The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-10
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
THE WEATHER AND THE BABIES.

The last weeks of August IN this city
were cool, uncomfortably SO. In the
middle OF the day there would be two
hours of scorching heat, but by three
o'clock it would get cool, and further on
| still cooler, till the night demanded
light overcoats, and plenty Of clothing
| on the beds. But September is making
amends for it. Il is hot. Warm is no
name for lit is hot And with the re-
| newal Of the heat comes the renewal of
mortality among the children July and
August killed four thousand children;
and September, unless the heat de-
creases, will show a still more ghastly
record. For New York, even in it's best
parts, is no place for children.
Even in the most comfortable parts
in the upper city, the heat of the sum-
mer's sun, reflected from brick walls and
paved streets, keeps the air in an IN
healthy condition that requires the
strength of maturity to endure it. And
then think of the condition of the chill
dren Of the poor in lower town
Think Of the narrow lanes and alleys,
the insufficient drainage, the utter alb
sence of ventilation, the scant and unfit
food; in short, the poison that is in the
earth, the air, the bedding, the food, in
everything, in short, and the wonder is
not that SO many children die, but that
any live.
OF course charitable people do what
! they can to alleviate and mitigate this
suffering; but what can private charity
do, with such multitudes to do for =? It
cannot touch one case in a thousand.
What is wanted is law, sweeping in it's
provisions and 1nexorable in execution.
The old rookeries, in which the suffer
ing thousands exist for while and die,
should be torn down, and no buildings
of the kind should be permitted. The
authorities should have the power to
compel the proper ventilation and pro-
per drainage, and overcrowding should
be prohibited. Excursions on the river
are good as far as they so, but the life
sick child gets in one day on the river is
taken out Of it the night it gets home.
It is pity that our great cities could
not be governed with reference to the
sanitary condition of those compelled
to live III them. But they never are
and never will be. 'sEvery man for
himself is the motto III the city, where
it takes a man S undivided attention to
keep himself afoat
BUTTER.
America will, eventually, feed the
world Our wheat and corn Europe has
to have, and now comes other articles
for European stOmachs that are going
| over in large quantities. The steamer
City of Chester sailed last Wednesday,
and in her cargo was seventy-five thou
sand pounds OF butter for the English
market, and as much more cheese. The
| butter was from Western New York,
Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, and the
| cheese from Western New York and
| Northeastern Ohio.
| It was all first-class, and the consig-
nors say they make an excellent profit
on it. The business has been carried
on for some years, but it has increased
to very great proportions. l saw one
tub opened and tried. It was of excel
lent taste and even quality all the way
down. The establishments that 90 this
business buy from thousand dairies,
and of course get all colors and grades.
Down to a certain grade they export it.
1t is taken and dumped all together,
| worked by machinery to an even con-
sistency, re-salted, and then colored to
an even, uniform color. It is a curious
process; but butter that is strong and
rancid, if not too strong, comes out of
their hands sweet and palatable. But
don't let this fact make your butter
makers careless. Re-worked butter may
be made saleable, but it never brings
duct of the really good dairy-maid.
A CURIOUS SUIT FOR CHURCH.
A singular Lawsuit has been commenc-
ed in the city court which is exciting
some comment in religious circles.
The Fulton Street Church, known far
and wide for its monday prayer meet
ings, was built from oequest made,
over century ago, by a Dutchman
named Harpendich, the conditions of
which were that the gospel according
to the Dutch Calvinists should be prea-
| ched therein forever, in the Neither
Dutch language, and the services should
be conducted according to the usages Of
the Dutch Reformed Church of that day.
The Neither Dutch language is no more
spoken in New York, TO- day, than is the
Hottentot. and the usages and ceremoni
ais of the Reformed Church went out a
century ago. But there comes one Will
liam Hastings, Of California, who claims
to be the rlghtful owner of pew No. 76
on the ground floor of the venerable pile,
| who DrayS that tho court shall Iutnrfnrn
| to restore the ancient services of that
Church lin the language of the Neither
Dutch" !" 1t is a question among the
legal lights whether, according to the
Harpendich bequest, Mr.. Hastings can
not make his case.
The terms of the bequest were plain
enough. and opinion differs as to whether
there can be any departure made there
from. If he makes his case, the church
will either be compelled to give up its
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