The Illustrated Rambler, and Dramatic Weekly (July 26, 1879)
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DE WITT’S ACTING PLAYS! 15 CENTS EACH. Te THE MOST PERFECT AND COM- PLETE EDITION EVER PUBLISHED. nee These Plays, which include many hundreds of the best Dramas, Comedies and Farces in the English Language, are gotten up with a special regard to the demands of both the Amateur and Professional Theatre. Special to Amateurs : The typographical arrangement of DeWitt’s Acting Plays is superior to any in the market. The diagrams accompanying each play and the ’ full and complete instructions printed with them facilitate the proper production of the plays in DeWitt’s list to an unusual degree. Among the large list of DeWitt’s plays in con- stant demand, we this week insert the follow- ing: (eT ne figure following the name of the play denotcs the number of Acts. The figures in the columns indicate the number of characters—M. male; F. female. + School comedy, 4 acts Sheep in Wolf's Clothing, drama, 1... Silent Protector, farce, 1 act Silent Woman, farce, 1 : Sisterly Service, comedietta, 1 act.... Six months ago, comedietta, 1 act.... Snapping Turtles, duologue, 1 act.... Society, comedy, 3 acts.............-. - Special Performances, farce, 1 act.... Taming a Tiger, farce, 1 act, Tell-Tale Heart, comedietta, 1 act.. Tempest in a Tea-Pot, comedy, 1 ac There’s no smoke Withot Fire, come- OR FRR er te eeee Thrice Married, personation piece, 1 Oc cakacivn ands vcd SA tiewess ticecs Time and the Hour, drama, 3 acts.... Time and Tide,drama, 3 acts and pro- JOZUC.... covers ccccccccccscscccess Timothy to the Rescue,.farce,7 act.... *Tis Better to Live than to Die, farce RE ia ion sh owas be dhn ec eatdps noes es Tompkins the Troubadour, farce, 1 . Turning the Tables, farce, 1 act...... Tweedie’s Rights, comedy, 2 acts..... 3265 Twice Killed, farce, 1 act............. % Two Gay Deceivers, farce, 1 act..... Two Polts, farce, one act Twin Sisters (The) comic operetta, vena CF WO FY WOrKrP CPP OS He C2 So Re Ore DO Walpole, comedy, 3.acts Wanted, a Young Lady, farce, 1 act, War to the Knife, comedy, 3 acts.... Which of the Two, comedietta, 1 act a Oo KWOK WOCOWMFK| Fe KCOWWOWE Be OO DO O09 81 2 GS DO GO Widow Hunt, comedy, 3 acisyen2 SUMMER RESORTS. Directly opposite the Iron Ocean Pier. AuGuUST AND SEPT. LELAND’S OCEAN HOTEL, LONG BRANCH. The Leading Sea Side Resort of America. CHARLES LELAND. WARREN LELAND, JR- HOTEL BRIGHTON, LONG BRANCH. WooLMAN STOKES’ SONS. Open from Jene to October. Special rates for June and September. WEST END HOTEL, Lona Brancu, PRESBURY & HILDRETH, Props., NOW OPEN. The only Hotel at the Branch with Hot and Cold Sea Water Baths and Passenger Elevator. ATLANTIC HOTEL. LONG BRANCH, NOW OPEN, A first-class Family Hotel, facing the ocean, with all modern conveniences. Special Rates for June. H HOWLAND, Manager, late of Howland’s Hotel. ESE FOREST HOUSE, BUDD'’S LAKE, N. J. Now open for the season; conveyance by Mor- ris and sae, Railroad to Stanhope, two and a half miles by carriage to the lake. Post Office, Budd’s Lake. GEO, F. CRATER, Prop. SURF HOTEL, FIRE ISLAND BEACH Take James Slip Ferry, New York, 7:30 a. m. and 4 p. m.; 34th street 7:45 a. m. and 4:15 p. m.; Wall street 4 p. m., for Hunter’s Point, to connect with trains for Fire Island. Through tickets and baggage checked. Telegraph in hotel. D. S$ SAMMIS, Proprietor. POPULAR PRICES. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. CONGRESS HALL. THREE DOLLARS PER DAY. This splendid hotel has been thoroughly reno- yates. one refurnished. Now open for guests June 25. CLEMENT & SOUTHGATE, Proprietors. H. 8, CLEMENT, late Lindell Hotel, St. Louis. Ww. WILKINSON, Snperintendent. SAND’S POINT HOTEL, SAND’S POINT, L. I. Now open; select family resort, 18 miles from New York, north shore L. 1.; water view from three sides: fine drives, boating, fishing and bath- ing.’ Steamer Seawanhaka leaves Peck slip daily at 4, 33d street, E. R.. at 1 oy m.;Sand’s Point 7:00 a. m. Sundays from June 1 to October, leaves Peck slip at 9, 33d street, E. R., 9:15 a. m.; Sand’s Point at4:20 p.m. Music daily. G. DUNSPAUGH, Proprietor. COZZEN’S WEST POINT HOTEL, NOW OPEN FOR GUESTS. The hotel has an elevator, and ‘is entirely re- fitted. Two cottages to let. GOODSELL BROS., Proprietors, West Point, N. Y. OARD CAN BE OBTAINED IN A PRIVATE family on Harlem RR, three hours from New York; also stabling. Address box 80 Amenia, Dutchess Co., N. Y OARD AT A FARM-HOUSE FOR THREE or four children over four and under twelve years of age. Address GILBERT O. MEAD, Greenwich, Conn. OUNTRY BOARD AT NEWBURGH ON Hudson; largerooms, high grounds, plenty shade. 10 minutes from landing; three boats daily. RS. A. MORISON, Box 161 Newburgh, N. Y. ‘guests; every facility for boatin PALISADES MOUNTAIN HOUSE, ENGLEWOOD-CLIFFS-ON-HUDSON, 370 Feet above the River. 40 minuees from New York by Boat, 3 minutes walk to landing. Is now open. Send for descriptive book. For termsapplyto D.S.HAMMOND, Englewood P. O., N. J. PROSPECT PARK HOTEL, CATSKILL, N. Y. High elevation, mountain air, with scenery un- surpassed in the world. First-class accommoda- tions for 400 guests. Accessible by the day boats and Hudson River Railread. Terms reducéd and liberal arrangements made for the season, Address PROSPECT PARK HOTEL CO. 1824, FIFTY-FIFTH SEASON. 1879. CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE. Largest and leading hotel of the Catskill region. Situated on the Catskill Mountains, twelve miles from Catskill, N. Y. Open from June 1 to October 1. Reduced rates (June, $14 per week.) Send for circular, C. A. Beach’s stages and car- riages from Catskill Landing. HATHAWAY HOUSE, Deal Beach, N. J. Much moped and refitted; now open; beau" tiful grounds and fine scenery; access by Central Railroad of New Jersey direct to Deal Beach. W. HATHAWAY. THOUSAND ISLAND HOUSE. ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. Y. Send for illustrated.guide. O. G. STAPLES. T CENTRE MORICHES, LONG ISLAND.— On July 1, ALANSON EDWARDS will open ths new and commodious house for summer and gunning, and convenient to sea and still water bathing; terms—adults, $8 IRD’S NEST, RHINEBECK, N- Y., MOUN tain air, shade, stabling, fishing, everything in season; easy of access. -C.BNYD4&. | ALDWIN HOUSE, BALDWIN, L. I.—CAN accommodate thirty guests; fishing, gun- ning, sailing, &c.; convenient to the great South Bay. » K. P. CHAPIN, Proprietor. i ‘eteinieae: BEACH, CONEY ISLAND, VIA LONG ISLAND RAILROAD, LEAVE HUNTER’S POINT DAILY. 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A. M., 12:00 M., 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 P. M. LEAVE BRIGHTON BEACH DAILY, _ 8:40, 11:15 A, M., 12:40, 1:40, 2:40, 3:40, 4:40, 5:40, 6:40, 7:40/8:40, 9:40, 10:10, and 11:10 P. M. PULLMAN PARLOR CARS. FERRIES: EAST 34ST. AND JAMES SLIP. Unequalled provision for the comfort of guests. The music (grand concert every afternoon and evening) is furnished by an orchestra composed of select performers from the New York and Brooklyn Philharmonic Societies. Table d’ Hote every day between 53 and 8 P. M. $1.50 a person, including claret. : BRESLIN & SWEET, 21-3m Proprietors. A NEW DEPARTURE. Table @’Hote daily at the STURTEVANT HOUSE, Breadway ‘and 29th St., any time be- tween 2 and8 P. M., giving the full bill of fare of our unequalled cuisine at $1.00 a person, This affords people who wish to dine well an opportunity to escape from the nondescript and insufficient meals of the alleged French restau- rants. _ LELANDS. 21-3m OCUST GROVE HOTEL AND: PAVILION, ituated at Bath, L. I. is now open to the pub- lic under an entire new management. The surroundings of the above hotel are noted for fine lawns, groves and bathing and fishing grounds, Said hotel has been thoroughly renovated and furnished throughout. Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad cars which leave main entrance of Greenwood Ceme- tery pass the door every 30 minutes. Also boats from East and North Rivers land at the hotel pier. Boarders taken at moderate prices Table first class. The public are cordially in- vited to call. J. W. PIERCE 21-3m —- General Manager. ee Np NOT Ces. The co-partnership heretofore ex- isting between the Home Book and Publiching Company and Sydney Rosenfeld, under the style of the “‘Home Book and Publishing Co. (limited)’’ is hereby dissolved SOE: tual consent this date, July rr, 1879. THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY is now the sole property of the Home Book and Publishing Co., and will be published by them. All communications should be addressed to them at 37 Dey street, New York City. HoME Book AND Pup. Co. CHAMPION BISSELL, Sec’y. NOTICE. The Home Book AND PuRLIsHING Co. offer their services to Book and Picture Collectors, and others in all parts of the country to act as their agents in making purchases of Books and Objects of Art in New York He & Correspond- ence on such matters solicited. Especial at- tention op to orders for Photographic work at reasonable prices. C. BissELL, Secretary, 37 Dey St., New York. OSTER & BIAL, 23d st., near 6th ave. POPULAR CONCERTS EVERY EVENING. Musical Director,..........e0ee. Rupours Brar, Formerly Director of Kroll’s Garden, Berlin. Doors open at 7 P. M. Concert commences at8 P, M. ADMISSION, 25 CENTS. MA2°% SQUARE GARDEN. (Late Gilmore's.) Re-engagement of SIG. ROSNATI, the celebra- ted tenor, First appearance of KOSA Mc. GEACHY, soprano. First appearance of Misa HENRIETTA MARKSTEIN, pianist. SIG. A. LIBERATI, cornetist, and Dodworth’s Band and Orchestra. 21 Admission, 25 cents. OARD ON A FARM AT NEWCASTLE, Westchester County. Address L. B. RICHARDS. MONG THE ADIRONDACKS, THE WINDSGR HOLSE, Schroon Lake, Essex County, N. Y., will open June 15, 1879, undernew management, as a first class hotel. Terms, $8 to $12 per week. MACKENZIE BROS., Proprietors. NEw YORK AND PHILADELPHIA NEW REDUCTION OF FARE. On and after J i, el 1879, the fare via the BOUND BROOK ROUTE . on excursion tickets, limited to five days, between ray! York and Philadelphia, will be reduced to $4. Fifty trip books good for. bearer within one year from date, $90 H. P. BALDWIN, Gen’! Pass. Agent,
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THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY. 3 JAY GOULD. Jay Gould was born in Hingham, Mass,, in the year 1830. He wasthe third son of Phi- neas and Rebecca Gould, who were distantly ‘ connected with the Goulds of Litchfield, Conn.; a family illustrated by the conspicuous name of Jiidge Gould of the Litchfield Law School, the author of the most philosophical treatise on Legal Pleading in the English language, and the father of Charles Gould, one of the most talented and unscrupulous of that famous class of Wall street: brokers and operators whose history opened with the Josephs and closed with Anthony Morse. Jay was baptizedat home, his father not being achurch member, and as his mother desired that he should be enrolled at an early age among the children of the church, the clergy- man attended at the house for that purpose. The early life of Jay Gould was passed like that of other Massachusetts boys in the coun- try, whose parents are in the middle class of citizens. All country boys, go fishing, or blackberrying, and they also steal apples whenever and wherever it suits them; fora theft of apples-in a land of orchards is a venial offense. It does not disqualify a lad from gettitig good marks ina New England school that his pockets are full of apples that were growing last night in Deacon Smith’s orchard, Jay early learned to be forgetful of the radical distinctions between mewm and tuum, and this species of non mi ricordo has been money in his pocket ever since, He was distinguished among his school- fellows for craft and ingenuity; of which the good memory of one of them to whom we are indebted for some facts in this article enables us to mention an example, All boys covet spy-glasses or pocket-telescopes, They are costly and uncommon, and a boy who owns a good spy-glass is an envied boy. Jay had no spy-glass; but the fact that he was short of pocket-telescopes did not prevent him at the age of nine years from entering the market as aseller, He tooka piece of quill and inserted it into one end of a spool; this spool he glued to the end of a stilll larger spool, this conge- ries of spools and quill he attached toa bobbin that had floated down the river from a cotton factory. The entire machine, now about a foot long, he then painted in bright colors in the privagy of his father’s cellar. He then caused the report to be circulated that he owned a superior spy-glass direct from Bos- off, or a fish at the bottom of the river. There was a boy, the son of rich parents, whose grounds joined those ot the Gould family at the end of the garden walk. This boy’s. pa- rents had given him money in anticipation of the Fourth of July, and he had been heard to say that he would like to buy a five dollar spy-glass for two dollars and a half. Across the fence, between him and Jay, one word led to another, until Jay announced that a sudden pressure for money would compel him to part with a superior spy-glass. But as his father did not want him to sell it, he could not bring it out of the house. He would, however, exhibit it from a rear window, and then if it was wanted at two dollars anda half, he would receive the money and deposit |the instrument under a rose-bush near the corner of the house, and the purchaser could accidentally come in the garden and pick it up. The instrument was shown from the window; the money was paid to Jay through the garden palings; the deposit under the rose bush was duly made, and Jay Gould was then confined to his room for several days with an attack of weak eyes, which prevented him from seeing anybody. No redresscould be had by the buyer, because no false representations had been made. It was certainly a spy-glass that had been sold, and the absence of lenses in the instrument did not vitiate the sale. The par- ties were minors, and incapable of making a contract at any rate. And the long and short was that Jay did not’ refund the money and never will refund it. After leaving school and passing various clerkships in Boston, we find Jay Gould in 1g52 a partner of Charles M. Leupp a Leather Merchant of Ferry street, New York City, and a somewhat notedand distinguished man. Mr. Leupp was fond of art and a_ patron of artists, he entertained with profusion men who were not in a position to return his hos- pitality; and“it was said that the hazardous nature of the operations into which his youth- ful partner drew him caused him to resort to various distractions to dispel hisanxiety. Af- ter about two years ofthis partnership, Mr. Leupp was found dead in his sleeping apart-’ ment. Some people said apoplexy; others hin- ted suicide, Itis quite well known that Gould, his partner, killed him, but not in the way of homicide. <A proud, sensitive man can be done to death by other means than axe, cord or poison; or as the country people tersely express it, “There are plenty of ways of kill- ing a dog besides choking him to death with butter.” | For about seven years an interregnum oc- ceived in the other the man that could supply | what he himself lacked. Fisk, as a natural product of circumstances, has never been properly studied. This is not the time or place for an analysis of the life and career of of this man, who in his day and generation was so influential; who was so strong and yet so weak; who knew so much . and yet knew so little, and whose taking off was so lamely punished. But Jay Gould had no sooner seen Fisk than Jay Gould felt that he wanted him;and Fisk also felt that he wanted Jay Gould, They coalesced like oxygen and hydrogen to form water; and like those gases, the one in larger volume and the other with greater pungency and assertion, In their raid upon the Erie Railroad they were to a certain extent sustained by the self- ishness of the stockholders who saw their stock footballed from four to eighty, and by the alarm that was excited when it was seen that Vanderbilt was aiming to grasp the con- trol of the road. The stockholders did not love Fisk & Gould, but they much more did not love Vanderbilt; and when Fisk & Gould supplied Vanderbilt’s brokers with fifteen millions more stock “than there was,” and fled to Taylor’s Hotel, Jersey City, with the proceeds in actual lawful money, and there defied the service of summons, public sympa. thy was to a certain extent with them, No one knew then, or ever has known, or ever will know, how much of this money these two men kept. The Book-keepers of the Railway were their pliant creatures, and buried hug- ger-mugger in the Books just such figures as Fisk & Gould chose to give them. When the excitement cooled and they returned to New York each was more than a millionaire, in money in Bank, subject to check. Year after year, occupying high places in the Direction, they plundered the Erie Rail- road, Fisk spent a large part of his plunder, and wasted a larger part of it in speculations upon a falling market. When cotton fell to fifty cents he bought immensely, but it fell to thirty on its way to twelve, He furnished forth Opera Bouffe at the Grand Opera House with a profuse richness never: equalled by a Government, even in Egypt. We reflect with melancholy that we shall never see the “Brigands” again put upon the stage as Fisk put iton. His money flowed away from him in streams, but he paid no attention to it, so long as it brought him a jest in broken English from the lips of the dissolute but attractive “Silly,” or a smile from the sleek and heart- less Montaland. But during this period Jay Gould went on hiving and hiving. His aim, curs in the annals of the subject of this article. | at firsta million, soon became five millions, But in 1863 he came to the front. that year that all merchandise and incorpor- ated stocks in the United States more than doubled in price. Rio Coffee advanced: from twelve cents to forty; printing paper from nine cents to thirty; cotton from fifteen cents to a dollar and a half, fleece wool from forty cents toa dollar and a quarter. Jay Gould had about fifty thousand dollars, wherever he gotit. He bought right and left and made rapid turns, Everytransaction prospered, for the market continually rose. Chance threw ton, by which a boy could see a dog a mile| him into contact withFisk; and each one per- td It was in}and then twenty, as it is to-day a hundred millions. Noone who watched him then, as we watched him, can ever forget this small, black-haired, black-bearded, wiry, stealthy man, who occasionally stepped into the pro- scenium box at the Grand Opera House, and appeared hardly settled before he was off again. At that time, as since, this man’s life was shy, fugacious, now here, now there, like that of a pickerel in the autumn, darting in and out under cover of a pond lily leaf. In the scheme of the Union Pacific Road, the most colossal swindle of modern times, Jay Gould
