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TOU MUST HATE fOSTED FRIENDS.
Tilt Bnbstantial Grandeurs and the Gilded
Glories of the Town,
A TISIT TO GRACEFUL CARHEKCITA
rcOEBESPOXDKNCK OP THE DISPATCH. 1
New i'OKK, April 26. There is much of
interest about New York and vicinity, yet
I question whether most of our country
cousins in their brief visits see more than
-what happens to be in their way. Those
who set about it guide-book fashion look op
the placet ot which they have read most
and usually have a stupid time of it. They
ride In Central Park, of course, pay 25
cents to see the inside of St. Patrick's Cathe
dral, go to the art galleries and the finest
theaters, etc. This is all very well as far as
it goes, but it gives a very incomplete idea
about the American metropolis.
It is probably your "slummer" who gets
the quickest and most thorough notion of
the peculiarities of the place. The man
who gets through his business, if he has
any, meets his friend and does the man-about-town
act. I've known good fellows
of this sort to pretty nearly exhaust New
Tort in a single day and night, to say
nothing of exhausting themselves. To see
New York this way a local friend and pilot
is necessary. It saves time and travel.
And then companionship alone makes such
an adventure entertaining. If you have no
local friend who will answer, hire a guide.
It will pay, that is, if time is any object to
you.
THE SIGHTS IN A. DAT,
Suppose you are here for two days. You
have transacted your business and" want to
get the most out of the day left Your friend
meets you at your uptown hotel, ay Hoil
man Bouse, in the morning The plan your
friend lays out lor you is to give you as
much and as great a variety as possible in a
given time without robbing vou with ex
pense or killing you with exertion. If he is
wise he will keep his plan to himself, let
ting you in at every turn for the unexpected.
A carefully arranged programme of plea
sure is usually disappointing; it raises too
many expectations.
You start in with the Hoffman Art Gal
lery in this instance, emphasizing the mat
ter very naturally with a light Manhattan
cocktail price for two, 40 cents. (Now
keep track of this matter of expense, as you
must know how much money to bring with
you.) You immediately go to Delinomco's
across the way and order breakfast. Not
because there are not plenty of just as good
and considerably cheaper places for break
fast, but because it is necessary to eat a meal
at Delnionico's some time, and you may as
well take it now and be done with it It is
early, and the waiters will stare at you im
pudently for the unfashionable visit "When
one of them takes your order you feel like
kicking him or apologizing for not ordering
a 10 breakfast As it is, you order twice
as much as you need, and pay $3 for a light
breakfast Having purchased a couple of
poor-clay cigars at thecashier'g desk (if you
are not smart enough to have amply pro
vided yourself elsewhere) for 20 cents each,
you take the iront platform of the first
Broadway car going down town.
BSIOKLKO ON THIS OAKS.
You don't take the elevated because you
want to smoke and ride down the greatest
business street in the world. The United
States is a big tobacco raising and tobacco
consuming country, but it is the land ot
liberty, and stands alone in its contempt for
c the rights and comforts of smokers. You
are tolerated on the front platform of a New
York surface car in winter, or when the
front floor is chut On the elevated there is
no provision for you at any time. It is
worth the inconvenience of being banged in
the ribs now and then by the driver, having
your toes trodden on by fat policemen,
straddling all sorts of packages and smell
ing all sorts of tobacco, this ride down
Broadway on a sunny morning. It only
costs you 10 cents and patience. Jogging
along among the thousands of trucks, cabs,
carriages aud delivery wagons that con
stantly require the reminder of whistle and
oaths of your driver, you have ample time
to finish c cigar before jumping off at Park
Place.
Here you must be lively if you don't want
to be run over in the business swim, and
must not mind the apparent efforts of the
drivers to smash you and their success in
splashing you with mud. The car will not
stop to tike up or set down an able-bodied
man in this section he must assume all the
risk, or walk. If you reach the sidewalk
alive you have in iront of you the postofSce,
park. City Hall, etc, and in the back
ground the great newspaper offices. Behind
you to the right rises the grim granite of
the Astor House and the left the old Chem
ical Bank, the richest bank in America, the
stock of which is worth over $1,000 per 5100
share, and can be bought at all only at some
executor's sale. You stroll across the park
with a contemptuous glance at the city
buildings, but with interest at the splendid
edifices of the World, Times and Tribune.
OVER BBOOKLTN BRIDGE.
Joining the hustling, hurrying crowd,
you slowly work your way to the entrance
of the Brooklyn bridge. There is a bigger
crowd coming the other way at this hour in
the morning, but you let them fight it out
on the other platform. Having chipped in
6 cents and dropped your ticket in the
chapper, you scramble on the cable cars and
cross the great bridge oyer the masts and
funnels of the-shipping. Then you take
the broad roadway above the track's and re
cross on foot By this means you get a fair
idea of the lenjth and build of that mag
nificent span of wire and can enjoy the grand
scene and panorama of passing ships below.
You will rest a moment or two at the seats
on the bridge, then resort to the Astor
House, where you'll eel better after spill
ing a bottle of Bass 30 cents.
It will now be getting on to 12 o'clock
and the vast throng of business that begins
to flow into the Central Cafe is a sight itself.
But you will not lunch there. Taking the
precaution to get some fair ciSars (four for
60 cents) you again take a car heading for
the Battery, this time glad to sit down
within and get full value of your 10 cents.
You pass St Paul's on the immediate right
on the left the Herald and Equitable build
ings further along to the right Trinity
steeple rises at the head ot Wall street The
car swings around a small circle at the end
of the route. Within that circle stood the
statue of George the Third, thrown down at
the Bevolution by a street mob. Directly
opposite is the immense Field building, oc
cupying the site ot the New York residence
and headquarters of both George Washing
ton and the British commander during the
Bevolution. You take to your heels here,
walking down through Battery Park, past
Castle Garden, to the barge office where lies
a little steamer plying between this point
and Liberty Island.
OCT IN THE WATER.
You pay 60 cents for two round-trip tick
ets and have a 20 minutes sail across New
York harbor and all that implies to a
stranger. In fact, few beside strangers
make this trip. There is always a fair
sprinkling of newly wedded couples on
board the boat, the rest of the passengers
being a motley crowd ot out-ol-town people.
