The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-01-24
IN new YORK,
REFORMS AND REFORNIERS DO
NOT REFORM.

Preachers sSaying-That People Go to
Hear CeIebrities-Not to Praise God
An Irish Girl Turns Pagan and is
Carried TO Her Grave by Grinuing
Chinese-Rushing the Black Cat
How the Great ScaIchi Punishes
Spaghetti and Usage Plays the Kreut.
ger Sonata.
Especial Correspondence to News Domocrat)
NEW YORK, Jan. is, 1895.
Tanmany is dead and the tiger is buried and
the reformers hold full sway, and yet never in
the history of the city have the streets been in
as depl0rable condition as they are now.
Last year as fast as 1t showed gangs of men
cleared and hauled il away, but this year il
lies and melts. Then the rain comes and then
q hot sun, and the snow, mud and water bub-
bles, boils and steams and throws off germs.
Consequently everybody has the gnp, typhoid
fever, or diphtheria and people that can afford
IL are leaving the city as fast as possible.
Why, even the ash barrels that used to be
carried away every morning stand on the side
walks for days and every time the wind blows
the ashes are tossed and waited in the air and
descend upon you like n snow storm.
wish the anti.Tammany reformers, while
reforming the morals of the city, would apply
the doctrine John Wesley preached in the
slums Of London: Cleanliness is, indeed, next
20 Goodness"
One manifestation of police reform, which l
personally witnessed, was policeman paying
his fare on Broadway cable car one of the
new rules laid down by Inspector Byrnes.
THE LEGHoRN CURIOSITY.
saw a strange sight on Broadway the other
day which astonished me as much as the ap-
pearance of an elephant fresh from the jungle.
1t was leghorn chicken walking along pick
up scraps ON the street in the
most unconcened manner Every
body stopped to watch and marvel,
md hrsn
chicken was crowded and the blockade had to
be moved on by policeman. Where the
chicken came from, where it was going and to
whom ii belonged remains mystery.
possible explanation is that New York is
becoming so reformed and quiet under the
present administration that one may expect to
see pigs roofing in the cutters and cows grazing
ON Fifth Avenue
FOLLOWING THE CROWDS.
Sunday morning went to Dr. Parkhurst's
church to hear his sermon on Morality" so
did so many other people. Long before SER
vice commenced the church was packed, with
not even standing room, ! stood squeezed be-
tween a cross man and fat man for about
fifteen minutes to our mutual discomfort and
finally left. Just as | was going out OF the
door young man was carried out, who had
tainted in the crowd.
In the afternoon l thought would go to the
Academy of Music and hear Dr. Talmage. As
il is the largest opera house in the city and /
started an hour before service |
expected to get front seat but when arriv-
ed the house was crowded and the over flow
reached into the middle of the street
stood out side, looking dazed like the restof
the people and finally started home in a furi-
GUS snow storm thinking of what Rev. II. Clay
Ferguson once said in a sermon that Many
people go to church to hear Doctor this or Rev
erend that and not to worship God" | won
der how many of the crowd packed into the
theatre went to worship God l guess / went
10 hear DR.. Talmage.
BURIED BY CHINAMAN.
There was a curious funeral on Mott street
in the Chinese settlement one day last week.
The wife of Chinese laundryman died
from the effects of opium and dissipation. She
was only twenty two years old. and when she
went TO live among them, she was a rosy
checked, bright eyed Irish girl.
The hour for the funeral found the dirty
lily ventilated room filed with dark, oily
Chinaman and hollow-eyed, haggard white
women, who stood awe stricken around the |
coffin. At the head of the Casket sat the be- !
reaved Chinaman, with his hands buried in |
his face, while the eyes of the women were |
riveted upon him, with amazement depicted |
upon every feature.
Could it be possible that he |
actually mourned her death, that |
any one could grieve for any one Of them. |
o wonder of wonders!
The casket bore wreath of roses at the |
head and at the foot u set piece, the cross and /
crown, emblems of the Christian faith, which
he may have heard her profess, while in the /
center was a saucer for contributions to pay
the expenses of the funeral.
For two hours the men sat there and the |
room filed and refilled with curious specta-
tors who passed by the coffin, looked into the
dead woman's face, dropped contribution in |
the saucer and went into the street to await |
the carrying out of the body.
An Episcopal clergyman from the mission
n |
and the coffin carried out by four grinning |
Cinnamon, followed by that solitary mOurner. |
Men and women iostled against each other
in their haste to get near the hearse; eager
faces were pressed against the window panes
in the tumble down houses opposite and the
crowds thronged the crooked street.
The coffin was slid into place, the door closed |
with that harsh click that sends terror to
your heart and the hearse trotted off, fol-
lowed by a single carriage, to the pauper's !
field, where the body of the once protesting
Catholic was laid in an unCOnseCrated grave.
The funeral expenses were S75 and the sau- |
,er contained s6s,4O, mostly in coins.
RUSHING THE BLACK CAT.
New Workers have a way of rushing thing
Ior several months and then, without the |
slightest proyocation, dropping it, and taking !
Ip something else with the same yigOr.
This is particularly true of musicians, artists /
md Journalists who constitute the world of e
I
Just at present a ltlle trenCn cafe called the
hat Noir, which means in Anglo Saxon, 4
black cat, is the rage. This little resrr ant is
way down town Just at the edge of the Bow d
'ry, and is most unattTactive in its furnish.
ngs, with bare floor and plain wooden chairs | h
md tables Pictures of black cats adOrn the d
walls and the menu cards. Several large black |
ats prowl around, and If encouraged, will |
limb up on the table and eat from the dishes. | A
4 table d'hote dinner, with wine is served g
Or the modest sum of forty cents including | n
oup, fish, meat, entrees, salad, desert and 4
0ffee, and everything is cooked in the most n
ppr0ved French style. ~
Music ls furnished by a harp and VIOLIN | q
laying familiar French airs, the diners join
ng in singing the chOruses, beating time with
oDg loaves Of French bread. 10
The men smoke and sit among the tables | ~
nd chat after dinner, and the night was
here one party cleared the table, carrying the
ishes 20 the kitchen themselves and then had
n animated game of cards, a most unique and Ss
nheard of performance. 81
Like all French restaurants woman is the | th
cad Of the establishment She receives the | bt
ay and has general supervision of affairs, | IN
lhile her husband looks pleasant and greets In
very one with 'bon jour-" OF
Many noted musicians, artists and journal dt
rs were pointed out to me, people who have pa
cen 50 much of the world that they are con-
nuaily seeking novel experience, or a new
ens4tion. Ga
The Chat NOir viii be all the rage for a few he
lonths and then suddenly patronage will drop hi
D. che patrons going to someplace where there Ca
Ne mot so many curiosity seekers and the little w
will sink into state of ''inncuOous ey