Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-28
.BR00KLYN'S BIG BRIDGE.
ITS ADVANTAGES AND DIsAD-
VANTAGES POINTED OUT.

Dynamiters Trying to Make the Huge
Structure a Hideous Horror in the
Eyes of the Irish-The Color of the
Irish Flag in DOubt-Other Notes
AfiOat in Gotham
NEW YORK, May 25.-The Victoria
bridge, as the dynamiters persist in call
ing 1t, was opened yesterday with a great
deal of fuss, feathers and fireworks. as
you have heard by telegraph, but l ques-
tiOn whether Brooklyn and New York are
practically nearer together than they
were before. OF course, for traffic pur.
poses, the bridge VIII have great
advantage over the ferries, as ve-
hicles from the dry goods district
can cross it in quicker time than is re-
quired to travel down to Fulton ferry.
wait for boat, and, unless there is Jam.
/ wait for a second, and, when being ferried
over, climb up the hill on the BROOKLYN
| side. But the countless crowds who do
! business below the City Hall will find the
! ferry, during the one cent hours, as cheap
and a quicker transit than the
bridge, which will Oblige them to-
walk nearly mile and a quarter
only to carry them out of their
way. Even to persons going up town
it will be easier and quicker travelling to
cross the ferry and then take the neigh
boring elevated railway than to walk
across the bridge; and the economically
inclined will hesitate at paying the five
cents necessary to be conveyed across
quicker than a walk. Unless. too. the
elevated railway run its cars all day, in
place of merely during the Commission,
hours, dieectly from the City Hall to Har-
lem, one will gain time by crossing the
ferry and taking the cars going directly
up town; for, at present, the City Hall
section of the elevated railway is only a
branch road, and one, twenty hours in the
twenty-fOur, can only get on the direct
bridge at Chatham square, and then wait
second time for train. 1t is argued |
that the bridge in spring and winter, when |
the ferry boats are delayed by fog and ice. /
Will render crossing to Brooklyn a baga- |
telle, but certainly walking at such a |
great elevation over ice and snow, with !
the thermometer nearly zero, and strong |
wind blowing straight from the North |
pole, won't be any great fun, and the /
bridge cars at such times cannot be run |
often enough to accommodate the travel.
Nor Will be walking across the bridge at |
the cost OF cent on a hot summers dav |
be pleasanter than crossing in a ferry
boat at the same rate. That the ferry
companies look at the bridge in this same
light is shown by their scouting the pro-
position to reduce their fare to one cent
for the entire day.
Cyrus w. Field received an anOny
nous letter early in the week, declaring
that unless the Irish flag occupied a place
of honor at the termini and middle of the
bridge on the day Ofthe opening, in order to
show that the oath was chosen not for the
opening i'll recognition of Queen Victoria's
birthday, he would be blown up as was
Andres monument, or at any rate
assassinated. The Hibernian flag did not
occupy the desired position prominence,
but MIR. Field has not yet met with the
fate of the late Gar of Russia or of Lord
Cavendish.
BY the way, did your readers ever come
across Sir Bernard Burke's assertion that
the color OF the Irish flag, or, at any rate.
the national color of Ireland, is blue and
not green? Sir Bernard is good authori-
ty, none better, and, after all, it is not
much more ridiculous to carry a green
nag by mistake for blue, than for the
roman catholic Irish to claim French
man Ior their national saint who saw in
the successor of Peter only the Bishop of
Rome. The English, to be sure. 90 farther
and fare worse, when they take the mis-
cradle George of CappadOnia for their
patron. st. Patrick was truly a saint,
Whlch is far more than can be said of the
real prototype of ''that ancient word of
honor, fair Saint George" The New
roofiuo ork IRISH ii too, are beginning to
reailze tne inconsistency of their being
nOtnlng II not Papists, when il was a
Pope-Adrian ", the only Englishman
that ever wore the triple crown-whO de-
IlVered up Ireland to England, as other
ropes partitiOned the Americas between
spain and Portugal. The position taken
by Pope Leo in regard to the Land League {
mas, mas aroused a strong feeling among the
There was quiet but "swelI' Catholic
wedding on Wednesday, whereby hangs
tale. The groom was Geraldy Red
mOnd, and the bride, EstelIe LIVINGSTON
daughter of Johnston Livingston. al, I
though thus belonging to a distinctively
American and Protestant family, the lat
ter Is K0manlst, her mother having been
one The ceremony was performed bv
the Rev. MOnsignOr Preston, who was |
an Episcopal clergyman. The |
wedding was quiet, because of the recent l
death of an aunt of the bride. The un-
usual feature Oft was that it was to have
taken place year ago. The day was
hXed, the invitations ready, and many
presents had been received. when the
groom-elect was taken so i'll that the :
marriage had to be postponed, and
engthened sea voyage was prescribed as
necessary to restore him to health. He
has spent the intervening twelve months
m sailing around Europe in one of our
famous yachts-I think, Bennett's-and !
IS now comparatively well man. :
The unusual sight was presented the !
other day on Fifth avenue, of a footman :
lttlred IN evening dress on the box of a
beside the cOachman. He wore the =
white cravat, with CORES !
1Onding eXpanse of shirt bosom and sWal- !
ow coat. No top coat covered this extra :
ordinary out of door costume, and, as the .
lay was chilly, he must have been very !
cold. L
This mode of dressing fOotmen is Eng
ish, and, in view of the Anglomania which
S prevalent here, / wonder that it has not =
1een universally adopted before this. The :
mere fact that our climate is much cooler +
han that of London ought not to interfere !
when an English fashion is to be follow I
ed. II imitation be the sincerest flatterv, Z
l0W f1attered are the COckneys by New : q
Orkers! :
The weather at present is also initiating 1
hat Of England-when at it's worst-al2 :
though the mercury for the past fortnight 3
has averaged higher than il
lid during the corresponding two
weeks of last year; the days, even
when the sun shone, have, on the whole, b
been raw and chilly, and persons who ! t
nave removed their winter under-clothing S
must repent it. To-day, however, sum- I
ner suit might be endurable. In spite of 5
he cool weather the foliage is gradually a
its full growth. and Central V
Park is at its lOveliest. Southerners make Il
mistake who wait until summer to il
yisit New York, 1t is then far hotter
han it is at the South, and the foliage bv
hat time loses it freshness, which is its
;hief charm. MD. +