The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1873, Page 3

~ BOSTON FIRE NO. 2 Another Destructive Conflagra- tion and Loss of Life. A FIRE WELL FOUGHT. Four Acres of De- vouring Flame. THE GLOBE THEATRE GON Chickering’s Building, the Interna- tional Hotel and a Church Burned. FIVE FIREMEN KILLED. Great Granite Buildings a Mass of Smoking Ruins, THE BOSTON LIBRARY CONSUMED. Sweep of the Fire Fiend Through the Business Streets. COMPLETE LIST OF LOSSES. 8 Property Destroyed, $1,291,000; Insurance, $763,000. eacrereaeee SCENES IN THE CITY. Great Excitement but Good Order Maintained. ACTIVIFY OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. The Conflagration Conquered After a Severe Struggle. \ Boston, May 30, 1878. Boston has had another scare, which for awhile threatened to prove a remarkably serious one and leave the upper portion of Washington strect desolate, even if it did not result ina complete estraction of the Western railroad depots and the peninsula of South Boston. b6iS ras At half-past eight o’clock this morning, during the prevalence of a high wind, and while every- body was getting ready for the ceremonies of Decoration Day, an alarm of fire Called the De- partment tothe vicinity of 411 Washington street, where it was found that the rear buildings of Haley, Morse & Co.’s furniture factory were in flames. These buildings were of the most com- bustible character, and so rapidly did the fire ob- tain control of them that within ten minutes a second alarm had to be sounded, and soon after A GENERAL ALARM, which drew the whole number of steamers, hose carriages and ladders to the scene of the conflagra- tion. An unusually large number of people were gathered upon the streets at the time to wit- ness the departure of the Gr@hd Army Posts for the cemeteries, and when the news spread that @ monster fire was im progress the crowd was augmented to many thousands within a few minutes. RAPID SPREAD OF THE FIRE. The flames spread with wondertul rapidity in every direction, menacing Tremont and Boyiston streets on the one hand and coming out entirely on Washington street on the otter. Serious fears were felt for the whole of that part of Boylston street between Washington street and the Com- mon, on the notherly side. THE BOYLSTON BANK BUILDING, with the extensive establishment of W. C. Reeves & Co., dealers in gentlemen’s turnishing goods, cor- ner of Washington and Boylston, and Emersen, Leland & Co., 19 and 21 Boylston street, were ut- tacked in the rear flercely, and seemed destined to fallsoon. After the flames had spread over the building occupied by Haley, Morse & Co., across ‘the street—three steamers vainly endeavoring to check their progress—rolied volumes oi flames, almost enveloping THE MAGNIFICENT CHICKERING BLOCK im their scorching, scathing clutches. The whole efforts of the firemen were directed towards, if possible, preserving this magnificent structure, whose destruction meant the loss of fortunes, and would, perhaps, prove the means of creating new destruction for blocks around. Step by step the firemen yielded as the fiend of fame advanced and flung his serpents about the build- ings en the other side, and soon it was jound im- possible to do aught on the northerly side of the fire below Hayward place. On the south the efforts were directed toward saving, if possible, THE GLOBE THEATRE, several steamers being kept constantly on the Bcorched and scared fagade, But all the buildings between itand Hayward place were left to fight the fiery fray alone. All of a sudden came a cry, a murmor of caution, and none too soon, for slowly falling outward from the top, with A SULLEN RUSH AND ROAR, the front wall of Haley, Morse & Co.'s building went down into the street, fortunately injuring no one. Without a moment's delay the north side wall followed suit, falling directly upon the two tory wooden building in which JOURDAN'S MUSEUM OF ANATOMY Was lovated, completely gutting it snd causing the front walls to buige out into the street, ‘The sud- en smash-up by flery masses set this on fire, and the streams were at once directed towards it. But one five story building intervened on this side of the street between the museum and Avery street, and that being occupied by W. P. Emerson with pianofortes, it offered @ most tempting bait to the fiend should he once