The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-03
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
A Batch of New York News Compiled
by Tramp.
from Our Special correspondent

NEW ORh, April 20, 1000.
The spring crop of failures in New
York is unusually good this season,
and still the people are not happy.
iSapprehended that high tariff Re
forbidding European immigrants and
publicans will insist on the insertion
of plank in their national platform
travellers from wearing liver pads and
porous plasters when landing on
American soil.
Telephones have popularized the
word "hello."
A Brooklyn clergyman was last
week robbed of his coat which had
been left in his own church. He will
have to throw more power into his
prayers.
Cucumber green is now fashionable,
but it is mostly worn by vinegar
faced old maids, who fairly dote on
sour pickles and think that male mis-
anthropes, when single, are just too
lovely for anything,
The New York legislature has
passed bill chartering a Broadway
underground arcade railroad. The
road is to begin at City Hall park,
just above the postoffice, and follow
ing Broadway to Union square, near
two miles, and then diverge to the
right and continue in an uptown
direction as far as the company see
fit to construct it. Some doubt the
practicability of the enterprise, just
as some did the practicability of the
| elevated railroads; but the company
| will no doubt go ahead with the work
just the same.
Thursday, May oath, has been de-
cided on as the day for the formal
opening of the East River bridge.
Hon. VIM. M. Evarts and Rev. DR..
Storrs will do the oratory for the
occasion. The ceremonies Will no
doubt attract an immense assemblage
of people.
The Republican central committee
of New York has adopted resolu-
tion appointing committee of fif-
teen to harmonic the party. The
passage of resolutions is easy enough,
but to carry out the spirit of them is
what bOthers. To get over or around
that 100000
CLEVELAND MAJORITY
will, they know, require lively work.
1t might be well for the Associated
press agent at Galveston to stand his
billiard cue UP in one corner and as
tonish people who read eastern papers
with a lit lie Sure-enough news from
Texas. He might even now announce
to the world that the legislature has
adjourned, and give us list OF the
important bills it passed. He need
not stuff us any longer with Texas
murders culled from the Galveston
News. By the way, has he taken a
contract to advertise the News
through the Associated press?
Spring has at last put in an appear
ance, and the Indications are that,
like your relatives, it has come to
stay.
In an article on Republican reor-
ganization in this city, Truth says:
''To non-partisan journal a reorgan- |
iZation which only Gusts Mr.. John j. |
O'Brien to make way for Mr.. AlonZo |
b. Cornell does not present very dis |
tinctive claims for support" O'Brien |
has been city office-holder and a Re-
publican boss for some years. He |
"hoopS up" the
IRISH VOTE
With hurrah.
Gen. Diaz will sail for Mexico next |
week. He has been well fed here in |
the east.
In speech in this city, Mr.. Medill, |
of the Chicago Tribune, said he ia
vored an eastern man as a
CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT
on the Republican ticket. Ohio will |
no doubt hump up its back and make |
faces at Medill henceforth and for
ever.
The outlook for a lively season at |
the seaside resorts adjacent to New |
York is good. Coney Island, Rocka-
way Beach and Long Branch are
within two hours ride of New Y York |
by rail or water.
A first class raid was last week made
on
NEW YORK's GAMBLING DENs.
Large harvests of checks, French pool
wheels. faro and roulette tables, play /
cards, ETC., have been gathered.
The Brooklyn Cable railroad COM
pany, who propose to construct and
operate railroad on Montague street,
Brooklyn, from Court street to Wall
street ferry, are busily at work per-
fecting their plans, and, it is said, will
commence the building of their road
within short time. They propose to
operate it by means of an endless
rope.
The exodus to Europe has be
gun in solid earnest. When some peo-
pie become
OVERBURDENED WITH MONEY
They have to do something to unload
themselves, so they go off. Jay Gould
and his many invited guests will
start on cruise around the world
about June l, in the new ocean
yacht Atalanta, built for the purpose.
A city paper says that the friends
OF Mr.. Tilden are managing his
PRESIDENTIAL BOOM
with energy and adroitneSs.
A large and very demonStratiYe au-
dience listened to the Hon. Schuyler
Colfax's lecture lon Abraham Lincoln
in the Madison Avenue Congrega-
tional church. General Grant, who
presided, was heartily welcomed as he
rose to introduce the speaker of the
evening. The general prefaced his
Introductory remarks by alluding to
the courSel anecdotes attributed to
Lincoln, which he thought were
never uttered by him. On
Mr.. Colfax stepping forward he was
heartily welcomed, and he paid high
tribute to Gen. Grant, to whom, he
said, the nation owes debt that can
never wholly be repaid. The ex-vice
president told some amusing anec-
dotes of the dead president, which
were heartily relished, he being fire.
quently interrupted by applause. At
ter the lecture a reception was given
to Mr.. ColfaX at the house of j. S.
Long, No. 80 West 58th street.
A meeting of representatives of
telegraph, telephone, electric lighting
companies and others interested in
electric science, was held at the office
of the Gramme Electrical company,
No. 115 Broadway, last week. ,
The object of the meeting was
to determine the best method
of constructing a common under [
ground conduit in which all wires
used for electric currents may be
placed. The number of wires run
ming through the city is so rapidly [
increasing, and the necessity of pro-
viding some other system than the j
present one of placing them on poles
and no asetops has become so obvious,
that it was decided to call this meet
ing for the purpose of deciding on the
selection of some system by which
they may be placed under ground in
the most effective and economical ]
Il
THE WESTERN UNION
Telegraph company is also taking