Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-12-18
OUR NEW YORK LETTER..
q Harlem Genius Who Teaches Dancing.
How Love Found Way-Want-
ed, Pied Piper In Eobollen.
[Special Correspondence.l

tHe various businesses IN winch tho peO-
pie of this city arc engaged. This is
perhaps the case i'll every very large city,
but it is true to greater extent in New
York than in any other place in the
world. There are, for instance, q num-
her of men here and in Brooklyn whose
sole business is tho boiling of hams.
There arc bakeshops which do nothing
Tut outside work-that is to say, all the
baking they do is for persons who have
not the facilities or the requisite knowl-
edge to do it themselves.
There is genius i'll Harlem who
keeps dancing academy. He is evil
IDENTIFY one of those fellows who sensibly
think that good deal of patronage at q
snail rate of remuneration is much bet
ter than none at higher and more
fashionable charge. This man is in no
sense fakir and is said TO be a master
of his art His cards advertising his
place and his merely nominal rates of
instruction are gems of righteousness
Here is the way they read:
Some OF the Dances.
Lessons Free Lessons Free. Hat
Check, 10 cents Professor IS,
Dancing Master for II Years, at -
Hall, - street. Glasses Every Tues
day and Saturday Afternoon.
Here are some of the dances which
are taught in the class: Song and
Dance, Wing Dance, Waltz, Amsterdam,
Berlin Polka, Skirt Dance, Irish Reel,
Hornpipe. SchottiSche, Dutch Dance,
Buck Dance Tambourine, Supbia, Skip
ping Rope Dance, Waltz Clog, Castanet,
Nadine, and others too numerous to
mention.
Then follows notice TO turn over.
On the opposite side of the card appears
the following:
Ito introduce the most rapid. accu-
rate and most intelligent method of
learning TO Dance Gracefully and Accu-
rately, THIS TICKET IS GOOD FOR
ONE LESSON. Hat Check, l0c. Par
ents are respectively invited to attend.
l pay just as much attention for 10c.
then others charging 90 for class les
SONS. Grand Carnival, -, 1898. Pri-
waite Academy, - avenue. The best,
healthiest and most refining exercise for
children and youths is DANCING.
When children are weary with study,
let music sound its note Of Invitation TO
the dance. Every one should learn TO
dance become graceful and know how
TO enter refined Society. Over"
The gentleman photography, syntax
and etymology may all be trifie off,
but his little flight into the upper poetic
atmosphere, coupled with his delicate
insistence upon the Hat Check, 10c.,
admonition and the insidious hint that
only through the channels of dancing
nav one 'know how to enter refined
Society" Capital s. have evidently had
their effect, for have been informed
that the "professor" is hourishing like
u green bay tree So much for genius.
How Love Found Way.
The poet evidently knew what he was
about when he made the declaration
that love will find way. Mrs. Clara
Latteg was the complainant in the
Yorkville police court recently against
Oscar Netzlee and Mrs. Eta Paula, who
had been arrested on charge. OF lar
cenv. She said that while she was i'll
the Tombs Mrs. Paula took some proper
ty from her rooms and Netzlee took her
gold watch and pawned it. The exam
nation brought out the fact that love
makes its way even into prison van.
Mrs. Latteg was arrested for practic-
ing medicine without a diploma. While
being transported from the Yorkville
court to the Tombs in the black maria,
George Auer, one of the prisoners, made
such desperate love to her that later
there was 4 promise Of marriage.
While in the prison she sent the
Tombs missionary to Mrs Paula, who
lived in the same house with her, to
look after her pet dog and cat and her
parrot.
She said that when she was acquitted
after trial she found that Mrs. Paula
had either sold or given away her pets,
and that Netzslee, friend of hers,
had pawned her gold watch and retain
ed the money.
The woman stated that Auer after he
got out on bail called on her and prom
ised to marry her and wanted to borrow
her jewelry. When she refused to give
it to him, he left and never came back.
Plague of Rats In Hoboken.
A ''Pied Piper of Hamelin, or any
where else SO long as he can drive away
rats, is sadly wanted in Hoboken. The
houses in the vicinity OF Bloomfield and
Sixth streets are so overrun with the
pests that the residents are i'll despair
of ever getting rid of them.
The rodents swarm III the cellars and
Easements, eating up or destroying al
most everything in sight, run up and
down between the walls of the houses
and invade the upper floors. Cats, dogs,
ferrets, all kinds and descriptions of
traps, patent or otherwise, and even
poison seem to have no effect upon the
yerlnin.
1t is said that they started in a one
story building at Sixth and Bloomfield
streets, which adjoins butcher shop
on one side and a stable on the other.
The building has long been unoccupied
and given over entirely to the rats,
which are said to swarm there by thou
sands.
The last tenant i'll the store, a gro
ceryman, had much trouble with the
rodents, and friend loaned him fox
terrier which had a reputation as
SLAYER of rats. The vermin turned on
the dog when he attacked them, and by
sheer force CT numbers succeeded in so
tearing and lacerating him that he
turned tail and ran from them. The
sroceryman was finally obliged to move
away and leave the building to the rats.
Since then they have multiplied with
great rapidly, and driven out by hun
ger, have swarmed over the entire neigh
borhood. JOSEPH RUSSELL
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