californian gossip.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 22, 26 January 1880, Page 5

californian gossip.

"Silver-Pen," the San writes :— , , TT '' iUi OUR NEWS BOYS. *U f *' £Sf#@*#& tom 7 fr fcfeC to hear some particulars of a claejaof bayaiwho are entirely^ unknown to* the New Zsalanders. The news boya of San , Francisco are.quita a large corporation ' among themselvep, ana upon their, earnest solicitation I have been writing they 1 sue for the honour of appearing, before an "Australian " public (by! |he' .i^a^i jtherfolks; hx e'jalwayslinsist that. New Zealand of necessity be Australia). There ..ore somewhere |»%u.t ;2QP, bja^|i wh^iojipttea sharpj and ;' °^j(e^.^ll^tt^^e^]|a^flrj^ ;^nprningi and : \6ySbjng';. "^^.ar&i^yery^fdiatincib in their classification, some of them being v a fioej intelligent set of boys, whilej the.! majority are- the worst speoiesj '.'.of! "heodluma;." Amoijglthe better order i ■ i jmayi be r , found young. men of 17 ; -to| 1 ~20, years cf age'^whb, in years of patient* . -ploddiagi have amßsaed^. nice., little • '■ T - fortune's qufc^f their g^ .';<jeisi papers. ¥ :^$o t jp']fins .ffirtjin Hajacjlej^ Mu>\ 1 -30 dojlar.s iaiweek" by bis 's^les^ j and iaxthe possessor of ip.OCfo 5 dollars,. • besides several bouses. \ abd „ a igropery ■ store. This-boy-began l business yiih . . one: dollar* „•> There |4re others iwho m\\\ ... r com,menee with two^bi(s (one phillipg), and littiQ-ohaps of jfour ; o|r fire years - old wilt come intp the pffice, thrp ; w down a dime (10 ! centß), tajke tjie'ir four, .papers, and, ; paving disposed of them, run back in frantic! gleja to ] in^--creaspliheiiZstock..: Eagh .of these boy's <bas-.hU own corner,' audrjfj it iaa coifner . ... .pjast.which.a street-icar rups he has the; privilege of jumping thereupon and 1 ( Woe be to the urdhin -^fhoipbachea-upon his manor, | as out- ; Biderß>qtten :try r to do. iMany of Tthe r .. ladslare graduates of the High 1 School, and still pursue thejr occupation ] after <■■ f aqhoolh : ours^ orUin ;otherviaaes only on' . Saturday .and Sunday, fhe ' genuine daily new* vendor looks with Isuprenfe contempt on a or ' Sunday, ' .news tboy, "T;ou jknow. thefo," sa^T „ ; : 9ne pfmyy^ung^iteim givers, -{by them unbusinesß-like ways, staring in at shop : : , windows,, drawling out the names! of r their "papers in a Bing-song style, jind : :the:peculiar manner of their {folding; ehapa only setl for pocket jmoneyy?' .' ;and; .'the information was (jouoeiled ;•' ;with an,; exprjeaaive shrug and sneer. Whole lainilies are supported ! by jthe little messengers when they are well-brought-up boys. In a cpnversation I L bad wiib a dozen or|So, whjo nllspoke at ' oncej I asked a great many qiiesti^np. ♦• Johnny, do voupiye your mpney^ to your mother ?" "Well, !wbe|n I feel like it, and I've got enough for cigar-e.-ies and the theatre." "Then you , amoke?!' . " You bet lyour boots :on that." But you'rle too young to s-JQok'e." Not much, I'm not. A fallow wants some -fun in itiis life ;if I sell my papers, and a goo )1 day's jwork, I • think ;l ought to stand treat to! myself. , A e.naokeVj'oflly on a cold day, !you !bet .; •your.life." ; " And you," turnirjg to an.