The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-04-12
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
The New Fulton Market-The Fish
Show-Peter COOper's Death-Mr.
Beecher on Faith-New York News
Compiled by Tramp.
From Our Special Correspondent

NEW YORK, April 8. 1888.
At last the new Fulton market has
been completed and three days ago it
was thrown open to the public. 1t
occupies one block and, therefore,
fronts on four streets. 1t is hand
some brick building, elegantly fGrn-
ished anu artistically arranged. The
stores, stalls and dining halls are
models of neatness and archits ctural
beauty. Each stall or store is sup
piled with an Office or store-room just
overhead, and all the arrangements of
as to design, which makes walk
through the market all the
more interesting. On the Beck
man street side are the fish
stalls; the butchers mOnopoliZe
nearly all of the front street side and
a considerable portion of the center;
on the Fulton street side is the farm
and dairy produce, and on the South
street side is the fruit and poultry,
while in the center is combined as
sortment of everything, including two
elegant eating establishments. There
were no formal ceremonies at the
opening, yet the place was crowded
with visitors the greater part of the
day, many prominent citizens and
your correspondent being among the
number. Many of the stalls were
beautifully dressed with flowers The
display of live fish was large and in
teresting. | saw trout, salmon and
bass in abundance; rainbow trout,
German carp and brook trout from
Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jer-
sey, Wisconsin, Oregon, Ireland and
Canada. Big turtles lying on their
backs, the reptiles aXotOll, which are
eaten in Mexico, and mermaids We're
on exhibition, a gold fish and common
fish, eels and frogs in the greatest pro-
fusion. The Dolly Warden trout
from California and "A pair of rainbow
trout took the cake" for beauty. The
land-locked salmon, German brook
trout and carp attracted attention.
Many fish gamboled gracefully about
in large glass globes, supplied with
submerged electric lights, which
made their gay colors come out in
full relief. Thl fish show was first
class, even equal to the best dog, cat
or baby show ever seen in New York.
New York is great on shows, you
know.
PETER COOPER
Died of pneumonia at his residence on
Lexington avenue, this city, yesteI-
day morning, and during the day
flags were ut half mast, in respect to
his memory. He was born in this
city ninety-two years ago. He was
named after the apostle Peter,
and comes from family distinguish
ed for their unwavering devotion to
the cause of American independence.
In his boyhood he learned to be both
IL halter and machineSt, and became
Il manufactures, Il merchant and Il
philanthropist. He built and present.
eel to New York the Cooper institute,
which cost $70O,OO0, an institute de-
voted To free education in the arts
and sciences. In 1876 MIR. Cooper was
urged To become Il candidate for pres
ident, but teiGgraphed to the Indian
aPdhs convention: My age admon-
ishes me to say no." The funeral will
take place on Saturday next ut 1870
a. M. The services over the body
will he read at the Church of All
Souls, Twenty-ninth. street and
Fourth Avenue by the Rev. DIR.
Robert Collyer, assisted by
DIR. Howard Crosby, the former Il
Unitarian and the latter Presbyte-
rian.
The pall-bearers will be Wilson G.
Hunt, John Il. Agnew, w. Ii. Apple
ton, a. A. Low, John Z. Parsons,
Cyrus w. Field, III. NJ. Shieffelin,
Judge g. p. DAILY, ex-secretary Of
state, Hamilton Fish, the Hon. Jack
49,, - Snh,lt1 Dnutn,aSfar III
Pearson and General Alexander S.
Webb. The funeral will be as private
as possible, although populations will
attend from nearly all the learned and
charitable societies. and from the sew
eral exchanges. After the services in
the church the body will be taken for
interment to Greenwood cemetery,
there 10 be laid in the same resting
place as his wife.
NEW YORK NEWS ITEMS.
The Hudson river is free of ice at
last, and steamboat navigation has
been resumed. With the opening of
navigation here at the north comes
better trade.
Gen. Hancock was visited at Gov
ernor's Island on the I'd instant by
eX- President DiaZ, who was accom-
panied by Gen. Frisbie and Gems.
Romero and Pacheco.
The Manhattan Beach hotel opens
May 80 and the Oriental on June 10.
The Brighton, under Charles S. Lee
land, will commence business with
the first warm sunshine.
DIR. Newman made an eloquent APP
peal last Sunday evening on behalf of
the supremacy of Christ us a religious
teacher, and in the course of his re-
buke to one whom he called an atheiS-
teal Jew.
The New York Sun says the true
AID only platform for the Democrat
cy in 1884 is; |. A tariff for revenue
only. 2. The tariff the only source OF
revenue. The Sun has been Demo-
cratic paper five or six years and
hence should be allowed its say.
Brooklyn real estate men are rub
bling their hands with invisible cur
rency in anticipation of the influx of
house hunters who are to cross the
long bridge when it is declared open
next month. The bridge. it is thought,
will help Brooklyn more than it will
this city.
A JUBILEE OF THE SPIRITUALISTS.
A three-days' jubilee, in celebration
of the thirty-fifth anniversary of spir-
itualism, was closed last evening in
the church of the New Spiritual Dis
pensation in Clinton Avenue, Brook
lyn. The New York spiritualists
held a celebration in Republican hall
last evening. Mr.. Henry Riddle,
formerly superintendent of public
schools, was one of the speakers.
THE PROGRESS OF TEMPERANCE.
The advocates of temperament this
city are doing their work slowly, but
surely and steadily. An evil that has
existed since the flood, and has be-
come almost part of the great hu
man economy is not to be eradicated
in a day. The cure must be cumula-
tive, tonic and Alternative, and the
only way to bring this about is by
steady perseverance and constant ap-
peals to human wisdom and the moral
sense. At meetings in Cooper Union
Sunday and elsewhere many stirring
addresses were made by eloquent
s speakers.
NEWSPAPERS AND LOOSE THINGS.
The Rev. DR.. John Hall lectured to
the members of the Central Young
Mems Christian association in their
hall at Eighty-siXth street and Third
Avenue last evening on "The Perils
of City Life" In the course of his adj
dress DIR. Hall said that one peril was
loose thinking about great realities.
He was tempted to aScrlbe this TO the