Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-10
Correspondence Of THE EVENING srAa.

SnAoiN . EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS OPENED
TODAY MARVELLOUS COLLECTION OF cURIos.
Correspondence Of TIE EVENING srAa
New YORK, Nov. 9.
Thank fortune, the ebullient enthusiasm of
political campaigning is over. One can now
sleep nights without waking every twenty min
utes to hear thick but powerful yell under his
window concerning some leader alleged to be
in consomme, potage printaniere or other
soup. 1t is a matter for thankfulness, too, that
the termination of the struggle has deter
mined the oft-shouted question "who's all
right" There is now an end to the wearisome
razzle-dazzle Of webbing torches, the squezoot
OF rockets and the sledge-hammer harrangues
OF cart-tail orators. The return of the Ameri-
can citizen to post-election sanity is pleasant
and profitable to everybody. Business is brisk
again, merchants are hurried stocks are lively
and the trade papers this week unanimously
tell Of increasing prosperity in all directions.
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Thirty-two per cent. Of the voting done in
this city last Tuesday was performed in barber
shops. Why these establishments should be
favored at the expense Of other shops I'cannot
say, but the fact remains that out Of s57 poll
ing places in the whole city 277 were barber
shops. The cigar stores came in good second,
as they were chosen for 1853 polling places.
Next came the shoe stores with sixty-seven,
slxty-One tailor shops received votes, SO did
twenty-seven plumber shops and twenty seven
candy stores; in twenty-one uhdertakers' estab-
lishments voters threaded their way in and out
among collins and caskets to vote; among other
polling places were fourteen harness shops,
twelve stables, four laundries, three oyster
saloons, three jewelry stores, three bakeries,
two florists, one bird fanciers, one fishing
tackle store, several groceries and milk stores,
and one dressmaker's room. Only seven booths
were erected for the express purpose of voting
places, and these were in the new districts or
the swell residence districts IT
There are some curious things to be done
hereabours by men who made unconventional
and rash bets on Cleveland. Numbers Of
democrats will shave off boards for various
periods, and others will go unshorn and with
hair uncut and unkempt for a considerable
length of time. Col Ochiltree's bet compels
him to shave the head barber of the Hoffman
House, in the latter's own professional chair
every day for six weeks. A newspaper man
named Prentice will eat two pounds of roller
composition at the Herald press-rooms on Mon
day. He has stipulated for what pressmen call
''winter composition" which contains the larg-
est proportion of molasses, and the smallest
proportion of glue. Mr.. Bernard DegenkOlb,
OF 240 Columbia street, Brooklyn. will have to
climb twenty-two-foot flag poll and paint it
black every st. Patricks day for four years
II Cleveland had won his opponent. an
Irish-republican would have been compelled
to paint the pole white in the same way every
queens birthday for four years. VIM. Z. Raw
son, theological student at the Union Semi
nary, has already begun to canvass sewing ma
stader, the minstrel, viii get into an upright
barrel in front of his theater on Broadway one
morning next week at 10 o'clock, and will sing
in costume single song of his repertory every
fifteen minutes until o'clock at night. A
clerk at democratic headquarters will parade
upper Broadway tomorrow afternoon carrying
banner inscribed, "A protective tariff creates
high wages" Monsieur MOnquin, the French
restaurateur, will cook and eat crow on Sun
day, at the same time that his opponent dimes
at the same table on quail provided by NJ. Mon
quin. A guest at the Aston House will answer
calls from the guests rooms a bell boy all
day and all night Tuesday next. Other bets
have heard of demand the grinding Of a hand
organ at street corner. the perambulating of
wheelbarrow, ride inside of a hearse, and
other peculiar dOings.
The largest amount of cash betting has been
done at the Hoffman House, in this city, and
the proprietor has in bank subject to call from
the winners more than quarter of a million,
in sums from IS to $4,000 for each bet.
LII. Hamhonu, eX-surgeOn-general OF the
Army, and his young wife, to whom he was
united about two years ago, have sent out their
P. P. c. cards to their large list of friends in
New York city and will at once remove to WASH
ington, which city the Doctor intends to make
his home in future, He is much interested in
a national hospital and will devote much Of
his time to that object. Mrs. Dr. Hammond is
very popular in New York society.
have been allowed peep at the interior Of
the American art galleries, where vasili Verest-
chagin, the famous Russian painter, is to open
an exhibition of paintings tomorrow. The
artist himself has been at the American art gal
leries almost night and day for six weeks pre-
pairing the apartments and arranging the &C.
cessories, a job Of no small difficulty. Beside
the attraction of the pictures themselves the
painters studio properties will be on exhibi-
ton. On the floor of the main room is what is
alleged to be the most magnificent rug in the
world. 1t is certainly the grandest piece of
hoOr-cOverlng have ever seen or heard Of
NJ. verestchagin had it made expressly for him
during his travels in Persia, and he says that
over hundred workmen at once were employ-
ed in weaving it. 1t is over thirty feet square
and requires ten or a dozen men to lift it.
There Is also an admirable collection Of arms,
armor, and war souvenirs, which the artist
has collected in his wide wanderings
over Europe anu ASIA. Inc lanQSOmeSt
pieces OF armor came from China, and there
are specimens from Persia, Russia and India,
The tapestries alone which are hung in the ex-
hibitiOn rooms are such as cannot be seen any,
where this side of the Atlantic. As for the
pictures, there has been the greatest trouble
in hanging them. Their weight is enormous,
as you may imagine when say that the dimen-
siOns of the largest canvas are 28x3O feet, and
the frame for this work is of the most massive
kind. 1t actually has to be supported from the
floor beneath instead of its weight being hung.
Several Of the other paintings approach this
one IN size. NJ. Verestchagin will not sell any
Of his works, as he can make good deal more
money by exhibiting them. After he has
visited every large city, and every capital in
civilized countries, he says, he may be induced
to part with the children Of his genius, prob
ably to the Russian government The pictures
themselves, at least the painted sides of the
canvas, I have not yet seen. They are said to
have created the greatest sort Of sensation in
London, and to be very CORY and very awful in
the wrenched, limbs, gaping wounds, and the
expressions OF intense agony they depict They
are not representations of battle in the ordin-
airy conception Of art, but are meant TO be
ultra-realistic and as horrible as possible.
H. II. SoULE.
Fatal Fire at Rochester.
FIVE MEN KILLED AND SEVERAL OTHERS MISSING.
Fire was discovered in the packing room of