The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-24
GOSSIP OF NEW YORK.
The Christian EndeavOrerS Sur
prised the Great City.
WOMEN WHO PLAY THE RACES.
A Glimpse of Early Daya-New Hotels
Are Good Investments-John ID.
Crimmins for Mayor.

NEW DIRK, July Is special CORE
spondence. New York hes just emerged
from strange experience. Never before
IN the history of the metropolis have
5000 members of a religious organization,
mostly females, swooped down upon IL
like so many spirits from better world.
Only those closev in touch with re-
/ ligious affairs had any idea Of the numer-
ical strength of the Christian Endeayor
Society. A new organization OF religious
workers, the general public was not pre-
pared To hear that il numbered over !, 900
90 members, and was represented by Hour
/ ishing branches in almost every civilized
country. Yet that is the Christian En-
deayor Society which DR.. Francis E. Clark
organized up in Portland. Me-. in ISL.
/ Including those who came along with the
Endeavorers, TO avail themselves of the
low fares on the railroads. not less than
5000 strangers were in New York during
the week of their meeting in Madison
Square Garden. Fifty thousand people
make very respectable city in the matter
OF population. but these made no impress
sion on New York. Had il not been that
ali the memb ers wore badges conspicuously
displayed. and thus compelled attention,
they would not have been observed in the
! and the surface and elevated roads. There
was something in their dress and general
bearing which marked them as strangers.
And even a casual observer was Obliged re
take notice of the presence of foreign eIe-
ment in the parlors of the big hotels.
Probably New York was never better
inspected than it was by these
sightseers. Part of their business here
70 he ~, e
their time possible was given up 10 that
instructive p easure They crowded big
stores and Stock Exchange. the Art
Museum. the galleries, the churches. and not
few of them took furtive glances at the
worldly art treasures in the Hoffman
house bar. They took pleasure rides up
| the Hudson 10 West Point and down the
bay to Coney >Iand. where the elephant
disports upon the beach. Many of them
from the interior donned bathing suits for
the first time and took a plunge in the in
! sipid surf, such as Coney Island affords.
l mention it az this point-but the obsery-
ing reporters had noted the phenomenon
| before the Christian ladies had reached the
beach-that only 4 few OF them were
remarkable for their personal charms.
! Taking them as an entirety, they lacked
| in rather notable degree the quality of
| attractiveness of Chaucer's lady whom he
| discovered piercing all hearts with her
| pulchritude." This was the verdict of the
| reporters who, it must be confessed, had
| superior opportunities during the series of
! meetings for taking notes IS to the per-
| sonal loneliness of the visitors. At the
| same time there were exceptions TO the
| rule-if the reporters were not mistaken
| about this being the rule-for there were
| many handsome ladies among the men,
bers who participated in the great musical
| meetings in Madison Square Garden.
| However, one could not hep but note
| the contrast between these audiences and
those, for example. which turne6 out at
| the same place 10 witness the horse show,
| or even the circus early in the season. 4
comparison of this kind must satisfy
| New Yorker that the ladies here are not
| perhaps surpassed in beauty, and certainly
| not in style, by those OF any other country
| of the world. 1t should be said for the
| Christian Endeavor girls that they
| did not come here on dress parade. They
came for hard and earnest work and were
CARRIED accordingly. Most of them wore
| their travelling gowns, and If they did not
present the appearance OF persons arrayed
| for q Ward McAilister ball, they were
dressed neatly and appropriately. And
| best of all, they were thoroughly Ameri-
can both in their appearance and deport-
ment. We witnessed their coming in sur
| prise, and after week of their agreeable
! society. we babe them goodbye with re-
| greet. We can well felicitate Montreal in
/ securing these people for next year, and
! Cleveland for securing them for 1884.
| From purely mercenary point of view. q
| point of view that commercial New York
| rarely overlooks, We are easily 81 0oo,0 900
| better off for their visit. Montreal is
| charming city for summer convention
! but II seems that there might be some in
| compatibility between that intensely
| Catholic community and this invading
| army of Protestants.
| In the Herald the other day was inserted
| an advertisement TO the effect that the adj
| vertiser would place money on the races
| for ladies who did not care TO attend 10
| the matter in person. There were assur-
/ ances that everything would be strictly
/ quiet and confidential. and the
/ mos, eminently respectable ladies
could participate with confidence
| was enough interested in this TO make
| some inquiry, and | learned that there
| were at least score of brokers IN New
| York who make il 4 business Of making
| bets on the races for women. There are
| many respectable ladies among their Glen
! tele. and perhaps the majority of
| them are respectable, inasmuch as the
| other class go to the races and make
| their own bets. requiring no commission
merchant, except the messenger boy who
| carries their money To the bookmaker and
returns the ticket. 1t is need ess 70 saw
| that the women who play the races almost
| invariably lose their money. and, for the
! matter of that. so do the men. | have
/ heard of several successful PLAYS by
| women. but their brokers spread this
| intelligence for advertising purposes
| while the thousands of cases in which thew
1 lose we hear nothing about. | am told
| that more money is being lost this season
| on horse racing than was ever known be-
| fore in the history of the turf in this
! country. We hear occasionally that
! "Pittsburg PHIL or some other plunger
! has made a big winning. but the great
| American public. which Is losing all the
| time. saws never a word. 1t costs the pub
| lie S25, 90 day 10 attend any of the race
| meetings near New York, counting rail-
| road fares and admissions which are but a
/ small percentage Of lis outlay. When
/ they get inside the Enclosure and beg n 10
/ go The So, 600 which the people nav TO
| get there as a mere bagatelle. The horses
| which the public backs with It's hard
earned money win only on rare occasions.
| In one race recently. by q bit of sharp
| practice, the public lost somewhere near
| $50 600.
| OF this amount not less than $4,000
| was taken out OF this town and BROOKLYN,
| with Jersey City making 4 small contribu-
| ton OF course, that was not an honest
| play Some Western sharps had worked
| The old game of introducing ringer"