Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-10


THE IMPAIRMENT MADE BY THE cLAFLISs.
tCorrespondence Of The FvrxrSe SrARl
NEw YORK, Nav 9.
Hyde Park itself. with all its glories OF horse
flesh and toilette on q spring afternoon in the
London season, can hardly rival the brilliance
OF the spectacle in Central Park on one OF these
sunny May afternoons The display is about at
its height now, for very soon those who con-
tribute most to splendor will begin TO scatter
and 1t will be no longer good form TO be seen
IN the park. But every pleasant day now the
east drive entrance at Fifth avenue is a solid
mass of glittering equipsges. four or i've
abreast, low, heavy-rolling carriages with shin
ing horses, isngling chains and coachmen
and footmen of resplendent costume and
an absolutely wooden stolidity Of demeanor
for which no salary could be too high.
The carriages are generally open ones and pre-
sent u glittering panorama OF dazzling spring
toilettes with fiowery bonnets and airy para
soils, for the women predominant as largely rs
they do at church and at summer resorts very
few OF the solid citizens caring to spend an
afternoon in the expensive equipages they pay
for. When the men do care for driving IL is
usually TO do it themselves, and q good many
solid elderly fellows may be seen with dust
coats and spectacles and heavy driving gloves
holding the lines in q business-like fashion as
their teams of fast trotters speed through the
park up to the broad, smooth boulevard of
Seventh avenue, where . faster gait is per-
mitted.
THE PEDESTRIANS.
The bride path, too, is crowded with riders,
young men and maidens, old men and little
children, and the frequent accidents that have
occurred there recently have made the authori-
ties talk seriously Of widening the path and
have also made the sensible among the eques-
trians a little more careful about fast riding
Last Saturday the right of way in the principal
drives was given up to the riders, for 1t was
the day of the annual parade of the riding
clubs. Under the leadership OF Mr.. Howard
Carroll as marshal $50 good riders, we'll
mounted and equipped, formed in procession.
The day was dazzling one, the
grass and young foliage was of a
most vivid green and great masses
of flowers were blooming in spring splendor
Crowds of spectators on foot, on horseback
and IN carriages were assembled along the
drives to see the horsemen go by. The horses
we're shining and glossy as satin and we're set
Oh by their saddle cloths, each club having a
different color bearing its monogram IN gold.
Most OF the riders were well-bullt young fell
lows IN trlg uniforms and high riding boots
and each club had adopted flower for bouton-
nieres. They went up the east drive TO 10th
street and down the west drive to 72d, where
they crossed over to the boulevard and termi-
mated their ride at the Claremont Hotel
MUSCULAR SOCIETY MEN.
The last OF the Claremont teas, which have
been 80 popular among society people, took
place Thursday. They have been a graceful
innovation on the conventional and somewhat
monotonous drawing-room tea Every Thurs
day afternoon for the last month a gay crowd
OF mondaines with their accompanying caya-
liers IN carriages or on horseback have gone out
the Riverside road as far the Claremont
Hotel, where they have had afternoon tea on
the piazza and lawn, making a pleasant re-
union and an objective point for the daily drive
or ride. Society seems to get more and more
an appreciation of the pleasures Of out of doors,
and the rich youth of the Gay Is much more apt
to be trained athlete than an effeminate dude
1t Is even said that numbers of those who go in
Tor polo and other athletic sports are TO be seen
vigorously exercising themselves and their
horses In the parks between 5 and in the
morning, but OF this cannot speak as an eye
witness.
DULL TIMES FOR BASE BALL MEN.
Whatever the reason is il would seem that
the base ball fever has reached and passed it's
crisis and that Its violence is beginning TO
abate. The public may not unnaturally have
become somewhat weatled of the contentious
between the two associations and the serious
| and elaborate discussions which have spun
| along as lntermiDably if they concerned a
continents welfare. At any rate, the attend
ance at the games here SO lar has dwindled
away to almost nothing, and both clubs are
playing at great loss. Business may improve
as summer comes on, but it really looks as il
| the caprlcious public had tired of squabbles
and of abstruse records under cabalistic initials
| as mystlfying to the uninItiated as cuneiform
inscriptions Then, too, both the New York
clubs are playing very badly, and, perhaps
because OF the slim audiences appear almost
as indifferent as the audience itself.
MR.. GUIoN's CASE.
When man goes back on the record of an
honorable life the most natural thing in the
world Is to try TO find some excuse for him
His friends say that Mr.. Guion, whose DELHI
crate abstraction of $4,000 III bonds entrusted
to HIM has startled everyone, was old and ire
sponsible, but If a man of little over ~ is
not responsible for his actions II would shake
ones confidence In a large portion OF the busl-
ness community. The most surprising thing
about the theft is that any man would sell for
80 small a sum respected and honorable name.
The Guion steamship line, though not 30
prominent now, held at one time the position
now occupied by the Inman, that Is, while
nominally English it in reality the AmerI-
can line, and with the White Stars thew were
the pioneers in the ocean greyhound business.
1t was the White Stars who begun lowering
RECORDS WIN the britannia ana the Germaulc.
but the Gulons brought out the Alaska and the
Arizona, which in their day attracted even
more attention than the Majestic aud the Paris
do now.
THE SINGER FIRE.
The town Of Elizabeth and the Singer sewing
machine works, with their $3.50 employees and
payroll of between $4,000 and CSC, 900, are
practically synonymous terms. If the families
these employees represent and the tradesmen
supported by their custom were subtracted
from the 5000 inhabitants of Elizabeth the
effect would be much the same as if all the
government employees were wiped out
of Washington. SO all Elizabeth held
its breath while the big fire ragged We'd
nesday morning through the largest
sewing machine factory in the world finding
in the wooden cases and benches, shelves of
pamphlets, boxes Of thread and great cans of
oil a breakfast much to its taste. The engines
even, when they got there through the mud
and darkness OF the country roads could accom-
plish little. But the firemen fought manfully
and, thanks to q change in the wind, success
fully to keep the flames from spreading over
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