Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-09-27
QUE NEW YORK LETTER.
Tweed the stand-Rapid Transit-Wnl
Troubles - The Riflemen-The New Tenn
perance Movement Beechers Books - A
Saving Bank swindle-Buslness.
New York, Sept.22, 1877.


Tweed on tho Stand.
Tweed's testimony is making
about the havoc among the great and
small politicians of the city that
charge of bird shot does among a
flock of pigeons at short range. The
OLD man is very frank, and speaks of
his operations without reserve. He
has no squeamishness about names.
The cause of the flight of Oakley
Hall is no longer mystery,
for Tweed duplicates him
in the ring robberies, and it was the
dread that he would make full con-
fession that impelled Hall to jump
the country. And then there are a
parcel of Republican officials who are
implicated, any quantity of demo-
Gratis, who were distinguished for the
fervency of their denunciation OF the
old man,-after he fell into disgrace.
In fact, it seems that those who were
the most fervent in denouncing him
were, as rule, the most guilty. Of
course they all deny, and every one
of those whom Tweed has implica-
| ted has his documents all ready to
prove his innocence, but it won't do.
They can't account for the houses
they live in, the carriages they ride
in. the Watches that sail, or the money
that pays for all these things. These
fortunes are too large for honest ac-
| emulation. and no one in New York
doubts that Tweed has told straight
unvarnished, and true story. The
man seems determined to go clear
through it, whether it does him any
good or not.
| Rapid Transit.
Thank heaven there are courts to
which the people may appeal, against
the monopolists. The means OF going
up and down town are and have been
for years, shamefully insufficient.
Night and morning the cars on the
lines North and South would be
crowded, hundreds and thousands OF
weary people on them unable to get
seats, and the platforms jammed with
people hanging on in all sorts OF
shapes. Then to get to any part OF
the city where rents are within the
reach of laboring mans income
required full hour of time-two
hours each day-which is an enor-
nous per cent. of what is better than
money taken for nothing. Compan-
les were organized to build elevated
railroads the whole length of the
Island, and one of them, under
charter granted by the Legislature did
build about a mile of road. Than
the horse-car companies intertered,
for the mine was too rich to be given
up. They got out injunctions on the
elevated people, and every possible
method of retarding the work was
resortod 10. Yesterday the final de-
cision was had, and it was against
the monopilsts. New York will now
have rapid transit. The e'eyated
roads are simply platforms supported
by strong pillars, on which narrow
gauge tracks are laid The cars are
long, with seat running lcngthwise
on each side, each holding perhaps
sixty passengers, The engines are
small and noiseless, and the rate OF
speed is twenty miles an hour. AS
| the tracks are up to the level of the
second story, and are used only for
the cars, there can be no danger
whatever on them. The work on
the Gilbert will be pushed to com
pletion at once, and it is. expected
by the time winter sets in we shall
have two lines running the whole
length of the island. This will do
more for New York than any one
thing that has happened for years,
for it will relieve the pressure on the
over crowded lower part Of the city,
and give the poor better and cheaper
homes in the upper part.
Will Troubles.
| When people fix up their affairs and
lie down and die, they have no idea
how soon all their fixing will be nn-
fixed. Matthias Danser, a gambler,
left an estate of half a million or more
to his daughter, Mary Danser, who,
having seen she wickedness OF her
father, was a most pions and devout
woman. When Mary came to die,
she left all this money to religious
bodies, much to the disgust of her
relatives, who have been waiting for
her decease for some time, inpatient
| w. The religious societies wrangled
over it for some time, appearing to be
in doubt, as to whether they ought
TO accept money that had been made
over the green cloth. They finally
accepted it, however, feeling that no
matter how the money was obtained,
they would put it to a good use, and
that they could sanctify it. But now,
after the religious bodies had decided
to take it, they didn't get it all. For
the other heirs of the late Danser
came in and undertook 10 invalldate
the will, claiming all sorts of irreg
ularlty, and rather than have 1t go to
trial, the claimants agreed to divide
it into two parts, and so it was set
tied. The church gets the halt of
the dead gamblers money, and his
brothers and sisters the other half,
and they are all supposed to be
happy.
The ISifle,nen.
Now that the matches are all over,
the American teams are soothing their
defeated com petitors by showing
them the country. To- day the En-
glishmen are up the sound, on yatchs,
and it is propos ed to continue the
excursion all the way up the New
England Coast, if the weather con-
tinues pleasant. The Englishmen
say that they were fairly beaten, and
the Americans are the best in every
respect. But they are going home
TO practice a year, and will come
back, to win the next time. And the
Americans respond, if you do beat
us, we shall take it as pleasantly as
YOU did. The match has been a very
pleasant one, there has not been a
particle of iil-feeling or bad blood,
from first to last. The arrangements
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