New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-12
NEWAYORK.

Journalists Welcoming James Brooks
CustOmhOuse Investigation - Election
Inspectors Indicted - Hotel Burned
| Miss Mansfeld's House Watched
General Order, Warehouses and
Steamships.
NEW YORK, January 1l.-A large num-
Der OF journalists and others have gone
down the bay to. welcome Hon. James
Brooks from his journey round the world.
The retrenchment committee continue
to unearth doubtful practices in the New
York custOmhOuse.
The Seaside House, at Rye Beach, burned.
The grand jury has indicted twelve elec-
ton inspectors, who were bailed in $500
each.
The run on the Third Avenue Savings
Bank has somewhat diminished.
Miss Mansfield complains to the police
that her house has been watched day and
night since the murder of Fisk, by
,, strangers, and that she can not go out tor
fear of personal violence.
The steamship lines are moving before
the retrenchment committee for general
order warehouses under their CONTROL
Money. in the forenoon, was strong at
easier. Sterling 9ls 09h. Gold 1885
lOSA: Governments dull; skies of 1881,
ILL., tive-twenties of 1862, 109A: 1864, llO:
1865, 11Ob, new ITO; 1867, 11I1a; 1868, l1Ih:
ten-forties lO9h. State ecurities-Tennes-
sees very firm, 637s, new GA; South Caro-
linas, new very strong, 25A, old so; Vir-
ginias IS, new 81; Louisianas So, new 50;
levee SKIES 60, eights 20; Alabama eights 80.
fives 6O; Georgia skies 20, seyens 80; North
Carolinas 81, new l54.
The New York Yacht Club are making
preparations for cruise to Russia next
summer, by invitation of the Grand Duke
The new operating room of the Western
Union Telegraph Company's principal
office, No. 145 Broadway, was occupied this
afternoon, five months time being well
spent in its preparations; for it is beyond
doubt, the finest room of the kind in the
country. The officers of the company have
expended money lavishly in providing for
the comfort of their employees, and have
evidently taken advantage OF all improve
ments of which time and taste have demon
strated the value.
Four o'clock was the hour appointed for
the transfer of the operators to their new
quarters, and quite number of invited
guests were then on hand to witness the
event. Many of those present doubtless
feared that at the critical moment some un-
looked for hitch might interfere with the
prompt use of the room, but at half-past
four O'Clock President Orton called the
company to order, the operators having
few minutes previously filed to their new
opened the room for business.
MIR. OrtOn congratulated the employees of
the company upon their possession of the
new quarters, which, he said, were the fruit
of twenty-five years experience, and which
are really marvel of taste and elegance.
He praised the operators for the cheerful
assiduity with which their labors had been
performed, and said that if they do as we'll
in future as in the past, the company will
be ready to meet all demands of the public,
and to remove all danger of governmental
interference with the telegraph.
At thirty-tw0 minutes past four every
man was at his work and the change of Off
GERS was complete.
Among the improvements of the new
room are a splendid nickel-plated switch
board, so nicely arranged that wires can be
changed from one instrument to another in
an instant; complete sets fnew desks and in
struments, and the use Of steam in running
printing instruments and copying depart
ment. Wires are laid under the floor in
cables. and the great room, 100 feet in
length by 30 in width. is, to the outsider,
filled only with desks, at which upward OF
one hundred operators are writing to the
the name of Morse illustriOus throughout
the world.
Great credit is due to Hon. William
Ortop. General Superintendent Thomas T.
Eckert. District Superintendents A. b.
Chandler and j. G. Hinchman, Manager A.
S. Brown, and Messrs. Downer, Dolan, Ap-
plebOugh, Small and others, for the manner
in which the new room was arranged, and
the almost inconceivable rapidity with
which the transfer of the operators was
ACCOMPLISHED