The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-04-19
OUR NEW YORK LETTER
From IL regular correspondent.

est this week, lie the announcement
that the Madison Square Garden,
consccrated by great events with
out number, IS to be torn to pieces
in May, and be replaced ly = hip
podron.e for similar purposes, and
a gigantic apartment building.
The garden dates from 1878, when
the New York and New Haven
railroad deserted the premises. In
it have been held shows innuincra-
blc-dog shows, horse shows, cat
shows, walking matches, beauty
contests, Moody and Sanky revi-
walls, masked and every other kind
of balls, smuggling matches, and
Barnnm''S moral exhibitions OF the
Zulu, the baby elephant and the
woman who could ride ten horses
at a time and jump through paper
hoops by way of filling np the time.
There have been extraordinary
scenes in the old garden. | have
seen ten thousand men yelling at
once over Rowell's achievements
or singing salvation hymns with
the same enthusiasm , and there
have been somo disreputable scenes,
as when, at the close of masked
balls, the last guests, male and te-
male, had to be swept up literally
from under the tables. The con
gress of beauty was also an aston
isning display of female uglincss
and brazcn impudence which some
persnnsmay remember. a hun red
Young AMI m;dIle-aged women SAT
in a row upon ~ platform and ell
treated the spectators to vote them
q prize for beauty. There was a
prize for beauty, ono for modesty,
and one for go d taste in dress. |
remember that the girl who
got the prize for modesty ex-
changed remarks with the crowd
Of grog-shop loatcrs who voted f l
her that would have made a stone
image blush. She z t the prize
suppose, on the lucas a non lucen-
do principle. The dog shows and
horse shows were, OF course, eX-
tremcly fashionable affairs, and oi
sweeter memory than the beauty
shows and smuggling IN stches, at
which Mr.. Sullivan undertook t,
prove the efficacy of Boston cul
ture. The garden "A Il pretty
profitable investment for Mr.. Van.
dcrbilt. and has returned about ten
per cent. income on its valuation
of a million. The throng Of PEG
pie who go to it when shows ART
in progress also pay large sums o.
money to Vanderbilt 4th avenue
line of cars, which passesthe doors.
ard it is said to be on account o
the profit TO his horse-car line, tina.
he refused TO sell the property, MI
less a hi9podrome WAS to- be ont
feature of tho improvement. Il
connection with the hippodrom {
will be a theatre, a hall tor lectures
and a winter garden on the root
where concerts will be given in the
afternoon
The yachting season, as fixed b,
the New York Yacht Club, which
is accepted by all clubs as the stan
dard authority on such matters, be
gins op the LIST OF Nav, and end.
on the lst of November bat prac
tieally the season in the ntighbor
hood II this city begins about tn
1st ut June and ends the LIST OF Dc
tober. During the past few year
there haSe been Il few Octobc
matches, but the great majority q
the yachting owners are ready t
haul down their flags BY the end q
Septcmb r, aud very few r t
put their yachts in comni' sio'
much before the lat OF June. B.
almost common consent, Decori