Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-10

he gazed moodily and mournfully at the
pavement He is the son of one of the
famous rich men of New York, man of 80
years, and is usually regarded as an amiable
and good-natured person. He nodded as 1
came along, and asked me if there was any
thing going on.
''In what way?" I asked.
'Tn any way out of the humdrum of every
day existence"
mot that know of."
"Of course not" was the morose reply
''New York is as stupid as back country
village. love it, and so do you, but L can
not help thinking what bowling outrage it
is just the same that all the amusement and
fun is being crushed out OF the town. 1t is
not only that they are stopping the public
balls, cutting up the Polo Grounds, NOV
ing the driving parks miles out of the city,
preventing all boxing sparring and athletic
exhibitions by police force and shutting up
all the places of amusement wherein wine,
women and song effect felicitous combina-
tion, but it is the spirit of everlasting re-
preston and caddishness that governs the
town.
IN A HUNDRED YEARS.
A hundred years from this, New York
will be the greatest city in the world. We
will have glorious climate, and the will of
the people will predominate, so that we will
have all the entertainments of the fun-lov-
ing Germans and French, as we'll as the
sports of the English and Americans. 1
don't know what to do to amuse myself Ny
life is as monotonous as that of a confiden-
tial clerk in a downtown drygoods house.
T III 1 1.on
a little time thereafter, my barber comes
and shaves me. I can't go out until he
does me up, because if any one else shaves
me I look as though somebody had passed
lawnmOwer over my face. This gets me up
to noon, and at o'clock am down at the
club for luncheon. After that would like
to know what on earth there is 20 do. There
are thousand things going on every after
noon in the other great capitals of the
world, but no longer in New York. 1t is
all nonsense to say that we have no leisure
class here, for the town is filled with sight
seers and strangers at all times"
'Why don't you drive?"
"Oh, drive be blowed! The park is filled
now with lot of youngsters whom nobody
ever saw before and hopes never to see
again. No one ever thinks of going out
there until 4:30, and then there is a contin-
uous stream of English traps, driven by
rank outsiders, who have little clothes, and
drive their little horses around the little
circle and then return home, feeling that
they have done a great thing. went in for
trotting stock for awhile, but up the road it
is simply a succession of drinks. Once in
awhile I get desperate in the long after
noons-we do not dine until 8, you know
and drop in at matinee. It did not last
very long. If there is anything on earth
more thoroughly disheartening than the
feeling which comes over man after he has
come out of matinee. I don't know what
it is. You feel exactly as though you had
been playing poker all night"
DRIVEN TO WORK.
What the man complained of was really
the best feature of New York life There
is absolutely nothing going on during the
day, and even rich mems sons are driven to
work. That is why the atmosphere of New
York is so much healthier for young men
than the atmosphere of the big towns of the
Old World. A man who does not toll in
New York is looked upon as more or less of
an anomaly; whereas, in London or Paris.
the man who works for living is regarded
with a feeling of gentle but fathomless
curiosity by the greater number of his
friends When our leisure class has reached
its full development there may be more fun
in New York before the gas is lighted for
the night, but it will be healthier atmos-
phere for young men.
The amusements of New York's younger
generation do not begin and end with what
may be called ''show driving" The fact is,
there is very little real solidity in the pro-
cession of traps in Central Park. There are
but two or three tandems in the city now,
and they are driven by men whom nobody
knows. T carts, dog carts and gigs of various
patterns are not as fashionable as they were.
They are still correct enough; but a queer
fad has caught the. Anglomaniacs here
The most ultra English of all vehicles are
the little ash buckboards which were re-
Gently adopted in Great Britain. The buck
board itself is an American invention.
About ten years ago our carriage manufac-
turers developed the vehicle, and it was
taken up by lot of wealthy people at New
port and Lennox Sideboard springs were
introduced, the dashboard and seat were
constructed of beautifully embossed leather
of light brown shade, the wheels were al
most as light as those of sulky, and the
horses were harnessed we'll forward to long
ash pole. Altogether, it made wonder
fully smart and taking little wagon for
rambling around the country roads, At all
events, it caught the fancy of the rich peo-
pie of Great Britain, and the carriage manu.
tacturers here had endless orders. Then the
British carriage builders took up the fad.
THE ANGLoMANIAcs.
In the course of time, few Anglo
maniacs discovered what a stupendously
swagger thing the blackboard was, and
brought back some English limitations from
London. That was enough. Now the
buckboards are decidedly in the van. As
is usually the case, however, the Anglo
maniacs have made the mistake of using
the vehicles for city use as we'll as for the
country. They drive them in the park
during the afternoon to teams OF we'll
matched cobs, and evidently fancy them
selves serenely at the top. Notwithstand-
ing this, however, the buckboards are a well
come relief to the eternal sameness of the
carts and gigs.
This same misconception of the time and
place for exhibiting new fashion may also
be applied to the tailless dress coat or
shell jacket. Everywhere one goes in pub
lie now there are to be found troupes of
young men in evening dress, but nearly all
of them wear the tailless coat. At theater
or opera, even when they accompany ladies,
the Anglomaniacs apparently feel au fdit
in what is to them q new garment. If
man were to appear in such dress in En-
gland in public he would be the cause of
universal derision. The shell jacket is re-
garded in England simply as a slight i'm
provement upon the dressing gown or smok-
ing jacket. A man would no more think of
going to the opera there in a shell Jacket
than he would think of wearing his dress
ing gown.
Originally the jackets were worn by Off
GERS on service in India, The heat there Ia