set his grasp upon it. Jour- dan’s, with iis wax statues and millions of curiosi- $ies, Was soon destroyed and fell outward into the street; and Emerson’s was the next point @apput for the conflagration. On the lower floor was PROBY & VINAL’S DRY GOODS ESTABLISHMENT, and the silks, shawis and laces were hurried out of this with the utmost speed, in anticipation of its ruinous fate. Chickering’s had by this time been abandoned to its fate, the flames having seized upon all the interior ana coming in scarlet torrents from. the windows on every story. The great granite block cracked and sent SHRIVELLED FRAGMENTS OF RED-HOT grown all over the street in showers, Inside, however, men worked to the last removing the more easily transported and most valuable goods, and it was not till a good half hour after its doom seemed sure that the building was abandoned, Tis was done, luckily, not @ moment too soon; for the tall stone northern corner of Haley, Morse & Co.'s building, which had hitherto stood A FIERY MONUMENT im the midst of the confiagration, wavered, tot- tered, and, gathering force by every movement, Plunged neadlong across the street into the spacious doorway of Cnickering’s, some part of it breaking its way into the third story. And so the flames spredd until two o'clock, when, an area of four acres having been devastated, they were brought under control. THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FIRE may thus be stated:—Commencing on the west side, just below Haymarket place, the last number left, going south, is 895, being the building occu- pied by William P, Kmerson, Boston Organ Com- pany. Extending to the north and at right angles to Washington styeet the fire burned through to a lot of dwelling houses. in the court of Haymarket place. Abutting the buildings destroyed on Wash- ington street, going east and southeast, it has made @ sweep back to Washington street, without going to Boyiston street, falling short of the latter street at Montgomery & Co.’a confection- ery store, 423 Washington street, The rear of the new five story Pilot Building, in process of completion, is now within thirty feet of Dexter's old stabie, where the fire commenced, and was saved. Extending to the east side of Washington street, the last number left standing going south to Essex is that numbered 340, occu- pled by Miller (piano manulactory) and Hibbard & Co. This gives the corner boundary on this side of Washington street at Hayward place. Down Hay- ward place the fire spread rapidly, but being con- fined to the south side. There was great danger that it would be driven by the gusts of wind through to Chauncey street, and it was only after a severe struggle that it was an assured thing that it would not touch the newly occupied warehouses on this important importing and jobbing street. THE COURSE OF THE FIRB after it crossed Washington street was southeast- erly by south, and taking the south side of Hay- ward place through to the ells of the Chauncey street buildings, which were only scorched some on the northern and western boundary, it swept along Washington street to and including the corner of Essex street,*and from the foot of Hayward place took all between, going south till it reached Essex street at No. 35, the building next below the Globe Theatre. The north side of Essex, between the corner and this ‘building last given, has been cov- ered by the fire. The losses are given in tabular form below, e LIST OF THE LOSSKS ON BUILDINGS. Seth Turner & W. C. Murdock. + $20,000 John Roessie......- vee 15,000 James Parker. . 80,000 Massachusetts Baptist Convention. 35,000 Gardner Brewer. 25,000 T. B, Hayes.......0+-+++ 25,000 John I. BrOWN......-eseng eeeeee eee 20,000 Heirs of Mary Boylston. ++ 16,000 James Paul........ Sillsbee Heirs......seeeeee secre eee Arthur Cheney..... A. C, Baldwin. H. H, Hunnewel Heirs of Francis Rupp..........+++ Jonas G. Clarke.......+ Heirs of Alvan Dexter. Charles Marsh....+.+...-++ Michael Hayden. C. D. Homer. 7,500 Heirs of A. G. Trott, 2,500 William Bettle........cccceceeessseeeeeesees 2600 Peleg, W. Chandler. . Atherton T. Brown.. 15,000 ASO P. MOFSC.....eeeeeeeeeee 8,000 Heirs of Jonn Fisk........+++ sere 4,000 Totai loss on buildings.............00..+++ $618,500 LOSSES ON STOCK. Bryant & Stratton’s Commercial College... $10,000 Ladd & Cushing, furniture.... 