New-York daily tribune., 1851-08-30
A WEEKS VACATION.

PLATrsBURGH 10 MONTREAL
Fdroral Cnrre.rondenee of ID =. Y Tr.nuse

NODOdY could see fLATISBJRGH 10 great
er advantage than last night. sailing up the bay
at whose head It stands, ust as sunset and the
family oncomng gloom OF twilight had ilnged
and softened the whole landscape. and flung a
charm even upon decaying shantes and square
white houses without blinds, and now sailing
down il. IN the slvery sparkle Of the early morn
ing, with the spirits raised 20 champagne elas-
iicity bv the freshness and wonderful ucldlty of
the air. while the sun still throws long, cool
shadows from the islands upon the water, and
brings out IN purple dstinctness the blg noun
talns that rise far inland behind the town. So
viewed, all the raggednesS and stiffness OF an
American country village disappears, and the
Imagination sees ]. In the mass alone, gllded and
shaded with the lavish grace Of nature Tav-
ems, and tln-spred meeting houses, and smutty
LAWYERS Offices and oyster shops, and temples OF
pins and tape, and lnconvcniont-lookIngh homes,
and weedy gardens, mnee IA the distance INTO
harmonious whole, that can he supposed not
unworthy the occupation and use OF men. \
town 80 beautifully placed, TOO, has for ne tins
additional charm, that ! can imagine its site oc-
cupied by the imposing and varied walls Of
palace lidl WNuiu INAEt dii It's dpiidt4tH AZ e'lt
times the comfort and a, 10 greater expense
than the three or four hundred scattered and Ill
arranged dwellings they now exist IN, and when
not too near the eye may have the luck to be
hold those very dwellings transformed ny some
magic of sunlight and fancy into that visionary
palace. seen for a moment like the castle IN
SCOTS VALLEY of It John, IN all It's miraculous
4 . init tho -
every day elements out Of which II rose.
Like so many other things, Pla'tsburgh ceases
70 be poetic when You disembark on It's single
wharf and make your way up into rs streets
In fact, there poetry has no business, enoughfor
her TO possess the lake, and bay and islands, the
mountains and sunset and sunrise. The town Is
a place for work, and trade and potatoes and
bread and butter. The promontory that com
mands this noble view Of the natural panorama
must be given to !umberyards, small ugly
houses. and muddy streets the Saranac, that
sends It's lively current tumbling down hill into
the Lake must be damned and set TO turning
mills and machinery In tins way the ounda-
ton viii be laid. and by and by, when labor has
grown powerful enough and productive enough,
NHtH IL HdS Eht H"'hA' '''i'ti''''f ''I't''''N'
and harnessed. then all work will be art and the
walls of our palace will go uP.-ls this fancful
enough for an editor m his vacation
Just u present. however, | am sorry to say
that platishureh Is not getting on very rapidly
Il hes, as have said, upon the Saranac, stream
OF no great volume, but afordng abundant
power for some forty miles 0rmore inland. This
nyer flows through a very nch IRON region
Under the tariff of 1912 is resource, had be-
gun 10 be energeucaiiy and prohtably devel
opcd and the production OF IRON gave life
ard activity to farming and numbering, the other
main branches OF industry m the county, (Chn-
tom But with the tariff OF lSi6 the iron Dusi.
ness had TO he abandoned, and with It the pros
ponty of the village was decidedly checked
Out of 66 furnaces and bloomeres which TIA,
,anfi found in operation on the Saranac alone,
hut hree are now carried on at all. and these
with not ore-thlrd OF their previous efficiency
and nothing at all Of their previous profit On
the little streams that flow mo the Saranac,
there are slll some half dozen OF these estao-
lishments al Worh. all at a loss, and al to be
shut up as soon as possible On the An Sable
lNti, NlAlAu SUING illi4No 'NNN4-f -'
It's dtpot al Port Kent. there are few more ai
work but only one of them is understood not to
be losing and that, because It Is carried on with
extraordinary sharpness and talent, and produces
a peculiar kind OF Tos. The workmen IN all
these concerns are now paid altogether IRON
the stores of their employers and get htle, II
any money for their wages Even their house
1,.f Da ha ~
ployer either being their landlord himself or else
requiring the landlord to take ms pay from the
store. This mode OF payment for wages. rent
and provisions, IS Of course equal to j5; per
cent discount on the cos, Of labor, and by that
means and very shrewd management otherwise,
Il Is possible TO get along and not lose bot as !
SAID only one establishment does IT,
The stoppage of these establishments mas
necessarily been disastrous, not only 10 Pla,ls-
bu1gh b., 10 the entire region. The workmen
thrown out OF employment have either resorted
to farming IN the nelghborhood. thus increasing
the amount OF agricultural productions while ne
market foI them Is diminished, or have gone 20
numbering. or have gone West, there 10 ,ry farm
ing. OF else have escaped to California The
farmers have suffered 10 less than h res. espe-
claliy IL the north OF the county, where they
had before produced q considerable surplus. Tor
which there Is now no demand Gralnthev can
not raise IN any quantity. and The vegetables be-
fore So profitable they noN cannot sell al all
The iron business being killed the chef trade
remaining a. Plaitsourgh : IN lumber, which IS
brought there IN considerable quantities 70 be
sent down the lake, instead Of beng used al
home IN building new houses for the miners and
furnace latorers, new barns for the far Iers. new
stores for the merchants. new plank-roads for
the intercourse Of the county. and new boats and
schooneTs Tor the growing commerce OF the lake
geod deal OF -four Is also made there. on, Of
western wheat. and sen: away. INSTEAD If hsins