So far as your fellow passengers are con
cerned they remind you of the' 1ft. Vernon
crowd 'from Washington. The view oi the
harbor is very fine, looking through the
shipping at the anchorage, the bordering
forts and beyond the Narrows to Sandy
Hook. On a Wednesday or a Saturday
you'll be sure to catch a good sight of the
big "ocean greyhounds" passing in and out.
On the way back the best view of New
York, Brooklyn and Jersey City, the mouth
r, of the Hudson and the bridge is obtained.
"? jluv xkartnoiai suma or imertv. wnim in.
Incidental to your pleasure, li something J
worth a -more nnintercstruir journey to see.
I have taken this 'Sail.again and again, and
always feel the picture grows upon me. The
giant statue has the same effect on one that
the Washington monument does. Every
time you see it she grows bigger and more
imposing. If you are blessed with ttont
legs and long wind you may ascend the
Etairway within the torch, the balcony of
which holds a dozen people at once, but my
curiosity and legs never took me thus far.
Your friend will take vou around the em
brasured walls below to alittlo restaurant
On the other side built of paper, from the
windows of which your eyes command the
channel and Narrows while you lunch. The
latter for two will be reasonable, a couple of
bottles of Milwaukee included, at $1. Boats
leave on the half hours, and you can finish
your cigars on the return boat
A DRIVE IK A COUPE.
Back again at the barge office you take
the Sixth avenue elevated'to Twenty-eighth
street and arrive at the starting point before
2, and for 10 cents more. At'the Hoffman
vou get a conpe for a three hours drive at
52 an hour, going to Central Park up Fifth
avenue. The driver will point out the
mansions of the millionaires that line that
grand thoroughfare, the club houses, the
Stewart house, etc. If the weather is pro
pitious an open Victoria will facilitate
sight-seeing. On the way up you can stop
at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and for 25 cents
each be shown the interior. You enter the
park at the interesting corner, drive past the
Zoo, which can be seen for nothing, and the
art galleries further up, which are free on
particular days.
Don't fail to pause at the Casino at the
price of a couple of bottles of beer, for there
you will see the men about town and their
gay turnouts those butterflies of fashion
whose most difficult daily toil is to pass
away the hours between breakfast and din
ner. You will leave the park at the upper
entrance and spin along the grand avenue,
in Harlem, where the fast horses, horsemen
and horsewomen throng eyery pleasant
alternoon.
Turning to the left you will enter into
Biverside drive along the banks of the Hud
son, stopping at Grant's tomb in homage to
the memory of America's great soldier. And
right here you will also see one of the finest
river scenes of the world, looking up or
down. Along this magnificent river drive
of two miles your feelings are poetical and
sentimental and too deep for expression. As
you reach Seventy-second street and turn in
toward Central Park again, you will have
fully understood the sentiment of General
Grant, always fond of horse-flesh and natural
scenery, when he indicated his desire to be
laid away on the banks of Biverside. Re
entering Central Park at the Seventy-second
street entrance you get a close view of the
immense fashionable fiats where a suite of
empty rooms cost $5,000 a year. You also
note the rapid growth of the West Side,
where the dwellings of from $30,000 to $100,
000 each have solidly replaced the squatters
and goats. Ths drive southward in the
Park takes you along the lakes and foun
tains and statues and you will have had a
good idea of the whole when you make your
exit into upper Broadway at Fifty-ninth
street
ROLLING FOB A REST.
Counting the time necessarily and wisely
spent on the drive, you have an hour now
before dinner, and this hour can be used to
stretch your legs and body best by rolling
tenpins. There is a prominent bowling
alley on Broadway a few blocks above the
Hoffman, and 50 cents or SI will pay the
bill. You are then tired, hungry and
thirsty, and when you sit down to a table
d'hote dinner at Hotel Martin (pronounced
llartan, with accent on the "an"), in Uni
versity Place, you. can do excellent justice
to a seven-course French dinner at $1 a
head, including wine. There are other
good places to dine places French, Euro
pean, Italian and American, without num
ber, but you can't dine but once, and will,
therefore, go to a characteristic place, where
you sit down with Parisian surroundings,
hear only the Parisian tongue and see
little else than Parisian faces. You can
trv your French on the waiter, if you
feel particularly daring, but after one or
two trials of that kind-myself, I do not ad
vise it He will serve you without a word,
anyhow, as he knows you are there for
dinner only raising his dark eyebrows with
the query, " Vin blanche ? vin rouge ?" as
to your wine.
There are files of French and Italian
papers which he may indicate, according as
you may remind him of a traveled man or
not For the next hour you are ic Paris.
If you follow the example of those around
you, a "pony" of brandy will go with your
black coffee aud a cigar with both, which
will probably cost you 50 cents additional.
The usual tip to the beetle-browed waiter
for such a dinner is 25 cents, though if you
don't mind his contempt you can make it
10, or even go away for nothing. In the
latter case you'd better not dine there again.
SPENDING THE EVENING.
Now that you have put in the day, Jhe
question of the evening arises. It is within
half an hour of 8, and an easy walk or a
hundred points ot billiards is a very good
thing immediately after dinner. At this
hour you will find that a stroll on Broad
way from Fourteenth to Thirty-third streets
.will prove most interesting. The sidewalks
are luruugeu wiiu lueaier-uers, gnu mose, I
like yourself, are seeking entertainment. I
The shop windows are ablaze, the street full
of carriages. Well-dressed people of both
sexes have the pavements, while the hotel
fronts are ornamentedwith gamblers, actors
and dudes on the lookout for game. Stray
beggars begin to appear, and in the
shadows are the dim outlines of worse than
beggars. Night in New York has arrived.
You have enough of walking, and take a
Sixth avenue train back to Twenty-fourth
street 10 cents. You are out to be not only
amused but instructed in New York life.
Consequently you steer clear of the
theaters, which, all said and done,
are very like theaters elsewhere with
more or less good scenery and more or
less bad plays. Your lriend takes you
through a gang of corner loafers, men and
women, and down into a brilliantly-lighted
basement room full ot heavy oaken tables
and cigar smoke. You find a vacant place
and look around you. The room is paneled,
walls and ceiling, in antique oak and
lighted by incandescent lights. It is fin
ished and ornamented in medieval style
in a close, heavy way. The long settees are
occupied by young and old men about town,
with here and there well dressed and pretty
young women. If you are a jndge of
womankind you will see at once that these
women are actresses, chorus girls and dan
cers, and your friend. will tell you that the
place is Koster & Bials and is connected
with the variety theater of that name open
ing upon Twenty-third street and that the
girls can soon be seen on the stage above in
character.