15,000 P. J. Borie, teacher of languages. 4,000 T. C. Pazolt & Son, furriers. 50,000 The Boston Pilot... ++ 40,000 J. W. Flack, billiards 5,000 Mullenide & Co., furnishing goods.......... 12,000 Intternational Hotel. . eens 50,000 George Thompson & Co., dry goods. 10,000 J. M. Maguire, furnishing goods........ 10,000 Nathan Peare, boots and shoes... 10,000 Freeman’s Bank. 10,000 Mrs. Montgomery, confectionery 8.000 Fernald & Co., cloths 15,000 E. Leland & © 20,000 Barnabee & Winch, pianos, . seseees 10,000 Curtis & Woodbury, costumers,............ 15,000 Arlington Billiard Hall............ 5,000 Alexander Crawford, restaurant. ++ 15,000 John Stetson, theatrical manager... ..... 3,000 F. G, Lash, painter.... 15,000 John Rowland, harness. +» 6,000 Lozeli & Son, blacksmiths 1,000 Folin Earle & CO......cceceeeeeseveeeeeeesens 26,000 Arthur Cheney, theatrical manager (on properties, &c.)+ os 10,000 Gustavus Evers, lager beer. 3,000 Hawley, Folsom & Martin, turnishing goods 20,000 Rowe Brothers, boots and shoes. 10,000 John J. Brown & Son, apothecaries seve 10,000 John Turner, boots and shoes.............. 10,000 William Pitcher, restaurant..... 5,000 Ninth Regiment Armory 5,000 Leland & Wheelo 20,000 Haley, Morse & Co., furniture.............4 150,000 Rhodes, Ripley & Co., clothing, J. W. Brackett, pianos, 10,000 George Foster, hats and caps... 10,000 George F. White, miilinery.... 20,000 F. F, Libby, dry goods... 15,000 Robert T. Miller, pianos........, 5,000 George R. Milton, dry goods, 1,000 R. Newman & Son, tailors. 10,000 S.C, Chase & CO... seeceeeeeeeee 10,000 Jourdan’s Anatomical Museum, seeee 10,000 Burovean hair store... 8.000 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY MAY 31, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. 3 | BOUNDARIES OF THE FIRE. | Hayward Place, Bumstead Place, Easterly Side of Essex and Boylston Streets to Head Place, Thence Diagon- ally to Hayward Place. ss NO EY. Conane'’s COTSet SOE. ..eseeeevereeerereees 6,000 G, F. Bonney & Co., stables. 4,500 G. A. Flagg, painter 1,000 Total individual loss. + $672,500 Total aggregate loss.. $1,291,000 TRE INSURANCE. Statements of insurance losses made by the agents of several Companies are given below :— North American, Boston...... be eeeeeeenee $2,500 Manufacturers’, Boston 26,000 Faneuil Hall, Boston. 2,000 Continental, New York (about).... 5,000 Shoe and Leather, Boston (about)........ §,000 Royal Insurance Company (about).. 100,000 North American, Philadelphia,......... 4,000 American, Philadelphia.... 20,000 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia... 30,000 Hartford, Hartiord..... 16,000 Phenix, Hartford... 15,000 National, Hartford.......0...seseeee 8,000 Stearns Brothers’ Agency. 100,000 aiverpool and London.... 150,000 Imperial, LONdON........s.eeeeeeeeeeeeseee 14,000 Phenix, New York.. 12,000 Niagara, New York. . 9,000 Hotfman, New York 7,500 Ellizon, Hollis & Co.'s companies ......... 100,000 Clinton, New York ..... 2,000 Wilhamsburg City, New York . 13,000 Fire Association, Philadelphia ............ 15,000 Girard, Philadelphia 5,000 Traders’, Chicago 6,000 St. Paul........ 5,000 BO@NQor .....cccceeceeseeeseeees 3,000 North Missouri ... 7,500 Aitna, New York ..... 10,000 Columbia, New York...... 15,000 Lamar, New York .......... 1,500 Union Mutual, Philadelphia 5,000 Bilot, BOSton ......6+.eeee 8,000 Manufacturers’, Boston.... . 8,000 ‘Total insurance....... THE SCBNE AFTER THE FIRE. That portion of Washington street about which the fire has raged presents a scene of ruin and devastation not exceeded by any of the destruc- tion of the 9th of November. Jagged walls, one or two stories high, show where costly buildings stood, The street is filled with broken granite, piled in masses as it fell when the great walls came down before the burning heat. A stream of water equalling a small river runs from quantities poured by hosemen upon the ruins, down the paving, and soaks away among the charred timbers and heaped up bricks. : SMOKR THICK AND BLACK, hangs oyer the scene and fils the eyes of the passing people. It is one complete, sad, sickening spectacle of destruction, which sends a chill to the heart of every spectator. Fire engines were here from Cambridge, Charlestown, Brookline, Jamaica Plain, Newton, Chelsea, Quincy, Lowell and Fall River. A military