Savannah morning news., 1885-11-29

feeling seems to be that the club acted
leniently in not eXpelling the offending
mem beT.
THE FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL BOYCOTT.
The Filth Avenue Hotel still continues
TO do business, Notwithstanding the boy
cottng edict Of the Central Labor Union.
still there are indications that the
mighty workings Of the irrepresslble sons
OF toll are felt. Mr.. Hitchcock, the pro-
prietor, refuses TO be interviewed on the
subject, and goes so far as 70 say that he
knows nothing OF any attempt al boycott
ting. The cause OF All this trouble is four
superannuated old men who occasionally
do some odd Jobs of painting about the
hotel. One is One-armed soldier
over 60 years Of age, another
has but one eve. They are
kept employed more out Of charity than
for any other reason. When any extern
sye painting is required it is given to a
firm whose men are members Ofthe union.
The fOCr men employed are not members
Of any union, and Mr.. Hitchcock was no.
titled that II he did not discharge the m
his house would be boycOtted. 1t is said
that pickets from the j abOr union are on
duty all the time, spotting guests and
working to keep all from patronizing the
hotel. but this is strcnuOusly denied by
the hotel employees. Some amusing Incl
dents have occurred, owing to the wide
spread notice that the hotel has been put
under a ban. An Englishman, who had
arrived at the hotel on Tuesday night,
rushed to the Office yesterday morning
and demanded his bill. He paid it prompt
ly, and ordered his baggage to be got
ready for removal at once. I'VE had
hoped TO have the pleasure of your COM
pany longer" said the afable clerk. $50
! 'oped. my dear boy" was the reply,
But look 'ere" said the stranger, show
ing a morning paper. 81 see your 'otel is
being b0ycOtted. / know what that is,
you know. | had taste Of hit while l
was in Ireland, and don't want any more
of hit"
ASKING HEAVEN FOR TIPS.
stock speculation under divine guild
ance is adevelopment Of the present boom
in Wall street. 1t is the vagary Of Leon
ard Nathan BascOmb, formerly a licensed
preacher in the Free Mrth0dist church,
later a faith healer in Brooklyn, and at
present a small clerk in the Western
Union telegraph office. He has long been
an ardent advocate OF the doctrine of mi
riculous answers TO prayer, and for a time
he figured daily in the Fulton street noon
prayer meeting where the exercises con-
slst principally in reading and granting
requests from persons in all parts Of the
country for special prayers. The rule
there is, however, to disregard purely
business cases and to pray only for spir-
itual blessings, and those temporal ones
that relate TO health and morals. Bas-
comb was accustomed 10 so word his pc
titions that. while seeming to come with
in the regulation, they really concerned
his prosperity as dabbler in stock ODer-
ations. This led eventually to his pracd-
cal exclusion from the services. Lately
he took up the plan OF praying on his own
account for heavenly direction in buying
puts and calls from Russell Sage, and
within three months be has succeeded
very well indeed. He thinks he gets
points from heaven in the form Of impress
sions.
COST OF OPERA HOUSE BOXES.
It is not probable that the guests Of box
holders at the Metropolitan opera house
ever think what it costs their friends !or
each invitation extended to them for a
night at the opera. For one who is not a
stockhold-r in the Metropolitan opera
house it costs for box on the parterre
tier about 81, 800 for the season. of saw
fifty-two performances. AS each box
contains no more than six chairs. and the
average cost Of a box on an opera night is
about $50. it is readily to be seen that the
moneyed value OF eacn seat in box is in
the neighbOrhOCd OF 50, so that wh a
lady or a gentleman are asked by their
friends for the opera 50 apiece is being
paid for the pleasure of their company.
An invitation to the opera should be re-
gafded as quite as great a COM
pliment to the person to whom it
is extended, as would be either an invita-
tion to one OF the assemblies or Patriarch's
balls. But very few look upon 1t in that
light they seem 10 think that an invita-
tion to the opera is only a part OF the
small change OF society. NJ.