Judge — December 29, 1883 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. THE JUDGE. 324, 326 and 328 Pearl St., (Franklin Square.) NEW YORK. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Usren States asp Casapay OMPANY. $21, 2 a CORRESPOXDEXTS. ro THIS OFFICE AT TH x oRisK, Waene #1 NCTLY REPUDIATE ALL RESPONSIBILITY FoR RCC 4s EVERY Case, WHERE 4 PRICE 18 SOT AFFIXED RY THE WRITER, CONTRINCTIONS WILL RE REDARDED AR GRATCTTOCS, AD SO SCRE WORST CLAIM YOR REMUNERATION WILL RE ENTERTAINED. CHRISTMAS. Iy the full enjoyment of the glow of satisfaction which the merry Christmas season never fails to impart to every honest breast, Te JupGe wishes his readers and the public generally a very merry Christ- mas. Whether they will have it or not, he is not present prepared to but he would like to see the expectant stockings of ull his friends crammed to overflowing with all the good things the world can offer them. Ife would like to a Speaker's stool—since the chair seems to be unattainable; he would like to see Anna Dickinson fitted out with a new play, since she cannot make “ Hamlet” go; he would like to pristine hu the Rev, Mark Twain reendowed with his and he would like to see age provided with a new sensation, Hang up your stockings, gentlemen; there is a chance for all of you. Who knows what offices John Kelly may find in his capacious buskin; who knows what unlooked for compensation Gen. Butler may find in the receptacle where he usually keeps his corns, Christmas, doubtless, has some- thing in store for all of us, and THe dene hopes that his friends may get exactly what they need most; and, wherever possible, ctly what they would like best. Merry Christmas? Well, that depends very largely on the grocer. | bowered in troy Sunset Cox gifted with | VANDERBILT'S BALL. Mr, Vaspennttt has given a ball—a Ball with a big “B.") This m the majority of our re ‘The Ball ma was very nume hot be news te but it is true, t sensation; Jenkins sly represented there, and | the morning papers were full of it. ‘TH JupoE did not go, partly because he had not time to get shaved, and partly be does not dance. He leaves that pastime to giddy young people, like Vanderbilt, who have no mundane cares to trouble them, But theentertainment was a very affair, nevertheless. ‘The apartments were handsomely decorated in the ehaste and un- ase he ostentatious style so characteristic of our ‘The walls were festooned with thousand dollar bonds, tastefully looped with imported roses, ‘The house w throughout with diamonds; electricity nouveaur riches, watered stock) was handed round in the in- tervals of the danci The musicians wer I foliage, and discoursed Strauss through ebony instruments tipped ith amber. ‘There were no guests—foreign nobility exe check for one hundred and eight million dollars. There is nothing small about Mr. Vanderbilt, not even his hands and feet. The amount of wealth to be represented by | each guest had been carefully judged, so as toexclude Jay Gould, who, as is well known, is worth one hundred and seven millions, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand dol- lars and ninety-eight cents. Mr. Vanderbilt has no personal objection to Mr. Gould, but he is conscious that the line must be drawn mewhere, and he draws it just within the 08,000,000 line. But it was a b tiful ostly ball, and fares on the N. Y. Cen- tral are to be raised immediately, so as to cover the expense incurred. Mr. Vanderbilt, unquestionably, knows how to entertain. THE PENNY DREADFULS. Whetier the ent reduction in the prices of our leading newspapers has led them to cater to an inferior order of readers, or whether the world has actually grown more cruel and bloodthirsty within the last few months, the interesting fact remains that the morning paper is becoming a cata logue of crim fearful to contemplate. We find murders, nicides, assaults and other crime, which ‘Tne Jupoe would rather refrain from men- tioning to ears polite, set forth in all the blazonry of leaded type and staring head- | | lines. Sin comes out into the open and dis- ports itself; crime kicks over its traditional bushel and prances gaily through the columns of our most respectable sheets. The dime novel is no longer required to titillate the nerves of the average boy, and conjure up for him visions of blood and lighted | —who could not neal sand horrors which is really | glory. He can get the same amount of ex- citement far more cheaply in any metropoli- tan daily, with the addit advantage— ares for such ventitious aids to excitement—of knowing | that it is all true. Now all this is deplorable enough. Of course it is the province of a live if, indeed, the small boy per to give the news, be that news what it may; | but, when the same paper aims to ¢ family circle and supply morning reading | for young girls and children, details should | be softened down more than they usually Jare in our ‘penny dreadful poraries. In France it is not considered seemly for to read, the public papers. Are we traveling in the same direction here? contem- oung la THE BARTHOLDI STATUE. We have been hearing a great de this statue for a considerable time back, and the picture of * Liberty Enlightening the World” has become very familiar to but loe’s Island continues un: Ir eyes, red, and the material whereon to erect the mon- ster figure is not forthcoming. Sooth to say, it ble to a great coun- try like Americu—or, to narrow down the | responsibility, to a wealthy city like New | York—that this munificent gift of a foreigner not very credits should remain unplaced because funds were not forthcoming wherewith to place it. orts have ce se the tuition boxes nly been made to requisite sum, — Litth have obtruded thems contr Ives in hotels and other places of public resort, but somehow the pennies did not rattle in very freely. ‘To tell the truth, there has been an absence of organized effort, without which no work of any considerable magnitude can be accomp- lished. Latterly, however, the Bartholdi pedestal fund has been more wisely pushed, and we may hope, in this generation, to see the great statue looking down on the waters of New York harbor, and enligitening the | world in theory and the East river in prac- | tice. The Loan Exhibition, opened early this month at the Academy of Design, will doubt dd lar; to the fund, besides iving our citizens an opportunity of sceing many valuable and beautiful works of art which they could not otherwise hope to en- It must certainly be a gratification to ners of the many curios and artistic ons there exhibited, to think that their are helpin patriotic an object s for the public— its half dollars are well expended, both in gratifying its own innate love of the beauti- ful and in aiding to rescue its native city | from the reproach of being unable to accept so valuable and flattering a gift as the Bar- tholdi statue. ong so worthy and Tue Duke of Teck has charming man- ners and a fine physique, yet he isnot Tecken | for an adventurer. | | | | comicbooks.com