guard, composed of Companies F, land K, Ninth regiment; Company E, First regi- ment, and a detachment of United States Marines, guard the scene of the fire. Among the prominent buildings destroyed by the fire were the Globe Theatre, Chickering’s piano warehouse, Chauncy Hall School, the International Hotei and the Free- man’s Bank. EXCELLENT CONDUCT OF THR FIREMEN. ‘The conduct of Chief Engineer Damerill and the Boston firemen is praised to such a degree as to completely obliterate the record which some people thought formed a black spot on the Novem- ber record. The pecuilariy combustible nature of the buildings destroyed, together With the abso- lute impossibility of getting at them from more than two sides, rendered the work of extinguish- ing one of great difficulty, That it was ably ex- ecuted is Patent to all, and praises of the Chief Engineer are in the mouths of everybody. This is the third time within a year that the property of the Boston Pilot has been destroyed by fire. FIVE MEN KILLED AND ONE INJURER. John Hill, William Killvan, Thomas Finnegan, James Regan and William Mahoney, firemen, were killed by falling walls, and Charles Allen was seri- ously injured, On December 1, 1852, the pianoforte manufactory of Messrs. Chickering & Sons, then located a couple of blocks below their salesrooms just destroyed, was burned. Their loss at that time was upwards of two hundred thousand dollars over and above the insurance. The books of the Freeman’s and Boylston banks were saved. Haw- ley, Folson & Martin, on Essex street, and Rhodes & Ripley, wholesale clothiers, corner of Fayette, Court and Washington streets, who were burned out to-day, were both burned out at the great No- vember fire, DESTRUCTION OF THE BOSTON LIBRARY. The Boston Library, whieh was incorporated seventy-five years ago, was destroyed to-day. It was in the wpper part of a building on the north side of Essex street. Immediately after the third alarm had been sounded the authorities, warned by the experience of the November fire, ordered the gas to be turned off, and the oraer was carried out. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. fn nae Boston, May 30, 1873, The fire was first discovered in the upper floor of Haley, Morse & Co.’s warehouse, among the workshops, and the flames were issuing from the roof. The piles of light material packed away were like so much tinder, and before the alarm could be given great volumes of fame were rolling up fifty feet into the air and clouds of smoke rising. The neat generated was intense, and in twenty minutes the upper stqries of the building, from front to rear, a distance of two hundred feet, were a mass of glowing flames, TELEGRAPH WIRES BURNED. The Western Union Telegraph Company has lost fifteen wires by the fre, and eemmunication is in- terrupted. The Freeman’s National Bank had not opened their vault to-day, and they have reason to believe that all their securities are saved. The day being # holiday, the report of the fire telegraphed to the surrounding towns brought thousands of persons to the city. Every train inward bound was crowded with ANXIOUS BUSINESS MEN AND SENSATION SEBKERS, There could not have been less than one handred thousand persons near the scene of the fire when it was at its height. A DISORGANIZED GRAND ARMY POST. While the fire was burning the members of tho E. W. Kinsley Post of the Grand Army of the Republic were assembling at their headquarters, in the third story, front, ot the Globe Theatre building, preparatory to the observance of Decora- tion Day. It was soon discovered, however, that the attention of members had better be devoted to moving out, and the work was begun. The Post had a great quantity of valuable property, much of which was saved, including valuable portraits, regalia, belts and some books and papers. The heavy cases containing the books and blanks of the Headquarters gf the Department of Massa- chusetts and of the Department of the United States, could not be got out, but were forced open and the record books and a tew other valuables were removed. A very jarge amount of valuable books and blanks, however, were lost, The Globe Theatre eompany saved nearly all their wardrobes. TIMELY APPEARANCE OF THB MILITARY. Ata quarter past ten Companies I and K, of the Ninth regiment, who were in procession for the Decoration