Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1887, Page 9

A SPANISH-AMERICAN PICTURES Drawn by the Facile Pen of an Omaha Lady. A DESCRIPTION OF HAVANA, The City of Vera Craz—Hotel Accom- modations—A Stroll Through the City—A Sleepless Night, Written for the Sunday Bee by Grace Dean Hunt, Leaving New York on the good City of Alexandria, having skimmed many miles of water, paid a little tribute to stormy Cape Hatteras, gazed upon the smiling banks of Florida, I drew, with a bit of excitement, my first breath of Spanish air off the cost of Cuba. The land lies low, but the nearer we fApproach the more rugged and charming it looks, with here n palm and there a group of the same tapering tree. As we pass nearer the shore, cries of children touch the ear, and the open door of a poor little house discloses the table set for supper, a bright turbaned negress standing at its head monotonously wav- ing a fly brush. Dreamily we giide along with a hint now and then of strange sights to come. Quictly we enter the beautiful harbor and HAVANA lies before us. It strikes me that it must be one of the most picturcsque sights in the world, The fiery sun has sunk to rest and Havana is enjoying the cool of evening; her varied colored houses hav: thrown their windows wide open to entic within the grateful bree To me it is a fairy land, with unreve 1 delights. Here and there an open portaldisplays to our wonderingeye a charming garden of tropical bloom, and an old wall made besutiful by & vine from which hang brilliant yellow flowers, u feathery palm lelicately p d against the plush of an evening sky. Sounds are borne to us across the waier from the many boatmen, fy, little t f constquentinlly about us am inform us that Our ship is boarded s and yisitors, but they possess no iterest for mio; 1 still gaze upon the shore and long to become befter ne- quainted with it, Many ships lie about » world—one sailing in from this~ precau- na may not stately Spanish s many days of qu tion being taken that b be laid low by cholers V. with a flutter of ecxcite- 1l the evening on shore, and our preparations. - We ancing, blue boat, and owed to the shore, with the re- freshing —intluence f a distant shower blowing i our faces, On 3 wiay puss 1he Spa ship, we hear the twang of a guitarra with the ompaniment of clapping hands, and conclude that all is well with hel we land we greeted by of cabmen wh re ou men of the eabs being q of showing us the tropical elephant of iavana a8 New York cabn are of dding a silver linng to their regular fure. About us in this weird light stand the boatmen n startling effect, in their costume of white pantaloons and shirt, surmounted by a blue or red . We take a cab and enter the city: it is quiet i lower part of the town and a wgze feeling creeps over me thatat is cad, all-forgotten place; a musty odor, as were, prevades the fascination of it. Now we pass & group of sailors in foreign dress, now a_beer saloon vound about whose tables sit other salors, tell- mg their yarns--1 suppos We pass Columbus’ tomb and the plaza, and dash into & well-lighted street. he street is narrow, while on either side are bril- Liuntly lighted, luxarious shops. all of which are open for busine: people do their shopping at night to es- cape the heat of noon-day. ‘The shops strike me as being very at- tractive, and, womanlike, I desire to be [ on this point. It not being the custom to alight from one's carringe, I remain seated while an obscquious clerk brings to me what [ wish, namely, a Spanish fan, It is a paper fan,on which isdepicted a bull fight; indeed,quite Spanish; but my com- panion depresses me, very much, by tell- ing me that it was, undountedly, made in New York. Let us go on until we reach the Prado, or principal promenade, in the new part of the city, and a very beautiful part it is, The k;r:ulu is brightly hghted, marble walks surround it and cross it, flowers bloom, and it is thickly studded” with seats, on which the sight-seer may rest and note the gay throng as it moves and fro, and listen to the lively Spanish music with its undercurrent of sadness. Facing this pleasure ground are two or_three fine looking hotels, the handsome Tacon the- atre, one of the largest in the world, and the Louvre; the latter an attractive restaurant. lnagine a very large room with its tloor of colored marbles, the ceiling supported by columns incased in mirvors, wide windows reach to the tloor through which (leave this to the imagina- tion) sweeps the breeze, Tables for one or two Jot the room with whiteness. Will it add to the pictare to fill the remaiming space with the blue smoke of Havana's “choicest ci- garsand with her exceedingly good look- ing men? was the only lady presenton this par- ticular night, but was not made to feel my singularity. ‘They knew me to be a stranger within their gates and treated me with the ever-existing courtesy of their country. They brought us ice cream fit for the gods, with charmingly thin, delicately rolled cakes. But time rolls on, even here, 0 out we pass into the sensuous night. ‘The Spanish tongue greets us on every side, music echoes round about us, the scent of flowers is wafted on the air; it is ntoxicating and we are loth to leave it, but the stroke of a late hour compels us to reach the daock and search for our boatman, at last found fast asleep; we shake him gently, he responds with what seems to me to be a foreible word, How damp and prosaie the ship scems after the fury picture of Havana by star light. 