Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-05-28

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Spring viii have praise IN the fullnen Of Ausunn.
for NO untimeiy frost hAs nipped the the tender
plant and blishted the hope Of the farmer.
Although se may ny the snow Is but just Oh
| the ground, ve already begin to go out or
town" and the groves Of Staten Island, The aha
dy walks Of Hoboken, and even the sandy reach.
e. ofthe seashore begin to swarm, especially ON
Sundays, with the restless hord1s Of weary citi
Gems. who seek momentAry relaxation from the
drudgery Of the Office and the Workshop. Du-
ring the Winter, ample arrangements have been
made 70 entertain these temporary visiters, and
numerous gardens, retreats, groves and psrks,
never before dreamed Of have already sprung
into existence,
Its worthy ofremark that the character both
Of the visiters and the hosts Of these suburban
hostlefies has within : few years undergone ma
teral aad radical change. Ten years ago the
old fashioned country tavern, with its plain grub
and rye vhiskey was about good enough for
Summer yisiters; but now, fine architecture.
delightful parks, music and the dance, cookery
equaito the Aston, and the finest wines are in
dispensible. These improvements have been
made 1t the demand Of the patrons Of such re-
treats On Sundays especially, there is mirac
ulous ontpouring Of our foreign citizens--in fact
almost everybody who goes pleasure hunting on
that day is Of European birth or parentage.
Brought up TO consider Sunday day Of recrea-
ton, they mean no harm and see no sin in swar-
ming into the country to climb trees, roll on the
fresh grass sing with the joyful birds, and drink
lager beer. They are generally peacea BILE,
though noisy seldom get drunk, and return re.
freshed rather than debauched by their peculiar
mode Of spending the Sabbath.
In the matter Of drinking, it is worthy Of es-
pecial remark, that the introduction of the great
Teutonic beverage Of lager beer has done,
strange as 1t may appear, a surprising work for
temperance; Lager beer is all the rage; in town
and out OF town, in the low drinking and the ar
istocratic palace, hotel, bar-rooms, eating hous-
es summer resorts, everywhere lager beer is
the great inquired for, the always-drank, the ev-
unpopular drink for the masses; and not only
the masses but for the select, for the arstocracy
Its exceeding mildness almost precludes the pos
sibiity ofgetting DRINK upon it, while its smart.
ness and bitter favor, make it especially CRATE
full to the palate in warm weather. The conse.
quence is, there is perfect mania for lager, and
hundreds o hard.drinkers who were going
galloping pace toward destruction through their
brandy potations, are growing sober and healthy
under the milder tonic of lager beer. If good
for nothing else, it would be invaluable to the
thousands who stand in danger from more ar
dent spirits, for giving them the means of 'ta-
perng of" safely and agreeably. Two years ago,
Lager Beer was thing almost unknown Now
it is sold in fifty thousand places in and around
The city.
We are just now city Of ruins. The advent
OF May is always celebrated in New York by the
Carpenters Carnival when that interesting fra
ternity, in company with their brethren the ma
sons, commence furious onslaught upon the
old or old fashioned edifices which have served
the pride and convenience of our ancestors, but
have become too small or too antiquated in style
to please their go-ahead children Broadway
of course must be the first point Of attack, and
they are ut it bravey. Gothic Hall fine old
masonic temple, firm as the hills, and good for
centnrys wear, is coming down to make room
for fine marble dry goods temple, and the SOL
emn mysteries of apprentice, Fellow craft and
Royal arch masons will give place to ''cheap,
maam, very cheap; only piece of the kind l
assure you. Mrs. B has dress from it,
and paid seven dollars yard" The pulling
down of the old hall causes many sigh of re-
greet among our now, greyheaded citizens, who
first saw the mysterious goat and gridiron under
its roof. John Jacob Astor's old house is going,
also, to make room for "Buckley's Serenaders,'
and instead of the chime of dollars there will
come up the music Of the banjo and the bones.
Indeed Broadway and many other streets could
hardly look more like destruction, had they been
swept by the bosom of fire. And speaking of
fires test of steam fire engines in the Park the
other day demonstrated the fact that such en-
gines are capable of getting up steam and being
put in working order in from ten to twenty min
utes after lighting the furnace fires. Two prizes
of$500 and $500 had been offered by the
Common Council for the best and I'd be steam
fire engines. The test took place in the Park
before an immense crowd Of people. Two of
the machines were throwing good streams of
water within eleven minutes after igniting the
fire under the boilers, and others some eight or
ten minutes later. One machine built by Larner
& somebody else, whose name don't remember,
driven by small oscillating engine, to which
was attached one Of Cary's Rotary Pumps, using
a fifty feet hose, threw an incn and quarter
stream TIA feet horizontally for an hour. An
other machine built by Mr.. Burnanl, threw
stream 1870 feet aud another by Mr.. JAS Smith
"a small machine intended only as amodeD play
cd through a 20 inch hose and threw stream So
feet. Altogether the results we're quite crafty
ing, and steam will, most likely soon be ex-
tensively introduced as the most effective means
of supervising the fre-fend. The first award
was given to Smith, and the second to Larned,
but it is said that in consequence of some dissat
isfaction on the part of competitors, the Com
mittee of the Fire Department who made the
awards will, in few days, reopen the case and
witness another test when, if they can find suf-
ficient reason therefor they will rcadjust the
prizes. saw large number of our brave, red
shirted 6remen looking on with good deal Of
interest, but from their conversation gathered
that they were not pleased with the idea thatany
new-iangled steam concern should usurp the
place of "der machine"
Much sympathy isfelt for Messrs. Coleman &