parade at South Boston, left the line and proceeded to the scene of the conflagration, and did good service in keeping back the crowd, 50 that the firemen cowid work. About the same time a company of marines, from the Charlestown Navy Yard, drawing a hose carriage, appeared oD the scene and were greeted with cheers, Losses of the Hartford Companies. HARTPORD, Conn., May 30, 1873, The total losses of the Hartford Insurance Com- panies by the Boston fire wiil not exceed $88,000, and are distributed as follews:— tna, $30,000; Hartford, $15,000; Phaenix, $14,000; Connecticut, $11,000; Orient, $10,000, and the National, $8,000, THE EXCITEMENT IN NEW YORK. Bato CR EES The news of the second terrible calamity to the sister city of Boston within a year spread through the streets and avenues, hotels and dwellings with marvellous rapidity yesterday, considering the very limited facilities which existed tor obtaining information, It being a legal holiday te usual means of quickly communicating intelligence were not at hand, and the feeling increased in propor- tion, The first reports, which themselves were made much greater than the truth warranted, received still greater exaggeration from the fact that the truth was, as it were, not obtainable. It was readily believed that the entire city of Boston was going this time, and that nothing would be saved, Here and there, at the hotels and at some = stores which had been Kept open in s;ite of the holiday, the proprietors had posted up telegrams giving the meagre news which had been received in the few words in which it had come, Round such bulletins as these anxious ahd interested crowds gathered, discussing the fate of Boston and the effect it would have here. To a great extext the news from Bos- ton dampened the ardor of those strange people who always turn out on holidays to join in what- ever festivities tvere are to the full of their bent. | The procession received less attention and the bulletins more. But in another manner the hap- pening of the fire on such a day as Decoration Day was peculiarly awkward. All the in- surance companies were, of course; closed, and not the least particle of information of a reliable character could be obtained, Some insurance men who lounged about made wild statements as to the probable losses to insurance companies in this city, and their estimates varied all the way from tour millions to twenty thousand dojlars, and this gives a pretty good estimate of the uncertainty which existed as to the real facts of the case, When the certain news came, about hal!-past twelve yesterday altcrnoon, that the fire had been got under control, however, it was a great relief to everyone, even to those not personally interested, From that moment the interest, which had risen to fever heat, began to allay itself and fall off, es” pecially as the later telegrams which came from vhe scene of the conflagration gave estimates of the losses suffered much below those at first re- ported during the terrible excitement which must have prevailed. BATHS AND BATHERS. ARSE SAT RR Opening of the Two Public Baths of the City on To-Morrow—Results of Lust Year's Bathing—Accommodation Re- quired for Two Hundred Thousand Persons—What it Costs, the City to Maintain These aths=The Natural Advantages of New York Not Made Use Of—A Pilea for More Baths. The two public baths of the city are to be openeé on to-morrow. They are to occupy their usual positions—namely, at the foot of Charles street, on the North River, and at foot of Fitth street, on the East River. Last year the number of bathers was as follows :— Charles Street Bath. Mules, Femlten. 16.100 4.425 13,200. i 039 '508 4 68 Total... 40 “B18 271,622 Grand total, YI These two baths are now undergoing repairs. The bottom of each of them is found to be honey- combed with the woodworm to the extent of twenty-one holes to a square inch, and the work- men are now filling these hoies with plugs of cedar. Though the baths cost $50,000 each the contractor of those days could only afford to use pine for the bottom instead’of oak, and the conse- quence 1s that this expense of repair is inevitable. ‘There are SEVENTY RETIRING ROOMB in each of the baths. The management is placed in the Department of Public Works, and Commis- stoner Van Nort has laid down certain rules that it 1s incumbent upon all