-, other, " what have you to cay ?"i I make five dollars a we.ek; give, some :to mother,- put a little ijn Iheib^nk, and now I have— -let' me se?—^2oo! dollars . Baved., l go in for education, lido, yes, andlh.e'N^w Cdnstitutiqq — if ; it djoeß : all it {.ripmissep, I think it's a pretty change^ for the better." .'• They had a 1 pretty big row over aopervisors," Shipped in another. "I say, ma'tim^ /. don't you "think you could help us Xo form a union ?" "A protective one, '* you iknow^'j; broke in another yo ung imp fp-f^bojßthsJx^ : " One at a time, if ypd G [: ijlifaie/'o J pjaid. •« See, missus, jii^ jj |iad|. -pfi jhirD on us reg'lar boys, *a° '-*mMs&sssfy hooda inning m jut _ . J^hji^iapfirjbaliojjld. t jike . >it Jip juweiare-ae,' good a - body las bdh# ..-:•• get sfauc^bits, run forJchan^nold igsnt)! ; '<•; [jampsilito car^ r pobJfcSfc °^a&fej jS^'ael « es, t !ipi^^" u 'ft^P^ipil4 on toxMn&to :&W>VS -te. crpjsrd. iof r.ypang Arabs, who range from four years j too p ;.! 3fotif teea^ all habits ; but the fetter " class of boys .-.•■>^lF!?.i-;!ffi?BSfe' intelligent, and hajrdworkiog, poeeeised^ ofiurge- auma qtr

# fi r 9ffl??«9Rft!.; wen ;lj a,nd, : tradesman ;, spme df r themtiiajre ;ai>le -penfaaen, ■ d6t a few- '{wViie; jvery ;ioreditftbtp'"^sayp,j|nfd '^o,? jejß, \ ''I I ' . — AN EXPRESS LOAD OF CORPSES. I' .herejin, we.; C nineteeth century. f,in this Giiyof^Goldi there are more ful ■ ftro'6e^d|i^yw|t|i jre^ar^i'- tp 7 paulpers* ;'fuoßr/ilr'';t^n^;'in ) ..any'j ojb ( e'r- 'pja^e in" Economy inih.ese. r cases; b| ei&e < -the order of the day, our wise (,?^ ; super vi«jdrß,- for paeons best , k^olwn]; ' ip^opie^yiog j jn > th> / hojßplta.li sWi be conveyed home> .to the .undertaker's testabliShment; | and buried- ["'it ■ his' ( CQnvepiency r ins' ; te^djof. [■bej'ng^ 'X^ie'^d. ' rlg^t' : away. li frAna | ,the : x pl«Sqe £ g f i t^<? ir : , ,d em ie.e. iFor thisl borst-I nesß:bids are received, and the present coffinmdker who; is; ijioky- folder : qf;th'e : cont|[;act, t l bjaYieß : :tb,e^ the" jsn^ajl sjara, of lc|o). bipdy. 1 (Thtljßum I need hardly say^ : does: not. pay but' ; the; ippn tr aoj ' 'ia ;!; coii^de, re j ,. ' ia, " : fjej adtth.e poor,. dead. who ape thus bargained' for are BCwCely. cold 'When 1 . they 1 Btri j>ped; nak^d liad^^j^Ble^^iJito^^ s cquraej r^ugh box, ; ; ani /jar ried away into the, coffio^-ahop, where they are! thrown into a^pell^)* and kept until: there is a ip/ad," jiay sis bojlie.s..' M&S&i *!H eh M J?m\ste> an express jw^ggon .is i loaded with the terribly 1 freight cud carted away at night ;to| ;! PottW's Field, wb'^re' ' ; 'jthe. are diipaped pell, nipll. ' Jl^; i "A,.., ROQr iwo!m'an « whose, spnUy. dying at the City H9»pi- '■ tal, used tpgoeverydavtosee^imi 5 [Ode' inlgft" 1 W ,'.^i e '^"^. ; -i,r,e.w p'fjfoo janjl? beg^d the,;a^e}idan t tß ; to „ae»d; fjojr; hi«: mother, but they paid do heed to his wail- for .:tbe one-loved ftirm.' He; died* 1 ■ in a ;iew' bours,;; atid'- :.