Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-12-01

| uatiOn Day DeScendants-A Scene in
Stokes ssArt Room ',-Aggressive I'o-
lfceman-The New York Press Club
Storm Beaten, Etc.
Special Correspondence Of THE EVENING STAR.
NEW YORK, Nov. so.
Anthony Comstock and Henry Bergh have
got to such point in reforming the morals OF
the city that they are no longer able to find
prominent and glazing instances of cruelty and
immortality and are devoting themselves en-
tirely to minor and microscopic subjects. Mr..
Bergh. whose recent eloquent and pathetic de-
nunciation Of the alleged growing custom OF
pinning live butterflies on dinng-room tables so
that the diners may gloat over them while the
insects gracefully futter their wings and die,
set everybody laughing Mr.. Comstock felt a
keen sense of envy at Mr.. Bergh's success in
fnding something new to growl about. and at
once made descent upon the Russian baths of
the city, seized number OF pictures, threatened
the proprietors with Imprisonment and declared
the pictures indecent. Many prominent gentle
men have come forward to testify to the thor
oughly unobjectiOnable and purity of the pic
| lures In question, and there is likely to be a
legal squabble. 1t is pity that these two great
phlianthropists cannot find something more
worthy of their efforts than butterflies and pic
lures.
| TIE CEsNoLA-FEUARDENT SoUABBLE
drags Its weary length along. So far the testi-
mony is In favor of Gen. di Cesnola and against
his pushing and somewhat impudent adversary
The simple history of the dealings Of Cesnola's
connection with Cyprus antiques is that after he
| had excavated them he took them to England
and offered them for sale to the government.
| With him was Mr.. Feauardent. who was also a
collector and dealer of antiques. The British
nvn anptr
| lection. but wished to pick out few of the
more valuable ones This Cesnola refused to
| accede to and brought them to America He
sold them just as they stood, and after they were
oouSht by the government, went to work in a
fair, open and thoroughly candid way to repair
those specimens which were broken.
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
1t has suddenly been discovered that Mr.. o.
mond Tearle, Charles Coglan. Gerald Eyre. VIII
mot Eyre and Mantel are all Irishmen. 1t is an
awful blow to the Anglo-maniacs These emil
nent actors have been worshiped for years. in
New York, as perfect types of English swells,
and the incontrovertible fact that they are Irish
causes the keenest sort of disappointment
Iearle is very much ashamed of his Irish parent
age and claims to be an Englishman. When he
| first went on the stage he wrote his name
George o. Tearle, but the bills printed his name
George OTearle. which gave it a distinct and
prominent Irish cast. So he dropped the
| George and has called himself Osmond Tearle
ever since.
Washington will be crowded by New York
society people the coming season. A great
many New Workers Of social position have de-
clded to go to the national capital and society
Will undoubtedly be more brilliant there than
mere. The desertlon of such thorough old New
IOrkerS as VIM. R. Trayers and Mrs Paran
Stevens is keenly felt. Probably the foreign le-
CATION have much to do with the migration.
| Ihere Is good deal of talk about the re-
entire Of Mr.. Montague Ward into society. He
is tall, fine looking and very popular man. re-
lated to Sam Ward and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
ana was three years ago at the very height of
his popularity here. Everybody liked him He
was engaged to one of the Potter girls and held
a responsible position In the banking house of
| Brown Bros. Just before the announcement Of
the wedding, scandal came out about Mr.
Ward which broke his engagement lost him his
position at Brown Bros. and closed many of the
| doors OF houses which he had formerly visited
| he had married somebody secretly three or four
years ago and had been inasquerading in society
| up to the time of the disclosures. After every
thing had blown out he retired. and was not
seen in his accustomed haunts again until a
month or two ago, when he gracefully slipped
back into his old position. Society in New York
many people are going to Washington. This is
not sarcasm. Perhaps it is ignorance.
| EVACUATION DAY DESCENDANTS
Only eighty-three descendants of families who
| settled in New York one hundred years ago
| gathered at the Hotel Brunswick to celebrate
the night of Evacuation day. 1t seems odd that
IN the city of more than million inhabitants SO
small showing should be made of descendants
| of original natives of New York. suppose one
| reason why SO few families In comfortable cir
cumstances are able to trace their blood back
| century Is because SO many of the young and
| brighter men years ago left New York to seek
| their fortunes in the west. Everybody comes to
New York sooner or later, and many visitors
| finally become residents but the more energetic
| OF New York men go elsewhere to make their
| mark. This was SO years ago; 1t is SO now. The
| dudes stay home. lounge about the clubs, in
| dulge in fOX-huntng, and languor and die
young. The wide-awake boys are out in the far
west on cattle ranches and railroads.
SCENE IN STOKES CART ROOM"
| was in the Hoffman House bar-roOm night
before last. when row occurred which has not
yet found its way into the city papers. The
room is crowded with artistic treasures Of va
rious sorts, including many valuable paintings.
Visitors and sight-seers are, as is we'll known,
| the victims Of q powerful desire to point UNI
brellas and canes at pictures, and from pointing
to poking is but step. The rules against this
sort OF playfulness are very strict at the Hoff-
man. On the night in question the place was
crowded with out-of-town 'Evacuation day
visitors. Among them was an immense man
from Boston He was about six feet four and
weighed two hundred and fifty pounds He
was active and as strong as an OK. This man
went up with friend to the $40 900 Bongueran
and began to point out its points with his
cane. He struck the glass case which
covers the painting twice with his
stick, and then Billy Edwards spoke
to him quite respectfully about it, Ed
wards, who is the ex-champion light weight
pugilist Of the world, is retained by the house
to look after the bar-rOom. He is the most
scientific man in the country and a deadly hit
ter. He is compact. quiet and not at all dam
gerous looking. When he spoke to the Boston
man Wednesday night he received slap in the
face before he could get his hands up. If ever
man was surprised that man was Billy Edwards.
He flew at his big opponent like a bantam, but
before he could do anything the stranger had
him by both hands around the throat Billy
turned white and gasped for breath The
strength OF the stranger was prOdgious. Billy
struggled with him for moment and then
suddenly exerted all his force and rushed
the stranger over backwards against
the bar. Giant though he was, Billy
pressed him over backward until he broke the
grip on his throat, then he danced back with his
jaw set, threw up his hands and bounded for
ward. His right first landed squarely on the
side of the strangers face with an awful crack
The man shot to earth as though thrown from
| the sky and Law there mOtiOnleSS. He was taken