bathers to observe. They may be summarized as follows:—The baths are open daily from June 1 to September 30. For males on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, from five o'clock A. M. to nine o’clock P. M., and on Sundays from five o'clock A.M. to twelve M. The females on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from five o'clock A. M. to nine o’clock P.M. Admission is by tickets, Which can be obtained gratuitously, ‘Twenty-five cents must be deposited for the towel, and twenty-two are returned to the bather on the return of the towel. Twenty minutes is the time aliowed each bather. The remainder of the regula- tions are of the ordinary character, and necdtul for the preservation of order. The cost of the main- nance and repairing of the baths during the year 1872 was $9,358 47; the city therefore paid two cents for every bather, If the trail of economy was not over everything municipal in this, the Empire City of America, there might be a reason- able prospect that an extended accommodation tor bathers might be given by the addition of at least two baths. If we reflect for a moment on the extent of the population of the city, and then think of the public bathing accommodation, if it were not so sorrowful a reflection, there could ve no other feeling that that of ridicule, Here is a city with a population of 1,000,000—during business hours it is said that there is on Manhattan Island FOUR MILLIONS OF PERSONS, and the opportunity to take abatg in a city which has a river on each side of it is afforded to only 6,100 eacn day. This Was the largest number that ever bathed at the baths in one day, and that was in August of iast year. There ought to be at least a dozen of these floating bathing houses in the city. Commissioner Van Nort says that he should cer- tainiy like to see two more somewhere about Forty- third street, on the west and east side of the city, But even this medest desire in this economical era cannot be entertained and there is no expectation by the Department of Public Works that the number of these float- ing baths will be increased this year, It may be said, by the unreiecting, that in a city where baths are so general in private houses there is not any need for extensive public accommodation of this character, It is pretty well ascertained that there are about two hundred thousand men, women and children tn New York who have no other means of obtaining & bath, a good healthy wash, where the needful decency can be desired, except at these city baths, where each bath will COST THRER CENTS. It is true that there is @ floating bath at the Bat- tery, placed there by Mr. Wall, by permission of the Commissioners of the Department of Pubiic Parks. It 18 admirably located in the First ward, amid a population that needs greatly to be encouraged in the pursuit of cleanliness, but each bather at this bath must pay fifteen cents. This, there- fore, greater tax on eleaniiness than the “towel charge” at the public baths, which has evidently lowered their popularity The number of bathers is certainly diminishing. In 1871 868,475 persons ailed themselves of their use. In 1872 only 632,940, There is manifestly, therefore, a falling off that is capable of another explanation than that of an indisposition towards cleanliness. There ought to be no charge for bathing. Publie baths should be as free as the river they are anchored in, and every encouragement should be afforded to the laboring classes of the city to BATHR EARLY AND OFTEN, The fact is that our social science has not yet touched the surface of this great question of per- senal cleanliness, which has been said may be classed among those things where the want is least felt where the need is great If the ancul- tivated are no competent judges of cultivation, surely the dirty are equally incompetent judges ef cleanliness, e old proverb says that it is next to godliness, Without it education is half power- less, for self-respect 18 un but i ble, There are te : niger those among the ir, the destitute and the uncared Stor of the city who never dream of washing or obtaining @ bath, and regard that luxury as unattainable as turtle or champagne. We are greatly behind the ancient civilization in this matter of public baths, Rome 2,200 years ago nad 200 public baths, many of which were butit of marble. The