The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-01-11
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didn't improve those of the woman ~, a..
day; in day or two more was powdered in
TO the dirtiest stuff you ever saw in the shane
OF snow, and now is thawing AID making
the streets worse than Down East roads in
the spring time. Commend me to your hon.
est Maine winters-no nonsense about them.
but you always know where to find them,
The season is lively one.
DINNERS, BALLS, ETC,
are the order of the day, or rather of the
night. wonder if there is any part of the
country so much given to public dinners as
New York. There is always something to
furnish the excuse for one. Our club has to
give its annual dinner you know-and our
society of course-and then we must pay a
compliment to the distinguished Mr.. Soand-
80, and really, my dear Mrs. Caudls, must
leave you and the children for this night.
Then Mrs. c. has to be pacified by being
'aken TO the opera, Or to the great ball of the
season, and meanwhile the world revolyes
upon its axis each twenty four hours as usual.
and several thousands of our brothers and
sisters are shivering and starving around us.
That they are shivering and starving is main
ly their own fault, very likely, and it is not
pleasant to feel when your pity has been
aroused, and you have given your little aims
to seeming misery, that you have probably
been imposed upon.
To be poor in great city is terrible, and
yet more of the shiftless and helpless drift
arc han alO
thousands crowd into the city when the cold
weather sets in, and work begins to grow
scarce. The bright flame of the city attracts
all the moths. Bad for them and bad for the
city. A mad world, my masters, indeed.
But this is not holiday strain. and will
change abruptly to speak of the
EAST RIVER BRIDGE.
/ think If one were to ask me the two things
in New York most worth seeing, should say
Broadway and the Brooklyn Ferries. Over
the latter hundred thousand people pass
each day-perhaps more. Now the naviga-
tion in the winter isn't altogether pleasant
thing. You may get blocked up in the ice
or dense fog comes on and the boats 90 feel
ing their way across the river, guided by the
bells which are sounding at the ferry ships,
If you are nervous the thing is little too
exciting, and if you are in a hurry-well,
what you'll do depends good deal upon your
temperament and early training.
Year after year the population of New York
is flowing over into Brooklyn, and people
each winter talk of building bridge TO it.
At last it is in fair way of being built The
city of Brooklyn takes So 900 900 of the stock
and New York $1,5OOOOO. The remaining
three or four million of the stock will be taken
by capitalists, and the Bridge (with a capital
B, if you please) is considered certainty.
1t is to be wire suspension bridge, with a
span of nearly two thousand feet and hun
dred or SO above the water, so that the one
at Niagara Falls will be child's toy COM
pared with it. Adding the approaches to the
bridge it will be a mile in length. The
promenade across this structure is expected
to be one of the greatest attractions of the
city, rivaling Central Park and its Brooklyn
sister, Prospect Park.
ought not to close my letter without re-
ferring to the
ARREST OF MR.. BowLEs
which created SO great sensation week or
two since. That it was a perversion of law
to crafty private revenge is very true, but
1 can't help saying that 1 think the affair
has been exaggerated very much when it is
represented as an infringement upon the lib
erty of the press. Arrests cannot be made
with half the facility in this city that they
can be and are made in Maine. They are
only allowed in cases of fraud and few 9TH
ers. Now men are are arrested on affdayits
and locked up every day, without there being
general onslaught upon counsel and all the
officers of the law. We are constantly COM
planning that the rich and the strong break
through the laws. Now, while don't defend
the arrest of Mr.. Bowles, 1 protest that it is
not so much more of an affair than would
have been the seizure OF some poor Bohemian
without a troopo friends to back him.
PoNCHo.