shrewish suggestion o
!, gentecl poverty and sort of good. .as-y you any
i. on Temple Place that is spoken, OF with pride b.
, Bostonians have never failed to have seryet
with oysters, yI, huge, green cucumber pickle am
pickles my feminine attendant growlled
3 Don't you" II is an outrage agains
OSIS pF%Sf %hy heaPd of At poor s
! low who, suffering tOrmens from dyspepsia, pal,
, a waiter Of his hotel a big fee to allow him t
son for believing that YankeedOm does not kno,
what good dinner ~. Their feast of reason seem
TO more than satisfy them Apropos of the flow O
pretty shoe, that cannot be bought in New York
; where the 6oong Is essentially American-shoI
g., ramp round toe, and Louis Qunze heel.
THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL PICTURE SALES
here lately, which seem TO show considerable dis
elimination In Boston taSte-notably, the sale q
the collection of the late Alvin Adams, founder q
Adams Express Company. 1t was said TO hay
cost about 100000, and contained l2l paintings
selling for $4,000. Words of Comfort" 9TH
B2of of psSGs ad GE9y Da ~ MeyS
Sl4l0. "Oll to the Rescue" fine, large marine
by De Haas, went for 81 20, aud 1t was said wa
the SierrHs" In his wcll-known style, very simla
, to his Mount Corcoran, in the CorcOran Gallery
t ough little larger sold for the very low prG
knocked down for $3.50. II started ut 81, 900, tn
/ highest first bid ofthe sale. ! overheard hHn
remark on the stairs n coming out" We'll, Nut
, ton sells high to-day"
MR. LEOPOLD MoRsE's BILL
in the House providing for the sale of the Charles
: town Navy Yard has caused considerable Oommer
here, and many seem TO believe that the plan IN
more promise Of success than the several whic
have preceded 1t, The advocates Of the schem
claim that the land is too valuable to lie idle, an
that the yard as II now stands Is drawback to III
: Interests OF BostOns mercantile progress, whlc
demands an extension of the water front, and Ia
! room, arc anXiously looking about for NOR
space for their freight business, and N
yard affords them all the extension they require
, Time was when the nayy-yard was powerfl
factor in Bunker Hill politics. IeaB ago, whe
, its employees were many times the number no'
ON the paymaster's rolls II packed Caucuses, die
; man. But the whip of party and the chains of Sc
u interest are weaker and less eNactng now, thoug
for dsmissing uuwarrautaby ten men who re
fused TO vote according ~ his dication BIT
- small appropriations and decadence of the nav
have so
$ REDUCED THE WORKING FORCE
G that It's influence Is no longer appreciably fell
S and, as politics is "the ruler OF the Queen
S quarters Of n century, having Ontliyed its sphel
s Of political usefulness Is about W be sacrificed
. the political ogre, II is valued at upward
@ S7,OOO0OO aud In 1900 IL cost the GOyernmeI
about $4,000 The llrst vessel built thel