Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-16
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria GAZETTE

| Correspondence OF the Alexandria GAZErTE)
New YORK, July 18th, 1SS4.-The weather
here during the past week has been decid-
edy pleasant even when the thermometer
approached 90o, the heat was tempered by a
cool breeze, and yesterday, stiff north
wester made it actually cool. Central Park
is at its loveliest, and, last Sunday the sec.
ond of the newly established concerts, CIV
ing by the 7th Regiment Band, was attended
by mighty throng. So quiet and orderly
was the scene, however, that it would have
done no discredit to church. The music
begins at p. m. and lasts an hour or so.
Coney Island, too, is thronged. The
rougher entertainment of Brighton attracts
the boys, and the lower order of people ; but
the more refined amusements of Manhattan
Beach draw crowds Of the cultured and re-
fined. The music is by Gilmore's celebrat.
ed band, and The Bombardment Of Pekin,"
marvel Of spectacular performance and
magnificent fireworks, delights spectators
by thousands three nights in the week. In
| the city, most of the theatres are as yet,
closed, but the eden Musee," a new attrac-
ton, is drawing crowds. 1t is splendid
building on 23d and Oath streets, between
| 9th and 9th Avenues, and has the most life
like group of wax figures have ever seen.
| AS they stand about in corners, it is diff
cult to distinguish them from visitors All
the notabiities of the world are there, be-
sides many other presentations, amusing,
instructive and horrible. What struck me
most was the interior of gold mine, with
men at work, said by those who are familiar
with the subject to be a most exact repro
duction. Among other attractions, there
is door made of fine looking glass,
so placed that almost everybody COM
ing in a certain direction tries to walk
through it to a room he thinks he sees and
is greeted with shouts of laughter by the
bystanders on the watch for greenhorns,
when the cold glass strikes his nose and be
meets himself coming out.
| Business appears to me dull there are
certainly fewer people on the streets than l
have seen on other visits in July, and you
can cross Broadway anywhere without risk
to your neck. Politics, too, seem flat.
can detect no enthusiasm Oh either side. A
| few banners span the streets, but neither
party seems entirely satisfied. A republi-
can with whom talked says Cleveland is his
man and thousands of republicans will sup
port him but, on the other hand, have
heard several democrats say they would
vote for Blaine. With respect to Tamma
| ny's action all seems to be at sea. had
conversation yesterday with one of its prom.
inent men, and he expressed the opinion
that all would be made right by some sort
of compromise in relation to State and city
Offices this fall. The Butterflies are the most
warlike. They are ready to affiliate with
anybody who will hurrah for "the Beast"
and prophesy terrible things to the democ-
racy for the way he was treated in Chicago.
They claim that he could have swept the
North but, to show you how unreliable are
such claims, may add that the men who
told me so showed me q published inter-
view with himself, in which he assured
Northern readers that he would sweep the
South also, and that Virginia was certain
for him. l told him that Butler couldn't
get thousand white votes in our State,
whereupon he became very indignant, and
said we ought to stop all talk about the
waving of the bloody shirt, if that was the
way we were going to act.
On the whole, though, of course, my OPP
portunties for observation are very limited,
/ think the question of carrying New York
a debateable one, depending upon whether
we can get more republican than we lose
democratic votes. Cleveand's vetoes have
certainly made him unpopular with large
numbers in this city. FIDELIs.