Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-11
Correspondence OF The EVENING STAR

HALLS.
Correspondence Of THn EVENING STAR
NEW YORK, January 10.
As find so many people in Washington spec
ulating about Hills chances in 80 his latest bid
for popularity may be worth a paragraph.
This is the elaborate and friendly consideration
he has given in his annual message this week
to the question of ballot reform. II we are
able to look at this document free from parti.
san bias we shall find in it much that is sensible
and to be commended; and that man of Hills
antecedents and affiliations should deem it ex.
pedient to occupy as advanced ground as he
has done furnishes striking proof of the mo.
mentum which the reform has acquired.
As to '92, Hills chances depend upon a num-
Der of circumstances. Four ont OF FIVE men
you meet would say he has no chance at all.
and yet the fifth might be the nearer right.
Much may depend on whether or not New York
remains the pivotal state. If it does not his
chances are snuffed out. 1t is therefore natural
that his adherents should be busy figuring at
this time that the battle in '92 will once more
turn on the result in New York. Thus the New
York S,u insists that the verdict of the country
will hinge Oh the voice of New York and more
than that upon 1.-The maintenance diminu-
ton of the democratic majority in New York
Brooklyn and the towns OF the metr opolitan
district" Or in other words, in the precise To-
cality where Mr.. Hill is strongest and Mr.
Cleveland weakest. 1t would be rash to assume
however. as the Hill men inclined to DO
that Cleveland lacks voting strength in New
York city and vicinity. Certainly he is more
popular there than ever personally and his wife
has already become one of the great social
forces. Their elegant mansion IN the Marquand
group of palaces on Madison avenue forms one
of che chief points of interest in the social life
of the city. Mrs. Cleveland is displaying the
same gift OF pleasing that gave her such dis
tinction i'll Washington and Mr. Cleveland is
rapidly identifying himself with some of the
very strongest business interests of the CITY
He is studiously quiet, but though Brer Grover
he lay low, nevertheless he may get there all
the same.
DINNER THAT WASN'T LOVE FEAST.
What may lead to a serious and open split in
the democratic party in the state the I'M
pleasantness that came to the surface Wednes-
day night at the dinner of the democratic bust
ness mems club. Never before have the Cleve-
land-Hill factions met at such short range or
exchanged such hot shot. The demonstration
reached its climax when most of the Hill men
arose and left the tables q protest against
the criticisms which Col. Iathcrs. a strong
Cleveland man, was making on the governors
methods. Fortunately, for the interests of
peace, both Cleveland and Hill had a tip that
there would be trouble and kept out of the way.
NEW YoRK's PUSH FOR THE FAIR.
A strong delegation goes down today to Wash
ington to impress Congress by their arguments
and august presence that this city is the place
of all others for the worlds fair The white
whiskers of Chauncev Depew will be seen in
the van like the white plume of King Henry of
Navarro. Somehow this busy and witty gen
tlemau has become almost necessary to the sue
cess OF any public undertaking in New York.
While he was absent in Europe on his annual
nlny III the proipct lapvnlsha1
and 1t did not pluck up heart till he returned
and began to give it his active attention.
Thanks to his endeavOrs. however. and to a
general bracing up of the people in charge. the
enterprise has put a cheerful courage on and
is now supposed to be in most hopeful state.
L can't say that the people OF New York are
much more enthusiastic about the fair than
they have ever been; in other words they are
not enthusiastic about it at all. But the move
ment has attained such a momentum that it
now goes of itself.
THE GoNDoLIERs IN SHABBY VENICE.
There is a screw loose somewhere in the
management of the later Gilbert & Sullivan's
operas. Either the composers themselves now
that they have got rich and famous, have grown
indifferent or their business agents have lost
their grip. ''The Gondoliers" is painfully
handicapped by wretched caste and a shabby
stage. The new Park theater, where the per-
formances held was for some years the
home of Harrgan's exploits in the local drama
1t Is a cramped and dingy little place, as
ISOLATED with monkey shines and vermin and it
Is astonishing that any work of dignity should
be produced there. Then the caste is made
up of inferior stuff, so that we are hardly able
to judge what the opera might be under favor
able conditions. But apart from the surround
lngs the production itself has not revealed any
extraordinary beauty and the general verdict
seems to be that the operate mine of the great
Gilbert & Sullivan firm is running to emptyings.
STRIKING CASE OF HEREDITY.
An interesting episode in the very deliberate
movement to raise 800, 900 fund for tn, Wash
ington memorial arch has been the publication of
a very neat and bright little sheet in aid of the
fund by the second generation of the Century
management. The editor is Master Glider and
the next in charge is Master johnson, son of the
assistant editor of the Century, while Master
Drake. son of the superintendent of the art de-
partment. has drawn the illustrations. Mr..
Cation would have been Interested in this peri
odical an instance of heredity. The bows
have gotten out paper that is really very
creditablc, and L am told that they will be
able to turn in a hundred dollar pofit in aid
of the fund. The first edition was ex-
hausted in two or three days and has been
followed by two or three others. The fund
itself Is now growing steadily at the rate of
$1,000 week, thanks largely to the fact that
the World has put its shoulder to the wheel and
given its powerful aid to the movement. The
fund may also thank the Commercial Aduer-
user Tor much perseverlng aud effective work
III its behalf. Preparations for the construc-
ton of the arch are now actively going for
ward and the corner stone may be laid on the
22d of February. Although about S35, 900 is
still lacking of the full amount desired 1t is
understood that the solid men on the commit
tee, who have told the architect to go ahead, do
not propose to leave the arch to lanquish after
the manner of the Washington monument
STANLEY AS LYCEUM PRIZE.
The managers are making dead set for
Stanley attraction of the first water. The
announcement that one OF these enterprising
gentlemen has offered him $50 900 for fifty
lectures is not at all surprising. nor is it any
more IA matter of surprise that Stanley las not
80 much replied to the offer. By one of
those curious waves of fashion in amuse ment
lecturing has again come into vogue and among
all lecturers Stanley at present is far and away
the chief. He is in position to dictate terms,
which are calculated as close on the capacity of
the house as Is the only and the peerless Patti.
The ulster of his adventures extends even TO
his heutenants, making young Herbert Ward |
who was of his party for awhile, one of the
best drawing cards in Maj. Ponds repertory.
TIE PUGNACIoUs STOKES CATCHES TARTAR
curious squabble has developed in the
worlds fair legislative committee in which the
pugnacious Mr.. w. Z. ID. Stokes plays a lively
but for once rather unlucky part. Secretary
Stokes is of the stormy petrol type. He revels
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