Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-02-25
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
Craze Among Gatham Ladies for ''Fene.
ing"-In the Dives Of the Bowery
and Chatham mStreet-Hancock's
Funeral Procession, Sc.
Correspondence OF the Ledger.

NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-A painting,
of which many copies, Photographic
and otherwise, have been made, was
exposed for long time in the window
Of an uptown art gallery. 1t repre-
septed two women in the act Of fight
ing duel with swords. The faces
were truly remarkable. The attitude
they were forced to assume in execut-
ing the maneuvre at which they were
represented, defes the power of any
adjective to express. The painting
attracted 80 much attention that the
proprietor removed it to prevent
blockades on the street, but not be-
fore an enterprlsing artist with a
camera had obtained a negative of it,
window and all.
was in a building just of Fifth
Avenue the other day where ladies
were fencing for all they were worth.
The elegant highly polished and rich
ly mounted rapiers were tipped with
little stuffed buttons aud hit was
followed by only a slight rosy flush
on the white skin that faded in a mo-
msnt. This craze for fencing, among
the Gotham ladies, is the latest, for
it is the most perfect promoter OF
gracefulness in form and pose that
can possibly be adopted. 1t is
slightly "Frenchy," but "Frenchy" is
only synonym for graceful case
Of manner that we, as a nation, might
adopt with no detriment to us, fol
l have yet to learn that an easy man
ner denotes an ''easy" character il
our French neighbors, though il
seems to do so in our own stilteG
society.
l dropped into Chatham stree
place few days ago, expecting t.
meet q man who once did me an un
solicited favor, and who "hangs out
at the Chatham street place before
mentioned. He assumed an air O.
sscresy as soon as / came in, and
after a good deal of unnecessar,
fencing, asked me il l was disposed
to go to sea. Ii | was, he said, HI
could put me in the way of n goot
thing in that line. He refused to e
into particulars and, little hurt b,
his lack of confidence, | refused t.
consider any sea-geing proposition
and went away.
My friend was 1.-THE newsboy,
facetiously SO called, for he is pas
the prime of life and g news deale
with an extensive trade, and he wa
at the time met him, in the employ
of Marco Aurelio Soto, ex-Presiden
of Honduras, at present residing il
this city.
''The newsboy' got tsgethe
twenty-five men and they were ship
ped from here the other day on
fillibustering expedition along wit
o cargo of arms and ammunition. s
much secresy was necessary to avoi
the customs officers that the men be
lieved they were going on an innocer
expedition until they were out of tn
bay. The fitting out Of the exped
ton has caused great deal of el
citement here since il became know
and Senior Soto is an object of col
siderable interest at present. Th
newsboy failed to get any reputab
men to go, and the men actually shil
ped were set of Bowery ''toughs,
who will he anything but tough, L
wager, when they are set up again
the Central American authorities. r,
mors OF other similar expeditions al
flying about and the authorities won
let even a canal boat leave her moo
ings without thorough Overhaulin!
Jacob Sharp, who points Shak
pears query of "what's in name,
Is another kind Of . fillibuster oil
he ls the most talked about and wri
ten about Of any man in the city ju
now. He led an expedition again
the sacred precinct of Broadway la
spring and captured it, and now Il
authorities have got him in the toi
and they are worrying him as dc
worries cat. 1t is estimated tn
thirty thousand vehicles pass al
given point on lower Broadw'
during the ten hours Of dayligt
Well, Mr.. Sharp, who induced u
council, after about fifteen yea
siege, to let hun run horse railwt
through this great thsroughfar
actually built the road through tv
and half miles of the business pa
Of it without interfering with the ira
fic, which, according to the terms
his contract he must net de. He q
it at night with an army Of Italian
Three hundred sons of Italy arm,
with tamping posts and concentrat,
on one block at time, made Il
strangest music for week that ev
lulled the "fnest" to sleep on the
corners. Now, Mr.. Sharp is accuse
Of bribery and know not how mai
other naughty things, and his pi
lures are in the papers along wi
verbdtim reports Of the whole tri'
and people are seeking his autograp
and altogether he is "great."
the meantime the incest street cars
the world, drawn by the best hors
that ever drew street cars, carry mo
people than any one Of the elevat
rosds, which claim to carry 5000
passengers day in the aggregate.