Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-06-26
NEW YORK'S CASINO.
A UNIQUE ARCHITECTURAL &c
CENTRICI1,Y.
This 10 . Great Resort for Pleasure Sock
ers.---Gsnaral Grants
Residence.

Special Correspondence of the Sentinel
NEW YORK, June 20.--A sign of
summer now generally accepted in
this metropolis as infallible is the
opening of the summer garden on the
roof Of the Casino. We no longer
have to depend on the announcements
of watering place proprietors to know
positively when summer has come.
At the first indication of the season
the Casino roof is thrown open and
crowds on it nightly and an extra
crnsh on Sunday caccept the grareful
omen.
The Casino is unique place of a
musement in almost every respect. 1t
gives an entertainment unlike that of
any musical resort in the city, as novel
as are Daly's entertainments among
| the theatrical attractions. The house
is unlike anything in this country de-
voted merely to pleasure, or probably
in any other land, though it claims to
be based on Moorish architectural
models.
1t reverses the ordinary rule of the
atrical architecture, inasmuch as it
puts the auditorium up two flights of
steps reached by an elevator. 1t gives
two stages to single auditorium, and
puts the pleasure seekers out of doors
on the roof, for his greatest enjoyment.
1t has a novelty, too, in a manager,
conductor and protector, all combined
in tho one person Of young Randolph
Aarnson.
General Grant still occupies the
fourstory brown stone house here with
its bay-window front, which is the first
east of Fifth Avenue, on the north
side of Goth ST. A broad staircase
leads to the costly stained glass doors.
If you ring colored footman in liv-
cry conducts you to the small recep-
tion room on the right of the exquisi-
lively frescoed corridor. This room
is a gem in itself. A heavy velvet
carpet is on the floor; the walls are
hung with fine paintings, and at the
window is large bronze vase filled
: with growing flowers. Further along
the corridor and turning to the left
you pass through an archway from
which rich velvet hangings depend in
to the spacious drawing room. There
the acme of luxury and good taste
seems to have been reached in the
bright tinted carpets and satin furni-
ture of odd design. There also are
displayed the valuable presents rccei-
we'd by the general from the sovereigns
of foreign lands during his tour
around the world. The library, din.
ing room and tho rooms upstairs
, though fitted up in less magnificent
style, display the same evidence q
, wealth and refinement. General
; Grant is lover of good horse flesh
but at present does not own any fast
trotters.
q 1t was expected that the stockolderl
of the Metropolitan, who had gooC
a music at Abbey's expense, woulp b.
first to come forward and pay larg'
q sums for the use of their own boxes a
/ his benefit. The ticket for each bo,
was sent to the box owner with th'
request that he should pay whateve
he thought proper. Vanderbilt, a
has been recorded, sent $4,000at one
t although he did not attend the oper
> half dozen times and does not kno,
{. one tune from another. After Van
3 derbilt's check, curiosity among tn
d Abbey people was intense as to wha
the Astors and Goulds would send
Both families had boxes, both. wer
rich and both we're constant attend
ants at the opera. When they eper
y cd the Astor note it contained S.
# check, which was passed around as
e curiosity. Mr.. Gould sent back hi
v ticket, with a note saying that h
% could not attend the benefits.
e ls TAR HEEL.