Year: 1877

MartyF-SpOrt, New and Old
/ The Thomas Garden Project


The Liszt Organ.


To the Editor Of the Observer


New YORK, June 10Th, 1877
Pursuing the subject of the


Ring cases, which continue t.
form the most important locaI
object within the range of public
vision, | am called upon to report
an act of tad faith on the part of
the prosecution, which is in every
way unfortunate. Tweed's con-
fession was given to the attorney
general months ago under what
he claims to have been a positive
assurance that be should be called
as witness by the city and then
released. But whether this prom
ise was absolute or not, it was
certainly an acknowledged stipu
lation that no use whatever should
be made of this confession unless
the prisoner was set free. Such
an agreement between prosecutor
and prisoner has been repeatedly
held, by the highest courts in the
land, to be- one Of the most sacred
obligations which can be entered
into; but in this case it has in
reality been shameiully violated


To be sure, the city's lawyers did
not publish the document, but
they held it on various pretexts
or no pretexfs, through weeks and
months, until their possession Of
it enabled them to get a much
better settlement out of Sweeny
than could have been effected with
out it,meanwhilc showing it to ev
cry one implicated by its contents,
and drawing from these persons
what their defense would be in
case the matter should be pressed;
and now, having got all they
want of it, the honorable counsel
return the papers to Tweed, with
word that on the whole they have
decided that it is not of sufficient
value to warrant his release.


The brief period Of rainy cool
ness has passed over, and a hot
sun is warming the torpid swarm
of summer sportsmen to the live
liest activity. Horse racing is
still in Vigorous progress; the
yacht fleet, cleaned, repalnted and
furnished up for fresh pleasures
and fresh conquests, daily skim
the bay; the base-balIisis have
united their bats aud laid in their
summer supply of arnica; and the
croquet players, joining in the
smile of the clearing heavens,
rush eagerly upon the velvet lawn
to raise Jumps upon their own
feet and the heads of their antaQ
onists, in the heat OF theiI noble
contest. Unsatisfied, even, with
the variety Of sports which either
by origin or long use may fairly
be called American, our pleasure
seekers, animated by the spirit
which, caused the importation Of
Polo one or two seasons ago, have
this year brought out the English
tennis" and archery. BJththese
are ostensibiy practised by the La
dies Out door Club, a fashionable
and strictly feminine association
which combines a minimum of ath-
letic exercise, with maximum of
good eating, handsome dressing
and gossip.


Of the theatres Ddly's and Wal
lacks are still open, but fail to
present as strong attractions as Gil
more's GIrden or the Aquarium,
both of which, being airy and g.
dapted to promenade, are well at
tended by all classes of people
The great void in our amusement

world this season is the unwonted
silence of our magnificent Thomas
Orchestra and the absence of
those Central Park Garden con-
certs which ia former years have
been the redeeming feature of life
in the Metropolis during the hot
weather. | am most happy to
state, however, that this is likely
to be the last season that we shall
have to endure without Thomas;
for the plan to which | have pre-
viOusly referred, for erecting a
suitable structure to be the perma
nent home Of this Incompatible
organization, has progressed so
far that the pr4ject has become a
fixed fact. The subscription books
of the company having the work
in charge are rapidly filling up at
the office Of Steinway & Sons, to
whose liberality and active inter-
est the success of this noble work
will be due in no small measure


The influence of the Steiuway
firm, with its wealth.. its pubic
spirit and iis wide reputation, up
on the progress and culture Of