The sun., 1893-11-26
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN

night ago Though the general run OF people
have forgotten all about the crank outburst.
the police officials are buster In this direction
than they have been In some years Superin-
tendent Byrnes 10 particularly active in the
matter. and much OF the activity at Police
Headquarters Is characterized by q certain
amount Of secretiveness. which is the policy
OF the department In such cases. 1t
Is q theory Of the police that the pub
licity which one crank arouses By
misdemeanor sets hundreds OF other cranks
on edge at once. and these gentry are
not to be lightly excited. A number OF the
members Of the detective corps have been at
work night and day in this particular direction
for two weska Men have been detailed to
watch the oifloes Of the big corporations and
prominent financial men. and suspicious men
are carefully studied. There Is now a crank
list at Police Headquarters. and 1t may be that
the uperintendent will order o roundup OF
cranks on important occasions. Just as he does
with petty thieves and plckpockets before
great parade or other public occasion.
The general opinion seems to be that Charles
Coghlan is afraid to como to New York since
his marriage with Miss BeveridRe. 1t is said
that Mr.. Cozhan. In trying to illegitimatize
his child and in marrying q woman many
years his junior. Is following precisely in the
steps Of Dion Boucicault. by deserting his
own wife after many years Of faithful COM
panionship and contracting marriage with
woman forty years younger than himself. 1t
is asserted that Boucicault was the victim OF
was driyen into retirement by 1t. The facts
are hardly represented by this glowing and
cault scandal had become public. the Irish
dramatist and actor lived luIuriously in New
snd Sther D;s Which Sad
arranged. adapted, or produced. Until the
day OF his death he was abundantly supplied
w mr. tra n fra Ant nUnr nat LA Inn nD-
ico's. had a lavlshly furnished apartment up
town, where no amused himself by giving in
hitant rates. while he always drove a well ZAP
pointed brougham. with coachman and foot
on account OF his domestic troubles. nor was
J; \. Emmett after the pagers exposed the
the SsSpy fseaty 81 Enons the side issues
OF actors lives An actor Is judged By, his
public performance and 1t 10 not at all likely
stage when 1t appiauded MIR. Bouclcault's
performance. although his acts OF immortality
were rarher more lagrant than those Of the
younger actor.
There are a number OF stories told about
Charles Coghlan's adventures here and in
London. One OF the most widely circulated
anecdotes 10 that Of the actor and an actress
OF 6ippant reputation in London. Mr.. Coghlan
and the fippant one had been much talked
about on account OF what was generally
termed their "goings 60" One night they kept
going on until they had tired out nearly all the
hanson, drivers In London, and finally they
which is . SNOWY and eonyiyial sort Of place, for
breakfast. They had finished breakfast. and
so6d sd. by Wh.n
CAB was driven furlously up and stopped In
q hs and Ms SOfasn fs ASS %b
out turning q hair. Mr. CoRhlan looked at his
wife inqqiringIy for moment ' then raised his Is
turn, and said suayely:
"ks you ladies' doubtless have something Of
apsssonal nature to say to ono another. lwill
Then he stepped quietly into the cab and
bailed look. gazing alter him
The man who steps into a clean. easy-run-
ming and cheerfullV lighted elevated car. and
takes his place In seat Of strong mating.
and moves through clear air and good light to
his business oflce. Is a good deal better of than
he imaglnes The underground system OF Lon
don, with its abominable smells. dim lights.
suitrtness in summer and bone-shaking
Snr sIsvsted rosd system ste ~ Is here The Tea
trouble with our elevated roads 10 that there
are too many people for the cars.
Robert Cutting. who achieved considerable
newspaper notoriety last year through his
marriage with Miss SeligmAn. Is now the ono
picturesque figure In the lobby at Niblo's Gar
den. They are playing a drama there which 10
loaded with sweet sentiments and filled with
long words and lofty thoughts. great num-
on the first night to see the play and they ap-
plauded vigorously Mt the stirring situations;
them. the ~" and the words had hidden and nm.
fathomabe meaning. SO the men OF fashion
gave up the unequal struggle, and now NE
tall. clean shRYen, and Rmlable husband OF the
leading actress passes his time in the lobby OF
the theatre alone lie does not play in this
year. nut his sue, ess was not Of such a sufii-
ciently pronounced character to warrant a
second attempt.
New Workers can go almost anywhere on
Sixth avenue car nowadays. Since Daniel La
mont and William q. Whitney have been at
work rearrsnging the street railways the pos
sibility Of getting from almost any one section
OF the town to the other on a Sixth avenue car
Workers are somewhat bsWiidersd. They can
go way out on the west side streets TO Eigh-
toward the parks. Down town they switch on
and go eastward or westward as fancy seizes
then me Dsi659sSsS td, street Is 70 longer thous.
There are any number Of branches from the
end OF the road, and when the cars get on
Sixth avenue they 20 rattling about Ia strange
places.
The dissatisfaction and general confusion
over the football ticket matter. which occurs
with uniailinG regularity every year would
sssm 20 point to the AdVisablity Of putting
this work In the hands OF some circus or rhcat-
Tical manager. who would conduct the sale OF
the tickets upon the business principles In
vogue at the Metropolitan Opera House. Madl,
son square Garden. and the larnum and
Bailey snow. IL Is by no means simple mat
ter to give the public satisfaction In the quas:
tion Of tickets, when there 10 great demand
and a large number OF seats 10 rho'se from,
Mr Abbey counts upun large prom! this
season Al the Metropolitan opera House,
solely from the reArTauEementu ui the seats ana
boxes. which no and hi, assoclatss. win the
aid OF the architects have succeeded In max
ing; The lower boxes have been taken out
and replaced by seats. while the upper tier OF
boxes has als0 given Way 10 part 70 seats
which vi rank With sSme OF the best ~ the
house Under the gallarles other seats have
been aETanged. and there has been maEysl-