Peruvian Incas constructed aqueducts of 120 aud 150 \eagnes in length. In Spain both the Moors and Romans have Jeit traces of their power in the form of ENORMOUS AQUEDUCTS and reservoirs. The canals of Semiramis and those of Egypt are world famous, Assyria and Mesopotamia are intersected by the ruins of vast water ceurses, and through a great part of the East, even at this day, the inhabi- tants are supplied with fresh and pure water by the beneficent will of their despots, New York has ite “Croton,” and has reasen to be proud of it. Itisa monument to Foresnengs, skill and enterprise; but in the matter of baths it is far benind the pro- al towns of the Old Country. With natural tages so favorable to the multiplication of baths, there ought not to be any difficulty on the part of the municipal government that spends more than hall @ million dollars per week in doubling the number of public bathing houses, “ALL SMOKE. The Feminine Assault on Masculine Rights at. the Thomas Concerts—Crimi- nation and Rebuttal. The excitement in social circles over the crusade begun by Tyrant Etiquette on the rights pleasurable of the male patrons of the Central Park Garden concerts still continues, and the playful blows ex- changed between the opponents are becoming pretty serious, as will be seen in the annexed cor- respondence. tt seems that the war 18 to occasion civil dissension among the gentle sex, too, and am alert and sensible lady has come to the rescue of the lovers of genuine Havanas, A Sensible Wife Who Would Tolerate Masculine 'Tastes—Tobacco Smoke En= Jjoyable—the Gentlemen Have the Best Right to the Central Park Garden. May 28, 1873, To THR Epiror OF THE HERALD :— Hofrified and indignant at the selfishness of my sex, Iam going to waive aside timidity and come bravely to the front, or, in other words, to the rea cue of mankind. I happen to be the wife of an inveterate smoker, and do boldly avow that I love the perfume of his cigar far better than all the per- fumes of Arabia. I think there is nothing more delightful, and Iam never more happy than when my husband 18 by my side, with slippers on, and @ fragrant Havana between his lips—a picture of home comlorts, which many a poor married man has never seen, who 1s driven from home by @ cross, selfish wife, who would rather send her husband to the “club” or worse places, 80 as to be rid of his alter-dinner smoke, “Henry Clay” is right in saying “the Garden was lounded as a caic,” and I think, it we women will push ourselves ina place designed for gentle- men, it ought to be done with due regard to thefr rights and privileges, If the gentlemen are to give up smoking, let the ladies give up the cream and ices, the flirting and promenading, which they enjoy so much, Then we will see a sad change ia the Park Garde 1t will become an uptown Stein- way Hall, where the evenings will drag wearily in spite of the giorious music; and the gentlemen, ine stead of beillg contented and happy in our society, . will long for it all to be over, so as to have a GOOD SMOKE. The Dear Things—The Age ot Chivairy Past. EW YORK, May 28, 1873. To THE EpiroR OF THE HERALD:— Ah, me! the age of chivalry has fled; that glort- ous age when ladies’ witehing smiles and honeyed words prompted gallants gay to deeds of noble daring; when at her plaintive cry of wrong re- ceived the lance was put in rest and vengeance wreaked upon the caiti( head. Thatage is gone, and, to all appearance, without @ likelihood of its ever returning. No longer do we bekold in this degenerate age such disinterested devotion to the “lesser man." ‘their plaintive cries reach the ear in vain; their wishes are not gratified. A smile irom peach-hued lips or glance irom laughter- speaking eye is not aole to send our modern knight errauts careering through the land in search of ‘monstdire” or “giant’s castle grim." Not at all. Even at the fair one’s earnest wikh will they not abstain from stuffing the aforesaid fair one’s with ke wreaths blown fenry 9 Poor Dolly Varden sighs in She might as well ask as a favor from on f the smoke-pui- ing galiants to mount his steed, grasp bis rifle and away to the ava beds for Captiin Jack’s scalp to lay ‘at her tiny fect. But, ol! gentiemen, do not persist in smoking where “young ladics” are ase sembled, Smoke spoils their painted beauty—I mean their pretty faces. I