Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-07-15
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
New YORK. July 8, 1878.
Since my last letter the American ca
gle has for the l02d time tapped those
tireless wings of his, and given an all
pervading screech over the doings of
l776. Some one has suggested-and
it's not such bad suggestion, either
that 100 years is about long enough for
grown-up nation to crow boisterously
over its getting out of leading strings.
1t is fair question, at least, whether
it is entirely digni6ed for country
which has attained an unquestioned
place among the great powers of the
world to keep on year after year yelling,
banging and throwing up its hat, as
crazy with boyish enthusiasm as when
it was eighty or ninety years younger,
and all because We are not somebody
else's colony. l don't want to be tho't
scoffer at proper and established or
der of things, and l don't want to be
put out of the synagogue for want of
patriotism /; but l must say that our
present Fourth of July hullabaloo re-
minds me more and more of the perform
ance of some old gentleman who should
set apart day each year for standing
on his head, shooting off finger or SO,
and getting blind drunk, to commemo-
rate his having been fshed out of the
river when youngster, or to celebrate
the day when he got his first pair of
boots.
The terrific weather of the past week
drove hundreds of thousands to the
oceans edge, and Coney Island, Man.
haitian Beach, Rockaway and the other
favorite resorts were crowded with plea
sure seekers, who reveled in the bit Of
cool air there vouchsafed them. There
seemed to be considerable enjoyment Of
the day despite the heat, and the report
ed casualties were unusually few in
number.
The afternoon was doubly enlivened
by cooling rain and the bulletin from
London which told how nobly the Amer
lean oarsmen were working to sustain
the national reputation for muscle anc
skill. The wonderful Michiganders
with the aw-breaking name, were thu
subject of many admiring enconium
from lovers of the sport. The despatch
es of the day, however, were even NOR,
welcome to New Workers, as they chron
icled the victory of our Columbia Col
lege boys over the Hartford crew. Amer
lean rowing will be regarded with in
creased respect in England as the result
of this regatta.
Bulletins from Paris give US numerou
additional descriptions of the prominen
displays made by American manufactur
ers; and it is curious to note how evi
IDENTIFY the reports carried back to Eu
J rope by visitors to our Centennial, wher
practically for the first time the worl'
took astonished cognizance of the exten
Of American ingenuity and skill, hav
stimulated European curiosity to exam
, inc American wares. Correspondent
: write that the leading exhibits from tn
U. S. are constantly surrounded by ca
ger crowds who, as rule, take no pain
to conceal their admiration and surprise
France, for instance, is the home of th
7 harmonium or reed organ manufacture
and the French have supposed then
e selves to lead the world in this industry
] but they are now forced to admit thu
1 the American organs, as represented b
e the magnificent collection of instrument
: from the factory of Estey & Co., whic
d are there shown are superior in variet,
: tone and noticeably in richness of al
t pearance, to anything their home fact
: ries can produce. The Estey establish
d ment has for years had very heay
J. foreign business to which the impressie
If they are now making upon the cosm
If politan throng that daily surges throug
T. the Champs de Mars will give ne
y and considerable impetus.
lie The hot weather having closed mo
is of the theatres, except the half doz'
At little dives where the auditor wears b
lr hat, drinks beer and watches the perforI