The Evening critic., 1885-03-17
CLEARED FROM MANY SOURCES,


philosopher material for the work OF life
time, novelist themes for all time to come,
and tho odors-well, Mother Cologne, Araby
nor Hunters Point would be ever again
quoted as examples for their distinctive
features. Cigars foreign and domestic,
those of the purest tobacco leaf and those
Of the more humble cabbage leaf and brown
papers, cigars scented and cigars malodorOus,
would glare at each other and expire In
white, brown or blackoned ashes.
Three-Iifths Of the mon who rush by so
hastily on the street have cigar or cigar
cite between their teeth. Not men alone,
but boys. VINO smoke the most cigars?
Well IL is hard to say. Perhaps news
paper men. Their calling eugcuaers tho
habit Then come the politicians, TO whom
the cigar is as indispensable as the silk hat.
Tho sporting gentry come noxt, and then
in vast fragrant cloud of Havana smoke
the army of bankers, brokers and business
men.
Cigarettes are mostly monopolzod by
dudes, mugwumps, newsbOys and street
gamins. The former indulge in the more
costly Turkish, Malta and other imported
brands; and the grade, quality aud size
graduate down to the two-for-a-penny kind
which the gamin purchases aud the half
smoked remnants which he moro often picks
up on the street.
What is done with the cigar butts?
Vol, that is mystery which but few eau
penetrate. Two million of them are thrown
away every day, and yet You never see one
on tho street, on the pavement or anywhere
about tho city. What becomes of them
Ask one OF those shrivelled up, bent,
stopped old men and women who, with
sack on their back and hook in their hand
seem to haunt the streets. They never ex-
change word with any one. Their eyes
are blank their faces are expressionless
their gait is mechanical. Stoop and bend
pick and rake, ragged, dirty and unkompt,
they travel through tho city from early
morning to late at night. There is not a
gimlner of intelligence or particle of
humanity about them, and you doubt if
under the rags and filth there is even
human soul conscious Of its mighty re-
sponsibilities.
Pipes are rarely smoked in New York. 1t
may be too much trouble TO fill them, TO
cut the tobacco, to carry it, They may
not be fashionable. Whatever the reason
is the pipe is rarely seen on the streets.
They may be smoked and are to some ex-
tent, in the quietude of home and among
the older generation. But young New
York scoffs at them. The peanut veuder
the man who trundles his apple aud ban
ana stand from corner to corner has gen.
orally "A short, black and dEty looking pipe
in his month
But the brief season that the pipe
flourisbes is in tho early morning, when the
cigar is not as yet out of bed. Itaccom-,
panies tho laborers, bricklayers, masons
and mechanics to their days work. The
cigar and its smoker arc still sleeping
soundly. Then when the days work is
over, supper finished and the dishes put
away, out comes the Guilty again.
Mr.. Henry Bergh, president of the Soci-
ETY. for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails Of New York, says that he can do
nothing to stop such medical experiments
as the one performed in that city on Satur-
day, when DR.. Roberts operated with his
osteotome upon a live sheep for the pur-
pose Of testing tho efficacy of tho instru-
ment on hip disease. "They claim" con-
tinued Mr.. Bergh, rejecting, "that this
poor sheep was tortured in tho interests of
science, and the law would seem to imply
that the act was legal. / hold to the con-
trary, and claim that it was an abominable
cruelty, authorized only through perver-
sion of the sense of humanity. But these
things are done in the sacred name of
science, and don't sec that | can Interfere
to stop them. How long these abomina-
ti0ns will be allowed to continue / don't
know, but | am brought to q standstill in
the matter. have been to the Legisla-
ture, and carried the subject to the plat
form, and done everything in my power to
stop these horrible vivisections, under
which / think Dr. Roberts experiment
ought to be classed but l have made no
progress" When Mr.. Bergh has convinced
the public that these experiments do not
advance medical science, then they will be
stopped.
At the home of Aaron j. Vanderpoel, No.
/ West Sixteenth street, New York city, on
Saturday evening, reception was given to
a number of the descendants of the old
Nieuw Amsterdam Dutchmen, who have
decided to form a Dutch society whose
members can trace their pedigrees back
through the male line to the early Knick-
erbockers. Judge Hooper G. Van Worst is
the president of the new organization and
George W. Van Siclen secretary. The OBJ
jects of the society are to collect aud pre-
serve information respecting the early his
tory and settlement of New York city by
the Dutch and to perpetuate the memory
and promote the principles and virtues Of
the ancestors of its members and for social
intercourse. The meeting Saturday even
ing contained goodly representation of
Vans" Among those present were Lucas
l.. Van Allen, DIR. S. o. Vanderpoe, A. u.
Van Dusen, Judge George NJ Van Hoesen,
David Van Nostrand, John Il. Van Nostraud,
Gilbert s. Van Pet, DIR. Richard Van SAINT.
yoord, Abraham Van Santvoord, George w.
Van Slyck, Il. II. Van Vechten, Robert B.
Van Week, George Van Wagenen, Edward
b. Van Wrinkle and F. F. Vandeveer. Let
ters Of approval and regret were received
from Cornelius Vanderbilt, William Van
Alstyne, Henry s. Van Duzer, the Rev. DIR.
Van Dyke, ir., James +. Van Rensselaer,,
Cornelius Van Brunt and many others.
Ex'Governor Foster of Ohio, in a talk
upon the politics Of that State, says at
is highly probable that Judge Foraker will
be renominated for Governor, although
there Is no special movement that way
There are some objections raised to him
1t Is said the colored men will oppose
him, and that his speech, two years ago,
in which he declared that he would not
vote for either proposed liquor amend
mont, Will hurt him. There was a great
cry on the part Of Democrats about the
cOlored bolt from Foraker, but never be.
lieved that 1t amounted to anything. He
defended a hotel-keeper who had been
sued by colOred man under the Civil
Rights Act. Intelligent cOlored men found
no fault with him for that, and l think
the only colored votes the Democrats got
away from him were such as they bought
Tho cry against Foraker gave tho voters
an excuse possibly for selling out. The
Democrats have had the liquor question
to deal with for the past two years, and
l guess they'll find it as much as they
can do to defend their own record, let
alone attacking Foraker for his speech
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