Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-08-23
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Labor Troubies--swinton's NotIon-The
Storm Year the Big Csmp-meeting- all
st.-CircumstnntIal Evidence.
New York, August Is, 1877.
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are not over yet by any means,
though the ngthreatened strike
in the city has not yet taken place.
The workingmen are not yet organ
lied TO make it the success they de-
sire, ard it will be put of till the
leaders have their arrangements
thoroughly and &C mpletely made.
Swinton, s, hRab and Thompson are
busy among them, organizing by
trades and raising funds to support
the movement when the break is
finally made. They expect to have
million of dollars, and so complete
an organization that they Will 10
able TO effectually stop all business,
and dictate terms to the city, and
without any rioting or bloodshed.
Ono workman asked Swinton wheth-
er II would not DO better to take
The Million,
| and pay it over to the unemployed
" orkmen, 10 help them along till
times got better Swinton's ans
wer was characteristic. "What is
the use OF feeding men in this way ?
Do you want to go on feeding them,
or will you compel capital 70 pay
them so that they can iced them
selves? A million of dollars is a
mere nothing, to pay for what we
want!" Ju4tus Sehwah Gays but
little bat he sells beor and looks
wise: He has The German clement
we'll organized, and well in hand.
When the strike Is declared, he says
they will turn out to man.
The storm Year.
The season has been made mem
orablo by tho number and severity
of the storms that have swept over
this coast. Never in the history of
the city bas there been SO many or
so violent. Last Saturday night,
Coney Island, on which at the time
were more than $4,000 visitors, was
swept by storm that was as Sc
we're as il was unexpected. Bathing
houses were taken up and carried
bodily quarter Of o mile inland,
tables on the piazzas were swept
away. and men ana women sitting
at them were hurled violently
against the walls OF the buildings.
Fortunately the hotels were suffici.
emily strong 10 resist The beating OF
the winds, else there would have
been a terrible loss OF hfo, There is
thunderstorm or two every day,
and the nights are made lively by
the came agency. 1t was amusing
last Sunday on the boats that carry
New York out TO get breath OF
fresh air on the water. On the boat
to Fire Island there wore seven
hundred passengers, furious storm
came up, and every one OF the SOW
en- hundred were aearsick. The
sight Of seven hundred peopls Vom-
ting at once is not ofton voachsafed,
and IL would have boon amusing
had tho behol3er been too busy
with bis own Individual sickness 70
enjoy that of others.
The Big Camp Meeting
at Ocean Grove, Now Jersey, Is in
active operation. At this now fam
Qua place there arc substantial cot
tages that shelter resident popu
lation of 1000, who stay there all
the summer, and the teuts accom-
modato IS many more. Inc place
is owned by an association who en-
force the most ultra religious rules.
Intoxicating drinks cannot DO had
for lovo or money, boating and all
classes OF amusemonts are prohibited
on the Sabbath, aside from the print
ed regulations there is moral IN
fiuence that makes il extremely
difficult for sinner to be comforta-
BILE in the prosecution of any kind
Of semi-snful or even frivolous
amusement. The business of the
place is religion, and it is very close
~ followed. There are meetings at
daylight, and then all tho day, with
Intervals Of rest, and till ten O'Clock
at night. Mrs. Lizzie Cook is there
exhorting d dozen times day, IS
well as Mrs. Van Colt, and all the
noted revivalists. The singing and
praying is of the emotional kind,
the end being to get up as much re-
igious fevor and feeling as possible.
Bishops Simpson and Peck have
charge of the exercises. 1t is an i'm
mense success this year.
Wall Street,
Not since the summer of 1873 has
there been such grip acquired by
the "bulls" on the whole front of the
Wall street stock market, as now ex-
lists.
A great 'bull' combination led by
Keene, a heavy operator from Girls
CO." Russell Sage, the man who ''sat
down" on Milwaukee and st. Paul
for so long a time, d. p. Morgan,
Sam Mills, Osborne and others as
sisted by Vanderbilt and also by sew
eral banks who are interested in float
inc the wreck in the North West 81
Rock Island r r. stocks made by
Tracy's failure are now manipulating
for a higher market, the controlling
part of the stocks of railroad and tele-
graph companies representing capl-
tai of not less than three hundred mil
lions of dollars.
Their argument is, first, that in the
general depression of trade-now
slowly improving and in the liquid
atoms which have been going on,
railroad stocks fell below their true
value; and, second, that the great
crops of the country will be carried
over the roads this fall, and the war,
giving the market at good prices, viii
stimulate the entire business of the
country, and the roads, having already
effected great economy in running ex-
penses will show a large increase in
earnings, and at paying rates for all,
and investors and spectators will
then buy stocks at the advanced prices.
There are those who do not take
this roseate view, and Jay Gould is
one of them. This clique have DEM
onstrated their positive strength by
advancing the whole line 10 the face
of the recent labor strike, and its at