Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-03-20
LETTER FROM NEW YoRK.
NEW YORk. March IA. 1876.

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Is the decision upon the route Of the
pew East-side elevated railway. The ex-
perience Of this project has been rather
Everybody favOrs rapid
transit. Every man, woman and child
who has occasion to patrOnize artificial
locomotiOn has had the pressing necessi-
ty therefor ground into his. her, or its
cOrns BY the heels Of the surging and
miserable masses that gorge the matin
and the vesper horse-car, and yet as Of
ten as the new route has been offered to 4
any street, the honor has been blushing- |
" declined. Thus. for months We have
had the eiifying spectacle Of half a city |
full Of people seolding eeaselessly about |
their travelling accommodations and clam
oring for better. but at the same time
vigorously opposing every effort looking
toward the location and construction Of
the proposed improvement To hear the
pitiful walls Of prOper:y-Owners before
the Commissioners appointed to hear OBJ
jectious7 ole would think that the latter
body were taking measures to introduce
the cholera or smallpox into their thor
oughfare. The controversy might have
been endless but for the authorities get
ting out Of patience and cutting the Cor.
dian knot by naming Chatham St. Bow
cry, and Third Avenue as the route, and
this will in all probability be the one
adopted
The business outlook for the coming
season Is beng discussed. for the most
part, in doleful strain. One leading
| paper has gone into the immediate pros
poets exhaustively. but only succeeds in
bringing forth the conclusion that near
ly every branch Of trade is going to the
.demnitiOn bowers" with awful speed.
Two considerations, however. operate
to prevent this lugubriOus prophecy from
driving any one to despair. First, is the
special one that this great and increasing
stringency is constantly bringing bust
ness down nearer to cash basis, and
consequent safety and. second. there is
the general fact that the country always
manages to get through these tight pla-
ees some way. in spite Of the glOOmiest
prophecies.
In this connection two Of the week:
occurrences deserve mention. One Is tht
strong resolution Of the Importers ana
GrOcers' Board of Trade in favor o
speedy resumption. and the other Ion:
= memorial to Congress from manufactur
ing statiOners urging the abolition of tn
: present postal card and stamped enyel
| OPe system. BY which it is claimed tha
the Government not only furnishes thes
I goods to the public at loss to itself
: but thereby makes itself competitor {
: Its own citizens. The interested partie
are confident Of success IN efecting
: change in the postal laws. which vi
> have the effect Of raising the price of IL
: commodities above mentioned.
: Of all places in which to find repre-
sentative New Workers. specimens Of b
" shrewdness. enterprise and intense a
tivity, Wall street is par excellence Il
7 one 70 visit Probably nowhere on th
continent will you find business bOil'
: down to such a strength and crowds
> within such narrow limits as in tho
wonderful fey acres about the stock e
change In sense. here Is the 6nanei
heart and brain Ct the country. who
pulses are felt to the Pacific and t
:. Gulf, and through whose iron nerves {
electric battery sends financial health
= disease throughout the body polite.
h. A few Of the great workers Of W
On street are known by reputation TO eve
he one who can read the newspapers; |
,s- besides these there are many who. p
sessing widely felt influence are scare
known by name outside the scene
their personal activity. But to vi
this influence, or even to hold ones Q
in in the eeaseless struggle Of which
ing spot Is the centre. requires talent Of
.ur- common order-Eits. in many C
the sharpened BY many yicissitndes and !
ties contact with the worlds rough eornel
one Passers on Wall street are attraS
FIX by the sign Of Taylsr & Co, Spar
no Bankers, and no little interest is cen
Rem ed there By the fact Of it, having {
fort the distributing point Of no less I
this Eve millions Of dollars in premiS
as Mr.. o. d. Taylor. the senior membe
reat the firm. with whom the writer cha
lean to be acquainted. has had a his
sup which might furnish.sOme points
auds novelist Born in New York Stats
and ''Old Put" county. aud early imI
5 Is with true Yankee ambition and !
and Pendsnce, he entered active life tar
TOtes the cab Of 4 locomotive running q