Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-17
THE WEEK IN NEW YORK.
Happenings Talked About by the People
of Manhattan.

THE WEEK IN NEW YORK.
Happenings Talked About by the People
of Manhattan
ANDREW cARSEarE's BIG MUSIC HALL-Rrr-
REsENrATrvE BurTERwoRTH AND THE IMPORT
rRs-THE STRANGE CASE OF Mr. CROKER
How DEAD NEW WORKERS ARE FORGOTTEN.
tcorrespOndence of TIE EVENING sTknl
NEW YORK, May l6
Tuesday was great day for that active and
aitruistic Scotch-American, Andrew Carnegie,
Tor on that day was laid the cornerstone OF
tne vast and splendid new music hall at the
corner OF o7th street and It'll avenue. II is to be
noble structure on Q noble site, and IL is the
contamination ola long-cherished scheme Of
TINS broad-minded millionaire In his speech
az the ceremonial laying Of its
corner stone he explained that the
object Of the building was not
the making Of money, but to furnish home
Tor music and for all good causes Its object
viii not be fulfilled il it il only occasionally
opened for some grand event Mr.. Carnegie
SAID II should not be closed il there remained
one good cause DESTROYS Of using it. IL the
price could not be paid then lower one should
De taken. and lower, or il necessary no price
al ali II the cause were wholly charitable or for
the public good
The building will be mos. complete and
Ideal one for musical purposes. Abundance Of
room Is secured, the land having cost S307 0Oo
WITH frontage OF lis feet on It'll avenue and
10y Feet on 9th street. The psrquet will seat
Sooo people, having larger floor area than
that OF the Metropolitan Opera House. Acous-
tics and ventilation have been studied with the
mos minute care by the architect,
by Mr.. Richard, NJ. Hunt and the
Chicago firm who constructed the auditorium
there. There will be .parlOrs, small halls for
orators, chamber music, &C., but no theatrical
arrangements. The building will be FIRE proof
and is expected to cost $500 900, but 1t is not
likely Mr.. Carnegie will stint himself il a few
thousands more are required. He is president
OF both the Oratorio and the Symphony socie-
ties, IN which be takes deep interest, and the
new building gives him yet another oppor-
tunity to advance the fortunes Of his young
protege, Walter Damrosch. who is getting his
share OF fortunes favors this week.
soME OF OUR OLDEST FAMILIES.
1t Is well known that New York is a city OF
many layers, from the dwellers in cellars to
those in the highest stories of the lofty fats
and tenements. But rather an UNEXPECTED
layer has been discovered by the diggers of the
foundation for the Washington arch at 5th
avenue and North Washington Square who
suhn Up az every spaueIul neaQetOn6s, pieces
OF cofhns and quantities of bones. What fore
fathers of this hamlet they are whose repose is
thus rudely disturbed no one seems TO know
very positively. Certainly their descendants
have paid little attention to keeping their
memory green, but, is well known, New
York is not very strong on monumental OBJ
servances. Some say this site used to be the
potters field, but the remains of headstones
seem to disprove that theory Others sur
missed that the graves were made during the
cholera epidemic Of 1892, but the dates on the
stones.were much earlier than that 1t is to be
hoped than on none Of them was carved the
familiar epitaph; Gone, but not forgotten"
THE Law AND THE LADY.
The poet has sung tina. man wants but little
here below, nor wants that little long, and his
remarks have always been considered especially
applicable to the ballet dancer. SO the report
that the forty ballet girls who are TO perform
with Strauss at the Madison Square Garden,
and who arrived here a week ago on the steamer
Lain, had brought with them $4,000 worth
OF costumes is OF itself sufficiently startling
one. But it is still more startling to hear
that the Treasury Department is SO far
lost to all sense OF propriety as to have
the whole outfit seized bv its special
agents. The technicalitv involved is the cues
ton Of the ownership of the airy nothings. II
they belong to the dancers and are tools of
their trade they can be passed. If they belong
to the Madison Square Garden Company those
gentlemen may have to pay 5000 duty, or
even $4,000 fine for attempting to smuggle
them in. Secretary Window has now to bend
the whole force Of his intellect to the solution
Of this weighty problem. What steps he will
take to familiarize himself with its intricacies
1t Is difficult to see. Possibly he NAV have to
personally inspect performance OF the troupe
TO ascertain II costumes are necessary tools of
their trade. At any rate, the old maxim that
the law does not concern itself with trifes was
never more completely refuted.
CRoKER's INTERMITTENT FEVER.
The friends of Mr.. Richard Croker must be
kept in an agonizing state Of suspense by the
alarming fluctuations in his health. Nothing
is more wearing to ones nervous organization
than the alienation of the extremes of hope
and fear, and this is precisely what Mr.. Croker's
friends have had to undergo for some time
The case is a singular one and worthy the at
tentlon OF physicians, as, perhaps, presenting
another phase OF those curious electrical
phenomena which have of late
years interested scientists. The in
tensity OF the symptoms seems to depend
entirely on the transmission of news by the
Atlantic cable. The cable brings word that
Mr.. Mccain continues his silly and indiscreet
romances with fresh details of gifts in money
accepted by contidng and unsuspicious in
FAINT, evidently trained from the cradle in the
proper line OF conduct for the daughter of a
New York city official. relapse of the most
alarming nature instantly sets in and Mr.
Croker sinks to a state of feebleness where il is
barely possible for him to sign letter in broken
and tremulous characters. Again the cable
flashes the intelligence that McCann was not on
the stand Mr.. Croker rapidly recuperates,
even dispensing with doctor and going out
to breathe the bracing air of Wiesbaden. His
physicians calls his complaint '-pleuritic exu-
dation and high degree of cerebral neures-
them" These be lofty terms, but the un-
scientific think the disease bears a strange re-
semblance 20 what might be called In the
vulgate guilty conscience, complaint as old
as our forefather Adam, who, il will be remem-
bered, twas afraid and hid himself"
WEEK OF PISTOLS.
Pistols have gone off this week with fairly a
Kentucky briskness. First we had the shooting
figured with one Of the multitude of mysteri-
GUS females that haunt this town, and the
parties in this fracas had no sooner made up
in the police court before bang went two more
revolvers, and probably with fatal results. The
attack In one case sprang from the rage of
rogue at being crossed by Wilkie Collins type
of shrewd and respectable family lawyer In
the other case the shooting grew out Of a
quarrel between hall boys in fiat. Evidently
certainty as TO which will be used hereafter,
has much effect on those that have n homo
cidal faint in their temper.
MR.. BUrTKRwoRTH AND THE IMPORTERS
There is universal interest in the outcome of
looks Is if the importing element, which in
cludes many strong republicans, were prepar-
ing for Q concerted movement of national ex-
tent. They hail Butterworth's bold utterances
just at this time as a godsend, and they will
make use OF il as a proof that a man NAV be an