'The next day we lifted anchor and slowly sailed awiy, out past grim, gray Moro castle, the noble protector of Huavana, out to our future home in Mexico. VERA CRUZ, 1 will not weary you with an of our passage over water, but will at once Riea de In Vera Cruz _ (the Rich Town of the True Cross). For one moment | must linger here, to hold the shell of lost sound to my long- ing car, to hear again the mus:c of the lap-lap of the waves of that southern sea. I stood on the deck, and the gentle night with her soft air spoke to me of an even- ing of long ago, when I stood with my mother in our old-fashioned garden away in dear Massachusetts. By her side watched the heliy-hogks nod in the breezo. We stood facing the west,speak- ing of the there shining planet, Jupiter. Yes, the planet shone as brightly as vonder one, while now, instead of Howcer eds at our feet, are little rippling waves; instead of the elveling swallow, sca birds twitter about us, and instead of old- fashioned pink goses, warm water weeds way tothe coming of our ship. A vision t account miles of sunny land in La Villa THE OMAHA DAILY BEE past happiness, of return in the rising = glory on our left—the southern cross. 1 had read that Vera Cruz, as seen from the water was picturesque, but it did not impress me so; it presented the appear- ance of having been sunk deep down into the water, and walled about with hot sand, allowing only a dome or two to show above it. Indeed, unlf‘ one thing prevented me from completely breaking down, and that was the vision ‘of the snow cupped voleano of Orizaba rising up, up into the light, pointing to a purer atmosphere; it led me to think of better things, and to forget for the moment this infernillo, the perpetual home of yellow jack. We landed at 2 o'clock on a Sun- day, in what, it seems to me, must be unusual heat even here. Our trunks were passed by courteous custom house oflicers, and we four ladies, thankful for the escort of 4 young man of Vera Cruz, sct out on foot for the Hotel de Diligencing. 1 observed with much bitterness of &pirit that our escort did not offer to carry either of my large handbags. I afterwards learned that it would not have been the correct thing for him to have becn n - carrying them. On leaving the custom house, one strikes straight ahead into the heart of Vera Cruz, an oasis in this desert—her laza. Indeed it is a charming spot, he fountain in the center is surrounded by dark and light green tropieal growth, enlivened by brilliantly hued flowers, and, could sucl [ thing be possible, the falling water would cool the atmosphere, Orange trees lend the pertume of “their flowers blent with that of the Enghsn violet. ineircling this are marble benches which are in turn encompassed by a marble walk with vet another row of benehes upon which the common people y rest and look upon the aristocracy us it promenades within, People of a still lower class are not admitted wit the precinets of the p from this bit of green by u well paved street stands the Diligencias, We gladly enter ite portal and behold a dark, musty, il nelling patio (court) at the farther end of which 15 a stairw: Thi; cend and obsery on the f £ sing this door up we go to the wide corri- dor surrounding the court. Here is situ- :d the oflice, and here, around several wrd tables, are gathered some of the wells'” of Vera Cruz, short in stature, with pale faces, dark hair and eyes—the eyes not as narrow as those of the sons of Cuba, but quite as deceptive in ex- pression. The court is open to the sky above, the sleeping rooms all open upon the corri- dor, likewise the dining room. We found with chagrin that all of the: rooms had been taken by the outpourings of a French steamer lately arrived, so my sister with the other two ladies were consigned to a room in the region of the kitchen (truly an infernal region, wmle I and my little girl were put into the room of which’l had noticed the dcor on the landing. This was a double door, two leaves shutting together, and posscssed three keyholes, but, I hoped, no more than one key. On opening it there was disclosed ze quJuruis rd room with an uneven brick floor and one window, grated, looking into the court. Yet another room opcned out of this with window and balcony on the street; it nappily possessed an li-looking bed, table and ch Not a light, not & bell to call the reluctant servant. ‘Thinking that a drive would pleas- antly pass the time away meanwhile, [ proposed to my “rench, to inte VR Frenchman, in rey a carringe. He could not, or rather would not, under- stand, but finally admitted that only women of a certain class ever enjoved that pleasure in V Cruz. With some- what dampened ardor I returned to my room and sought diversion by gazi from my balcony at the waiting tur| buzzards aloft, or at the pussers-by. men scemed to have nothing better to do than to return my gaze, accompanying it with a most gallant bow. Dinner time at last arrived, and with the warning ringing in my ears to eat no fruit and drink no wine, for yellow fever had begun to scourge the town, | entered the dining