"the Cross-roads Of Life."

Park avenue, New York City, isa continuation of Fourth avenue, and extends from Forty-Second street clear to Harlem. The avenue is s named because of its raany parks, which are enclosed by high iron railings which surround the man-holes that lead into the Harlem railroad tunnel. The policeman on post noticed several men lurking about the railings of the enclosure at Sixty-Serenth street, who, as he approached, would walk away. On reaching the pólice station he reported the matter to the sergeant on duty, who spoke to one of the detectives. The next night the men appeared again, and, when no one was about, as they thought, climbed over the fence and were lowering a rope through a manhole into the tunnel below when they were surprised by the officers and taken to the pólice station. Upon being questioned it was learned that their names were Edmund Collier, Thomas Garrick, James Phisioc and George Adams, who explained that their purpose was to get the exact measuretnent of the man-hole and number of feet to the bottom of the tunnel. Wheu asked his reason for so doing Mr. Collier explained that the location was one of the principal scènes to be used in the production of "The Cross-Roads of Life" at the Star theatre. The laugh was on the officers, who enjoyed the joke hugely, and who promised to pay to see the first performance. This scène is one of the most realistic in melo-drama, and may be seen in "The Cross Roads of Life," with Mr. Edmund Collier as Capt. Dick Hawthorne. At the Grand opera house, on February 13.