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A | THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEERLY. was not merely a participant; he at once after en- tering the ring, composed mainly of T. C. Du- rant, Fisk, Ames, McComb, and himself, became the leader of the enterprise. To perfect the plan, the Credit Mobilier was organized, and immense streams ofthe floating capital of the community were tumbled into the channels that led to the coffers of these men. The bonds of the United States voted to the company by a venal Congress more than paid for building the road, section by section; after that three distinct sources of profit, each one a swindle, were in the hands of the con- spirators, namely, first, the first mortgage bonds of the road; second, the lands lavishly be- stowed upon it by Congress; third, the stock it- self. The stock wasanafter thought. At first it was considered almost worthless, and while he was sedulously encouraging this idea among his associates, Gould possessed himself of a large number of shares originally belonging to them at an average price of ten per cent. At the proper time he advanced the price to about seventy, and it has not materially varied from that figure dur- ing several years. It was out of the sudden ap- preciation of the market price of this swindled stock that Gould was able to repay to the plun- dered Erie Railway the nine millions of loot which an arbitration committee ‘adjudged him liable to refund. Since the Erie road passed out of the hands of the direction of which Gould and Fisk were the head and hands; and since the Union Pacific road became the reaped {stubble field that it is to-day and has been since 1870, Jay Gould has confined his operations to speculations, incognito, through brokers, rarely appearing in Wall street and not being a partner in any stock-house. The firm of Smith, Gould & Martin has long ceased to exist. Asan employer of brokers he has this reputation, that his word is worthless and that his signature is good for all it engages. His ver- bal engagements on Black Friday were enormous, and if lived up to would have been ruinous, but he repudiated all of them. That he ruined his broker, Speyers, then, and his broker, Mills, later, made no difference to this selfish and heart- _less man, who in his boyish days sold a nest of - glued spools’for a spy-glass. Had his signature accompanied the orders which he gave to these too confiding men, he would have sold the dia- mond studs from his shirt-front rather than not honor it;of such composite stuff is made this bo- gus Ceesar of the stock market. Shall we describe the personal appearance of this singular creation of the Great Artificer of menand vermin? Why not? Were it not for the gossipping and idiomatic Suetonius, how im- perfect would be our knowledge of the Twelve Cesars. We have a precedent for this style of biography. Jay Gould is to-day much the same man that he was three years ago, when an angry dupe seized him at the corner of Broad street and Exchange Place and dropped him over an iron railing into the area under the windows of a barber’s shop. He is five feet six inches high, has a moderately low forehead, a small, long head, a moderate crop of grizzled hair hesitating between black and gray, a thick moustache and grizzled beard hiding a mean and cruel mouth. He is not a handsome man and never was a hand- some man. | : Socially, he has no standing or position what- ever. He is an Ishmaelite and knowsit. As prise and horror when the loan was called in next Mon- day before 10 o’clock and three days’ interest charged ? was said of the Duke of Grafton, the style of his amours has always protected him from resistance; there are certain smiles that are invariably venal, and it issuch men as Jay Gould that buy them. Unlike his associate, Fisk, his motto has gene- rally been ‘‘st non caste, tamen caute.”’ But an evil name has attached to him throughout. It was shortly before the Fourth of July that a tall be- nevolent looking stranger lounged dreamily over from the Jersey shore to the New York side via Cortlandt street, and taking position on the corner of Dey and Church streets, near the RamMBLER office, waited to have his boots blacked. A dozen ‘‘shine-em-ups’”’ quickly surrounded - him, and his foot went up on the box of one-of the boys. The foot had much the shape and appearance of a medium- size sole leather trunk. The boy sighed as he looked it over, but finally began the cleaning and polishing process. While this was going on the benevolent stranger said : “Sonny, do you support an aged mother ?” ‘*No, boss; I hain’t got no parents.”’ ‘‘Ah! very sad. Now, if a kind gentleman should give you a dollar, what would you do with it ?” ‘Well, boss, 1’d give half to this here Newsboys’ Lodg- ing House, and the other half I’d put into fireworks agin the Fourth, you bet.” ‘*Ah, indeed !”’ said the stranger, somewhat regretfully, as though the scheme failed to please him. When his boots were done and it took a long time—he handed the boy a nickel, and went musingly on toward Broadway. The boy hesitated, looked severely at the nickel, then at the fast disappearing stranger, and finally ran after him. Overtaking him near the Western Union Telegraph building, he said, ‘‘Ain’t I going to get that dollar?’’ ‘‘Not unless you earn it.” ‘‘Well, I'll tell you what it is; since I seen you before I’ve changed my mind as to how I should spend that dollar.”’ ‘‘How would you lay it out?” ‘‘Why, I would hire a carpenter to trim those feet of yours down so that they would go into number fourteen boots, and not ruin a poor boy that has to black ’em for five cents with blacking that costs sixpence a box, and a box won’t go half way round.” And the small boy vanished in the crowd. There is nothing pleasant or fascinating about this man. The gleams of imagination that made Jim Fisk at times a pleasant companion, and al- ways in court an amusing witness, are wholly wanting in Jay Gould. Dull,. saturnine, even gloomy, he inspires no feeling but-aversion at his first appearance in any society. His manners are awkward; even his breath is described as pestilential. From the upper story of his house on Fifth avenue, near the Windsor Hotel, telegraph wires connect his study or office with the offices of his brokers. As he shrouds his transactions in mys- tery until they are accomplished, the general telegraph operators get almost none of his busi-. ness, not even in cipher. From ten in the morn- ing until three in the afternoon a steady stream of messages runs to and fro on the wires, and dur- this time Gould himself is incessantly figuring, calculating, consulting records of previous trans- actions, constantly pulling his beard and biting the ends of his moustache with anxiety. It is this anxiety that embitters his life, turns his com- plexion sallow and even ashy; disturbs his stomach, and keeps him meagre, almost ema- ciated. Mentally, morally and physically, no more craven coward exists, upon the planet, than Jay Gould. He lives in constant terror of.re- verses; his sleep is disturbed; there is not to-day any more lonely, unhappy, vision-haunted, panic- stricken wretch on his way to suicide from a tene- ment garret, than Jay Gould. Some few years ago, with a view of controlling public opinion, or at least of diverting it in his favor to some extent, this man bought the ma- jority of stock in a daily journal (of New York) together with an editor, Whitelaw Reid. But mention of this part of his transactions, as well as of Reid himself, we must defer till the next issue of the RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY. I saw a lovely being the other evening. She was, of course of the feminine persuasion. Her dress was _ perfec- tion, and her step that of the true goddess. She swept su- perbly to a table, and sitting down observed-——‘‘Good gracious, I’m in a wringing perspiration !”’ Savin was recalled by telegraph to act as counsel at the General Sessions for the Chastened Fighting Cocks. His theory of the case, in which Pidgeon followed him afar off, admiringly, was, that the deceased party died of lobster salad and Capuziner Bier, after having twice encored the Turkish Reveille at Koster & Bial’s. Savin’s first witness was Dr. Buchu, and he asked the following questions : ‘*Doctor, you are a practicing physician, I believe.” ‘Yes, sir.”’ ‘‘In the course of your practice you have become fami- liar with the various phenomena of the Calcaneo astrago- loid interosseous ligaments ? ”’ ‘“‘T should say so.”’ ~ ; ‘Then, Doctor, state what would be the result if a fleshy lady, averaging sixty-six, or thirty-two, or forty next Christmas, or thereabouts, should partake of a hearty sup- per of German pancake, Maine crullers, (half pork fat and half saleratus), cucumbers, Delaware wind-fall peaches, Thurber’s canned tomatoes, a bottle of the Clysmic water from the Waukesha spring, with corn-bread from an Ann street hash-shop, and should then go to bed without read- ing the RAMBLER AND Dramatic WEEKLY, thus hermetic- ally sealing up all the avenues of useful and agreeable knowledge, and then suppose in the middle of the night or about three o’clock in the morning, she should wake up and see in the gloom of the early dawn Professor Potter, of Rochester, discovering a new asteroid, and sending an ac- count of itto the New York Herald—would the coroner be justified in laying her in ice prior to four o’clock, P.° M. next day; and if thoroughly dissected at a post-mortem, would she be a good subject on which to issue a life-insur- ance policy; and if not, what has the prisoner got to do with it? Which is it?” ‘‘T should say so by all means,’’ replied the witness. Yet in spite of this overwhelming evidence for the de- fence, the jury found the prisoner guilty. Asa matter of right, however, any person convicted of murder at General Sessions is entitled to a stay of proceedings for six years, half the time in New York and half the time at Saratoga or ‘‘the Branch.” —__~—-—__ +-- HARROWING DETAILS OF PRIVATE LIFE. There was once a chap who had a little money with which he desired to make mo- ney on the principle that you can both eat your cake and have your cake; so he con- tinually lent it on call on undeniable securi- ties like North Caro- em, lina sixes, Wm. F. } Howe’s notes, stock of the New York Witness, and other such solidities. There was an indus- trious neighbor of his whom he often solicited to be a borrower on call, but the industrious neighbor declined, until one day—it was a.Thursday—he said, ‘‘Well, I could use five thousand dollars profitably in buying stock in the RAMBLER AND Dramatic WEEKLY, and I will take it of you and secure you with Government fours.’’ This was agreed to, and the money was lent on Saturday after- noon after bank hours; but what was the borrower’s sur-
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she wanted.”’ - THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY. 5 One of the most genial and most thoroughly educated gentlemen I ever knew was the late P——of the Hartford County Bar. He once said to me, ‘‘I never had but three female clients; the first wanted to get married, the second wanted to get divorced, and the third didn’t know what I knew a young lady who was in the habit of fre- quently saying that a true heart could love but once. Af- ter she married she was often heard to say that a true heart could love but once. She married again, and was heard to remark that while a true heart could love but once, the object unignt be changed—in fact, to almost any extent. ee ET Se Sai Oe ST es ee ee I aid in keeping green the memory of the late lamented Oliver Charlick, once President of the Long Island rail- road, on which a car neyer ran ten miles an hour but once, and then it ran backwards down hill. : A man once came to the office of the railroad to collect a bill for some steers which a locomotive in one of its dia- gonal trips across country had accidentally slaughtered, The President was out. ‘‘Did Mr. Charlick say he would pay the bill?” inquired the book-keeper.” ‘He ere say anything about that,’’ said the farmer. ‘H’m,”’ ‘plied the book-keeper, musingly, ‘‘that makes it more doubtful. Now, if he had said he would pay it, I couldn’t say whether he would or not; but if he had said he wouldn’t pay it, you could bet your bottom dollar he would kee p his word.”’ In looking through a New England factory town, one is amused to hear such remarks as this: ‘That, now,is a pretty girl coming down the street; I wonder what mill she works in.” Petroleum Nasby not only writes his own plays, but also the newspaper criticisms on them. He writes the plays on tracing paper, holding up Joe Miller, St. Elmo, Dion Boucicault, and the Bedott papers to the window as the case may be; but the criticisms he evolves from the depths of his own consciousness; and especially he invents his audiences. At Koster & Bials, the orchestra does the overture to Semiramis much better than you would think thirty mu- sicians could perform a composition that was intended to be performed by sixty; but the effect is marred by knots of people here and there who will insist on loudly chatter- ing Elsassian French, or Alsatian German. J. NEGROPONTE. —————~_- 9g _____ SHARPS AND FLATS. The Mastodon Minstrels are said to clear $3,000 a week for Manager Hay- erly. Oxford, England, University has made Mr. Arthur Sullivan a Bache- lor of Music. Easton, Md., has a new Opera House, which was dedicated on Tuesday with a concert. Maurel, the well-known baritone, has just been engaged at the Pa- ris Grand Opera House for three years. Manager J.H. Haverly says he is determined to own an Opera House in Boston, even if he has to build it. : c The director of the Paris Grand Opera has engaged Mme. Hamann for three years. She isoneof the most alin gradu- ates of the rae Conservatory. Mr. Harvey B. Dodworth has concluded to abandon the conduct- ing of theatrical orchestras, and will henceforth devote his time ex- clusively to the interest of his brass bands. Mme. Adelina Patti is quite willing to come to America, provid- ing any manager will make it an object. She wants an immense sum of money for coming, and desires that the most of it should be deposited in a bank in Europe previous to her departure. It is said that ninety musical and dramatic combinations are being formed in New York, Boston,Chicago and Philadelphia for the pur- pose of taking the road next season although the threatened refusal of the railway managers to give the usual reduced terms may break up some of the companies. A letter from Henry Jarrett to a friend in New York says that Mapleson has lost every penny of the $20,000 he cleared in America by his season of Opera in London. Jarrett is the great operatic wire-puller of Europe. He works the press of London, and gene- rally manipulates things fora singer, for which he receives ten per cent of her salary. Jarrett oceupies a peculiar position, and, fortu- nately, there will be no one to take his place when he dies. His trade dies with him. Very few singers dare to brave him, and re- fuse the extorted ten per cent, and upon these few he pours the vials of his wrath. His way of doing business is well known in London and every once in a while there is anoutcry against it by some weekly paper that is not in his ring, but it is hushed up as quickly as possible, and.the people who could prevent the Jarrett tax shut their cars to the cry. Mile. Celine Montaland, formerly one of New York’s Opera Bouffe favorites is to appear in a regular dramatic work. She has presum- ably lost her singing veice. Australia has thus far not had “Pinafore” entire, but has heard selections from it by the Kelly and Leon Minstrels, and a queer ver- sion of it by the Lingard company. A Wiesbaden hotel keeper has recently been paying dclicate at- tentions to the Abbe Liszt. He was so considerate as to place a piano-forte in the musician’s bath-room. The Philharmonic Society just organized in Chicago is avowedly ‘for the advancement of Art, and not in the interest of any one per- son, nor for personal nor financial gain.” A good platform. Stick to it. The honors of the recent concert of the London Training School for Music were carried off by Master D’Albert, who is only fifteen years old, and is a son of a former ballet master at Her Majesty’s Theatre. His excellence is both as a pianist and as a composer. Manager Haverly is apparently not satisfied with his ventures in the dramatic, operatic and minstrel fields. He proposes to organize a concert company to include Wilhelmj, Miss Thursby, Miss Cary, Mdme. Rive-King, and other artists, He may do so, although Miss Cary is engaged with Mapleson, beginning in November, and Mr. Haverly is too politic a ‘manager to publish his plans ere his en- gagements are fixed. Eichberg’s celebrated comic opera “The Doctor of Alcantara” will soon be issued in a cheap form, so that hundreds of amateur musical societies will be enabled to add it to their repertory. It will alternate with ‘Pinafore’ most agreeably. There was a hand organ grinding forth the ‘Maiden fair to see.” Then there came a heavy dash of rain, and then the organ stopped. It was a very simple matter, but it is beautiful to think of. And people who think we have had too much rain in the past month, are trying to look more hopefully on the subject. ——_—_— STAGE NOTES, On Monday evening, the 14th inst., Miss Rosa McGeachy began a short engagement at Madison Square Garden, and the management can be congratulated upon the accession. Miss McGeachy is not a stranger to the Garden, having sung here three seasons ago under the Gilmore regime, and cotemporaneous with Pappenheim, Di Murska, Thursby, and other iilustrious prime donne. Her subsequent appearance at Steinway and Chick- ering Halls, this city; Baltimore Academy of Music, Philadelphia Centennial Building, and elsewhere,have been noted musical events. Her voice is remarkable for its great compass me cultivation, and her reportoire is extensive and popular. Mr. E. H. Gilmore, the originator of the Juvenile Pinafore Com. panies starts out August 28th, with a company far superior to any heretofore placed upon the road. That date will find him at De. troit, after which he will cover all of the important cities in the West and South-west, following the route laid out for him by his agent, Alexander Brown. The company stands as follows: MONOD MING fae 5 bs niveceuas ed cuca euacts Miss Vic. Reynolds, nee 15 pn Se eee Art ee ete ee ep Pe pee Miss 8. Rathbone, 22 BOOMS ova doe t wils <mecde + tice ehaged see Miss Alice Cook “ 43 Mae OEE TORU. os 5 5d sn os vb MaDe dot tines oe MasterClark, “ 15 PETA TURD MNCIRW o's. «5's 5 sn nc ct chean av coun es Miss Madden, ,‘ 15 Captain’ Corcoran. . 0.05.56. tscctete Master Clendenning, “ 45 RCA NEE Fae) Bie Aa Master Deutschman, * 14 BOONE Os i ak 5 154 5 a8 Got ndae nate eeed Master Williams, ‘ 14 Sergeant Of Marines 0.6.5... dics cee cnacdewes Master Wilson, “ 15 Widener esc s knoe org van cineca det bowers Effie Bartlett, “ 6 With a full chorus and Marine guard. The children are trained under the musical direction of Mr. C. Florio, and Mr. C. E. McGeachy, will act as business agent. Manager J. P. Evans, of the Tremont Opera House, Galveston, has been in the city for several weeks, making arrangements for the coming season. In connection with his own house, Mr. Evans is the agent for the Lone Star Circuit, which includes the following hotises: Z Tremont Opera Houxe, Galveston; seating capacity, 1,400. , San Antonio Casino Hall, seating 6UU. Pillot’s Opera House, Houston, capacity 700. Opera House, Brenham..700. Millett’s Opera House, Austin, 1300. And the Opera House, Dallas. 500. : For these the time is nearly filled with first- ili combinations only. London gossip has it that Miss Genevieve Ward has leased the Lyceum Theatre for one month, beginning August 20, for the pur- pose of producing a new drama by Mr, Palgraye Simpson, Miss Ward will attempt a double role, which is well adapted to her style. It is also stated that Mr. Got, the doyen of the Comedie F-ancaise, has requested Miss Ward to join the society and take emt Favort’s place, as she is about to retire. It is to be regretted that our American celebrities who trayel abroad should place themselves in the hands of unscrupulous agents, who, for the sake of afew dollars, place them in the most humiliating positions. The latest and most glaring of these mis- takes has been made by Dr. Talmage, whose agent, being applied to by a small town for a lecture, made the following reply: “I have upward of one thousand letters, all wanting Dr. Talmage to lecture forthem. Some contain fabulous offers. Now, there is but one way of getting the Doctor. If your society can afford to pay what larger places offer I may be able to drop out a larger place and give you a date in July. The lowest terms I care to take are £100. I know it is a big price, but Dr. Talmage is a great man, etc.” The London 7ruth comments upon this as follows: ‘This may be legitimate in the eyes of a New York ‘Christian,’ but it hardly looks like ‘good faith’ to ‘drop out’ the large places in the manner proposed. Perhaps, however, the frantic applicants only exist in the imagination of the agent.” The following extract taken from the last edition of the London Truth exhibits the manner in which the community at large are worked upon by the Catholic Church: ‘The introduction of the dove, which perched at the elevation on a gilded eagle, at St. Augustine mass for the Prince Imperial, was clever, and proved a hit. The bird, which is tame, and had three days’ lessons, was attracted to the eagle by grain thrown on its back. It looked charming, gyrating above the incense.” —+-9+______ VARIETY NOTES. Louise Montague, a decidedly good vocalist, with a.pretty face and good figure, is engaged as Josephine in the burlesque at Minor’s Theatre. It is a little astonishing that so good an artist should sing in variety halls, when there are so many chances in the legitimate theatres. Miss Ada Whitman, formerly the Buttercup of Spiller’s combina- tion, goes with Maretzek next season. Mr. W. Emmett, of the Academy of Music, Chicago, is in town engaging a full variety company for the season. Harry Richmond and Ackland Von hi: go out in September with a travelling company. - Cordello and Victorelli, gymnasts, have signed an engagement with Charini, the great circus Peres for one year’s tour through South America and Australia. - The variety prospect for next season is better than has ever been known before. Sig. Constantine will manage the Cincinnati Coliseum for Fitz Buchnam during the coming season, and is now in town engaging his talent. The old Metropolitan, now the Olympic, of Chicago, will be opened August 30th by Messrs. Mitchell & Sprague, with James Barnes, formerly the dramatic agent in this city, as stage manager. They will have a full variety company, and during the season will play combinations and sensational stars. W. H. Smith has formed an alliance with W. C. Mitchell, proprie- tor of the St. Louis Comique for the coming season. They will open September 14th, with straight variety, Mr. Harry Phillips act- ing as their stage manager. Both of these gentlemen are now in town, and can be found at J. Alex. Brown’s Dramatic Agency, where they are collecting a first-class variety company. Maude Sheppard, balladist, is resting for a few weeks. +--+ The following song has been contributed to the RamBpLER AND Dramatic WEEKLY by Mr. Charles H. Duncan, the composer, pre- | vious to his introducing It in his famous Variety repertoire: PRAY DON’T FORGET A FRIEND. All through this world are many things which puzzle and perplex, And many of us find in life occurrences that vex; The high, the low, the rich, the poor, meet equal at the end, Though some may sneer and put on airs with what “ good luck” may send; Yet he who takes us by the hand and wishes us success, We'll not forget in future though his fortune may grow less; Then try to cheer him, aid him, upward, onward to the end, - For should reverses come to us we'll not forget a friend. ; CHORUS. f Oh, don’t forget a friend, Pray don’t forget a friend ; _ There’s nothing half so precious as A “good old trusty fena. " The drunkard whom you pass with scorn was once respected, too, And when a child, a mother’s love had he as well as you, When money filled his pockets he was hail good fellow then, But now that all his cash is gone forgotten by most men; Let this a lesson be to you, be “temperate in all things,” Aud give your fellow man a lift whome’er misfortune brings, You cannot tell from day to day what others they may send, Let this your motto be through life, do not forget a friend.
