Show amusements AMUSE amusements MENis 1 IN 4 NEW YORK sleana means by which visitors to gotham are Enter tallied A correspondent 3 W S 11 f furnishes ur the following relative to amusements in the american metropolis many people doubtless wonder what a city of this size contains in the way of amusements and other attractions to visitors for their benefit t f will try to describe a few of the things to be seen here 0 1 I 1 referred to the park in AL a former letter and mentioned some of the seene swithin particularly the menagerie and its singular inhabitants one of the most pleasing evening entertainments is I 1 furnished arni shed in THE EDEN MUSEE this building contains a very line fine collection of wax figures mostly of the prominent people of various countries it is almost equal in artistic display to madame Tussa establishment lish ment iu in london and in some essential particulars it is even more attractive A very fine orchestra performs choice selections during we evening and the music is certainly delightful many quaint personifications greet beet the visitors gaze as lie he enters t the ti 1 0 brilliantly lighted building A siga beware e of pickpockets pick pockets surrounded by several persons attracts the attention immediately on entering the anteroom one of these personages is an english tourist looking at the notice through his teye eyeglasses glasses A strong minded spinster is also taking in the situation with an aa air of they cant get the best beat of me breathed in every tuck and crease of her costume while A WELL DRESSED SHARPER is just in the act of picking tite the pockets of the company at the door of the main hall the ticket taker is entrenched by the side of a stalwart policeman who looks with a shrewd glass eye at each visitor and has often been accosted with familiarity mili arity by the questioning crowd in the wain main hall groups of states men actors musicians and foreign potentates poteat ates are nicely arranged and numbered so as to correspond with illustrations in ia a pamphlet sold to visitors at the door gladstone stands in apparent conversation with the czar of russia woo who notwithstanding his bis rank and reputation for despotism is 1 asdall a small sized puny looking man no larger than gladstone and possessed of less dignity in fact j judging f from roul waxwork wax work exhibitions the large men man of the world seem to have been reserved for the military rather than the civil walks of greatness and some of those are more in the ranks than at the ibe head bead tf of the army general boulanger stands out conspicuously and seems ready for either a private duel or a tt pitched eb e b ed battle with any one in the as sem w wage blage while the grand men whose winds minds MOULD and whose kentus genius builds up the civilization we glory in the statesmen and litera tiare found to be modest and retiring shrinking from the public gaze they shine from their seclusion as the giants of history theirs is the power behind the throne which Is ie greater than the throne itself for thy they make and unmake governments an and kings gladstone beaconsfield Beacons field and bismarck in foreign lands loom up as s among the greatest olour time uth the group of actors shows irving irvcng booth terry and bernhardt Bern Birn bardt haidt among the musicians we w e see liszt mozart beethoven sullivan and wagner down in the basement of the building ag is found the office of the anarchists with the seven leaders full fall life size plotting their sinister crime crime at chicago scenes in the life of the savior then lolow follow showing how i e t the he nalliva ft OR on the cross waith which 11 is s oo 00 0 all lifelike iks aa to be almost appalling the nails are lust just being driven through the feet while jesus sits in great agony ON THE CROSS which to is lying on tae ground the scene is very realistic but bat not more so perhaps than that of the scour scourging tag just previous to the crucifixion the the sepulchre after the resurrection of the lord with the angel seated and the women seeking christs body is also very fine then come scenes in the life of a murderer showing the fearful deed the trial and the exe execution cation also garfield on his deathbed death bed and guiteau in bis condemned cell opposite up stairs are stereoscopic views from nearly every large city in the world they ther ought to have some from salt lake but shell get there by and by a the finest theatre in new york is the casino it is entirely modern in design and resembles nothing in en england or america I 1 ever saw in tae the thearl thear cal ical line it is immense in size is provided with a splendid stag and has orchestral stalls boxes an anc balcony in the rear of which is the place that corresponds with our third circle but the building is so peculiarly I 1 constructed that it is unique on tae e upper floor door is a buffet where ladies and gentlemen iet get refreshments between b the sets acts and an on the roof is a garden for concerts you can buy admission tickets without seats and stand through the performance perlor mance between the two balconies it if you vou take an unoccupied seat the usher dressed in swallow swallowtail tall coat and white tie calls out check and unless you can show that important piece of pasteboard you are invited to resume the perpendicular position and then you go and purchase a meat tor for fifty cents or a dollar according to location the piece on the boards when I 1 revelled bevelled revel led inthis in this glittering palace of fashion was tae pretty opera Er arminte minte and it was superbly mounted and presented the english wilson maintained the leading comic part and tor for the five hundredth tim time brought down the house as the escaped convict in baronial costume they gave a souvenir worth a dollar as an ornament to every lady in the audience Batch elors were mad all the evening 1 I was not captivated by the 14 beggar student AT or in fact an any other ether performance I 1 witnessed minstrels are cle delighting lighting the admirers of burnt burat cork talent and slavin have just closed a similar performance to that given by y them in salt lake some tim time eago ago minstrelsy is losing its hold afon upon the new york public though the s singing aging still continues good and the performance quaint and humorous but itow bow they do laugh hero here headed jokes the west beats the east 0 on 11 fun every time chestnuts are in fashion here long after they become tale enough to bury in salt lake in fact they are disinterred and re clad for a second career of usefulness when the newspapers get through with them they are taken takei up by the minstrels and to the ministers the latest conundrum aa wh why are pianos the most honorable of all instruments st because they are Upright square and gr grand and this is f from row philadelphia it reached new york yet |