ALL TAKING THEIR BEVXEAGE.
Just at present all hands are engaged in
drinking beer, filling the air, al
ready badly vitiated, fuller with
smoke and loud talk and laughter.
Having finished your beer (10 cents), you
leave in the other direction for the theater
entrance. The admission is50 cents for front
seats, and chipping in $1 at the box office
you pass the vestibule and enter a large hall
lull of little tables, with a balcony of cur
tained stalls on both sides and a stage at the
further end. You are late and the variety
is on, the front seats are already full and the
boxes above are beginning to fill up. Below
during the evening every seat will be 'fall
and there you will see more silk hats in
season thau on the floor of the Stock Ex
change. Nobody is allowed admission who does
not wear a collar and necktie. If your
friend is "fly" he will march yon right up
to the front, aud putting a quarter in a
waiter's hand secure a couple of ohairs that
ure uiyfcicriousiy concealed till that moment.
You are now in the onlv place of the kind
licensed in New York. It is said to cost
520,000 a year to get it, but it is worth the
money to the proprietors. The performance
is always good, the best specialty actors and
actresses being obtained, and includes a
burlesque in which a score of pretty women
are displayed to advantage.
LOVELY CABMENCITA.
Just now that lovely Spanish dancer, .
Carmencita, is the rage. Every night she
is showered with flowers, literally rained
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upon her from below and above. Of course
you want to see her and talk with her, and
perhaps hold a short session with some of
the other pretty women just for fun, and
one time only." You can do so, but it will
cost you a bottle of wine at least and as
much more as you are willing and able to
put up. Passing to the lelt your friend
will guide you to the door leading behind
the scenes, and, tipping a quarter to the
gatekeeper, you are shown at once into the
wineroom beneath the stage. It is a pretty
place, small and snug, with half a dozen
tables and a well stocked sideboard. You
can hear the clicking of the jig above and
the roars of applause, but the scene here is
what interests you now. Three or four
groups surround the tables and the popping
of corks and the seductive sizzle of the froth
ing champagne mingles with the chatter and
laughter of the entertained and entertainers.
You want to see Carmencita? Well, just
give the steward a quarter and a card no
matter whose card and tell him you wish
to have a glass of wine with the favorite.
He disappears and reappears. She has an
encore and will be done immediately The
roar of applause follows him in, and before
it has died away the Spanish beauty makes
her appearance, panting and perspiring to
exhaustion. But her work is over lor the
night. She sinks into a chair at your table
with the sweetest of smiles, too much out of
breath to do more. You open a quart bot
tle of Pommery Sec ($4) and she lifts her
glass gracefully, while you note that her
eyes and hair are as black as night in a coal
mine. If you are gallant and fan her and
offer your handkerchief to mop her lovely
face with you shall have more entrancing
smiles and a display of beautifully regular
teeth and very irregular English. If she
drinks but half a glass and soon begs to be
excused, remember that this is probably
the tenth bottle already opened in her
honor this evening.
LITTLE ANNIE BOONET.
The English concert hall singer who sings
"Annie Kooney" will take her place, and
when she goes up you'd better get your
seats again, for you'll note something seen
nowhere in America but New York. The
whole audience joins in the chorus:
She's my sweetheart,
I'm her beau,
Bhe's my Annie,
I'm her Jo.
We're to be married, never to part
little Annie Boonoy is my sweetheart
The exquisite delight of an audience in
thus being taken into business with the sal
aried people on the stage is something won
derful and unfathomable. You will proba
bly join in making the thing go. You can't
help it especially if you know nothing
about music or this tnue. Then you will go
outside feeling that you are a part of New
York for the first time. You have a desire to
see something tough, and your friend will
lead you along Sixth avenue to the
Haymarket There, in a little den
foul with smoke and odors of drunk
en men and women. you will
see it and sicken at the sight. The place is
crowded with the worst lot of rounders,
male and female, you ever saw. They will
fasten on you for drinks, and you are lucky
to get out for a dollar. Still you want to
see. There is a dance-hall next door, but
you've had enough of that So you go down
to Clark's, a few doors away. It is an all
night house, and a little later will be full of
women of the street and those who come to
see them. But your friend has something
more important to show you yet, and while
the champagne sits heavily on your beer you
take to the cars (10 cents), having first pro
vided yourselves with a fresh stock of
cigars 50 cents.
CROOKS AND SLUMMEBS.
Then you steer for Mulberry and Mott
streets, changing cars for the Bowery (10
cents), and sailing down a broad thorough
fare lined with gin mills, clothing stores
and general deviltry. At this hour, about
midnight, the stores are closed, but
the gin mills and deviltry are
in full blast The crooks, police
and "slummers" are abroad. Off the Bow
ery you wind along as crooked and dirty a
looking street as yon ever saw, passing the
hardest looking men and women you ever
saw, lounging in the dark places for some
thing or somebody, and finally, after a care
ful inspection of the dingy facades, go up a
dark and rickety stairway.
When you are let into the front room yon
are in the Chinese joss house. The place is
a large and nearly square room, draped like
a mimio stage at one end. In the center of
the scene is a Chinese joss, or wooden god,
evidently carved out of a block of wood
with a hatchet and jack-knife. In front of
his nibs is an altar on which burns joss
sticks. The high priest in attendance ex
plains things in a way which indicates that
the purchase of a bundle of joss sticks will
make you solid in the great hereafter,
and you invest 50 cents in the scheme. It
is a common, dirty looking place,
taken altogether, and not at all
the gorgeous spectacle the metropolitan
writers hive represented. Yon look it over
rapidly and go away in disgust Not far off
you are led up another rickety stairway into
a Chinese restanrant It consists of a bare
room full of round tables, at which other
"slummers" are seated eating impossible
food with chop-sticks and making believe
they like it Two or three belated Celes
tials are in the far away corners doing the
same act and liking it The head Celestial
comes forward and takes you in charge like
a guide. He lives on you and your kind,
and loves you as a brother.
A CHINESE MEAL.
