Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-14
THE GREAT CITY.
Shopping in the MetrOpOlis-How Rich
and Poor Jostle One Another.
"armeneita's Dancing Greenwood Cemstery
and fits Illustrious Dend-A Con-
slant Stream Of Funerals

Special Correspondence of the Gazette.
New YORK CRY. Aug. 20, 1880.
Dainty, painted. powdered and gay
RolIeth my lady by,
Rags and tatters over the way
Under the open sky.
| Flowers aud dres ms from country meadows,
| Smoke and dew meath city skies.
Old men creeping with their shadows,
Children with their sunny eyes.
Hurry along-hurry along.
All is vanity meath the sun,
Velvet and rags, SO the world wags
| Until the river no more shall run. y
That is like New York. THIS morning ] saw
! the happy, gosSiping women dressed like fash
| ion plates. shopping IN the great stores on
| Twenty-third and Fourteenth streets. l saw
them buying Velvets worth SO a yard
outsi de q poor old blind man moved his
| palsied fingers over the KEYS OF weakened
tremuous voice Of age to attract the peoples
| attention and induce their odd pennies into his
! basket. Some oil these women buying the velvet
and laces gave him one penny, expect.
| Further down, / saw a lady selecting jewels Tor
| her young daughter. What DO you really sd
| wise Mrs Blank - she said 20 her comp anion,
| holding up two pairs OF diamond earrings, shin
| ing like small suns on their purple plush Pill
lows. don't you think these at S215 will please
Bessie lust as much as the svo ones II 'GG
| She said, mo, really, think the difference IN
the stones is worth the extra SIS SO, Bessie
off at boarding school, or at nome
clerks got the $500 DIAMONDS As they came
out of the jewelers. little lame boy on a KIND
of trundie car, selling the morning papers, held
up his puny little hand and the two ladies'
actually did not see him. They too alb
sorbed in Bessie's diamonds. thought he was
worth looking al anyhow, even If not giving a
penny to. His dear little face was chastensd
and pinched with suffering, but it frank
and sweet to look at in a big, wicked city, as an
oxeyed daisy.
A half block away 4 crowd blocked the way.
saw them all looking up ana looked up too
From the roof OF q fve-story building hung
sign reading, ''S3. 90 per dozen; photographs IN
the very latest styles and most artistic poses,
etc.
On that roof right over the sign, great
tail soldier, dressed in white and blue uniform
and gold braid. -trutting up and down acc going
not these New York people do TO
advertise? wonder how much
the photographer pays that poor peacock TO
strut there by the hour?
As l turned to go away l smelt tuberoses and
there they were, fresh ann dewy, in the dirty
hands of a black eyed urchin, a half dozen of
them, laid upon great bunch OF ferns. for i've
cents. | could not resist; it was cheaper than
planting the bulbs and waiting for them
slowly tuberose blooms. 1t lets just so much
white peep out and stands there talizingly
that way for week. Mine bloomed vhen l
looked at them-that is, they bloomed for me-
They bloom on, here on my table, and put me
to thinking of all kinds OF mRditative things-of
little dead INDEPENDENTLY. Isn't that a
howerG | have seen so many little white
com n, with these suggestive waSen blossoms on
their lids. and have always smelt them
eral service be NJ held. eff that Is the
case,' you say, chow she love them and
wear them?''
All, because there is no uncanuy or bitter
thought connected with little dead baby. 1t is
only an innocent bit OF white wax, unimpressed
by Sonoruq stylus, unmarr By sin 3 tough.
