Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

DEATH on WILLIAM CULLEN bryant ENuN1s-
CINCEs or THE roEr-A GOLD MINE IN NEW
YoBK-THE STRANGE SIGHT on BOND STREET
THE DEADLY DIME NovEL-- nLoop1HRsrY

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| ciNcEs or THE roEr-A GOLD MINE IN NEW
YoRK-rHE STRANGE SIGHT ON BOND STREET
THE DEADLY DIME NOVEL nLooDTHiRsrY
IouNG rnEEnooTEns.
Correspondence Of the Pnu.NIxl
NEw YoHE, June II, 1873.
The dcceasc Of hardly any public man in this
country could have elected such unanimous
and spontaneous tribute to his memory and
achievement MS that which has filed the press
since the news Of the death Of the poet Bry-
ant The city flags were even half-masted
and the whole city seemed 10 unite in testify
Ing TO the universal respect felt for one Of
the most upright and blam,lgss Of men,
Mr. Bryahts career was an exec tional one
4 precocious genius, famous when he entered
his teens, and doing his best work before he
was ont of them, be still preserved his high
fame through nearly two thirds of a century
thereafter Although rs his partners confess,
he was not business man, still he accumu-
lated large fortune and maintained it to the
end with great frugality. Although slight
and rather delicate of frame. his abundant ex-
ercise and regular habits kept him in the con-
NtlAA'h hlAh ANtlAAl VI an uluAtlts anu llllh al
most up to the week of his DEATH At seven
ty-tive hc astonishod friend while walking
with him in the grounds of his country resi-
dcncc ON Long Island by running a short dis
lance in advance, jumping easily into the
branches of an uvcrhanging tree and swing.
ing for some time by one hand. When in the
city he walked up aud down town every day.
min ,lin4 Al.
most conspicuous figures on the street The
last time l saw Mr.. Bryant was one morning
not many weeks ago rs he was coming down
Broadway to his Office as usual His pace
was of course not rapid, but in his step were
much Of the firmness and agility of youth
His sharp blue eyes looked ont undmmed
from beneath pair of busliy brows. as snow
white as the long full beard and silky hair
framing the strong features with which his
portraits have famliarized US, and his whole
aspect was 80 strikingly and aitractiyely ven
cradle that most of the passers-by inyolun-
tarily turned to look after him Us he went.
Your readers are probably aware that pref
ty nearly everything is to be- found in one
shape or another in this Ci,y of New York
' 'NA''AA' " ofAg AAiAt "a IbliAN vi Alltlu
would really be surprised to hear that there is
a regular gold mine in operation in the very
heart Of the town. Such however, is the fact,
and anyone curious to inspect the modes and
processes 10y which IL great proportion of the
precious metal has been got out Of the soil of
the Pacific SLOPE. can have this curiosity graf
ih,d without going further West than the
conner Of Broadway and Bond street. Here.
year and Il half ago, occurr,d the great fire
IN which IL cluster Of j,wolry and silver manu-
factories were burned lnthcsc buildings at
the time of the fire there must have been.
outside # the dozen safes which were after
wards J. covered nearly two hundred thous-
and dollars worth Of the precious metals. on
ly small portion Of which was Immediately
recovered. The remainder was scattered. in
broken and acknowledgement through the
eighteen hundred tons of charred rubbish
which lay piled in the cellars of the burned
buildings when the smould,ring fires were at
last oXtingushed. During the first few
months after the catastrophe the surface Of
this rubbish was II good deal taken out Re
Gently, two experienced miners obtained the
necessary permission from M,ssrs. Robbins
and Appleton, the Own,Is of the building. TO
work the great ash heap Systematically. They
put in thousand dollars worth of machinery
and have now been dolVing, shiciug and Grad
ling in true minor fashion for several weeks.
The two men are able to wash about thirty
tons of the rubbish day, and thus far report
it to pan out about eleven dollars a ton. Dur
ing most of the day the work Of the grimy
pair thirty feet below the sidewalk is watched
by crowd of idlers and stragglers who look
down upon the strange scene with eager and
enviouS curiosity.
To abolish the dime novel would probably
seem to the average Young American a more
serious and revolutionary invasion of rights
than the suspension of the hdLtds corpus and
yet it may have to be done Within a short
time there have been quite a number Of cases
reported in which boys who had been reading
about scouts and pirates until they became
convinced thay had special mission to be-
come one or the other, have in consequence
got themselves into scrapes of various dimen-
sions. HAITI dozen or more of these infant
Adventures have, within rs many months,
been intercepted by the police on their way
either to the lava beds or the roaring main.
and returned to homes in this city and Brook
Ign from which they had run away with the
firm intention Of achieving desperate and
heroic deeds. Most of them. when thus found.
had no possessions in the way of baggage OF
money but in not one of the cases reported
was the prime necessity, a revolver, missing.
In none Of the instances above alluded to,
however, was any more serious damage ac-
than the alarm of the parents con-
cerned and some unromantic retribution
wreaked by the said parents in such man
ner that the young despepdoes generally pre-.
ferred taking meals off the mautel- piece for a |
few days after their return.
In the latest case Of this kind, however. the |
work Of this red-fre literature was more trag |
ical A tow-headed highwayman who had |
run away from home and with some kindred |
spirits had for some days been living in a |
cave in the surburbs, sailed forth from his |
hiding place one night and meeting a young |
man who resisted his demands for money. |
backed up his claims by shooting his victim |
dead He was arrested, tried, and early last |
week was sentenced to eight years in states |
prison. When questioned by the judge as to
the cause of his crime, hc admitted that he |
he had been led to it by the current senSa-
tional boys literature, but expressed no re-
greet and seemed to regard his conviction and |
sentence merely as a proper and enjoyable |
part of the drama in which he was the hero.
RADX.
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