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CORRESPONDENCE. [Noticr.—Correspondents will please forwara their. letters to reach the editorial office of this paper defcre Saturday of each week. Allletters should be addressed to Rambler and Dramatic ‘Weekly, 37 Dey Street.] PHILADELPHIA. The man who has not as yet hurled anathemas against the ‘‘ heated term,”’ the ‘‘ hot wave,”’ or whatever else il may be called, deserves a premium, a great medal, as a reward for supernatural patience, and if Barnum—‘‘ The Great Barnum ’’—could spot him, you may be sure he would claim precedence over the elephant at the fall show, and there would be ‘‘ millions in it.””, I am not that man, therefore the wonderful B. need not buzz in this direction. We have had it not only oppressive, but corresponding- ly depressing, and, like the rest of mankind, I .am willing to acknowledge these wasting July days, ‘‘ dog days,” any other kind of days but human days. Here the state of broil has been great and tempers have waxed ireful. With the little strength that has been left to me by the too ardent embrace of Old Sol, I will scribble off a few dines. We are not as lively here, theatrically, during the sum- mer recess aS you are in Gotham, where every one who _ either desires to act, or wants others to do the business for them, keep things animated. Our one dramatic agency is a purely local affair, and, therefore, there is no rnsh here of the dramatic world in quest of engagements. The great tide of mimic heroes and heroines sweeps toward New York, and the accepted belief is that there, and there only, can great and small stalk or creep into evidence before the foot-light, hushing the wondering world into silence—the fruit of admiration or disgust. How many there are who would act—how few there are who can act! We expected the North Broad Street Theatre to re- open on Monday evening, but Manager Crossy’s arrange- ments were not completed, and so the event was delayed until the 21st, when the initial performance of ‘‘Fatinitza ”’ at this theatre will be given. Madam Elia Montejo and Miss Laura Joyce, will alternate in the role of Vladimir; Miss Louise Leighton appearing as the Princess Lydia. The wives of the Pasha are to be represented by Mrs. Adelaide Detchon, (so favorably known to this public as Hebe,) and Miss Hattie Arnold. The other two beauties of the harem will, it is thought, be named in a lady from Boston and 3 member of St. Andrew’s Protestant Episco- pal Church of this city. Other members of the ‘‘ Pina- fore’? Company of this theatre are named in the cast. Improvements have been progressing in the ‘‘ North Broad.’”’ The walls have been heightened and ornament- ud, and when change is decided the roof can be raised. Steam fans, real and not mythical, have been introduced. A new curtain has been painted by George Heilge, and will replace the old eye-sore that formerly reigned. Without, fine large windows have been introduced and ornament. There is something said about the space be- tween the seats having been widened. Patinitza’ is announced for an indefinite run, and it is more than probable that Suppe’s charming opera will be seen and heard for some length of time. Manager Crossy has struggled valiantly with this thea- tre, and has certainly brought it out a success. The greatest mistake made in the beginning, was the spending of too little money in putting the housein trim. There is nothing that so invites as that which pleases the eye, and as pretty a theatre as we have in Philadelphia, could be made of this same ‘‘ North Broad.”’ The attractions given there last season were excellent, and more than one pronounced success was scored. Witness ‘‘ M’liss.”’ Annie Risley came to us a stranger, and then won such popularity that she found herself. at the Walnut before the close of the season, where she will, on the 2dth of August, again court the attention of her patrons. We thought the Walnut Street Theatre closed for the draw here like blisters. | the Permanent Exhibition, where Ford and Zimmerman summer, but, lo! a musical extravaganza entitled ‘‘ Jum- bles,” is announced for the 28th. The company to appear in said ‘‘ hash”’ is composed of Lizzie Harold, Venie Clancy, I. M. Hinter, Harry Hunter, and a full male chorus. ‘I'he season will be brief. ‘‘ Jumbles’’ will be preceded by a new sketch, or comedietta, entitled ‘‘ The Text.”’ Among the stars heralded at this theatre is Ada Caven- dish, who will, I suppose, give us ‘* Miss Gwilt.”” Fanny Davenport comes also, having vowed never again to go to “the Arch.”? Miss Davenport brings us, of course, her combination, which does not promise to be one of the best. On the 29th of October the veteran actor James E. Murdoch, will appear at ‘‘ the Walnut,” and will assume the role of Hamlet and other characters. Fifty years ago Murdoch made his-debut in this city, and therefore pre- fers to resume his profession here. He is an actor of the old school and will receive a warm greeting. Mr. George K. Goodwin is passing the summer at Atlantic City, but is often seen in his office at the theatre, ‘‘ which is the prettiest little parlor that any one can spy,” crowded with objects of art, and manifold things of inter- est. Among the countless pictures that adorn the walls, some that are signed by Mrs. Goodwin can be found. Mrs John Drew and sweetly pretty Georgie Drew (Mrs. Barrymore) are among the sojourners at Atlantic City. r| And while silence hangs like a pall over the closed doors of the Arch, Charles A. Mendum has, we are told, de- parted for Europe in quest of attractions for the coming season. Mendum is one of the many who is announced as having gone to engage Salvini, but as the great Italian tragedian has signed an engagement with a foreign mana- ger and begged to be excused, we judge Mr. Mendum will have to turn his attention elsewhere. Salvini cannot come, how about Rossi, who has. always wished to visit the ‘New World.” The Arch aspires to an engagement of the Vokes amily. A good thing truly for the exchequer, as they At this theatre we are to have McKee Rankin’s ‘‘Danites’? Combination, Joseph Mur- phy in ‘‘Kerry Gow” and F.. C. Bangs as I have already stated. Mrs. Oates, the famed Alice, will favor the thea- tre the latter part of August. Of her company is Charles H. Drew, who has always been a favorite here. Beyond the announcement that ‘‘The Banker’s Daugh- ter’ comes to the Park, nothing seems clearly known. At the Broad Street Theatre the fall and winter season will be inaugurated very early in September, and many and various are the attractions heralled by Managers Ford and Zimmerman. Among the stars named are Ed- win Booth, Jefferson, Sothern, Maretzek’s Grand English Opera Company, Professor Hermann, Eliza Weathersby’s Froliques and Nat Goodwin, John Sleeper Clarke, Barney Macauley, Sullivan and Gilbert (with their new opera) and the Maurice Grau French Opera Troupe, including Capoul and Paola Marie. We are also to have ‘‘Fatinitza,” with Miss Blanche Chapman as Vladimir and Miss Belle McKenzie as the Frincess Lydia, but few sane people credit the report. very pretty Belle would do very well as one of the beauties of the Harem, but Zydia has singing to accomplish and requires more than an infantile voice to do justice to the same. During the Sullivan and Gilbert engagement Mr. Sullivan will conduct the orchestra, and many will enjoy seeing the composer of the deadly popular ‘‘Pinafore.”’ Mr. Fred Zimmerman, the most energetic theatrical manager is now sunning himself at Cape May. Mr. Charles K. Burns, the popular treasurer of the Broad Street Theatre, goes to and fro from Cape May to Phila- delphia, and is now here, there. He is seen frequently at have been doing ‘‘H. M.S.” sometimes with adult per- formers, but more frequently ‘‘Baby Pinafore” ruled. At the Permanent Exhibition we have been having Mlle. ima di Murska and the Ladies’ Berlin Orchestra, composed, by one haly’, of men performers. The combina- tion plays admirably. The lady members are very clever. There is of course a lack of power, but they are finished tunests. Professor Bertha Kschert is heard to great ad- vantage on the Xylophone. Among the selections offered this week was a Grand Waltz, by Giorza, who has composed so many ballets— nearly eighty, and as many as three hundred composi- tions in all, He visited this country some seven years Since Signor THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY. ago, but few beyond those he claimed as friends knew how gifted a man stood among us. Like all musicians he was a queer sort of a body, brim-ful of music, nervous, sensitive and restless. Giorza is a little man and it was odd to see him seated in the stage box of a theatre with his decorations on his breast. He had a romantic story of his own that would make a most interesting novel. The last 1 heard of him he was in South America. He i was married; not happy, in his Italian home, in his love, he is therefore a rover, settling nowhere. There was very much in Giorza’s character that reminded me of the great Gottschalk whose compositions he dearly loved for their very quaintness. Mlle Di Murska has been delighting all at the ‘‘Per- manent’’ by her artistic singing, so finished and so phe- nomenal. It is a florid style, but she pleases and sur- prises although her voice is in no particular sympathetic. Edgar Davenport, who played last season under the name of Frank Davis, will not accept an engagement this fall. He is suffering from a temporary weakness of the eyes and his physician will not permit him to risk the footlights. His first appearance was made at the Walnut ina small rojie in ‘*The Exiles’? and subsequently he travelled with Miss Fanny Davenport and made much progress. The RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY now presents its welcome and familiar face on.all our newstands, and is much inquired for. The onslaught on the Lotos Club in number 28 has occasioned a good deal of talk among our ~ club people. M.L. J. — — — BOSTON. July 17. The extreme heat of the past week has made theatrical matters wane; in fact,we have only two theatres open—the Museum and Park. At the former, the chil- dren’s ‘‘Pinafore” hold.the boards. It is now in its third month and tenth week. The company is composed of Boston boys and girls, and we must say the performance is ‘greatly to their credit.”’ ~ At the Park, ‘‘Horrors’’ has drawn well. This is its second and last week. Next week, the new burlesque by Messrs. John J. McNally and Dexter Smith, entitled ‘‘Revels’’—the opposite of ‘‘Horrors’’—will take the boards. It is expected to make a good hit, as the local reputation of the authors is in its favor. During the gale of the 16th, the new Park Garden was badly damaged, but the enterprising spirit of Manager Braham soon had it in working order; so the business was but slightly impaired. At Forest Garden, Moffet’s troupe (variety) opened the theatrical season. This resort has been liberally — since its opening. The Oakland Garden is also offering special aturactions to visitors, such as Magic Lantern Views and a new fire- work idea called ‘“The Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.”’ All the Gardens have bands connected with them, and give concerts each evening. BALTIMORE. AcapEMy.—On the 11th the Academy was crowded to its utmost capacity, to witness the production of ‘‘ Pina- fore,’ under the auspices of the Conféderate Memorial Association. The chief attraction was Mr. John E. Owens as the Admiral. His conception of the role was altogether different from any one we have seen here. While it was refreshing to have some new business and jokes introduced, yet it was not entirely satisfactory, and many good points and ‘‘ gags”’ introduced by Mr. Den- ham were lost. New CentrkaL.—The Company introduced here in- cludes ‘“f Cool’ Burgess, Courtlandt Sisters, the Rays, Johnny Rooker, and Mat. Morgan’s ‘‘ Living Statuary.” ee SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Musis Hall closed for the past week. The local company have decided to give “Pinafore” another run, opening September 23 and 24. Madame Rentz’s Minstrels are booked for the 25th of the same month,
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THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY. 7 SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. July 17. Opera House closed. Funk’s Hall, July 10th, Union League Club, in con- cert, to good house. July 12th, London Combination, to poor house. Reinheimer’s Hall, July 9th, Miss Bell Pence began her seventy-five mile trial walk at 7:34 P.M. Only members of the press, a few friends, and interested parties, were admitted. Quite a number of Miss Belle’s lady friends were in attendance. ing suit, looked fresh and fair, and began her task in good spirits. She has a long, easy stride, and gives every indi- cation of activity and endurance. She was in the care of Messrs. Dick Bean, Ford Littler and George Beckman. Messrs. Ed. Berry and Ned Nowottany acted as scorers. The walk ended at 6:05 p.m. July 10th. Actual time on track, 15 hours, 47 minutes, 50 seconds. Resting time, 6 hours and 48 minutes. Fastest mile (20th), 10 minutes and 40 seconds. At the close of her walk Miss B. was in good condition and could have walked much longer. Mr. George Beckman, of Kinnane, Wren & Co., active trainer for Miss P., has the fullest confidence in Miss Belle’s ability to walk 100 miles in less time than Miss Von Blum (27 hours). Miss Pence will make her debut in this city. Her friends are all jubilant over her success. Mr. Beckman walked 35 miles with Miss P. Notrrs.—Mr. Thomas Allen, 56 years.of age, a veteran of the Forty-fourth O. V. I., challenges any other old soldier to walk a twenty-mile match with him, in ‘‘heavy marching order,’’ with gun, accoutrements and knap- sack, at the reunion at the Fair Grounds August 7th. Mr. W. C. Welling, the gentlemanly head usher at Black’s Opera Ilouse, has been retained for the coming season. | Coming July 23d, W. W. Cole’s New Yerk and New Orleans Circus and Menagerie. They will draw a big crowd. The RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY has the largest circulation of any dramatic and society journal that comes te this city, and can be had at Pierce & Co.’s news depot every Saturday. WILMINGTON, DEL. July 18. Since our last letter from here we have suf- fered from two of the hottest days thissummer. On Tuesday and Wednesday of this. week the thermometer reached, at several places in the city, 100 degrees Fahr. in the shade, the highest being at Pickel’s Iron Foundry on the east bank of the Brandywine, where it registered 106 degrees in the office. Early in August an excursion will take place from-here to the Hudson and West Point and Coney Island. The excursionists will be met at Jer- sey City by two boats, thus having the option of going up the Hudson or down the bay. For a long time a foot bridge has been needed over the Brandywine river in the immediate neighborhood of Jessup & Moore’s Augustine Paper Mills; that need is about to be met, the iron work having been ordered from John R. Roebling’s Sons Co., Trenton, N. J.,and as soon as the working plans are ready the contract will be awarded. The distinguished Senator from this State, Thomas F. Bayard, and his wife, sailed for Europe last Saturday, in- tending to spend three months. Excursions down the river and bay to Collins’ Beach, Bombay Hook, Sea Breeze, and other places, are now high above par, and likely to remain so. : The first day of Stork’s summer tours began last Mon- day. Several have gone from this city, and more will leave in early August. CLEVELAND. July 17. Atlast, after several weeks of expiring efforts, the season may be pronounced definitely dead. All places of amusement are closed except the Comique, and that never Closes,.so that this, together with the open air con- certs, constitutes the soie means of amusement left to the disconsolute citizen who must sweat out the dog days in the city. . “The RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY is selling well here. eer Miss Pence was dressed in a becom- |_ OSWEGO, N. Y. July 18th. A very neat incident occurred during the representation of the local ‘‘ Pinafore.”’ The duet of Mr. Tremain (Captain Corcoran) and Mrs. Holley ( Little Buttercup) was encored, and Mrs. H. returned with a splendid bouquet in her hand, which had been thrown to her. During the progress of the duet, Mr. Tremain seized this, for this is rather a violent scene; but upon repeating the line: ‘* None but the brave deserve the fair,” presented the bouquet to Mrs. Holley, so gracefully that the audience expressed their appreciation by a burst of spontaneous ay plause. And now Fulton is anxious for our ‘‘ Pinafore ”’ them. It is intended to give a realistic ‘‘ Pinafore’’ this sum- mer at Alexandria Bay. anchored opposite the Island House, and the representa- tion given on her deck. Mr. Burr, who so acceptably performed the part in the recent local ‘‘ Pinafore,”’ has been invited to assume the part of Dick Deadeye—‘* And it’s greatly to his credit.” Billy Birch, the famous minstrel, and wife, are at the Lake Shore Hotel, on their way to Niagara Falls. Mr. Birch received a telegram that Dave Wambold is about to lay down the armor of life. Poor Dave! he has suffered long. His songs, so pure and sweet, will be sadly missed. The RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY is now one of our most popular New York visitors. to visit LOWELL, MASS. July 15. Dramatic matters are dull; several weeks past and none booked. Music Hall will be run under. the management of Simons & Emery next season. No companies will be allowed the use of the hall except on shares with the managers. ‘There are-rumors of a new opera house. Charles H. Duprez and several members of his minstrel troupe are spending the vacation in this city. Yankee Locke and wife reside on a quiet farm in Dracut, two miles from here. Charlie Thayer was in town recently. One of the best Admirals on the road is James Bayles, of this city, now playing with the Boston ‘Pinafore’’ Company in Halifax. He has been re-engaged for next season. Lowell has the crack amateur ‘Pinafore’? Company in this part of the State. A portion of the members recently made a great hit in Greenfield. The aldermen bled Barnum to the tune of $200 for his license to show here. Coup paid only $5. no shows for LYNN, MASS, July 17. King Solomon’s Temple was for some time on exhibition in this city, and was a wonder to all as a marvellous piece of work. It has been engaged by Mons. Bushnell while he was in this city, and he opens with it in Hyde Park this week. It was made by Mrs. T. J. Miller, formerly of Charlestown, Mass., but now of Lynn. It is three feet and a half square and three feet high. The Temple is wholly composed of wax flowers and Corinthian columns of white wax; $23,000 worth of flowers of every description were used in its construction. It is a sight worth seeing. The Hilman Family are expected at their home in this city by Saturday, July 19th, from New York State,where they have been playing the past season. | ST. PAUL, MINN. July 15. Weather hot.and amusements dull. Barlow, Wilson, Primrose and West’s Minstrels July 11 and 12, to good houses. Soderer and Ball’s Art Illustrations of Foreign Travel opened July 14th for one week. Haverly’s Mastodon Minstrels are reported for July 23 and 24. Charles Haines, of the St. Paul Opera House; is at | present enjoying camp life at White Bear Lake. The ship ‘‘ Admiral’ is to be | A¥/t Ame ass like himself. ELMIRA. July 17. Nothing at the Opera House this week SSee ‘‘Pinafore,’”? by the so-called Standard Theatre Com- pany. W. C. Coup’s new énited monster shows are billed for July 29th. The RAMBLER AND Dramatic WEEKLY is sold at Sul- livan’s Post Office news rooms, and is an established favorite. | THE LOUNGER. It seems that Dundreary and Bardwell Slote have not drawn good houses among the Salmon of Labrador. It is all very well to talk about playing star en- gagements before full audiences of the ‘‘Salmo,Ferox,”’ but sup- pose they won’t attend. Now the unsuccesful performers have bolted the Natashquan and have returned to civilization and the Restigouche river, which is absolutely the best Salmon river in the world. Soon they will be in New York—and then look out for fish stories ! One bright afternoon of June Florence and Sothern sat on a conical, smooth boulder in the middle of the Natash- -quan, and unskilfully tossed the unseductive fiy into the boiling rippling current. Whiskey and cigars aided to dispel their ennui during several hours, but even these resources failed at last and both comedians yawned in each others faces. Then Florence suggested, ‘‘Minnows, by Jove, and ° deep fishing in the pools where the fish lie these hot after noons.’’ An Indian attendant soon brought a pailful of large and lively minnows, and the comedians taking off the flies, adjusted a different set of hooks, and affixing each one a big minnow through the back tossed the bait-fish into the pool. ‘Then more whiskey and cigars. Now and then it seemed as if something was trifling with the bait, but-on pulling it up it was always there. But at last Sothern said, ‘‘Why look, Billy, how my bait is swelled.” The distention was in fact discernible and Florence could not dispute it. The bait-fish looked certainly very much as if he had dined at the Sturtevant House. Finally it occurred to the anglers to cut him open, and then ex- claimed Florence, ‘‘Why damme, Ned, he’s gone and swallowed three of these here salmon!’ ‘That day they fished no more. Police Commissioner Wheeler is having a good time at Schroon Lake; such an uncommonly good time that he really can’t come to New York to see his creditors, but he has plenty of money to telegraph his creditors here that he will pay them ten cents on the dollar, cash, too, even if he has to take part of it out of his own pocket. But the hard-hearted Register decides that Mr. Wheeler must rise to explain in person at an adjourned meeting of the creditors. And yet people deny that there is such a — as virtue in distress. A fable of the Ass and the-Rambler. An ass having by chance found the skin of a lion, put it on and covered himself with it in the best manner he could, and by means thereof getting away from his mas- ter, he ranged at will through the woods and lawns, frightening the harmless beasts, as the deer, the hares, and the like. Atlength he grew very conceited and so silly as to trample down and spoil the grass that was re-_ served for the pasture of the sheep and other cattle, till a Rambler discovered and exposed him to the public, who soon stripped him of the lion’s skin, and by giving him many heavy blows wee" 2 him to su that he ought to have been con- y tented with the hide that Nature had given him, and that became an Moral: An ass that is born in Xenia, Ohio, ought’ to stay there. JOHN eae
