Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-13
nuLu HuRsT N NEw YonK.
Opinions Divided as to Her Powers
Gossip in the Metropolis.

their opinions as TO her capabilities, Out
even those who think that there is some
trick in her performances do not really
know what to make OF them. The skep-
tics-those who deny that she possesses
any occult powers-talk about her large
muscular development. but even they
cannot account for the apparent ease
with which the female light weight made
heavy athletes of the Union Club waltz
around the stage Of Wallack's theatre
last evening. Nearly all who have seen
her. experiment on each other with canes,
umbrellas and billiard cues, in order to
discover the secret Of her mysterious
powers; but while at times the one who
plays the part Of Miss Hurst is able, for
brief space, apparently to almost
rival her performances, the resem-
blance does not last, and the
conclusion the baffled eXperimenters
arrive at, although they may not confess
it, is that her extraordinary gift is one Of
those things no fellow can find out.
1t is only the people who may nave
seen her. but have experienced
her powers, who profess TO deride
Them. Those who have been whlrled about
at the option of Miss Hurst, despite their
utmost resistance, think, If they do not
/ acknowledge it, as Mr.. Grant, OF the
( Union Club, did last evening, that her
/ performances. if she merely uses her mus
+ Gle. are more wonderful than if she pos
sessed some secret force. Police Captain
( Williams has been converted to the secret
/ force theory without experiencing Miss
( Hurst's powers. He was earnestly de-
+ sired to try bout with her, but he wisely
+ concluded that captain OF police would
/ lose in dignity If pTOmiscuous audience
rrVl 10 hnG
/ felt her arms, however, and says that she
1 has no muscle with which to perform her
I feats of apparent strength. DR.. Forest,
/ who openly denounced Miss Hurst as
+ transparent fraud on Tuesday night, is
I a physician Of no reputation, whose opin-
/ ion has no professional weight.
( That Miss Hurst's performances are
+ considered very extraordinary is shown
by the space they occupy IN the columns
of the different newspapers. The San
/ this morning, in spite of its page report Of
I the Chicago Convention, deYotes nearly
4 column and a halt to description OF
I Miss Hurst and her seance at Wallacks
last night. In short, the general opinion
regarding Miss Hurst may be summed up
in the expression that there are more
things in heaven and earth than are
dreamed of in the philosophy of most
people.
THE COMMUNITY WAS STARTLED
Yesterday by canard. originating no one
knows where, that the eX-Confederate
soldiers from Richmond who are visiting
a G. A. r. post at Newark had been, with
their hosts, the victims of boiler explO-
sion while sailing around the bay on the
steamer Chancellor. Many hours elapsed
before it was learned that the soldiers
who were formerly enemies were dining
unframed in peace and good fellowship
on COney Island.
| q Speaking of eating, jokes about the i'm
pecunious young man whose best girls
| heart is only approached through her
stomach are now in order here. Last
week a number of persons were poisoned
by the ice cream of which they partook
! at a Brooklyn church picnic, and more
recently New York soda beverages are
! proved to be made of impure water I'LL
4 tered through verdigris which is deposited
in the metal faucets by the acids of the
| syrupsl 81 love you, loyet, 90 well to poison
/ youp' the /. y. m. can now say When MS
/ b. g. looks longingly at an i. C. and S. w.
saloon sign.
0 Art, how many crimes are committed
I in thy namel 1t would make lover of
the beautiful gasp and stare to enter al
most any sales room in New York where
pictures are disposed of by auction, but
| the extraordinary paintings ~ which
are on sale in a store at the junction OF
Fourth avenue and the Bowery are so bad
as to be worth buying as joke. Ones
sense of humor could be gratifed at small
expense. Ridiculously bad as the pic
lures are, the wonder is that they can be
sold so cheaply. Large landscapes,
whose frames are apparently worth $40
or So, can be purchased, frame and
all, for one-ffth of the first named
sum. Notwithstanding the sign-board
character of the so-called paintings these
prices are mysteriously small. While one
would rather be shot than have the best
! of them in his house, it is none the less
! conundrum how it can pay to sell so
much for so little. The best, or rather
| the least worst. however,, is a work OF art
compared with its fellows. 1t represents
a river with cottage on its further bank,
| and trees and mountains in the distance.
Were it not for the card announcing,
''Real oil painting, gilt frame, 81 %" an
uncritical person might think the land
scape of some merit.
NV attention was called the other day
| to the discrepancy between the number
| of missing people who are ultimately ac-
counted for, and the number of dead
bodies found in the rivers. About 1000
| persons are annually reported as missing
| to the police. At least five-siXths of this
number turn up more or less safe and
| sound, their absence having been due to
/ their spreeing proclivities, or to iDciden-
tai causes. Continually men and women,
too. mourned as dead, are found serving
/ sentence for drunkenness on BlackwelPs
| Island. Half of the remaining sixth, how
! ever, are found in the river, the victims of
/ accidental drowning, suicide, and, in
some cases, of murder. Bus here is where
! the discrepancy comes In. The dead
/ bodies found in the rivers which remain
| unclaimed are far more numerous than
/ the missing people who are unaccounted
/ for. Deducting the persons accounted
4 for from the rivers dead, and there re-
mains as many as fifty drownedpersons
1 who are not inquired about alive or dead.
| Whence comes this surplus? Think of
1 fifty persons dropping out of life in
/ single Year, and no inquiry made as to
/ t1eir fatel They are not tramps or per-
I sons necessarily friendless who when
/ found drowned are thus ignored. On
recent Friday the skeleton of a woman
was found in the North river at the foot
I of Seventy-ninth street which was clothed
/ in a gown of expensive black silk. Al
I though all the flesh had fallen
from the bones. SO that the body
was unacceptable, yet the silk dress
was apparently well preserved enough to
! be identified. Nevertheless the body has
not been claimed, and it has been buried
! in the Potter's field. Whose was the
skeleton in the silk gown: And who are
half a hundred persons whose bodies are
annually found in the rivers! How came
they there? Were they victims to acct
/ dent, suicide or murderg Whichever they
were, how is it that they are so utterly
! friendless as to be forgotten whether alive
or dead? Do fifty persons die every year
without anyone's knowing or caring how
or when, in every city of a million inhabi-
/ tants in the world?
THE CITY IS WAITING FOR THE VERDICT
at Chicago. Down town great crowds are
gathered about the bulletin boards Of the
newspapers. and throughout the city
there are little knots Of people in front of
the telegraph offices, which, with COM
/ mendable enterprise, display dispatches
| in their windows as soon as they arrive.
4 The interest in the work of the convention
/ is shared by Republicans and Democrats
/ alike. The first named hope for mis-
/ take which will ensure Blaine's election,
/ while the latter are sanguine that, taught
| wisdom by defeat, the Democrats in con-
/ vention will thistle commit No erf0r.
/ 1t is agreed here that if Cleveland is
nominated he will owe his success to John
/ Kelly. The convention, or rather Kelly,
/ is like the woman who said that she had
| great deal of influence over her husband
/ whenever she tried to make him do any