The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-09-28
NEW YORK GOSSIP.

New York. Sept. 27.-After days, Of
sweltering heat. dusty, blistering pave
ments, the cool wave prophesied by
Farmer" Dunn has at last arrived.
A week or SO ago 1t seemed as though
fall had really. come: the small boy
made bonfires on the cObble pavements,
straw hats were discarded-and then,
to. -everyone's discontinue. came the
intense heat. The most pitiable OBJ
jects in New York city on these hot
days are the street sweepers, sweltering
in the absurd garb of white duck de-
signed for them by Colonel Waring.
After a days wear their color Is not
recognizable, and more .wretohed.
dirty. abject-1ooking set OF people II
would be difficult to find.
The theatlcal season has now fair
ly begun, and already there have been
several failures. 1t Is rather droll, but
at present there is not one stock COM
pany playing dn New York. ! heard an
old gentleman bemoaning this fact the
other day. what do the present gen.
Grafton know" he said. "of the delight
ful comedies. 'The School for Scan
dal,' THE Rivals Money etc.-dh, for
a stock company like Lester Wallack's
to interpret them, that they might be
appreciated"
Notwithstanding so many new at
fractions, the Garden theater. with
"Trilby." Is packed nightly. It is a
play one can see again and again with
out firing Sarony has taken photo
graphs of the different members of the
cast and they are on exhibition in his
window on Union Square. Although
they have been exhibited for months,
there Is always a large crowd gazing
on the faces of their favorites, Tamy,
the Laird, Geckoch.
walking down Eighth avenue the
other day I heard rather corpulent
German woman calling. 'DTilby. Drill
by, come in and get your dinner"
wondered who had been blessed with
the name: imagine my astonishment
TO find "Drilby' was wretched looking
little black dog! TriIby's fame Is evil
IDENTIFY still spreading!
Musicians may rumple their fingers
through their long hair and smile with
delight, for the coming season promises
to be very musical one, indeed.
| There will be the opera. with Melba
and Calve; Paderewski. ne, of the lions
name, will also be here: and other
pianists of lesser degree, such as Fan
ME Bloomfield. Zeissler. Frieda Simon
son, eVcy N1OInlSUS VIII De leSiOn. Ine
most famous among these who will be
heard are iMarsck. Ondricek, Rivarde.
Remenys and the sons OF Ole Bull
You see they are all foreigners with
high sounding names, and there Is not,
alas, one American among them.
Now and then you see bit of life in
New York, so pathetic, so delicate that
II stands out as would a painting by
Greuze. On the corner of Sixth avenue
and Twenty-second street there stands
a beggar totally blind, who plays heart
rending strains on an old hand-organ.
He Is always accompanied by a little
black terrier. You might resist the
blind mans appeal. but never that Of
the little terrier. As his soulful eyes
meet yours you always drop something
in the little tin. cup; and doggle's tail
would wag. and he would look UP In mis-
blind masters face as though to tell
him what had occurred. And now the
Mttle terrier II dying! There are tears
on the blind mans face az he listens
to his means. and he lovingly rubs him.
| The little dog has been HIS one true
| friend-his only companion.
t1l1an 3gsAkss AlsEaalss.