Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27

time you see it she grows bigger and more
imposing. IF you are blessed with stou'
legs and long wind you may ascend the
stairway within the torch. the balcony OF
which holds dozen people at once, but my
curiosity and legs never took me thus far.
Your friend will take you around the en-
brasured walls below to a little restsuran,
on the other side built of paper, from the
windows of which your eyes command the
channel and Narrows while you lunch. The
latter for two will be reasonable, couple oi
bottles of Milwaukee included, at 81. Boats
leave on the half hours, and you can finish
your cigars on the return boat.
A DRIVE IN A COUPE.
Back again at the barge Office you take
the Sixth avenue elevated to Twenty-eighth
street and arrive at the starting point before
2, and for 10 cents more. AT the Hoffman
you get coupe for three hours drive at
81 an hour, going to Central Park up Fifth
avenue. The driver will point out the
mansions of the millionaires that line that
grand thoroughfare, the club houses, the
Stewart house, etc. If the weather is pro-
pitious an open Victoria will facilitate
sightseeing. On the way up you can stop
at ST. Patrick's Cathedral, and for % cents
each be shown the interior. You enter the
park at the interesting corner, drive past the
Zoo, which can be seen for nothing, and the
art galleries further up, which are free on
particular days.
Don't fail to pause at the Casino at the
price of a couple of bottles of beer, for there
you will see the men about town and their
gay turnouts-those butterflies of fashion
whose most difficult daily toll is to pass
away the hours between breakfast and din
ner. You will leave the park at the upper
entrance and spin along the grand avenue,
in Harlem, where the fast horses, horsemen
and horsewomen throng every pleasant
afternoon.
Turning to the left you will enter into
Riverside drive along the banks of the Hud-
son, stopping at Grants tomb in homage to
the memory of America great soldier. And
right here you will also see one of the finest
river scenes of the world, looking up or
down. Along this magnificent river drive
of two miles your feelings are poetical and
sentimental and too deep for expression. As
you reach Seventy-second street and turn in
toward Central Park again, you will have
fully understood the sentiment of General
Grant, always fond of horse-hesh and natural
scenery, when he indicated his desire to be
laid away on the banks of Riverside. Re-
entering Central Park at the Seventy-second
street entrance you get close view of the
immense fashionable fats where suite of
empty rooms cost $1,000 year. You also
note the rapid growth of the West Side,
where the dwellings of from $50, 900 to 800,
600 each have soIidly replaced the squatters
and goats. This drive southwark in the
Park takes you along the lakes and foun-
tains and statues and you will have had a
good idea of the whole when you make your
exit into upper Broadway at Fifty-ninth
street.
BOILING FOR A REST.
Counting the time necessarily and wisely
spent on the drive, you have an hour now
before dinner, and this hour can be used to
stretch your legs and body best by rolling
tenpins. There is a prominent bowling
alley on Broadway a few blocks above the
Hoffman, and so cents or 81 will pay the
bill. You are then tired, hungry and
thirsty, and when you sit down to table
d'hote dinner at Hotel Martin pronounced
Marian, with accent on the "an"), In Uni
versity Place, you can do excellent justice
to a seven-course French dinner at 81 a
head, including wine. There are other
good places to dine-places French, Euro
pean, Italian and American, without num-
Der, but you can't dine but once, and will,
therefore, go to characteristic place, where
you sit down with Partisan surroundings,
hear only the Partisan tongue and see
little else than Partisan faces. You can
try your French on the waiter, if you
feel particularly daring, but after one or
two trials of that kind myself, 1 do not ad-
wise it. He will serve you without word,
anyhow, as he knows you are there for
dinner-only raising his dark eyebrows with
the query, win blanche vim rouge 2" ss
to your wine.
There are files of French and italian
papers which be may indicate, according as
you may remind him of travelled man or
not For the next hour you are iI Paris.
If you follow the example of those around
you, pony" of brandy will 60 with your
black coffee and cigar with both, which
will probably cost you 90 cents additional.
The usual tip to the beetle-browed waiter
for such dinner is 25 cents, though if you
don't mind his contempt you can make it
10, or even 60 away for nothing. In the
latter case you'd better not dine there again.
SPENDING THE EVENING.
Now that you have put in the day, the
question of the evening arises. 1t is within
half an hour of 8, and an easy walk or a
hundred points OF billiards is a very good
thing Immediately after dinner. At this
hour you will find that stroll on Broad
way from Fourteenth to Thirty-third streets
will prove most interesting. The sidewalks
are thronged with theater-goers, and those,
like yourself, are seeking entertainment.
The shop windows are ablaze, the street full
of carriages. Well-dressed people of both
sexes have the pavements, while the hotel
fronts are ornamented.with gamblers, actors
and dudes on the lookout for game. Stray
beggars begin to appear, and in the
shadows are the dim outlines of worse than
beggars. Night in New York has arrived.
You have enough of walking, and take a
Sixth avenue train back to Twenty-fourth
street-10 cents. You are out to be not only
amused but instructed in New York life.
Consequently you steer clear of the
theaters, which. all said and done,
are very like theaters elsewhere-with
more or less good scenery and more or
less bad plays. Your friend takes you
through gang of corner loafers, men and
women, and down into brilliantly-lighted
basement room full of heavy oaken tables
and cigar smoke. You find vacant place
and look around you. The room is paneled,
walls and ceiling, in antique oak and
lighted by incandescent lights. 1t is fin
in close, heavy way. The long settees are
occupied by young and old mel about town,
with here and there well dressed and pretty
young women. If you are a judge of
womankind you will see at once that these
women are actresses, chorus girls and dan
GERS, and your friend will tell you that the
place is Roster & Bials and is connected
with the variety theater of that name OPEN
ing upon Twenty-third street and that the
girls can soon be seen on the stage above in
character.
ALL TAKING THEIR BEVERAGE.
Just at present all hands are engaged in
drinking beer, filling the air, al
ready badly vitiated, fuller with
smoke and loud talk and laughter.
Having finished your beer no cents, you
leave in the other direction for the theater
entrance. The admission is 80 cents for front