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think. From the cabinet into the dim light Of
the long parlor emerged the figure Of VIII al
seemed to be a man garbed in black He shook
hands with several of the party; said that his
name was Doctor Baker. He glided slowly OF
toward the darker end of the apartment. and
appeared to settle down into the floor. Instantly
there arose in his place a feminine spirit in
white robes, with her draped arms waving,
and her feet as light ballet dancers She
swooped like veritable apparition upon us
whispered mysteriously, made my blood curdle
for a minute, and then refreshed into the
cabinet
The Union club is the most pretentious among
all the clubs in New York. Its big house at
Fifth avenue and Twenty-frst street has of lE.e
been exceeded in size and splendor by that
of the Union League, and there several
CARNATIONS into which, owing to certain
strictions of birth or numbers tits more difhcult
to enter. But the Union retains supremacy al
club Of the highest social pretensions and
wealth Passing its premises about two months
ago with friend, I saw that the windows look,
ing out upon the avenue were full, as usual OF
an afternoon. with solid looking men. They
were the sort of chaps on whom ordinary
passers by gazed with considerable awe as at
mortals more favored than themselves, IL act
ually of no better quality.
"Stop moment" said my companion, s'and
let me call your attention to three men in those
windows-this one. that one. and the third one
beyond Well. they ought to be looking out
through the CRATES of State prison, and they
will be if they get their deserts"
They were not trio TO talk lightly about in
that manner, and yet already one has been
locked up, one is fugitive, and the third is in
almost equal disgrace. Charles G. Francklyn
and capitalist in various ventures. and owner OF
the villa at Long. Branch wherein President
Garfield ~. died He turns ). out ut to & have sppro
Mining Company, and he has been locked up for
while in Jail, and is now out on bail. Jerome
and then @ grabbed ed $500 600 out of an estate @ to
whose safe deposit vault he held key. His
exploit was exposed. and now he keeps out of
town. General William Cutting took over q
quarter of million belonging to his relatives,
and is only saved from incarceration because
the plundered persons are magnanimous. Those
were the three men who were holding up their
heads lofty in the Union Club windows. There
is now movement in that organization to in
duce them to resign quietly or else they will be
member of swell club is not invariably honest
to say nothing of the extreme gentlemanliness
supposed to be required
Freemasons are jubiiant over the fact that,
in their recent great fair. in this city, a great
many in the guild conquered the prejudices OF
their wives against Freemasonry, Ind got those
to go and assist there who had vowed them
selves long enemies of an institution pos
sessing secrets they never mastered, and q
power over their husbands certain nights
greater than their own influence. Now another
strife has arisen between the fair sex and its
protectors, and this seems not likely to termi-
nate, as that of the worthy Masons did in mas
culine victory. The new warfare is merely a
phase of an old contention. The women are band
ed together against a rum-seller. His name il
George Hillen and he is type of that large
class of Germans who began life here by keep
ing the corner groceries, and who, when th0
law forbade little back bars behind stores,
abandoned the trade in necessaries almost in S
body and became the founders of the then new
order of showy bar-rooms Hillen is the nabob
of them ALL His chief place is in August Bel
monts old family mansion, on Fifth avenue.
Hillen got the property, and outraged gilt-edged
society by converting the first foor into palace
of drink The establishment did a. great busi-
ness from the start. That is the principal
artists quarter of the town. One who cares to
enter groggery at all may see the artists drop
ping in there to order wines Or cigars sent to
selves William M. Chase, the exquisite Of the
profession, and the man who made mint OF
money by recent sale and exhibition of his
works, sanctioned the choice of Hillen's as
the artists retreat by taking few friends
there from some of the frequent gatherings
in the grand museum that constitutes his studio.
Well, Hillen contemplated still bolder move
than that of planting a bar-room on the very
spinal column of swell existence. He deter
mined to establish another drinking house at
the corner of University place, block west or
Broadway Now, Fourteenth street, from
Broadway to Sixth avenue, is sacred to the ladies'
and their shops. Every building is retail store.
dark are crowded by women a9d girls not Of
this city alone but from every place on the co1l-
tinent. The word sacred applies peculiarly to
this stretch of four blocks, for no man has ever
had the hardihood to attempt to utilize store
or even sidewalk booth for any masculine in
terest, and not drink of liquor was ever offered
for sale there since the street was captured by
the fair sex. Excitement followed the news
that Hilen intended to start bar-room in this
Adamless Eden. This was what he had aimed
at, and he spent forty thousand dollars In dec ,
Grating and furnishing the not very large room
The flooring isa crazy work of imported mosiacs,
the bar is unequaled in cost and beauty, and
the back bar, with its great arches and alcoves,
each backed by enormous sheets of mirror and
framed by the most delicate carving, is beyond
anything in the city. so far as magnifcence is
concerned. Bronzes. stained glass, polished
brass, bric-a-brac and curios are fairly heaped
what Hillen intended aroused has proved more
than he courted. The women have massed
themselves against the desecration of their re-s
gion; the merchants have backed them, and the
excise board has been beset with the agent1
of the women that they have refused license.
For weeks the place has been ready for business
but the doors are still barricaded, and thG
women laugh as they trip by. It is queek
struggle between power not often excited IN !
New York and this most influential of all trades
All who know Of the situation are waiting
eagerly to see whether or no the politicians dars
to defy the women. CLARA BELLE.
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