The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-08-22
oar NeiC York Letter.
LFrom Our Special Correspondent
NEW York Aug. Is; 1873
SATURDAY SUMMER SCENES.

/ lheN NpllcaOle one, unless the clerk of the
weather Is in the habit of takiuo rs,r,,l,,.
/ bribes from the proprietors of seaside LotfIs
ana mountain resorts, Saturday has a pecu-
] mar knack IN exceeding in the range of the
thermometer all its predecessors-the davs
! of the week. Let anv one take his s-s,,I ~,
/ one of the many docks from yybirI H.
steamers start for the distant sea-bearI or
/ rlVer-bank on Saturday afternoon and ba
Will have no difficulty in grasI,inc this fact
The 1bdter fu8ld5ds of the period is in ~
glory; If he be banker in snowy white
/ walstcoat and vanished boots, with the
| halo of millions shining softly around him.
/ II an ordinary business man, in straw hal
/ and brown linen duster The stately hank
er walks with dignified air over the cau~-
way, in spite of the stereotvpei cry of the
ueck-hand. ''All ashore: hurry up,''-apd
raising his hat TO his wife and other lady
occupants of his Brewster barouche. he
drives off behind his s., OO0 team of horses
AT the speed of ten twelve miles an hour
DIRTY, smoke-dried engineers and StokerS
issue from her engine stair-caseS, looking as
though they had come from the bowels of
/ the earth, and ready for their once a week
wash, and to marvel at their civilized an
pearance in the looking-glaSs as they take
their once week shave on the following
Sunday morning. And so SATURDAY. comes
to an end on the Hudson river.
ENCROACHMENTs on FIFTH AVENUE.
The privacy and exclusivencss of Fifth
avenue have been sadly enCruaChcd on
within a few years. Places of business
have suddenly come into notice there at
points which il was supposed were uupur-
Chaseable for BUSINESS purposes, and are
row seen quite close each other, Perhaps
the most important innovation of this char
acter is the large hotel now approaching
completion on the block lying between
FOrty-siNth and Forty-seventh streets, on
the east side of the avenue. Work was
/ commenced on this building in June, 1871,
and it will be completed early in Septem-
ber. The new hotel Will cost as now csti-
mated, something over 81. .O0o, ,OGn. The ma
I teTial principally used in its construction is
brick, with brown stone trimmings. The
building is seven stories high, and has
entire block of frontage, 300 feet in length.
SOMETHING FOR THE CHANGERS
Tie Scythe is the title of new weekly pa
per about to he issued by The Scythe
Printing and Publishing Company" The
editorial office of the paper has been located
In the great Burnett block, on Ann, Fulton
and Nassau streets. The object Of this pa
per Is to cooperate with the Grange move
ment throughout the United States, and
one of It's Spccialties will Be war to the
knife against the railroad moropolists. AS
it will be entirely devoted to the interests
of the patrons of husbandry and from "A
knowledge of the men and money behind
the enterprise, its success is certain. 1t
will ignore politics entirely, and live up to
its motto, viz: ITO cut a clean swatb
through the fields of eXtortiou."
THE NEW TOoMBS.
The City Prison Commission has selected
the block bounded 10y Canal, Elizabeth,
Bayard and Mott streets, for rhe site OF the
new Bridewell. We suppose the next leg
iS,ature will abolish this Commission and
direct new one TO pursue the more eco
nomical course of retaining the Tonnbs, adj
ding the arsenal aud buying the depot
blocks adjoining, and building upon that
less costly and more convenient site.
THE wINsTON-ENGLIsH LIBEL. SUIT
For variety and completely of events and
interest, the English emeutc prom
iseS TO become Il firSt-claSS sensation. NOT
merely because suit of such magnitude
growing ont of insurance matters il unpre-
Cedented, but because OF the EUmbar and
variety of individuals, corporations and in
tereSfS which promise to he involved i'm its
amplified complications. If public ruInor
is to be trusted, the defendant. like the
claimant TO the TichhoIne titles and es-
tates, is not to be left to tread the wine
press a!one"-his hostility TO Mr.. Winston
appearing to attract sympathy and assist
ance, which have been persstenrly denied
his alleged merits 1t is not at all improha-
BILE that in the coming suit he may receive
the cooperation and assistance of several
insurance magnates, who 90 not hate him
less, hut his antagonist more, and he enabled
TO avail himself of monies that had better
he paid ont at the next dividend. The
original cause promises to disappear in the
I magnitude of its consequences, and the de
feudant, like Mrs. O'Leary'S COW, TO PC
down to posteTity as the occasion of a great
misfortune, and to be indebted to accident
and bovine pervCrSeness for an uCdesc-ved
niche in the temple of notOriety. We do
not know how far the possession of Uncom-
Portable secrets by q certain party, recently
a tenant of Ludlow street Jail, enables him
to compel the allegiance and assistance of
those who are backing him. but it is wholly
unlike their repUted ShrewdneSs and wari-
ness to entangle themselves further with
party whose rascality is without parallel,
and whom they had, for the good of their
t2LIowIng better pension oft than TO braTe 3Is
as THEN completely in this affair is remem-
bered. When this trial comes off we ven-
ture to prophesy that Winston will com
pleteIy clean out the entire crowd of black
maileIs and their hackers.
AN ILL-FATED FAMILY.
Three years ago, Ephraim StenharJlt,
who did the shooting in the Vesey street
tragedy, was discarded by his father for per-
sistent protiigacy. From that time until two
months ago, when he went into Messrs.
SteinhardJ Bros. & Schonbanl's manufac-
tory to learn segar making, he roanled aim
lessiy from one Western city to another.
About six months ago he was in Louisville,
where some relatives of the Steinhardt fam
lily reside. One day he caused il to be tele-
graphed from that city that he had been shot
and mOTtally wounded in n saloon fight. The
story was printed in the newspapers every
where, and of course reached his parents
here. They were distressed at the supposed
disgraceful death of their son, and telegraph
ed for particulars, and to have the body sent
to New York An erratic element seems to
pervade the family 4 sister of benjamin
SrenhaTdt, the father, killed herself in Lon
isville two years ago, and a little later
daughter poisoned herself to death with
Paris green in this city. The latter had fall
en- in love with young man whose poverty
made him unacceptable as a son-in-law He
forbade the marriage, and broke off the en-
gagement. He then chose a suitOr for his
daughter after his own liking, and She sub
mitted to her fate, but the union did not
prove happy one, and the daughter ended
it with suicide.
swINDLES ON UNCLE SANS BOYS
A sailor on board the United States steam
ship Tuscarora tells OF n piece of sharp prac-
tice on the part of the I'Hymaster Of that
vessel, whereby the officers We're gwen An
advantage over the men, which was eN-
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