Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-19
NEW YORK GOSSIP
Some Side Lights ca Affairs in the
Big City.
QUEER STANDARDS OF MoDEsTY
Sailing Vessels Are Attracting
European Travellers.
SCHEME THAT FAILED
s,ec;s1 CORRESPONDENCE of The Evening star.

S,ecinl Correspondence of The Evening Star
NEW YORK, May 10, 1899.
An actress from the far west, now gyrat-
ing in a peculiarly New Yorkesque eXtrava- |
ganza devised for the hot weather season, |
astonished the crowd in Central Park the |
other afternoon by appearing a-horseback !
in a divided skirt, riding la man. The |
interviewers got after her at once, and she |
told them that having been reared on her |
fathers enormous ranch, somewhere out in |
wyoming or Idaho she had been taught to
ride that way only, and that she didn't see
awning peculiar about it. Nevertheless,
New York has been rather shocked ever
since The prudary of New York is a de-
1igh+ful thing to witness a. close range,
ANYHOW When it is reflected that only
about one New Yorker in a thousand or
more ever gets any farther away from his
burg than Coney Island. the shocked crowd
can't be expected TO know that in San
Francisco. Cheyenne, Omaha, and even IN
Chicago the ladies who Ike horseback eX-
erc;se have been riding male fashion. with
divided skirts for several years past, with
out getting themselves taxed about or their
| pictures in the papers. The fashion Starteo
| Down in Honolulu. where the best people
| have a habit of doing pretty much as they
please and yet keeping within bounds ana
! if has gradually been working its way east
! ward from that tar~off point. Inc youns
] W
| here appears in the extravaganza from
which she draws wages in an OUTFIT most
| renla rkably sCantY. ana the theatef-goefS
| hest 90 the doors to see her done up IN thaL
rig. But they avert their heads When she
| masses by them, mounted on good horse,
wearing her modest divided skirt
One Road to success.
4 rare track boolmaker who. number
| of wears ago. shot down another BOOK
| maker, and who got a few years in sing
Sing for the job. was pardoned recently
| Governor Roosevelt cOurteouSy CONFORM
| ing TO a promise made by Governor Black
! before the latter went out of officet and he
j. now ION the block out at the Morris
| park track making a stiff book. and get
ting considerably more play at the hahuS
of the talent" than the fellows VINO
| haven't killed their man. y young woman
| whose companion in crime was. few
| months ago. sent up to Sing Sing TO serve
| a nineteen-year sentence. but VINO, no
| loss whit guilty than the man. II either was
guilty wriggled out on her Scrape AFTER :, Il
| noriod of confinement in the TornbS, Is
eazed after every, afternoon When she APP
| 9nars on broadway in symphonic costume
| ia different one for every day.. ana the
| fashion columns are filled with yarns OF
/ the "effecss'' in toggeky that she mas He+-
signed. Brooklyn political boss VINO ma
: | 70 do quite lengthy stretch in the SING
| Sing laundry for bidding whooping dehahce
to the aw patrols the New York and BROOK
lvn streets literally in "a n!mbus OF piaZlhs
light from his dia5n ohas' anu men taII " ~
each other in their enieaVors TO Gluten ms
| hand An actor who was convicted OF ciuo
hing and pounding his wife almost to deatf
ahont a year ago. and who did a sly
months term for 1t lover on the island; l:
| now one of the things of beauty ana 10y:
| forever to be seen staggering. also efful
| | gent in cinnamon diamonds. in the alley
| Thai used TO be called tsthe Riaito.
II know 'what IN ao,'' said witty actor
wi ose popularity, has been somewhat OF
the wane. the other afternoon. Til throw
vitriol in some little girls eyes. get sen
down for a year. and then won't they
| break their necks coming to see me wheh
? Get out''