Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-01
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.
New YORK, Mar. %, 1878.

Good old st. Patrick had no cause
this year to complain of any lack of re-
spect shown to his memory in the great
city of New York. His day falling on /
Sunday, intending participants in the
festival had an extra twenty-four hours
of anticipation and preparation; and on
Monday morning all the transplanted
Hibernians of Manhattan and the sur
rounding country-they of the ''dud-
heen" and the 'potheen," the shillalah
and the shamrock-whether of high or
low degree, were up and stirring. and
all agog for the pleasures OF their holt
day. These pleasures, SO far as my OBJ
scrvation extended, consisted mainly in
forming very long procession, literally
interspersed with bands of music, and
in getting very. very drunk, as, indeed,
every true Irishman is in duty bound to
do on each anniversary of his patron
saint The procession was really an
imposing one, including many detach-
ments of the military, dozen or more
| Irish societies, and an innumerable COM
pany of such enthusiastic laynen as
could muster black coat and a stove
pipe hat Green was of course the pre-
vailing color Of the occasion. and was
variously manifest Green flags fdated
from every staff controlled in any way
by this nationality; all the mep wore
green neckties or badges, all the women
green dresses or ribbons, and the head
gear of thousands of horses was resplen-
dent with the same verdant decorations.
In the evening there were the usual as
sortment of meetings, dinners, speeches
and rows.
Speaking of Irishmen reminds me that
our distinguished Fenian fellow towns
man, O'Donovan Rosa, has been distin-
gushing himself this week at Toronto,
whittier he went to lecture, by provok-
ing serious riot and having himself to
flee for his life. The newspaper dis
patches tell us that in the progress of
the small sized war that Rosa preeipi-
tated, every policeman in Toronto was
more or less injured. AS a frebrand,
O'Donovan seems to be success.
Another peculiar festival fell within
{ the week just passed. This was the jew
, ish masquerade feast of Purim of which
, the principal feature consists in keeping
| open house for the reception of maskers
, of both sexes. This evening many Jews
o and Jewesses, of all classes, dressed in
fancy costumes, dominos and masks, 90
around in parties of ten or twenty, call.
ing at all the Jewish houses which are
known to be "open" in honor of the
feast and there disport themselves tt
the amusement of the guests assembled
: to receive them. In some cases regular
'' parties are given to receive these mask
: ers and invitations are sent out. Al
there are some $4,000 Jews in New
York city, it will be seen that any fes
tivity in which they join generally be
Ii comes quite noticeable.
! Last week gave a description of tn
= operation of the photograph, in which
said something about the rapid sucses
sion of astonishing inventions. The jus
. tice of that remark is illustrated by tn
fact that since writing that letter hav
. learned of brand new continuance O
' the same inventor, called the aerophone
which can be put on steam engines IL
% stead of the ordinary whistle, and, i
gentle tones that can be heard at leas
four miles, be made to call out an
y words desired. For instance, if it is O
= factory, it will perhaps yell, "Time fo
Dinner J" or Come to Work p and
- on locomotive. Get off the Track
or while yet far away, shrek to the nez
station, "Bungtown, look out for Nun
ii Der Three !" What the next contrivans
rt will be no one can foretell but prom
ID Use to chronicle it faithfully. even if it
ut a patent air line rapid transit railroa
D. to the moon.
IN Which mention of rapid transit r.
ne minds me to say that our elevated raj
ne way extensions 60 merrily on. I'll
as building of the Gilbert road has pr
n, crossed with incredible rapidity. l
m sections seem to spring out of the cart
ne day by day like a growth of enormol
d. mushrooms and already Sixth Avenl
s. and West Broadway are filled with q
r. arching forest of iron beams and gir1er
of At this rate another month will s.
IN trains running on this route. The Pull
he man Car Company are hard at work {
lie the cars, for building sixty of whiC
cd they have contract. These cars are
ey be very elegant. after the manner of Il
nd Pullmans. shall, perhaps. DESERT
'e- them later.
de An extraordinary complication
arisen between the city and nation
= governments. The ground on which O
80 ten million dollar post-ofice stands W
"a sold to Uncle Sam by the city of NJ
:. York, and in the conveyance clau
- was introduced STIMULATING that if t
building was ever used for any 9th