Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-11-17


acres of flooring. 1t is most massive and
imposing structure. The interior is in one
room, encrcled by magnificent galleries in
which are the different departments, contain
I ing almost any article that the fruitful mind of
woman could suggest or ask for, attended by
an army of clerks. Between five and six
O'Clock every afternoon the modest and
elderly proprietor makes brief call and
passes down to his wholesale store a marble
/ structure of about the same capacity as this.
/ All the business of this extensive and compli
Gated establishment is conducted with the pre-
cision and regularity of clock work. At ten
o'clock each day is known the precise amount
of trade of the siyty-four departments for the
preceding day. The great jewelry establish
ments of Ball Black & CO., and Tiffany & Co.,
are standing monuments to what wealth and
skill will produce. y gentleman who was with
us looked at ten thousand dollar diamond
! bracelet, but we believe has concluded to see
/ how his potatoes turn out next year before
| purchasing. Every department of business
has its representative marts like the ones we
/ have cited.
| This is the great newspaper emporium, the
old Tribune standing far ahead of all its
younger competitors in ability, while the I'M
| scrupulous Herald is the great newspaper of
/ the world. Bennett gave the whole manage
ment of the concern into the hands Of his son
at one time, but the wild boy could run a
yacht better than newspaper, and the old
man had to resume the responsibility. The
World is an able, wicked paper, just the sheet
to champion the cause of the most wicked
wing of the most wicked party in America.
| Pomeroy's Democrat is failure. 1t was too
red hot on the start even for this locality that
is so near. politically, to the Internal regions.
| When Pomeroy came here he put out large
brick in front OF his office and labelled 1t
Red Hot" lie hired lame soldier to play
Dixie" My Maryland" and other rebel
tunes. day and night, and labored IN every
way to create sensation. But he found New
York larger than La Crosse, and the demo-
cratic masses too ignorant here to appreciate
his high-toned efforts, and he has skunk away
to the west, and the Democrat is for sale.
| The numerous other daily and weekly news
papers, with one or two exceptions, have
found good paying basis. The Independent
/ has the largest circulation of any religious
paper in the city, perhaps in the country.
/ New York is most conspicuous and worst
known from its political reputation, and the
| reputation is fully sustained by the facts in
! the case. The Tammany crowd of cut-throats
control everything. and the great wonder is
/ that the republicans have the heart to attempt
to overthrow a despotism that is so deeply
rooted. True, at the recent election, the
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to about 0,0O0. by the registration and the
salutary effect of the presence of the militia,
| but still there is no actual gain to the repub-
| licans. All that Tammany wants to know Is,
| how large a vote will the republicans throw
| and she will be on hand with her repeaters
and foreign voters to offset and overcome it.
| Just before election the enterprise of improv-
| ing the park was commenced to give employ
ment to few hundred foreigners who vote
/ - ., Stran
| election the work languishes. In one precinct
in which the officers declared there was but
one vote for Woodford, four men publish a
card declaring that they voted for Woodford
In this state Of things, voting is but farce,
and the thousands of good men who stay
away from the polls, not wishing to become
the actors in such grim farce, are not great
ly to be blamed.
Central Park is the great breathing place of
the city, and is to it Il blessing which cannot
| be reckoned by dollars and cents. ltinciudes
an area of about eight hundred acres OF di-
| versified country. and is laid out in walks
and drives and gardens and groves and ponds,
with all the exquisite taste that could be COM
manded.
In the summer season it is the tavorte re-
sort of the people of all classes and condi-
tions-the millionaire with his four-in-hand,
and the child of poverty who is able to rescue
few hours from the fierce battle for bread
and butter. On Wednesday and Saturday
afternoons the crowd of pleasure seekers is
immense, and even at this season of the year
we found large company on the ground en-
loving the qenial atmosphere of most beau
tful November day.
William II. Tweed under whose hands
Central Park has received its adornments,
was six years ago the captain Of an engine
company in the city. He ''run wild der ma
chine" with "Mose," and had apparently no
| higher ambition than to live a fireman and
finally be ''buried under the old goose-neck."
To-day New York is completely under his
thumb. He touches the keys and each polit-
ical puppet dances to the music. Hei chair
man of every important committee in the city
government, the business manager of every
financial scheme, and in fact the ''head
grabber" of the concern. But the people who
who know but little of his scheming and his
viliany will thank him for Central Park
The Sabbath comes not here to many as
day of calm and blessed rest as it does to
nearly all in New England. Many places If
business are open, the various stands upon
the sidewalk, for traffic in small wares are in
full blast, and there is a general week day
appearance everywhere and but little indica-
ton that the day is held in any sort of respect
as sacred day. 1t was our privilege to lis
ten to two of the representative preachers of
America Rev. DR.. Chaplin and Henry Ward
Beecher. A very fashionable congregation
was that which listened to DIR. Chaplin in the
forenoon. The large and elegant church was
packed. Strangers await at the door until
the pew holders are accommodated, and then
the outside crowd have all the remaining room.
DIR. Chaplin preached an exceedingly vigorous
and powerful discourse, clothed in chaste and
beautiful language, and forming a perfect
and compact structure of thought and feeling.
His argument was, that there is no true peace
outside of that which flows from the love of
God shed abroad in the heart; that humanity
is restless, disturbed and unhappy outside OF
this divine influence; but that finally all men
would be brought within its hallowed domin-
ion and become partakers of everlasting peace
and joy. DIR. Chaplin has bat one Sabbath
service, that in the forenoon. While waiting
at the outer door OF the sanctuary there came
up the steps an aged gentleman with two
young ladies'. His hair was white and flow
ing, long white whiskers encircled the lower
part of his fair and benevolent looking face;
he wore slouched hat and awkward setting
''great coat" with collar turned under and