Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-01-13
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
MILK Heal Estate - Failures - New
NeMr's-Eieids-CriM


MILK - Neal Estate - Failures - New
ar's-Fieids-Crime.
MILk,
You who know where tho milk
you use comes from, can't imagine
the doubt that besets the New York
or, as he pours what no Is obliged
to accept as milk into coffee, or II
mother gives 1t to her baby. Years
ago, the city was excited by the
statements made of milk produced
from distillery.ied cows, and all will
remember tho horrible pictures Of
COWS IN every stage OF disease,
which were being MIXED regularly,
as long rs they could stand. II
was u fact that milk was sold in the
city, from cows fed on distilled
slops, that never left their stalls,
and were MIXED till they absolute,
~ rottcd. There is another raid OH
milkMen now, the charge being less
serious, but just about as annoying.
You all know of the little girl from
New York who spent some days at
Il cousins in the country. On hci
return she was asked how she liked
it. "Very woll," was the answer,
"only | don't think that Susy's ma
is u clean woman. The milk We
had had ayellow scum on the top
of it, and WASN'T as pretty as the
nice blue milk l get at home" The
trouble now is the milk is too blue
and as there is a very stringent law
against adulterating milk, the citi
zens have taken it up, and are pros
ecutiug the milkmen, right and left,
A dozen of them were arrested,
and a test case was made of one
In this CAGE samples of milk regu
larly sold to consumers were tested
with the lactOmeter and it was dis
covered that the compound could
be hardly called milk at all. There
was basis of pure milk, the rest
was wator, reinforced with sugar,
chalk, and all sorts of nastiness, to
give it consistency and body. And
of the hundred Samples examined
not one was found pure Or even fit
for use. The "Orange County
milkmen whose pastures are stables
just out of the city, had a trick OF
keeping milk from souring by the
use Of chemicals, and all sorts of
lodges were shown up. Thousands
Of the best families use condensed
milk, the purity of which is we'll es-
tablished, but the appearance of the
compound is so against it, it doesn't
look like milk. The prosecution
succeeded in getting the seller whose
case was made a test into the TOmbs
with Il fine of $3.50, whereupon the
Milk Dealere Association, true to
stumptail, promptly appealed the
case.
1t will take a long fight to get de-
cent milk in New York. The milk
men have retained the best legal
talent in the city, and will make a
desperate fight. But ths people will
win. The proposition is to have in.
spectors appointed, with the best
appliances for testing milk, and to
pour into the street every can that
has been watered or sophisticated
in any way. "Puro milk or nOne,'
is the war-cry, now.
REAL ESTATE.
Real estate is still depressed, and
there are no signs of improvement.
There are but few sales reported,
and the number of empty houses
and stores is frightful. Occasional.
ly a sale is made, but it is always at
figures less than half the price of
four years ago, and then the pur-
chaser is not snrc that he has bar
gain.
Vacant lots nobody will take.
When the great boulevard was open
in the upper part of New York, the
ring was on hand for bargains. On
the line of it Connolly built his mag
nificent dwelling at the public ex.
pense. Genet placed his more mag
nificent house, built on the same
terms, near Connolly's. Tom Fields
bought an elegant mansion on the
boulevard with sixteen city lots.
Nobody placed it's value when the
great drive was opened at less than
S125,OOO. One of our most prudent
cash companies loaned on the es-
tate $4,000. 1t was sold under a
foreclosure and the company had
to buy it in. It is in the market ut
$4,000, with no takers.
A business property near the Tri-
bune office was encountered with
of $4,000. So good was
it considered that second mort
gage for $4,000 was placed upon it,
and afterwards a third mortgage
for 10000, and the third mortgage
was considered perfectly safe. ItI
was sold last week, by the sheriff