Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-01-19
leave alone, that Is Joe Acton. He is as eminent
a wrestler as Sullivan is a boxer

While am on the subject of the japanese IL
may be we'll to say aword about Mr. Wang Ching
Foo. who is widely known as the Chinese editor
OF New York. He is the interesting little man
who started the first Chinese paper in America
and made glitterng failureof it in six weeks.
Tie printed half of the paper in English and half
IN Chinese and he engaged almond eyed laun-
drymen as newsboys. The New York newsbOy,
VINO Is an established institution Of the city,
made stand against the Introduction of
Chinese labor. Every time one of the belated
and unfortunate Chinese new sbOys appeared in
the streets with Wang Ching FOo's paper, the
Ang1o-SaxOn and Irish element flung itself upon
him with murderous intent. The result was
that it used up the unfortunate celestial before
he had sold any of his papers, and not unfre-
quently sent him back to his home bat
tered, bruised and torn. Mr.. Wang. however,
was not disheartened by his failure as an editor.
He has a good deal of enterprise and is con-
Stantly branching out in some new line Just
now he is hard at work with a band of Chinese
performers who are to give musical. athletic
AID dramatic exhibition. The stars of the Or
ganlzatiOn are two mOOD-faced Ceestials. who
dance Irish reels and sing I'm Meet You When
the Sun Goes Down." in Chinese.
HANLAN VS.. BEACH
IL begins TO look very much as thOugh Hanlan
is afraid of the new Australian oarsman, Beach.
Hanlan was offered liberal terms for his visit to
Australia, and he had no reason to be afraid of
either LaycOcS or Trckett. But Beach sud-
denly looms up in the horizon as an absolute
terror He is comparatively young man, but
his performances far as a sculler have been
so extraordinary that one OF the most cOnserva-
tive sporting men in Australia offers to back
him for $1,000 against Hanlan. Hanlan defeated
LaycOck and Trickett in England three years
ago with ease. He has no reason to be afraid
OF either OF them now. but his trip to Australia
VIII cost Linn great deal of money and
it will be necessary for him to win all
III Beach defeated him it would not only be a
serious financial loss. but the chances for re-
turn race would be very slim. | don't know but
alter all Hanlan's claim that he has reached a
point IN the profession where other oarsmen
should seek him. and not he other Oarsmen il
tenable- He says that everybody knows where
he lives, and the next man that wants to row
him may come to Canada. Travelling {. 900 miles
10 meet an unknown like Reach takes too much
time and an expenditure of too large an amount
OF money tor the reward. The Australian people
have all along shown disposition to make
money out of Hanlan's visit They have re-
served all the railroad. steamboat and gate
money privileges for themselves. and offer Han
ian nothing but the stakes. Thus. If Hanlan
loses the stakes. he loses everything. If the
Australians lose the stakes they have still the
privilege money" which in this case Will
amount to 100000 or $4,000 to reimburse them
THE DELMONICO RESTAURANTS
miss the absence of their dead chief. The hor-
rlole death OF poor Delm0nieo has been talked
about all the week in New York There seems
to be nobody left in the family who possesses
the actual genius Of either Charles. Siro. or Lo-
renZo DemoncO. / have already heard of sew
eral plumbers which the Goth street restaurant
people have made. The scrupulOus accuracy
which Charles DelmOnicO exercised in all his
lie mt ie,
capital Judge OF the amount of food any given
number OF people would need at an entertain
ment If luncheon, supper or dinner party
vas TO be given at a private residence it was
only necessary TO send the number Of guests
to DelmOnicO, and everything would be served
IN excellent taste. There never was too
much food nor too little. This is of some i'm
porfance where the dinner costs 80 OF SI2 a
plate. But the Delmonicos could ALWAYS be
trusted to send exactly enough food Since his
insanity took such violent turn and he ceased
10 supervise his affairs, several awkward mis-
takes have come TO my notice. A lady i'm Matli-
son avenue, who gave theater party recently
ordered the supper sent to her house at eleven
CLOCK. The party, which numbered twenty
SIN. went home to eat it, and was obliged to
lounge about awkwardly for half an hour be-
fore 1T was served. Then several OF the dishes
ran short. and there were only enough ices to
go half way around the table.
MR.. COURTLAND PALMER
of the Ninteenth Century club is becoming
more and more of a literary light every day.
He has been made through the agency of this
clu6 and the indefatigably manner with which
he makes profound and philOsOphic speeches on
every possible occasion. He is sma II man
with auburn whiskers and red hair. His wife.
who is a little woman. is an admirable hostess
They have done more toward organizing q
literary clique than anyone else in New York.
The result is they are in demand every
where. Sorosis. which is composed of the
brainy women of the metropolis and gov
ern"d by Mrs Jennie June Croly, took occasion
last week TO invite Mr.. Palmer at it's annual
dinner at DelmOnicO's. Mr.. Palmer expressed
his gratitude by delivering a speech of appalling
length and depth. Once a year Sorosis has its
blowout. and each member invites a man. If
ever In the 0rd there was more craven. dis
heartened and culpabe looking set of men than
those who attend this dinner should like TO
see them Every man suffers from the sensa-
lion OF experiencing an awful novelty. There
Is something so grOteS1ue and unreal about
taking woman into DellnOnicOs to dinner and
coming out again without paying cent that
the ordinary man is Overawed. Then. too. the
women of the SOrOsis have improved SO in the
art ot public speaking that the men, suffering
from the embarrassment of being benefciares
and the consciousness that they are the de-
s?lsed sex Tor the time being, make a poor
showing.
EXIT ABBEY A LOSER.
Mr. Abbey goes out Of New York q heavy
loser There can be no doubt whatever about
this, though the exact amount Of his losses can
not be estimated. He refuses to state whether
he VIII 90 on with the opera next year or not.
but several of his business associates have said
That hereafter he will give IT wide berth. The
enormous salaries which Abbey has been obliged
to pay his singers, have made heavy inrOatis on
his pockets. or rather on the pockets of the
However Abbey has succeeded
IN giving us the best Italian opera that has ever
been presented in New York. Probably we
shall not for many years have more perfect
performances. The American has spent
a great deal OF money, but he has succeeded in
routing the Englishman. Col. Maplesons season
has been more disastrous than Abbey's He has
not lost as much money as the American man
aver, but that was only because he had not the
money 10 lose. 1t seems to be accepted as a
settled fact now that the talk about PATHS sal
arg being 5000 a night is untrue. The truth
am told on reliable authority, is that Madam
Patti and Madam Gerster take VIII at they can
get. and 1T Is on very rare occasions they can
get ANYTHING like the sums which they are said
To receive. Patti declares that she will never
stay with Mapleson another year. and. on the
other land, she Is afraid to give him up and 90
back to Europe branded by failure. The effect
vi the whole operate war has been exhausting
| There has been too much opera. and the reac-
ton has set in. 1t would not be surprising if
next year we had no opera ut all.
ENGLISH CELEBRITIES.
This year will long be notable on account of
the extraordinary number of English celebrities
who have visited US. The Earl of Cork headed
4 long list OF nohlemen who hava snont tho