Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-05-20

lives were lost, and the strikers. il
they committed tins terrible deed
are spared the crime, though moi
the guilt of blood.guiltiness.
TnE CAR ELEVATOR ACCIDENT.
1t is wonderful that so little harm
to life should follow such an acci
dent. Another which took place
on Monday night, halt u mile from
the scene Of the explosion, was more
horrible in its results. The cars
which run from the Hoboken ferry
are hoisted up the hill by u steam
elevator, saving nearly an hour lost
by going up the grade in the old
way. The two fore wheels of the
car had just passed on the platform
of the elevator, when the wires,
probably disarrauged by the shock
of the explosion, gave the signal all
right, the elevator began to move.
aud the car toppled over, falling
thirty feet, throwing passengers
from the platform, and burrying 9th
ers under it's bloody wreck. Hardly
any of the twenty seven passengers
escaped without injury, and several
have since died.
THE CENTENNIAL
Is already beginning to be felt in
New York. The great mass of PEG
pie on their way to Philadelphia
come by the way of New York, and
the hotels and boarding houses are
beginning to look up. The open
ing day in Philadelphia was an inn
mense success, to which New York
contributed quite as much us the
Quaker City. The city was nearly
emptied. The trains to Philadel.
phla were loaded for three days in
advance, and New Yorl, was well.
nigh deserted. The next day the
majority came back, all, indeed, eX-
cept those who had goods to exhibit,
and who propose to stay during the
exposition. The Centennial is a
great success, and | advise every
one of your readers to come and
see it. Come to Philadelphia and
see the great show, come over to
New York and see the great metrop.
oils, and go home wiser and better
men and Women. 1t won't happen
again for hundred years, and we
shall none of us have another chance.
Make the trip a cheap one. DON'T
attempt any style whatever. and
above all don't be ashamed to ask
questions, and look About you all
you can, See all that is to be seen,
at the lowest possible price, and my
word for it, You will never regret
the expenditure. Every farmer and
every mechanic in the United States.
with their wives and daughters,
ought to come East this season, i'll
they never do it again.
BUSINESS
continues dull, though the mer-
chants have hope that the influx
of visitors to the Centennial will en-
liven things somewhat. Real-estale
is still on the decline, and rents are
going down as rapidly as possible.
There are nothing but long faces on
the street, and the mourners are
plenty. Failures are as common as
blackberries,-lnde they have be.
come so common that they excite
no attention whatever. 10 fail is a
fashionable thing, and has become
rather creditable than otherwise.
There may be an Improvement next
but l doubt it. | believe
that New York has lost a large per
cent. of it's trade, and tha5 the city
is as large now as it will be for TWEEN
~ years to come. There are thous
lnds of empty stores, and tens of
thousands of empty houses, and
can't see where the business or peo-
pie to fill them are coming from.
But let us hope. PIETRO.