Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-12
new YORK GOSSIP.
Reunion Of Men and Women Of OldGn
Time,
School Teachers In Trouble
New and Huge Structures
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centennial of the city ~Anti-Slavery socle-
ty, at the Broadway tabernacle, on
Wednesday and Thursday, called together
a great many of tho white. haired cham
pionsof human freedomin the days before
the war. The Abolitionists, who were in
the prime of life when thcold tabernacle
on Broadway, near Pearl street, was a
center for m%obviolenco, are aged and
bent now, but they have retained a good
deal of their old fire. Oliver johnson,
the sole survivor of the twelve men who
founded the New England Auti-Slavery
society, showed his old-time fcarlossnoss
of speech when he denounced the efforts
of the church, through the religious pa
pers, to appropriate the credit for the
success of the Anti Slavery move
ment, and declared that the church
did not identify herself with
the movement until 1859. So far as this
vicinity is concerned Mr.. johnson is cor
rect, and old DIR. Samuel II. Cox, father
of the bishop of Western New York, still
lives to testify that the Presbyterians cast
him out of the pastorate of the Laight
Street church and imported the son of a
slave owner in Virginia to take his place.
The veterans of the Abolitionist army
had a good time talking over their remin-
iscences of the days before the war. They
had some hope of a visit from Captain
Rynders, who with his Empire club un-
dertook to break up the anti-slavery
meetings at the Broadway tabernacle,
but found his orators worsted in argu-
ment by two colored clergymen, one of
whom, Rev. Charles b. Ray, still sur
wives. Rynders still lives, but ceased to
be a power when Tweed went out of bus
mess, and the rising generation know
nothing about the once hated Abolition
lists except by tradition.
One of the marked features of the old
a%ntislavery gatherings was the presence
and speeches of the women. They did
their part of the work well, as l remem-
Der, though they had to bear a double
share of obloguy, and they were women
worthy of high mention in the records of
their day. Lucretia Mott, Abbie Kelly,
Lydia Maria Childs, Mrs. Stowe, Sarah
Grimke and their colaborers will always
have a prominent share in the story of
the agitation hat ended in emancipation.
the day of their leadership. Now it is IN
old story. This week we have had a
Woman's Suffrage Convention in session
here, and five ladies have appeared before
the Senate Committee on Labor and Edu-
cation and had their hearing, but the
public takes it as q matter of course.
Lucretia Mott and her sister agltators
often had to face an angry audience
in the queer old ediice, with semi
circular wooden benches, which was
known as the Broadway Tabernacle; but
their surviving friends sat quietly in the
cushioned seats of a stately building sur
rounded by a fashionable and thoroughly
sympathetic auditory. The picture, with
its last glimpse OF the Old Guard of
Abolitionism. was unique and vivid. Eli
EUR Wright, bent and white with the har-
vest of eighty summers, presided, and
George S. Clarke, who was the minstrel
of the movement fifty years ago, sang
some of the old songs hat then stirred
the hearts of the a%gitators, and now
brought only tears to eyes that looked up
from beneath old fashioned bonnets and
under grizzled eyebrows.
There is some trouble among certain
circles of teachers in the public schools
After weeks of deliberation and protract-
ed argument and protest the Board of
Education has adopted a bylaw compell-
ing a registry of married female teachers.
Heretofore many of the ladies have kept
their marriage a secret, and have con-
tinued to teach under their maiden names.
Their excuse has been that they did not
want to be ''chaffed' with having hus.
bands who allowed them to teach, and
| that fhnrn Nynu n nrnIiIinn nmnnn
their unmarried associates in the
schools against married female teachers,
who ought to be supported by their hus-
bands, being allowed to remain on the
rolls. On the other hand, the female
teachers argue that it is nc matter under
what name they teach so long as they do
their duty-"that a rose by another
name would smell as sweet" etc. 1t is
expected that the order compelling mar
ried female teachers to reveal their status
will be followed by numerous resigna-
tions, and the young girls on small sala-
ries are jubilant over the prospect of pro-
motion. The average schoolmarm by the
way, is not always wise i'll her day and
generation. / know of n pretty young
girl, most successful as q teacher, who
married a man with nc appreciation of
any of her charms except her income. On
pay day he always accompanies her to
draw her warrant, puts the money in his
pocket, and doles out to her as much as
he conveniently can. He has done moth
ing since they were married, and she is
growing old rapidly in the work of sup
porting his worthless life.
Our streets have been enlivened by
the presence of the Ancient and Honora-
BILE Artillery of Boston-the solid men
of Beacon Hill-tenderly escorted by the
Old Guard of this city. The Bostonians
were a revelation in one respect, owing
to the conglomeration of uniforms, as
each man in the infantry company wears
the uniform of his " corps and the
insignia of his rank. The display recalled
the witticism of the late John Phenix,
that ''even Solomon in all his glory was
Eot arrayed like one of these" The
scholar in soldier clothes was voted a sue
cess, and it was said that he ''took hi
beer like a little man" Gen. N. =.
Banks bore a musket in the ranks. He
is said to be the only man who ever sue
ceeded in placing the late Sexton Brown,
of Grace Church i'll a false position
Brown attended to all the receptions
in Gotham, and prided himself
on the fact that he knew everybody, and
by his wonderful acquaintance with hu
man nature in general and good society
III particular, could not commit a socia
solecism. One Sunday during the "lat'
unpleasantness"-about the time tina