Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-17

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It has been pretty much that way in New
York during the past winter. There has been
a constant succession of snow storms, rain
storms and thaws, and a dry day under foot
has been something very rare indeed. Rub
bers have been a daily necessity, and people
who have left them off have paid for their dar-
lug with severe colds. Some business streets in
Florence, Italy, are covered by arched roofs
of glass, forming an arcade. Such protection
would be of great value in winter to Broad
way, Wall and Fulton streets and other
crowded low localities. The fallen snow could
be melted from the arches by system of
steam pipes. 1t might be some trouble to keep
the glass clean, but some easy way of doing
that could be found. In summer it would be
rather hot under the arches unless shades were
drawn over them. Some way must be found
for the speedy riddance of such snow falls as
covered this city last Sunday. They are a
great interruption to traffic, and the Street
Cleaning Department is entirely unable to
cope with it.
Before he left New York, Gen. Lee should
have visited the drug store at Fourth street
and Broadway. He would have seen there the
portrait of his uncle, the famous Robt e. Lee,
placed side by side with those of Washington
and Lincoln.
New Workers who frequent cheap restau-
rants have been rendered somewhat seasick of
late by the discovery that the purveyOrs to
eating houses OF the poorer class are beggars,
who obtain the food which they supply by ply
ing their trade from door to door in the upper
part of the city. So extensive have the opera
tions of the gang of purveyOrs become that
the economical broker or lawyer, who is not
willing to pay the eXtortiOnate prices charged
at first -class restaurants, may, at his cheaper
resort, eat for luncheon the ''cold vittles,"
more or less artfully disguised. which his
cook charitably gave to beggar the previous
day.
Great attention has been called to Miss
Mary Anderson's costumes in the play of
"Galatea". They were designed by Frank
Millet, an artist who is now firmly fixed in
New York. He is an Englishman by birth
and believed, when he came here, that moth
ing on earth could amount to anything out
side of the British Isles. But he met with
such an amazing success with his brush in
New York that he decided to stay here, and
he is now more enthusiastic for America than
the vast majority of American citizens. He
was once war correspondent for the London
Daily NeaCs, and made a great deal of
money by painting several life
carnage and gore of battle and calmly taking
notes, in a note book on the back of which were
the words ''The London Daily Neaos." These
pictures represent young man with keen,
intelligent face, q moustache with the ends
waXed up to his ears, flashing eyes and the
general appearance of the ideal war cor
respondent. He wore brilliant uniform, all
covered with medals, had pistols stuck in his
cartridge belt and a sword at his side. From
his shoulders hung a long fur ulster, and he
wore round cap with peak top on
his head. These pictures sold with
great success in Paris and London, and
exhibited in the National Academy of Design.
So Millet became known before he came here
himself. When he arrived he at once made
himself popular by plunging into all sorts of
art movements, ladies dress associations, lee
lures on household decoration and things of
that Sort In the course of a year a large pro-
portion of the women of New York belieYed
that anything in an artistic way was an utter
failure unless Frank Mllet was muddled up in
it in one way or another. When Miss Ander-
son came to town, about year ago, she at
tended one of his lectures at Chickering
Hall, in which he illustrated the va
riOus effects that could be obtained
by the artistic disposal of drapery.
She sent for him to come and see her. OF
course he went. Miss Anderson would never
miss an opportunity of that sort. When he
got there she told him that she wished him to
design some costumes for her. He went into
1t with his usual enthusiasm, and the result
was shown when she played "Galatea" here a
week or so ago. He had arranged her tunic
with such consummate art that every move
ment and pose was like study In art. Par
ticular attention was called to series of
poses that resembled so many photographs
from Greek statues. Millets career in New
York shows pretty forcibly what man can
do here who has solid ability, backed by
worldly wisdom and indOmitable energy.
The suicide of Kenney, the Brooklyn bill
poster, ended a career that was in every way
remarkable. 1t seems incredible that such a
desperate should have lived in the City of
Churches His place would seem to have been
question has been asked fifty times, why the
City of Brooklyn did not subdue Kenney?
But until his death Kenney remained the
standing terror of Brooklyn and cheated the
gallOws at last by blowing out his own brains.
The man had been arrested more than half
hundred times, and was accused, probably
with justice, of a number OF attempts at burn
ing buildings and robbing shops. He was by
trade bill poster. but by instinct bruiser.
He began early in life by thrash
ing everybody who interfered with
him into a state of complete submission.
He bOasted that he controlled the bill posting
business in Brooklyn; he had veritable mo-
nopoly. He went around and stuck his bills
upon walls, and if anyone else attempted
to post his bills on the, same walls or in any
way appeared as rival, prospective or other
wise, of Kenney, that worthy one set upon him
and fought it out. In most cases kenney won.
In fact he always Won, for II he was thrashed
in personal encounter he waited until he
would catch his victim unawares and then
pounced upon him and worsted him. The men
who have been cruelty beaten are numbered
by the scores, and he has certainly murdered
five OrsiX. The last brutal murder that caus-
ed his sentence for life was utterly without
prOvOcation. The city Is well rid of such
blaekguard as kenney.
| have seldom seen anything more gro
tesquely funny than was furnished by a scene
at Haverly's Theatre last Thursday night. j.
X. Emmett was playing Fritz Among the
Gypsies." Among the funny features of the
play is q jackass, which is brought on the
stage in the second act, and causes good
deal of merrment among the audience. The
jackass in his place is rather funny, but he is
very much funnier out of his place. As every
body knows, Emmett is capital comedian,
but in pathetic parts he is singularly lacking
in force, However, as is usually the case, he
believes that his strongest forte is pathOs.
Therefore. when he has pathetic scene in
any Of his plays, he gives it his entire
attention, and attempts to create a
better impression by his pathos than
by his humor. In the third act Thursday
night he has a scene with a beautiful Gypsy
girl ''Fritz" was down ON his knees pleading
with her with all the eloquence he could COM
mand. The scene was intensely pathetic, and
really quite impressive. While "Fritz" was
on his knees by the girls side waiting for her
to answer, there was a slight seufile behind
the scenes, some hurried whispering. and a
moment later the jaekass tr0tted out nimbly
on the stage. 1t wandered around for a min
ute behind s'Fritz' and the girl and then
ambled up and put its head exactly between
them, looking up at the maiden with one eye
Fritz" remained on his knees for a minute
and half, then Jumped up; caught the jack
the stage. But it completely spoiled his at
tempt at serious acting, for that night at
lie asst
The most fashionable people In New York
live in their own houses. There are compara-
lively few of these, as the enormous value of
real estate makes it almost impossible for any
but millionaires TO inhabit a whole dwelling
People who live in flats are, as a rule, one
grade lower in the social scale than those who
occupy houses of their own, and those who
live in hotels are lower still, and those in
boarding houses the lowest. This Is a rough
way of getting at the social as distinguished
by the Character of habitation. Few people
have an idea Of the enormous value Of real
estate in New York. An instance in point is
the fact that lot on the corner of Nassau and
Franfort streets, about 20 feet wide by
GO deep, is now in the market
waiting for eight hundred thousand
dollars. Six hundred thousand dollars was
offered for it last November, but the owners
insist upon the former sum; and in all proba-