Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-29
no CHARITY FOR WOMEN.
NEW YORK HOTELS VERY sUS.
FICIOUs OF THE SEX.

! EeInaies travelling Alone without
Means 81 Identification APT TO FIad il
Hard to Obtain Respectable Lodgings
The Revival as wRHlack s--yeils FOR
Dogs.
NEW YORK, Marcb a5.-Leigh Hunt
tells story of Shelly hnding a woman
unconscious on bleak hillside ia Hamp-
stead one winter night, and trying n vain
/ to Obtain shelter tor her in one o. the
neighboying cottages. Although the
woman was nearly dead from exposure,
nObody would taEe her in, and Shelly was
obliged to convey her to Hunts house, a
comparatively long distaree. involving a
dangerous delay. The reason nearer
shelter was refused was because the cot
tagers considered a homeless and friend
less woman TO be necessarily disreputa-
BILE, and did not wish to incur the risk of
moral contamination by admitting her 20
their dwellings.
One is reminded of this episode by the
difficulty which, not homeless and friend
less, but well-tO-dO women who do not,
however, happen TO have male protec-
tor, experience in finding transi ent shell
ter in New York. A woman was
refused admittanee into Dorlon's up
town oyster house the other night because
her companion was also a woman and
| not man. The CAB which brought them
was not considered sufficient evidence OF
| respectability, and they were turned
away Oysterless. Now, a woman who ar
rives in New York late at night without
male escort, will not only not be able to
get oysters, but will hardly find shelter at
a respectable hotel. The frst-class hotels
here have rule unalterable as the laws
OF the Modes and Persians, and
! which is no respectOr of persons, which
forbids them to open their doors to women
! who are not accompanied by men.
Respectable women, doubtless. often
flatter themselves that they bear the
! patent of responsibility on their faces.
| Appearances are deceittul IN the opinion
of New York hOtei-keepers, and women
/ who are as chaste as ice and pure as
| snow have not escaped the common doom
| of bein turned away first from one hotel
and then from another. They have finally
ght shelter at boarding houses, asking
| for admittance not as a right but on a
score of charity. Those who are not so
| fortunate in obtaining such shelter often,
| doubtless, 90 to those hotels which will
admit them, and are consequently more
or less exposed, if not to insult, at any
| rate, to miscOnstructiOn while there. The
| moral to be derived from all this is OBJ
! ViOus. A woman should not come to New
! York alone without first making arrange
ments a stopping place and bringing
with her some proofs of her identity.
BETTER take a little preliminary, and per-
haps unnecessary, trouble than run the
risk of the worse than inconvenience to
Which she may otherwise be subjected.
THE VERY HOTELS, BY THE WAY,
which are so rigorous about not admitting
| respectable women who are travelling
alone, constantly admit women Of another
sort, when their character is not too OBJ
| ViOus. who have male escorts. When the
| applicants for admission are not person
ally known, one would suppose that a re-
! spectacle woman, even if alone, would
| fare as well as a disreputable woman
with an escort, but the hotel men think
! differently.
Speaking of the fair sex, the naive sur
| prise expressed by the correspondents of
! Northern newspapers IN New Orleans at
the courtesy with which women are treat
| ed in the horse cars there, is not a little
! refreshing. Apparently, no woman is
! ever allowed to stand, and in crowded
car men surrender their seats to women
| as a matter Of course. In place of so dong
| being the exception, it is the rule. and it
seems to make no difference whether the
woman is old or young, white or col
| Ored. Here the exception is the
other way. 1t is comparatively
seldom that a man stands in a horse car
. that a woman may sit, and the man that
does so gets small thanks for his cOur-
tesy. The average New York EIady''
will take a mans seat and never dream
of acknowledging the favor. 1t IS this
lack OF common courtesy on the part of
the women, indeed, which has brought
about the present state of things. A
man tired with his days toll is naturally
disinclined TO fatigue himself by standing
for the benefit Of a creature who, like the
| lilies, tolls not, and who will not have
even the grace to thank him. If New
York women were more thankful for horse
car fayOrs the men would be more apt to
grant them. AS it is horse car manners
IN New York viii probably continue the
reverse of those in New Orleans.
THERE IS AN ANTE ELECTION REMTNIs-
CENCE
in diplomacy" which has been revived
at Wailack's Theater. Miss COghlan, as the
Russian spy and adventures, tells Lester
| Wallack, who is "HeHry Beauclarc" in
the last act, to ''burn this letter." When
saw the play on Monday night, the famil-
lar phrase was recognized and an inyOl-
untary clapplng and stamping greeted it.
| There have been three changes in the part
OF "DOra" in the same play within week.
Miss Annie Robe surrendered the part
! last week "wednesday on the score of a
! real or alleged cold, and Miss Adele Mea-
sor had TO take it. She became afflicted
with Miss Robes complaint two days
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| sell, who had to act the character at a
! few hours notice. There is some secret
! apparently in her predecessors throwing
up the part, but it has not yet been di-
vulged.
Mr.. Wallack next season, if he carries
| out his proposed plan, will not replace so
! readily the persOnatOrs OF a leading char
acter. He intends, it is said, to give up
his stock company, and to hereafter hire
actors and actresses as he wants them.
He will have to employ regularly a few
to take the chief parts, but he relies on
| finding enough domestic talent out of en-
| plOyment to fill the rest of the bill. He
may save money by this arrangement, but
! when his theatre relics on 'scratch"
company for the presentation of its plays
it must a6dicate its position as the lead
ing place OF amusement in America.
THE ABDICATION WILL NOT BEIN FAVOR
| of the Union Square Theatre, which APP
parently is to be conducted in future on
the same economical plan. AT any rate,
! Sheridan Shook announces that next week
will terminate the long career of the
| Union Square Theatre Company. This
| Will leave but five theatres, including the
new Lyceum, out of the fifteen or more in
the city with stock companies. What
! better proof could be found that the the
atrical business does not pay nowadays?
If a managers lot is not happy one,
| and Townsend Percy, whose ''IXiOnV
Company at the Comedy Theatre came to
grief the other day, will join in saying it
isn't, actors and actresses are faring no
better. The fact that Mr.. Wallack ex-
poets next season to always find a suffi-
cient number idle to fill his subordinate
parts shows how many are out of employ.
! ment now. Those who can are turning,
it seems, to other occupations. Lillian
EdgingtOn, for instance, has opened
| boarding house in Denver. If she con-
ducts it on the system of Denver board
ing house l used to be acquainted with
she will certainly make more money than
she has recently as an actress.
IT is THE FASHION JUST NOW FOR DOGS
to wear wells. The March winds are so
cutting that the Flora Nc Flimsies of the
day protect their pets when they carry
them while walking by the same sort of
covering with which they shield their
own faces. While the spectacle is not an
edifying one, even to a lover OF animals,
there is no denying that the spoiled pets
are in need of such protection. Never
was such a March known. The oldest
inhabitant, even by relying on his imagi-
| nation in MIA ee of his memory cannot