room. But how distasteful was the sight of t and fish. Setting aside all nk my portion of sparkling wine and ate of the lucious fruits. How stran the sounds that come to us fromwithout. At each quar- ter of an hour chimed the many bells, borse cars hurrying by, blew horns at every crossing; now the discordant scream of a strange bird, the tinkling bells of the poor, ill- used, 1ll-fed donkey--all bounded and en- compassed by the intense heat. Night coming brought the captain of our ship and stroll through the city. Out from the Wimly lighted court we passed onto narrow, but well paved, clean strey treets rcckin;fl with the smell of cooking, for in many doorways sat scan- tily clothed women ~cooking™ over little stoves, tortillas, the fiery enchiladas and such dishes a8 please the Mexican. ‘The alameda 18 made beautiful by rows of palm trees, particularly so at night when they are illuminated by the flitting light of huge tiretlies. Littie boys cateh these and sell them for a centor two. We saw iadies ornament their dresses and hair with them, bright points of light amudst their dusky braids. lNuur here is the much frequented bull ring, a place where their peaceful Sunday enjoyment is found. turning slowly to the plaza we found we found it (illed with gay people, some in evening dress, the ladies all bonnet- less und wravless. All doors stood open, and nearly everv one with its bright light invited you into a restaurant, In front of each door, on the sidewalk, stood little tables where one could sit, eat, drink, smoke and await the break- ing of dawn. We chose the interior of one of tne restaurants, so enjoying, for the tirst time, one of those delicious mint juleps, for which Vera Cruzis so justly amous. On reaching the hotel 1 friends good nmight, and entered my dungeon. 1 I was told, close my window or be po the night air. Ichose the Iatter, and, locking my sister out, determined to go to bed. One feeble candle lighted my room, but it being so much hke a little ghost 1 extinguished it, and them dis- covered I had no matches and no possi- ble way of calling for any. The light from the streer had to suffice. Iaared not undress, and I could not lie down on the bed us its httle inhabitants ran up and down the once white curtains, ready to feust on my weary limbs had I been foolish enough to repose them there. Finally Udrew my chair into the door- way between the rooms and gazed at the outer door. I was soon rewarded for so doing by seeing a light flash for one in- stant ncross the above mentioned keyholes, and under the door, ‘The second flash promised to make the night an interesting one. ing through the hitherto uscless key- , [ saw two men who occasionally ssed the door with their hands, and it eing old and shaky would yield a little. With them, hard” and yet harder, I sed the door on my side. « After hosi- ing a few seconds they disappeared. In the brignt light of day 1 look back upon ths, us upon a bad dream, suffer- infi‘in fear of their return, the torments of hideons nightmare. Nothirg more happened to disturb my repose, which consisted in sitting in a chair,holding upmy feet to escape the life of the tloor, listening to imaginary as well as real sounds. At last, stepping onto tho balcony, I watched the men sweep out above-ground drains, the odor arising therefrom huin¥ nauseating in the ex- treme. It was towards morning and a sense of repose yisited all of with promis’ Hotel de bil bade my living things, as yet, that blanket of heat awaited the rising of the sun, before enveloping all things. Children's voices still sounded from the plaza where night is never known to in- nocence or guilt, The flush of dawn brought my sister. We wearily but gladly gathered together our traveling articles and stepped forth- with into the air. How perfectly beau- tiful was the morning, for ar yet it was cool. We enjo: the most” delicious cup of coffee 1 ever drank, acccompanied b, light pastry, seated at a little table on the sid 1 A few peopte still lingered in the plaza and [ wondered if they felt as they looked, tired of living the ceaseless round of insufferably hot day, making the monotonous turn of the plaza ni{:ht afternight, Lights still burned in a bil- liard room near by, and the beggars, see- ing us to be strangers, bid us a polite buenos dias, with an cye to churity. Ragged urchins with their bright eyes, wxmfiwd ws through our coftee, and™ so anxious were they to earry our bags to the statfon that their competition brought it to a matter of but a few cents. Not reluctantly we walked to the station, and as we slowly moved out of it, the slight mist lifted and Vera Cruz stood out 1n the glaring light of the sun, hot and unattractive. ——a Notes About Old Folks. Isaac Harlow, of Phillips, Me., was a drummer in the war of 1812, He can drum still. Mrs. Margaret Slusser, a Clarke count 0., pioneer, died at Dayton, O., May 20 aged ninety-four years. Mrs. Catherine Reed, of Essex, V., died go, aged 108 years and She became a member of the Methodist church over seventy years ago. Of those famous octogenarians, Simon Cameron, George Bancroft and W. W, Cocoran, Cameron is said to be the most active in mind and the youngest in spirit. Wendell Lansing, senior editor and proprietor o Tattsburg Sentinel and the Essex Republican, died