know that you will tort and say, hey are getting only what they clamor for— ‘women’s rights’—they must learn to smoke and drink, as well as to vote and preach, or, it not, we will not abstain from our comiort to please them.” Ol, gentlemen, do mot interpret women’s rights in this way! Do be magnanimous; concede to them everything; live only te please the gentiec creatures and be ene RODERICK MCSHANE. A Woman's Protest Against Going Any- where on Mere Sufferance—The Smoke Question Ignored, but Feminine Rights Kept tn View. * Yo THE EpiToR oF THE HERALD:— Iwas much shocked to see by this morning's HERALD that “ladies were only admitted on suffer- ance” to the Thomas concerts. Is this true? I have been invited and accepted with much pleas- ure the invitations given by several of my youn gentlemen friends to these concerts, and | cannot believe they would ask me to go toa place where Tam merely allowed to enter on such very unequal terms. Won't you, dear HERALD, speak the word and settie this matter at once and forevermore, Respectfully yours, NETTIE B. A Mother Hesires Information About the Rights of Gentlemen at Central Park. Garden. To THE EDITOR oF THR HERALD:— ~~ T am extremely interested in the HRRALD corres spondence in regard to ‘smoking at Central Park Garden,”’ and this morning it is especially interest- ing for the information contained. “Henry Clay” says ‘the Garden was founded as a café,” and he kindly goes on to explain that as meaning ‘‘a re- sort for gentlemen.” His torte is evidentiy that of teacher, and if He had only shown us low, in the “eternal fitness of things,’? any resort of “gentle. men” could be unfit for “women of refinement,” he would have earned our undying gratitude and im- mortalized himself by elucidating another of “those littie mysteries,” apparently “inseparable from’? most mankind and deplorably “incomprehensible”? to Women, He says “women are adinitted on sufferance.” I admire bis generosity, though I doubt his being authority on that point. He writes very mech like “one who treads alone” or worse, with some inappreciative “senseless chatterer,’? for whose sweet sake he is doomed for ever more to rail at womankind, Let us know the truth, As a mother, with grown up daughters, who are often invited to the Garden, 1 much desire information On this subject. MOTHER, A Conciliatory Opinion on Smoking ie May 238, 18 To THE EpIToR oF THE HERALD:— Reading in this morning’s paper the several let- ters with reference to smoking at Mr. Themas’ concerts, it kus occurred to me that both parties might be accommodated were one or two evenings Cie the week devoted exclusively to ‘“non-smok- ists.’ Even were the admission charge, a8 on Thurada, evenings, increased, the number would be suf- ficient to make the night's proceeds equal those of the lower entrance fee and cigar sales. “ Gentlemaniy smokers attending such evenin: would sacrifice only a$ much as at ovher and far less enjoyable places of amusement. A LOVER OF FINE MUSIC. DANGEROUSLY BEATEN, Ante-Mortem Statement, Yesterday morning Coroner Young received in- formation that Julius Boukman, a German, living at 136 Suifolk street, was lying in a very dangerous condition from the effects of violence he had re- ceived en Thursday of last week. ‘The Coroner visited Boukman, but he was wholly un. able to make a statement. Coroner You learned that on Thursday of last wee Boukman, who is a wood carver, working at 193 Stanton street, sent Conrad Sperer, a lad sixteen years old, to a saloon for some lager bi Conrad rought in the beer. when one of the workmen ap- peared and drank half of it, alter which another man came tn the shop and drank the remaining half ol the beer. This excited the Suge of Boukman, who thereupon slapped Sperer with his open ne The latter then caught up acarver’s male! hurling it at Boukman, struck him on the right side of the head and face, after which Conrad ran away and made his escape. He was subsequently arrested and released on bail. Coroner Young issued another warrant for Sperer, and placed it in the hands of Detective Lyon, of Tenth precinct, for execution. DROWNED IN NEWARK. Yesterday afternoon a boy supposed to be named Lees, while wrestling with another on the banks of the canal, fell overboard and was drowned. The body was recovered. An Officer feli overdoard too, but was rescuea,