While on the subject of churchtes, you
should have seen the crush as Plymouth
church when Henry I-ving and Miss Terry
went over to hear Henry Ward Beecher
pireach. Irving thinks Beocher a first-class
preaclher, and Beecher thinks Irving a first
class actor: the pulpit and the stage have
come together. Hooray!
agog when Irving acted Louis XI for the
profession. One would scarcely think there
were so many actors in New York, but they
filled the Star Theatre from pit to dome.
The performance is one of Mr. Irving's best
and yet not good enough to be called great.
It has almost become a custom for foreign
actors to give their brother professionals a
fine treat. Everybody seemed highly pleased
and the affair was a pronounced success.
If any man doubts that we are gradually
being throttled by monopolies, let him step
across the river and to our sister city,
Brooklyn, and see the fight now going on
between the Standard Oil Company and a
single gas company, which it is attempting
to destroy. When the Standard Oil Com
pany started in to form a gas; syndicate, one
by one they bulldozed the Brooklyn com
panies till they got them all to join in a ring
to fix the price of gas at $2 fi50 per100) feet.
One company alone resisted; they were
supplying their customers at w2 per 1000,
and were realizing a fair profit, and they
did not wish to get in the folds of the ana
conda. Then the Standard Oil Company.