re- cently i ville, N. Y. He was cighty ye: Thomas Kenton died at his homd, ne: Mount Olivet, Ky., on Muay ninety-nine years old April 11, Simon Kenton, the famous Kentueky pioneer, was his great uncle, Unnana, May 21—Louis Wangh died at the county intirmary this morning, at the advanced age of 99 years and 10 months, He was the oldest man in - Champaign county. At a meeting of the old settlers of Chi- ceago, held on the 19th inst., the foilowing dispiteh was received from San Fran- cisco: Dear Friends: I send greetings, love, compliments to the eariy settlers of Chicago. I still live, am healthy, just under 100. N, C. Walton, Juhn M, Peabody died May 19, at Buf- falo, N. He wis born at New Leban- on, N. Y., on March 10, 1800, and was therefore past 87 years old. Mr. Pea- body was a member of the Connecticut legislature in 1846, His wife died about nine years ago. e leaves one son and two daughters, Mrs. pronia Pierce died May 4 Chestertield, N. H., aged 101 yeirs 11 months. She was born at Smithtield, R. L, June 14,1775, Her maiden name W ann. She was the last of four Chesterlield centenarians. One died at the age of 101 yearsand 1 month; another at 101 years and 5 months; another at 104 years and 3 months, Col, Platt Adams, a veteran of the war of 1812, died in New York City May He was born in Greene county, Décem- ber 20, 1792, During the war of 1812 he raisedd @ company in his native village, and was procecding to the front at its head, when the war as _ended. Tor awhile he was associated with John Thompson in the publicetion of Thomp- son’s Bank Note Reporter. Orrin Harris, aged eighty-nine years, of Rochester, N. Y., was standing in the crowd in front of tne court house wateh- ing the display of the Harden fire exting- uisher. He ry feeble and when the crowd fell back he was unabie to move. He was thrown down, trampled upon_by persons, i i injuries, He was car whete Dr. Adams w: him. Oconee (Ga.) Enterprise: Mrs. L. W. Branch, who row lives in our town, is now eighty- n years old, and is quite lively and fous yet. > came to town to live with Mr.'O. F. Johnson on the 28th day of December last, and up to this date she has knit scven pairs of gloves, ten i of socks and cleven pairs of stockings. She leaves in Atlanta in a few days to visit her duughter, Mrs. Dr. Richardson, Mrs. Rhoda D. Mellvain,a; venty- cight, and for lifty vears confined to her bed from spinal trouble { at child- birth, died May 16, in Carl Ky., with- in a stone's throw of her childhood home, orest Retreat, being the daughter of Governor Thomas Metealfe and sister of Colonel Lou Metcalfe, at one time a resi- dent of Cincinnati, and whois buried at Sprmfi Grove cemetery. Mrs. Mcllvain was the mother of four children and married before the age of twenty- home called to attend twi cight. Detroit Free Press: *Old Johnny Ripple,’” a well-known character of Ogle township, Somerset county, is dead, aged hty-seven. When in his prime he buld kick tinware from a store ceiling eleven feet above the floor. Once when quite & young man he was rafting on the I{lnnun;_mlwl:l river., The raft was wrecked and he escaped by jumping over twenty feet to a rock, from which he was rescued. He would place four or tive hogsheads in a row, jump out of the first into the second, and so on to the t, then jump backward to the first with . t workingman in Boston 1s said to be Martin Collins, who was born in Nova Scotia in 1797, By engaging in trade between his home and several ports in Maine and Massachusetts he had, when forty years old, aequired a snug lm)]u'rly, ut a commercial erisis reduced iim to )mvvrl{. He went to Boston, found work slack and pay small, and to fight staryation he opened a cobbler's shop, and has been a repairer of boots and shoes ever since. He now lives in “ast Boston, and, though over ninety- tnree years of ago, works industriously every day. Adam W, Spies, long known as a mer- chant in M York, and now in his eighty-sixth-yes one of the oldest New York firemenliving. He and Thurlow Weed studied grammar together and when he was old enough he joined Ei i:ine(,‘unp:uly No. 5. That was in 1818, ' No. 5 was the crack company of the ome of his fellow menbers were B. Goelet, Wm. H. Smith; aftel wards a wealthy hardware merchan James Whitlock, Isaac N. Townsend, Francis Hali, a the well-known editor, and Richard Demill, Mr. Spies used to hold the pipe, and says that the deeper the mud and snow and the hlfzur the lire the more he enjoyed the work. John A. Brunct, aged about eighty years, a dealer in patent medicines, wus ound dead in bed in Philadelphia re- cently. Since the death of his daughter, who kept house for him, about two years ago, the old gentleman has lived alone, with the exception of occasional visits from an old man, who did bis errands. Yesterday at noon the man called, but no answer coming to his ring at the bell,the aid of Sergeant McCloskey, of the Third district, was secured and a back window being forced open “Dr.” Brunet was found iying dead on his bed in the third story, He had been lust seen about 10 o’clock on Saturday night. The sergeaut found sccreted in ‘various parts of the house money amounting to $2,700, which was taken care of by the corouer’s mes- senger. ‘o sty THE GIDDY GIRES OF GOTHAN. Glimpses of Fashion's Fickle Followers in the Big Metropolis, A GLARING SUNSHADE NUISANCE, Catching Costumes for Coaching—A Blushing Bouquet of Summer Hosiery—Dancing Dots and Veils and Roguish Pho- tographs, NEw Yonrk, May 28.