Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-26
NEW YORK NOTES.
3L0NDN IS WALKING THE x1GH1
 ROPE IN STATEN ISLAND.

1NH " lVxbA NO41Os BLoNDN IS wALKNa THE TIGHT
 ROPE IN STATEN ISLAND.
 He Seems the Same Man as When He
 Crossed the Cataract of Niagara on .
 Rope With n Man on his Back-Costlesa
 Mutual Benefit Societies now Bsina
 Organized by Horse Car Men.
 To REPORT that New Yerk was hot doesn't begin to tell half the news about the scorching temperature that made the whole town seem like a mammoth barbecue at which the luck less citizen played the helpless role of the spitted oxen. The stunning and historical fact is that it was the hottest June that Goth- am has sweltered in in seventeen years. It wasn't quite as bad so far as the thermome- ter told the story, but it was great deal worse than any self-respecting calendar in June ought to be. Even the clerk of the weather, drotected from its interference in his sky-high eyrie on the Eqitable roof, couldn't refrain from abusing it. He got down all his maps and records for a quarter of century, and, after making a prolonged investigation, gave this statement: June 20, 2l, and 22 of 1888 are the three hottest of all the June days of similar date in the last seventeen years. The temperature, 91e on the 20, is only 3e less than the highest June temperature on record in New York, which was on June 30, 1872, when the temperature reached 94a.
 Mss GABRIELLE GREELEY, the only living child of Horace Greeley, appeared Sunday night at the sacred concert in the Academy of Music to raise funds for the erection of the Greeley statue in City Hall Park This lovely and accomplished young woman was the exposure of all eyes, and if she can be in- duced to appear on the stage, she is sure of ! an ovation that will be an honor to the mem- l ory of her illustrious father. Miss Greeley'S | features are finely wrought; her eyes arc | laInbent; her brown tresses are drawn back ; her expression is spirituelle; her complexion tells of rustic health; her figure is graceful, and we'll and strongly built. She dresses plainly but pleasingly. Her love of flowers | and birds and animals and children does not interfere with the many philanthropic and | esthetic duties in which she is always en- gagged. Her home is in the cottage of the | Greeley farm, nestling among the hills near I Chappaqua. She was favorite of her father, | reveres his name, and is proud of the honors pald to it. Horace Greeley had son, Pickle" who died in childhood, and, beside l Gabrielle, he had another daughter, Ida, who died as the wife of Nicholas Smith, and left three children, now in Catholic convent. | MT. Greeley left sister, who yet survives, I tIC Is lilc WlooW oi nI. SlStClAAus Ouo Ok u1S I associates in the TRIBUNE.
 THE Court of Appeals has sustained the lower courts in dismissing the writs of habeas corpus in the cases of John E. Gill, John Fos- ter, John Campbell, James Mcdonald, and George T. Morley, who are the Executive I Committee of District Assembly 91 of the I Knights of Labor. They were indicted on a charge of conspiracy to injure the business oi | Gardner X Estes, shoe manufacturers al Ninth avenue and Fourteenth street, in Sep tember, 1886, by calling out the Knights who were employed by the firm, because the firm would not at the demand of tho Knights dis charge Foreman Odler and MT. Hartt, a non
 union employee. Hartt, however, was dis
 charged in February, 1887, in consequence o the strike, and in pursuance of the conspiracy it is alleged, the Knights followed him to other cities, and prevented him from exer. cising a lawful trade or calling, and com
 mitted an actinjurious to trade orcommerce,'
 as the Penal Code puts it.
 The defendants set up the law of 1870, which lprevents the construction of laws defining conspiracy in such way as to restrict tho
 peaceable assembling or cooperation of per.
 sons employed in any trade or handicraft fol
 the purpose of securing an advance of wages
 or for the maintenance of any such rate.
 Deputy Assistant District Attorney Lindsay
 who argued the case before the Court of Alp
 peals, said yesterday that it was decision o
 great importance to laboring men and tc
 manufacturers. The decision of the Court, be
 sad, meant that q strike for any other pur.
 pose than that of securing an increase o wages or against a reduction of wages is con
 spiracy under the Penal Code, where the ef
 feet of the strike is to injure the employer. MR. BLoNDIN made at St. George, Staten
 Island, on Saturday, his first appearance on
 American soil within twenty-seven years
 Seen close at hand, it is observable that SC many years have made him stouter of form, ruddier of face, and grayer of hair, for he is
 now 65 years old, but ,ime has not marred
 bis grace, agility skill, oI daring. To see
 him the rope, and not let the gaze dwell
 too long on the rounded midland outlines
 th..t tell SO eloquently of good living, one who had behe.d him in his last performances ir Joness Wood almost the life of a generation
 ago would hardly realize that as many months
 have gone over him as there has been years.
 IT ere were almost :, 900 persons on the grand
 stand to welcome him many more than were
 expected almost up to the time of opening, , for of the multitudes that thronged the ferry.
 boats going to the island, thousands seemed
 10 be going to the Wild West" at Erastina
 for hundreds who stopped at St. George.
 M. BLoNDIN made his entree in remark. lby sensational way, riding upon a small seat
 carried like a theatrical traveller" from the upper gallery of the grand stand, on a rope to [ one of the stages" at the end of his rope
 Below him, to balance the seat, swung gild-
 sd winged horse-a sort of wooden hippogriff
 He was evidently made up, at least so far as
 costume went, to represent the plumed knight James G. Blaine. On his head was white olumed helmet. About his body was coat oI bright theatric mail, with dangling fringe oi square silvered pieces that Tapped airily against his agile legs. With firm, dignifled rcad he walked out on the rope, whichis said ! to je 12O feet high, and strode firmly all its Itength of 200 feet to the further stage, where he laid his balance pole in rest for 8 few mo-
 n. nts while he took breath. Then he re- su ned, with more mincing, dancing step .. tuhed to lighter music, to the point whence he started. Entering a sort of dressing-room n;;dc by curtains on his landing stage, he quickly, with the aid of an assistant, changed his costume and came forth again in his
 proper athletic costume of close-ftting blaci velvet body, bare arms, and desh-colored lights.