Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-14
THE GREAT CITY.
Shopping in the MetropOlis-How Rich
and Poor JOstle One Another.
carmeneita's Dancing-Grsenwood Cemstery
and its nlustrIous Dead-A Con.
slant Stream Of Funerals.

| Special Correspondence of the Gazette.
New YORK CITY. Aug. 20, 1880.
| Dainty, painted. powdered and gay
| RolIeth my lady by,
Rags and tatters over the way
Under the open sky.
Flowers and dreams from country meadows
Smoke and dew meath city skies.
Old men creeping with their shadows,
Children with their sunny eyes
Hurry along-hurry along.
All is vanity meath ths sun,
Velvet and rags, so the world wags
Until the river no more shall run. y
That is like New York. THIS morning I saw
the happy, gossiping women dressed like fash-
ion plates. shopping in the great stores on
Twenty third and Fourteenth streets. l saw
them buying yeiyets worth .g ysrd t
and iaGes worth tia b1ng while doye5 IS 6s
palsied fingers over the keys OF weakened
little organette and sang pathetic song IN ms
tremulous voice of age to attract the peoples
attention and induce their odd pennies into his
basket. Some OF these women buying the velvet
and laces gave him one penny, l expect
Further down ! saw a lady selecting jewels Tor
her young daughter. What DO you really al
wise, Mrs. Blank, she said 20 her companion
holding up two pairs OF diamond earrings, shln-
ing like small suns on their purple pinsh phi
lows don't you think these a. S27j will please
Bessie just as much as the $500 ones, IL she never
knows the difference2' Mrs. Blank Glnerett.
She said mo really, 1 think the difference IN
the stones is worth the extra So SO, Bessie
off at boarding school, or at nome
flirting with her Papa's dry goods
clerks got the $500 diamonds As they came
out of the jewelers., 4 little lame boy on KIND
OF trundie car, selling the morning papers, heId
up his puny little hand ana the two ladies
actually did not see him. They were too alb
sorbed III Bessie's diamonds. l thought ne was
worth looking at anyhow, even if not giving
penny to. His dear little face was chastensd
and pinched with suffering, but it was as frank
and sweet to look at in a big, wicked city, as an
oxeyed daisy.
A half block away 4 crowd blocked the way
saw them all looking up ana l looked up too.
From the roof OF hve-story building hung
sign reading, ''S3. 90 per dozen; photographs N
the very latest styles and most artistic poses,
etc. -
On that roof, right over the sign, was great
tail soldier, dressed in white snd blue uniform
and gold braid. -trutting mp and down ard going
not these New York people do to
advertiser / wonder how much
the photographer pays that poor peacock to
strut there by the hour?
As turned to go away l smelt tuberoses and
there they were, fresh anT dewy, in the dirty
hands of q black eyed uTchin, half dozen OF
them, laid upon great bunch OF ferns. for hVe
cents. l could not resist; it was cheaper than
planning the bulbs and waiting for them
to grow. Then, you know how
slowly a tuberose blooms. 1t lets just SO much
white peep out and stands there tantalizingly
that way for week. Mine bloomed then
looked at them-that is, they blOomed for me.
They bloom on, here on my table, and put me
to thinking of all kinds OF meditatiye things-ot
little dead INDEPENDENTLY. Isn't that q
gruesome thought to have associated with
flower? ! have seen so many little white
com Il with these suggestive waxen blossoms on
their lids, and have alwaTs srnelt them
when entered the church where q baby's fun-
eraI service was be NJ held; IF that Is the
CASE you say, chow can she love them and
wear them?''
All, because there is no uncanny or bitter
thought connected with little dead baby. 1t IS
only an innocent bit of white wax, unimpressed
by sonorus stylus, unmarried by sin touch.
Happy little dead baby always say. You
have lost nothing good and escaped much bad.
