Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-13
NEW YORK NOTES.
Subjects OF Interest in the Great Ne
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the Iorto OF TIE wEEK-sERxoNs TO BIZ DRAWN
FROM THE HOTEL ROYAL FIRK-sFSAron ELL. 8
| woREIEs-A SCIENTISTS TESTIMONY As TO GOD
| THE MINISTER WHO BLESSED THE BRIDE TOO
LONG.
1 SPsciai Correspondence OF The Evening Star
NEw YORK, FEBRUARY IL, 1854
| OF course the topic of the week. at least the
early part of it, has been The second slaughter
Of hapless human beings, the stroke this time
falling in the pleasant little green oasis known
as Bryant Park, the favorite haunt of the
nursery maid and her infant charges. All the
week this park has been crowded BY serried
ranks of horror hunters, gazing across the
street at tho black pit from which seventeen
charred and almost unrecoguizable corpses were
taken out day after day. The scene has been
a terrible reminder Of the Park place catas.
trophe. and in scme respects ii was even more
heart-rending, through the revelations of
moral skeletons as well as Of blackened bodies
of poor mortality. One might preach many
| sermons from this text; one, for EXAMPLE.
| might be drawn from the fate Of the Door fell
low who was put to bed drunk by bis friends
just before the fire broke out on We'd
nesday morning However, candor compels
me to add that this sermon might per-
haps be neutralized by another incident,
namely. by the fact that one odger in the hotel
was routed ont OF bed at 80 by jewellers and
taken to make night OF At, and thus saved
from the flames. HE hideous revelations of
shameful secrets which the fire mude have been
after all the most discussed. and the last scan
| dalous fact which has come out is that the
| building was left III Illegal danger through the
| act o! the building INSPECTOR, who reported
that the provisions OF the law for fire escapes
| were fully complied with when the contrary
WAS the fact his nan has been dismissed
from the building department, but there is a
general feeling that IL the whole department.
were discharged, beginning at the head the
| remedy would he more adequate.
| THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
During the week two colossal business deals
| have been consummated, typical of our age
and marking perhaps high-wator mark in coz
poration consultations. The flst and, by
| comparison, tho smaller, is the electrical com
| blnation ot the EdisOn and lLomson- Houston
| companies on the basis OF a capital of $50 co.,
0l0and still vaster combination is that which
| has brought all the anthracite coal railroads
INTO one gigantic community, with = capital of
| Sl3O.OO0, COD. 1t takes ones breath away to
| READ OF such considerations, and tho question
| naturally arises where will they end. More
| than one shrewd ana calm observer OF the
signs OF the times will tell you that thcy point
| 10 uniication OF the railr oad systems OF the
country, either under one business corporation
| or under the direct control OF the government.
Inc various systems are palpa6ly tending
toward some common understanding and or
san!c union may be the ultimate outcome
THE WORRIES OF BOSS.
Senator Hill finds it hard to whip the New
York city democrats into the traces. The
meeting to voice the spirit of revolt which is
to be held this evening is impressive for sig
natures. and no doubt the proceedings will be
most significant. 1t is idle to deny that Sen.
ator Hills tactics have met with "a degree Of
opposition which is Il very uncomfortable sur
prise to HIM and his friends, and many are say-
Ing that he has reached the apex OF Lis power
and will now slide down hill ON the other side
His performances have occupied the minds Of
politicians to the exclusion Of most otLer sub
Jects lately but this week, of course evefy one
who interests himself In politics has made his
own comments on Blaine's letter, and the gen-
eral verdict is that the Secretary il definitely
out OF the race.
THE SHADE OF WAGNER SMILES.
1t has been a long time since Wagner has
gained such a signal triumph as the week has
witnessed in operate annals. After struggling
through most Improbable season. hot even
winning much praise on the arti tic side, the
management have been forced to throw up the
sponge and humble their naughty pride sutfi-
GENTLY to engage Herr Se.dl to come back once
mere, extemporize as wei as he can a German
troupe, and try &c save the seas OH and the pock-
cts OF the stockholders by series Of Wagner
operas. no oouDt the performances will be
Urn ana 'hey may lie profitable, though
'ho prices are almost prohiDitive The man
. VINO IS merely prosperous cannot ahord to in
uuieo inuch III opera, whether the seats repre-
sent either an ltaiian % lire or u German 20
marks.
THE NEW SONG OF THE SHIRT
A welEknown baber,,a,ber of this c;,v tails n
tale that will ba . E,,l. r.x..., -,
,n.,,..;.: 0 1"eApee"u u 'ne
nui''''iii'"' ih'iS VINO lavish SO much pity upon
ne sens Sooo class OF gentle
but saws he tnJs !, ;r, 'o 80" e. y. annsheh!
customers because he cannot Get comretent
workwomen. lie is 10 sweater, grinding the
faces oil the poor, Out kind and just business
man, paying good wages, and his employees
work III clean, wel-lighted quarters, with every
comfort 10 help them in their work He tells
me he has advertised twice for women to sew
on the machine without receiefag Il single re-
spouse; that when he Goes set a new hand she
Is apt to be perfectly incompetent and uure-
liable, and that his old employees are the only
ones whom he can depend upon at all. In
deed, said he, 1.-The dealer and not the seam
stress Is the one who has to sing the song of the
shirt now" And yet We are always hearing the
lament OF the unemployed.
SCIENTISTS TESTIMONY.
was interested to hear the tes.imonv NJ o,o
Of the most emino,t e,eotr;o;.,,. =. ,,.. -
IN. o,bar a,,, .oo,,as.:. AZ VIC "oiio
-. oSi N"' .espeoins tno evidence Tor the
existence OF God to be found in science. Said