Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-11-04
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Cooper--The water SUPP
Piy-Itents--After the ccntenntai--
-Bustness.

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Polities-Peter COoper--The water Sup-
INSTRUMENTATION the ccntenntai--
-Business.
POLITICS,
New York was never so exercised,
politically, rs at this time. With
the Democracy it il struggle t0I
life; with the Republicans it is II
struggle for the lite of the nation
The Democracy have been ont OF
the custom houses and post.Oillces
50 long that they are desperately
hungry, and this is their last chance.
They have the city to plumber now,
but the field il too small. Tamma-
ny cannot iced all its adherents out
of the spells of one cty,even though
it is u New York, and it wants the
nation. The thousands of Demo
cratc.place hunters, the thousands
OF professional politicians, who have
their left hands in father Knicker.
lockers pocket, are keen to slip the
right into Uncle Samuel's, conse
quenlly they are making sucn IA
tight AS was never seen. Torch
light professions occur nightly, the
.im mills are all chartered, the
thieves have all been instructed and
furnished with the munitions of po-
lltical war, and the old time rascal
IS is in full play. Two thousand
paupers in Brooklyn, who have no
more right to u ballot than the
Sioux Indians were carted out and
registered, and every man of them
will he voted. The repeaters have
registered Il degree unheard of be-
fore and every scoundrally appi-
ancc that Tanmany in its worst days
used, is being used again under the
personal direction of Tilden. tie
knows all about how to do it, for he
has carried New York before by TIE
same means. There are but tw"
things to hope for. There isa split
in rammany, which believe is too
wide to be bridged. Tilden may not
get all the goods he has purchased,
and the better class Of the Democ-
racy are opposing him. These two
Causes may operate to keep the ma
.jority in the city down to something
within reach. Then the Republi-
cans are fighting gallantly, when
what they have to contend with Is
taken in to account. | believe New
York will vote for Hayes-if it does
not it may he set down to the great
est frauds that were ever perpe trat.
ed. The reports from the counties
outside are splendid, and the mo.
ment one gets away from this thieves
paradise, the skies are bright.
PETER COOPER
The greenback candidate, is an in
offensive excellent old man of eigh-
ty, WHO made several millions OF
dollars by making superior article
of glue and isinglhsS. Naturally
benevolent, and naturally vain, he
built Cooper Institute, Il school for
instruction in many things, and Il
free library, and gave it to the city.
1t was a noble benefactiOn, and has
done a world of good to those for
whom it was deSi gned. He really
has a notion that he will be elected.
aud doesn't know thar he is being
used by the Democracy to divert
votes from Hayes. The old man
means well, but his candidacy is as
much of an abSurdity us though it
were Daniel Pratt or the immolta
J. n. 1t is curious what maggots
get into the heads of really good
men.
THE WATER suPPEY
Is one of the present troubles in
New York. The unprecedented
lrouth of the soarces of supply.
and Croton Lake is lower than it
mas been for many years. There is
no wells to draw from, the water
about the city is salt, and the rain
hat has fallen thus far in the au-
.umn was all taken up 10y the ground.
md did not perreptibly raise the
streams. Consequently, the pres
sure is not enough to get water
above the first floors in many parts
If the city, and part of the day
here is none at all. For a city of
I million of people to be short of
water is no joke, and the question
If a new source of supply is being
'eriousl y CanvasSed.
Are falling with every week. What
vas $3.50 month in September is
s175 now, and the agents of prop
,r y-hOIderS make no secret OF ad-
Using tenants to wait for lower pri-
,es. The threatened change has
,ome in the rates of board, which
ire the last to feel the revolution.
The eXpe nsive suits on the first floor
'r0nt in rosewood and satin, which
we're the pride of boardinghousp
keepers, now stand untenanted z; for.
Is the experienced IN business say,
everybody is looking for Secondratr
Ooms. The money which once paid
or plain, sparcely furnished rooms
N an uppsr story, in Il third rate
lOuSe is now the asking price for
eally luxurious apartments, unex
pptionably in position and taste.
Nhe old horrors OF carpets dark and
urid as the horrors of the pit, or
hOwy rs the flowers of sin, and
urniture that looked as if it had
een seized for debt gra lualiy dis
ppears from city boarding houses,
a place of which are charming NOT |
led and tufted carpets, wall papers !
With diapered border and emhroid-
red furniture dear to artists eyes. /
he crowd and rush of the closing
saves more than one ho-
81 and boarding house keeper from :
'ss this season. All good Phila +
e phians viii be able to re-furnish
heir huIlSaS with the money trnin