Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-03
LOUISVILLE IN LETTER
Il Bndget of the Best News Afloat /,
the Kentucky Capital.

the Kentucky Capital.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 3O.-There is 4
preconcerted movement on foot among the
Louisville clerks in wholesale establish.
ments and in public offices, a strike for
liberty, as it were-a petition for Satur-
day afternoon holidays from the middle of
May until the first of August. 1t has
been tacitly received opinion that clerks
were machines, oiled and wound up to
run certain length of time, and the fact
that he rises up to sense of his wrongs
and desire for his rights and gives him
self voice to ask for half holidays and
/ circulate petition boldly to that effect.
merely emphasizes the revolutionary spirit
that peryades even that inOffensive class
| that ilfes and moves and has its being
behind desk. Should they be indulped
/ in this demand there is no colclIla-
/ ting where the presumptuous petitioner
! may halt. He may stipuate for cham
! pagne suppers and free excursions at his
! employers expense. But Il number of
/ 1rmS have indOrSed the movement
| amongst them several houses who have
/ Deen particularly stringent upon their em-
J plOyeS, whiting them down to the finest
/ possible point, ungOverned by the customs
OF other cities. Perhaps they saw in a refu-
salt OF he demand ghastly crowd of infer
nal machines and darkIy hatched dynamite
plots, and not caring to be waited to their
! eternal rewards or punishments in a frag-
mentary condition, have signed their
! names to Il document that permits the
| weary scribe to go forth to his iaunt up
| or down the river, to dispOrt himself at
the beer garden, to pose gayly at the mash
er's corner of the avenue, to the thousand
and one diversions that await the happy
hp iG mn Cot
noon spree.
1t may be said that the initiation period
has fairly set in. Prices in real estate.
especially in the southern portion of the
city, have gone up with surprising leaps.
Vacant lots Immediately around the EX-
position have been rented for the hundred
days at figures double their selling value.
FOrepaugh has secured several acres op-
pOsite the building upon which, besides
his own hippOdr0me, he expects to re-
aliZe handsome sum by sub-letting in
parcels. Architects declare there was
never such a building boom in the history
OF Louisville: every one who has ten-foot
lot is erecting something. Attracted by
the reports of the prosperous condition
OF affairs, mechanics and laborers
nave rushed upon us from all
points, and there is a hurry in business
and sort of suppressed excitement and
expectation quite unusual in the spring
season, and which is regarded as but a
fOretaste of the high old time at hand
when the Exposition is to make things
fairly hum. Already the question of how
to provide for visitors is occupying serious
attention. The six penny hotels and the
third-rate boarding houses are calmly
preparing to meet the stranger and take
him in The old exposition building has
been sold to an Eastern man by the gov
ernment, and it will be immediately over
hauled and converted into a mammoth
hotel for the accommodation of the expo
sitiOn guests. 1t will be divided into
rooms of the narrOWest dimensions. bear
ing a cheerful resemblance to prison cells,
and the lOdger therein will suffer from the
painful conviction that he has committed
a crime and is in a penitentiary.
A Louisville capitalist, as an expert !
ment Is erecting Il French fiat in a cen |
tral corner of Fourth avenue. 1t is to be of !
large dimensions, and to be finished off |
with every convenience. complete and I
perfect, after the Eastern models. 1t will |
be not only the first tenement fits kind in |
Louisville, but, it is claimed, will be the |
only one in any Southern city except New |
Orleans. 1t is to be four stories in height |
the basement floor occupied by stores, and
each floor as complete in its arrange |
ments and as separated from the |
others as though it were an IN |
''take," as every part has already been en-
gagged by the time it is ready for occupa- |
tiOn in September. There will be a furore !
for flats at first, as there was a furOre ten !
years ago for living in ''blOcks "On the |
European plan, when foolish people sold |
their homes and migrated to apartments !
i'll the crowded and pretentiOus blocks /
which We're then the fashion, and placed |
themselves at the mercy of restaurants |
and lunch houses. They made believe it |
was wonderful wayi to be enconomical, |
but it did not take long to discover that |
the restaurant bill Of fare left them half |
famished and the crowded rooms stined |
them and the privacy of home was thing |
unknown, and now that style of living is |
relegated to those who cannot possibly /
help themselves and who have no choice. |
The salvation army is here; not an anna
teur corps, but the genuine thing. 1t !
holds noon meetings every day on the |
court house steps, the Captain occupying /
the central position, fianked on either hand |
the bya sister in Israel. The Captain opens |
performance with an exciting harangue, /
and is supported by the wings of his army
the women above mentiOned-all of |
which affords amusement of an intense,
not to say prOfane description to an APP
preciatiye crowd Of bOOtblackS and news
boys gathered about the steps. This wing
of the army dropped down here from some
where i'll the East, and proposed to convert |
the multitude out of hand. but the souls
they have saved have been exceedingly |
few. They don't understand it, They
saved them this way in the East. There
must be difference in souls, or perhaps
we haven't any.
There is an effort on the part Of the
manager Of Macauley's Theatre to pro-
cure subscriptions sufficient from the
music lovers of Louisville to induce
haa III.
and give us a series of his old time con-
certs. If the amount is subscribed he will
come about the middle of May, and it will
be the first time he has been here for
nearly 4 decade, when the bellies and
beauX of to-day were school girls and
boys.
After yOwing alternately she would and
she wouldn't, Selena Fetter VIII again
step to the fOOtlights, this time under a /
Chicago manager, making her appear
ance in that city in June next in the same
roles she essayed at her debut, except /
that she has added Juliet to her roper
toire. Miss Fetter tasted the bitterness
of disappointment at the outset of her
career. She meant to leap into fame and
fortune at one bound, and therefore re-
jected the proposal of her manager to .
start at the first round of the ladder. /
Mary Anderson started from the begin |
ming, and why shouldn't she, with her I'M /
deniable genius? So she set forth with a /
pitiful troupe on her tour, and by the time |
She had finished her engagement in At !
lanta she was heartsick and disgusted. |
and came home vOWmg she would never /
return to the stage. But light like hers /
should never be content to hide under a /
bushel, and she has listened to counsel /
and given herself up to retirement and /
study, and is now content to take the first /
round she rejected two years ago.
COYLE DOUGLAS.
A Peculiar Industry.
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