Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-21

THE WEEK IN NEW YORK.
Some Observations Pertinent to the sherman
Obsequies.

some observations Pertinent to the Sherman
| Obsequiee.
TEE FATE or GAIT. MORTON AND HIS YACHT IN
DoyBT-A wAR BrrwKES TRIBES os soys-coR-
| RLEsroNE AND AsPHALT-scHooLs on THE EAST
| sIDE-A PICTURE TO BE SENT BACK.
Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YoRK. February Is, 1891.
To my mind the most striking feature in the
exhibitions Of affection and reverence paid to the
remains Of Gen. Sherman was not the elaborate
parade of today, but the unpretentious and
truly democratic tokens Of respect which the
whole week has witnessed at the generals
home. Avoiding the spleudor Of public cere-
monial. by the dead mans own wish. the remains
rested in the parlor Of the residence on West
list street, aud to this spot any citizen could
make pilgrimage. 4 single veteran represented
the military services of the deceased and a
single policeman on the sidewalk stood for
civic law and order. With no further guard and
with none of the conventional pageant the re-
mains lay in state as truly though they re-
posed in some great cathedral or palace amid
funeral torches and all the parapherpalia of a
court or public ceremonial All the week
stream Of people filed through the parlor to
dead hero and expressions Of sorrow came
naturally from all. 1t did not need the SPLEEN
| did parade OF today to show to the world the
depth Of affection and honor which the Ameri-
e can r.. people felt for the LA last to remain
that Grant, Sheridan and sherman are
gone the expression is universal that we
have passed into new generation. Some few
| landmarks however. still remain, as today pro-
| cession brought to mind. Internationally the
what centered in the memories of the deceased,
was the appearance as psllbearer of Gen.
Joseph e. Johnston. The presence of this
| famous adversary Of Sherman this chieftain in
| the lost cause, one Of those who were APP
pointed to bear to the grave the hero's re-
| mains was an eloquent proof that the war is
| over. Gen. Johnston attracted the gaze Of
| the city quite as much as anyone in the whole
line and there was universal satisfaction in see
| ing him.
PROBABLE LOSS OF THE NORTON YACHT.
1t seems as if there were no longer room for
hope that any word would ever come back
| from the sea Of the fate of Capt. Norton and
| his little craft. / spoke in one of my letters
| during the autumn OF viewing the September
| yacht races from Capt. Norton's deck. He was
then full of plans for his transatlantic excur-
| sion and interested in the prospect of going to
Ioulon. where he was to receive the medals
awarded him at the French exposition and
| where his boat was to be inspected by board
OF French naval officers. Familiar from boy
| hood with all the varying phases Of the ocean,
| and with the enthusiasm of the inventor,
be was unhesitatingly ready to risk for himself
| and his family winter voyage across the At
lantic in his non-capsizable, unsuitable steam
life boat; She had weathered all sorts of winds
and sede, had rounded Cape Hatteras in one of
] its Widest tempests and the captain did not re-
| gard the voyage in the light of an experiment at
all. His wife and niece, pretty young girl,
We're equally confident, and they set sail from
| New London eight-eight days ago. Except for
| q rumor that the yacht had been seen passing
Gibraltar on her way up the Mediterranean
nothing has been heard of her since and the
company of which Capt. Norton was president
have about given up hope. 1t is theorized that
| the addition of boiler and engine diminished
the buoyancy of the little boat, but what really
happened viii probably never be known, and
ONE more is added to the long list Of mysteries
Of the sea.
BOY WAR IN ACTIVE OPERATION.
Apfopos of Prof. Mason's note about the boy
| waiS bfeaf4y Washington one of the most SAN
| culinary, of these youthful campaigns is now
raging in upper New York. The feud between
| the boys of"'Euglish Hill'' and the opposing
forces of ''Swampoodle" was never more viru-
| lent than that which has long been recognized
| as existing between the clans whose dividing
| line is the yiaduct of the New York Central and
Hudson river railroad on Park avenue. Every
| day the hostile forces meet in battle array on
one side or the other of this territorial division
and woe be to the unlucky urchin whose par
| ents send him alone on an errand across the
divide. He lis regarded as a fair target for
snowballs mud and stones and his only safety is
| in ignominious fight From 10th street.
where the park ends and Harlem begins to
10th street are the limits of the battle ground
though sometimes the engagement is such a
general one as TO extend beyond these bound-
a.. f fa hsa t peuaSsn a WHY 70
| if he wishes TO ESCAPE living brickbats. "a il
seems to be point of honor with the police
| not to interfere One non-combatant who this
week was struck with stone happened TO be
young man OF enterprise ana agility he gave
chase TO the warriors, overlook two OF them
and administered sound thrashing
ASPHALT As SHE Is CLEANED IN NEW YORK.
In one of the uptown streets asnhalt pave
| -. a. la -, ,.a. a IN, -:
a'e',' ""S ."Ao Wv" '"s| su.iiiei' the fesi-
dents endeayor to suppress their pride In this
distinction. although they find it as Difficult. to
reffssH fr con illusions TO their superior pave
ments as Miss Morleena Kenwigs did to avoid
nisnflou0is her private French lessons in spite
| Of her dsxiicious parents warning:
/ desire that you don't boast of il to the other
| children, and that if you must say anything
about it you don't say no more than We've got
| private master comes to teach us at home,
but We amt proud. because ma saysits sinful.
DO you aha near, Mor,es Saa. vor,
70 their navement Int the eject was ), It'll
Unmarried the other day when one of them i'm.
adyertentlv mentioned that the street had been
| swept twice since last October The accnmu-
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