He will take yon back to the kitchen
where there are other almond-eyed gentle
men in ladies' clothes preparing food. You
don't know what the food is and nobody
else does but the expert who prepares it, but
it smells nice, looks eatable, and you feel
you will never die happy unless
you take a Chinese meal then and
there. You are shown a bill of
fare, but the Joss himself couldn't read it,
and you playfully give the proprietor carte
blanch on his best dishes. Sitting down at
one of the little tables, the other "slum
mers" serve you as a horrible example of
what can be done with chop-sticks. You are
served with half a dozen courses. Both of
yon help yourselves out of a common dish,
like a conple of pups at a dish of milk. By
the time the whole meal is over you find it
is not sueh a difficult thing after all to
manage chop sticks you got all you wanted
and more than yon wanted, too, as yon will
later ascertain.
There is a little pot of Chinese brandy
that goes with the meal, and a spoonful of
it goes to your toes like a streak of light
ning. When you get outside of that meal
and that brandy you want to get outside of
that Chinese restaurant. The brandy yon
seem to digest immediately, but
it will take two days for the
meal to pass a given point in your
stomach. Somebody at the door as you re
treat will offer to take you to an opium
joint for a pool of $5, but yon will not go.
It is the Chinese that must go. When you
settled your bill at the restaurant for the
meal (52) yon have enongh to last you this
trip, and all you want now is to go home.
It is somewhere after 2 when you turn iu
at your hotel. You have seen all of New
York that can be seen in such a brief time,
but a good deal yon have seen Is not set
down in this letter.
It has cost yon just 527 36 to do it, or
513 68 apiece. And you get off dog cheap.
Chables T. Mubbay.
Never Equaled.
The Panhandle express train which
reaches here at 6 o'clock this morning car
ries a special car which is laden with 59
"National Cash Begisters," made by the
National Cash Begister Co., Dayton, O.
All these registers are to be delivered Mon
day. Another special car of National Cash
Begisters will leave Dayton Tuesday night
and delivered in this city Wednesday morn
ing. Look out for these two carloads of
registers.
Lucerne awnings at Mamanx St Bon's,
639 Pe'nn ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
India silks. India silks. 60-ct. goods
reduced to 41 cts. a yard.
Kxablb & Shusteb, 35 Fifth ay.
Gents' fine socks, 12f c, 15c, 18o, 22e,
25o. best ior the money aver offered.
BOBHXBAUM A Co. JL
PITTSBURG- DISPATCH,
GILDED COLLEGfANS.
High-Rolling Students Who Tamper
With the Tiger at Boston.
KOUSE FOR TAME LITTLE BEASTS.
The Hovel Scheme of Four Toun(j Sports to
Beat a Crooked Game.
A WIff 0P S12.000 AT TWO SITTIXGS
ICOnnEEFOXDENCK OF THE DISPATCH.!
Boston, April 23. There is a great ado
at Cambridge over a determination by Pres
ident Eliot, of Harvard University, to close
a gambling house which has of late been
open there for the collegians. The doors are
already shut, and it is not likely that they
will soon swing again. -Gambling has come
to be one of the concomitants of a collegiate
"thoroughbred's" life. Princely remittances
from an indulgent sire are too often contrib
uted to the taro dealer, the wheel keeper, or
the croupier at the dice table. The average
Harvard student, scion of wealthy parents,
is as susceptible to the influences of the
green cloth as the most deeply-dyed-in-the-wool
plunger in the arena. Beference is
here had to the thoroughly acclimated, per
fectly posted university lad, who is an old
stager at roulette or hazard.
Why, in easy, slow-going, prosaic old
Boston there is a prematurely aged man who
manipulates the deal box aud turns the
wheel with marvelous deftness and exasper
ating nonchalance. Not so very long ago,
less than ten years a good deal, he was a
raven-haired, smooth-cheeeed student with
soulful ebony eyes, pouring over his Greek
grammar with an assiduity that betokened
great things for his future. A quiet little
game of "draw" in a fellow-student's cham
bers at Cambridge was his starter in life as
a gambler. He became completely enslaved
in all sorts of games of chance. Greek and
Latin were like physic, thrown to the dogs.
He was "plugged" or dropped in certain
studies, and finally he cut his class entirely
and passed days and nights listening to the
whirr of the roulette ball or
THE FLIP OP THE CABDS
in the faro box. He lost and won with the
varying of fortune. He was a nervy player,
tnd in his imperturbable countenance you
could never discern the slighest concern.
One day he entered a popular gambling
hell, and eaid to the backer of the game:
"Old man, I'm broke. Can you give me a
job as 'case-keeper' or dealer in your
game?"
"Are yon in earnest?" inquired the pro
prietor. "Never more so in my life," was the
replv.
"Well, you may take that chair to-night,
my boy, and we'li see how you get along.
That chair has been occupied almost
every night since by the ex-Harvard man.
His inky tresses slowly faded into pale
Btreaks as he sat nightly in the high chair
of the dealer, and the mental torture of
meeting bis whilom companions in college,
on a far different social basis now, soon as
serted itself in the hirsute crown of snowy
whiteness which rested on his shoulders.
He is actually steely in his protessional
capacity, and extremely taciturn. No one
ever hears him complain, but his bearing
unconsciously impresses you that he feels
that his life is a misdeal.
While there are no more temptations placed
in the way of students at Harvard University
than are found in the path of nnder-grad-uates
nt any of our other great seats of
learning, it is a much easier task to enum
erate them and individualize the games.
The students at Cambridge pursue the bulk
ot their playing in Boston. There are no
games stiff enough conducted in Cambridge
proper to catch the collegiate high roller.
THE LIMIT TOO LOW.
To be sure, Jack Lytor of '90 or Phil
Asdig of '91 always could accommodate a
few of the boys if they wanted to roll rou
lette, but the limit was not big enough to
suit the boys, and the game wasn't at all
sporty. The lads who affected a strong
game always drifted into Boston and sat in
at Pat Coakley's high limit play at the
Boyal Club. This was indeed a roval club.
In a suite of chambers at 146A Tremont
street, one flight from the street, Coakley
conducted the best game in Boston. The
interior furnishings have never been sur
passed in Boston, and the midnight sup
pers were as near the feasts of Lucullus as
the average gambler could imagine under
the circumstances. Coakley's Boyal Club
was raided by the police effectually two or
three years ago, and Coakley quit the busi
ness disgusted.
