New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-06
teen or the h.f Of them Is wotu bu. not to DO Known

teen the half Of them is woful but not to DO known
to them is social oblivion"
On New Years Day there were number Of break
faSts, receptions and balls. Mrs. Ralph N. Isham
gave large luncheon for men and women In honor
Of Miss Isham of Ncw-York. who is visiting her. and
In the afternoon there receptions at Mrs.
Sprague's Mrs. H. ii. Honores, Mrs. Carson's. Mrs.
Mckay's and Mrs. Odclls In the evening there
was general rcassembling Of society at Mrs Charles
z. Kellogg's domino party. wednesday night Mrs.
Potter Palmer gave cotillon, and Thursday night
there was the Charity Ball, at which there was the
usual crowd, and which netted nearly $4,000 for
the various charities for which it was given
Chicago is to have fox hunt, or rather, an anise
seed hunt. II is not very arstocratioGafair being
engineered by Ed" Smith, gentleman of sporting
poclvitcs with fondness for bull terriers etc. but
still Il Is hunt and the meet will be at Mr. Smiths
club house" February d. meeting OF the COM
m,t,ce having the matter In charge was held Thurs
day and It determined that al ladies and gentle
men who desire to follow the hounds and compete
for the prizes offered must send in their names on
or before February 10. There will be no regulation
costume f. II. Cook, Of Detroit, will be master Of
hounds on the occasion, .u three packs of the finest
foxhounds in the country win be used, numbering all
told. about thirty head. Tobe Broderck will make
the drag drawing the bag over ten-mile run, IN
Guiding SIX Jumps. The scent will be through Wash
incton and Jackson Parks. The first woman at the
finish Will receive the brush, genuine fox's tail
mounted with silver. The first man viii DO presented
with handsome driving whip. dinner will follow
the hunt"
The Telephone Subscribers League arc keeping up
their agitation against the exorbant telephone rates
and at tho meeting held Thursday the proposed
ordinance granting n franchise to the company was
denounced The committee thought that the provision
relating TO the payment OF three per cent by the telo
phone people was scheme which would enable the
latter 10 extort further rates from subscribers In
gard provision permitting the lease sale OF
the rights of the company TO another company. tho
committee reported that It the company's object
10 pcrpetuate Indefinitely monopoly destructive to
all possible competition petition was drawn up
and addressed to the Mayor and Council protesting
against the passage of the ordinance and calling for
one that would limit the charges of the company to
SS5 for year and SO year for three-years'
contract
The reviews OF Chcago's trade and commerce
the business of 1897 The manufacturing interests Of
the city have prospercd except in iron, hog products
number of merchantile departments which have
suffered severely by the pGonged absence Of VIA, th
year. The rolling mills have done much less than
last year, because of smaller quantity OF railroad
building The total trade OF the year aggregates
81, l23, 900 900, being increase of 3-4 per cent
The Chicago Board Of Trade Stock Exchange, has
been dissolved The Exchange was organized less than
it was soon discovered that it could be little more
than bucketshop of the New-York Stock Exchange
Interest Jagged and trades were few. Then the FIX
change obtained place in the main hall, where
members could trade in stocks and at the same time
watch their trades in the grain pits. This too proved
failure and the instruments were removed from the
floor, while the "stock gambling many members
called IT, died a natural death.
The theatres this week have nearly all had large
audiences, and the weeks business with three mat
fnecs is very large. At Hoolcy's Mr.. SOthcrn, In
Lord Chumley," has repeated his New York success.
The Kings FOoln at the Columbia and the spec
tacuar show at the Chicago Opera House. have also
had excellent week of 1t, while Mr. Florence, at
McVicker's, has had small audiences.
The substitution Of electricity for gas in the bust
ness part of the town is great Improvement, and
there is a general clamor for the extension OF the
system. The number OF electric lights IS $50, the
number of gas lamps displaced about, 1000. This
makes 1t at the rate of something more than five gas
lamps displaced by each electric light