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8 THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY.. pt RAMBLER DRAMATIC WEEKLY. DEVOTED TO — ' THE SOCIAL WORLD AND THE INTERESTS OF THE STAGE. | THE HOME BOOK AND PUBLISHING COMPANY. N CHAMPION BissELL, EpIror. RU EO Potatoes os ole ce les 3 37 Dey Street, N. Y. Branch Office, F. P. Buttock, Manager.. .854 Broadway. Subscription per year $3.00; six months $1.50 ; post-paid, or $4.00 per year, including @ splendid Octavo SHAKSPEARE, with Steel Plates, post paid. Correspondence on musical and dramatic matters is solicited from all parts of the country. All communications should be written on one side of the paper only, and have the writers’ real name appended, not for publication but as a guarantee of good faith. All advertisements must reach this office not later than 6 P. M., on Monday. American News Co , sole agents. Circulation for the week ending July 26, 5,420. NO. 24. VOL. 1. NEW YORK, JULY 26, 1879. TABLE OF. CONTENTS. , Title page. Kate Claxton. Advertisements. Jay Gould. Jay Gould. Harrowing Details. Sharps and Flats. Stage Notes. Correspondence. Correspondence. The Lounger. The Dramatic Principle. Harry Palmer. Financial. Feuilleton, The Desert King. Feuilleton, The Desert King. ** 12. Feuilleton and Correspondence. Tile Club. Miscellany. Our Card Column. Advertisements. Advertisements. Fe Se Set OUR LETTER LIST. & All letters advertised in this list can be found at the office, 854 Broadway, and will be forwarded on receipt of stamp. Devere, Sam Gwinnett Harry Morris, Clara Miss Meader, J. G. Stedwell, R. A. Adrion, Miss Barnes, Elliott Barnes, William E Barry. Conlan Constantine, Charles Cushing, Miss May. THE DRAMATIC PRINCIPLE. The taste of the town now requires great scenic tours de force, and the theatres competing with each other in the attraction of objects from out- side, which seem to defy reproduction on the stage, it is necessary that the writer should, lke Mr. Crummles’ dramatist, construct his piece in the interest of ‘‘the pump and washing-tubs,”’ or kindred objects. Hence the panoramas of fires, underground railways, music halls, steamboat piers, dry arches, and such things. ‘The charac- ters and situations are meant to include lost and found wills, forgers, scheming Jews, bigamy, suicides, crafty scheming men, whostick at noth- -ing—in short, mechanical figures and incidents are the elements. It must be conceded that the pieces are done as skilfully as possible, and are really interesting. The plea on which an author offers dramas of this nature is, that’ they really are reflections of the incidents and fashion of the time, and _there- fore hold the mirror up to the great city. These speculators, forgers, and particularly humorists out of the lower ranks-—play-bill stickers, &c.— are all about us; and though such elaborate tis- sues of ingenious crime may not be actually: woven near us, the policy reports show that | pass of these scenic prodigies is spent. Now this argument is so frequently urged; in many other arts, too, besides the dramatic, and on its moral side, that it becomes worth while to look into the whole a little closely. It comes back to the distinction, to be often insisted on, between what is dramatic and what is mimetic. Acting that is not founded on char- acter, is mere mimicry; acting that is, is the pure drama. ‘This does not exclude story, the story of the most exciting sort; but the story should be born of the clash of character with character; not the character of the story. To set off a nar- rative of interest by colorless figures—and we are now speaking merely in refercnce to the rela- tive prominence, for Mr. Boucicault does give us characters, and good ones too, figures whose function it is be story-tellers—as it were, and help on the action—would, if unassisted, result in simple tedium. But Mr. Boucicault and his audience both know that this is set off by, or leading up to, the scenic ‘‘sensation;’”’ and the expectancy, or actual enjoyment, supplies other interest. The result may be a single play or two of exciting interest, like ‘‘After Dark,’ but see the result in the future, which is, as it were, dis- counted. Ina few short rounds the whole com- With in- finite labor of thought and mechanical skill some- thing is discovered, but by-and-by all wonder and surprise are exhausted; anything astonishing is found to be like what has gone before; and bill-forgers, bigamists, usurers, and suicidal work- | girls, left to themselves, without bridges to leap from, dry arches to sleep under, or burning houses to be saved from, tumble over like card- board soldiers. ‘The worst of these great effects is, that there are almost always excrescences, for which either the piece has been written, or which have been imported into the piece. Inany case they dwarf the play. Nearly all these costly and pretentious tours de force could be cut out: they are, as it were, lugged in, head and shoulders; and thus does true dramatic art indemnify itself. So with the comic figures, taken from the streets—the cads and cadgers, the newsboys, the flremen, whose slang and readiness does such service in these dramas. Here we may compare Mr. Boucicault with himself, and see what is the real principle in dealing with such characters. In the ‘Colleen Bawn’” we saw the Irish ‘‘low’”’ element of humor elaborated; but it was allin the interest of the play. It tended to bring about the action, and the result was interest, and a feeling of respect and sympathy; but with this cockney street humor, which is on the outside, the effect is the same as on ourselves passing by, in the street; just as we feel amusement mingled with contempt—a sense of distrust, and a wish to have as little contact as possible with such char- acters. So from our house window we might look out, and be amused at some such spectacle; but ifit was repeated two or three mornings it would grow tedious, and we would ask the police to see that such performers ‘“‘moved on.” And: this the fatal Nemesis for an ‘‘oddity” actor, or an “oddity” part, that is, such a part as is found- ed on “‘cant’”’ words, and, perhaps, on ‘‘cant’’ dress, and is brought in merely to exhibit the same. ‘There is nothing of ‘‘cant’Zin real human character, | | ,While, however, play-maker, play-actor, and play-goer admit reluctantly that there is some- something very like these delinquencies exist, | thing wrong in the modern drama, they can point way,’’ have done their best. triumphantly to what has done the mischief—the glories of modern scenery. ‘This, at least, flour- ishes; and has almost reached perfection. '|Every Christmas sees new and_ yet newer tri- umphs, and we are confounded with a fresh paradise in every new spectacle. Set scenes, perfect structures that have to be ‘‘built,’’ have taken the place of the old, ‘‘flats;’’ side scenes have given way to regular enclosures; and draw- ing-rooms and boudoirs appear ready furnished with hangings, buhd, clocks, &c.; in short, as the bills are careful to inform us, “‘the furniture in Act IV. is by Messrs. and , of Broadway. Often, as a scene is disclosed, before a word is spoken, or a character. appears, the scenery evokes a storm of applause.” This surely is a conscientious support to the piece, and the mana- ger is thus said to spare no expense to mount his play properly. Yet the question arises whether this, considered to be the cause of the decay of the dramatic portion, is not itselfa decay. A few reflections will show that the wholc is based on false principles, The confusion arises from the idea, that the closer reality is imitated, the more nearly effect is produced. If actual reality—the thing itself— can be introduced, the aeme isreached. A land- scape defies such an introductien, though partial attempts can be made at producing. a street. But the simplest illustration, by which the whole principle cao be tested, is that of the Drawing- room Scene. In many of the leading plays now acting, there is some such elaborate room, richly furnished and appointed, on which great trouble and cost have been expended. As the drop scene rises, we see the French windows to the right, with cornices and rich rep curtains, Louis Quatorze chairs, a pier table and mirror, buhl cabinet, marquetry tables, chimney-piece, fender, &c.; in short, ‘‘Messrs, and , Broad- Yet it may may be said, that the more realistic and complete the at- tempt, the more there is of failure; of a sense of something wanting. ‘The completeness of these additions makes the poorness of its background felt. ‘Thus,.let any one look at the real cornices, and see how clumsily they hang on the canvas background, revealing that it is anything but a firm wall, ‘he marquetry tables look dull and shabby and prosy; the accessories overpower the groundwork, they are discordant with the poor flat painting about them, painting of mouldings, ceiling, cornices, surbases, all produced by color. And this leads us to the curious conditions under which things are seen upon the stage. There is no sunlight, no casting of shadows, which makes the whole richness of objects in average daily life. There every little depression, every ‘‘bit of work,” has its faint shadow. On the stage the glare of gas is equable—coming from above, below, and from the side; and such shadows as there are, are the coarse shadows of limelight. Hence it is that in painting, it is is necessary to paint shadows with color; and hence the effect and appropriate- ness ofscenery. Further, there is another con- dition, anda very remarkable one, often lost sight of. This drawing-room, with its appoint- ments is one not seen, as other drawing-rooms are, from the inside or doorway, but is looked at after an Asmodean fashion—its side taken out—by people who are from thirty toa couple of hundred feet away. No ordinary room is seen under such conditions, In reallife, statues place at a height
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THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY. - or distance are made coarse and gigantic. On the stage the actors’ faces have a glare thrown on them; but real distant objects cannot be so strongly illuminated. ‘Take the marquetry table with the ‘‘console”’ legs, to be seen at one of the leading theatres, It is self-evident that the work of Messrs. and , of Broadway, was meant to be seen a couple of feet off, and not hundreds of feet away, where it looks muddy and dull. We shall recur to this theme again, aE ET I ALE Re DEATH OF HENRY D. PALMER. The theatrical profession have within the past week lost by death one of the greatest managers in the entire country. ) Henry D. Palmer, of the firm of Jarrett & Palmer, un- expectedly departed this life in London, Saturday morn- ing. July 19, from chronic inflammation of the bladder, a disease of three years’ standing. . Connected socially and professionally with the best known musical talent in ihe world, including such names as Sontag, Patti, Thalberg, Von Bulow, and Piccolomini, he has also produced some of the most successful dramas known. Starting with the ‘‘Black Crook,’”’ which made him no- torious, his management of Booth’s Theatre, and his spec- tacular productions served to increase his fame. A re- markably hard worker, he leaves a fortune of over one hundred thousand dollars for the support of his wife and two children. et Born at Pottsville, Pa., September 28, 1832, Mr. Palmer served in the office of the Philadelphia Bulletin and in the North American, and was still in the publishing business when engaged by Hall Wilton in 1852, to act as advance agent to the new star, Sontag; one of the pleasantest re- collections in Mr. Palmer’s life being the name of the Countess Rossi. To recount the triumphs and the theatri- cal ventures of Harry Palmer would be a task too great to be undertaken in any single article. Everybody who takes interest in such matters knows that it was he who, with his newly-found partner, Mr. Jarrett, brought over the ballet-dancers who danced, pirouetted and clashed their cymbals at Niblo’s Garden in the winter of 1866, making in six months half. a million of dollars forthe author of that stupendous production, the ‘*Black Crook,”’ setting the new partnership firmly on its feet and establishing spectacular drama in New York. That suecess gave Messrs. Jarrett & Palmer their cue when they leased Booth’s Tbeatre. The production of ‘‘Henry V.” and ‘‘Julius Cesar,’’ were events in American dramatic history. ‘‘Sardinapalus,’’ was less successful. Indeed the latter was no more a representation of Assy- rian life than of the Jardin Mabille. It wasthe ‘Black Crook”? and ‘‘White Fawn’’ woven together, with frag- ments of Byron’s rhetoric. But the production of ‘‘Uncle ’om’s Cabin” more than recompensed Mr. Palmer for his losses. He made $30,000 in a very few weeks, and car- ried the play over to the European continent where it was less applauded. ae At the time of his death he was busy with several en- erprises of great pith and moment, one of them being the eugagement of Sarah Bernhardt. He was a member of the Manhattan and Lotos clubs. His remains will be - brought to this country and interred in Greenwood Ceme- tery. The actors’ epitaph on his life is that he was an ex- cellent companion and wonderful stage manager. ee ee George Clarke once more shows his pleasant facein the localities where the Profession most do congregate. He is engaged for leading business at Bocth’s. His foreign trip has set well on him. ———_——— -+- > —__———- There are a great many families in our smaller towns and in the country, who wonld like to know an experien- ced firm of wine merchants in New York, whose dealings are fair, and whose charges and views of profit are rea- sonabie. Such a firm are Charles J. Murphy & Son, of 21 Beaver street, New. York. Messrs. Murphy & Son do not make a pretentious dis- play of goods, but in their solid building in Beaver street, among the magnates of the wine and liquor trade, they | keep an excellent stock and sell by sample. Consumers ordering of them by letter can be be just as well suited as if waited on in person. They have merely to state their preferences and the prices they expect to pay, and Messrs. Murphy & Son will cater for them to their satisfaction. It is fair to this firm to say that they have not solicited or paid for these paragraphs. We have written them wholly in the interests of those of our readers who would like to know just such a house to correspond with and be well treated; since Murphy & Son make a specialty of family custom. a oe «oo We were much interested, not long since, in reading an account of the success of the Brothers Dolge, near Little Falls, Herkimer Co., N. Y., in manufacturing Piano Felt-cloth, surpassing the best efforts of foreign manufac- turers, and actually creating a market abroad for their fabrics. Our reailers may not be aware that in other de- scriptions of felt goods American manufacturers are reap- ing a good harvest and compelling the attention of the world. | Every sheet of paper made anywhere in the world must pass, and does pass, over a woolen felt surface of quite large extent. Hence an immense consumption of woolen felt takes place in America, where paper making has as- sumed gigantic proportions. Until within a few years all felts used in this country were imported, but now they are produced in the best manner by Shuler & Benning- hofen at Hamilton, Ohio, who are among the pioneers, and have accumulated a handsome property; by F. A. Gray & Co.. Piqua, Ohio, who also make the best flannels produced west of the Alleghanies ; H. Waterbury & Co., of Rensslaerville, Albany Co. New York, and L. K. Heathcote, of Glen Rock, Pa., also Bulkley, Dunton & Co., of 74 John street, New York city, who bave a mill for this purpose in Maine. American manufacturers of woolen fabrics deserve all the more credit when they produce praiseworthy cloths, because our Government shuts them out from a fair se- lection of the wools of the world, by onerous duties. An English or European woolen manufacturer buys wool at about half the price which his American rival is obliged to pay; yet in spite of this tremendous disadvantage our industry shows its triumphs, not only in, the instance of the brothers Dolge, but also in those of the other enter- prising manufacturers whom we have mentioned. (2A ar BIAS CA UE bine We present this week the portrait of the popular actress Kate CLAXTON. —__—__—__+9-+________ FINANCIAL. Office of THE RAMBLER AND Dramatic WEEKLY, July 23, 1879. In the last issue of the RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY we touched upon the question of the feasibility of uniting several banks in one immense institution, and promised to treat upon the subject more at length this week. That it would be advantageous to have fewer and larger. banks cannot be denied. Expenses could be greatly curtailed under such a system, and a better class of men would be produced to hold positions in the large banks. In times of commercial distress the financial measures of a few large banks could be better considered than those of a multiplicity of small institutions. The latter often, in such emergencies, pull against each other, and injure each other; while a few large banks could act more in harmony. Losses also could be avoided. The smaller a bank is, the more its officers are liable to be influenced by favorit- ism, and hence to make losses. The annals of New York finance are filled with details of the wrecks of small banks, but no large bank in this city has ever gone to the wall. It is only the small ones that fail, with capitals of less than a million each. Not that it is not as easy to ruin a large bank as a small one, but the large bank is apt to be in better hands. | Among the New York City banks at the present time depreciation in the market price of shares prevails mostly among the small concerns. The shares of nearly all the large banks are above par, and the shares of nearly all the small ones are below par. These undeniable facts need no comment. . - We cannot, however, look for a consolidation of bank- Ex, ing capital in New York city until banking on this side the water becomes more scientific, and loses its present gambling character. A bank that gambles, for instance the Roulette and Faro banks at Monaco, Saratoga and other watering-places abroad or at home, alway has the odds in.its favor ; but a bank that discounts commer- cial notes always has the odds against it. It cannot charge more than legal ,interest, and it must make more or fewer, but at all events some, bad investments in the never ending procession of merchants and manufacturers notes, which it deals in for want of better notes. If twenty or thirty banks should consolidate into one im- mense institution, the one large bank would probably not discount two-name mercantile paper at all. It would ‘only discount approved selections of three-name paper taken from the portfolios of wealthy banking houses and endorsed by them. The remainder of its transactions would be in Bills of Exchange, Loans on Marketable Stocks, &e., and it need never lose a dollar. The unsecured promises of merchants may be redeemed, or they may not; buying them is gambling, but there are always sound and real values for banks to lend money on and earn interest upon capital without resorting to gambling. The secret of banking success in discounting merchants notes lies not only in sagacity in estimating the chances of payment, but also in the rate of interest charged, which should always be commensurate to the risk. In other words, interest should be charged for the use of capital, and then a price should be added for a set-off against risk. If a mercantile transaction cannot bear this double loading, it had better go untransacted. If John Smith, when he sells John Jones twenty cases of dry goods on four months’ cannot afford to pay a discount of five per cent on the amount for cash, not five per cent p2r year but five per cent. off the face of the bill for money, he had better keep his goods, or sell out to some one else that. can afford it. The interests of sound banking demand that gambling risks should be compensated. They are com- pensated in life insurance, in fire insurance, in marine risks, in annuities, in all other forms of financiering ex- cept banking; yet here, where they most need compensa- tion, law or custom forbids this reasonable application of science. = Some examples of successful banking remain to be no- ticed. ———"-+- oe ________ — THOSE desiring to invest in stocks, or transact financial business of any nature we would advise them to send for a copy of the Operator to Messrs. D. P. Herrick & Co., 43 New Street, N. Y., whose reputation for integrity and ability is unquestioned.—Zx. —_————~+-@o 2 __—_ AN INcomE WiTHOUT CarE.—By the combination method of operating in stocks a handsome income can be secured without care. Capital in any amount, from $10 to $50,000, may be used with equal proportionate success. By this system Messrs. Law- rence & Co., Bankers, N. Y., pool the orders of thousands of cus- tomers, of various sums, into one vast amount, and co-operate them under the most skillful management, ‘dividing profits month- ly. Each shareholder thus obtains all the advantages of the’ largest capital and experienced skill, and the percentage of profits is very great; $20 will pay $100 in 30 days; $250 will return $1,825, or 73¢ per cent. on the stock, and so on, as the market varies. A prominent publisher of the Rock Island (ill.) Daily Argus, made $104.15 on an investment of $20, in October. Hun- dreds of others are doing even better. Messrs. Lawrence & Co.'s new circular has “two unerring rules for success in stock opera- tions” and full information, so that any one can deal in stocks. ot pe - apt and stocks wanted. ew Government ponds — plied. Deposits receive Apply to Lawrence & Co. Exchange Place, New York Clty Ee. einige se —__—__+-@ + _______ | Ladd’s cot is a beauty, light, portable and strong. It packs up into a smaller compass than any other cot we have seen. The neatness with which its legs fold under itis wonderful, and the promptness with which they ad- just themselves to their required position when the cot is opened is just as wonderful. The cot is complete for use without a mattrass or pillow. The ingenious spring arrangement which takes the place of a pillow, will sup- port the heaviest head, and afford pleasant rest, without the heat which inevitably accompanies a feather or hair illow. The cot is found in great favor among camp meetings and summer hotels as well as in families. He who has one of these can ‘‘take up his bed and walk” in any direction at exceedingly short notice. Whether for a lounging place by day, or for sleeping accommodation by night, this little cot is all that can be desired. House- holders can stow in a closet enough of these cots to afford comfort to all the country cousins who may suddenly visit them. Boarding houses find them unsurpassed in convenience for troops of unexpected guests. The surprise is at how so much of a cct can be furnished for so little money. Ask H. W, Ladd, 207 Canal street, New York,—
