Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-10-02
LETTER FROM NEW YoRR.
NEW York, Sept 10. 1876.
Special Correspondence.

stomachs let him look into the columns
of the New York press for the past week
and read what is said of Delmonico. our
greatest reStaelratetr. and in fact, ac-
cording to travellers, the greatest in the
world,< The removal of the establish
ment which the week has witnessed is
the occasion for this journalistic ovation,
In which the papers all vie with each
other in their praises of one of the old
est and most populr houses in the me-
tropoiis. = =
The premises which the DelmOnicos
have occupied since 1861 are at the cor
ner of Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth
street Around these halls now desert
ed what memories cling of brilliant con-
viviality For fifteen years they have
been the rendezvous in New York of the
elite of two continents-social, political,
artistic and military. Here has been
the scene of all the grandest entertain
ments in which American hospitality
has taken substantial form towards IL
lustrious sons and strangers.
But in point of cost, all other enter
tainments at this palace of the palate
pale before the memorable dinner that
Sir Morton PetO gave the leading rail-
road men in 1866. The titled English
man fairly out-Heroded Herod in the
lavishness of this affair The bills of
fare were little books of naoire antique
printed in gold and bound in morocco.
Each guest cost his host $3.50 and the
whole bill which he was called upon to
pay for the nights festivities reached
the comfortable sum ofs15,O0O. Anoth-
er and hardly less costly banquet was
given little later by a Mr.. Lackmeyer
who had the large dining hall complete
ly buried in flowers and even ransacked
antiquity for unheard-of extravagances
one of which was to revive an old Egyp-
tian custom. of having pond in the Gen.
tire of the table. In this pond swan
four snow white swans.
With such history, the old granite
building from which the encroachments
of business have driven its occupants
ought to rest content even though Its fu-
ture uses be less glorious.
street is the finest of the many which the
Delmonicos have occupied. 1t is five
stories in height, the top floor being de-
voted to kitchen purposes instead of the
basem ent as is generally the case. The
lower stories are divided into larger and
smaller dinner and supper rooms and the
general restaurant. Each room is up
holstered in different color, and with
all the elegance which satin, mahogany,
silver chandeliers. etc. can bestow.
In the great rife match just conclud-
ed the widest hopes of the Americans
were realized. our team beating the
world fairly and squarely, with a good
many points to spare, in spite Of a re-
cord in the previous practice shooting
far behind that of their competitors. The
substitution at almost the last moment.
of Judge GildersleeVe and Capt Bodine
who did such splendid service in the
Dollymount match Of last year. was what
saved the day. By this victory the
American rihemen take the champion
ship of the world.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. l6.
Last week instaneed the woes Of un-
suspecting visitors who got ''sold" on
the very lifelike lay figures Of the Expo
sition. But lest some Of your readers
should have been caught in this manner
and be inclined to be a bit sensitive
about il, let me hasten TO assure them
I Ludb A lutublOu Cldc1 Vi t1uSS
with deep humility, and that they can
take ample revenge in laughing at me
as the victim of an error which. while
|. the direct converse of theirs, was far
more aggrayating. A few weeks ago, IN
stroIling down the centre isle Of the
Main Building. my attention was caught
by a very poorly executed figure which
looked like some caricature Of back.
, woods farmer in his Sunday clothes. and
: which thought might have been SNUG
gled into the Fair as joke. 1t stooe
: in little out Of the way angle. and a
: there was no one near il 4 stepped aside
: to examine it. 1t was most palpabl'
: fraud. Anybody could see that it, eye
!. were glass and that its beard was moth
e ing but the cearsest bOrsehair IL va
e dressed in suit Of shiny black elOtl
d which hung loose aud wrinkly over il
z straw-stuffed limbs. On its head wa
z an old fashioned beaver several sizes 70
II large, and from one hand hung an emp
b ty black carpet bag Altogether it va
> a most absurd scarecrow. and as | stoo
close up 70 it smiled in ia face . smil
J Of mingled contempt and Amusement
b As vas at last about 70 turn away
thought | would see shat the affair va
u made Of. and 10 this end took bold /
e one Of the arms. Fancy my feelings
= see the CLASSY eyes of the figure sudder
ID Iy turn upon me. the gaping mouth sh'
d up like steel trap, and my whole bael
Or woods earicatsre thus raaely awakene