St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-04-07
Our New York Letter


petritcd under cover of the Revised
| Statutes. has raised IL storm about the
the maladministration of "CrOwner's
quest law" lis it is called. \ respecta-
BILE woman losing her way in il stormy
night. walked of the dock into the
| East River and WAS drowned. Her body
was discovered next morning. but i'll
accordance with the traditions of this
absurd law, no one was allowed to take
it from the water till the coroner gave
PERMISSION Even the woman's hus-
band. frantic with griefand Indignation,
WAS forbidden 10y the police to touch it,
and for twenty -four hours was obliged
to pace the dock near which the body
of the wife tloated in the full gaze of
the gaping crowd, until at last one of
the four lazy and heartlesS officials who
hold inqueSts upon New lork's unfoI-
tunate dead at $I7 900 per year apiece,
made his appearance, and the shameful
spectacle came to an end. 1t is seldom
that the big and busy city gets So reused
over anything not affecting its general
interests. and aS the invest Cation which
brutality and abuse. it will go hard but
some of the official heads tumble into
the basket. \ change in the law GOV
cring such cases is also Strenuously adj
Voc;ltcd.
| And yet again, does the Elevated
/ Railroad trouble ohtiudc itself upon
/ our attention: not the new one pro
| posed tor the East side this time. but
/ the one already established on the
West side. In preparing to put down
Il new switch on Greenwich street. the
| rompanN'S men have broken through
/ into the coal vaults of Il hotel. which
miehap acted as the straw which broke
the c;tmcfS back. The hotel men,
hacked 10y the other propcrty-"wners,
/ tnrned out IL force sufficient to clean out
the railroad party and the few police
men who iuteltrrcd. Brick hats flew
and crowns were cracked, until the al
rival of mere police aVertcd what might
soon have become Il serious riot. The
] property -bN lltl> INV S'i pht an iltIilH
ton against further work. They would
evidently like to see this enterprise
share the fate of the pneumatic railway.
the tunnel for which WIS dug under
broadway Nc;u> ago. and when the
/ >chrmc was abandoned on account of
opposition and lack of means. WAS clos
rd up till il was almost forgotten 10y
/ New oIkcl> themselves. Some months
ago. however. some born Yankee got
p">>e>>on of the hole. and made thereof
Il rite rau"c. which i now largely pat
romiZrd to his great gain. lh" tunnel
+ i Il circular iron tube CaScd III brick.
some eight feet III diameter. and run
mluy under broadway from the new
city Hall down to the Post Office.
Standing ut the >hnn;cI> place and
looking away of through the thin blue
smoke To Where. hundreds OF feet dis
lamt, the white target glimmer> IL tn"
light OF strong Icticrtur~ it l. not easy
/" realize that We are in the heart of i
great city. Only the distant thunder of
the Iumhlimg vehicles overhead heals
witness to the locality.
~ may Ice supposed. the dct"natI"n
of lhr gum in this confined space L. al
/ most oVcrpuwrring. II l. like being
/ shut up in Il lig hog~hcad with Il gigan-
tie tirr-rracker. and to u nervous person
/ would lac sufficient To deter him from
this amusement. The thought that
men and women were to have been
shot up and down this tube from one
eud ot the town to he other. like peas
from u pop gIIm. goes far toward recon
I Cling the hrhuldcr Ia the failure of the
enterprise. Il i true that the elevated
railway would have been Il snail to ii.
but then there is such Il thing a> too
rapid Transit
/ 1t is now settled that ouI democratic
but title loving people are to have an
opportunity within Il comparatively few
weeks. of tcl>tiug their eyes upon Il real
live Emperor. in the person al Dom Pedro
H.. of Brazil. Wir" is attracted hthrr-
ward 10y the reported wonders of the
Centennial. This being the first visit
OF the kind Uncle sam has ever rccciN
ed. coupled with the fact that this
momaIch is one of the most liberal and
enlightened ni rrIgnIng >oNcIcIgu>. New
York i naturally on the gUi rjrc t" he
hold and welcome ouI illu>ti iou> guest.
In view of the universal attention thus
attracted To Dom Pedro and his Won
dcriul land. Frank l.r>lit'S popular
Monthly tor April contains among lis
host of good things (iucluding Il graphic
sketch ut foreign travel. 10y Mr.. Leslie
himSclD. an interesting article on Bra
I'll. the illustrations of which embrace Il
portrait of the Emperor and Empress.
aud an elegant colored frontpcice rep
rc>cntiug the harhor of Rio Jaucilo. the
scene of the recent accident To the
"HclvctiuS. just as she Was leaving
port with the imperial party; and i'll
passing, it may Ice OF interest to state
that the engravingS in this one number
alone of This marvellous periodical. cost
over four thousand dollars.
Now that the ice * broken between
ON Republic and the momarchicS We
may hope to see other crowned heads
among us this summer. 1t has been
several times reported that Queen Vie
toria desires (" he present. and perhaps
BrazilS couIse may encourage her to
conquer her baShtuncSS and cross the
sea-. She would certainly receive Il
warm welcome both aS queen. and wo-
IuaI.
That eminent and exemplary liman-
cicr. Mr.. JAY Gould, shows by his ac-
ilol III IL 'iiSt NOW ptHulllS- inal II
makes aS much difference to him whose
ON is gored. as it does to amy one else.
While not ut all avcl>c himself to cor
ncring and squeezing his lesser brethren
OF the street. he cant rcpreSS IL slight
"squeal" when his favorS are lecipro-
Gated in kind. Some time ago this
worthy man made one of the common
bets on the price of gold 10y buying or
selling tor future delivery, and suppoS-
ing the thing to he in his own hands
is usual. placidly awaited results. But
for some reason the "kiupti Sher" >yus