Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-04
NOTES FROM NEW YORK.
Gotham Gossip in Which Washington
People are Interested.

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Correspondents Of TEE EVENING srsn
NEW YORK, Dec g.
This city win be represented on grand scale
at the Inauguration Of President Harrison NEXT
March. Preparations are already being made
by many organizations TO attend. The repub-
hean league will go almost to a man.
One Of the national officers of that
body said the other day that the national re-
publican league will probably parade the Iarg-
est number OF men Of any organization in the
line OF march inauguration day. This body has
branches all over the country, and an effort
VIII De made TO hold a general reunion in
washington March next, which every MEM
Der Is expected TO attend. The branches in
New iork and Brooklyn alone will send 1000
men each VI the military organizations to
. take part the Seventh regiment and its veteran
corps have already engaged accommodations
u WIZARDS hotel, and special train to carry
them. The Twenty-second regiment will prob
ably be on hand too as most of its members
are republicans and very enthusiastic
ones. The Twelfth regiment has not vet
voted to attend, but the probabilities are
that 10 viii be on hand and several other mill
tary and civic bodies in the city are making
arrangements to take part New York city was
well represented at Cleveland's Inauguration
in 1885, but it win send a much larger delega-
ton Of its citizens to Harrison's Inauguration
in 1889
There has been much talk in baseball cir
cles over the alleged transfer of the New York
short-stop, John Montgomery Ward, to next
seasons Washington club. 1t has been asserted
by friends of Ward that he would not
consent to go to Washington unless
he should receive a large share Of the
Sl2'OOO offered the New York clubs manager by
Manager Hewett, Of the Washingtons And
here in New York it is said that President
Hewett wants the personnel of his nine kept
very quiet for the present, so that he may be
able TO buy up the stock of the club at low
inquire. A friend of Wards, who asks that his
name be left out Of any mention in the matter.
tells me with an air of perfect confidence that
Ward Is not only willing but anxious to go to
washington next year, and that he SO thor
oughly understood before sailing for Australia
that he would be the Washington's next man.
ager and captain that he opened negotiations
with John Morrill,, the first baseman of the
Boston club, to play in 1889 in the Washington
club.
The opening of the German opera season at
VIC -USdOpOuIdu opera mouse on W eQDeSQaY
evening marked new era in the musical his
tory OF New York. This era is the decay Of
Magnetism in the musical taste of the public.
1t IL questionable, indeed. if ever the music of
Wagner was accepted here out Of a pure taste
Tor 1t, the fashionables having endeavored to
digest il simply because il was the fashion
Because one is in the fashionable circle is not
any reason for PresuPposing that one is
capable of understanding music, and
to the major part of the patrons
of the Metropolitan last year the
Wagnerian strains were incomprehensible and
unsatisfactory. So when Manager Stanton
looked about him for subscriptions to this
years opera company from the Cresuses who
pay for such things, the Cresuses said, I'VE
are only too delighted TO pay for this musical
feast. dear Mr.. Stanton, but it has occurred to
US that while we are paving for it We might as
well have little music that amuses us instead
OF giving US headaches and brain fag' So il
happens that Mr.. Stanton has fixed upon a
number of Italian and French operas for pro-
ductlon this year, as well as Wagnerian works,
and so II happened that the season was inaugu-
rated with Meyerbeer's LES Huguenots"
instead Of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde" or
something of the sort. And poor Meyerbeer
mind you. is the one composer who has been
the most disdained and abused by disciples of
wagner both here and everywhere.
The era of Wagnerian decay is as silly as was
Wagnerian music that is readily '.understanded
of the masses" and much that is delightful to
an wholly unframed But when the New
Workers took Wagner they took him at a gulp
the good and the bad together They swore
by him as they swore by their presidential
candidates at election time, and in their
Wagner enthusiasm they became bitter parti-
sans and condemned every other composer.
Now they are on the point of welcoming all
other composers and condemning Wagner 1t
Is much to be regretted that high-class music
must be associated with high-strung fashion in
this country, for this association makes our
musical taste" a matter of ridicule among
older nations, where centuries of cultivation
have made the upper classes the most appre-
eiative of good music.
Just at present New York fashion has capitu-
lated Internationally to Russia verestchagin
is largely responsible for it. Tolstoi has a good
share in it, and George Remnants articles in the
Century have completed the surrender. You
can't visit anybody who has any pre- lenses to
style nowadays without being introduced TO
the Russian samovar before your call is ended
and II the decoction Of plug tobacco and lemon,
which Is called Russian tea, is gall and worm
wood to your tongue and palate you must new
ertheless SIP 1t with an affectation of intense
enjoyment If you are to be Of the fashionable
elect. If there Is enough snow this winter for
sleighing We shall see many turnouts Of Rus
sian sleighs, drawn by three horses abreast
and furnished with the huge Russian yoke from
which will jingle score Of Russian bells Rus
sian sable Is the fashionable fur; the new shade
called Petrovsky-red is much worn in morning
and afternoon gowns, and Slavonic music Is
drummed on every fashionable piano in town.
The craze has even extended to the possession
OF Russian hounds, and the ladies' who are
able to be dragged about the streets by one of
these brutes are the envied Of all their less
eaninely fortunate sisters.
The marriage of the British charge d'affaires.
the Hon. Michael Henry Herbert, to Miss Leila
Belle Wilson, on Tuesday. was an occasion of
much social importance to New Workers. never
saw ST. Bartholomew church so pac ked before.
and have seldom seen so large an assemblaee
OF society leaders at q similar affair The
grooms family was represented by his mother
Lady Herbert. aud by some of his personal
friends, while the brides family is probably
responsible for the attendance of the Wander
bits, the Schermerhorns, the Astors the Ise-
Inns, the Winthrops, Mrs. Chauncey Depew
Mrs. Marshall o. Roberts. Mrs Parsn Stevens
and Mr.. Allen Thorndike Rice. The bride
looked very handsome in the plainest imagin-
able white satin costume. She is the daughter
OF a millionaire, Banker Richard T. Wilson and
has brother and sister already married, the
former 70 Miss Carrie Aston. end the latter to
Mr.. Ogden Goelet. The wedding breakfast at
the residence of the brides father was a still