The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-11
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Sergeant Tins OF The Tendefloin police sta
ton, who exercised rats from q Negroes shoes
on Sunday night by quoting Milton, 10 q poet,
philosopher, and orator Of no mean pretensions.
Years ago he won the name OF "Shakespeare"
Tins by committing seven of Shakospearo's
tragedies TO memory, and he can still repeat
enough of them for ordinary police business.
Sergeant Tins is catholic In his literary taste,
and ho can roll of Moore, Byron. Keats. or Mil
ton, as tho occasion. may demand. Half q dozen
years ago he was entered by his friends in a
laureis. There were other book lovers in the
department then, 9s nov, but when u came 70
| ability Sergeant Tint won with a dozen. poets
TO spare. When IL. came to philosophy he ad-
yanoed the theory, drawn from his special road.
Ing, that the famous men who married widows
had made admirable and happy. unions, and no
proved 1t to tho satisfaction of the jury. He
ing his hearers.to disregard the old advice to be-
ware OF widows.
The men who are devoting themselves to re-
forming the code of morals of various colleges
have not as yet turned their attention to CO.
lumbia, but when they learn that this univer.
sity's new. library is equipped with a comfort
able smoking room, ,;where young men who arc
addicted to tho use Of tobacco may smoke,
something willsprobably..bo hoardSfrom them.
Degenerate college students and graduates will
probably say that q smoking room in a library
ID q very eXCeDonb lueh- NeVeTUnelebb, IL may
ser 70 as a text. A prohibition organ recently
investigated a d nner Of Wesleyan University
graduates In this city. 1t found that the, diners
drinks to choose from. not including seventeen
kinds Of mineral waters. This paper asserts
thai, ever since the dinner its office has been
hibitionists protesting because wine was served.
George s. Coleman, who. presided at the dinner.
mere fact that Il might be obtained by those
who wanted It seemed TO have been basis enough
rST Ss ed'a q good Sn many nny'" eler ssiDeia'i mado the
experiment several years ago, of giving q din.
ner without wine. Those who attended the
ton sent out invitations for another dinner the
following year the responses accepting were 30
few that the dinner was abandoned.
In one OF the dressing rooms at the Mctropoli-
tan on Sunday night there was an excited
group that included a surprisingly large num-
Der of the best known musicians in France.
There wero I'm the cluster Ysayc. Haoul Pugno.
Henri Marteau, and jean Gerardy among
others. They were gathered there to discuss
the situation at tho Metropolitan Opera House,
and discuss it they did with q volubility and
enthusiasm which only a group of musicians
would have shown at such a juncture. At
least one Of the men had every reason to be
grateful to the enterprise of r. f. Johnston,
the manager, who has this year found himself
with too many artists on his hands. Two
years ago Ysaye came TO this country un.
when he returned to his home in Liege 1t was
with $4,000 in his inside pocket as the result
as a hustler, and it is indeed for qualities of
that character that Mr.. Johnston is chiefly
industrious, and seemingly willing to undertake
any degree of risk. The artists who have
semo 10 a tn,S not SSuI likely yn to s II from any lack q
of employment whatever the, result of the ad-
iustment of the affairs of his firm may be.
ments they require. and both Gerardy and
Pugno will doubtless find enough to occupy
as they had expected. Whatever the result Of
the present disagreemcnts may be, they have
served ser ed to throw norta IighIb T on the re M masica lna an.
terprise are conducted in this country--some
thing. well enough known by. some persons.
but rarely revealed to the public.
The snow that fell ION Sunday night was not
sufficiently enduring to cover the statue of
Horace Greeley. which sits in Greeley square,
and persons who are accustomed to seek curly
morning amusement ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS usual
result Of a snowstorm on that statue were de-
prived of the sight. When the snowfall is
heavy enough to cover the statue a small mes
senger boy armed with a broom cmerges from
some unknown source and marches down on
the statue. He is lifted by obliging hackmen
up to the top of the pedestal. Standing there
and steadying himself by ~clasping first one knee
counterfeit presentment of Mr.. Greeley FREQ
from snow. The operation is not without It's
difficulties when it comes to the lead and
shoulders. but practice has made the boy pro-
fcient even in that respect. When Mr.. Gree
ley is comparatively free from snow, the mes.
hackmcn, is lifted down from the pedestal, and
retires with the broom to The abode of the Inys.
statue. Every heavy fall Of snow this winter
has brought out the boy and his broom.
Whether New York really wants to dance at
night or not may be determined by the Red Mill
which is to be put up here. Probably It will not
fill the same place that its prototype does in
Paris, and, indeed. local conditions may mako
1t different for the enterprise to thrive so we'll.
Men who go to such places find, always one of
two complaints to make. Either the available
partners are too few or entirely too many.
There.was a dreadful scarcity Of women at the
last Madison Square Gaden ball, and the supply
on hand was not noticeable for any especial
cOmeliness. The contrary difficulty Is nearly
certain to have a discouraging effect on tho
are many partners, the memory OF New York.
es is likely to go back to some earlier resorts,
where there was always abundant music, to-
tic or no dancing, So tho Red Mil inlprcsarios
in New York will always have this difficult
isfactorily before they can obtain success.
just what the music hall young woman who
disrobes in midair will do before tho guests
of the private club invited to view her at the
Astoria remains TO be seen, but very few per-
sons believe that she will attempt her customary
performance. Society that is seeking to be
amused must hive found the quest difficult
when it was considered necessary to call in
the assistance of such a performer. Indeed,
her cooperation Is said to be due 10 the fact
that the organization is a new one and made up
of persons who had.no exactidea of what they
were TO see. While one contingent of the mem.
bers was highly pleased with an ~oratorio. there
was another party that had expected entertain
ment of "A very different nature. So TO satisfy
the demands, Of every, faction it has been noces-
sary to exhibit all phases of the amuscments
of the day.. That part OF the club which has
been writhing under o%peretta and ~oratorio is
the new departure that the trapezc woman
will introduce. One aspect Of the new club
has never been adequately explained to some
of the members, and tho women are less able
to understand it than the men. To foreigners
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