Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-19
THE DAIRY RECORD-UNI0N.
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
NEW YoRK, May u, 1888.


hat is the most convenient day for all con-
,erned. Well, no one dreamed Of COM
Queen "Vic. " by choosing that
iay, which happens to be her birthday
but certain OF our lazy, growing fellows.
the divide.every Saturday" kind, have
threatened to dynamite the bridge if
the date is not changed. People do not
laugh at the threat. We know that
mouse may gnsw bell-rope, and SO we
fear the handful OF Communists in our
midst. They oaly annoy now, but who
knows how much evil they may work us
with their secret methods. However, the
authorities say the date Of the bridge
opening shall net be changed, and all right
minded people pray that the backbone OF
the Commission may remain stiffsned.
THE FUTURE OF oRAToRIo.
Dr.. Leopold Damrosch, the accomplished
and widelY.known musician and impress
sario, has been placed at the head of the
directory of our 0ratorio Association. The
society now numbers 456 members, and ia
preparing for the future with an earnest
ness that gives us promise, early IN the
fall, for some of the Iarest examples OF
sacred concerted music. Indeed, from
my knowledge Of the composition OF our
society, believe it will soon stand at the
front with the best of the world, and win.
dictate America against the aspersion that
she cannot produce oratorios with any de-
gree of approach to the European models.
LEGISLATIVE MEAsUREs-wATER.
Our Legislature has given US an amend
ed excise law that is worse, in all re.
spects, than that it displaced or amended,
and is the liquor mems triumph. Still it
is better than none at all. New York has
for a quarter of a century been in favor of
some restrictive measures and of high
license charges for liquor selling-a ques-
ton, l observe, that is agitating the good
people of California just now. must ex-
press the hope in your behalf that you will
follow The example of many of cur Eastern
cities as to high license" Wherever it
has been tried on this side of the continent
it has been an unquestioned success. One
other subject touched by the legislature
was of leading Importance TO our people,
and that was relative to our aqueduct.
New York city demanded an extra, or sew
enth, Commissioner on the Board of Con-
troll, but the Democratic majority refused
it to us. It was of mighty Importance to
US, be it known, for upon the control of
the Aqueduct Commission depends the
administration of our water supply. The
extra Commissioner would give our work"
safeguards they have not now. But we
have been defeated. Our Cooper Union
mass meeting has been snubbed, and the
hand of the politician has fashioned the
whole scheme of our water system, while
"job is written ell over it. The new
aqueduct bill will, without exsggeration OF
its evils, saddle an immense burden of cost
upon this city, to reward partisans, and
that is all there is in it, unless except the
ineficiency of administration.
CIVIL sERvIoE-CHINEsE DEBAUcHERY.
We have civil service locally now, and
very soon the measure of its worth, as ap.
piled to New York politics, will be tested,
and it will be severe test, for our politi-
clans, if any, are they who will defeat the
new measure.
have visited the Chinese quarter and
myself inquired into and witnessed the
things OF which Father Barry complains.
The Chinese here are not restrained by
fear, as in California, and as result have
been reckless in their department. The
majority here are of the more daring class,
and deceived by the supposed sympathy of
the East for them, have given free rein to
their abominable practices. They make
no concealment of opium dens use all
arts to entice girls and women and boys
into them openly court the attention of
white women, and have worked the ruin of
over hundred girls inside of year, and
the names of every one Of whom Father
Barry has given to the public. They have
made Mott street very hell on earth.
They employ their own detectives to guard
and warn them, and use money without
stint to debauch the weak and the curious
who are drawn to their haunts. l do not
in any regard overdraw the picture; on
che contrary, have not written the whole
truth, for it's words, guarded in the most
cautious composition, would be too in6e-
cent for any reader. Let your imagination
picture the vilest form of procurement, u
assignation and opium debauehery by the
sexes mingled in common, and you have
THEATRIcAL-AN HISTORIC SPOT.
Nine. Marie Geistinger, at the Thalia
Theater, has been crowned with one Of
the most marked successes recorded in oul
music annals. She appeared Thursday night
as Lani Alois in Bsrta's musical comedy
'Three Pairs of Shoes" It is one of the
hao% ~ ha cd md
Geistinger and her company gave the sim.
music is not of high order, but the
dramatic and lyric are go admirably COM
bined in the piece as to give it peculiar
charm. Maggie Mitchell, with her Fan
chon," is at the Grand Opera House, clos-
ing her season this week. At Wallack' g
"a La Belle Russo has been revived. The
Wyndham season concludes tonight, and
the company leaves for the Pacific coast
next week. "The Shaughraun at the
Star Theater has concluded its run, and
Boucicault next weeks brings out his new
Irish drama, The Amadau." "Romany
Rye closes ont tonight at Niblo's. The
Seventh Regiment Band commenced
the seasons open-air concerts in Washing.
ton Square yesterday afternoon. These
concerts are maintained by the contribu.
tions of a score or more of public.spirited
citizens.
Old residents Of New York will remem.
Der the biz of ground inclosed by an iron
railing-Bowling Green Park. Not long ago
Cyrus w. Field and other property-owners
near the Produce Exchange petitioned for
the removal of the railing. This has
brought on food of protests. Bowling
Green is an historic spot. Around it cluster
memories of some of the great events OF
the country. Here. before the Revolution,
stood the leaden statue of George Ill,
which the Sons of Liberty threw down in
their patriotic wrath and melted into
American bullets. The iron posts, still
standing, bore the figure heads of King
George, which American zealots tore off az
the same time. No wonder that the pro.
tests pour in against the destruction of the
historic old railing, one of the last relics of
the revolutionary era.
ODD NOTES.
The very newest dodge in robbery by cur
metropolitan experts is TO clip diamond
earrings from ladies' ears without their
knowledge or suspicion. The thief enters
a crowded car. he stumbles upon lady,
or he is forced for q moment to lift his arm
In a narrow aisle next to the wearer of the
precious stones single stroke is given.
light but effectusl, and one of the briliiants
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