Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-02-28
FROM NEW YORK.
EDITOR HUsBANDMAN:

The kindly face OF the HUsBASDMAS
greets me so often, telling me what the peo-
plo of Montana are doing and how they are
doing it, that l cannot but return the com
pliment.
New York | find quite different from
Montana-a fact, perhaps, unnecessary to
state. A Montanian's first thought is apt to
be that things are a little ~"cramped." 10
a person used to roaming over a Territory
Inhabited by one person to every seven
square miles the crowds here are quite ap-
palling. Then, too. the weather we have
been enjoying this winter. Ry-the-way, a
few remarks about the weather will not lie
out of place, as / believe it is customary in
good society to talk about the weather at
first acquaintance. 1T seems as though
winter had forgotten to call this year. The
sleigh and fur men are just ready to close
up shop in despair, while the club skate
men sweareth mildly. The beautiful
snow'' came all rain, with London fogs, TN
til it made a Montanian sigh FOR the tree air
of the mountains, "My own, my native
1Stllb. wv Heo IN NA1 VI AAesAAS VIZ w
the last day OF January, when 10! a change
ca ne DER, etc. One OF the worst storms
ever known on the coast ragged for twelve
hours, doing great damage to the shipping
interests. Coney Island was visited by a
tidal wave mountains high, which, seeming
to defy the laws of nature, leaped upon the
shore and came rolling in with a force that
swept everything before it. Hotels, sum-
mer houses and bathing houses fell like
reeds before it until it had reached half way
across the island. Several lives were lost,
and the damage to property will not be re-
paired in a single season. In the city the
pedestrians seemed to enjoy a little winter,
although no, lady dare venture on the street
without having on striped stockings, while
the gentlemen who. had snow bfownup,
their trowser's legs and out at their neck
ties will be pleased to. learn that it was
owing to the fact that the wind blew in four
directions at the same time. Just now the
city is rather quite. Business is dull, anu
large dealers are buying slow. The va
usual number of failures the past season
and the unsettled state of our legal tenders
makes everybody cautious.
A Montanian in New York is a rare sight.
I recently saw the Rev. Mr.. Rommel, SO
we'll known to yon all, and especially the
Helenaites. He is now located in Philadel-
phia, having charge of the Easton Presby-
terrain church. He says that if he was GOV
erned by his w incliaations he would nos
long remain away from Helena. All other
Montanians that have met say the same.
The excise law still RACES. A few words
of explanation in regard to this may not be
out of place. A short time ago i was sud-
denly discovered that there was a law in the
State of New York forbidding the sale of
liquor by the glass except in hotels. This
Inv seems to have been on the statutes for
years but no one knew Of it until suddenly
it was sprung upon them. The liquor deal
ers attempted to fight it off, but learned to
their sorrow that two or three hunks in the
rear of their grog shops where they could
deposit sleepy individuals did not make it a
hotel. The result was that within twenty
four hours several hundred liquor dealers
were lorked up under arrest, and the front
doors of New Works ten thousand grog
shops were closed. Back doors were at a
premium. 1t was an amusing sight to see
one, policeman attempting to guard two
saloons on opposite corners. Whi,a, he
would be guarding one they would be pass
ing customers in at the other, and while he
''went for' the other-well, might say
rice versa. The question is yet unsettled. 1t