Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-31


Correspondence Of The EVENING Stan.
NEW YORK, May so.
With the four-in-hand parade Of last Satur-
day the season in Central Park virtually closed.
| and the shining horses and gtittering equipages
| which made the scene there such brilliant
one will soon be scattered all over the country
| in the places where the pleasure seekers con-
grsgste, from Long Island up to Maine. The
prancing tours were skilfully engineered
| through the crowded drives OF the park by their
| amateur drivers in the uniform of the Coaching
Club, all Of whom made it their aim to emulate
the statuesque imperturbability of the profess
| sional coachmen, but one or two Of them fell a
degree short of the standard OF stOlidity and
looked little anxious. Coaches and horses
and top-booted footmen were all models of
elegance, but the real attraction Of the parade
was the passengers on top. One or two Of the
drivers had only plain ordinary men in after
noon suits and silk hats for passengers. but
this imposition upon the public was received
with openly expressed disgust. Mrs. Cleveland
adorned Mr.. Belmonts box seat and on most of
the other coaches lovely faces smiled over
radiant toilets.
ADAzzLINe BEAUTY SHOW.
The surroundings Of the parade added
greatly to the spectacle. The day was glitter
shine, and solid mass Of carriages, four or
five abreast, filed the fower-scented and
shaded drives driving slowly along in the
crush or massed by the policemen at the sides
when the parade passed. Every within and
vagary OF fashion is displayed in the brilliant
high light of the afternoon sun. Nothing
seems too gay or too elegant to appear in for
driving, and the effect Of such an endless pro-
cession OF beautiful costumes and faces under
the slight shade Of the dainty and airy butter
flies of tule or lace parasols is fairly bewilder-
ing. But one can not help passing wonder if
these slim and graceful young matrons and
maids in the wonderful costumes Of lavender
and old rose OF palest grays and soft exquisite
greens will develop into the solid and ponder
GUS elderly women whose blazing diamonds
and sumptuous gowns only attract attention to
their hard, worn faces where the most artsti-
cally-applied cosmetics do not conceal deep
wrinkles.
FIFTH AVENUE VS.. THE BowERY BELLE.
But whatever their future may be the young
women are undoubtedly charming now and
present hundreds of picturesque illustrations
Of that flower OF Civilizations per-
fectly groomed and costumed girl. There is
good deal of talk in some of the papers about
the beauties of Grand street and 9th avenue.
the modest violets of the shops and factories.
who attract no attention but have really more
natural charms than the daughters of the 5th
avenue millionaires. But the talk is rather
poetry than plain facts. There can be little
question that Paris would unhesitatingly be-
stow his apple upon the girl who has been born
and bred among the most favorable surround
ings, who has had from her cradle every ad-
vantage OF air, exercise and diet. whose
mlnutest details OF hair, teeth, figure and COM
plexion have been rather more carefully at
tended to than her education or her souls SAL
walton, and who can clothe the finished pro-
duct of all this care in the studied creations of
the most artistic dress makers in the world,
and carry it with the quiet ease of manner that
ls the perfection of grace and is only achieved
by the well-bred woman who has learned to be
unconscious OF herself.
THE HoI PoLLoI AT PLAY.
One has An opportunity Of comparing these
differing types in the park, for nowhere in the
world can there be more complete exhibition
of the democratic and the aristocratic The
entire area is alive on bright Saturday after
noon, not only with private carriages, but
with overtowlng public ones, in which one
can drive comfortably for the whole circuit
for twenty-five cents, and with thousands of
pedestrians. Laboring men are here with
their wives and families and, indeed, all sorts
and conditions OF men represented. The
lakes are teeming with boats, the play grounds
swarming with boys and young men energet-
ically engaged in foot bali and base ball and
up in the North Meadows it seems as if all the
young people III town were playing tennis in
every variety OF gay costume Over the
mall thousands are congregated to hear the band
play, tlptoelng crowds strive to over each
others shoulders where the monkeys disport
themselves and throngs pour in to See the won
ders of pictures and statuary in the muse um
aud everywhere there are children, thousands
OF them, tumbling over the grass. gathering
dandelions, dancing around May poles sing ing
and shouting and reveing in the only glimpse
of the country many of them ever get and in
spite of the crowds there are beautiful quiet
walks and, especially up in the north end Of
the park, rocky, shady glens. where waterfalls
splash down and birds sing and squirrels run
across the grass, and one scarcely hears a foot
fall or sign of human nearness Truly,
Central Park IS the peoples playground. more
than all her splendid buildings. her big bridge,
her gorgeous churches and residences and
treasures OF wealth and art, the glory of New
York.
WHY NEW WORKERS DON'T MISS THE FAIR
When one sees all these beauties aud the
crowds who appreciate and enjoy them it seems
more than ever astonishing that few month
ago there was a wild clamor to sacrifice much
OF it to the noise and dust and commotion of
great tumultuous exposition. Big as the park
is 1t is clearly shown to be inadequate to the
city's growing needs by the fact that very re-
Gently i've thousand acres have been acquired
farther up for park purposes and tn 80. 010.-
900 is to be spent at the rate of IL 900 900 a
year for laying out parks in the lower and more
crowded parts OF the city. Already laud has
been purchased for this purpose in one of the
most densely crowded sections in the world
the famous Mulberry Bend, immortalzed in
Mr.. Harrigans classic drama, The Leather
| Patch" In process Of time New York will be
| one OF the most thoroughly provided cities in
| the world with park privileges, though 81
OOO, 900 yearly does not go far in the acauisi-
! ton of land here might be supposed A
tract of so feet by 100 near the corner of Canal
and Broadway was on Tuesday bid in by the
owners at 1870, 900. and that is by no means a
| top price for business property.
THE DARKER SIDE.
But not to paint the town in too rosy a red
not the nightly red, but celestial rosy red,
loves proper hue"-and cloy you with CAV
| lawns and sweet girls, let me recall the darker
| side, the oscuro to this too dazzling chior The
| Fassett investigation has opened the most dis.
| graceful and dangerous police scandals of re-
cent date 1t brings to the surface clear proof
that the guardians OF the peace are in reality
| the paid guardians of the vile5t types Of the
community. The assurance with which the
I police dgnitarles testify to the morality of the
| most notorious wretches and their vile resorts
| is simply ineredi BILE. That any other cause OF
| such blindness, dea f2ess and paralysis OF mora
smell exists beyond plain cash the community
refuses to believe. But the agitati On, though
! obstructed at every turn by the police, is max
| ing Roadway and must result in purihcation.
| KEENANs RETURN.
| Quite as marvellous piece OF impudence i.
| the return OF John keenan,, the Bismarck" Of
the boodlers, from his self-i imposed exile in
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