—[Correspondence of the Beg.]—=The fashionable and weal- thy New York girl 18 always something in particular, but she rarely remai thing more than ten or fifteen days. devotes herself resolutely to diversion, and she uses a 8port up quickly. Just now she is making lhfe lively for fast horses of the road, in saddle and vehicle. The pleasures of indoors have become unseasonable; the field employments are notarrived and so there is an interval to be tilled by driving the trotters and gal- lopers. Tha new feature of fun on wheels is that belles sit alonside their husbands, brothers and fathers in what are called road wagons. Heretofore the exclusively elegant creatures might ride out in any yle of carriage thut had » coachman to but exquisite usage forbade them to sit in the open light wagon so long coupled with tne incidental races of the up-town thoroughfares. For example,no lady of the Bonner family was ever seated with Robert Bonner in such a wagon, be- hind his famous horses; nor was the late Commodore or Wm. H. Vanderbilt, vouchsafed the company of wife or daughter in their road driving, The vresent May has brought a radieal change. It is still socially eriminal for a maiden to drive with a man, but a femi- nine relative of the owner of fast horses is permitted to rub elbows with him while he lolds the reins over his equine prides. Only yesterday in Central park, I saw a brash sort of equipage roll up to Mount Saint Vineent. ‘I'wo rich brown horses were hitched by scant and plain harness to a square-boxed, one-seated wagon, in which sat a youngish man with a_slight moustache and incipient side whiskers, while at his side snuggled sh woman in ay from hat to hem. The horses we t { s Al dine and Earl Rose deebilt used to drive. The man was kred. W. Vanderbilt, heir to some of Bilr's millious and these pets. The woman was hi: i Mrs. Wm. K. V. derbilt £ ng the brand new fad of riding out with the owning drivers of fast nags. It must be admitted that the mode cannot beeome very general, A SCARLET PARASOL on top of a coach, or a crimson on a race course, bloom out and light un the landseape, but & red parasol is u glar- ing nuixance on the strect,and especially on those avenues where building and blasting 1 in_operation. Over on the St. Nicholas boulevarde, this same after- noon, a procession of earriages wound merrily along, when suddenly the omni- ous waving of the red flag, that usually indicates un impending explosion amid the neighboring rox appeared some down the road, The first team, by a short-sighted old svort, id he hetd yp a warning hand. F) riages stopped, ten, twenty, forty, eighty, a hundred and xty. You know how they multiply. Then they Noexplosion. Another parasol s grew desper- little in ad party, and in the thunder don’t you let ‘er go¥ mtly, all saw the flag approaching. Something dreadful was expected to oceur, A good many got ready to tarn round and seék the safety of distance. Then, the red flag began to resume a different'shape. On_ she bore; and what was it that had stopped all riages for ten minutes but a blamed parasol. Two girls had been talking down by the steam drills, and 1f their conversation had been more interesting those wagons would have been there now, perhaps. THE SPECTACULAR IN DRIVING is furnished by the New York ham amateur coach which runs daily be- tween Madison square and the Country club. It is conducted ostensibly I regular transportation company fol ny who choose that mode of conveyance be- tween the city and Pelham and interven- ing points. In reality it is restricted to the carrying of ultra fashionable people, for the stray passenger who should wish to engage a ce on the box would find that all places had been taken for weeks ahead. "Patrons of the institution make up little parties among themselves, himit- ing the number in each e enough to oceupy all the dc in the coach, 'The best part of the show is the start. I was just turning into Fifth avenue yesterday, when I heard the mel- low toots of the bugle announcing the coming of the conch. Presently it came into view around the corner of Twenty- sixth street. 1t is a gorgeous black and yellow affuir, drawn by four handsome horses. e driver 1n the regulation 'y, green coat, crimson vest, light brown trousers, tall white hat und top boots, tlourished a long whip as he reigned the horses up to the gurb in front of the hotel entrance. The guard, similarly attired, sat at the with his hm‘i' straight horn at his li blowin, the larmonics in rapid succession and with charming case. Several young and elderly ladies and gentlemen came from the hotel to the sidewalk and a hundred or two passers stopped to watch the op- eration of getting on. The driver and guard dismounted, the first going to the heads of the rear span of horses where he remained standing picturesquely holding the check rein. A uniformed bell boy enme from the hotel and formed a simil bleau at the heads of the front spun. . The guard went into the hotel office presumubly to get the manifest of his eargo. When he came out he o!)cnud the door of the coach anu produced an iron step