Happy little dead baby always say. ''You
have lost nothing good and escaped much bad
You should see 'Carmencita'' dance. She
is a beautiful Spaniard, and her dancing the
full measure of ''that poetry of motion we
hear about She is at COSTA and Balls an
utterly impossible place, but ''Carmenci-
ta's" Spanish eyes, pirouttes and tinger-up
kisses have brought to those pleoian footlights
an entirely new array of faces from upper ten
men-sitting with hats on, drinking
beer and smoking cigars. ind # srent to
or, indeed. utterly OBJ i;ious Of
and ladies'. who come in about lO:SU, when
''Carmencita'' is billed to dance, and leave
cita'' wears number Of gauzy skirts about to
her ankles, tiny pink kid shoes soft q
glove. No stays restrain her supple waist. no
sleeves her slender graceful arms with which
she dances almost as much as with her
feet. She wears rose pinned coquet-
ishly but antiquatedly in the side OF
her black hair and starts off with a lace man
tilla thrown over the rose, but that is soon off
and gone in the sinuous curves Of la Ca
Chuca- 80 On, now tnaL pilant DOoy 'sWayS ana
floats, poised first on one taper pink foot, then
the other! How the eyes sparkle and the fresh
checks kindle with the exercise! How the
swelling bosom rises and falls, and the grace
full, swan-like neck bends, carrying the
pretty head almost to the floor back
wards AM forwards! She is paid $50 per week.
She gets boatloads of flowers every night and
applause and encores until her neither limbs fail
her and she can only throw kisses from the less
tatigued finger tips. l wonder if she is a good
'Carmencita'-as good she looks, gra-
cious of soul and lie of limb? hope so. A
beautiful body is rich gift OF God, too rich and
fan to be welded to other than fair life.
We spent Sunday afternoon in Greenwood GEM
etery, "silent city of the dead so beautiful
that one feels like being dead to partake OF its
blessedness. It is high, broken plateau, over
looking New York bay, Brooklyn Intervening
the city of Churches with its thousand
spires standing out against the hay blue back
ground like finely wrought etchings. The north
entrance to the cemetery is a magnificent triple
out OF the soid stone. are basreliefs OF our
Savior entom bment, the raising of the wild
ow's son from death. the persecution and the
scene of Christ calling Lazarus from the tomb.
handsome and significant bronze bust of
Horace Greedy attracted my attention. 1t is a
tribute from the printers of this
missing face looks well in bronze. On one
side of the pedestal is the youthful printer, be-
other side a pillow, somewhere else pen and
scroll. WAS serious, looking into that stern, |
dead face, until saw the pen, then 1 thought
how Horace Greely's chirography had come to
be an ideal of all things illegible, and of-my
owa-and-I laughed. 1 wondered if 1 should |
ever become great man, and be done up in |
bronze. il they would old woman |
sharpened'' pencil stub on my pedestal, to |
make ridiculous.
The vault of Mr.. Niblo, formerly owner OF |
Niblo's Garden, is one of the handsomest in |
Greenwood, but the chastest, prettest tomb I |
saw was that OF A. S. scribner, the elder owner |
of Scribner's Magazine. The tomb is in the |
front of a temple, un Ter the canopy of which q |
Hope" An octagonal base pports the fig |
ure, and on its sides, in Alabaster, are basre- |
liefs of the Life of Christ. from his birth to his
An odd and comically pathetic spot is ''Old |
Maids Plot'' where five maiden sisters are |
buried side by side; their ages ranged from 100 |
to III years. At the foot of each grave is pill |
low upon which the remaining sisters kept
burning virgins lamp as long as there was
one remaining yirgin to keep them trimmed and
a. burning. An Imposing eminence is the |
oriental tomb of C. K. Garrison, once
mayor of San Francisco, magnificent
structure which cost $50, 900. An interesting
monument is that of the old sea captain, John
Cerreja. The old man had it built fifteen years
before his death 1t is perfect likeness of him
standing in his uniform, the marble hands, |
empty for fifteen years, holding the very
seItant which he used while in active service.
Verify, death puts no limits on pride.
A superb statuary group marks the lot OF James !
Gordon Bennett. the founder of the New YORK
Herald The work was executed in Italy, ofthe
inest C.rrara marble; the main figure is that of