Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-20
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special CORRESPONDENCE.

New YORK, May l3, 1878.
New York is just at present in what
might be called ''a state of mind" The
cause of this sad condition of things is
smells-smells numerous, smells pene-
trating, smells nauseous and outrageous.
What makes it worse is the fact that it
is not the lower, plebeian, business por-
ton of the island that is afflicted, but
the great brown stone district lying
north of Madison Square, and typically
known as Murray Hill. Just think of it!
Murray Hill smells bad Shades of
Sybaris and Cyprus ! Can you imagine
it Murray Hill that wears lace and
diamonds, and always rides behind a
liveried coachman, that can digest no
coarser diet than roseleaves or spiders
ankles on toast, and to whose delicate
senses the perfume of the wood violet is
vulgarly strong and oppressive Why,
no such low word as smell would be al
lowed in its vocabulary. And yet there
stands the grievesome fact that at this
writing this sanctum sanctorum of fash
ion and refinement is for the most part
wrapped in the loathsome embrace of a
horrible stencil. Is it any wonder that
New York is on its hind legs at such an
unheard.of, such an impossible outrage :?
The immediate cause of this audacious
invasion of Gotham's most aristocratic
olfactories is a cluster of rendering es-
adjustments and glue factories down by
the East River, and the prime cause is
a lazy and inefficient Board of Health
that licenses these nuisances. Until
lately this august body of two members
has totally ignored the many individual
protests which have been raised against
the constantly growing infiction, but
now the press and the Grand Jury hav-
ing taken the matter up in spirit which
leaves no doubt of their intention to
bring about reform, the naughty
BOARD of Disease" as it is called, is
coming down from its lofty height and
making various hurried promises of bet
ter conduct If they want to save their
bacon they will have to show themselves
in earnest at once, for when our Murray
Hill is stepped on we are a dangerous
lot.
Ny own experience in coaching being
mostly confined to travel in Broadway
stage, it may be that do not fully un-
derstand the charm of the thing. as prac-
ticed by Delaney Kane and his follow.
ers but things being as they are, !
strongly incline to the idea of Pullman
car in preference to the cramped jolting
of an obsolete conveyance having for its
sole recommendation the temporary pat.
ronage of base 6o'a-ton
How rich mems fortunes shrink and
dwindle when their estates are settled
Before w. S. O'Brien, of Banana fame
died, rumor made of him sort of Monte
Cristo, and talked freely of twenty OF
twenty millions as his money value
His executors think the property may
realize four or five millions. Then there
was John Morrissey who was popularly
supposed to roll in ill-gotten wealth
Those in charge of his affairs now say
they will be lucky if they can pay hi
debts and two small requests which h
made to his sisters in his will.
On the other hand, there is occasion
ally, though very rarely. an instanc
wherein current report fails to do jus
8 tice to the amount of a mans posses
e sions. Mr.. Charles Morgan, who die,
here few days ago, was man who's
f name rarely got into the papers. and VIII