The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
THE wEATHER-MOoDY AND SANKEY -
DYER AND MCCAULEY-THE EXPRESS
MONOPOLY - SERVANT GIRLS - THE
CESTENSIAL
NEW YORK, Jan. %, 1876.
THE WEATHER.

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THE WEATHER
The city is thankful for the cool
change that came this week. Fog, rain.
and fever breeding weather were just
making ready for host of small epidem-
les. The ice men were sick with hope
deferred, for there were no signs favor
able for their annual ice crop, and 5000
men were waiting for work to begin at
the great ice houses up river. There
was little need of invalids going To
Florida. But the north west wind
brought clear and bracing weather that
makes life a luxury. With all the warm,
unfavorable weeks, the season is far
from being an unhealthy one, the death
rate for the week being considerably less
than the corresponding one last winter.
MOODY AND sANKEY.
Barnum's Hippodrome. where Jersey
and Vermont girls rode Roman chariot
races last Winter, and Gilnore's Brass
Band made everybody thir sty enough to
drink oceans of beer, last summer, is
now converted into a tabernacle for
Moody and Sankey's great meetings in
February. Seats for 1000 cover the
saw-dust, and a choir of 700 from differ
ent church choirs will lead the singing.
The vast building has been divided up
into rooms for various purposes. Be-
sides the vast autorium for the regular
meetings, there are four very large
rooms for inquiries, rooms for preachers
meetings, rooms for classes, and rooms
for every purpose. The money for all
this has been furnished by wealthy re-
lisious people in the city, who are de
termined to make some head against the
depravity that rules the city, and is run
ming it. One liquor seller, who has one
of the most popular bars in the city,
subscribed. and actually paid 81 900 to
the fund for the Moody meetings. When
asked why he paid his money to a cause
that was i'll direct conflict with his bust
ness, he answered that he had real estate,
the income from which was greater than
the profits from his bar; that the demor-
alization of the city. the vice and crime
that made New York an undesirable
place to live in, was hurting his largest
interests. ''If them howlers kin stop
that kind of thing" said he "they are
doing me the best turn they kim" Not
very Christian reason, but an exceed
ingly practical one. But when you
come TO reyivalists, there are two in the
city who deserve more encouragement
than they are getting;
DwYER AND MCCAULEY
Are two brands snatched from the burn
ing, that is, one was miserable drunk
ard and the other was a prize fighter.
They were converted, and both felt
called upon TO do something for the peo-
pie they had formerly known. So they
take lofts or cellars, just as they can,
down in Water and Vandam streets, and
they hold services among the lowest and
most wretched people in the city. They
are mobbed, and hustled, and despite
fully used in all sorts of ways, but they
stick to it with the zeal of martyrs, and
are actually accomplishing something
They have got together small congrega-
tions in both those streets, and have
actually induced large number of men
and women to try a better life They
work without pay, or hope of pay, hap
py when the well-inclined give them
enough to get Kerosene to light up their
rooms. Men willing to labor for hu-
lnanity where they do, deserve better
encouragement than they have received
or likely to.
THE EXPRESS MONOPOLY.
Everybody except the Express Com
panies and their subsidized Agents,
ought to hope for tha successful repeal
of the postage law which increased the
rates on all third class matter. This
amendment has been favorably reported
to Congress by the appropriate commit
tee. The Express Companies are strain
ing every nerve to defeat it, but we shall
see whether Government exists for the
good of the people, or intends the peo-
pie shall exist for the good of monopo
lies
The Companies in New York have
large lobby in Washington. and are
spending aud lending money widely to
influence the matter. Any Congressman
who finds his expenses running high with
the enormous board bills of the Capitol,
knows that lie has no safer or surer place
10 apply for n temporary aceommoda-
ton" than to one of the express lobby.
There never was Il measure more direct
ly for the good of every voter who has
ten dollars year to spend TO please him
self or his family. than the law which
sent packages by mail for 1. cent an
ounce. 1t brought books and half the
facilities of the city, for getting better
goods and lower prices to the door of the
loneliest farmer in the northwest, living
miles from any village, but visited by
the mail rider once a week. The Express
Companies have mad the field long
enough to make gigantic fortunes for
every one of them, but with their usual
dog in the manger spirit, they don't
want poor people to have their little
parcels sent at the only rates they can
afford to pay. There will always be
business enough for the Express people
in taking boxes, and articles too large
for the mail, bat with unparalleled greed
they even grudge the sending of books
at the reasonable anJ habitual rates of
mail. The oppression of the rev post
age law in operation the last year, has
nearly killed the profits of the large
newspapers. Some had increased their
size column or two to give their
readers the benefit of more reading, but
the increased weight of half ounce
doubled the postage, and nearly ruined
the proprietors. l know of one Of the
largest and most popular newspapers in
the country, whose increase of postage
by this infamous bill was $50, 900. and |
there are plenty more to tell similar
story.
If any one Iabors under tn delusion |
that the express companies need the !
protection of high postage. let them I