The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-01-24
Things in Quaker City,


PHILADELPHIA JuH ~ ''"'
There is nothing specially interesting
just now going ON in this city, except
that the usual mid-winter amusements
are avenues Of thought to Il certain class
who study the play-board with scrupu-
lous devotion. Irving was here two weeks
and gave us some fine pictures of stage
acting with his well drilled company,
This is the great English actors forte, to
make his pieces like II mosaic, that us
each actor comes before your eye there
will be perfect fitting in every part, no
matter how trivial the role. His main
artistic, Miss Terry is q wonderful piece
of vivacity and beautiful demeanor on
the stage, and is so elevating in her style
as to peer away above all the other actors
and actresses. Her "Portia" is so nearly
perfect that one inagines that he really
| Is looking at the original of the Bard of
Avon's imagination. Laurence Barrett
has many friends among the theatre go
ers here and during his engagement large
! houses greeted him ON all occasions. His
Hamlet" is supposed to be perfect, al
though his manerisms are cold, yet you
cannot but feel the soul of the great
tragcdian in all his plays,
That rank socialism has attained foot
hold in large cities is evident in many
ways, and is slumbering only be
cause there is nothing definite in the
plans of leaders to set the rank and file
moving. II is seen in the restlessness Of
the wOrkingman, in the innucndo of the
unsuccessful and the dissatisfied, and the
steady incubation of ideas by rowing So
cialists. Philadelphia has every appear
ance of n CITY of ease and comfort among
its inhabitants, but were the reverse
sounded for those imbued with this ter
rible doctrine to march out TO decide
their fate in this life, thousands would be
found fighting under the banner who ut
present are passed by as desirable citizens,
Rents are falling, and houses are being
shut up i'm some quarters and before long
if business does not improve the same
state of affairs that existed after the panic
of '73 had done its work will he repeated
The landlords were not very slow in
raising the rents when business took IL
boom II year or two ago, and they are
lust as slow the other way in keeping.
the old figures up now that business Is
depressed but they will find that the
people will double up again and houses
ITO let" will be seen on every hand. 81
some grasping owners have decided to-
come down peg or two, and it is hoped
before long that the rest will follow.
The tower of the New Public Buildings
gave the builders some uneasiness on
account of settling, and may stop the
completion of that great shaft for time
The trouble with the tax payers is not
so much the settling of the masonary Us
il is the settling of the bills for the rear
ing of the same.
The cablc-cars are now running, but
not for passenger traffic, the employee
not being vet skilled enough to be pro.
iicent in using the grip. A block 81
thirtv-six cars was made the other day
lust because one of the new mOtcr cars
lost its hold on the cable that propels
them, and it takes Il great amount of tiN'
inc to get them set right. Thus you SEE
a great loss Of time and money is the
result so far of this new invention III
street car railrOuding. The noise of the
cable passing over the pullcys in the bed
of the track can be heard half a SQUARE
away, and by some of the residents on
the line is considered Il nuisance.
Wheat is low, but bread doesn't CONT
: down. although much is going down
: the peoples Threats.
lee has not been PLENTIFUL this year 10
vet, although it has formed in quantities
lust before Il thaw sets in. 1t looks as j
the ice dealer would be left out in thu
t cold
There has been no slcighing except
. few DAYS Just about Christmas. The unl!
Staying the people indulge in here is
G few murders now and then. That is tn,
f kind of Staying Sampson delighted in
SPHYNN.