Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-01

CENSUS coUSr-rHE OUTLOOK NEXT TukspAr
cOrrespOndsnce Of TEE EVENING star.
NEW YORK. Oct 80
Among the thriving newness of the wastes OF
commonplace red brick and brown-stone OF
upper New York it is an odd and interesting
sight to see scattered here and there a few
spacious and roomy old manor houses, relics OF
bygone day, whose broad and generous d.
mansions with the piIlared portico OF
colonial architecture afford pleasing contrast
70 the shot-tower type of fat by which they are
very generally surrounded. The glory OF their
white paint and green blinds has usually de-
parted, but their strong and simple lines. the
generous breadth OF their doors and windows
ana their air Of hospitable leisure and repose
make them restful TO the eve faded with wan
sara roofs, Norman round towers and so-called
queen Anne gables and qulrks generally. These
were the remote country residences 10 which
the prosperous New Yorker of a very few gem
er%uons ago rumDied out IN his slow and pom
oerous family carriage even as he now shoots
oa' 10 tuxedo In his drawlng-room car or
| SKINS up the river in his steam Yacht to his
country seat on the Hudson. Some of the old
mansions have had an eventful history and of
iNIe years have seen dramatic transformations.
Not lew Of them have sunk from their patri-
archaI hospitality and state TO the more sordid
hospitality of beer gardens. and Hans and
Gretchen, with noisy and clumsy feet, have
danced on the floors whore dainty high-heelcd
Shippers clicked and sllken trains swept IN colo
NAL days.
"REMINISCENCES OF DEPARTED GLORY.
The quaint old mistress of one OF these
quaint old mansions was telling me the other
night with unconscious pathos of the former
i4orles or her domain and the efforts that had
oetn made to preserve 1t. She told how from
ther windows they saw two OF the forts OF
the war OF 1872, Que OF which is now the old
block house on a knoll AT the northern end Of
central Park, and on the site of the other Is
the terraccd height OF Morningside Park There
were no parks around them then, but on the
west they saw the noble sweep of the Hudson,
and away to the east the whiA sails on the East
river. But the city grew up TO them, AMI
through their broad acres CITY streets were
opened and the fields became building lots and
the acres feet. Through the broad center hall
OF the old house went the line OF 9Th avenue,
put the aged owners, nothing daunted. resolved
10 move the house. They went TO housekoep-
ing IN Il when they were married, fifty-nine
years before, at the brides home IN the fash
ionaD!e residence quarter on broadway. Just
Delow Cortlandt, and II WAS no trifiing question
OF avenues ana Hats and elevated railroads that
was going 10 make them move out. So they
stayed IN their hlgh-cellUnged Old square rooms
while the ponGerous machinery of The movers
was put IN operation. Making the holes for the
Dig, creased beams through the substantial
stone foundation and eighteen-inch brick
WORK was Ike storming the Bastile. bu;
modern science can cope even with ancient
masonry, ana without perceptIble jar except
continual gentle vibration of the prisns on
the antique candelabra the task was accom-
pnshed. Many modern house is built for less
tnah the moving cost (SS000), but its owners
take great satisfaction III the result. In the
-FOUR years since IT was done the town has
butt up closely all around the old house and
the elevated clatters pact its long, ld-fashloned
garden with prim box-bordered walks among
the hydrangcas, hollyLocks and lilies and neat
rows OF peas, beans and lettuce, which no
doubt cost much moro than those at the neigh
por4nS green Srocers, but taste far sWeetor.
THE ROCKY SOIL OF LETTERS.
A food of light is thrown upon the periodi-
cal industry of this country by little manual
which has just appeared. or rather reappeared.
Tor 1t Is enlarged and revised called .'Periodi-
Gals that Pay Contributors" This will doubt
less be u wade mecum to tho aspiring Young
author, and nobody but the magazine editors
know how many there is of him. The book.
however, Is not calculated TO make his heart
leap for joy, for the periodicals sh Nv no good
Samaritan spirit or desire TO lend a helping
hand to the climber Oh flames ladder. Nine
tenths coldly announce No pay for poetry"
What encouragement ID there for Amer
lea mute lnglorious Millions when
the literary market does hot shame
TO be SO callous and unsympathetic?. One west
ern humorlst remarks that he Will insert poetry
for % cents a line. love stories for 10 cents a
line and jokes without charge. The Electrical
World, the Street Raillcdy Journal and other
purely practical publications. state emphatic
ally that they have no use for poetry, though
one can hardly imagine a contributor sending
In any unless it might be some classic, like
The Charge OF the Light Brigade" or Punch,
Brothers, Punch" The amazing thing about
1t is the Immense number OF periodicals OF
which even newspaper man has
never heard, though they appear to do
driving business, they announce that they
are overcrowded with manuscript The Jour
nal st SrImly announces that il desires news
OF publishers methods that unfair or dis
honest" the paper having somewhat the char
acter OF policeman TO protect writer's but
adds with a satire, born. no doubt of bitter
experience, 1t does not want poems about love
and roses. nor stories about the widow who
was starving until she wrote a magazine article,
which placed her in luxGry." which at once
cuts OF two copious sources of supply.
CHESS KINGS MENTAL FEAT.
We are soon to have another grea: chess con-
test between Steinitz and Gunsberg The last
contest was memorable in the annals of chess
here, and the ne promises to be equally in
teresting. The games are to begin on Deem
Der i. No one who has not watched the recent
development of the game has the least idea of
the precision TO which 1t has been carried bv
the modern experts. Recently Mr. Stcinitz
gave one Of the most marvellous exhibitions of
memory and OF science ever known. He WAS
playing twenty-slX games simultaneously when
his opponent III one, well along in the
game disputed move he made Oh the ground
that it was not his turn. Are YOU not keeping
record OF the game!" asked the great PLAYER
with view TO settling the dispute On his adj
versary replying IN the negative Steinitz began
with the first move of the game and gave the
whole game TO where the men were placed. in
order to show that the move was his. When
We remember that he had taken no special
pains to keep track of the game and was plav-
Ing twenty-five other games at the same time
this feat Is almost incredible.
A COUNT NEW YORK THINKS NO ACCOUNT
New York is feeling very sore over the re-
fusal by Secretary Noble of O second census.
At the same time there is general feeling that
Mayor Grant bungled the correspondeuce
Viewed simply as a legal battle, the Secretary
of the Interior has clearly the better of il but in
equity the police census should have been given
greater attention by the government Brook
lyn Is now about to make a recount and see
that Philadelphia also wanted to try its hand 1t
Is idle to pretend that there does not exist A
widespread dissatisfaction with the returns
and We have only begun to hear the reyerbera-
tions. The matter will certainly be ventilated
next winter in Congress and made a party is
sue. One curious effect of the controversy has
been TO give Mayor Grants candidacy a sudden
boom at the most opportune time, although as
have said, 1t is generally thought that he let
his temper get the better of his shrewdness in
conducting the correspondence, on which ac-
count he is widely blamed. Nevertheless the
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