^W '^thp '. ' mo|the n , ca^e'naxt 4ay h^r boy wias; dpad. iShe ask«d to see him, \.bui: ibis body ih[ad ; been taken- by the cdffinrdealer. To Kirn she r f i n! *^.jWisb,ijp]s';^'p.' ! jf^.ijr the loy^d.one so; tbp, ? gra«e, but that |wad' not, allowed j }n fact he could not say when he would be buried, as they were wafting for a " load,*' H.'.apyotje, dies Iwhose friepf|s can pjlbcd 4p pay 15 '.dollars for :>tber; coffinl- dealer .makes hiß> profit here. And .this, 1 too, in a Christian country ! Why; l they pay more for the disposal of de^d, auimalfi then ,tbey they do for |tbe •bnrial pf the .^utnan Je6di It is flis^ gusting and brutaliaing to think upoo, and a jcrying; disgrace ; upon . ithe authorities of the city. Still it happens ; under the lee : of palaces, whose turrets and pinnacles look down loftily upon the horrible scenes enacted beneath them; under the eyes pi the cormorants who have stripped the people who often die thus, of every penny, jto raise Jheir' costly construjsjl.ures on tfi© crest 6( "Nob" and oi^er hills. While women! with downcast eyes veil their debauchery beneath (the silken garments of ebame and sin, their fellows are huddled into the .dark an j unsightly hole, without even a rag. to. cover their nakednesß, To oiy, ahame ! bbamelis a word;: all top, mild. ' • „.,.. SOGIETT DOING 3. % Afte^ : Jeayin^, -the of the burial of tlie city dead, 'a glimpse on the otb^ep side may not Cbe uliappropriate. "Society" is again pn the quijpiye, ; /regardlejsajii.g' it'iaver !.is, of. the destitution and heartaches of the poor, of theit, death, or, their irifamousi mo^ie of -burial adjpdged to them, by* some of its worthy members. Ttie.Be^on has opened brilliantly wd continue^ to jbjj.Oßei^^slantl^hir.l^f g&ieif^Mr^ John MacMullins' ball^asawßicii- ;^afe' given to introduce-rheriyoaßgest-dangh--aßsemblea by nun areas, and the house was decorated in the-Jnostu^cguisiter wreaths 'or ilowiSrs ;' hanging backets" of every co'ra&r^^hede fi^emtotsiirpass a1l J bfchbrs I iii f iariy 1 p»aW of the world, so magnificent is-^the' 7 Bis- ; play of dresa aWd diSnYonds;"- -The^fibunce^ of a dress costing 2003:ii6ilai?^i8'' ! ri6JbJ-i' angi^aii al|v U%t'in.ikiw one%eP a sick at heart though, when we think, i asv weicake £iss£±W'fflo,vjif O!thds§ ' • xiude corpses who are buried by the " load " at Idol* 35 cents^ff^hißßd; but then," LoatuTAlly^the^ladi^^^H^wear^tti^ni.

a6vei*Wdabld theii'^ pretty. ! Heads s bdufe; (^■M vulgat thiqgg, berKtJp^ytJa^' I:now! > of ftiem'-^lei; Wfto§§BsufflatWM>t twh: the dresses and the ;t dw ? mondli"sh r; 6^ 'mafe J;hese..baUs,^togfii;h«r^th>the. rf; floeeiß^ -FAS ifelf-f If \Js^/&$&IP i ft ; i . a " picture like,, iairy-laiod j butjustian tfii^c "paVfciculfit l das'Sl wafififo^lil you a bout '■theWpper.^^ne 'table ldng. [by sev^tf^ee^wfde'V in^he' 5 6entre was:; an aquarium on a large scale,sannc untrt' ed Jby^a » r fitfe r f ofv -f^ifch. -jß^te idedc : wings,' navjpigioa cnarinlngtyj;j|al unalv appearance. (At one end otrthe; able:! was»a gond(sla^tb% fedt high, ''g^nddjier;^nder n |b^ a^nfng; J^w hjotei ■Mp^po^f $ sjng^r 1 mi? ndsi At the other c& , planeftree uin landless, feeii i! hi|h- was %no.liheri cry. The ice cream^.tpieqesi; yere! in the farm ; qf can^mericaiiieagie, andi -AH- illuminated-fountain j-Kundreds eof - ,-jw^ je^^d (i^ip\k s McuU{ glace. The- :> glassware was c^ pqife: :cry^ali^b;e'Mre:eßßT«^^ ojjidc silver, and here and there exquisjfce -h^d^«dj|B|l r c^mW^<i]?