He was the man who gave John L.
Sullivan the coldest call-down, as the sports
say, that the champion ever got It hap
pened in John McKey's Metropolitan
Hotel in Boston about four years ago. John
L. went in to the barroom one morning, and
he carried a full load of redeye whisky
beneath his vest He insulted everybody
right and left, and finally tackled Pat
Coakley, who quietly shifted his pistol from
his hip pocket to one of his side coat
pockets, and, pointing the muzzle at Sulli
van through the cloth of his coat, cried a
halt on his abusive, indecent tongue. The
big fellow stopped his tirade at once. His
friends tooK him away, and his life was
saved, for Pat Coakley was terribly in
earnest
A LEABNED GAMBLER.
Coakley was always friendly in ruining
the students. He never allowed a youngster
to play his game any stiffer than he thonght
the boy could stand. Old Joe McMahon, or
"Chelsea Joe," is known from one end of
the land to the other. "Chelsea Joe" is of
striking personality. His ruddy face and
long, flowing, snowy-white hair, topped by a
wide-brimmed Kossuth hat, are familiar
sights to all in Boston. Joe is a moralizer,
and he often lectures "his boys," as he calls
the youths from Cambridge, on the errors of
their gambling ways. The only trouble
about Joe is that he likes to play bank him
self, and, as a result, he often "goes broke."
It is a unique sight to see "Chelsea Joe"
surrounded by a half dozen beardless
students, discoursing at length on this
sociologist or that learned divine. The boys
from Cambridge listen, and laugh to them
selves, for they Bee that Joe "means well,
but he doesn't know."
A Boston game of ronlette was lately
beaten by Harvard boys. They selected the
number 16 to operate with. One evening
three of them strolled in carelessly, and,
after awhile, sauntered easily over toward
the roulette wheel. Big Jim White was
wheel-keeper and he is about as foxy as
they make 'em. One engaged his attention
while the other two were carefully watch
ing the wheel, and sticking pretty close to
it, too.
Suddenly a clattering of feet on the stairs
was heard, and then the cry of "firel" was
bellowed out Student No. 4, who was on
the outside, was doing his part of the work.
Jim isn't an easy man to rattle, but on this
particular night he lost his heaB completely.
He dashed through the door, down stairs
and out on the street Not so the two
quietly behaved students at the wheel.
They calmly remained behind, and, when
everybody left the room, they simply pasted
four additional 16' over other numbers on
the wheel.
SIXTEEN CAME OFTEN.
Then they, too, sauntered out to see about
the fire. There wasn't any, of course. The
players returned after a few minutes, and
pretty soon the different games were going
on as usual. Four modest appearing lads
were soon playing 16 on the roulette table
right along. And they were winning, too,
with amazing regnlarity. As roulette pays
36 for 1, where von play a single number it
wasn't long before each of these four lads
from Cambridge had a stack of chips half
an arm high. They each cashed in just as
quietly as they had conducted their play,
and when the last of the quartet withdrew
the game was. out over 51.100. n Biz Jim
couldn't understand it He thonght there
SUNDAY, APRIL 27,
wasa hoodoo somewheTe. Vhenlie casnally
examined the wheel -he was bewildered to
discover a couple of lG's. He looked closer
and found five 16's in all on the red and
black disk.
"Plasteredl" was all Jim said.
The bank didn't make any ado, but Jim
lay low for the students. He never got
eveUj for the boys sedulously refrained from
playing in that "place again. ( They argued
that they were not to blame, for they had
been swindled there by an nnfair faro. A
breezy Western youth, whose father was a
United States Senator, and at one time a
rattling poker player, was the instigator of
the trick. He wished to get even, and he
did, with the aid of three of his chums, who
had all been cheated by the faro dealer.
The students let their reason for plastering
the wheel spread gently abroad, and it hurt
Jim and his game a great deal.
Chauncey Jacobs, the best known negro
gambler in the United States, is popular
with the Harvard boys because they suppose
he runs a square game and backs it liberal
ly. Jacobs is a wealthy patron of all kinds
of sports. He owns a stable of running
horses, and some of them have shown well
to the front in many a hard run at Mon
mouth, Brighton and Sheepshead. The
fact that his skin is black does not operate
against Jacobs as a sporting man. He al
lows none of his own race to hang around
his place, which is in Hanover street, Bos
ton, on the same side with the American
House, and only a few doors from that hos
telry. There are no luxurious apartments
in Chauncey Jacobs' place. He spreads a
luncheon, but it is not a striking featnre of
his house. People go there to play, not to
eat It is handy for the students from Cam
bridge, as it is close to the thoroughfare
leading from Harvard University.
A mild-mannered, slender little man
promenades Washington street almost every
day. He would never be taken for a
gambler, bnt he is a rattling one. He is the
father ot Nat Goodwin, the actor, and.he
runs a faro bank and roulette wheel for stu
dents in Harvard Place, near the side en
trance of the Globe Theater. It is in a most
convenient part of the city, and for that
reason the college boys rendezvous there.
They can have the game made as strong as
they wish, and often some high rolling is
done there by the wealthier young gamesters
from across the placid Charles river.
CUBED BY A BIO GAME.
It was a prettv stiff game played at Otis
Marshall's by Goodheart, a collegian and
Somerset Club man. He had been at it two
nights steadily, and had won 510,000 or
112,000. It was in the third night of the
game that I witnessed the heavy playing.
Marshall ran one of his houses at 3 Bos
worth street. It was there that Goodheart
was playing. On the night in question the
bank's turn of luck came, and he was only
58,000 ahead. He played princely stakes,
putting up the full limit of 5100 on'the turn
of a card. It wasn't long before the thou
sands were rapidly meltiag aw.iy from him,
and at daybreak "Ote" Marshall had all the
money back that his bank had lost, and a
few extra thousands besides. That game
was for a long time referred to at Harvard
us the boss game. It raised old Nick with
the loser. He acquired the opium habit
through his nightly dissipation over the
green cloth, and his health became so much
impaired that he was forced to take a year's
yachting in the Mediterranean. He is sel
dom found within the doors of a gambling
hell nowadays.
