Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-07-29
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Fast Mail-Pneumatics- Alen0ntttcs
Heat aud Health-lce-The Ttltoms-
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The Fast Mail-Pneumatics-
Heat and Health-Ice-The TtltoMs-
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THE FAST MAIL.
The continuance of the fast mail
which some papers are making SO
much fuss about, excites no feeling
here. 1t was q humbug and q blum
der from the first, and never was OF
any use to any class but the morn
ing papers of New York. Business
closes here ut @ p. NJ, and oil the
mail for the day is put into the Of
tee ut that hour. 1t leaves by the
regular express at $50, arriving at
Cleveland the next night at Z, at
Toledo at 1875, and at Chicago the
next morning ut 8. Now the fast
mail leaves New York at 4 in the
and gets into Toledo,
Cleveland and Chicago, at practi-
cally the same hour as the regular
train. There was in it no earthly
use to the business men either OF
the East or West, and the expense
of the extra train was an entirely
useless expenditure. New York
sends out each week over 10000
sacks OF mail matter that originates
in the city, besides the vast amount
of matter that comes here for dis.
tribution. But the Government
ought not to pay for special trains
Just to give the New York papers
an advantage over other cities. and
that was all the good effected by
the fast mail train. IL is we'll If it
is dead.
TIE PNEUMATIC TUBE.
An experiment. is being tried in
this city, or rather has been tried,
that will work a revolution in the
transmission of mail matter. Hol.
low tubes have been laid from the
main Office OF the Western Union
Telegraph Company to its branch
es. In these hollow tubes are plac.
ed leather boxes, containing mes
air is exhausted, and in
a second the dispatch is at the 9th,
er end of the route. The Pneumat.
ic Tube is cheaper than telegraph
ing for messages of any length, and
as the experiment has proved Ell
tirely successful, tubes are to be
laid to Philadelphia and Washing
ton very soon. The rate will be
something more than postage, Of
course, but it will be nothing as com
pared to tclegraphing, as II four-page
letter can be sent as cheaply as tel
words. Suppose the inventive gen
JUS of the age should apply this
idea to passenger travel! How
would it seem to be boxed up, put
in a tube, ahd sent from Chicago tt
New York in an hour? 1t may
come to that.
EMIGRANTs FROM A NEW SOURCE.
We have emigrants from all the
countries of the world but Arabia
and now that country has contrib
uted it's quota. Nine Arab stone
cutters having heard fabulous &C
counts of the wages that were being
paid in this country, made their way
hither, and landed in New York
last week. The poor fellows could
not speak work of English or any
other language that could be under
stood by any one here, and only by
signs did they make their wants
known. They were disappointed tC
find that thousands of stOnecutters
were out of work, and as they had
no means,of course they found them.
selves in Bellevue Hospital, living
at the expense of the city. They
are tall, intelligent, fine looking men,
and having been given tools, show.
ed wonderful proficiency in theil
art. What is to become of them
heaven only knows. There isn't
work for one-half the mechanics
here, and new. corners fare badly
We could spare Arabia enough
stonecutters to build over it's entire
territory.
TIE HEAT AND HEALTH.
Never in the history Of this city
has there been so long a term OF
heat. For almost a month the Their
has kept up into the nine
ties, and for many days together 60
ing above hundred; right along
through the night as we'll as day.
The mortality among children has
been frightful. In the lower part
of the city where they are huddled
together in badly ventilated dens,
where a hundred exist in rooms in,
sufficient for single family, the
poor innocents have died by the
thousand. The physicians and char
ties have done all that was posi-
BILE, but to little purpose. The chill
Llren could not live in all atmos-
phere heated like furnace, in which
air could not come; and then their
food was not such as would enable
Them to withstand the facilitating
Effects of the heat, and so, despite
Of doctor and nurse, the little ones
went by the thousand. In one of
hose human hives in the lower part
Of the city, one hundred and fifty
children died during the month.
THE ICE QUESTION.
And while the heat is so intense,
and, consequently, the uses FOR ice
multiplying, the ice companies, in
the most heartless manner, have
doubled the price. No one out of
New York can appreciate how op
)reSSive such a raise is. The water
'uns on an average fifty miles in
pipes, and before it reaches the con-
sumner is as warm as dish water. In
act it is entirely unfit for use. The
ce business is in the b lands of two
companies, and, being thus placed,
t is a huge monopoly. To erect ice.
houses on the Hudson, to build de-
,ots in the city, to buy thousands
IF horses, and to fit up thousands