The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1885-11-04
CASTLE GARDEN.
The Proposed Summer Garden on the
Battery.

CASTLE GARDEN.
The Proposed Summer Garden on th'
Battery.
The elevated railroads in New Yorl
not only make the upper part of the
city easily accessible from the lower
but they as easily bring uptown down
town. This is so pleasantly and con
veniently done by the new aerial pas
sage that the Times suggests that the
old pleasure resort at the Battery may
be again turned to good account, anc
if not the prime of State street.-the
..glory of Smithield" that the
musical attractions of the Battery fol
the uptown resident may be restored.
The Barge Office. as depository Of
Ill personal baggage arriving from
Europe, is to be discontinued, and a
huge hall will DC available for some
popular purpose; and why not, says
the shrewd journal, for great popular
concerts? Why not marine summer
garden? And the elderly New-York-
ers who recall JullieD's concerts at
Castle Garden and the summer night
opera at Castle Garden will echo,
.'Why rot?''
The saunterer along the broad aud
orderly walks of the Battery to-day
has but to pause and lean upon the
railing above the water, enjoying the
pretty spectacle and breathing the
ocean air, and to ask himself, as he
considers Castle Garden. what could
be plcasantcr, on IN August evening
when the moon is full, than TO sit upon
It's outer wall and to watch the lovely
scenery in the coolness, and listen to
the well-modulatcd orchestra within?
Central Park is charming, and to sit
under the trees and listen to the band
is delightful. The Casino is gay
summer resort. and in the city squares
the occasional music is most welcome.
But if Romeo and Juliet emerging into
the evening air anywhere about Twen-
tieth street. should weigh the various
solicitations for . pleasant evening at
a reasonable price and at au easy ac-
cessible spot, would they not fiu6 the
concert in the refreshing air of the Day
more alluring than any rival?
They would be wise if, deciding for
the Battery, they should avoid the old
prosers who remember those Julien
concerts, and that opera, and the
great concerts Of Jenny Lind. That
old building haunts the memory of the
proser rs the attic of Beranger filled
all the poets rearward musing with
pathetic music. If the young people
are not very wary, the proser will be-
gin to tell them the story of ofthatevening
when between the parts of the concert
in which for the first time Julien play
ed the s.Katydid Waltz he was taken
across the Battery to State street, and
into the house that was the latest oc-
cupied of I'll that fine row facing the
bay, each with a lofty triangular bal
cony. and there for moment tasted
the festive hospitality Of day which
was already past in that old-fashioned
street, but which was never kinder or
heartier than in It's latest surviving
drawins-rcom. OF the thousands ma
tive and foreign-born who daily pass
along the broad curv;ng Battery walk
upon old State street, how many know
that it was the selectest street of resi-
dcnce in the New York OF sixty and
seventy years ago?
How many of them, also, remember
that in Castle Garden Jenny Lind sang
for the last time in America? In both
concerts she sang 'sCasta Diva VINO
sings .tCasta Diva" at concert now?
Bayard Taylor wrote the last song, the
Farewell to America Otto Gold
smith, who was to be her husband,
composed the music. When s. came
on to sing it, Jenny Lind carried bo-
ouet of white roses, with Maltese
cross of red rosebuds in the center.
Take care, Monsieur Romeo, and you,
Mademoisellc Juliet, or the incorri-
gible proser will be protesting that he
sent those pfecious flowers; and should
he say it, who could authoritatirely
gainsay it? Who, indeed, but some
other old proser, whose memory has
fallen into decrepitude, and who mum
bles and maunders about Maibran.
It was q smaller New York TO which
Jenny Lind sang, Steffanone and
Bosio and Trufti an.. = enedetti. They
all warbled in yonder garden, where
other birds sing now. Thomas had
rot come then. nor waved the enchant-
i baton which has opened to rs . new
realm of music. But Julien played
pretty waltzes and !uucful overtures,
and patted and pulled and painted as
he directed. and then sank into his
chair with dron air of exhaustion at
the end.
Yes. twas a sarret, be it known to ALL"
as Father Prout makes Beranger sing.
It was the'day of smaller things. But
how pleasant they wcrei 1t was
smaller New York. But ask the old
proser, if you cannot escape him, who
was young then, whether it was not
er-ite as good New York as the roar
i;e Babel of to-day.
Wsesides the ocean air and the moon
En the water, Romeo and Juliet can
y see that the summer-evening
eoMerts at the Battery would have
little setting of traditis7Ha background
of the music OF other days And as
they enrich their enjoyment OF to-day
with that pensive echo of Yesterday,
possibly Juliet will admonish Romeo
to beware lest when his day has be-
come yesterday, and he talks of the
music he remembers, he too, like the
old gentleman whom the Easy Chair |
warns them to avoid, should become a
proser. = George William Carts, in
Harper's AGJ0z:ne.