^nu w i%^a ! S?^^^^fefe«pg#aei«s 9l#©(taMj94n;^npfe.;:^hyfiQ t e|eryi American hotel and 'Jiouae they pe^siqt in having; a OFrencli 'menu'i 'wMdfr bajf. ; naye ; njofc^upi to,ihis , point been tablet pp c . unravel.^ ' x muveuu¥iche-*p nAt ■ at .all .timers giyen.,. tp r ,ni|^'ffiiV %e ti '■?^w.Wm&£M '^MwPh&o %^ign-i om> P«W of (.cour^iMwei -must be ala mode when one gets*rfchv'" : Hy the ■w.ay^ 7 1efc r ;^e, ";';iiiteriju|t , :|pp^ : , c hat : tto'l < ;to]|^ T . : .'y^u i !,an '^.am'usi^.'^^imjjlcent A ooaVeißlnsbnap^ii^um^J^i 1 )^ :dbllartf in: stocks *oshed r off • initanter f& haj^ii himself in ne^'Cl^tb^s; anß?"tt en.i' ■'^^fSu^^e '^K-drjigged ouV^ broker and friends far ; a -ft dhrsitißT. 1^ ; u :!Weill: ttke^ Ghampagny] wiie," ■ Be said. .'• Champdg^-;'^iU^ r oiyHmfi^-'' that agras withjme.Bioma^br ß^^^ 'isn't* a dhrop pf real good whisky! Win the d —^-d .city/'r ; ,So ypß|: ;> Bee JP»V with his turn pf luck thought it /hut' ton to change his beverage, and this; W J like mapner.may apconnt for the Frepch iyetiu, I believe ibe icJifcntpaffn^Biah^ Pat awf aljy sick. Mr' Sam 'Wilson j an f immeasely wealth^ iawyer, has alep v ,b f sd, . .a. .magnificent, •f,,hp ; p/',v,., i Th|eße c , t^iiigs a,re called ..!• bops " here T though in the: old country thi*' is at once the •most Igai"' *ps'\ pttirjpfi '■ n ame f foi a •sa.c;ce.' _' r^,r s fi ,sbll]^^r)^a;i :r b|jD^i\e')Q! ee- f ; I tajning ; ]^»dy :Dof uSvH^fdy^oXjCioiiid on, in very «ourtly atyl^. . Mrs' S; ; dr an-^ other 'ot\ : 'ihQ\ino)iveau\\rijDfiej ! [' 1 wnoai ! stocks lifted out of the mire ijpjf povertyT' arid she does fief "level besT" to jremind the world at large that she iajso, by her attempt at dignity and excjlu-.' siyeness, which does not become her at al', and amuses people who "are to the 1 roanaeryb^rn," though bappliy not foriiuriate BtockTPwqera at present. Mrs S iil- ! "abee. to/be uocommoo, holds receptions' on Friday afternoons, which she culls ■" mati6eefl," and at which nothing >ut French is^epokea. She is no doubt hoi ling a French Court in thought. There was a French, Court at the Aathor'a Carniyal, r dqubtlesß she (oj--. lowa' suit. So you ace th^ae people. .woulJ, UQderatandithe; viejiul. spj^ke of, : Again 'Mrs'S. holds reoeptions on Suniday eyeninge, wht^hMs quite an idea pf , t hier b.wn^and, nol^at, all [religious, then religion tttkea a back-seat in this/ country when everything else is par-,'i adei in frdbti ' -Private people ace,; givjng, fanijy.d^ees -balls io^ueceiSioji.' j indeed ,t 1 h i cy.ar i e i .alL.i J he. > rage. Mrs Dr^ t j^r%;,wUl| giye^a^ B|ries •of brjlliaafe, UnterUinfeentJdaring She, -is a 'delightful woman, and everything! "she'does'is "dore^weTT, being one of ihcfe yb^dißpfaooljltttfa«tloayia td^ojag^hillhe,dda»dD]t«rffiobajriied nak i& % i • and i their npfedple/ dainofceven havnAK chance ;td mfiaihSiiJ; dying )i)M .-"-Society-" goes on as gaily as a la k, aiAß^linjaggiLaniJiiiftnies^ -h