Show GOTHAM GOSSIP A fashionable fizzle deadly disease batea the trout TI alme a 1 6 feaks FATor favorita ital a d tetory comments feathered fighters br barour our correspondent 11 the ball ia is an in event of oatha the past but what a abject subject for gossip it baa has been for both those who were there and those who were absent that it waa was a success cannot be said aid in fact how could such barefaced CALF be an occasion for entertain entertaining an peo POO pie now to begin at the beginning the floral decorations decora tiong and other ornamentations were not nearly so elaborate or ato as re te cited in tho papers and and the fabulous figures which were mentioned as having been ix expended may be safely discounted sixty per cent and still leave a margin of the twelve hundred invited guests about five hundred did not come burreal our real boc society ety 1 declined to be present to well all the vanderbilt pride of who did come many of the ladies dress dressed edver very plainly it seem seems that a number arthem of them had gotten artist artists to design costumes for them these designs however were indiscreetly communicated by the modi modister stes to other ladies tidies and thus in several instances cc s they were copied the origins originators thereupon declined to appear in their selected cou coutumas and put on some simple makeshift but the worst disappointment cfall of all was that about one the champagne gave out most of the gentlemen were unable to fat anything to eat and there for fore tried to DROWN THEIR that when the calamity occurred the hat bat was quietly passed around and some one went to a drug store not far off and purchased bis his entire stock of apolinaris water so much for this much talked about social event vent the weather has been extremely raw and changeable during the past week As a result the mortality from lung and bronchial diseases disease is very heavy last week there was fatal cases TUX MORTALITY for thirteen vears years for the corresponding weeks this week the indications are that this number will be largely increased what has saved us thus far is the humidity odthe of the atmosphere which has been so great as to make our climate rei resemble emble that of colorado which is now ft A favorite re eort for suffering from affections of the respiratory organs yet in spite orthis of this physicians with any sort of clientage are kept almost con still scantly on the go business too languishes under this weather when ladies find comfort beneath fur lined circulars and sealskin coats costs they are not going to imperil their health by changing them for the liht light spring fabrics TEN in may ay be delightful enough for an hour or two after neou jacon but th the a chances aro are five to one every time that a raw breeze will spring up and cut through ones clothes like a knife and then there is pneumonia in less than no time on sunday nominally but actually on monday the trout season opens april fl first rat may ba be fools day to many but not to the angler who has spent a week in ove overhauling lini his bin rod fly books hooks and other paraphernalia of the modern piscatorial artist on the night before the season opens there is a general emigration FOB FOR THE AND STREAMS of long island either owns bis his own preserves or a friend who will allow him to cast a fly lly on his do dimaia most of the trout on long island are cultivated fish that is to say they are artificially h hatched a and carefully raised on ch chicken acken liver etc aa As a result they frequently lack that gamy flavor BO so dear to the as a came a me fish flab haio showing wing strength and skiff skill on th the a hook 0 k they frequently surpass their wild brethren the southside South side club will have a grand time sunday night its members consisting of f some of of the best beat men from the business and professional community will sally forth en an sunday afternoon to the famous grounds and after A and a long smoke together with a hot toddy will retire early in order to be up long before sunrise sun rise on the morn neof the second and go to work bof the he South sides grounds are famous for its trout they form the largest private demesne demeans devoted to sporting purposes The club haa has but recently purchased fifteen hundred aar acres es more ind and now it is unsurpassed for abundance and quality of came game and fish A friend in germany germant sends me a copy of the berlin barc bar ten courier c in which a sensational story is told apropos I 1 of the death of Gorts Gort chakoff the great russian states statesman man the writer cays says that in 1881 h he a was in baden baden among the truest vests was an american lady of magnificent figure figura fl 9 A rarely beautiful fac face and eyes which which simply enthralled all that came calms within their reach one evening be W baj wa walking aking in the park when he be no ed unit ALONE A short distance behind her walked an old did gentleman the writer follow ad the pair when suddenly the lady t arned antu a IL recess formed by trees and d vines and sat down upon a Is rustic bench neb the old gentleman did the same ne and taking a seat beside her at once began bezan speaking in an animated tone A of cou course arse the conversation conver allon was of love ve the lady listened in an apac manner but the gentleman final finally she grew r more animated rose and swept away the gerleman gentleman WM was no other than thin P prince rince koff who despite hie his years never lost confidence in his 0 W or over the gentler sex and kheuv the lady was as JOSIK the woman troman for whom stokes killed jim fink the erie kiner kin and came within an ace of orkin ing from the tile the gallows now this story sound 4 very pretty and very romantic but I 1 think U k it lacks licks one out very important ele 10 ment and that ia Is truth jasie josie mansfield was in europe and germany too but I 1 am almost posit positive lye that it prior r to 1881 1981 1 I am pretty aura sure that she ella has been living la in town for the last three yeara years I 1 know that ahe she ii Is living here at present on the west side of the city between soth street streets it is less less than a week ago a a gentleman told me he had see been va her think whom I 1 have bays seen he ex claimed josia Mansil mansfield eld but I 1 would not have her bad had I 1 not been told it was ahe she U HAS 16 BECOME OLD and haggard looking her ifor cent proportion r op artio n a wb which ic h entranced fisk isk have 1 wasted away and I 1 think she the is dying of consumption sowing the wind and reaping tha the alliff whirlwind hl liff is it not the tho nine day days wonder the shooting of Ila the ha betrayer oi of mrs abler by lier laer brother ia Is ended con conkling ka kline ing ha as been discharged by police justice smith and gone back t to nevada evada with his sister the justice justic rightly held that the shooting was done IN IM mr and now the papers that bad had been shrinking shrieking that the young man had bid done well when he tried to rescue the family honor denounce justice smith for doing the common sense act such ia is consistency when haverstick IIa was dad dead everybody e ody who anew him said it is a good thins that we are rid of hini him now that be he haslett has left what little property remained after his extravagant trava gant tife life to his mother these same weathercocks aay say wall he was not a bad fellow after all he wag was treated rather too harshly but no one saya says anything about tha the wretched woman who was the cause of it all I 1 dont know for certain whether THE SPARROWS have emigrated en matie masse from faiia chu since they were outlawed there there but at all events in no previous spring do I 1 remember seeing so many of ef them as this year the little fel felo iowa in certain portions of the city are aa as thick aa as files tiles and they have appetites like steerage passengers after er a voyage across the atlantic A week ago go we fed a delegation of them with crumbs from a window of our house since then they are steady pensioners appearing e every ery morn mornine and even fighting the th cat who cam came to the front in the hope of getting a came ame lunch at the city hall ball they tave have invaded a spare room on the top floor and formed an encampment and at the tombs prison they are so numerous that they organize regular attacks on warden finns pet pigeons and the pigeons get the wont worst of it they literally OWN CITY HALL MALL PARC PARK and gt got along famously with the boot blackd and camine that abound there almost every morning two or three pairs of gentleman pent Leman sparrows have a pitched battle on nt the e lawn on the broadway side of the tbell hall all A crowd gathers at once but it is hard bard to aay pay whether they are more interested in the tiny gladiators than the members of their own families ei i who wh perched upon the branches of the trees look on like connoisseurs and occasionally turn round to chatter iatter cl as if it they were wagering seeds on the result it struck 1 me the other morning that perhaps reaps darwin got his idea of evolution from a scene like this april 2nd and |