Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-17

ground in circle four feet in diameter, being
thereupon drawn together and tied at a point
| six feet from the bottom. A small fire of wood ,
with stones, is lighted in the middle, and the
heat is kept in with blankets spread over the
| framework. When only the cinders are left
and the stones are well heated the bather take 8
q seat inside and proceeds to perspire.
NOTES FROM THE METROPOLIS.
What 10 Being Talked About and Thought
About in New York.
| aorHAM's GIANT GRowTH-MoRE MONEY NEEDED
| FOR THE WASHINGTON ARCH-THE DAY OF COR
poRAT1oNs-KIND OF MUSIC IN FAVOR JUST
| Now-QUEER HAPPENINGS TO PHILANTHRoPIsrs
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
NEW YORK, January Is.
"E ARE IN THE agonies of another pub
w Lie subscription 1t was fondly supposed
| that the Washington arch was fait accompli,
but with the facility for swallowing appropria-
tions and licking its chops for more, which
every architectural enterprise from a cathedral
to basement extension possesses, the arch
now demands about $500 beyond the sum al
ready raised, and SO the patient hat is going
round once more with the usual begrudging
response from the prosperous New Yorker.
The charitable five thousand who, according to
the accepted proverb, support all public-spir-
tied and benevolent enterprises in this city are
putting down their names once more and after
the inevitable season Of solicitation and scold-
ing the needed SUM will no doubt be secured.
NEW YoRK's GIANT GROWTH.
Meanwhile the city is rushing ahead in its
aggregate Of wealth in way to make ones
head swim. According to the real estate
valuations which have just been published the
taxable property of the city has increased dur
| ing the past twelve months to the tune-or per-
| haps it should be said to the symphony-of
$50 OOO, 600. This colossal total has held good
or been exceeded each year for the past four or
| five years, and that, too, in spite Of suburban
distractions and the virtual breaking down of
| rapid transit. Nothing apparently can stop
the imperial growth of the city. Even the i'm
portations have been larger at this port since
the passage of the Mckinley bill than ever
| before.
THE DAY OF THE CORPORATION.
OF piece with this strong onward march Of
the city is the development Of some Of its typi-
cal business houses. Within the week we have
had three notable events in this field These
were the first annual meeting of the Clafin
corporation and the reorganization of the houses
of Thurber, Whyland & Company and of W. and
j. Sloane as corporations. have named the
three leading houses of their respective classes in
porations and, as such, indicate tendency
| that probably in another ten years will land
| the majority Of vast business firms on the
same footing.
wANTED-soME WORTHY POOR.
Listen to the tale of woe Of philanthropist!
| A lady of this city very well known in the
| literary world, and also for her kindness of
heart, became interested short time ago in an
| old couple whom she wished to secure against
want nv prOyilinp them with in -
the retreats Of the city. To accomplish this it
was necessary to raise $500. By strenuous ex-
ertions the lady was able to collec. s4O0
among her friends To raise the balance she
wrote note in one Of the daily papers, which.
rather to her dismay, elected Immediately not
one but two hundred dollars Her problem
then, like that Of Uncle Sam, was how to get
rid of the surplus. Much of it had
come anonymously, and even where the
donors were known in most cases
they declined to take their money back and left
| it on deposit for use at the lady's discretion
Thus with smiling face at her overlooking
| Golfers the charitable woman opened to her
| clients the friendly vista she had made posi-
BILE for their declining steps. But she had not
studied the problem fully. just at this mo-
ment wealthy relative appears on the scene
and vetoes this fine plan Of mercy by taking
the poor relations under his own wing. This
| hopelessly complicated the question of how to
dispose Of the fund and at last accounts the
| almoner OF mercy was thinking Of advertising
for respectable, aged, INDECENT females" to
quote the discriminating title Of the Old
Women's Home here, who would aid o philan-
| thropist to get rid OF a small competence.
RING OUT WAGNER; RING IN VERDI.
| The town was treated to genuine sensation
today in the announcement that the reign of
Wagner was over at the Metropolitan House,
and that for one, and perhaps two years,
italian and French opera would again wear the
| crown. The invincible Abbey is the Warwick
that has brought in the new regime 1t was
supposed that Abbey had had quite enough of
opera at the Metropolitan, as a few years ago
he succeeded in sinking about $500 900 in a
few weeks season there. But all impressarios
have PhGnix-like character. They fairly
| seem to revel in flames and rise from the ashes
with a smile that outshines the Cheshire cat or
| All Sln Abbey's proposition is 70 r sixty per-
formances of French and Italian opera next.
winter on scale OF unexampled splendor. Mr.
Stanton retains his dictatorship. but his duties
will be confined to running the machine after
the supplies have been furnished by Abbey All
the parties interested explain that the change
Is not on account Of any lack of devotion to
the Emusic Of the future" but from desire to
hear what other schools have been doing of late.
The simple fact is that opera in New York city,
| outside Of very narrow public. is not cultus,
much less a religion, in Germany, but is SIM
ply fashionable amusement. and the very
| essence OF fashion is change. Who ever heard
| Of any frock or bonnet remaining in fashion
for six years? Why, then, should we have a
longer epoch Of German opera? Let us change
to the Italian, just we change from full to
| tight sleeves, or push the crowns Of our bon
nets up and down. The change, now that it
has come, explains several desperate expert
ments which Mr.. Stanton made to supply his
fashionable patrons with musical novelties. He
served up some very strange dishes, in the
hope Of satisfying this craving for what was
new, but the trouble was too radical. The
German vein was for the time exhausted. and SO
we are to have a complete change in singers
and repertOry.
| THE KOCH DISCLOSURES.
The disclosure Of the secret Of the Koch
remedy has not surprised the medical fraternity
here, as its nature pretty well surmised by
the doctors In spite of the criticisms of Prof
virchow there is general confidence felt in the
value OF the lymph, and the failures to cure are
thought 70 be due to crudities in the treatment
rather than to radical defects in the remedy.
The lymph is coming here in larger and larger
| supplies and we shall soon be able to know by
experiment, the only substantial way, Just what
the value Of the new treatment is
HENRY R. ELLIOT.
Stolen by Women.
A Portland, Mich, special says: The town Of
Portland is aroused over a bold abduction which