You should see "Carmencita'' dance. She
is beautiful Spaniard, and her dancing the
full measure of that poetry of motion we
hear about She is at Costa and Bials''-an
utterly impossible place, but 'Carmencl-
ta's" Spanish eyes, pirouttes and tinger-tp
an entirely array of faces from upper ten
dom. 1t looks odd 10 see the audience-mostly
men-sitting with hats on, drinking
beer and smoking cigars, ind # ,rent TO
or, indeed. utterly OBJ i'ious Of
the exclusive parties of four or six gentlemen
and ladies' who come in about lO:3U, when
'Carnencita'' is billed to dance, and leave
soon as she retires from the stage. Carmen
cita'' wears number OF gauzy skirts about to
her ankles, tiny pink kid shoes soft as q
glove. No stays restrain her supple waist, no
sleeves her slender graceful arms with which
she dances almost as much as with her
feet. She wears rose pinned coquet-
ishly but antiquatedly in the side OF
her black hair and starts off with lace man
tilIa thrown over the rose, but that is soon on
chuca- - Oh, how that plant body sways and
floats, poised first on one taper pink foot, then
the other! How the eyes sparkle and the fresh
checks kindle with the exercise! How the
swelling bosom rises and falls, and the grace
full, swan-like neck bends, carrying the
pretty head almost to the sa h0or 6ask
this rare 'Carmencita, - and lives like queen.
She gets boatloads of flowers every night and
applause and encores until her neither limbs fail
her and she can only throw kisses from the less
fatigued finger tips. wonder if she Is a good
"Carmencita''-a good as she looks, as gra-
cious OF soul and lie of limb? hope so.
beautiful body is rich gift OF God, too rich and
fan to be welded to other than 9 fair life.
w. snent Sunday afternoon in Greenwood GEM
etery, a "silent city of the dead so beautiful
that one feels like being dead to partake OF its
blessedness. It is high, broken plateau. over
the ''City of Churches with its thousand
spires standing out against the hay blue back
ground like finely wrought etchings. The north
entrance to the cemetery is q magnificent triple
arched gateway, above which, carved life size
out of the solid stone, are basreliefs OF our
ow S son from death, the persecution and the
scene OF Christ calling Lazarus from the tomb
A handsome and significant bronze bust of
Horace Greedy attracted my attention. 1t is a
tribute from the printers of this
country. That grand old uncompro-
missing face looks well in bronze. On one
fore his case, composing stick in hand; on an
other side a pillow, somewhere else pen and
scroll. WAS serious, looking into that stern,
dead face, until 1 saw the pen, then / thought
how Horace Greely's chirography had come to
be an ideal of all things illegibe. and of-my
owh-and-I laughed. l wondered if 1 should
ever become a great man, and be done up in
bronze. il they would carve an old woman
sharpened' pencil stub on my pedestal, to
make me ridiculous.
The vault of Mr.. Niblo, formerly owner OF
Niolo's Garden, is one Of the handsomest in
Greenwood but the chasest, prettiest tomb I
saw was that OF A. s. Scribner, the elder owner
OF Scrioner's Magazine. The tomb is in the
front of temple, un Ter the canopy of which a
rare piece Of Italian sculpture represents
Hope An octagonal base supports the fig
liefs of the Life of Christ from his birth to his
ascension.
An odd and comically pathetic spot is ''Old
Maids Plot where five maiden sisters are
buried side by side; their ages ranged from 100
to III years. At the foot of each grave is pill
low upon which the remaining sisters kept q
burning virgins lamp as long there was
one remaining virgin to keep them trimmed and
a. burning. An Imposing eminence is the
oriental tomb of c. K. Garrison, once
mayor of San francisco, q magnificent
monument is that of the old sea captain, John |
Cerreja. The old man had it built fifteen years |
before his death. 1t is perfect likeness OF him
standing in his uniform, the marble hands, |
empty for fifteen years, holding now the very |
se1tant which he used while in active service. |
Verify, death puts no limits on pride.
A superb statuary group marks the lot OF James |
Gordon Bennett. the founder of the New YORK |
Herald. The work was executed in Italy, of the !
finest Csrrara marble; the main figure is that of /
q woman kneeling on cushion, commanding |
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