ladder witha hook at the end which he anught into the for- ward step over the wheel, allowing the other end to rest qn the walk. The pas sengers had been.méanwhile earnestly debating the relati positions they would occupy on ooach tov, for none of them, of course, ptoposcd to sit inside the coach. | THEY COULD NOT BE SEEN THERE, The ard waited patiently by the Iadder for a decigion .on this important point. Finally an elderly lady said that she would sit on the front seat if so-and- 80 would, She went to the ladder, looked up at the high box, shut her lips together determinedly, grasping her skirts with the left hand to get them away from her feet, seized the handle of the step with the right and began to climb. She had been on a conch before and knew the way, for after mounting two steps she let go her skirts and assisted hersclf with both hauds in gulunf to the top. Herskirts were looked after by her elderly escort and the guard,although the guard was amvly com- etent to do that alone. Heheld them from her feet in front with his left hand and with his right pushed them up and held them down from behind £0 that a mini- mum of ankle was exposed to the won- dering crowd. And when she slid into her lofty seat he tucked the swuy- ing and recreant arments © about her shocs into exaetly their proper posi- tion. A young lady was already Lo fol- vance of the short-sighted shouted: “‘Wh; low. She took her skirts in both hands as a woman does when she 18 going up ordinary steps, toa horse car, for in- stance, and in this improper way had got part of the distance up when the guard protested that only one could sit with the driver, and she had to get down again, Another discussion ensued and then the guard placed the ladder convenient to the next seat and the young lady started up again. The guard had fer all to him- self, for the elderly escort who was at the head of the party was occupied in tossing to the ludy who had already mounted, her wrap. It took nearly ul} the breath out of his pompous Hody to do it, but he succeeded. The young lady got half wayup the steps in her own fashion when she paused and trembled She tuied to look down at her feet, but the ladder was so steep she could not see them. She pretty nearly lost her bal- ance, and the guard said Don’t |mf:your dress, lady; just you o right along up, and grab the ‘side of the seat and f' 1 take care of your dress.” And he did with such perfection of grace and deference to the proprieties thatno one could tell whether the hose above the elegant runt(rms gaiters were black, silk or white balbriggan. Prob ably they were pearl gray to match her gloves, SIX OTHER LADIES, young and elderly, were assisted to their verches and then the men mounted. There were tive of them, and they had ust room enough to bestow themselves in the chinks and on the edges and leave a comfortable seat for the guard beside a handsome girl dressed as1f she were out for a climb up the Alps. The guard leaned his ladaer a a moment muttering, smile as he did so: **Never yet seed such a lot of green 'uns,” Then he re-opened the couch door and took out several foot- stools which he tuc in under the ladies feet, He put t step-indder back inside and told the driver that he was all ready. The swell Frederick Bronson had been standing by quietly, now and then putting in a word to end the numer- ous discussions as to who should mount next, Atthis moment he went to the coach door, took ofl his tall silk hat,hung it up somewhere inside, took out'a tall white hat, putiton and climbed up to the driver's box He manipulated the reins us if he knew as much about them a8 the hired driver and called the guard up to him for a whispered conyersation. 'l’fiw hired driver did not get on and the conchrolled away without him. As the whecls began ir the guard blew a succession of toots on his horn, and then ran around to the vear of the conch al- though it was well in motion,and climbed lightly up to his place beside the hand- some mountain climber. The show moved rapidly up the avenne, the pres- ence of the exhibition being announced to all reside sers along the route by the *“T'an-ti-vy tivvy tivwy ti-i-i- vee!™ of the long horn, DANCING DOTS IN VEIL An oceulist must have invent the popular veiling now in use. 1t en- hances his imcome beyond belief. The dancing dots on lace tissue raise the very mischicf with women's eyesight. W hen avell is tightly tied about a woman's head, as is now the fashion, the dots are stationary, but the panorama that passes the vision is obstructed by thin dot has the same effect as if they were ntly about. One’day I rso on an elevated train with my he houses that were whirling d on a veil of some colored ¢ 'on which was squirted pretty good sized dots of some pasty composition that looked like be '\\'Iwu Ileft the t to my horror, everything was a dazzle. I couldi not perfectly make out a single object. It was impossible to read a sign, gud for over an hour 1 was in perfect musery. ‘That experience frightened me, LInever wear one of those pronounced dotted v 8o long as I am not blind, Another pleasant result of using the veil on which dots are daubed with little gobs of paint can be found as the hot weather fairly sets in. They are struck off on the face of the wearer, and give her the ap pearance