Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-02-25
NEW WORK LETTER.
Correspondence OF the DssccnsY.
Nsw loRV Ian 81

Correspondence OF the Dssccnar
Nsw York, Jan. 81.
We are ia mixed condition {: The
wiatcr is g'ing. spriag comes in with .
rush. the aeayans are getting mild and
clear, AMI all the earth one can see in and
abound Gotham forms lagoon OF ice and
snow s"a '""A. IT >"a' is in dreadful sta,e
10, ere used TO it, and get nv.., Ivy
well. might hero refer TO the story Of
the skinned esls, bu, wherefore /. Troyel
has even been worse aud then the recent
~ awakened cleaning energy displayed i.
soothing We shall soon be settled, and
then for business
The Leon Broadway, bridge has often
been pronounced failure. = costly hum
bug, and all that, and all sorts Of .storiee
about nuisance, suits and fearing down
have been current. But tho utmost I'M
passabls aondition Of Broadway aud Fulton
streets, for the past week or more, aud
the thronss Of people who have daily
svailed themselves Of the bridge, suggest
that there are greater humbugs than the
structure hsrsin before mentioned. The
Broad~sy bridge 10 like yearly everything
else. in soms respects. IN that il must bids
i,s time, il must have . probation. Those
huge structures the ladies' wear on the back
ofths head. for instance what enornities
they 6rst appeared I; bow shy, how dis
trsssed the yoaas nan vas il. dire eiseum.
stance compelled hin 70 escort ths wsares
ofone ofthoss dreadful things; and now,
havsa's - got ussd tsits ssd don't W
even forget that the huge excrescencs vic.
lascs I'll the laws Of taste, etc., etc., As
With that. 20 with The bridge there were
some objections the ladies objected to
the crossing, but nov. many Of them, judg-
Ing by the use. object no longer. And
thea what an excellent perch from which to
study the ever wonderful Broadway, and
waat convenience to the photograph
man little way down The street.
1he recent order OF the Commissioners
OF hari'y and corrections, providing for
supplying meals to the worthy poor At IN.
Tombs, and Jefferson and Essex M.rks,
Police Courts. meets with the warm appro.
Val of good citizens. These meals are pro.
cured oy tickets issued by Captains OF M.
lice. magistrates, and ethcrs. Meat. bread
and soup are served. The Young Mem.
Christian Association are also doing = GOOD
work N aiding the poor. Al their branch
rsons in Ludlow street, they daily extend
aid 20 aboas six hundred persons. tn
New York CONNER cial Adrertis.r. hsv;n.
purchased the San building, corner Of
fulton and Nassau streets, the Nevs hov
Lodging house, which has been located in
thai building fourteen years, 10 to DO re-
moved. EGJrts ere bein; made to erect
perm anens Lodeiag-hsuse, to cost about
e5o. 900. Muse thousand Of this il a,re.av
sabscsihsd. ~ these homes the new. how.
and ssAess ~ only minniumn prices for
food and lodgiag If they happen 10 have
any 0oaey-and also receive instructions
Ia many useful ways.
fEarho wembsrs Of the va,i,us Lec;s,.,;v.
committees now in session in this cav ,...
osrdsy visited the Qsoeanelne by iuvinssnn
Of Dr.. S9inbusne, Health Officer Of thu
Port. At the dinner, after the mutual ad.
mirasion business, common 70 such gather
ings, had been thro IN scG the mental stcm-
aehs Of the several Individuals, the counsel
- the Qaarausins Commissioners happened
- rpsAk Of Consy Island aad Rafren i
- = ooanoesisa Nh theS Qoag1nlibs
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