Marshall doesn't run No. 3 Bosworth
street now. It is conducted by the Savage
Club, the incorporators of which have sued
Dr. William Thornton, a cancer specialist
well known in Boston, for 56,000 on a de
faulted note which Thornton gave to repay
his losses at roulette. Thornton is known
by all Harvard boys, and is a popular and
genial fellow. He had formulated a system
to beat roulette, as he imagined, and for a
time he was successful. He had lost about
51,000 before his system was in good work
ing order. Then he began to win, and the
Savage Club quickly lost about 512,000.
One night he began to lose, and 56.000
slipped through his fingers. He gave his
note for the amount, but notified his bank
not to pay it The suit followed. The doc
tor claimed he was cheated by unfair roll
ing. K. C. D.
WINDOW SMASHING.
The Iiateit imnicment Practiced by Sarah
Althea Hill Terry.
Fresno, Cal., April 26. Sarah Althea
Terry made her appearanoe in the office of
B. G. Sayle, administrator of the estate of
David S. Terry, yesterday, and demanded
some money. Sayle said he had none on
hand belonging to the estate, but there were
law books that might be sold. She then
went into the adjoining office of Caldwell,
who is the attorney for the administrator,
and after wrangling with him she was
ejected from the office. She returned and
smashed the windows and made a scene.
Sayle left his office, and she followed, threat
ening to shoot him.
A MANIAC M0THBB
Slakes at Third Eflort lo Kill and Cremate
Herself and Children.
Dubuque, Ia., April 26. Smoke was
seen issuing from the upper window of the
residence of Bichard Gruner yesterday. A
neighbor heard a scream, and, looking
through a lower window, saw Mrs. Gruner
brandishing a huge butcher knife above her
two little children. He leaped through the
window and seized the demented woman.
She had piled a heap of rubbish around the
bed, saturated it with oil, placed a panful
of redhot coals in the midst, and intended
to kill her children and perish with them.
The flames were extinguished. Mrs. Gruner
has had two similar insane fits.
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THE TO0FTVE EAT;
Plenty of Room for Improvement -in
the Cookery of America.
GROWTH OF TOE ART IN PRANCE.
Formalities to be Observed In Giving an
Acceptable Sinner.
THE DUTIES OF HOST AND QUESTS
CCOIlRESrONDENCX Or THB DISrJLTCH.3
Pabis, April 15. There is no country in
the world where so mnch thonght and care,
and so much intelligence are devoted to
eating as in France, and the reward is that
this people govern the world of good eating,
their language being that of menn as well
as of diplomacy.
"Keep up a good table ,and take care of
the ladies," said Napoleon Bonaparte to
one of his Ambassadors as the latter was
leaving the palace for his foreign post A
good dinner has great influence on human
actions. Bevolutjjms have commenced by
banquets, and the world's geography has
been changed at a dinner table.
In 1818 the poet Lamartine,
called on by a deputation of
street sweepers, could only exclaim: "Keep
the town salubrious, gentlemen, keep it
salubrious." If, instead of sweepers, they
had been cooks, he would probably have
talked to them for an hour or more, as he
was a real gourmet .-You must know that
there is a wide difference between the words
gourmet and gourmand. In olden days
the first meant a judge of wine
and the second a judge of eating.
Littre and Lafaye give ijhese interpretations
in their dictionaries but custom has given
the words good significance. Gourmet now
refers to eating and not drinking aud is a
product of higher civilization. The gour
met knows what's what and does
not pronounce on a dish simply because
of its elaboration or, costliness. To
him the commonest dishes are good if they
are good of their kind. His palate has taste
and delicacy, and he would rather dine on a
lamb chop properly cooked than he would
on nn improperly prepared "piece de resist
ance." The gourmand is not quite a glut
ton, but he often eats more than is good for
him, and is usually vulgar in his eating.
cooking- consebvatobies.
There ought to be a cookery conservatory
started in every large city in the United
States, for during my recent visit home I
realized more than ever that Americans
have yet much to learn in kitchen educa
tion. Such institutions would develop com
merce, pnrify taste and contribute
more to the reconciliation of men's
minds than most of those useless
measures and provisionary laws which
Congress sanctions after days of intermin
able discussions that no oneeverlistens to, or
reads either, for that matter. Yes, there Is
great improvement needed in cookery in the
United States, and I may say, also, that
there is a lack of "savoir faire," so far as
table service is concerned. The mass of our
people are fed by a mere phantom of cook
ery, and although food is cheap and plenti
ful, it is too olten badly prepared and is
seldom carved properly.
I never was worse served at table than
when I dined, as I did three or four times,
at New York's most famed restaurant This
establishment has run down sadly in recent
years, and while in New York I heard very
many complaints about it Uno din
ner at which I assisted was
cooked so wretchedly that I
sent a protest to the chef, and
he sent me back word that if I would let
him know the next time I came to the place,
he would see to it that I got as good a meal
as I could in Paris., But how about the
many other patrons of that .overrated eat
ing house? Here in France the true
science of cookery has been so long
practiced by all classes of persons
that it is now a component part
of their daily existence. During the
regency and under Louis XV. culinary art
may be said to have reached its apogee, and
the traditions then established continued
through the next reign in spite of the fact
that the robust appetite of Louis XVI. pre
ferred such plain dishes as mutton or beef
stews to the most delicate chefs d'eauvres of
his kitchen employes.
THE PIEST GOOD BESTAUBANT3.
The Bevolution was a halting time in the
development of the art, but the fact may be
noted that the Bevolution did a great deal
toward spreading a taste for good cooking
through the masses, for when the chefs and
maltres d'hotel of the nobility found them
selves suddenly deprived of theirplaces, and
no longer hoping that they would find indi
viduals who were rich enough to need their
exclnsive services, they made a calculation
that would have been worthy of the financial
acumen of a Western Senator. They came
to the conclusion that 100 or more lean
purses were equivalent to a very fat one,
and so they placed themselves at the service
of the public.
It is from the Bevolution that dates the
opening of the first restaurants worthy of
the name, and some ot those that are now
celebrated were started at that time. The
Directory did much toward relighting the
holy flame of kitohen ranges, and the sup
pers of the Luxembourg are famous in the
annals of "la gourmandise." Later, when
Napoleon's reign brought back the emigre
nobles, cookery experienced a renaissance
epoch although the Emperor him
self never wasted his time over the dinner
table.' Ten minutes on ordinary days, and
a quarter of an hour for State banquets, was
his rule, and Cambaceres and other bon
vivants among the imperial courtiers used
to take precautions against the cenebite
frugality of their master. On one occasion,
as Napoleon was rising from the table, he
remarked to one of his guests:
"I see you have not finished, General."
