National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-06-22
NEW YORK LETTER.


Tho weather-Coid Tea with n Straw,
Ira Lni-Audran's Comic Opera OF
"The Growing Hen"-Portable Stalls
with Umbrellas for tho Bootblacls-
Association for Protection OF Invent
ors.
New York, June IS, 1ss6.--It is splendid
TO DO In New York at present. heweather
is delicious, with rain every few days, IL is
true, but nobody minds the rain these days
Of rapid transit and telephones. Dampnoss
and slush never prevent n woman from
flirting or going shopping, or man from
looking after hts business duties, smoking,
and slipping his cold tea--usually With a
straw, ira la--or dancing attendance on his
sweetheart. This morning was ushered IN
with thunder storm, and the skies az this
p. IN. romain grey and dripping, aud the
face Of the dny Is what owen Meredith
Is poetry I'm the rain so long as the atmos-
phere remains cool aud deprives the sun at
this season Of It's usually too ardent kisses.
Audrnu's comic opera Of "Tho Growing
Hem with the composers original or
chestration, is mighty provoking merri.
ment with young odnd old New York, aud
the many strangors always here. 1t is run
ming at Wallaok's, and is given by the Nc
Caull Opera Comlque Company. Why II
should be expressed on the bill as opera
comique ] cannot understand, as it is rem
dered In English. Unless II is that Nc
Caull is afraid the singers will be taken
for Anglo.manlacs II they adhere strictly to
the vernacular. Madame Mathilde Cot
trelly does La Marquise dc Ia Haute
Garenne very well, and Mr.. De Wolf Hop
per as Gayandln Is simply killing, he is so
funny. at is the way the thing is don G
you Know" as he says In one Of his songs.
The best voice In the troupe Is that OF
IIerndon Morsell, Of. Washington, who
represents Grevolln, the 1nnkeeper. Tue
music Of the opera Is sparkling, aud there
is q freshness about 1. that Is most pleasing.
notice that the bootblacks who were so
fortunate as to obtain the bootblack blocks
or portable stalls, II ] can so describe them
given TO number of these deserving gamln
by the World, some months ago, are doing
o smashing business, so comfortable and
convenient Is their construction for the use
OF customers. They are made of wood and
painted green, are about two feet and hall
long, and probably two feet wide. There is q
dhis or platform on top, upon which Ii
placed an arm chair with leather cushion,
suspended over which is an umbrella, az O
protection TO the occupant, for the time
being, from wet weather, or In anticipation
Of the dog days. At the foot Of the plat.
form is block upon which the feet rest.
The recently organized charitable Asso.
citation for the Protection and Promotion OF
Inventors will be ready to commence active
business next October. It has received with.
in the past three weeks forty applications
to manipulate and sell patents. Prominent
among the patrons aud contributors are
the names of Hon. w. w. Corcoran, Gen.
Albert Pike, VIM: Philip Phillips, Miss
Lillian Pike, Mrs. w. G. Hill, Mrs. Commo.
dore ID. b. Harmony, Mr.. Sulson Hutchlns
of the Post; Mr. Fox, of the NATIONAL RE
PUBLICAN OF Washington; Mr.. George M
Robson, Of New Jersey; Mrs. Y. b. Vance
| of North Carolina; Mrs. Edward Noble, oil
South Carolina; Mrs. Henry p. Randolph
Miss Sara L. Lee, Of Virginia; Miss Rosa
| Gardner, OF Alabama; Mrs. Francis G.. du
Pont, Of Delaware; Hon. b. g. Yancey, Mrs
Lou Cunningham Banks, of Georgia; Mrs
| John c. Calhoun, Mrs. Theodore +. Tom
linson, Mrs. Algernon Sidney Sullivan, OF
New York; Mrs. George Hearst, Of Callfor
MIA; Mrs. Lydia Caldwell, of Ohio; Mai. Is
| +, Eakle, manager OF the Greenbrler Whit,
Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and Mrs
s. b. Noble, OF Galveston, Tex.
Mr.. Cranston, the popular proprietor OF
the New York Hotel here, and of Cranston'
Hotel at West Point, is said to be nego
tiating for the Hygeia Hotel at Old Poln
Comfort, with view to becoming its man
ager. II he gets 1t and maintains the cul
sine for which the two hotels he runs noy
are famous, large as the Hygeia 10 already
he will have to add to its size TO keep pac
with its popularity. Speaking OF Mr.. Gran:
ton, his head waiter at the New York HotC
bears so strikinga resemblance TO the Unite
States solicitor general that one of til
guests, just arrived from Washington, wa
about to shake hands with him for Nj
Goode as he entered the dining room, br
saw his mistake ia time to recover hlmsel
Patrick, for he is from Ireland, Is sll
smaller than the distinguished functional
whose double he appears to be at the fir
glance.
For the sake of your lady readers wi
mention that the bonnets of the Fifth av
nue. matrons and bellies are very narrow an
high on top. The on.tpp consisting Of
bunch of lilies Of the valley with the stem
down, standing on their tails, as 1t were, {
roses, or daisies, or any of the other popr
lar flowers in the same position.
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