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10 fe Pe PE Le’ OW: ; The Desert King. I was born in Constantinople; my father was a Drago- man to the Porte, and was besides engaged in a tolerably profitable trade in costly essences and silken stuffs. He gave me a good educajion, for in part he instructed me himself, and in part placed me under the tuition of one of our priests. His first intentions were that I should suc- ceed to the management of his shop, but when he found that I exhibited greater abilities than he had anticipated, he determined, at the advice of his friends, to make me a physician; for a physician, if he knows no more than a common mountebank, can make his fortune in Constanti- nople. There were several Franks that used to visit our house, and one of them urged my father to send me to his native country, to the city of Paris; because there, as he said, I could learn medicine gratuitously, and to greater perfection than I could anywhere else. He himself would be willing to take me thither, when he returned. My father, who had travelled in his youth, consented, and the Frank told me that I might prepare to go in three months. I was extravagantly delighted at the idea that I should “now have an opportunity of seeing foreign lands, and could hardly wait for the momeut which had been fixed upon as the time of our embarkation. The Frank had at last concluded his business, and prepared for his journey; on the evening before we departed, my father led me into his little sleeping room. There I saw splendid dresses and arms lying on the table. But what most at- tracted my eyes was a great pile of gold, more than I had ever seen together before. My father. embraced me, and said, ‘‘You see, my son, I have been providing you clothes for your journey; that dirk and pair of pistols are yours; they are the same which your grandfather gave me when I went upon_my travels. You are now able to wear them but never use them until you are attacked; then strike, and as hard as youcan. My means are not very great ; but what I have, I have divided into three parts; one of these shall be yours, another I shall keep for my own support and necessities, but fhe third I shall preserve as a sacred store, to be of aid to you in the hour of need.” Thus spake my old father, and tears hung in his eyes, probably those of presentiment; for I have never seen him since. Our yoyaye was prosperous; we soon arrived at France, and, after a journey of six days, we entered the great city of Paris. My Frankish friend here hired me apartments, and advised me how to lay out my money, which in all amounted to two thousand dollars, to the groatest advan- tage. For three years I lived in the city, and learned all that was.necessary to qualify me to be a sound physician; but I should speak falsely did I say that I dwelt there with pleasure, for I liked not the manners of the people; and, besides, I had but few good friends there; but these nevertheless were young men of noble minds. The desire to return to my native country became at last too powerful; during the whole time of my absence I had not heard a word from my father, and I took advan- tage of a favorable opportunity to return home—for an embassy was about to be sent from France to the Sublime Porte. I followed in the train of the embassy in the capacity of a surgeon, and returned in good fortune to Stamboul. But I found my father’s house closed, and was informed by the neighbors, who were greatly aston- ished when they beheld me, that he had been dead two months before. The priest who had instructed me in my youth brought me the key, and alone and abandoned I betook myself to the desolate house. 1 found everything just as my father had left them; but the gold which he). had promised to bequeath me was wanting. I questioned _ the priest concerning it; lhe bowed and said, ‘* Your father died a holy man, for he made over all his money to the church.’’ To me this was perfectly incomprehensible, but what wasI todo? Ihad no witnesses against the priest, and was thankful that he-had not considered my father’s house and goods as a legacy. This was the first misfortune that befel me; but from this time blow follow- ed after blow. I could not make my reputation asa physician generally known, for I was ashamed to act like a common quack, and my father’s recommendations, for he had intreduced me into the highest and wealthiest bridge they call the Ponte Vecchio. THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY. families, were of no avail to me, for no one desired to continue an acquaintance with the poor Zalenkos. And for my father’s goods I found but little market, for all his old customers had dropped off since his death, and new ones came in but slowly. As I was once reflecting dis- consolately upon my situation, it occurred to me that during my residence in France I had frequently seen men of my own country who travelled through the land and offered their wares for sale in the public markets, and I remembered that they had always found ready custom merely because they were foreigners, and that they reaped an hundred-fold profit. I immediately determined npon my plan. I sold my paternal house, gave a part of the purchase money into the hands of a trusty friend for safe keeping, and with the rest purchased whatever was rare in France; costly shawls, silken stuffs, unguents and oils; engaged a birth in a ship, and so set out on my second voyage to France. It seemed as if fortune, the moment I had turned my back upon the castles of the Dardanelles was again disposed to be favorable toward me. Our voy- age was short and fortunate. I wandered around through all the great and small towns of France. and found every- where ready purchasers for my goods. My friend at Stamboul continued to send me fresh supplies, and I be- came more and more successful every day. When, after awhile, I had succeeded in saving up so muth that I be- lieved I might venture upon some more extended opera- tion, I went with my goods to Italy. But I should also say that I put my knowledge of medicine in use, which brought me in not a little money. Whenever I entered a town I caused it to be announced by placards, that a Greek physician had arrived, who had performed several wonderful cures ; and in fact my balsam and my medi- cines brought me in many a zecchino. At length I arrived at the city of Florence. I had determined before- hand to stay in this city a long while, partly because I liked the place, and partly because I felt that it was nec- essary that I should have some rest after the fatigues of my long wandering. I hired a shop in the quarter of St. Croce and not far from it a couple of handsomely furnish- ed apartments, which led by a balcony into a hotel. I immediately caused my placards to be carried around, which announced me as a physician and merchant of costly wares. I had hardly opened my shop before I was flooded with purchasers, and although my prices were rather high, yet they bought of me in preference to others because I was courteous and friendly to all my customers. I had already spent four delightful days in Florence, when one evening after I had shut up my house and was inspecting, according to my usual practice, the contents of my unguent boxes, I found in a little case a packet which [ could not recall to mind as having put there myself. I opened the packet, and found in it an invitation to betake myself that very night, at twelve o’clock precisely, to a I considered the matter a long while, and tried to think who it could be that had given me such an invitation, when I did not know a soul in the place, and at last concluded that they wanted to take me secretly to some sick person or other—a case which frequently occurs. I resolved to go; but for pru- dence’ sake I armed myself with the el ayia which had been given to me by my father. When it was almost midnight I put myself on the road and soon came to the Ponte Vecchio. Finding no one on the bridge I resolved to wait until some one appeared and called me by name. It was a cold night; the moon shone brightly, and | gazed down into the waters of the Arno which gleamed in the moonbeams far away like silver. As the church clocks of the city struck twelve I raised myself up and before me stood a tall man, wrapped entirely up in a red mantle, a corner of which he held up before his face. I was at first somewhat astonished, because he had taken me by surprise, but I immediately recovered, and said, ‘‘If it is you whe have called me here, what are your wishes?” The red mantle turned around and slowly muttered, ‘Follow!’ I felt somewhat uneasy at the idea of going with this unknown alone; so I stood still, and said, ‘‘Not so, my-good sir, until you have first told me whither I am to be led; and besides, I should be obliged to you if you would show me your face a little so that I may judge whether you have good intentions to- ward me.”? But the man seemed perfectly indifferent. “Tf you will not come, Zalenkos, then stay where you. sidered upon what it was best to do. was to have the mantle proclaimed, and that I had found it, but I then reflected the unknown might redeem it through a third person, and I should thus be baffled in my desires to see into the affair. what would be best, I examined the mantle more closely. four hundred zecchinos await you.” thunderstruck. So I had spoilt my own good fortune, and had entirely missed my aim. are !’’ he answered, and walked away. This roused my anger—‘‘Do you think,” I cried, ‘‘that a man like myself is to be bantered by every fool, and that I have waited here for nothing all this night ?’’? In three bounds I had reached him, and grasped his mantle in one hand and, laying the other on my yataghan, I cried out aloud, but the mantle was left in my hand, and the unknown had var.ished in the nearest corner. My anger began to abate by-and-by, but I had the mantle, and this might give me a clue to the explanation of this singular adventure. I put it around me and went toward my home. had I gone a hundred steps when some one pressed close beside me, and whispered in the French language—‘‘Be on your guard, Count, there is nothing can be done to- night.”’ vanished, and I only saw a shadow sweep past the houses. That this remark was intended for him of the red mantle, and not for myself, I very readily discerned, but still it »| gave me no light on the matter. Hardly Before I could look around this man had also The next morning I con- My first thought As I was. reasoning [t was made of heavy Genoa velvet, of a purple color, trimmed with Astrachan fur, and richly embroidered with gold, The magnificent appearance of the cloak sug- gested to me an idea, which I determined to carry out. I took it to my shop and exposed it for sale, but set so high a price upon it, that I was certain it would find no purchaser. those who inquired after the cloak, for though I had had but é slight glance of the unknown after the loss of his mantle, yet his figure and air were so marked that I felt sure I could distinguish him among a thousand. were a great many who would have been glad to purchase’ the mantle, whose extraordinary beauty attracted every eye, but there was none that bore any resemblance to the unknown; no one was willing to pay for it the extrava- gant price of two hundred zecchinos. any one if there was another mantle of the kind in Flor- enee, they invariably answered that there was not, and that they had never in their lives seen so songs and costly a piece of work. My design was to watch closely the faces of There Whenever I asked It was already evening, when at length a young man came in who had frequently been there before, and had that very day offered me a good deal for the cloak. He threw down a bag of zecchinos. on the table, and cried, ‘‘By Heavens, Zalenkos! I must have your mantle, if it makes me a beggar;’”’ and he immediately began to count out his pieces of gold. This of course put me in a state of great embarrassment. with the idea that it might perhaps draw the attention of the unknown, and now there was a young fool had come along willing to pay the immense price I asked for it. But what was I to do? 1 yielded, for on the other hand it was a great satisfaction that I was to be paid so well for my night’s adventure. on and moved away; he turned, however, at the door and tearing off a piece of paper that had been fastened to the I had only hung up the cloak The young man put the cloak mantle, he threw it toward me, saying, ‘‘here, Zalenkos, here is something whic: does not belong to the cloak.” I took the paper withou: thinking it was of any impor- tance, but behold there was written upon it, ‘‘Bring the cloak this night at the same hour to the Ponte Vecchio; I stood as if I was But I did not wait long to think. Iscraped the two hundred zecchinos together and springing toward the man who had purchased the mantle, told him, “‘take your sequins back, my good friend, and give me the cloak. It is not in my power to dispose of it.”” At first he thought I was but speaking i in jest; but when he saw that I was really in earnest, he grew angry at my demand, called me a fool, and we finally came to blows. But I was fortunate enough to tear the cloak away from him in the scuffle, and was running off with it, when he called the police to his assistance, and they took me before the judge. The justice was astonish- ed at the nature of the complaint, and decided that the cloak belonged to my opponent. But I offered the young man twenty, fifty, eighty, yes, an hundred zecchinos, if he would let me naye the mantle. My gold effected whai
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THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY. I] my entreaties could not. He took my zecchinos, but I went off in triumph with the mantle, very well satisfied with myself, although all Florence thought me nothing but a madman. Bui I was perfectly indifferent to the opinions of the people, for I knew better than they what I gained by the bargain. | I waited impatiently for the night. At the same time as on the: preceding day, I went with the cloak under my my arm to the Ponte Veechio. With the last stroke of the clock, the figure came from the darkness, and ap- proached me. It was evidently the same man that I had seen on the preceding day. ‘‘Have you the cloak?’ he asked. ‘Yes, sir,’’ l answered, ‘‘but it cost me an hun- dred zecchinos.”’ ‘‘I know that,” he replied; ‘‘give it ‘me; here are four hundred.”’ He walked with me to the broad balustrade of the bridgé, and paid out the gold pieces. There were four hundred; richly they shone in the moonlight; their brightness refreshed my soul; ah! it dreamed not that this was to be its last joy. I put the money in my pocket, and was now desirous of examining the Unknown more minutely; but he wore a mask before his face, through which his dark eyes shone fearfully upon me. ‘‘I thank you for your kindness, sir,” said I; ‘‘what further do you wish of me? But I can tell you before- hand, I shall never consent to do anything unlawful.”’ ‘*You need notbe afraid of that,’ he answered, putting ‘on his cloak. ‘*I want your assistance as a physician— not for the living, but for the dead.”’ ‘*How can that be?” said I, perfectly amazed. ‘*‘T came here with my sister from foreign lands,” said he, immediately beckoning me to follow him, ‘‘and I was residing with her here at the house of a friend of our family. My sister died very suddenly yesterday of some disease, and our relations wish to have her buried to- morrow. But, according to an old family custom, all of our race must rest in the vault of our ancestors; and all ‘those who have died in foreign lands, have been embalmed and carried there. I will give my relations her body, but I must, at least, carry to my father his daughter’s head, that he may see her once again.” : This custom of cutting off the heads of the dearest 1ela- tions appeared to me rather horrible, but I dared not ex- press my opinions, fearing that I might offend the un- known. However, I told him that I well underst.od how to embalm the dead, and desired him to conduct me to the deceased. Yet I could not refrain from asking him, ‘‘what need of all this mystery, and why must it be done in the night ?”’ He replied that his relations were very much averse to what they thought was a cruel deed, and would take measures to prevent him in the day time; but if her head: was only once off, they would say but little more about it; he would have brought me the head, but _ natural Matar withheld him from taking it off him- self, By this time we had arrived at a large and magnificent mansion. My companion pointed toward it as the termi- nation of our midnight walk. We passed the principal entrance of the house, entered it by a little door which the unknown carefully closed behind him, and ascended, but in darkness, a narrow flight of stairs. They led into a faintly lighted hall, from which we gained admittance into an apartment lit up by a lamp that was fastened to the ceiling. There was a bed in this chamber, ‘uid upon it lay the corpse. The unknown turned his face away, and seemed _to be concealing his tears. He pointed to the bed, and commandir g me to execute my business well and speedily, went out of the room. I took out my knife, whicii, as a surgeon, I always car ried with me, and approached the bed. Nothing but the head of the corpse was visible, bnt this was so exquisitely beautiful that I could not avoid feeling a sentiment of aversion to the duty that I was about to perform. Her — dark hair hung down in long tresses—the face was pale, and the eyes closed. I first made an incision in the skin, ‘as surgeons do when they are about to perform an ampu- tation, and then, taking my sharpest knife, with one gash I had cut clear through the throat. But, oh horror! the dead opened her eyes, but immediately closed them again, and in a deep sigh seemed for the first time to have have breathed away her life. A stream of warm blood immediately gushed upon me from the wound. I was now convinced that I had killed the poor creature; for she was undoubtedly dead, and from such-a wound there were no hopes of saving her. For some minutes I stood in agonized despair at the thought of what I had done. Had the red-mantle deceived me? or had his sister been only seemingly dead? the latter supposition appeared to me the more probable. But I dared not tell the brother of the decased that a less hasty cut might, perhaps, have awakened without killing her, so I saw that my own safety required my taking the head off entirely; but the dying one groaned once more, struggled, as if ‘in intense agony, and died; this spectacle filled me with terror, and I rushed shuddering from the room. But in the passage all was darkness, for the lamp was extinguished. I could discover no trace of my companion, and I had to feel my way along the wall to gain the winding staircase. I at last found it, and half falling, half slipping, reached the lower floor. But there was no one below. I found the door ajar, and I breathed free when I was out in the street, for the very air of the house was tainted with mur- der. Urged on by my terror, I ran home and buried myself in the bedclothes, endeavoring to banish from my mind the horrid deed which I had committed. But sleep avoided me, and the morning warned me to compose my- self. It was very evident that the man, who, as it now seemed, had induced me to execute this accursed deed, would not inform against me. I determined to go about my business in my shop as usual, and if possible assume a careless mien. But ah!. a new circumstance, which I had not noticed before, increase my agony. My cap and ‘sash, as well as my knife, were missing, and I was uncer- tain whether I had left them in the room of the murderéd one, er had lost them in my flight. Unfortunately the first seemed the more probable,and they would thus afford a clue which would lead to the discovery of my being the murderer. At the usual time, I opened my shop. My neighbor came in as he was wont to do every morning, for he was a very talkative man. ‘Ah! What do you think of the horrible story,’’ said he, ‘‘that transpired last night.” 