New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-15
PHILADELPHIA.

POLICEMEN AND SIGNS--SOCIAL NOTES.
;FRoJ AN oCC AsoNAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRiBUNEI
PHILADELPHIA, June LITTLE Chestnut-st.
policemen Reserves rs they call them. are III thelr
new uniforms. maryellousy handsome body OF men,
suppose It is possible to have policemen Ofhanen rs
well as useful; at any rate Mayor Smith proposes 10 Try
the experiment. The uniforms Gazzc with brass hutohs
and In place Of the caps there are helmets Inc ugly
club has gone and each officer swings In his wtc-gioVeo
hand polished walnut cane The cane Is not 700 licA
to DO heavy nor too light to be useless III rupuS
though it is dilcut to imagine these ninety array eu III
dividuas having any unpleasant duty to perform Ihey
are hear rather pleased than otherwise with all this
gorgcousness or rather they will be when the newsDoy
and the bootback from the safe distance of the other
side OF the street of addressing them with inper-
nent remarks The letteTcarrieIs are also topped Win
helmets but they declared TO be heavier ana hotter
than those worn by the policemen. and the carriers are
not wholly happy.
BY the time Mayor Smiths new broom gets DID, chest-
nut-st Will not look much as if 1t had just come iorth
from lemon-squeezer. Actually, OF course he Is not
widening the street but he is making appear wider
The protruding signs are all down from the south side
and public opinion will demand their removal from TIE
north side If there is existing act OF COhhcH uh'r
wi ich the removal &c compelled one VIII ne irie"
70 meet tho case The south Is the most crowded slde
and therefore the first begun against the signs
there It's likely that very the protrdins sign
will he illegal in any part Of the city 1t is declared that
back OF tho sign Is the intention to arouse the
people against overhead wires of all kinds. The people
already insist that the wires must 10 underground
# il thoroughly Philadelphia that Il conservative ele
mont here shoud be alarmed lest b. keeping : the
Academy Of Music open during good part OF the season.
the noble building should be degraded. They would
rather have It stand dlgncd darkness than that any,
thing should he permitted upon its stage not strictly high
art And yet there admitted ut least some ell
tertainments which best culture would hardly APP
prove The gentlemen now in power however, are not
OF the character to do anything that would degrade
the Aeademy. 7. b. Pugh would undoubtedly nave Deen
the manager had he lived. and that fact is sufficient ey
dence of what the of the directors will be- for Mr.
Pngh was gentleman whose system Of management had
the sympathy OF the respectable classes including
even church members. Having wanted Mr. Pugh, n man
ike MIN will assuredy be chosen. think that Mr. Pngh
would have been bit careful 1t Is not necessary to
be so very strict with tho Academy 1t is an Opera
House like any other and should not Dc coSedgainst
any respectable amusement when there is not high art
enough to ill all the dates
With cruel consistency Just as the folks with money
are getting the hot city rapidly as they can the
authorities are placing the with all possible weight
upon the Sunday gardens This done every year
about this time Permission las not yet been given for
Sunday music In the Park and again this summer what
ever amusement the have the first day of the
week they will take in defiance OF the law
having been the least profitable Tor years rms Is III
part explained by very great increase In the number
of fisheries.
The annual reception by the ladies of the Pennsylvania
horticultural society. assisedby the ladies OF the Fruit
and Flower Mission as 1t always II, asihOaOle
incident The display of fruit and flowers was large and
included number OF novel specimens.
Mrs Margaret shannon Of Nopisown; has grown
geranum with leaves entirely white HorticaIullStS
others are green usual ana others green ana WHITE
The Gemantolg Tlega says the iady mas D e GS
ported from that Mr. 1Grge 9 OF iht
arc two perfect flowers produced from one Dud
Wholesale merchants on Delaware-ave. and elsewhere
I'm the vicinity OF the Delaware waterfront have
ized dining club and restaurant There is stock conf
pany OF hundred and nifty FIRMS andOny members VIII
be admitted to the privileges of the association
1.-THE aftv-afth annual exhibition of the Academy of
Fine Arts opens 80 and continues to December
The annual Fourth Of July dinner to the rewboys by
George W. Chds will be given ut Belmont III Paramount
Park.
sThe principal social incident OF the week the mar
rlage of William Henry Gibbons, of Coatesyllle Penn
yce-president of tho Parkesburg Iron Company 10 Hiss
Hattie . Fuller daughter OF j. G. Fuller president or
the south Mountain Mining and Iron Company and Kali
road and also president OF the new Harrisburg ana
Protestant Episcopal Church there was reception at the
Continental ary whole of the second floor being
Gus that they completely filed large ROOM and were
very valuable A number OF Lthem were from. New
YORK Inc pIIuo athO 10 Ao9OS"'NN AH S'''''N'' "''
Jay Cooke.
For some years the Grand Division OF the Sons OF Tenn
pcrance has maintained .lce-water fountain In ln-
dependence Square The fountain MAS opened TINS week
for the summer IL is In operation about hundred days
each year Last in that time II used eighty eight
and two thirds tons OF ice at cost OF SOTO 80 Inc
money nearly all comes by voluntary subscriptions ~
On wednesday the line of the Pennsylvania Rail
road 10 Che smut Hill Germantown was opened On
this route Is the new and stylish Wssahiokon Inn The
Heading has also limo TO Germantown aud street
there The branch of tho Railroad
opens up an entirely new country
II IA reported that General Sheridan and stan will be
present for three days at the enoampmen or the Penn
sylvauia National Guard, which begins at Gettysburg
August 2.
The Pennsylvania Editorial Association starts Its
annual excursion on Monday, going TO Gettysburg
Tuesday and Wednesday Of this week the Pennsy
Railroad gives anieditOrla excursion To the Aegh
In Ttatons have been sent to Baltimore and Washington