Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-08-05
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Dry Weather-The Business OutlOOk-
samuel J,Tilden--Ehatkt kind Of a Ma
he is-The Heated Ni9hts--The futon
Family-StOkes In Au burn-IAsalth.

FNmtly-StOkes1 Ia AuDurn-heoltn'
DTY WEATHER.
1t has been fearfully dry in the
city all summer, so much so that St.
rious fears were at one time enter
tanned that the water supply of the
city might fall. New York is sup.
piled from one source, Croton Riv'
er, and the water for the entire city
is brought in one pipe. Imagine
the distress that would be occasion.
ed if, by any accident, that pipe
should be destroyed. Imagine a
million of people without water
But. as dry as it has been in the
cry. it is nothing to what our neigh
bors in New Jersey have suffered.
The whole State is as dry as pow
der horn, and the loss to the farm.
ers and gardeners will DO immense.
The vegetable crop is nearly a total
loss, the berries dried up Oh the
bushes, and the apples are falling
from the trees. In parts water has
been procured for house purposes
with difficulty, and stock has suffer
ed terribly. So hot and dry a sea:
son has not been known for eighty
years.
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Business is as dull as ever, but
some of the merchants are hoping
that with the fall there will come a
revival. They argue that prices
having got down to something near
the bottom, merchants from the in.
terror will come to New York and
buy, and that they will buy more
literally. Then they count on the
low cost of passage and freight to
attract buyers to this market. lin.
sist that they are wrong. The job.
bling trade is lost to New York for.
ever. The merchants of Chicago,
Cincinnati, st. Louis, Toledo, and
the other wholesale points in the
West can buy Of the manufactu.
rers just as cheaply as can the New
York merchant, and they can do
business at half the cost. They
can undersell the New York jobber
in all American goods, aud, thank
heaven, American goods are the
goods Americans are mostly using
now. Besides it costs less to go to
any of those points than it does to
New YORK, and treights are less.
New York will always be the finan-
cial and importing centre of the
but nothing else. The
great city has seen its best days,
and if it holds its own it is more
than l expect for it. There are
thousands of empty stores in the
city, and tens of thousands of emp.
ty dwellings. And the end is not
yet. .ReEts have shrunk twO-thirds,
and there has been a depreciation
in real estate such as this country
never saw. 1 do not count much
Oh New York. The West holds the
key to the position, and it always
will.
SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
Tilden, the Democratic nominee
for President, is probably the most
unfit man for that position that
could have been selected. He is a
born aristocrat, and is in sympathy
with no human being but Sam. Til.
den. He lives in one Of the most
gorgeous mansions in New York,
and, more than any one man in the
city, keeps up the style of the Eu.
rOpean nabOb. His associates are
the kid-glOved Democracy of the
Club and he never would
have been a Democrat, only for the
reason that through lie money he
could control the lower classes,
whom he despises as heartily as a
man can. He has two qualities-l
greed for money and ambition for
political prominence. Aud there is
nothing under heaven that lie will
not do TO attain these ends. He
was the trusted counsellor of Tweed,
50 long as he could share bis rob-
berries, and he only turned against
MIN when further associations would
have damaged bis other aspirations.
He did not preserve faith with that
gang even. He took their money,
md then deserted them when they
we're in danger. He was the hired
'etainer and partner in the most gi-
yantic railroad swin,lle of this age,
md having made some six or seven
Millions by these operations, he was
strong enough financially to buy up