The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-04-06
CUR NEW YORK LET TER.


(F5'ona oar o,Crs C0Trespo''dent.)
New YORK, April, 4th, 1875.
To the Editor OF the Tribune.
A recent most revolting outrage, per-
petrated under cover Of the Revised
Statutes. has raised storm about the
naIadministration Of ss''Crowner's quest
law" as 1t is called. A respectable wo-
man losing her way in a stormy night,
Walked off the dock into the East River
and was drowned. Her body was dis
covered next morning, but in accord
auce with the traditions Of this absurd
law, no one was allowed to take it from
the water till the coroner gave pernlis-
sion. Even the woman S husband, fran
tic with grief and indignation, was for
hidden by the police TO touch it, and for
twenty -four hours vas obliged to pace
the dock near which the body OF his
wife fioated in the full gaze of The gap
ing crowd, until at last one of the
four lazy and heartless officials who
hold inquests upon New York s unfortu-
nate dead at $40 per year apiece,
made his appearance, and the shameful
spectacle came to an end. 1t is seldom
that the big and busy city gets 50 rous-
/ Ell over anything not affecting it's gener-
al interests, aad as the investigation
which has been set on foot, reveals un-
limited brutality and abuse, it viii go
hard but some OF the official heads tum
f! bic into the basket. 4 change IN the law
covering such cases is ALSO strenuously
advocated.
And yet again, does the Elevated
Railroad trouble obtrude itself upon cur
attention not the new one proposed for
the East side this time, but the one a.
ready established on the West side. In
preparing to put down new switch Gil
| Greenwich street, the company's men
have broken through into the coal vault
OF hotel, which mishap acted as the
straw which broke the canlei's back.
The hotel men, backed by other proper
| ty-owners, turned Out force sufficient
to clean out the railroad party and the
| few policemen who interfered. Brick
| bats flew and crowns were cracked, IN
| til the arrival of more police averted
that might haze become serious riot.
| The property-owners have got out an IN
junction against further work. They
/ : 40
prise Share the fate OF the pneumatic
railway, the tunnel for which was dug
under Broadway years ago, and when
| the scheme was abandoned on account
OF opposition and lack of means, was
closed up till it was almost forgotten by
! New Workers themselves. Some months
/ ago, however, some born Yankee got
possession of the hole, and made thereof
assrife range, which is now largely pat
ronized to his great gain. The tunnel
is circular iron tube cased in brick,
some eight feet in diameter, and running
under Broadway from the new City Hall
down to the Post Office. Standing at
the shooters place and looking away off
! through the thin blue smoke to where,
hundreds of feet distant, the white tar
get glimmers in tho light OF strong re-
Electors it is not easy to realize that we
are in the heart Of & great city. Only
the distant thunder of the ruinbling We
hicles overhead bears witness TO the To-
cality.
As may be supposed, the defamation
of the gun in this confined space is al
most overpowering. 1t is like being
/ shut up in a b 2 hogshead with gigan-
! tic fire cracker, and 10 q nervous person
would be sufficient 10 deter him from this
amusement. The thought that men and
/ women were to have been shot up and
/ down this tube from one end of town 10
/ the other, like peas from a pop gun,
| goes far toward reconciling the beholGer
/ TO the failure Of the enterprise. It is
/ true that the elevated railway would
/ have been snail TO it, but then there
/ is euch thing as too rapid transit.
/ It is now settled that cur Democratic
! but title-loying people are to have an
/ opportunity, within comparatively few
weeks, OF feasting their eyes upon resi-
live Emperor, in the person of Dom
f Pedro IL, of Brazil, who is attracted
] hithcrxard by The reported wonders
of the Centennial. This being
I the first visit OF the kind Uncle
Sam has ever received, coupled
, with the fact that this monarch is one
/! OF the most liberal and enlightened of
+ reigning sovereigns, New York Is naiur-
ally on the qui tiye to behold and wei
come our iIlustrious guest. In view of
universal attention thus attracted Dom
| Pedro and his wonderful land. Frank
Leslie's popular Monthly for April con-
/ tains, among its host Of coed things lin
Gliding graphic sketch of foreign trav-
. el, by Mr. Leslie HIMSELF, an interest
ing article on Brazil, the illustrations of
which embrace portrait of the Emper-
or and Empress, and ali elegant colored
frontispiece representing the harbor CT
Janero, the scene of the recent accident
to the ''Helvetius, jJ;st IS she was leav-
F ing port with the imperial party and IN
+ passing, 1t may be OF interest to state
+ that the engravings in this one number
alone of this marvellous periodical, cost
over four thousand dollars
! Now that the If,a - t,-otr-, i,.t.r.o-,