St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-05-24
Our New York Letter.

| DEMOCRATIC NOBLEMEN-TWO ROMAN
TIC CASES-THE EXODUS TO PARIS
WHO ARE BENEFITED THEREBY
BIG FISHING-A NOVEL CONCERT.
NEW YORK, May II, 1878.
To the Editor Of the CaledOnidn:
Brother JOnathan's hOspitable domain
has for many years been a favorite tenn
porary resort of certain classes of for
eign nobility; of those who are attract
ed hither by the love of travel and the
New Worlds fame, as well as of those
cheUaliers dindustrie who, rightfully or
wrongfully assuming the titles of count,
baron, ETC., so devoutly worshipped by
our shoddy element, fly from the I'M
cOngenial society of the European police
TO the newer and more easily worked
fields which our large cities present. 1t
is much rarer, however, that the owners
of noble titles voluntarily lay them
down and cross the water in our direc-
ton from a preference for freer and
simpler life than their native surround
ings would permit. Still such cases do
occasionally occur, aud in fact 1 now
know of two instances of the kind at
the present moment. In small Long
Island town, where have several times
been during the past year, there has
lived since early in the present decade
Il young English earl, whose family and
title date back to 1900. The young fell
low earns a modest living as fisher
man, lives in an unpainted cottage with
his wife and baby, and though he has
been urgently entreated to return to
England seems too well contented with
his active life and absolute Independ-
ence here, to desire the frigid conven-
tionality of his English home.
The other case is that of a genuine
Italian duke, who, generation ago,
was the most dashing and popular no.
bleman at the NeapOlitan court. The
history of his life and of the adventures
which finally led him to America, is too
long to be rehearsed, but | assure your
readers that it would make, with but
little departure from fact, most ex
citing and fascinating novel. He land
ed III New York some twenty years
since, and after u rowing tour of the
country settled down in quiet obscurity
in the then quiet little town of Hobo
ken. The modest restaurant which he
opened grew in favor and in size until
it became hotel which is to-day ia
vOrite resort of lovers of fine Italian
cookery, and which bears the title of
its high-born proprietor. Some of your
readers may know the place from so
much description, and it is even not
impossible that some may have enjoyed
its bed and board, little suspecting the
rank of their fine looking and venerable
host.
If gold were flowing out of the coun-
try at the rate its population is doing.
there would be little hope of redemp-
ton next January. All the European
steamers are going out crowded with a
full quota of the throng which the mag
netic force of the Paris exposition draws
from every quarter. So strong are the
attractions of the Champ de Mars, that
nobody seems to be able to get away
from it. One boat which, on it's last
to Europe, has just come back bearing
one solitary passenger, who, in his lone
| ly majesty was, like Alexander Selkerk,
''mOnarch of all he surveyed"
All this makes rather bad lookout
for the American watering places, which
will suffer this season, but it is har-
vest to the steamship companies, who
are making lots of money despite the
lowered fare. 1t is also largely swelling
the business of the accident insurance
companies, or rather company, for the
Travellers, of Hartford, which is the
only concern of the kind in the country
amounting to much, is doing it all.
Every sensible man takes out an acct
dent policy when undertaking so i'm
portant journey, and so the ubiquitous
agencies of this energetic corporation