of having recently got out of the small-pox hospital. A sort of dis mond net lace of black silk is very popu- lar just now, and the ecffect of wearing one's fuce tightly tied up in it I saw the other day in Delmonico's. A stylish girl in much’black beaded grenadine wearing a small bonnet of straw had her heac Iashed up with the fashionable did- mond net. She gave her order and drew off her gloves, faced the light from the window, her youthful’ ana plump countenance allowed her to, and slowly untied hel il. She was spirited off in little squares just as those gophored waf- fle cakes are d. Ten tables away you would have suid sie was the worst searred woman by small pex you ever saw. The soft pink flesh on her nose and cheeks had pressed through the meshes of that tightly banded veil, and for one- half hour, and how much longer I don't know, she was in a frightfully marked condition. ROGUISH PHOTOGRAPHS, 'w York girls are having their graphs taken in roguish costumes. ‘Chere is a female pllulogm[phcr in Broadway to whom they flock. I saw a dozen spe mens of her work. One young creature was taken in a night gown. It was no old-fashioned muslin affur. buta creamy, silken. clinging robe, whi¢h showed the wearer hadn’t slipped it over a street i he Iillllf' lace disposed wher- bit of Tace could b T confining ribbon at the breast that just held the robe together, came out effec- tively i the picture. “What do you suppose she was taken that way for®" I asked, “Thut's a ‘good night’ fol album,'’ was the reply. lish society girls come pictures taken for exe thing to have a ‘peck-a-boo g *Good merey do they know yot destry “ahey have to take m o One picture represented the subjeet in skirts and corsets, sittingon a low couch, tying or buttoning a boot. No mortal woman ever battoned a boot with her foot in such an attitude, but it exhibited any amount of the unemployed limb, and made a_comijcal picture. Another girl was evidently playing “this lttle pig went to market,” as she sat on one chair with her foot on another, and held her- self in a diflicult position by her big toe. Another, 1n the most diaph bric undergarments, had her tiful hair let down, and sl tress of it uplifted on a comb. a “good night’ picture, 1 perhaps *good mornin; collection got wild. school-girlish figures were grouped for the three graces, twined and twisted back as theydo in the celebrated group in the foyer of the opera house in Paris, That made me laugh. There scemed to be more elbows and knee pansvisible through the robes that should helong to six women, and I had to count them up several times before I was satistied they were constructed properly. A very pretty woman, in that one popular garment, Radl photoemicAan BRE AR AR mirror and her back to the Imbl!c. A beantiful picture represented a young mother in a loose morning wrap with a huge and replendant bath towe! on her Knees, and a six-months-old naked baby h)' ng there. This photograph had a reary companion, for in less thana month atter it was taken, so the woman told me, her husband, who is uperator at another establishment' went to the home and took a likeness of the httle creature in its casket prepared for burial . CrLara Be A shattered frame may be . reinvigor- :d by thut wonderful tonie, Dr. J. H McLean's Strengthening Cordial and Biood Purifier, it enriches the blood, und vitulizes and strengthens the whole body. some of some friend’s Ihe most sty: re to have their ge. It's the collection called the lopy. 2 it n'tit shocking. held one This was suppose, or Then the hree slim-Jim REMARKABLE AND ROMANTIC Suicide of a_French Marquis in the Qity of Boston, LOVE LETTERS AND LEGAL LORE' The Codman Will Case—Tax Dodgers and Governor Ames—High Toned Sports at a Steeple-Chase ~Theatricals. Bostox, May 25.—|Correspondence of the Bek |—Boston has lately become identitied with the French nobility in a peculiar ana sensational way. We have not only witnessed the suicide of a real marquis, but we have had him right here in our midst; have lived next door to him for the last ten years,and remained bliss- fully ignorant of the fact of his royalty ail the time. The Marquis de la Tourasse, however, did not live us noblemen us- ually live,and that is why we brushed hagtily past him on thestreet, giving him no more notice than a pitying glance. His story is a sad one,and is but the repe- tition of the lives of many men of his stamp who are vietims of gambling and dissipation. About ten years ago the Marquis de la Tourasse lived in magniticent style in a beautiful villa just south of Paris, amid all the h|\urY station van give n notay is a position of and trust, and in this J quis held in trust about 700,000 franes. He went wildly into speculation losin all his own great property and finally that he had'in trust, His wife s her own private fortune to satisfy of his numerous ereditors, and to esc the rest he fled in disgrace to America, and has been living on Chapman street in this city, earning a miserable hving a: a teacher of foreign languages. He my ried a second wife here, who dwed about two months ago, leaving him with two small children. A short time ago he wrote to s daughter in France ing her to* come here and live with him, representing that he hela « high position in this country. The real object of