Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-04-29
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
A Strange Sight-Edvard Stokes, Levee
Who Were Therc-Bemneti's Yacht
The CeSnOla Statues-A Tribune Critic
The May Eestival-ActOrs, Social Pc.
sition-The Racing Seasonal Pro.
posed Change, etc

The CeSnO1a Statues-A Tribune Critic
The May Festival-ActOrs, Social PO-
sition-The Racing Seasonal Pro-
posed Change, etc
Special Correspondence of THE EVENING sran.
NEW YORK, April o, 1882.
spent an hour yesterday in the Hoffman house
by invitation OF Mr.. Edward g. Stokes.
1t was the much-talked OF "Ladies' Day." Stokes,
who since his release from prison for killing Col.
James Fisk, few years ago, has grown to be a
man OF influence, position and power In New York.
has purchased Bouguereau's famous painting
"Nymphs and Satyr." 1t was exhibited at the
Paris salon In 1878, and later drfted to New York,
where Stokes gobbled it up for $4,000 1t is pic
ture Of satyr, with three female figures, life
SIZE and utterly mule, trying to drag him
into the forest. The figures are In powerful
relief and very effective Their pastures show the
mani OF man careless or defiant OF the rules
which govern the conduct q modest women In
Puritan households, and as result the picture
creates sensation. Man loves the voluptuouS.
This picture hangs directly opposite the sensual
painting called "FauSts Dream" also study i'm
the nude, and the statues and other works OF art
scattered In profuSian about the magnficently APP
pointed bar-rOom are chosen by the same taste
Many women have heard of the place. of course
and when Stokes proposed the ''Ladies' Day" the
rush for invitations was enormous. Over 1900
were issued, and the room was thronged from
9 O'Clock a. m. until p. m. yesterday with
the most remarkable asssmblage Of women
probably that ever gathered in New York
to admit that 1 was surprised to see two ladies,
one OF whom Is an ex-gOvernT'S daughter, both of
them unquestionably OF the fist circles here hurry
In with their escort. They seemed very much
frightened, and hurried awayat once but it was a
risky thing for woman of position to do even for
a lark, because they brushed against an Immense
woman In blonde wig who runs the most notO-
rious '.fence' in New York, and were jostled by
several Superb-looking creatures who were as pal
pably frail as fascinating. BY the way, all OF the
har 1Tyl,0
there-were not at all superl looking, and some
We're little too loud in tOneeven for Stokes bar
and was forced to notie for the hundredth
time how old all actresses lOk off the stage. The
stage is too much for mos women. Every man.
about-tOwn and many swellyOung brokers lounged
about the place listening 20 the music from an
orchestra hid amidst fCest OF ferns. There
were many highly respectable women there too,
lures, and talked in low OiceS to one another
Then stokes came In What an age this Is 1t
was sight shall never frget. When he strobe
In, erect, handsome and eaborately clad, there
was hush and then buz OF excitement as the
women rushed forward. hey crowded around
him. they gazed at him as tough he were hero,
they pushed each other aisle to get near him, and
those whom he noticed slowed qualification In
every line OF their smiling delighted faces He
walked about for while, chatting occasionally
with a friend or Acquaintance. and always the
same pushing, jostling crow OF women about him.
And, rs l have said, thelwere not all fast, but
were in most cases of good antilles, and not few
of fair social standing. at they followed him
Just the same, and the god of the hour was the
man who deliberately killed one who had always
fallen woman of the lowesttype. The women at
his place yesterday looked like gang Of adulatory
Slaves What an age II is
NEWSPAPER GO!sI.
There was beautiful row 1.-THE Herald Office
when "young" James Gordon Bennett arrived.
The effect was at once brlliat, terrifying and
prOfane He arrived opportunity. 1t was on the
morn of the Herald's dreadful scoop" on the At
Stewart failure, when every Rper in New York
had three or four columns OF he news and the
Herald hadnta line. Mr. BENEFIT went over the
entire establishment, and mae himself so very
apparent In the city department that Mr.. Meag-
han, who is in charge, started sven new wrinkles
on his manly brow and grew grg behind the ears.
He explained that he didn't mr OF the failure
TILL the day after, because he didn't hear
of it tn the followiy day. This
reason, which was at nee conclusive,
logical and correct strangel, enough did not
satisfy Mr.. Bennett, who wen into particulars
with such vehemence that te entire stan adj
Journed. Mr.. Bennett is sometat aged in face,
lived too fast since his boyhood.nd bis face shows
1t plainly now. Yachtmen areenthuslastic over
his new craft 1t is probablyhe most splendid
finish and speed e equal q any
the imperial pleasure craft. ThsalOon is mass |
OF crimson and gold, with fermentation of the
been quarter of million dolla. A good deal of
money for yacht, but then Sis really small
steamer.
THE CEsNoLA STATES
have become a sort of an intermittent sensation
Nothing is heard of them for reeks, and then |
without warning some long mort is made of a |
committee that has been tndustously eng aged at |
the Museum of Art in chiseling nd scrubbing at |
them to find out what they @ made of. On the |
other hand, CesnOlas enemB keep up a desul-
tory warfare through the wspapers and by |
These attacks e made by CASTOR |
l.. Fureadent, dealer In asiquities, and Clar-
ence Cook, the art critic ofhe Tribune. Gen
Cesnola himself is as mute aDne OF his statues |
against Tn. All he do is to to nut at'a ths
statues where everybody N examine them
and invite minute inspection But am assured
that there is secret histoI about this whole
affair. This, II true, Is very1teresting. Feura-
dent was for some time thentiquarlan of the
museum I'M IL Is said that ne y ambitious to be-
elbow CeSnOla out OF the place.As he was sub
ordinate, CesnOla dismissed In summarlly, as
missed antiquasian Observation-Disclosures in Isfay
ette-place as dealer in anluit1es In due
time he began his war, ar was joined in
subject OF speculation whine as to the
cause of Clarence Cooks enmittoward CesnOla
have learned, from privatsOurce, that Mr..
scum to send him abroad to b. pictures for the |
permanent collection. Cesnola OpSed the scheme |
He even said one day that Mr.. OK knew nothing
about pictures-a declaration at would have
been GENEROUSLY approved OF II had been known
by all the artists in town. The sry goes that the
art critic himself was present zen this remark
was made. The latest phase the controversy
was the report OF committee. sculptOrS who
pronounced the charges that statues were
made up or unrelated parts as wlOut foundation.
l saw Clarence Cook In an eleted railroad car
He looked much IL buOyant than
usual. In fact he looked someMt crushed.
ANOTHER TRIBUNE eTIC.
By some strange cOncidencenother critic of |
the tribune is prominently befe the public Just
now. This is Williasa WinteHho writes the
dramatic criticisms In a rect article on the
drama "Far From the Maddng ovid" now run
ming at the Union Square Theatthe slipped in a
sly sentence attacking the persol character Of
the author of the play. It was My brief SEN
tence but 1t was enough to rails howl that has
not died down yet. The object the attack is
Mr.. Cazauran, a playwright W has an Official
connection with the Union Squa Mr.. Winter in
an oily way said that MICazauran had
done nothing as write except what
men OF honor despised Thgeneral article
condemned the play as an addition of Hardy's
novel OF the Samename. So far a9ave been able to
learn what was referred to was monograph which
Mr.. CaZauran once wrote about Twin Booth, and
in which he attacked his perSoncharacter But
Mr.. Winter Is reported R3 sayi that he did not
write the article himself at a but that Dr.
Elliot wrote it. People are aslg who DR.. Elliot
Is. Some are tncredulous enou9 to declare their
belief that he Is MYTH Still ora cav that the |