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Show v , ' Gotham Gossip. From our regular Correspondent. New York, March a, 1SS3. " New York is gradually becoming the home and headquarters of the crocsuses of the country. At thesame time literary people and artists are making X it their camping ground. Among the arrivals in L town this week was Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur- net, the popular authoress of "That Lass o' Low-;J Low-;J ries," "Ha worth's," etc., and the well known play "Esmeralda." She goes to Europe this summer; and after that will probably make Gotham her permanent per-manent abiding place. An old land mark is about to be doomed. This !s the little coffee and cake saloon in Chatham Square known as Hitchcock's. For thirty years it has wielded its benign influence over the workers down town. It never closes. Its patrons consist mainly of car drivers and newspaper men. Here Greely and whitelaw Reid, Raymond and a host of other journalists, artists, musicians and actors, have sat in the small hours of the morning after the work was over, discussing the events of the day, over a fragrant cup of coffee and biscuits, which were white without the use of arsenic. The pro-prietor pro-prietor has grown wealthy in dispensing coffee o and cakes, and his guests have gained in happiness. happi-ness. Chatham Square will scarcely be itself without the light streaming on the sreeet from r his little cellar. March 9th. Exhibits from all parts of the country are beginning to pour in on Fish Com-D Com-D rnissioner Blackford for transmission to London. ' 1 had a little talk with him the other morning and " he assured mo that it would surprise him verv t much if America would not repeat her Berlin tri- timph, where she distanced every competitor not JB ' alone in the immediately practical display of the H 1 varieties of fish caught in our waters, the modes of securing them and the methods of preserving K them, but also, and mainly at that, by her progress in fish culture. Apropos of this, it may interest - ' you to know that quite a large amount of fish are . weekly shipped to England in their various sea- tons. The Duke of Sutherland and several other ? high and mighty subjects of Queen Victoria, who haye an appreciation of the good tilings of life H arc regular customers for trout, salmon, bass and other toothsome game fishes. They are packed fresh in fine ice and arrive in London in as perfect r condition as if they had just been taken from the water. An old hotel changed owners this week. This - t t was the Merchants Hotel in Cortland St. Some years ago, under a former management, it was the metropolitan resort for Jerseymen. From the ferry at the foot of Cortland Street, the men would make a bee line for the snug, cheerful bar-room where squadrons of other Jerseymen were ranged at the bar to greet them. From a certain parlor the whole State of New Jersey was ruled. Governors and leaders of parties would meet there and discuss dis-cuss their plans. Slates were madp and broken there, and if any one wanted to know what was to be the next move in Trenton, all that he had to do was to go to the Merchants Hotel. The Westminister Kennel Club has begun preparations pre-parations for its annual bench show, which takes place in May next, and people with fine dogs ought not to miss the opportunity of entering tbem in the classes to which they be-: . t, for the chances of studying superb specin . of caninity and finding out where and how improvements can be made on many. March 16. Any one living outside of New York can have no idea how the boxing mania has seized upon the popular fancy. Young men and old men, laborers and professional men, all arc able to discuss the merits of the gladiators, and the number of these trying to fit themselves for the art of handling their "dukes" by a course of boxing lessons is legion. Women and girls too have caught the fever. In a quiet side street, just off Sixth Avenue, one of the professional female boxers who use to display her science at Harry, Hill's so-called sporting theatre has opened a gymnasium for ladies. She is an Englishwoman of about 35 years, massive in proportions, a hard hitter, and despite her weight agile as a cat. Her gymnasium has not been open long but she already al-ready boasts of a remunerative number of pupils. |