Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-07-12
Our NeM York Letter.

has for the 1921 time tapped those tiroless
wings of his and given one all pervading
screech over the doings of 177G. Some one
has suggested-and it's not n bad suggestion
cither-that 100 years is about long enough
for a grown-up nation to crow boisterously
over its getting out Of leading strings. It is
a fair question, at least, whether it is entirely
dignifed for country which has attained an
unquestioned place among the great powers
of the world to keep on year after year yell
ing banging and throwing up its hat, as era
zy with boysh enthusiasm as when it was
eighty or ninety years younger, and all be-
cause we are not somebody else's colony. l
don't want TO be thought a scoffer ut a proper
and established order of things, and don't
want to be put out Of the synagogue for want
of patriotism but must say that our pres
ent Fourth of July hullabaloo reminds me
more and more of the performance Of some
old gentleman who should set apart n day
each year for standing on his head, shooting
off finger or so, and getting blind drunk, to
commemorate his having been fished out of
the river when II youngster, or to celebrate
the day when he got his first pair of boots.
But, happily for the fre-cracker men and
the rising generation, l am in a hopeless mi
nority on this question, and Thursday was de-
voted to the usual noisy demonstrations not
so noisy rs usual in the city proper, however,
for the authorities very sensibly refused this
year to suspend the ordinance against the va
rious preparations of gunpowder. There
WERE of course, numerous violations of the
ordinance, but on the whole the city was
more quiet than in previous years. But out
side the jurisdiction of our worthy alderman
the din was ndiminished, and the suburbs
were largely resorted to by those whose pat
riotic frenzy refused to be curbed by the rules
of the municipality.
The terrific weather of the past week drove
hundreds of thousands to the oceans edge,
and Coney Island, Manhattan Beach, Rock
away and the other favorite resorts were
crowded with pleasure 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 reported
casualties were unusually few in number
The afternoon was doubly enlivened by n
cooling rain and the bulletin from London
which told how nobly the American oarsmen
We're working to sustain the national reputa-
ton for muscle and skill. The wonderful
NTichiganders with the jaw breaking name,
were the subject of many admiring encomi-
ums from lovers of the sport. The despatch
es of the next day, however, We're even more
welcome to New Workers. as they chronicled
the victory of our Columbia College boys
over the Hartford crew. American rowing will
be regarded with increased respect in England
as the result of this regatta.
Bulletins from Paris give us numerous adj
ditional descriptions of the prominent displays
made by American manufacturers and it is
curious to note how evidently the reports car
ried back to Europe by visitors to our Cen
tennial, where practically for the first time
the world took astonishea cognizance of the
extent of American ingenuity and skill, have
stimulated European curiosity to examine
American wares Correspondents write that
the leading exhibits from the United States
are constantly surrounded by eager crowds
who, a rule take no pains to conceal their
admiration and surprise. France, for in
stance, is the home of the harmonum or reed
organ manufacture, and the French have sup
posed themselves to lead the world in this in
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the American Organs, as represented by the
magnificent collection of instruments from the
factory of Estey & Co., which are there shown,
are superior in variety, tone, and noticeably
in richness of appearance, to anything their
home factories can produce. The Estey es-
adjustment has for years had n very heavy
foreign business, to which the impression
they are now making upon the cosmopolitan
throng that daily surges through the Champs
de Mars will give new and considerable
impetus.
The hot weather having closed, most of the
theatres, except the half dozen little dives
where the auditor wears his hat, drinks beer
and watches the performance in constant
dread of a raid by the police, that large frac-
ton of New York, which may he called its
amusement population, has to look else
where for entertainment And so there comes
along Just in the nick of time wonderful
marksman who draws crowds to watch him
perform impossibilties with powder and lead.
The name of this new wonder is Carver-Dr.
Carver of San Francisco though, why he is
called DIR" is more than can tell, unless it
is on account of the facility with which he
could kill people if he wished to. There il
certainly nothing of the NJ. ID. in his ap-
pearance Dressed in ultra-western cos
tune, with flannel shirt and leather belt,
his hair flowing down over his shoulders
from beneath his big sombrero, Ia Buffalo
Bill and Texas Jack, (by the latter of which
bloodthirsty worthless he is accompanied) the
great riheman looks much more like the con.
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full professor of healing that his title would
indicate.
On the Fourth Carver gave grand exhibi
ton of his powers at the Brooklyn driving
park. am almost afraid to submit my gen.
eral reputation for truth and veracity to the
strain of telling what he did, but 1 must risk
instancing a few of his feats. His sole weap-
on is repeating rifle which shoots twenty
shots without reloading He commenced by
shooting glass balls thrown into the air some
40 feet away. OF these he broke 100 in about
three minutes. Then Texas Jack began
throwing trade dollars for targets, and these
were unerringly bored by the doctors bullets
One of the coins thrown was Mexican dol
lar, and rs it rose into the air some one called
out to him to cut out the liberty cap which
adorns its face No sooner said than done
for when the silver was picked up moment
later the cap was found to have been cut Out
as though with chisel For an hour al
sorts of little articles were sent upward ant
nine-tenths of them knocked to flinders by the
magical marksman.
Nothing like this shooting has ever befor,
been seen. Capt Borgardus is great with hi
shot gun, but Carver duplicates all his per
formances and more too, with "the weapon
of the plains"
Hon. Morrison II. Waite, the learned ant
popular Chief Justice of the United States