The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-12-24

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SLOUGH. Her genius, hand Ia hand Sltn olo
age, was becoming decrepid, but her rusl
ness instinct was alert to a degree, and wSeC
| jarrett d Palmer suggested to her fsrewe.
| performance in Booths Theatre-now gOue,
| by the wey, long after this old clock was new
demolished, torn down, and replaced by other
buildings prior TO the following of the clock
itself-she jumped to il with the alscrity of
fouryear-Old colt in the presence of gen.
tie hurdle. The distinguished lawyers,
Judges and Journalists in New York city,
side by side with the ArcadiGn Club. assem-
bled upon the stage at the close OF the per-
Torrance to tender the good old lady and
the magnificent actress q few words of COM
pliment and adulation, - ~ che might
gracefully subside into the resirscy Of pri-
vate life. There -hs ~ufe, bald headed aud
gray-besIded s., iUil evening dress, illu-
mined by the fierce glare of the footlights.
As the curtain rose, the old lady faced the
spokesman-JudgeB Brady, il rememb Der cor
rectly- and took it all in as sponge does
the moisture, but when he concluded,
instead of announcing as had been pre-
arranged, her retIracy from public life, She
simply thanked the magnificent audience, in
dividusl heads OF which had paid as high as
$25 for seat to witness her exit, saying that
she Was so much cheered and gratifed by
this unexpected popular demonstration
that, instead OF retiring she would come
again before the public, as q reader, during
subsequent season. That broke the boys
all up. However, Joe Tooker had hired
about 200 fellows in the street to carry
torches, the horses were taken away from
CGshman's coach, and, escorted by two or
three members OF the Arcadisn Club in the
carriage, and these hired torch bearers, at
tended by thousands of curiosity hunters,
she was conveyed slowly aud with great en-
pressment to the private entrance, on Twen-
tythird street. OF the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
| CHANGED to be by her side, and went with
her up stairs through the drswing.rooms and
out upon the marble balcony in front OF the
hotel. A great calcium light was turned
full upon her. and, while the 9TH regiment
band harmoniously serenaded her, she stood
like a statue; then. recognizing the gracious
compliment which swelled from the thrOsts
Of individuals until il attained the proper
tons of q vast harmonious choral, she bowed
with characteristic dignity and waved her
handkerchief, amid the wild tumult of en-
thusisstic demonstration. A brief sketch of
the reviews, military and civic, OF the pro-
cessions OF various sorts and kinds that have
passed up and down that square would make
volume of vast interest and general enter
tainment. Not alone the fierce tumult of
the election of 1860 nor the great popular
excitement of war declared, nor the tremen-
dous tribulatiOns OF the riots of 1868 nor the
wild wall attended the assassination of Lin
coin, nor the great social upheaval of 1868,
nor the multitudinOus maledictions attend
ing the authors of black Friday nor the sub.
sequent scenes of excitement and interest of
the last campaign. would be texts for long
discourse, but continuity of social, personal,
financial, national, universal starts, pro-
crosses, growths, efflerescences, failures.
might also be appropriately bound in one
common volume, the interest of which
would be quite paralleled by lite instructive
ness and its entertainment.
The old landmarks of New York are really
fast passing away. The buildings We knew
but five or ten years ago, dating back to the
Dutch times, to the early settler times, to the
days when the Astors peddled in the streets,
and the Vsnderbilts sold liquor over the coUn-
tiers, and the rich real estate owners OF to-
day were babies in homes, the heads of
which brought vegetables and milk TO town;
when Chamber street was away up town.
and the Park Theatre in Theatre alley was
the centre al fashion; when the bright and
pleasant promenade of the city was the Bat
terry. and when the ample fields beyond
Chatham street were known as the Bowery-
those buildings are gone. and doubt very
much If any ambitious photographer had
sense enough to keep a counterfeit pre-
sentiment OF any one OF them, which is the
order of the day, for nothing is as it was.
gave way to the jiggerty joggle of the street
cars, as they in turn are gradually dying
away, drowned out by the tremendous clat-
ter of the Elevated road.
CENTRAL PARK,
twenty years ago a bog, morass q wood,
today is the regular resort of the hundred
thousand people, and at times thrice that
number have assembled in and about Its
drives, its lawns, its malls, not by reason of
any extraneous attraction, but because the
weather was suberb the heat excessive, and
desire to get a glimpse at least of rub in
urb, prompted man, woman or child to seek
its leat-shaded plscidities. With the excep-
ton OF the thirty odd miles OF park drive
way in Chicago, / know of nothing
OH this continent that approx
mates to the interest and health giving
Inspiration of our Central Park. The value
in statuary alone must be very great, and
some of the br0Bzes are peculiarly good
work. AS is always the case with these pub
lie selections, there are some grotesqueries,
some ab0rtions, some idi0sic nominations;
but majority of The figures. which are in.
terestiDg historically, are we'll worth seeing.
That landmark can not be SAID to be passing
away or changing for the worse on the cou-
trary, It's vast pecunisry value increases year
by year. AS an investment, it is worth q
hundred times-yes thousand times-whst
it cost originally, and now that it is liter
ally incl0sed By streets and avenues, heavily
fringed with superb edilices in brick and
marble and granite, its money valuation
would be difficult to accurately state. In
every way the park OF o.day is great i'm.
provemept on our park OF twenty years ago,
surface road, rough, Uneven and OF no at
traction whatever, save to the eye OF the
landscape gardener, who saw in it great pos
- -. r.