The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-08-22
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effect not only Of bringing all true Scotchmer
living hereabouts to Central Park, to do hom.
age to their illustrious countryrnan, but II
stimulated many accomplished pens to write
tributes to the genial master OF historic fiction
All the leading papers had elaborate articles
on Sir Walter and his works-sbme of them
being as pretentious as magazine essays, and
one OF two being marked with much beauty oi
style and thought. That In the Evening Post
was written by Louis Gaylord Clark, the vete.
ran l,tterdteair, and that in the World by viii.
liam B. Reed, formerly our minister to China,
who Is the author OF that charming collection
of essays, lately published, "Among my
Books" It would have been worth while 10
Scott to have lived to PARIS age, If only to be.
hold how warmly and how generally his wri-
tings have evoked admiration and love for
| terra incoQaitd. and which he touched only
once and then ever so lightly. with his pen.
| The coroner's jury in the Staten Island ferry
boat case, reached verdict this morning; and
now we want to see 'what will be done about
tn They find that the accident was the result
of negligence and gross ignorance on the part
of the negro engineer. Robinson, the hero OF
the proposition that "a vacuum is foul air, y
and of the culpable recklessness of the mana
gers OF the ferry line, who had the hiring OF
Employees On the strength of the verdict
the coroner ordered the arrest Of the presl-
dent. superintendent and engineer.
1t ls greatly to be feared the prosecution OF
these wanton assassination no term Is too
strong TO describe their crimina.ity- y-A@ill prove
mere farce. The Vanderbits have piles of
money and can afford to fight The courts until
doomsday. It would be some satisfaction to
the friends of the two hundred and odd peo-
pie who were killed and mutilated, and to the
public too, whose lives are continually In dan.
ger, If Captain Jake Vanderbilt and his "foul
air" engineer could be sent up to the SlDg Sing
stone quarry for ten years each. But nothing
will be done. The prosecution will drag along
until the massacre becomes an old story, and
then 1t VII 5o quietly dropped. It LIZ salts
faction to think that when the public have
been sufficiently blown up, scalded and drown
ed by the repeated efforts of steamboat corpo-
rati0ns, they will begin to get mad, and hang
persons to lamp-posts
One Of the most curious auction sales on
record took place the other day-nothlng
less than cemetery filled with dead was dis
posed Of under the auctioneer's hammer.
There has been long litigation about the
Cemetery of the Evergreens on Long Island,
and 1t could only be en( I'd by the sale at pub
lie outcry. A rich man took It a.
If ne bought on speculation, but 1t Is
certain that there is no real estate around
New York which appreciates in value 80
rapidly as cemeteries. 10 q facetlous local
play, produced at the Filth avenue theatre
last winter, there Is character who comes TO
the advice Of q Wall street friend about invest.
ments, aad Is told that the best things he can
put his money into are Erie preferred and
graveyards.
The cemetery business h,s been somewhat
overdone, 1t is true. knew OF the lots of a
new burial place which were hawked about
Wall street few years ago, Without finding
and trade against patent saw gummers ana
non-explosive Illuminating oil. Graveyards
were dull that season. The best paying ceme-
terry in the United States is Greenwood. Lots
20 BY 80 feet, holding twelve graves, on the
main avenues, anywhere IN the iaahlonaole
S2O,O 900 each. Tue cheapest lots In the ceme,
| terry are on the outskirts, near the eieace, and
are sold for $500, halves and quarters N pro-
portion. AS .le neiThborhood OF these become
| improved, theJ will advance In value.
+ 1t costs more 70 die In style than TO live IN
Style In New York. say Ing nothing OF the doc
| tors bill, which will certainly be as heavy as
Is worth somewhere between $500 and $1,000.
| II you are particular as to the character OF the
neighoOrhood In which you are TO rest, you
will hardly fiud an eligible spot under $4,000.
Greenwood has Its Fifth avenue and Gram
mercy Park as well as the city Of the living:
Your monument, If of Italian marble, and
reprcs enting q weeping figure. Is worth
$4,000; If plain granite slaft, $1,000. Then
l there are the yearly expenses OF keeping the
lot In order and the litigation of the heirs
over your will-whlch Is something IN the
l pockets OF the lawyers. The chances are
when you are down some corporation will gel
charter from the Legislature to run q rail-
road through the graveyard, and thus Involve
your estate In the expenses OF fresh funeral.
Let the grumb.ers say what they Will aoout
the pecunlary transactions OF the ring, II
cannot be deniedsthat New York Is having
better government now than ever before. Fer
haps, as has been suggested, Messrs. sweeney,
Tweed and Connolly are trying now 10 give US
the worth of our money. 1t Is without ques'
ton that the departments OF police, healta,
education and public parks are being well ad.
ministered. the efficiency of the police /;
conspicuous. The newest idea for the protec
tIon and comfort of the public has just been
promulgated The board has ordered that
special squad of patrolmen shall be stationed
along the street car routes, whose duty shall
/ be to elect and arrest all drunken and disor-
| derly persons who attempt to ride 10 the cars
| The Broadway stages are to be subjected 70
| the same surveillance.
| Habltual travellers in the New York cars
and omnibusses will know how to appreciate
this interference in their behalf by the police
The recent cases of the Putnam, Deltour, and
OwensYstreet car murders, show how lax the
conductors are In enforcing the rules OF the
company about dlsorderly passengers. Or
! some of the routes one can hardly ride with
| cut being subjected to the abuse or at least