this letter was, however, to get his divughter to come and take care of his two children. The daughter came about two weeks ago, but on discovering her father's circumstances-she determined to return to the comforts of her mother’s home in Paris,but her father was equally determined to' keep her here, and grew frantic in his efforts to persuade her to remain. Last Thursday she boarded a Boston & vidence train for New York. ‘Thenvincible marquis foltowed and there was an unusually sen tional scene on th ears. Sceing his ent ie were the unfortunate marquis platform and metinstant death by throwing himsclf under the wheels as the train was pulling away from Canton. few days later the petite form of rie here the daughter, was s in the under oflice in Canton. She in- sisted on seeing the ren of her father, and when the hd was raised, showing the mangled face of the late marquis, the delicate girl fell away in aswoon. 'l wis temporarily inte ery and will later be removed to France. THE ¢ AT CODMAN WILL CASE. The gossips which abound both within and without th dainty little world called society have had an abundant sup- y erialsinee the now fam- e was resumed before inn in the probate court last week. ‘The details of the affair are in- tricate, but the bare fact thut a few months ago a wealtny Bostonian, named J. Amory Coduian, died, leaving & greater part of his estate, estimated $115,000 Mrs. Kimbull, to the exclus of his and daughter, was enough to create sation in socicty circles. Mrs, Cod- man and her daughter naturally institut- proceedings with o view of ng the testator’s will on the ground of his having been subjected to undue influence on the part of Mrs. Kimball. The part of the trial which has exeited the most interest is the trunk full of love letters from Mrs. Kimball to Mr. Codman, which were brought up _and” read by the contestants. Mrs. Codman sat” on a front seat, dressed in deep mourning, while tears frequently crossed down her wasted cheeks as the passionate epistle were read by her lawyers. Of cours there was the usual number of interested ators, who very quietly ex- ch meaning glances as the der words of the infatuated but_impe ‘‘Violette” were read in evidence. correspondence was voluminous enough, covering a period of fourtcen years, It was loud in protestations of love and re- quests for cash, full of sweet phrases in foreign tongues, which tried the lin- guistic faculties of the lawyers, and made fun for the audicnce, The case promises rare developments ABOUT X DODGERS. Next to the Codman will case, Gover- nor Ames’ veto of the Beverly divisi bill is conspicuous as being the too many heated and ill-chosen remarks, Boston like any other lurge city has its full quota of tix dodgers rly Farms is o beautiful suburb of Be , where some of th Ithiest people of Boston have summer r nces, The claim of these summer residents is that they pay high taxes without complete fire and po- lice protection. A bill has passed both houses of the Muassachusctts legn incorporating the town of Beverly F and of course ting the Farms from Beverly proper. Governor Ames has taken exceptions to the measure and clines to sign the bill, but unfortunat in his message the governor not apparently based his ) on th merits — of the bill, but on the way it was put through, Mr. Ames does not aceuse any member of the legislature of having received a brib and he even says that if the bill involved only the question of a division of the town -of Beverly, he would hesitate to set up his opinion against that of ti legislature; yet since it appears by inv tigation that some twenty-thousana dol- lars has been spent andirectly to influ- ence the uction of the legislature, he deems it his duty to the commonwealth, and to the maintainance of a wholsome publie sentiment, to strike an emphatic blow at such a corruptive practice, It is quite 1mprobable that the bill can be passed over this veto. It is not a bill of prime importar politically, yet the republ house do not feel par- ticularly chi about it and the the veto on is as ¥ mine, It is not ex- r will materially de- hard to dete pected that the af tract from the politieal mony of the republican party in Massachusetts, BOSTON SPORTS, \fine day for the inanguration antry elub sports last Saturday, yde Park, Brookline, and 4 tiner lot of gay turnouts would be hard to imagine. Not only w ionables of Boston the equipnges, but New York represented by Mr, E well known king of fa dudes, and g the highest v huge, tashionable display that glittered in and about the e¢lub house, each party vying with the others in fricndly ~ shows and grandeur, and it is no wonder that the members of the club rabbed their hands with glee as the elaborate vehicles drove up and depos- ited their elegantly attired lowds of The floral display and musics programme were features of the oceast ion, but the greatest interest naturally centered about the exciting and danger« ous steeplechase contests, — The meeting of the elub has so fur been a magniticent success, In the way of lesser amusements the events most worthy of notice are the ap- pearance of Daly's New York company in the “Taming of the Shrew” at thi Museum, and Manager Stetson's reyiv of *‘I'he Mikado™ at the Globe. 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