Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-08-04
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
NEW YORK July 27.

NEW 1ohks Ju!y Zit
 Bath, Long Island, is @ short sail from
 the city, too short the children O: the
 poor think vLi.e :hey i,urnoy to the
 Summer House situated there, 4 com
 fortRble house. extensive grounds.
 sWlngs and all sorts of outdoor play
 things are provided tbete for the poor
 city children who are to be entertained
 m relays of 250 each week during the
 summer. Monday watched party of
 these little folk, guests of the Children's
 Aid Society, disembark and swarm to
 the Home for week of Jolliiy and fresh
 air, They were little girls in short
 dresses except thres OF four small boys
 who had somehow smuggled themselves
 ID, and were hoping thA. they might es-
 cape the inspectors eye. IL was pretty
 sight to see thus mass of childhood when
 l; had deposited its bundles and passed
 certain fOrmalities, emerge into the
 open BIT and instantly msks themselves
 a1 home. They ovec-rsn the play ground
 Kept the dozen swings moving, wonder
 ed at the my steries of the camera obscura
 --N -Ah AAsb NlI OA
 pies on a wholesale scsle. brand new
 lsrronsel with flying horses to ride on
 and Tat poney te make the wheel "go
 rouud' WAS the great attraction and the
 children evidently considered it a great
 CT masterpiece of engineering than the
 Brooklyn Bridge. Before luncheon all the party went bathing and 8 prettier slght-unless 1t were a score of cansries
 bathing in one China trough-it would
 be hard to conceive, The shrill little screams of mingled delight and fear
 were music as sweet and refreshing as cauErIes themselves can make. Then came luncheon and the 2J0 little women came into the dining room almost starv- ing after their salt water bath. They were all happy children now and only furtIve look Or two betrayed that they were not always so and not always used | Co abundance that existed on this board | Oh. what stacks and stacks of slices | and how weary must have l grown the arm that yielded the knife | And the milk One little tot emptied | her glass six times snd then only stop | ped out of pOliteness as you could see | by her face.
 These 250 children are invited as guests, not ss patients and are not to be cured for any disease except bad air and | hunger. The Bath HOuse is grea. | play ground, not a sick room and the | entertained here are all hesllhy | Al present the house is weekly crowded | 10 its utmost, and before the summer is over It will treat three thousand child ren to a week by the Sea and one thou sand more will picnic there for day st 3 tune. Each little girl has g cupboard | devoted to her. one-hslt comfortable | bed in a breezy dormItory and the right | to breathe for a week pure air with noth- ing to do but enjoy herself, For week she is the child of Fortune. Would Il fwere longer
 The only attraction which is causing any sensation in the amusement hne now n New York, is Spanish dancer at one of the largest con cert halls. She is called ''La Cuencg." and had she by any chance made her metropolitan debut in the ballet of the German opera dur ng the season, one can easily imagine | her creating as great a fuFOre among he ranks of the -four hundred" and Ihelr satellites Bs she has among the class whose summer experience at the ,eB-sbOFe did not CT end beyond Coney Island or ROckawsy, and whose evening consists ID quaffing the banning "Pilsener" while they listen to he songs Of the divas of the concert gardens.
 "La Cuencsn Is easily the greatest ard which the management oi the letter clsss of this sort of entertainment las brough: forward for years. She is , very small woman, light and 1.-the of igure with muscles of steel, and her treat dance IS the portrayal of a Span sh bull light. She makes 6 very neat title ToTeBdor when to the music of ,panIsh mRndolins and css.snets and he rythmicsl olsppIpg of hands she marches upon She stage equipped for the Iull ring. Then waving the red mulets he eDtices the bull, her swsying figure bringing first to one side. then the ,ther, Bs she dances before the imsgin ny Taurus.
 One almost looks to see the furious .nImgl come charging toward her from behind the scenes, And what a scatter ng of tables and beer glasses there sOuld be |! he did All fear of danger, however, is over when La Cuenca pro iuces Toledo blade, and, watching her opportunity. pierces the monster through he shoulder to the heart, and then exc u,es triumphsl dance over the sup ,os;tious carcass. It is certainly iss- .inniiag spectacle, and only less eIcit- ny th8a the genuine bull fight of Spain ,r Mexico. Scarcely sn evening passes put several Andalusian spectators are yrough. up to the pitch of rising and linglng their hats Gt the feet If their eductive ccuutrywoman, The dance ecalls line from the patriarch poet bout whom friend who trAmped last -egr through New Hampshire with his Anthony equipment, tells the following -arn: One dhy he wss taking some news from n farm house piazza at Tam worth. observed by a isrmer-iooking old nan who appeared to be just settin' ouud. Wishing to sstonish him my riend displayed his fiuished pictures nd the 'fiery" camera, but the old srmer spoke of them and of the photo ,raphic supply house of Anthony < Co, Sew York, in Familiar terms. Amazed, ny friend hunted up hIs host and in- Iuired who thBt old farmer chap was. That old farmer chap" repeated the lost with a chuckle, that's John G. Whittier w. l.. ,,