The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-05-03
8fseelIa'reons.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

From our own Correspondent.
THE FIRST TASTE OF sUMMER-DE-
PARTURE OF THE BIRDS OF SONG
THE "DUDE," WHAT HE is AND
WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE-PnoT
AND HIS BRANs-FoR LABOR AND
FOR LovE-A SUPPLY OF WOMEN
FOR THE WEST.
NEW YORK, April 20, 1883.
/ New York has at last assumed
her summer garb. The avenues
and streets are filed with lovely
women attired in the height Of
fashion, the invisible bonnet So
called, constituting a conspicuous
feature of the toilet.
The season having closed, the
birds OF song have taken wings TO
more congenial quarters. Yester-
day Mesdames Nelson and Albani
left on steamer Gallia for Europe,
and never since the Atlantic steam
ferry was established has there
been such scene of fuss and
feathers and flowers as took place
on the Cunard dock when the noble
vessel was about to sail. The
lavish expenditure of flowers in
miniature ships, miniature houses
and what not, the flowing Of cham
pagne, while the great singers were
kissing and hugging their friends,
was something extraordinary. And,
oh, the dudes that were present in
full force, waving a goodbye with
their perfumed hankerehiefs as the
Gallia slowly steamed out, that
made every one feel sorry that
these chaps must hit upon some
device how to spend their leisure
evenings now that the opera is at
an end and Saratoga and Newport
are vet at considerable distance.
! The "dude," you must be aware,
is creature Of modern New York.
You'll see him in Chicago by-and-
bye. He dresses in tight pants,
very tight cut away coat, a high
collar with delicate silk scarf,
far away down the throat. but the
collar so high that the fellow him.
self has the appearance of a jackass
looking over white wall. The
''dude's" hat is in shape of a bell,
and the cane he carries-in fact, a
dude must at all times be caned-
is very delicate with an exquisite
knob. Aside of this the dude as
sumes the cockney manner of
speaking, "and you know" and is
an institution sui geaeris which you
must see to be able to admire. His
numbers are rapidly increasing in
New York and any one entering
a cafe or a theatre finds himself
surrounded by dudes.
Some jealous newspaper man has
started the story that Barnum
hoaxed the reporters when the an
nouncement was made Of the kill
ing of the big elephant Pilot and
that the brute died natural death.
s.Radix" can contradict this au-
thoritatively, for he was present
when they fired repeated shots in
the heart, skin and flesh; further.
more he was on the jury when the
post mortem was made and the
brain taken out for further exam.
ination. 1t should be known that
insanity is a very common disease
among elephants, and that really
was the cause Of Pilots ferocious
pranks. The Veterinary Surgeon
to whom the brain was handed over
for analysis, has just reported that
modification had set in too quickly
for him to be able to determine
whether Pilot was really during the
latter part of his life non compos
meatis.
News reached here two days ago
from the far west that there is a
great scarcity of women in certain
sections, and telegram to that
effect was also received by tine
superintendent of the Labor Bureau
in Castle Garden. Hardly had the
news been communicated among
the female immigrants who just now
arrive here in large numbers, when
there was contest between the
ISwedes and Irish as to who should
lbe shipped 1irst. The latter were