1 pretended that I had no idea what he meant. ‘‘What! do you not know what is the talk all over the city? Not know that the most beauteous flower of Florence, Bianca, the governor’s daughter,:-was murdered last night. Ah! I saw her but yesterday, walking along the street, so happy with the bridegroom she was to have married to- . day.”’ Every word my neighbor said pierced me to the heart, and my torments were inflicted over and over again; for every customer that came in the shop repeated the story, and each one with more horrible additions; but none of them could tell the -horrors to which I myself had been the witness. About midday, an officer of justice entered my shop, and requested me to dismiss the people who were present. ‘‘Signor Zalenkos,”’ said he, as he took out the things which I had missed, ‘‘do these belong to you ?”’ I was thinking that it would be better to deny them at- once, but as I saw through the half-opened door my land- lord, and several other people, who were well able to tes- tify against me, I concluded that it would only make matters worse by declaring what might so easily be proved to be a falsehood, and so acknowledged that I was their owner. The officer commanded me to follow him, and conducted me to an immense building, which I soon recog- nized as the prison. There, having provided me with a room, he left me, until. I should be called ie the judges. My situation, as I was left there alone to my reflections, was truly terrible. The thought that I had committed a murder, even though it had been effected against my will, continually recurred to me; yet I could not conceal from myself that the brightness of the gold had enthralled my senses, otherwise I should not have rushed thus blindfold into so suspicious an adventure. Two hours -after I had been arrested, I was. led from my room; ahd, having descended a long flight of stairs,we entered a large saloon. Around a long table hung in black, twelve men, most of them far advanced ‘in life, were sitting. Bénches were ranged along the sides of the saloon, filled with the first people of Florence; ; cand the galleries, which were raised above the rest, were thickly crowded with specta- tors. As I was led to the dark table, a man with a gloomy and melancholy countenance arose and left his seat; it was the Governor. He declared to the assembly that, in- asmuch as he was father to the deceased, he had no right to sit in justice upon the cause, and that, for the present, he should resign his chair in favor of the oldest of the Senators. The oldest of the Senators was a venerable man, at least ninety years of age; he was bowed down, and his temples were shaded by thin white hair; yet, nevertheless, his eyes were bright aud fiery, and his \oice still strong and firm. He began by asking me whether I confessed the murder? I begged him to hear me; and then, with a calm and steady voice, narrated to him all that I had done, and all that I knew. I noticed that the Governor had grown pale while I was speaking—soon turned red; and the moment I had concluded, rose up in arage: ‘‘Ilow, villain!’ he cried, ‘‘do you wish to lay upon another the burden of a_ crime to which your own avarice prompted you?’ The Senator rebuked him for his interruption, reminding him that he had surrendered his rights on the present occasion, of his own free will, and that it had not yet been proved that I was actuated by avarice, because, from his own confessions, nothing had been stolen from the room of the deceased. Yes, he went still further: he told the Governor that he should require him to give an account of the early life of his daughter; for it was only by means of this that they could decide whether I haa spoken the truth or not.. He immediately adjourned the court for the day, in order, as he said, that he might take counsel from the papers which the Governor would afford him. I was again conducted to my prison,where I spent a gloomy day—my only hopes of safety resting on the chance that they might discover some connection between the deceased and the Red Man- tle. Confident that I should be acquitted, I entered the hall of justice on the following day. Several letters were lying on the table; the old Senator asked me whether they were in my handwriting. I examined them, and found that they must have been written by the same hand that penned the two notes which I had received. I ex- pressed my sentiments to the Senators, but they did not seem to consider them worthy of credence, for they said it was possible, and highly probable, that I had written both letters and notes, for the signature to the letters was very distinctly a Z, which was, at the same time, the ini- tial of my own name. The letters, however, contained threats to the deceased, and warnings not to consent to the marriage which was on the point of being solemnized. The Governor seemed to have given them some sigular information with regard to my person; for, on this day, they treated me more mistrustfully, and examined me far more rigorously. I referred them for my justification to my papers, which they would find in my room, but they told me that they had searched, and had not been able to discover them. And thus, at the close of this day, all my hopes vanished; and when on the third-day I was again conducted to the saloon, they read me my sente::ce: that having been convicted of wilful and deliberate murder, I was sentenced to death. What a fate was mine; to be abandoned by all whom I hold dear on earth; and in the bloom of youth, and far from my native apa to die, guiltless, by the axe! On the evening of that fearful day which had been so decisive of my destiny, I was sitting in my lonely prison ; I had lost all hopes, and my thoughts were now directed to my approaching death, when the cell door opened, and aman entered, who gazed at me for a long time in silence. “It is you, then, Zalenkos ?”’ said he. Owing to the dim light of the lamp | did not recognize him at first, but the tones of his voice awoke all my old remembrances. It was Valetty, one of the few friends that I had made in Paris during the time I was prosecuting my studies in that city. He said that he had accidentally visited Florence, where his father, who was a man of eminence, resided, and having heard of my history, he had come to see me once more, and learn from me personally what could have induced me to commit so horrible a crime. I told him the whole story from beginning to end. He seemed to be very much astonished at it, and conjured me to tell him, my only friend, all that had happened, and not to die with a falsehood on my lips. I swore by the most solemn oaths that all that I had told him was true; and that for myself, I felt conscious of no other crime than that I had suffered myself to be so blinded by the brightness of the gold, that I could not discern the improbability of the Red Mantle’s story. ‘Then you were never acquainted with Bianca ?” he asked. I protested that I had never even so much as seen her. Valetty now told me that there must be some deep mystery hanging over the affair; that the Governor
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12 THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC. WEEKLY. had been too hasty in pronouncing my doom; but that it was the common report among the people, that I had, for |: a long time, been acquainted with Bianca; and that, through revenge at her proposed marriage with another, I had committed this cruel murder. I answered that. all this might apply very well to the Red Mantle, but there was nothing that I could show which could prove him to have been an accessory to the deed. Valetty embraced me with tears in his eyes, and promised that he would do everything for me that lay in his power, and assured me that he could, at least, save my life. I had but little hope, yet still I knew that Valetty was a far more experienced man, and besides, more learned in the law than I was, and that he would use every exertion to save my life. For two long days I remained in ignorance of what was going on; atlast Valetty appeared. ‘‘I bring you consolation, though it is a most melancholy one. You will live, and be set at freedom; but you will have to lose your hand.” In deep emotion, I thanked my friend for my life. He told me that the Governor had been inexorable, and would not consent to have the matter examined into again; but at last, that he might not seem unjust, had agreed, that if a parallel case could be found in the Floren- tine annals, my punishment should be the same as the punishment there decreed. His father and himself had labored day and night in examining the old books, and at last had discovered a precisely similar case to my own. The punishment there written, was: His left hand shall be cut off, his property shall be confiscated, and he him- self be banished forever. This was the punishment to which I was now. condemned: and I must now prepare for the melancholy hour that awaited me. I will not detail you the events of that awful moment, when, in the open market-place, I laid my hand on the block, and I was bathed in my own blood! Valetty took care of me at his own house until 1 had recovered from the effects of my mutilation, and then generously provided me with travelling money; for every- thing I had in the world, all that I had so laboriously earned, had fallen a prey to the iron hand of: Justice. From Florence I went to Sicily, and from there, by the first ship that sailed, to Constantinople. My plans of future support had all been laid upon the sum which I had intrusted to my friend, and I begged him to allow me apartments in his house; but how astonished was I,when he asked me why I did not occupy my own mansion. He told me that a stranger had purchased, in my name, a house in the Greek quarter, and the same person had in- formed the neighbors that I should soon be there myself. I immediately took possession of it with my friend, and was. joyfully welcomed by all-my old acquaintances. An old merchant gave me a letter, which the stranger who had purchased the house had intrusted to his hands. Iread: ‘‘Zalenkos! two hands are now ready to pro eure you such an independance, that you shall never feel the loss of one. The house that you see and all it con- tains, are yours; and every year you shall receive such a sum of money that you shall be numbered among the richest of your countrymen. May you forgive him who is still more unhappy than yourself!’ I could well imagine who it was that wrote it ; especially when the merchant, in answer to my question, informed me that the person from whom he had received it was a Frank, and that he wore a red mantle. I now knew enough to convince me that the unknown was not entirely destitute of every noble sentiment. In my new house, I found a profusion ‘of the most magnificent furniture, and, in addition, a ware- house, stored with far more costly goods than I had ever before possessed. ‘T’en years have passed since then; dur- ing which time, more from old habit than because it was necessary, | have continued my mercantile journeys; yet never since have I seen that place where I was rendered miserable for life. From that time I have regularly every year received a thousand pieces of gold—this may serve to render me happy, in the thought that there is still some nobility of seutiment in ‘the unknown,—alas! unhappy being! but the money can ‘never wipe away my sorrow, my deep-felt’ grief; Bianca, the: murdered Bianca, still sleeps sally by my side. i ‘The Puck Cigarettes are a success, because manufac- tured without the additional use of opium.—Hachange. “ ‘lytic effect upon amusements of every kind except those CORRESPONDENCE. [Continued Srom Seventh page.| PITTSBURG. July 18.—The extreme heat seems to have had a _ para- of. the concert hall order, which flourish as the green bay tree. The theatres are all closed for the summer season; the opera house having been given over to the carpenters, painters, upholsterers and decorators. _A complete met- amorphosis will take place in this house, and our theatre- goers will imagine themselves in a strange place when it is reopened about the middle of August. The opening attraction will probably be a minature ‘‘Pinafore’‘ party. In my last letter the compositor has made me say that the Standard Theatre Co. will occupy this house: about Au- gust 1 instead of October 1. I notice in the RAMBLER a couple of oui a since a state- ment to the effect that Alice Oates would play next sea- son under the management of Sam Colville. The rumor in this locality is that she will play under management of Sam Jack, the popular manager of the Oil Country Circuit. Miss Lillian Spencer, daughter of one of our prominent dentists, will adopt the stage next season, and, it is said, has been offered an engagement in the company of the North Broad Street Theatre, Philadelphia. Miss Ida Brown of this city will make her debut in ‘‘Fanchon” at Library Hall on August 8. The pleasantest evening resort in this locality at present is Duquesne Heights (Mount Washington). The view from this point is one that for beauty and grandeur cannot be excelled, if equalled elsewhere. Last evening being the occasion of the weekly entertainment of the German Sing Verein we concluded to go up and enjoy the fresh air and music. Just before dusk we take a street car at the cor- ner of Fifth avenue and Market street and we are in a few minutes carried over the great iron bridge to the foot of Duquesne incline, which in a couple of minutes more hoists to the top of the hill, above the clouds of smoke: and dirt, and almost at the gates of Duquesne Garden. As we step out out of the car, we seem to be in a new country and to have taken a new lease of life—the air is so invigorating. Entering we find a large gathering of people intent on pleasure, eating, drinking, lounging or strolling about in evident enjoyment of the occasion, to the delightful accompaniment of a good orchestra. Occa- sionally we stumble on some happy couple seated in a se- cluded corner, discussing ‘‘the ever new question” and building fairy palaces for the future. May all their sweet dreams be realized ! Leaving this merry throng to enjoy the music and such creature comforts as are afforded by ‘‘mine host,’ we take a stroll southward along the brow of the hill, and making ourself as comfortable as possible on a grassy spot, await the coming of the night. As the daylight fades away and pale Luna and the stars come forth one by one, the scene changes from the sublime to one of aw- ful grandeur. Far below, stretching along the base of the hill, lie the sources of a part of Pittsburgh’s great wealth—the furnaces, rolling. mills and glass marufac- tories, with their chimnies belching forth black clouds of smoke and huge tongues of flame, which dance. and leap about apparently seeking something more to devour. This section of the city has been aptly characterized as— ‘*Hell, with the lid off.”” Looking a little beyond we see the picturesque Monongahela winding slowly along on its way to join the Allegheny, glancing and shimmering in the moonlight aud dotted all over with myriads of small water craft, with their many colored lights, darting hither and thither like fire-bugs, at the caprice of their merry crews. Occasionally we hear the plaintive melody of some love ditty born to us on the breeze, telling of some roman- tic party of young ; men and maidens out for a sail on the waters. Situated on the north bank of the river is the city proper, with its tall spires and busy marts of commerce; its principle avenues stretching out in long lines of light, which seem to meet in the distance. and at last fade en- tirely from the view. Above the house- -tops looms up the tali tower of the City Hall, the luminous faces of the great clock standing out_in bold relief like sentries keeping watch “over the multitude below. The view is grand beyond compare, not soon forgotten, and unsusceptible of minute SEE SSS StS SN description; in fact, we are more disposed to sit in dreamy admiration, taking in the scene in its grandeur as an entirety rather than to pay particular attention to in- dividual beauties. We allow the spirit of reverie to take ° full possession of us, it fills us with a strange delight, wonderfully sweet and rare, and we seem from all the world apart. So we sit in silent musing peng. like the lovers, castles in the air. We are brought back to the Poaltties of life by the sound of the whistle at the incline, warning us that the last car is about to descend. Getting aboard we are soon carried to the base of the hill, where we again take the street cars and in fifteen minutes more are once again amid the dirt and din of the city streets, and our evening’s pleasure is a thing of the past. M. J. H. DAYTON, OHIO. July 19th.—The amusements notes for this week are as follows : Memorial Hall.—The stock company gave matinee on Friday, the 18th, to a very good house; on the 19th they gave ‘‘Divorced.” They have iu preparation ‘‘London Assurance” and ‘‘Colleen Bawn.’? On the 17th the Mannerchor Vocal Society of Cincinnati, under the direc- tion of Prof. Otto Singer, gave a very pleasant entertain- ment at this hall on the 17th. The committee have been congratulated frequently on their stock company and es- pecially their manager and stage manager, Messrs. Geo. C. Jordan and Robert G. Wilson. Both gentlemen seem to be the right men in the right place. At the Theatre Comique the attractions the past week have been Keating and Flynn, Neoskleata, Lillie Leoni, and Dan Lake. This house has been doing a firs} class business the past two months. At the Academy of Music the attractions have been Hawley and Armstrong, Bessie De Mont, Jessie Lock- wood, and Dick Coleman. This house also has been doing good business. Gebhart’s Opera House has had a statue twelve feet high placed upon its dome, representing the Goddess of Liberty. It improves the looks of the building very much. Notes.—Adam Sells, of the seven elephant show, was in the city on the 16th on business. The RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY is a favorite in Dayton. NORWICH, CONN. July 19. The New York English Opera Company played Gilbert & Sullivan’s great success, ‘“Trial by Jury” and ‘‘H. M.S. Pinafore,’’ in Breed Hall this evening toa good house. Their afternoon matinee was also well at- tended. The performance was good, the troupe being fully up to the standard of any that has yet visited here. Miss Ethel Lynton, who had the leading parts of ‘‘Plain- tiff’’ and ‘‘Josephine,”’ was obliged to cut several portions of her part owing to severe bronchial troubles. Sidney Smith, as ‘‘Sir Joseph’”’ was an unqualified success. ‘The troupe played in New London on Friday night, and were to play in Newport, R. I., on Monday night. nner Sinerncinaesvemeenmiaaes Up in the litule town of Langrove in the state of Ver- mont is located the original Leland hotel, once under the management of the progenitor of what is now universally known as the largest family of hotel proprietors in the world. This hotel has been purchased by Lewis Leland of the Sturtevant House of New York, who is determined that the patriarchal structure, around which clusters so many happy associations, shall be retained by one of the Leland clan. A full half century has resolved itself into the dim shadows of the past since his grandfather as host received guests at its door, and kindly cared for them be- neath its hospitable roof. Grandfather Leland and tke travelers of those days have long since joined the ranks of the majority, but the rudimentary training received in that old Vermont tavern has developed a race of man- agers who now keep some of the best and most popular hotels in the United States. Grandfather Leland had also the honor of running the first stage and mail route across the Green Mountains, an enterprise of as much magnitude in those primitive days as the management of a railroad at the present time.
