The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-21


for all. Finally, both the old political parties
have lived out their day. New arrangements
will supersede them both in the next Presiden-
tial election. That's all.
THE LATE FRIGHTFUL MISFORTUNE AT MAG
ARA FAIIs-PREvENrIv MEAsuREs.-The tele-
graph informed us the other evening of the ter
rible misfortune there Of the sweeping Of three
men down the repids and over the Falls and
simultaneously, from Philadelphia, we received
intelligence of the drowning of three ladies in
the Delaware, their pleasure boat having been
run into and swamped by passing steamer
In each case three lives were lost and, from
natural superior sympathy for female helpless
ness their sad and untimely fate would have
attracted more of pity and regret from the com
munity than the loss of these three men had
they been similarly drowned in Lake Erie.
But the two cases are as widely different as
is death by drowning in the comparatively
quiet Delaware from death by being borne
along upon the roaring breakers into the
bideous abyss Of Niagara. The fate Of those
three ladies was dreadful but she scene at Nj
agara, particularly the prolonged suspense
in which Joseph Avery was detained,
and his final plunge into the yawning
chasm, failing within a halfinch Of safe de-
liverance, was intensely sorrowful and appall-
ing. Hence the very natural sensation of keen
and unusual regret for the loss of those men,
and especially the last Of the three. His de-
iverance would have been regarded as tri-
umph over the King Of Terrors in his most ter
rible form; for what death can be imagined
more awful than that Of man, vainly
shrieking in his despair, and throwing his arms
wildly about him as he is swept down into the
boiling vapor and laundering surge of the deep
and horrible cauldron OF Niagara!
Some profitable hints, however. we here sug-
gested against future accidents of this kind at
the Falls. They had to send to Buffalo for o
lifeboat, and this in case where every minute
was invaluable. Why have they not lfeboats
and ropes and men trained to manage them
at Niagara Falls? Out of the population ofthe
village and the vicinage and with the aid Of
the wealthy and liberal proprietors Of the i'm
mediate locality. a company, with all the requi-
site boats floats, ropes, and stations might be
organized and so disciplined as to pick up
man from the very edge Of the American
fall, if not from the middle of the broad expanse
of the breakers on the Canadian side. Seldom
a summer passes without a man or two going
over the Falls. A few years ago, in broad day
light. fisherman came down in his boat on the
American side of the island, passed under the
bridge and within few feet from the shore.
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capsized and washed over the precipice into
the mass of rocks one hundred and sixty feet
below. There were q dozen points in his de-
scent at which he might have been rescued with
proper means in readiness for the exigency.
We trust that the residents at Niagara will
adopt some measures for the prevention in flu
ture as far as possible, of such accidents as this
last and most painful of the record of the Falls.
The American side may be so protected as to
secure oil involuntary passengers in that d.
rection by simple chain swung along within
reach from the water. under the bridge The
tremendous Canadian branch Of the river is less
accessible to human intervention; but even
there. with timely warning, the means may
be provided, at the islands and rocks, wherewth
to snatch the hapless royageur from the very
jaws of destruction We trust that the late d.
saster will result in some decisive steps to
guard against such another.
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN WATERING PLACES
OLD VRGINA.-We publish elsewhere in this
paper, from the Richmond Examiner. timely
and sensible article on the fashionable watering
places Of the United States, and particularly
those Of the South, suggesting various improve
ments at these establishments, which strike
US as the true policy Of all concerned therein.
The Virginia editor draws a contrast unfa-
vorable to Southern summer resorts as between
them and those of the North in the important
essentials of taste, comfort and cleanliness and
his Judgment, to the extent of our own observa-
ton is fair and true Our first class style Of
bookkeeping with all the modern improve
ments,' has not yet made any very extensive
inroads into the Southern States South Of
Mason & Dixons line there are perhaps not
more than two or three hotels of the modern
Northern style all the way to New Orleans.
And if this can be said of the principal towns
and cities of the South, it is no wonder that the
antediluvian system of inn-keeping still pre-
walls in the rural and seaboard districts Of that
section.
We have, however, fo- some years past, en-
tertained the old fogy idea that it is but wild
goose chase to seek for comfort health, or re-
Taxation, at our most fashionable summer cara
vansaries, where the swarms Of visters keep up
an endless "noise and confusion" and fill the
air within and without with tobacco smoke, to
say nothing Of the hurry which must attend the
cooking for twice or thrice the allotted accom-
modations. Much yet remains to be done to
place the great Southern watering places of the
North on footing corresponding with the sub
stantial arrangements for solid comfort Of our
New York hotels, with all the modern i'm
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