The sun., 1897-03-08
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
Tho effort to mako q dance hall. modelled
after popular French resorts. successful here
has proved failure. Ind this experience seems
to establish clearly enough the lack OF de mend
for institutions Of the kind in this city. The
experiment horo never had better chance to
succeed, for It had never before been attempt
cd with so much case as was the undertaking
on tho roof OF Olympia. But the scheme failed.
and chiefly becaus, the people who won't there
refused to regard the show as anything but
! spectacle. There was at tho commencement
| occasional participation IN the dancing. and
there was enough of this from time to time TO
make IL sseu probable that the place might be
suocessfui on the only plan that could give
IL enduring popularity. That required some
thing like . general participation in the dane
ing. The opposite resulted. The number OF
persons who divided the floor with the hired
dancers grew smaller and smaller until they
had no more share In that entertainment than
in any theatrical performance. The result was
the failure OF the scheme and the final proof
that New Workers. are not inclined to take
| thor pleasure in tho way OF tho Parisians.
| Tho dance halls In Paris are quite as much do
pendent on hired dancers as this Now York ex-
p.riment was. but there IL certain degree OF
90 operation on the part OF the guests which Is
sufrcient to give these places . character diff
ferent from that OF an ordinary performance
which people 20 to watch. The recent eclipse
OF the Hay ymarket combined with tho clos
ing Of the dancing floor At Long Acre square.
| hae removed all possibilities OF this diversion
| from the Tcnderloin. and the only way TO a id
~ now is to TO further east and south. The In,
able 10 rot along without IL that tho face OF up
town vsyeties Will not be dnrkcned by tho with
drawal of hose two establishments from the
| liet of TonderlOin reAOrtA During all the
| years that tho Haymsrket wns prosperous IL
was the only place OF any notoriety In It's vicinity
| that offered its patrons the opportunity to
dance. 1t never gave them anything else. tor
It was q crude. cheap estiblishmsnt tnat added
on which It thrived. but It did thrive. and
| the dancing was a wholly incidental feature
| hall was decorously conducted. aud Its caree-
| showed that New Workers take no interest in
dancing for Its own sake. and that II plays no
| II Is made tho leading feature. Ntr. on the
| othor hand, docs It interfere with undertak-
ings that depend for success on other elements.
DR.. George +. Shrady. editor of the Medical
| Record, has published In tho last number Of
monthly magazine popular review Of recent
progress In medicine and surgery. To persons
who read only casually the newspaper de-
| Ipatches regarding the great surgical aud medi-
cal discoveries and Lad forgotten about Koch's
lymph before reading of anfitoIiL. and had
| CoArou VI hutiboAih Whou tho - 1879
were discovered, such a marshalling Of facts as
DIR. Shrady's seems like q revelation. In sur
Eerv. he mentions. ono OF the greatest advances
has been In the direction Of cleanliness. For
m-rly TO cleanse q wound WAS regarded as en-
| tircy out OF the question. he says. and foul
| bandagcs were common, IL not invariable. DIR.
Shrady tells a story OF DR.. Valentine Mott. .
surgeon sho excited much comment In his day
by his cleanly habits. once. in his absent. mind
edness, voing so far as to wash his hands
both before and after seeing another man per-
for man operation. The effort OF surgeons
once WAS 10 kill the poison In the wounds. he
getting In. To this new 80 called aseptic method
Of surgery he ascribes the possibility Of the
! operations nowadays on the organs OF the hu-
man body. Such operations as are read of al
most daily In the New York newspapers. with
out com nent. have been possible, he shows.
only since cleanliness and surgery have gone
hand in hand. After touching upon the ser
vices OF tho Rosntgen rays Ia surgery. DR..
,hrady gives an idea OF the immense amount of
race. robhinE pain OF Its victory and the blade
There is an old and famous saving OF Bis
mArck's that. while surgery has advanced with
giant strides. Internal medicine has stood still
saving passes current IN Germany. ali nougn
medicine and surgery are well advanced there.
Shrady's fact-. He speaks of the discoveries
regarding microbes. and the carrying OF dis.
sSsS by them mentioning IN ms list o. non9rsd
medicine pasteur. RouI. Strauss. Metchni-
kor. and Bolchard Of Paris. Koch. Behring:
Ritasto. the Japanese. lie warns tho fearful.
II, wsver. that they need not think the baoilli
OF tuberculosis and other dreaded diseases i'm
peril the lives OF all who breathe them.
A healthful person run, such imall risk In
most SAssT ., that ma hardy worth consider,
that Dr. shrady re"kons also the more agree
able forms OF the medicines NJ Today as signs
IA Ia Elagl haNN D Nk.. al. ,N1ar
mixtures swallowed by the grandfathers have
given way to pellets and tablets that a child
can take without discomfort.
The horseless carriages will make their first
appeal TO the public within abort time, and
the result OF the experiment will bc observed
with interest. 1t is proposed to put twelve Of
these vehicles on tho street. They will be
hansoms and coupes. The motor power will
be electricity. and II is promised that tho new
vehicles. with their pneumatic tires. will be
more com Portable and less noisy than the ordi
nary cab. Nothing has been announced as to
the scale Of prices. and that WILL Of course. af.
ect the success Of tho new venture materi-
nllv. Probably II tho schedule is very cheap.
that one fact. instead OF helping the scheme to
prospe rity. will interfere with its successful
outcome. Many persons remember New York's
first serious EFFORT at syslem Of cheap cabs
about twelve gears ago. New Workers had
cab services and this attic. ut was the 6rst
made on a large scale TO supply tho supposed
demand. The service was good. but the scheme
failed In spite OF the cheap rates. Tn was
attributed chiefly 10 tho fact that mistake
hal been made In calling attention to tho fact
that the cabs were cheap. They had besn
painted yellow. and IL WAS Immediately ap-
parent that tho passengers inside were riding
in n very economical manner. This was too
much for the eauanImity OF tho passengers,
who. in addition to the attention attracted by
riding about I'm canary colored vehicles, were
compelled to admit that they were doing It
at very an all expense. This settled tho fate Of
tho undertaking. IL will take some compos
ure TO ride about in these new horseless car
riages. They are certain 20 make their pas
sengers conspicuous, and they might not sur.
vive this drawback coupled with tho Teputa-
tion OF cheapness.
A Riyington street tailor who went down to
the barge once last week N secure tho release
OF his nephew. an immigrant who was in tho
detention pen, made use Of some brand now
slang whom he appeared before tho Board OF
Special INQUIRY. When he was asked what no
would do with his nephew II he were released.
the tailor replied:
~ will take him to my home, clothe and feed