The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-16
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1877.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Politieal-Fire-Proof Buildings-JOe. CO.
burn-Business.

New York, and although there Is a
political love-feast prevailing, that
is not only pleasant but encouraging.
I don't know which party is the best
satisfied. 1t looks now as though Hayes
would so amalgamate the warning fac
tons as to make but N party before
his term is out. And let me put a word
in here. Go very slow in the matter Of
the Senators Uersus the President. Gov.
Hayes is going to be President himself.
He went into office with the promise
that he would reform the civil service,
and that he would be the President of
the whole country. He will surround
himself with the right men. He will
urge the right measures, and if the poll
ticians refuse to support him, he will
throw himself upon the people. Those
who suppose Hayes to be a mere man
of putty, who can be manipulated by
traders and ofice-mongers, and made a
mere machine of for others to grind,
will find themselves mistaken. He is a
strong, self-reliant, self-willed man, who
knows all about the government, and
who will run it. He has a fight on his
hands, but he will win. lie has the con-
fidence of the people, and can afford to
antagonize the trading politicians.
FIRE-PRooF BUILDINGS.
The fire in Bond street, in which two
millions of dollars went up, shows how
little sense there is in builders. The
building was built by the Waltham
Watch Co., and was intended to be fire.
proof. The walls were massive, the
front was iron, the beams and girders
were iron, and every thing was done to
make the receptacle of millions of prop
erty absolutely safe. But the floors
were laid with Georgia pine, which is
about all resin, and the castings and all
the interior work was wood. A fire got
into it-how, no N knows-and this
f~re-proof building went up about as
quickly al a common frame barn. The
imflammables inside made a heat that
curled the iron supports like pipe stems.
and actually melted the walls. The
brick and iron afforded no resistance to
the fret licked it up about as readi-
ly as it did the wood. And now the
architects are figuring on buildings
which won't burn. They never will
do it, if they make the outside of brick
and iron, and then put enough Georgia
pine inside to melt it.
JOE coBURN.
. There is some hope for New York.
Joe Coburn, the pugilist, and demo-
cratic politician, discharged his little
pistol at q policeman Il few weeks ago
and wounded him. The law, which
men of the Coburn kidney have hereto
fore laughed at, took hold of him, and
Joseph was not only convicted, but SEN
fenced to ten years in Sing Sing. This
rufian has been the terror of New York
for years. He has been a prize-fghter,
n keeper of all sorts of criminal resorts,
and has been arrested hundreds of
times, but he was so useful to the demo-
crazy in handling repeaters, and in Or
ganizing the shoulder-hitters, for cleo
tion days, that he has always been let
off without much punishment. But
tho day of these fellows is over. Public
opinion has got at last some influence
with judges, and they dare not compro-
mise with scoundrels who are so we'll
known as Coburn. And so, Joseph,
much to his disgust, goes up for ten
years, and his fellows shake in their
shoes. Joe Gross, another n of the
fraternity, who was concerned in the
Allen prize-fght in Kentucky, and was
employed by the Democrats in stufing
the ballot-boxes in Cincinnati, was
taken out of the city On q requisition
from the Governor of Kentucky, and
he will languish in the prison of that
State for a while. The sky is brighten.
ing.
BUSINESS
is improving for certain. The hotels
are full of merchants, and, thank heaven,
they are buying. The big importers
are rolling out bales and boxes in the
most cheerful way, and the heart OF
the truckman is made glad. Now, good
people in the interior, take a little heart.
We are not going to have war. We
have a President, and things are going
on smoothly and well. Build, buy,
marry and give in marriage, just the
same as though you eve heard of hard
times. There was no occasion what
aver for the howl and now That this
If the people get back their courage,
the times will be as good in u month as
they ever were. Courage is what we
want now. PIETRo.