"Pardon me. Sire," was the reply, "but I
dined before I came to the palace."
THE GOLDEN AOE OF COOKEBY.
The restoration was the golden age of "la
conrmandise." Louis XVIII did not dis-
uiain to consult with his maitre d'hotel, and
he often kept bis Ministers waiting while he
discussed with that personage snch an im
portant matter as the dinner menu. It is
even said of His Catholic Majesty that he
was not above going into the kitchen and
trying his royal hands at preparing stews
and sauces. But chefs or cordons
bleu cannot alone give you a good
dinner. There is the service to
think of, and the carving also.
A gentleman should, of course, know some
thing about sauces, but he must know the
proper way to carve different kinds of game,
meats and poultry.
The first thing to be seen to by those who
wish to carve well is that they have the
right kinds, and sizes of forks and carving
knives for the several kinds of meats, fish,
fowl and game. The knives should be kept
well sharpened and the forks should be of
steel, strong and well pointed. In order to
carve well it is necessary to stand np, and
as the pieces are cut off they should be
either placed on plates and handed to the
guests separately or they should all be
placed collectively on a single dish to
be handed around the table so that each
person msy select the slice he or
she prefers. The choice of these two ways is
a matter for the host to decide for both are
practiced in Paris. The menu is an import
ant thing to be considered. At the begin
ning of the present century a repast lasted
three or four hours, and included 15 to 20
courses, but nowadays, a grand dinner in a
private house
OENEBALLY LASTS AN HOUB,
never longer than an hour and a half,
and the number of courses should be lim
ited. A good dinner with 12 to 18 persons
at table comprises: choice of two soups (it
is no longer a la mode to serve hors d'oeuvre
except among intimate friends), a whole
fish with one or two kinds of sauce, or "en
timbale;" onc.or.two entrees; a hot roast;
sorbets now and then, and ,only when yon
must be very ceremonious; a "salad with the
rotie iroide that is to say, with a pate,
ham, galantine, aspic, toneueor lobster; one
vegetable, seldom two (this is hard lines on
our American housewives), one entremets; an
ice cream, etc
Then comes cheese Brillat Savarin said
that "desserfwithout fromage is like a lady
witb. one eve," and I may add that the
cheese should be bought by some one that
knows something of that article and after
it the fruits, glaces, nuts, raisins and
oranges. In some houses coffee is served at
table, and with coffee the liqueurs, but
coffee may properly be served in madam's
boudoir, in the study of) monsieur, or in the
parlor.
The general custom in the middle and
upper classes is to mix water with the "vm
ordinaire," or table wine, while eating, but
the finer wines are never watered. It is a
great error to warm wine, which, however
is the English custom, for that renders it
detestable. By bringing it np
from the cellar the evening be
fore, the temperature of the dining
room is sufficient to take the chill off it
Once the wine has been uncorked, the inside
of the mouth of the bottle should be wiped
so as to take away the taste of the cork, be
fore pouring the wine into the crystal de
canter. It is only very old and exception
ally delicate wines that lose their flavor by
being thus decantered.
THE -WINES TO SEBVE.
White wine, such as Graves, Barsac,
Chablis, etc., are served with the oysters.
After soups come Marsala, sherry or Made
ria. With fish give the guests white Bhme
wine or Graves from .Bordeaux. Bordeaux
wines go with the first service, of course, but
Sauternes go with the salad. These are the
sole wines that can support this perilous
mixture. Champagne is drunk with dessert
only, but I cannot bear it when presented at
the same tims as sweetmeats, and only con
sider it the same as an ordinary drink.
Finally, serve your liqueurs.
To give a dinner without knowing how to
do the honors of the table is equivalent to
giving a picture by Bougurean to a blind
man. Here are some rnles as to the respect
ive obligations of amphytrions and guests
which people will do well to always bear in
mind: All dinner invitations should be
given in writing and those receiving them
should answer within the next 21
hours. If that time is allowed to
pass by you are supposed to have
accepted and it is then too late to send re
grets. It is bad form to make your host
wait for you, bnt by a social fiction when an
invitation is given to dine at 7, the hour
really meant is 7:30; it is only when the
hour is followed by the words "tres precis"
that you are required to be punctual.
The host need only enter the salon where
the guests are waiting him five minutes be
fore the meal,and if he is in the habit of doing
so himself, he may ask his guests to take an
aperitive, say a vermonth, or a glass of bit
ters. His first care should be to introduce
to each other those who are not already ac
quainted, and when dinner is announced he
snould lead the way to the dining room.
Guests place themselves at table as they are
told, either by their host or as may be indi
cated by cards at each plate.
Everybody knows that napkins should be
laid across the knees and not tucked under
the chin, that soup is not eaten with a fork,
and that the spoon with which it is eaten
should be left in the empty plate and not
pocketed. You should break your bread
and not cut it, and it is the duty of the host
to be on the watch in order to supply the
wants of every one individually and to give
to each a chance to shine, while they should
do their best to realize the mot of Mont
maur, who said to his friends: "Furnish
the meats and wines, I'll supply the season
ing." All topies likely to lead to noisy dis
cussions should be carefully avoided in
order to escape the rebuke given by the
same Montmaur who once exclaimed in the
midst of a quarrel at table: "A little silence,
gentlemen, if you please, we do not hear
what we are eating." If a guest has to
leave the table, he should do so without say
ing a word, and thus avoid deranging any
body. A call, "visite de digestion," is
obligatory, and should be paid in person
within ten days at most, and after the fifth
day from the dinner. Chef.
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The Allegheny Valley Bailroad hag made
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SIX DOLLARS A5D PIFTI-CBSTS
Wn the DiflVrrnce In Frrlirht Per; Toa
Which Canned a Law Salr.
Chicago, April 26. The C. A. Treat
Manufacturing Company, of Missouri, has
filed a declaration in the Federal Court in a
$100,000 suit against the Standard Steel and
Iron Company.