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THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY. THE TILE CLUB. After an absence of nearly three weeks, the reckless ‘‘Tilers,’”’ who dared the curses of *‘canallers,”’ kicks of stubborn mules and tricky horses, tosay nothing of the seductive charms of fresh, country femininity, returned to the city on their boat, the John C. Earl. All the members of the club who participated in this rather novel excursion, say they had an ‘‘awful jolly time, you know,”’ and all are determined to repeat the trip another year. And well they may be pleased, for there is nothing will compare with the deli- ciousness of a siestaon the deck of a canal boat, under anawning. Itis undersuch circumstances that the dolce far niente of existence is fully ap- preciated. ‘The voyage, save for one incident, was three weeks of unalloyed felicity. This con- tretemps was the visit of the ‘‘Horse Marines’’ of Albany to the club, an organization which one of the members of the club more forcibly than elegantly, though doubtless justly, describes as a club of ‘‘bummers,”’ But the ‘‘Horse Ma- rines’’ were not made very welcome, as most of the ‘Tilers’? sought: ‘‘the seclusion which a cabin grants”’ and left their visitors in possession of the deck. ‘Then, too, Sarony was captured by a (presumably) pretty girl, the daughter of one of the lock-tenders, and in his efforts ‘‘to se- cure her shadow, ere the substance perished,’ was left behind, and had to tramp it several hours before catching up with the other members of the party. ‘The ‘Tilers’? made nearly five hundred sketches during the jaunt, among others, a life-size oil study of ‘‘Tom,” their colored cook, of whose culinary abilities the club speaks in high praise. The following are the names of the members, together with their soubriquets: Mr. Hopkinson Smith, alias “The Owl?’ Mr, Arthur Quartley, alias ‘“‘Marine.”’ Mr. J. Alden Weir, alias ‘‘Cadmium.”’ Mr. W. M. Chase, alias ‘‘Brizreus.”’ Mr. F. Dielman, alias ‘‘Terrapin.” Mr. C. S. Reinhart, alias ‘‘Sirius.’”’ Mr. W. R. O’Donovan, alias ‘The O’Donog- hue.” Mr. Knauth, alias ‘“‘Horsehair.”’ Mr. W. Mackay Laffan, alias ‘‘Polyphemus.” ' Mr. Baird, alias ‘‘Baritone.”’ Mr. Earl Shinn, alias ‘‘“The Bone.”’ . Lewenburg, alias ‘‘Catgut.”’ . Swain Gifford, alias ‘‘The Griffin’’’ . Sarony, alias ‘Hawk.’ . [watchman was the guest of the excur- sionists. S80) ATER eee MEMORIES OF THE STAGE. BY WM. L. KEESE, BURTON’S »>THEATRE—CHAMBERS STREET. Twenty-five years ago, where now towers the imposing edifice of the American News Com- pany, delighted audiences were wont to assemble in the inviting dress-circle and cosy parquette of that Temple of Comedy, Burton’s Theatre. Rather down town than otherwise, perhaps, it enjoyed a monoply of Brooklyn patronage; yet New York knew well the genius of the host of Chambers street, and when the magician waved his wand all yielded to the spell. The reputation of Mr. Burton’s Theatre was in a measure. unique. The manager’s extensive repertory and amazing versatility easily furnished an engaging programme, not to mention the ad- mirable company enrolled under his banner, ena- bling him at will to cast most of the old comedies, so called, with entire adequacy. I need but to name a few of his dramatic staff to prove its strength beyond all cavil. There was Henry Placide, that superb artist, OUR SUMMER GARDENS. In the matter of summer amusements New York is well provided for. A lover of fresh air and good music who could not be suited with either the Madison Square Garden (4th. avenue and 26th street), or Koster and Bial’s Garden (28d street near 6th avenue), an d especially with both, would be indeed hard to suit. Each> resort differs from the other, and each has its peculiar adyan- tages.. The Madison Square Garden is laid out on the then in the fullness of his great DOWET BOW) | larger scale; its adornments are more ornate; it has a alas, no more. Hewas Mr. Burton’s ‘‘old man”’ par excellence. ‘There was the late Wm. Rufus Blake, similar in line to Placide, and yet different ; still his peer, and whose Old Dornton and Mr. Primrose can be recollected by theatre-goers of a past generation as among their most delightful recollections. There was Mr. Lester, with whom time has dealt so gently that even now as Lester Wallack he stands as ‘incomparably our first light come- dian. There was T. B. Johnston, an eccentric come- dian without a peer, whose creation of Uriah Heep was the town talk; and it ought to bea lasting regret that the author of Copperfield could not have witnessed the wondrous conception. Of ladies, there was Mrs. Hughes, one of the most capital actresses of her time; there was Caroline Chapman, whose Susan Nipper was a companion picture to Johnston’s Uriah Heep; and many others, of whom more anon. These were but a few of the galaxy of stars that shone nightly in Chambers street. Add to them Mr. Burton himself, and the climax seems to be reached. No other theatre at that time was equal to the presentation of sterling comedy. Mitchell’s Olympic was of the past; Forrest thundered at the Broadway; Wallack’s and Daly’s were yet to be. It is to record in simple form some memories of nights at, Burton’s, and particularly of the great actor himself, that the articles, of whichthe present is preparatory, will be written. A new crop of actors and audiences has appeared, and the drama has taken a new departure since the palmy days of the Chambers Street Theatre. But it will be a long, long day before the actor shall arise who will compel us to recall the tri- umphs of Willian E. Burton, for the sake of com- parison. ——__—__+9+______ _ “AGAIN, IT IS THE CAT.” Several weeks advertising in the Herald has at last re- sulted in securing for John DeBoney a partner with money, and the interior towns are to be startled, or starred, by the usual ‘‘accomplished’’ company that follows this gen- tleman’s lead. The ‘‘secured’’ partner, Edward Furguson—an outsider of course—will oceupy the position of treasurer, and natu- rally feels safe. Heralded by the most gorgeous posters, and under the name of the St. James Combination, the party took the road last Monday, playing the ‘‘Lady of Lyons” at Fish- kill that evening. SIR AUAE EEN Ot iar Tarr arate Prof. Holden says a great many writers use a vocabula- ry of 30,000 words, and the average among good writers will fall very little below that. That may be true, but when a man tries to-raise a window ina hurry, and catches his thumb between the sash and the fly screen, he doesn’t use more than a half dozen words, but they are worth 30,000 on ordinary occcsions. When a man gets tanned by the sun, does not his face wear an orb-burn hue ? waterfall, and cosy 1etired bowers where Cupid can nestle - unperceived by the throng. Koster and Bial’s has an out-door space, where you feel the night breezes, and see the stars above you; there are stringed instruments in the orchestra, and there is a greater variety of foreign beers. The audiences also differ; at Koster and Bial’s you see more foreigners, an? more Bohemians; at the Madison Square Garden the audiences are more distinctly Ameri- can, and seem more intent upon hearing vocal music and scientific manipulation of the Piano. Let us remark here that Rosa McGeachy, soprano, and Signor Rosnati, tenor, are maintaining their excellent reputations in the somewhat trying acoustic surroundings of the Madison Square Garden. It requires voices of im- mense timbre to fill four acres of space, yet this is the problem proposed to them. Signor Rosnati reminds us of Mazzolini in his best days, a true tenore robusto, yet clear and silvery and sweet. His execution of tke superb aria in Masaniello, on Sunday night, has never been excelled in this city.. No citizen will miss it if he ‘takes in” one garden three nights in the week and the other one four nights. It would be better if, like Sir Boyle Roche’s bird, he could be in the two places at once; but that is out of the question, until Edison invents some plan for its accomplishment. otto pal illlacatn THE GRAVEL MinEs.—Since 1874. washing gravel for gold has become a profitable business in many of the counties of California. The amount of gold taken out de- pends much upon the water supply, which often requires large capital to construct ditches of great length, but when completed and brought out to the placers, the profits are certain and lasting. This particular class of mining is growing in favor in California and among’ investors everywhere, and is considered a safer investment than where immense outlays are required to ascertain whether a vein mine exists or not. A good bed of gravel with water sufficient to run con- stantly one or two hydraulics cannot fail of paying divi- dends upon any reasonable investment. The expense is so small compared with other classes of mining, the re- turns sure and the proceeds easily converted into money everywhere makes hydraulic mining especially a desira- ble business. The production of ore of the Little Pittsbuagh Consoli- dated Mining Company since June 1, and also since the organization of the present company, has been largely increased. LAO a! SelM Med in La In Raymond’s Reports for 1874, page 156, the McGilli- way gold gravel mine is described as now being extensively and profitably worked. Hesays: ‘*The water here is mostly obtained from Canon creek, a large stream flowing into the Trinity from the North. On reaching the rfver it is conducted across through a massive iron pipe resting on wire cables. The ditch constitutes a part of the prop- erty, which is a very valuable one, having for many years returned the owners large net profits.’”’? Again, in his re- ports of 1875, page 170, he says: ‘‘The clean up of the present season is estimated at $75,000, two-thirds of it net profits, and this production could without any great ex- penditure, be nearly doubled.’ Trinity county is one of the best of the gold producing counties of California, hay- ing already yielded about eighty millions of dollars, and her extensive rich placers, capable of unlimited produe-~ tion, are only commencing to be worked. —_———_->- o> —_____—_——- According to Goldsmith and Voltaire, the principal use of speech is to conceal human thought. Upon this theory a man would need a two-story slate and pencil to figure up the mental pearls in the head of the ayerage woman,
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14 THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY. OUR CARD COLUMN. HOW TO PLAY POKER. [Continued from Number 23.] A player whi as first or second, or third, to the left of the dealer, opens on a single pair of Jacks or Queens, has an inferior chance of winning, if the majority of the other players come in, as they are almost certain to do; be- cause at any time before the option reaches the dealer the entrance of one dealer brings on the entrance of another. So much money is on the table that everybody wants a share in the scheme, and even cautious players often come in on Deuces, Splits, Straights and monkey Flushes. Where five or six players are drawing, and where bluffing ceases to be an important element, the chance of the origi- nal element, that is, the chance of the original Jacks is indeed a small one. If a Jack Pot has been opened by a player near the right of the dealer, and you are next to him on his left, it is often a good plan to raise him, even on a weak hand. Nearly all the other players have passed, and they will not come in after your raise, so you are nearly certain to have the opening player as your only opponent, and the chances are even that he will drop. If he. stands your raise he must trust to the draw, or stand Pat; and you have the satisfaction of the last bet. This is far better than com- ing in and eontributing to the Pot on a weak hand, and playing it weakly; as the latter course can hardly ever win, and the former plan will win nearly once in twice. Jack Pots, not being legitimate Poker, are extremely baffling to all calculations. You may, however, accept these propositions without much argument and act upon them. 1st. They are usually opened too near the left of the dealer, and on insufficient hands to warrant the opening. (Not that they fall below the regulations, but that they are not intrinsically good enough to justify the unknown risks ahead). , | 2d. When opened on the immediate left of the dealer, they are usually opened for too much money. 3d. The right hand of the dealer, or the dealer himself opens with the limit bet on a weak hand, and with a coaxing bet on a strong hand. | 4th. If all the players avail of the theory of percentages it has no special value for any. For instance: given a Jack Pot of $80, opened for $5, and four players coming in, if you are a fifth player and hold a split or any other frivolous hand, the theory of percentage does you little good. The more money the Weak hand puts down in such lotteries the less it takes up. Sth. Jack Pots are, par excellence, to be declined except on strong hands, being nearly equivalent to playing face up, the best cards winning. —————$_____.____ . pr a VIL. The ‘‘unlimited” game of Draw-Poker is really never played, because the means of all men are limited. But certain players who are in the habit of making large bets, call their game unlimited, because no limits are imposed, and hence it has become a custom to style their game ‘‘unlimited.”’ To play this game well requires a good deal of money for very obvious reasons, one of which is that no credit is given. Straights are rarely played in this game, and in most respects it relegates the players back to the early days of Poker, when the element of the amusement was bluff, and all that was not bluff was money. Unlimited Poker, however, has admirable points. It abounds in the strongest correctives to avarice; and a quiet player in possession of a really good hand is some- times able to administer a most wholesome lesson to a presuming opponent. And in general it is played softly, the bets being usually within one hundred dollars. The regulations of unlimited Draw-Poker are the Same as the limited game, except that as a matter of custom Straights and Jack Pots are generally not used, and a player is not entitled to call for what money he has about him, if it fails to reach the amount of his opponent’s bet. The reason of this latter rule is obvious. If A and B agree to play the unlimited game, neither party has a right to expect forbearance on a very limited capital. It being granted that A has $25,000, B must not expect to cope with him ona capital of $250; and when A bets $5,000, B must not be allowed to gratify his curiosity, or to subject A to a chance of defeat by depositing his paltry $250 on the table. By admitted rule, B has twenty-four hours to get the money to see or raise any bet,-and in the meantime, the cards are to be sealed up and lodged in hands that are satisfactory to both or all the players. . * Unlimited Poker is not to be played in a scientific man- ner, not by the generality of players. It exists in an at- mosphere of its own, and taken for allin all, isa danger- ous and deadly game. Any slight derangement of the mental faculties, such asis caused by a moderate degree of alcoholic intoxication, or by the depression of ill luck, to play throw up their cards, face downward, on the table, and per consequence, in front of the next dealer. When all who wish to play have gone in, the person putting up the ante can either give up all interest in the pool, thus forfeiting the ante which has been put up, or else can play like the others who have gone in, by ‘‘making good,”’ that is, putting up in addition to the ante as much more as will make him equal in stake to the rest. If a number of players have gone in, it is best generally for the ante-man to make good and go in even with a poor hand, because half his stake is already up, and he can therefore stay in for half as much as the others have had may, and often does, lead to self-destructive play. Such | to put up, which is a percentage in favor of his taking the disasters, toc, usually overtake men of impulsive and amiable natures, who are precisely the ones that society should try to shield from temptations of this nature. — The largest authentic winning that I can place on record as resulting from one hand at unlimited Poker, is $55,000. This was won, by a large four of a kind, over a smaller four of a kind, after the early retirement of a Full Hand. And I need say nothing more about a style of play which is so far beyond the means of the average of American gentlemen. : VIII. The Laws of Draw-Poker, as recognized and acted on in the United States, will be found in the latter part of this volume; an:l in order not to mingle with them the dicta of any private individual, the code as alleged to have heen laid down by Hon. Robert C. Schenck, while in Eng- land is here inserted. ‘This code is published as a matter of interest to the general reader, and must not be taken as admitted law; although as a matterof fact no body of | Poker rules was ever drawn up by a single individual with more precision ur fewer errors. ; THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY. EXTRACT FROM A LETTER OF GEN. SCHENCK TO GEN. THOMAS L. YOUNG, OF CINCINNATI. In the Summer of 1872, while visiting with others at a country house in Somersetshire, the guests as is usual in English society, amused themselves in the evening with games at cards; and, as is also usual, the stakes were for pennies and sixpences. They were anxious to learn the American game of Poker, of which they had heard, and of which some of them already knew a little. I showed them how it was played. When I was coming away the lady of the house requested me as a favor to herself and other friends who found it attractive and amusing, to write down some of the rules of the game, as it is so generally played in America. I complied with her request as well as I could at the very morning of my leaving her hospitable house, and thought little more of my act of politeness un- til she surprised me by sending me some copies of these | rules, which a gentleman, another visitor had had printed for her, and for their own private use and circulation on his own private printing-press. It was very prettily done. It was intended as a compliment, and I am very sure that nobody can be more amazed or more annoyed than my friend, Lady W., and her family and guests, to find that they haye thus unwittingly brought down on me the wrath and reprehension of so many good people in America. RULES FOR PLAYING POKER. BY THE HON. ROBERT C. SCHENCK, ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NEAR HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. The deal is of no special value, and anybody may begin. * The dealer, beginning with the person at his left, throws around five cards to each player, giving one card at a time. ae The dealer shuffles and makes up the pack himself, or it may be done by the player at his left, and the player at his right must cut. To begin the pool, the players next to the dealer on his left, must put up money, which is called an ‘‘Ante,”’ and then in succession, each. player, passing around to the left, must, after looking at his hand, determine if he goes in or not; and each person deciding to play for the pool must put in twice the amount of the ante. Those who decline risk. This, of course, does not apply if any one has ‘raised,’ that is more than doubled the ante before it comes around to the starting point. Any one at the time of going in must put up as much more as double the ante, and may put up as much more as he pleases by way of “‘raising’’ the ante, in which case every other player must put up as much as will make his stake equal to such increase, or else abandon what he has already put in. Each player as he makes good and equals the others who are in before him, can thus increase the ante if he chooses, compelling the others still to come up to that in- crease or to abandon their share in the pool. All “‘going in” or ‘‘raising’’ of the pool, as well as all betting afterward, must be in regular order, going round by the left; no one going in, making good, or increasing the ante, or betting, except in turn. When all are in equally who intend to play, each player in turn will have the privilege of drawing; that is, of throwing away any number of his five cards and drawing as many others, to try thus to better his hand. The cards thus thrown up must be placed face downward on the table, and, for convenience, in front of or near the next dealer. The dealer, passing around to the left, will ask each player in turn how many cards he will have, and deal him the number asked for from the top of the pack with- out their being seen.’ The dealer, if he has gone in to play for the pool, will, in like manner, help himself last. The players must throw away their discarded cards be- fore taking up or looking at those which they draw. In the game every player is for himself and against all others, and to that end will not let any of his cards be seen, nor betray the value of his hand by drawing or play- ing out of his turn, or by change of countenance, or any other sign. It is a great object to mystify your adversa- ries up to the ‘‘call,’’? when hands have to be shown. To this end it is permitted to chaff or talk nonsense, with a view of misleading your adversaries as to the value of your hand, but this must be without unreasonably de- laying the game. When the drawing is all complete, the betting goes around in order, like the drawing, to the left. The ante man is the first to bet unless he has declined to play, and in that case the first to bet is the player nearest to the dealer on his left. But the player entitled to bet first may withhold his bet until the others have bet round to him, which is called ‘‘holding the age,’’ and this being an ad- vantage, should as a general rule be practiced. Each better in turn must put into the pool a sum equal at least to the first bet made; but each may in turn in- crease the bet or raise it as it comes to him; in which case the bets proceeding around in order, must be made by each player in his turn equal to the highest amount put in by any one, or else failing to do that, the party who fails must go out of the play forfeiting his interest in the pool. When a player puts in only as much as has been put in by each. player who has preceded him, that is called ‘‘seeing’’ the bet. oe When a player puts in that much, and raises it, that is called seeing the bet and ‘‘going better.” When the bet goes around to the last better or player who remains in, if he does not wish to see and go better, he simply sees and ‘‘calls,” and then all playing must show their hands and the highest hand wins the pool. When any one declines to see the bet, or the increase of bet, which has been made, he ‘‘lays down’’ his: hand, that is, throws it up with the cards face downward on the table. If all the other players throw down their hands the one who remains in to the last wins, and takes the pool without showing his hand. [To be continued.]
