The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-06-16
Our New York Letter.
New York. May, %, IT.

In spite of these eccentric March
winds that come laundering into the
last DAYS Of May, running overcoat
stock up to par and nearly bursting the
holders of straw hat and "duster" Sc
curitiss, we know that the summer sea-
son il upon MS. We know it in spite OF
the blue noses and generally aguish
look of that numerous class who took
off all their thick things at the first
warm breath and thus once more fell an
easy prey to the threadbare trick that
old Boreas has played them every spring |
for from ten to fifty years, according to
their various ages. We know it by
signs that are as regular and infallibie
as the equinox. 1t is not that the grass
is long and each tree mass OF qniver-
ing green nor that we who live In the
suburbs and have gardens welcome the
glad potato bug as he ambles gracesuily
up the walk, OF quarrel hotly with our
next door neighbops to whose CORN Is
half an inch the Agbest. No; such
signs as these are wel|ensugAein their
way, but they cannot compare for accu-
racy with the re-appearance of the soda
water man. All winter long this esti-
mable member of society is nowhere, to
all intents and purposes. From the
bitterness of his disappearance l am
tempted to believe that at the first
, snow squall he curls up in some hollow
tree, puts his paws in his mouth and
, hibernates like my esteemed friend the
black bear. His street corner fountain
!, ID boarded up and for weary months Is
festooned with snow or blown bare and
! clean by icy winds which make the very
thought of soda water sort of hydro
I pbobic suggestion. Bnt at length,
: some time after those little aristOcrats,
e the birds, get back from their winter
: residence in Florida, the soda water man
( uncurls himself, gets cut of his tree,
q strolls around to his stand casts his
# weather eye around the armament and
is finally at his good pleasure unlimbers
n his apparatus and rolls up his sleeves.
l. That settles it. We are then at the
l. commencement Of our summer season,
n and may safety get out our fourth
n hands, fix up our cottages at Long
sr Branch and Newport, and get ready fol
D. business generally.
sr OF course in speaking of the soda
Or water man do not mean the vendor Of
that one refresument exclusively
Some of him sell ginger beer; other
dispense the various mineral waters
and large majority of him deal on
Centennialmead. take him to repre-
sent the purveyors of any iced bever
nd age that stings when it, goes down, ant
NJ Immediately comes tingling back int
d the nose, making that organ feel an
II look like a pincushion, causing the eye
al to weep and the whole being. to wis
az for the moment that it had never bee
Dc born.
Tn Emboldened by 80 illustrious an ex
he ample other regular summer institu
he tions are making their appearance
ID, The magnificent excursion steamers i
rat which New York is rich have thrown o
in tarpaulin coverings and musty lionel
pre- ness, and commenced to blow he
breaths from their big black nostril
and they rush to ana fro from half
ad. score Of suburban resorts. The yacl
les clubs and race associations show sigr
hat of active life. Gillnore's Garden, aft,
W." passing through six months Of Weiss
ere tude as rink, race course, circus. dc
{: a show and ball room, has thrown off a
ys communicating associations, disinfect.
but itself from dogs and carnival, and lift.
vn, itself back into it's normal position
We, THE promenade concert garden of Il
gn, country. The managers have put
ike 100000 worth Of turf, gravel, founta
alto and flowers, and Gilmore himself, ha
the ing drilled his band within an inch
his its life mounted the stand for the fir
ngs time this year on the evening of the 24t
was The stringent law against gamblin
ay passed at Albany just before the ope
of ing of the sporting season, throw t
AN New York pool sellers and their hume
{ it Gus patrons into a sort of indigna
Gus despair. Elections, ball matches, rae,
are, ETC., without betting, seem to them Ii
he the play of Hsmlet with the melancho
hot, prince omitted. After consideral
two cogitationsthe difficulty was partly g
over by the removal of the popular pc
DON rooms to the more hospitable SD ores
gin New Jersey, where sports of high a
low degree can wager their spare ca
rom OH the success of their favOrites. 7