The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-09-05

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may find his way to States Prison. The
main interest that centres around Mr.
Sands is, that with his imprisonment OF
the recovery of the $4,000 we may
consider the accounts of the Tweed ring
closed
There is q chance great mans mem
Dry may outllvc his life half year, but
by our lady he must build churches for
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It is only three weeks since this city
was draped in mourning. To-day scarce.
ly vestige remains, and the current Of
our daily life flows on the same dark
rapid stream with scarcely ripple on
its surface. Ono man more or less makes
very little difference in this world-no
matter how large the space he occupied
when living. Already General Grant is
but memory-but a memory canonized
and sanctiiied. 1t is interesting to watch
the crowd that daily comes to Riverside
Park. Nowhere else in the world be-
lieve can a similar multitude be found
so quiet and 80 respectful. There is
sometimes little struggle for a leaf or
flower, but it is the friendly struggle of
reverential admirers for souvenir of one
they loved and honored in life and rever-
ence in death. So great has been the
travel to Riverside Park that new lines
of railway arc being inaugurated to ac-
commodste it.
We are on the eve of revolution in
our transit motors, which will eventually
drive steam from our elevated roads and
horses from the surface roads of the city.
One Of the elevated roads is experiment.
ing with an electric motor and one of
the surface roads with a cable. The
cable can scarcely be considered an ex-
pertinent for it has been in use on street
railroads in San Francisco for years, and
has been the motive power on the Brook
lyn Bridge ever since the opening.
Neither can the electric motor be con-
sidered an experiment, for it has been in
use on railroad in Berlin for tyo wears.
so that New York will deserve little
credit if both should prove success.
The immensity Of our street travel can
only be comprehended by study of the
figures. We carried on our surface and
elevated roads from July LIST, 1884, to
July 1st, 1855, nearly one hundred mil
lions of passengers, or about twice the
population of the entire United States.
twenty-five or thirty years ago the
mechanic and the laborer walked to and
from his work. Two or three miles was
not thought much of walk, and the
people took walking as matter of course.
Now nobody walks who can help it. The
Italian laborer, the hod-carrier, the shoe
black, all take their rides. You may
often see poor men and women by the |
ferries who just want one cent 10 make |
up enough for a ride. Very few people
have the heart to refuse woman with |
child in her arms cent to save her
walking five miles, and the consequence
is that the woman collects enough in the
morning to have glorious spree at
night 1t is hard thing to say, but
whenever you see a woman begging in
the street with child in her arms the
chances are ten to one that she is fraud
and that the child is borrowed.
There has been quite stir in thcatri-
cal circles regarding the appearance of a
Miss Moore, whom the critics seemed de-
termined to annihilate. Now the opin-
ion of your critic after all is only the
opinion Of one man, and my experience
is that it has little effect upon the pub
nc. IhaVe seen the most eminent critics
On the New York press prognosticate
failure for some of the most remarkable
iramatic successes of the past. One in
stance in particular strikes me now
Burton's Captain Cutie in Dombey and
SON. The piece was played for week
o empty benches, and it was the second
week, after every paper in New York
lad pronounced it most disastrous fail
ire, before the public turned out to see
t. and then they did not come to see
3urton-Captain Cutie, but the Toots of
small actor by the name of Raymond.
But the piece ran three years without
reak, and wars one of the greatest dra-
matte successes ever seen on the Ameri-
an stage. When. Billy Florence pro-
uced the Almighty Dollar the critics I
aid 1t would not live a week, but it is
aid that Mr.. Florence informed friend. r
he Juke of Beaufort, the Marquis of S
'histledown and the Lord knows who,
hat he had pocketed cool quarter of r
lillion from his efforts; and as Mr.. Flor c
nee was never known to exaggerate, be- =,
1g an exceedingly modest and retiring
IAN, the presumption is that the amount y
rather under than over the figures. I
But to return to Miss Moore: Some Z,
ears ago Miss Moore, whose real name n
Valentine, met the notorious Miss
ielson who created such a sensation in
his couatry and England. Starting as a
ar-maid. she rose in few years to a
rominent position on the English stage,
nd her life in this courtr, ,y.,s s,g;,;o,,, Il