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THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY. Home Book anp PuBLisHING Company, PRACTICAL | ete ee): TOR PRINTERS, | 31 DEY STREET, NEW YORK! PUBLISHERS OF THE RAMBLER AND DRAMATIC WEEKLY, PAPER TRADE REPORTER, WATER, GAS AND STEAM, — GAS CO. AND WATER CO. DIRECTORY. Ld We have one of the most complete BOOK AND JOB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENTS in the city. New styles of type and material are being constantly added to our large stock, and we are prepared to turn out on the shortest notice anything in the shape of printing,—Billheads, Letterheads, Noteheads, Satements, Business Cards, Envelopes, Tags, Shipping Books, Receipt Books, Checks, Drafts, Account Sales, Notes, Bonds, Mortgages, etc. We invite particular attention to our facilities for turni ng cu BOOK WORK, Pamphlets, Catalogues, Briefs, Trai.scripts, ete. We also havea large variety of POSTER TYPE. To patrons at a distance we would say, that we can furnish you anything in our line in first-class style, and at CHEAPER FIGURES than you can procurejthe same in your own neighborhood. Please write to us for estimates on anything, and we will promptly respond. BACK NUMBERS OF THE Rambler and2Dramatic Weekly AND Illustrated Dramatic Weekly SUPPLIED AT THIS OFFICE. a No. 1, containin’g photo of Maup Harrison No.2, * Tee are ee Apa Dyas No. 3, ty ...»MabD. v. STAMWITZ No.4, ” ok bipiie gs Apa CAVENDISH No.5, ? Aice DUNNING LINGARD Wo. 8 i a THomas WHIFFEN No.7, ve .. REMENYI and VoG@RICcH No.8, os oe OR RS MINNIE Havuk No.9, ¥ weeeeeceee LINDA DIETZ No.10, ‘ " . CHARLES CoGHLAN Copies of all the above (except 1 and 2) supplied at regular price, 10 cents each; 1 and 2, 15 cents each. Address Home Book and Publishing Co., (Limited), 87 Dry STREET. A GOOD PLAN Anybody can learn to make money rapidly operating in Stocks by the “Two uncrring Rules for Success” in Messrs. Lawrence & Co's new circular. has made so successful, enables people with large or small means to reap all the benefits of larg- Thousands of orders in various sums, are pooled into one vast ~ amount and co-operated as a mighty whole, thus securing to cach shareholder all the advantages of the largest operator. Immense profits are divided monthly. Any amouut, from $5 to $5,000 or more, can be used suecessfully. N Y. Baptist Weekly, Sept. 26, 1878, says: ‘By tion system $15 would make $75, or 5 per cent; $50 pays $300, or 7 per cent; $100 makes $1,000, or 10 per cent. on the stock during the month, according to the market.” est capital and best skill. trated Newspaper, June 29th: ful ever adopted.” ing by Messrs Lawrence & Co.” Bankers, 57 Exchange Place, N. Y BRAU.N’S SALT-WATER B ATH S DEPARTMENT Foor or 66TH Sr., East River, ARE THE CLEANEST IN THE CITY. Mr. Avaust Braun begs leave to notify the ponte that he has newly refitted the New York ATATORIUM, foot of 66th street, East River, with every accommodation for the comfort and con- venience of Bathers. It includes departments for both Ladies and Gentlemen, arranged with such facilities, and embracing such improve- ments as have been suggested by a long practi- cal experience in the business. In addition to the two Floating Baths for the convenience of Bathers who do not wish to go into the open river, and by which bathers need | not wait for the tide, but can bathe at all hours, a new and splendid PLATFORM, accommodat- ing 500 people, and offering a splendid view of the river and down the bay, has been erected; moreover, in both the Ladies’ and Gentlemen's Bath, a douche has been added. Refreshments will be served for the accommo- dation of patrons as heretofore. The Beautiful Shades and Lawns The situation and advantages of this establish- ment especially commend it to the favor and patronage of the public. The location possesses eauties which are admitted by all, while its ac- cessibility offers peculiar inducements to those who seek a change from the dust, turmoil and heat of the city. Ladies unaccompanied by gen- tlemen may visit here with impunity, as ade- quate guarantees are secured against any possi- bility of molestation or insult. A competent corps of NATATORIAL TEACH- ERS is regularly engaged, and instruction in the art of Swimming, Diving, etc’, will be given on the most liberal terms. All necessary precautions against DANGER have been taken. SCALE OF PRICES. Season Ticket for Gentleman or Lady..:...$3.00 e i for Children, according to age. TMS Te etek S oocubckcedes cage cen Utes 2.00 RNG, db, dso 55359 05 5 PEs bik oo Se ses Ks 4 Instruction in Swimming, $5.00 extra. * AUGUST BRAUN, Proprietor. 20—3 mos. ‘The combination method of operating stocks is the most success- New York Independent, Sept. 12th: upon correct business principles, and no person need be without an income while it is kept work- Brooklyn Journal, April 29th: $100.25 from $20 in one of Messrs. Lawrence & Co's combinations.” explains everything. Stocks and bonds wanted. The combination method, which his firm the combina- Frank Leslie's Illus- “The combination system is founded. “Our editor made a net profit of New circular (mailed free) Government bonds supplied. 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THE RAMBLER AND —— SSeS a ne errr eres et ies ba pe as ti rk) et _, sits taiats tad oh ee sss - a ge 124 FirtH AVENUE f XX Cot, price $1.00. Makes a perfect bed—no Ber. 17ru anp 187TH Srs., WEsT,’ Poe a Where they will be pleased to exhibit their } New Square and.Elegant Upright Piano Fortes, which are universally acknowl- elged to be the BEST NOW MAN- UFACTURED. Fine assorment of NEW PIANOS TO RENT. Old Pianos taken in Ex- change. A variety of Sec- ond Hand Pianos for Sale VERY LOW. ' Ilbustrated Catalogues Mailed. Free. J, ALEXANDER BROWN'S DRAMATIC AN VARIETY AGENCY, 854 BROADWAY, New York. mattresses or pillows required—better than a hammock, as it fits the body as pleasantly, and lays straight. Folded or opened instantly, self- fastening, just the thing for hotels, offices, cot- tages, camp-mectings, sportsmen, &c. Good for the lawn, piazza, or “the coolest place in the house.”’ Splendid for invalids I make the largest and best variety of Spring beds and Cots inthe world. Send for Circulars. “Sent on re- ceipt of price, or C. O. D. HERMON W. LADD, 108 Fulton Strect, Boston; 2U7 Canal Street, New York; 165 No. 2d St. Philadelphia. No. 24—13t PH HEINRICH. TYPE FOUNDRY, 13 North William Street, NEW YORK. D . Near Union Square, The type used in THE RAMBLER AND DRAMA- Tro WEEKLY is from Heinrich’s foundry. : : Transacting business for all first-class Variety Theatres in the U. S. Also doing business for Combinations and Theatres RHEUMATIsS . OR GOUT a S ACUTE OR CHRONIC ~ ~~ =! Te of ¢ ry 2 if ’ ze in 72 ALICWLIC SURE CURE. PORTRAITS. Heh. Manufactured only at wasp the above trade-mark PEE Ae y the Gold Medal, Paris, 1878. oot : : EUROPEAN 37 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK. Elevator from the Strect. FREDRICKS, P0O-TOGRAPHE R, 770 Broadway, Cor. 9th St., _ IMPERIALS, Five DoLLaArs Per Dozen. ~ BOGARDUS, THE PHOTOGRAPHIC KING, Broadway, Cor. 18th Street. NOTICE. A Subscription Club has been opened at the usiness office of the RAMBLER, 37 Dey street, for he importation through the house of I. H. Smith’s Sons, ol this city, of 50 cases of the Rous- teaux Sparkling Saumur, a pure, delicate, dry, uity champagne, which can be laid down in New York in lots of 5U cases, at $12.36 per case. No profit is charged at this office upon the wine and ut this price no one need be without a case of ex- c2llent champagne. ; re Subscribers will be required to deposit with us $3.00. per case as a guarantee of good faith; the remaining $9.36 will be due and payable on the arrival of the wine. Orders can be made from ‘one case upward. A fee | The Home Book and Publishing Company This wine is equal to Piper Heidsieck, 6r (limited) offer to the Trade direct, or through the Mumm, or any ofthe standard Verzenays and | American News Company, a full line of the pub- Sillerys, and in fact belongs to that grade of lications of the Home Book and Publishing production. Should the public appreciate this | Company at most attractive prices, which will scheme of co-operation, other desirable plans will | enable local dealers to retail elegantly bound ~ be announced trom the ottice of the RAMBLER. — and ectavo com lete Shakespeare at $1.25; SALYCILIC MEDICINE COMPANY Of Paris and Leipsie. IMMEDIATE RELIEF WARRANTED—PER- MANENT CURE GUARANTEED. Now ex- clusively used by all celebrated Physicians of Europe and America, becoming a staple, harm- less and reliable remedy on both continents. The highest medical Academy of Paris reports 95 cures out of 100 cases within three days. Secret: the only diSsolver of the Uric Acid which ex- ists in the blood of the Rheumatic and Gouty patients. $1 a box, relieves. 6 boxes, $5, cures. Sent to any address on receipt of price. Indorsed by Physicians. Sold by all druggists. Address WASHBURNE & CoO., ONLY IMPORTERS’ DEPOT, 212 Broadway, N. Y. Knox Block, corner Fulton Street. © CHAMPION BISSELL, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR, 37 DEY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. ATTENTION PAID TO CONTRACTS, MORTGAGES. To the Book Trade, News Agents, &e: HOME BOOK AND PUBLISHING CO., ovels, same size as Harper's and Appleton’s, &t Limited) cents; **Merry’s Rhymes and Puzzles.” 12 mo., ( : 75 cents; ‘*Poets of America,” and ‘Prose 37 Dey St., N. Y. City. OPERA HOUSE, Quincy, Illinois, Managers and Agents of Combinations will lease bear in mind that this eligibly loeated and deservedly popular House will be reseated, and thorongaly refitted for coming seascn. Rent peanaed: and sharing terms to good attractions. Address P, A. MARKS, Q2—2t} Manager Opera House, Quincy, Il. Writers of america,” and a large variety of 12 mos. at 75 cents, all in the best. style of modern book manufacture. Send for Catalogue. You can make business by combining our Shakespeares with this journal. There are no Shakespeares to compare with ours at the price. Private parties remote from news or book dea.ers can receive cither our quarto or octavo Shakespeare, postpaid, by remitting $1.25. Either Shakespeare and this Journal, together, $5 a year, in advance. a HOME BOOK AND PUB. CO. (LIMITED), 37 Dey Street. Pa ESS SU REE che SR eS mk SS SL a ee eS ee MESSRS. HAINES BROTHERS) COO K’S TO Messrs. THomas Cook & Son, originators of world-renowned Tourist and Excursion System, established 1841, beg to call attention to DRAMATIC: WEEKLY. URS! __ PROFESSIONAL CARDS. the their Special Personally Conducted Parties to Europe, | Embracing Ireland, Scotland, England, Holland, Belgium, The Rhine, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, etc., etc., AT THE LOWEST RATE OF FARES EVER YET ADVERTISED. | COOK’S MIDSUMMER TOUR, In three sections, to leave New York on Augus 2 by Inman steamship City of Berlin: 34 days tour $200; 48 days’ tour $300; 64 days’ tour $4u0, All the above tours are first class, allowing the passengers the greatest possible facilities; pro- grammes forwarded on application. COOK’S TOURIST TICKETS TO ALL PARTS OF EUROPE. Single Journey and Excursion Tickets, avail- able any day and by any train, at reduced rates, by all lines of steamers. COOK’S EIGHTH ANNUAL TOUR ROUND . THE WORLD, Will leave New York on Sept. 8th, and San Fran- cisco on Oct. 1st. SEVEN MONTHS’ TOUR $1750. sian tat specially prepared, containing Chart of the World, by mail, 15 cents. COOK’S AMERICAN TOURS To all places of Pleasure Resort in the United States and Canadas, Programmes now ready. Cook's ExcursIonist contains fares for over 1,000 Tours; by mail, 10 cents. For full particulars please address THOMAS COOK & SON, The World’s Ticket Office, 261 Broadway, N. Y. MADAME P. A. SMITH, ARTISTIC DRESSMAKER, has designed,and made, decidedly the hand- somest toilets worn by many of our leading actresse3, to whom she refers. Magnificent wardrobes frrnished on short notice. 117 W. 28th Street, N.Y. CHOICE BOOKS, Second hand, but in good order and well bound, at the prices mnrked, delivered free by express or mail in any part of the United States. Illustrated Catalogue of London Exhibition (in German), elegantly and copiously illustrated, two superb gilded qharto vols., $2.00 per vol. Lord Kame's Criticism, octavo, $1.00: price on the Picturesque, $1.00; Kett’s Elements ef Gene- ral Knowledge, octavo, 2 vols., superb half calf, $1.00 per vol.; 4 vols. ‘Knickerbocker’ 1855-7, half turkey, superior, $1.00 per vol.; collection of superior English Comedies, by Colman and other standard authors, 2 vols., octavo, calf, superior, $1.50 per vol. Tytler’s History, octavo, 3 vols., half morocco, $1.00 per vol. Nare’s General History, octavo, $1.00. Whittier’s Ballads of New England, illustrated, tinted paper, octavo, elegant, $1.00. Watkins’ Biographical, Historical and Chrono- logical Dictionary, octavo, half calf, $2.00; rare and valuable. ~ ; Wilson’s Archeological Dictionary; Classical Antiquities of Greeks and Romans, octavo, half morocco, beautiful and valuable, $1.50 HOME BOOK AND PUB. CO., 37 Dey St., N. Y. CHOICE PAINTINGS For Sale at the office of the Home Book and Pub. Co. (Limited), 37 Dey Street, N. 7%. 21 2t A genuine example of TONY JOHANNOT, the famous French Illuminator of Don Quixote, and before Dore, Rabelais, 444 in. by 644 in. in the clear, and elegantly f Tentation de Joseph.” Price, $50. An Alpine Scene 8 in. x 15 in. in the clear, choice gold-framed, signed by E. Guedy, Paris, incontestably genuine, $30. A Scene in the Pyrenees, 19 in. x 27 in. in th clear, signed Des Varreaux, of Paris, genuine; handsome gold frame, $40, These Paintings. offereduat less than half their real value, can be seen at oer office, or parties at a distance can order on thbsollowing conditions: The purchase money to esentto us orto any respectable banking hous here in trust; the picture to be then sent by ucarefully boxed, and should the purchaser elect to decline it he can do so by returning it in the same box at his own expense both ways, and regaining his full remit- tance. HOME BOOK AND PUB. CO. (Limited), 37 Dey St., N. ¥. BD Q” EN FAW acide gold-framed, entitled ‘La |. PRO R EERE NORE REESE REE REE EOEEEREOREESREESERESEER SEES OEE SESE ESSESEREREEEEEEEEROEEEOS SOE S CREE ETeeErSnaneenede a hag tev THORNTON, | . Atliberty. First-class Theatres or Com- binations. Address Dramatic Agencies, N. Y. RS, J. L. CARHART, ; Disengaged. Address Agents, or 109 West 23d St., N. Y. ISS MEROE CHARLES, Engaged for Juveniles. Season 1878-9, McVicker’s Theatre, Chicago. ISS NELLIE BLAND, —Balladist. Address, care J. Alex. Brown, 854 Broadway,N.Y. ENRIETTA VADERS, Leading Lady. . _Disengaged for season 1879-80. Address 123 Dana St., Philadclphia, Pa. M*s ROSE LISLE, ; Address Agents. M* EDWARD ARNOTT, Address Agents. S. WARREN, ‘ Treasurer Coates Opera House, ansas City, Mo. RS. J. H. HACKETT, Tragedienne. Address 144 East 28th St., N. Y. ISS NELLIE JONES, Leading Juvenile or Soubrette, At Liberty. To engage for season 1879-80. Address 31 Lafayette Place or Agents. \Y Gee KATE FLETCHER, ’ Leading Lady. ‘Address, This Office or Agents. \ | LLE. VERNONA JARBEAU—Opera Bouffe. Hebe in H. M. 8. Pinafore, Also Duchess in Little Duke. Address RAMBLER AND Dramatic WEEKLY. \ | Scie SHEPPARD, Balladist. Address RAMBLER AND DraMATIC WEEKLY. IsS JULIA JEFFERSON, : Juvenile. Address J. Alex Brown, 854 Broadway. ABRIELLE DU SAULD, As Sophie Bunker, in Won at Last. llooley’s Theatre, Chicago. A S. LIPMAN, ‘ ass At Liberty. . Address Agents. RS. CLARA FISHER MAEDER, ; Ove t Liberty. Address 1927 Girard Avenue, Philadelphia. BEN PLYMPTON, Letters to Brown, snag London, E. C. & Co., , England. R. JAMES O'NEILL, Leading Man, Baldwin's Theatre, San Francisco. t Home, ; Ypsilanti, Mich. ISS JENNIE HUGHES, French Spy. Starring Tour. Address 52 Bond St., New York. ISS MARIE PRESCOTT, As Princess tes Fatinitza, alifornia Theatre. Address, This Office. | S. WOOD, | As Boy Detective, : And other Specialties. Address, This Office. ERTHA FOY, Operatic Vocalist. Permanent Address, 219 West 13th Street, New York. ELEN RICHMOND. Address, This Office. OBERT BROWER, Characters and Heavy. Address J. Alex Brown, 804 Broadway. OMINICK MURRAY, Address J. Alexander Brown, 834 Broadway, New York. E. SHERIDAN, ° Address 115 East 14th Street, New York City.