The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-05-06
Leayrs Gathered by the wayside.

Ma. EDfroR.-As tho beautiful spring
advances, glad new life seems to fiji ev-
cry heart, aud while | drink iu happiness
from everything around me, will not
forget to gather leaves b. tho waysidc.
Since my last letter to, you, have had
many opportunities OF seeing more Of the
public buildings aud places OF New York.
We visited the Sub.trcasury. This
building was formerly tho old Custom
House. 1t is not an imposing building,
but quite elegant inside, and is the chan
mel through which flows an immense
amount Of money
The building owned by the Equitable
Lille Insurance Company is magnificent.
1t is made mostly Of marble This com.
pany is the largest Life Insurance Com
pany in the world.
We made a shor; call at the Stock Tx.
change, also at the Gold Room Ny com.
panion asked if ladies were admitted
there "Oh, yes" was the reply. These
rooms have galleries for spectators, and
there VIC stood and looked down into the
dcns Of the clears and bulls" Of Wall st
Such bowling and roaring you have new
or heard, unless you heard it there.
No monagerie of wild beasts. on the
face of the earth can compare with it
Bidding for railroad stock, and gold
Their ancxicty for gain, and their greco
for gold transformed those men into per
/ feet demons.
Reader, If you ever visit New Yorl
again, dont taH to 60 to that mcnagcri,
of wild beasts on Wall street. 1t is ;
sight which you will never forget, if 20,
live to be a hundred years Old ",
gladly turned our steps from there, t,
more agreeable sighta; these we found
Stewards store
This building occupies one Who'll,
square ; is Of marble, and Of eight storic
high, two stories being below the croun,
floor. 1t has 900 gas burners, gas light
cd by electricity. The inside finish i
palacial. When you enter, you max,
known to some clerk the kind of good
which you wish to purchase, and will b.
told upon which floor it is to be found
If it is not on the ground floor, you vii
be sent up in an elevator,and landed upo
the floor where you will find the desire,
goods.
When VIC entered the store, we souch
to gain some information concerning il, o
a gentleman who seemed to have but Ii,
tie TO DO. He told us that he was nc
very well posted, and referred us to Nj,
Crookshank. We hunted up that gentle
man, and began as with No. |, to interrc
gate HIM. IL cannot inform you" sal
he, "but Mr.. Dalygish is just the man
he knows all about everything here, an
: will be pleased to inform you" We ha
no trouble in finding No ., and from hil
: we gained some information, But,
said he, Mr.. Denning is the head her
/ you will gain more knowledge Of tn
aaHHe by TGfh he nuSs" tb 4an & VIII 9TH B
lady in black" We stationed ourscly,
at the entrance Of his office, meanwhi
,, keeping our eye on No. 3, After wal
ing about fifteen minutes, he came to h
Office, and was very willing to give us a
the information We asked for. He tol
,, US that the amount of sales for one yea
was about eleven millions of dollars. an
that they pay two thousand eight hundrc
hands monthly including those employo
at his old store, and in Phiadelphi
They open at seven O'Clock in the morr
ing,and close at six in the evening. The
employ two hundred leash boys" NJ
, Denning gave us a special permit to G
wherever we chose in the building, senC
ing a guide along with us. lie iniorme
US that the lady with whom he was tall
lug, whom VIC camo in, wac Mrs. Stewart
Mr.. Stewart was not in, being i'll so W
did not see the prince" but considere
ourselves fortunate in having seen tn
princess
We were very much interested in GU
visit at Old Trinity Church, We wer
nPinto the stccplc, from there getting
birds-cye view Of New York and Brook
Ign. From our height, men upon tn
steels looked like babies. 1t has chin
OF bells; we counted nine, There is
cemetery within its inclosarc, with som
very ancient monuments. Among thcI
is irccstonc slab, resting upon the gray
OF Charlotte Temple. Trinity church
said 70 be the wealthiest church corpora
ton IN America, 1t owns property a
about the city. Whenever a new churc
OF thai persuasion is wanted in the couu
trythcy have only to tap Old Trinity, an
forthwith comes the necessary article fc
that purpose.
We visited Plymouth church in Brook
Ign, and listened to Mr.. Beechers Frida
evening "Lecturc-room talk" Anon
some Of the many sensible things whic
he said was this, "A hope once possesse
and then last, is not worth hunting after.
The church has parlors for social gather
inss. 1t is not an imposing structur,
but its capacity is great
| can only touch upon Greenwood Cen
ctery, and Central Park, as my letter
already quite lengthy. Greenwood col
tains between four and five hundred acre
Of land. We were driven around throng
its principal avenues. 1t is very beau.
ful. will not attempt description.
has six or eight little lakes, some of thel
with bits Of water spouting from the
centers.
Among the more noted personagcs bd
led there, whose graves we visited, wer
William Niblo, former proprietor of Nil
los Garden, James Gordon Bennett, G
the Herald Charlotte Canda who wa
thrown from her carriage on her lit
birthday, and killed instantly. Her en-
tire fortune Of $1,000 was put into he
magnificent monument. Her statue, lif
size, draped in her bridal dress, (for sh
was soon to have been married. stands i
an alcove Of the monument. The mos
costly monument in the cemetery is tina
Of Californian. Its cost was $4,000