The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-01
"THE FIRST OF MAY"

The Miseries or MOving-Packing Up the
shares and Penatcs''-Cartmen stick
ling for High Prlccs-A Years Respite
for Impecunious Boariers.
This is the first day OF May, and consequently
truck drivers are in their glory Huge
punches OF greenbacks dawn before their vision,
ana they seem to consider that every person who
purposes moving is a bank upon which he Is ena-
bled to draw checks without endorsement. Out
side of the doors of fashionable boarding houses
there was visible yesterday cortege OF carts, upon
which was stacked every article OF furniture, from
o Brussels carpet to a splttoon and four post
bedstead. Pianos became victims OF Infatuated
truck drivers, whose
HIBERNIAN INSTINCTS
would find fuller vent in scalping Msdocs than in
peacefully carting furniture from one domice to
another, and small boys yelled with emphatic
delight when they saw looking glass fall in pieces
upon the pavement.
1t was very funny to witness the numerous per.
sons who devoted their time to house-hunting
ascending the steps OF stoops, upon the placard
pasted upon the doorposts Of which were written
the words,
FURNISHED APARTMENTS TO LET"
These people entered with lively action which
became ludicrous IL their return, when the fact
that they could not be accommodated dawned
upon their vision. Men-staid, stolid fellows whose
business capacity or whose mercantile aplOpab
OF juniors, suddenly found themselves nonplussed
by the searching interrOgatOries OF landadies and
'ladies who were ladies'" and who 'dressed as
sich,n swung their skirts piazzas In the most
supreme disdain when the question OF timely
advance OF rent was meekly limited at.
1t Is an i'll wind that blows no good to any one.
That Is
AN ANCIENT AXIOM,
but 1t bears the impress OF truth for, though the
boarding house keepers, the yearly tenants Of
houses and those nattily attired gentlemen who
live upon small salaries and exist upon their wits,
suffer TO great extent by the troubles OF May
Day, the cabmen truckmen and proprietors OF
express wagons reap ricn and lucrative harvest
some persons think, in their
SHEER INNOCENCE
that advantage is to be derived by moving a Few
days prior to the LIST OF May. They imagine that
expenses will be less or lever. Futile delusion
Every man who owns a truck and spawned steed
is well aware Of the ''litte game" or the pious
fraud attempted to be practised upon him. and he
regulates his charges accordingly.
There was young new moon visible in the west
ern shy last night, and ''pae Luna" probably gave
hope to many OF the impecunious that they would
be enabled to escape from the thraldom OF board
ing mistresses, the misery OF interviews with
''nash' mongers, by enabling them to make
quiet hitting In the still and solemn hours when
churchyards yawn and nobody but somnambulsts
and citizens who are inclined to interview rats in
their sleep are abroad.
To-day the charwomen have TO work with will.
Stairs upon which the dust has accumulated for a
year will have to be swept and WASHED. Bridget
will be in her glory, and unfortunate man will
growl as he breaks his shns over upturned slop
pals and feel DESTROYS OF execrating his tutelar
deity when he pitches head foremost over ar0ll Of
stair carpeting.