The Standard Company claims to be the
owner ot East Chicago, Ind., comprising
1,000 acres. General Torrence, President of
the Standard Company, it is said, repre
sented to the Treat Manufacturing Com
pany that it had made gifts of portions of
the lands in East Chicazo to corporations
establishing plants there, and that if the
Treat Company would movelrom HactJbal,
Mo., to East Chicago, and erect bnildings
large enough to manufacture 2,000 railway
carwheels a day, the Steel and Iron Com
pany would furnish the site and also give
the Treat Company a strip of land 300 feet
wide and 1,200 feet long.
The Treat Company moved to East Chi
cago, got its land and erected a 65,000
building. So far it was not dissatisfied, but
it claims that the officers of the Steel and
Iron Company also gave the Treat Company
to understand that it had an arrangement
with the Michigan Central and the Chicago
and Calumet Terminal railways by which
the roads had agreed to carry freight from
East Chicago to Chicago for 53 50 a car.
The contract was for 20 years, and the Treat
Company could come in under it This is
where the hitch came, according to the
plaintiff. It claims the Steel and Iron Com
pany had no such contractand that it had
to pay the regular rate of $10 a car for all
freight shipped to this city.
Wbnt Camp Says.
fort Scott (Kan.) Monltor.J
While talking with D. A. Camp, the pop
ular bookkeeper at Page's Implement
House, the subject of cough medicines was
brought np. Says Camp: There is one to
which I feel deeply indebted. It has given
relief time and time again to my wife and
children. In fact, I feel under he greatest
obligations to Pnchard Bros., druggist, for
persuading me to buy a bottle of Chamber
lain's Cough Bemedy. I would not ba
without a bottle of it in the house for twice
its cost. In regard to all throat complaints
ot children and lor cold3 it is unsurpassed.
You just try it once and you will be sur
prised at the results.
For sale by E. G. Stucky, 1701 and 2401
Penn ave.; JS. G. Stucky & Co., cor. Wylie
ave. and Fulton st; Markell Bros., cor.
Penn and Faulkston aves.; Theo. E. Ihrig,
3610 Fifth ave.; Carl Hartwig, 4016 Butler
St.; John C. Smith, cor. Penn ave. and
Main st; Jas. L. McConnel & Co., 455
Fifth ave., Pittsburg; and in Allegheny by
E. E. Heck, 72 and 194 Federal st; Thos.
B. Morris, cor. Hanover and Preble aves.;
F. H. Ecrgers, 172 Ohio st, and F. H.
Eggers & Son, 199 Ohio st and 11 Smith
field st wan
A Tonne Lndy Agreeably Surprised Tho
Caaie Warn an Elegant Upright Grand
Piano.
Miss Grace Henderson, 236 Market st,
Allegheny, has been a member of the
Everett Piano Club for ten weeks, and ia
now the possessor ot one of the finest pianos
in the world. She had only paid in $10,
and was agreeably surprised when she was
notified that her number, 26, had been
drawn and that she was entitled to the piano
on payments of SI per week. .This clnb
system is easily understood, andpBers ad
vantages in easy payments, witSoat She ex
tortionate prices of the old fogy installment
plan. Its principal features are tfeegreat
rednction obtained by the clnb contract for
350 pianos, which is a saving of from $79 to
8100 in the price, and the fact that wbila
the pianos are given out on payments as low
as $1 per week there are enough members in
the club to represent the price of 'the piano,
hence the members get the benefit of tha
wholesale cash price. The rnles provide for
the immediate delivery of pianos ior cash,
or on payments as low" as $25 cash and $10
monthly. The system is good, and the
pianos have absolutely no superior. They
are indorsed by the leading musicians and
over 150 families in this vicinity who have
purchased them. Piano purchasers will
find an elegant stock in great variety of
styles and fancy woods at the club ware
rooms. Call or send for circular to tha
manager. Alex. Boss,
137 Federal st,
XTSn Allegheny.
How to ba Healthy.
Visit the old reliable Half Century House,
523 Liberty street, foot of Fifth avenue, and
purchase a quart of pure lfqnor. It is the
most reliable house in the city, the clerks
the most accommodating, and the prices the
lowest No well-regulated family should bo
without a supply of the Prince Begent
Whisky. Try it once and be convinced.
Black Goods Summer weight camel's
hair grenadines, challes, battiste, tamise
and clairettes, in silk-warp and all-wool.
Large assortments and excellent values.
TTSSU HUGUS & HACKZ.
Mubano awnings at Mamanx & Son's,
539 Penn ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
20-CT. sateens, choice styles, to go at llf
cts. a yard. Knable & Shusteb,
35 Fifth ave.
White goods sale. Great rednctions.
Knable & Shusteb, 35 Fifth ave.
CATARRH COEEDJ) STAT CUBED.
An Aggravated Case of Five Yeaks
Scjtekixg coked bt Ds. Btees Ovxs
Two Yeabs Ago Remains Well xo th
Pbesent This.
ilri. Perry, ear. Ann and Mounrte BU. cUy.
For Ave years Mrs. Perry suffered from snch
seTere pains that she could not give attention
to her household dntics, conld get air throojrb,
neither nostril, consequently slept with her
mouth open and snored so loudly that con
conld sleep in adjoining rooms. Food sha
conld not retain on her stomach, especially
snppor; this she vomited as soon as eaten. Sr.
Byera removed the swellings from her nostrils,
opening them up so she could breathe through,
them, rednced the soreness and Inflammation,
and gave her medicine for hur stomach. Shs
never vomited after taking the first dose of
medicine, and in three months was entirely
well. A few days ago Mrs. Perry called to con
sult Dr.Uyers about nerarm and said her head
and stomach still remained wall- thtm rfUnnvr. -a
Ins the popular idea that catarrh cannot ba
cured to stay cured.
HOME TREATMENT A BUCCE33.
A lady patient of Howard, O., writing fo
her second month's treatment, sajc "1 am
feeling mnch better, my head has not pained
me for over two weeks, and the terrible pain I
bad in my back Is cone.''
TREATMENT ti A MONTH.
Dr. Byers continues to treat catarrh and all
chronic diseases for 5 per month, medicine In.
claded. That the public appreciate rood,
honest treatment at fow rates is evidenced by
the fact that he is kept busy from morning till
nicht One day he treated U people for ca
tarrh alone. Ha consults with and treats!
every patient himself. Office established 1885.
DR. BYKBS
Successor to Drs. Logan & Byers, 421 Penn aye,
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