New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-10
CHAT ON TIMELY TOPICS.

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CHAT ON TIMELY TOPICS.
| Election week is generally considered by the man
ayers Of theatres be the dulest In the year WIVES
daughters sisters and sweethearts do not lose their
interest In the play houses during the heignt Vi n'
election excitement but husbands, fathers brothers
ard lovers are so much wrapt IN the struggle AZ
the polls that women not escorts, as ruie W
the theatres. Hence the attendance Is SMALL anu
few costly attractions presented 10 or1~ 'he puo'
In. But Brooklyn is q remarkable exception 70 tne
usual rule in these matters. 1t has long enoyeu inc
reputation of being the best election day theau1ca
town in the United States The Brooklyn theatres
are always crowded. anmcd and PACKED TO the doors,
both at the matinees and evening performances on
election days Last Tuesday was no exception 70 the
rule for managers on the other side OF the East River
| rejoiced in overlooking houses and overlooking
treasures.
There were NO novelties of any importance ct tho
theatres during election week. There was a lul in
| the great game Of amusing the public, and managers
reserved their etrong cards until the coming week.
On Monday and Tuesday next, however, they Will
rise I'D as man and endeavor to take every trick
they can. with the powerful combination Of Booth
and Barrett at the Fifth Avenue Theatre with Miss
Mary Anderson opening In "Tho Winters Tale" at
Palmers on Tuesday; with tho entrance Of the
Lyceum Theatre upon Its cgular season. with It's mag
nfcent stock company and with the charming play
| PinerO,
cessul in the highest degree in London with glitter
ing attractions at many Of the other places OF amuse
ment the men who mako II the business Of their lives
to provide entertainment for the NewYork public VIII
undoubtedly receive generous and ample rowarus Tor
tho energy care forothought and nbcraiy with which
they provided for the dclcctation Of playgoers
Beginning Monday night, throughout tho week and
for many weeks to come with the revived interest in
plays and playing which always follows the dulness
and lsessness of tho election period the many hno
theatres in New1ork Will De nned WIN eager
audiences that will turn with renewed zest 10 the
mimic passions of the stage after the curtain has Just
fallen on the tremendous drama OF National elec-
ton.
DIR. J. c. DAILY and twenty others Of the Irish
| athletic team who postponed their departure for
Ireland in order 10 witness tho excitement over the
Presidential election, will sail to-day on the umora
Dr. DAILY who is one of the great champion weight
throwers, says that he has been more tina S:repaid
for having stayed to witness the election scenes
Many Of the representatives Of the Irish societies WI"
be hand to-day TO witness the departure OF the
tram DR. Daly saws that he would sooner be Dc
feated under the and Stripes, In company win
such genial friends he has met among the American
citizens of this metropolis, than be VICTORIOUS uhoer
the Union Jack
One illustration Of the cosmopolitan character ana
needs of the people Of this great city Is seen IN
the fact that In Essexst, Grand, In the heart
of district where the inhabitants boast that not
less than twenty-seven different languages can DO
| heard within five minutes walk, frenchmah ooos
a big business making sabots, the wooden clogs that
are supposed to be discarded forever when tho ON
| fgrant makes I'D his mind 10 bid farewell 10 MS
matched cottage in Europe Yet Jean Lacroix mas
no lack of customers IN Essex-st for his saoo's Oh
sound American hickory, at s1.26 pair Els wife,
a smiling peasant woman from lie ct Vh%ho'
attends 10 the customers and handles the change as
II money was no object, and chattcrs volupH III uc
accent Of Lower Brittany to her countrymen anu
womon while Lacrolx works away at his clogs Win
his only impiement an sh ,hp dsnssv of touch OF
a sculptor putting the finishing touches on statue
Nowhere near this city, remarkable as II is nor us
changes and its continual tearing down and building
up. has a more complete transformation taken place
| in the last twelvemonth than at the CommunipsW
| terminus Of the New-Jersey Central Ra'lroed- ohe
| year ago travellers this road bound TOT thls
city alighted in wretched leaky, old wooden shed,
| braved of black mud in rainy weashcr ana
whirlng clouds Of coadust on dry and windy Gays,
on their way from the cars 10 the ferryooats eou'h
of the station dating back to the discovery Oh America
a black miasmatic fat spread out which had oeen
always heretofore given up to the feroccus Conni-
nipaw musquiio and swarms OF hoodlum boys from
this city, who pre-empted the portion Of the marsh
not covered by the lido for q baseball ground All
| this is changed now. A magnificent brick ana iron
depot has taken tho place OF the OLD tumoiooo"n
she'd every foot of tho black fat several hundred
acres in ALL is now covered with network OF rails,
costly coal-wharvcs and fine stockyard have pecn
bnnt and an excellent harbor has been dredged out
The place has been named Port Liberty ater 'no
Goddess who holds her torch short distance away
| on Bedloe's Island. Down East schooners Dy 'Ao
dozen are anchored beside the wharves every Gay
loading with coal, where nothing but oysterooats
were ever seen before An this great improvement
is due to The energy of Austin Corbin, Who after
taxing charge Of the affairs of the Reading kalir0ad
has made IFS Communipaw terminus one OF the busiest
places Ncw-York Bay
One Of tho tallest men on tho Consolidated Stock
end Petroleum Exchange is Frank Tack the first vice
president He is conceded to be Of the squarest
too although he doesn't look 1t physically MI TACK
is always ready represent tho Titusvllie petroleum
Exchange any question which affects the interests
Of the oil trade and fortunately he and 1t have never
been absent when they were called for. While not
possessor of the "bluflngs qualities in tho oil market
that Of the other operators have he can express
inimitaby quiet feeling Of sceptical disgust when ne
doesn't agree with the bear pyker" 10 the sources
from which all tho selling Of certificates may come on
some particular day. Mr.. Tack is one of the pro
ducers who has faith in the future Of oil prices and he
IS suspected of regretng the sale OF some wells In the
old bradford field that he and his associates recently
parted with
Police Inspector Byrnes went into Fifth-ave.
tailor shop Thursday and was measured for new
! 500 overcoat which he had won on election bet
with Congressman W. Bourke Cochran. For several
years the Inspector has worn expensive overcoas
which he has won election bets He has been
unusually lucky, but has confined himself to coats, re-
fusng TO wager cash even IN small sums. His usual
reply TO offers to bet before election is: al never
bot cent on politics, but I'll go you as good coat
Blank IN Fith-ave. can make.'
There is a reason other than his intense Repubk
canism why Police Commissioner French goes about
with a smile of contentmcnt his face these days
He made twenty-five bets the results of the cleo
ton and twenty three of them. Among his lucky
wagers involving thousands of dollars.
His bet with Judge MARITIME of the interesting
incidents Of the campaign and 1t may provo costly
for tho Judge before next election day. In the event