The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-10-05
New York Letter


AN APOLIGY--sH0PPING AT sTEwABTs-
oRANPBD oUARTERs-AvoNDAL E-ENTRR-
TAINMRNT--CoNUNDRU Ms-ACQUAINTANCEs
OLD AND NEw-vAN CHoATR AND HIS NEW
ARMY GUN-&C.
Metropolitan Hotel, Sept. 22d, 1860.
DEAR REGISTER IL arrived in Albany
at 4 p NJ, and left on the steamer Com
necticut at eight in the evening, with the
assurance that we should be in New York
at 6 O'Clock next morning, but owing to
deficient supply of the element so neces-
sary to nautical progress, we managed to
"get aground and consequently did not
Ground up to the pier" till 10 o'clock.
As a compensation, the humane captain
allowed us to snooze till long after 8 O'Clock,
and did not charge us extra for our
lodgings so instead of full square let
ter according to promise, you will please
accept this apology; for brevity is the
natural Inheritance of such state of
things. Tr
Then too,iust think Of writing reada-
Bile letter at the Metropolitan with its
seven hundred guests and the ceaseless
roar of carriages and tramp of horses,
which continues from the earliest hours of
morning till long after midnight, vieing
in turbulence with the very ocean it.
self A..
Yesterday we wcut shopping at "Stew-
arts This palatial marble store is now
being enlarged to cover one entire block.
When completed it will have cost s3,-
100000, while the ground on which it
stands is worth as much more. Mr..
Stewart has a wholesale store on another
street which is equal to this in magnitude.
The number of clerks in the retail store
male and female, is nearly 500, and the
number of seamstresses employed in the
manufacture Of clOaks, dresses, and all
kinds of female apparel, together with
beds and beddings, are as many more.
Our sympathies were so excited for the
poor shopkeeper that we concluded to
make a few purchases for his special benc-
fit. And then we never take greater sat
isfaction than when We feel that our acts
contribute to assist the needy.
Notwithstanding we were in cramped
quarters at the Metropolitan which is only
300 feet by 90, and seven stories high
and can only accommodate about 500
guests, We held on there, that in directly
we might patronize the owner Mr.. Stew
art, for we understand that LELAND & Co.
refuse TO increase their rent, which is
now $4,000 per annum, even to assist
Mr.. Stewart in his indigent circl,mstan-
ces.
Contributions continue to be taken up
at public points for the Avondalc suffer-
ers. In this age and world of steam,
when such vast demands are being made
on our coal fields, it is downright folly to
neglect TO protect human life among the
miners to our utmost extent The lot of
the 10000 colliers in Pennsylvania,
doomed to life Of toll, amid darkness,
iro-damp and uoxious gasscs, is hard
enough, without being murdered before
their tiue by the inhumanity of capita
lists
A stereotypcd di.pcpticmust be amused
or die, 50 last evening We sought place
OF entertainment and realized its salutary
effects. The following conuudrum about
Horace is too good TO be lost. Horace
Greeley" shouted the comic man, lis a nat
ural born oplao :" "IIow is that ?"
cries the manager. " Why, because" :"
responded the comic, ale says he is a
self-madc man." The severest if. not the
wickedcst thing Of the evening was from
the same source, why is a married man
like Mississippi steamboat ?" because
he never knows at what moment he may
be blown up"
On the street We met several Of our
former and present neighbors Mr.. Ellis
of the class of '6S, Mr.. Redfeld an ear
lier graduate, Mr.. Henry Foote now of
Brooklyn, n. Y, Mr.. Oliver Severance
and Mr.. David j. Burk, of our city.
OF new acquaintance formed is that
of Hon. d. d. T. Marshal, President of
the Homeopathic Mutual Insurance COM
pany of New York. Tie is retired mer-
chant, of large wealth, well preserved,
looks ten years younger than he is, has a
genial face and manners, is truly compan-
ionablc, yet highly dignifed, and is pos
sessed beyond doubt with able financial
and executive abilities.
The gentlemanly Secretary, Mr., Stans-
bury sent greetings to his native State
Vermont, and promises to see us OCCASION
ly.
But we were greatly pleased with one
Mr.. Van Choate who has invented an ar
my gun pronounced the best in the world.
1t is a braech loader, and Col. Prince of
our regular army, told me that it was SUI
perior to the Prusian ncedle-gun, and
vastly ahead Of the new French army gun.
1t will prove fortune to its inventor
Mr.. Van ChOatc has several other valua-
bic inventions of which We cannot now
speak, each of which promise to yield him
a fortune. Mr. Van Choatc has promis-
ed to bring his gun, and spend week or
two with us and give battle to the game
ON our hills and creeks. Let the squirrels
hasten to throw mp their breast-works of
defence. We also met Capt. $. b. Thomp-
son, of Boston, who sails for Europe Oct.
ID. You shall hear from me next week
I'm Foieaf." S,B.R.
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RIVER Falls WIS
Sept. 2lst, 1869
never realized till recently, that Wis.