Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1889-11-27
NEW YORK LETTER.
New YORK, November IS. 1850

A few days ago the Board of Alder
men passed an ordinance prohibiting
organ grinding, or the playing of any
mnsica, Instruments, in tue streets uf
this city, excepting in parades etc,
under penalty If fine or Imprisonment
The intention was to stop the alleged
annoyance caused by the everlasting
grinding of the hand organ and the
footing of the "llttle German band'':
but events have proven our plebeian
popuiace do not consider /. much of
nuisance after all. In fact they rather
like the music, and are coming to the
rescue of the musicians by demanding
an amendment to the law, which will
allow them to follow their old time oc
cupation with some restrictions. For
this purpose mass-meeting will be
held to-night in Brooks Assembly
Rooms, when, no doubt, there will tie
much music in the aic. I he number
of people who gain livelihood by this
means must be very large, as they can
be seen on almost every block, with Il
crowd OF children waltging about them,
which crowd varies in size according
as the music Is furnished by regularly
uniformed German "mud-gutter" band,
or by an ordinary Italian hand-organ.
In either case the children are vastly
interested and whether the tune is
"Where Did You Get That Hat"' or
"Home Sweet Home" the performers
are always sure of an audience of little
ones who appreciate ifeir efforts.
A PAYING INVESTMENT.
On the heels of the report that the
Broadway Railroad Company had made
application for permission to change
its motor power froIl horses to cable,
comes the announcement that the ele-
yated railroad carried during the past
year nearly 1870 million passengers;
this is an average of half a million 4
day, or, in other words, the rec ipts
were more than thousand dollars an
hour, night and day. In return for Nil
this money, the company gives very
poor accommodations one is lucky
if he can get seat in the morning or
evening. and if he does, he is not sure
whether he will be roasted or frozen
To death before he arrives al the end of
his journey. Often on the coolest days
in winter there is not vestige of heat
in the cars, while en- mild day the
heat il sometimes suffocatings besides
this, the speed 10 little better than that
of the horse cars, being less than ten
miles an hour at best. Rapid transit
so long talked of, and which we
thought we had, is still in the future.
REMARKABLE STAGE MACHINERY
The mechanical arrangement for
reproducing IA horse race on the stage,
which is dome in The County Fair"
now running at the Union Square
Theatre, is remarkable piece of stage
machinery. 1t is not brand new
device, bur the propri, tor and the chief
actor, Neil Burgess, has greatly i'm
proved on it since 1t was seen here last
Spring. The effect of the horses run
Mag at full speed and yet not getting
ahead, is produced by the revolving
stage which the horses keep pushing
from andel them. The moving pano-
rama al the back has been rearranged,
ana the Encouragement is so clever and
artistic that it gives the impression of
the landscape flving back from the
heels of she horses precisely as in
genuine equine contest The front
panorama, fwhict ased to be the pic
t9re OF Il fence, has been transformed
Into q practical fence and greatly
assists the illusion. Altogether it is an
ingeaicas arrangement, and should
serve to stimulate other Inventions OF
air il.y At,