Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-05-09
Our New York letter.
MAY DAY--A FEW TRITE RENtARBs--TnE 400
MES OF THE MovER-HAppY RAILRoADEns
SOME sTRIKEs-THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
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SOME srHIKEs-THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
TIE RICH AND pooR-AMusEMENT NOTES.
New YonK, May 9Th 1879.
May day this year was not much given over
TO vernnl warmth and seasonable flowers. In
fact it may be said to have been iRvernnlly
cold and clustering. 1t was therefore mark
cd by good deal of 900 horse power Ian
guago from those young parties who had pro-
maturely pawned their ulsters MS well as from
the numerous heads of families who spent
their waking hours in loading and unloading
their household effects, aud following the lat
ter dinucrlcss through the streets Those
cold-uiuOdcd wretchcs who deal in statistics
inform us that there was less moving in the
city this year than for several years previous;
but there was certainly enough of it visible
to satisfy the most cynical hater of his spe-
cies. 1t was n sad occasion. II always is
sad occasion No man likes, in the first place.
to have to turn the whole contents of his
house into the street for public inspection.
Almost everybody has some desire to keep up
appearances and TO tacitly ignore, in the
presence OF strangers, or even of friends the
existence of many indispensable adjuncts of
housekeeping. TO feel, therefore, that you
are watched by your noighbors and tho gen
eral public while you drag down the front
steps and up into the express wagon the rag
carpet from the servants room, II lot of di-
lapidated old bedding Il small car load of rub
bish from the attic all the pots and kettles
from the kitchen, and n terribly miscellane-
GUS assortment of crockery in various states
OF repair-al this, ] say. constitutes or
deal which will almost start the cold perspira-
ton on n book agent. Of course, in Ms big a
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much attention to such scenes but it is use
less to urge this upon the sensitive house.
holder. He feels that the eyes of the world
are upon him aud his crockcry. and he suf-
ters accordingly. And then this in only the
beginning Of trouble. Tie same anguish Of
spirit IL repeated at the other end of the route
its poignancy increased by the three-legged-
ness of furniture and fragmentary condition
of glassware which usually insinuate them
selves into load during even the brefest
journey. Then comes the soothing process
of settling with two or three husky and spir-
ltuous truckmen, whose memory totally fails
them as to any previous bargain, and who
sturdily demand from so to go per load for
smashing your chattels. But why pursue this
painful subject further Cannot every Amer
lean citizen Of voting age look back into his
own experience and sufficiently ill i'll the de
tails
Thursday, however was dedicated not
alone TO the slow transit above referred to,
but to rapid transit as we'll On the evening
of that day Mr. Cyrus w. Field, president of
the New York Elevated Road, gave an elabor-
ate banquet at Delmonico's to the directors
and officers of that institution and of the ri
val metropolitan road. The dinner was pre-
pared on scula worthy Of some great festiy-
ity. The bills Of fare were ON gorgeous pieces
of silk. and the wines were rare and costly.
The occasion Of this grand spread WAS two
fold II Was Intended first to symboliZe the
general rejoicing over the long-expected COM
promise of the difficulties between the two
companies arising out of the Interference of
their east side lines, and secondly, to celebrate
the payment of the first dividend ever deelar-
ed by the New York Elevated road. The gen
eral opinion being that the company has been
coming money ever since its establishment
1t Is somewhat surprising to learn from Mr.
Fields speech delivered Mt this dinner that
the company has been III existence for thir-
teen years, and only now declares its first div
idend. There is every prospect now howev-
or, that dividends will follow each other here
after III satisfactory succession. Last week
the two roads carried an average of nearly
l56,OOO passengers Il day, or at the rate of
hity-siX millions year, and their patronage
steadily increases. The Metropolitan road is
now pushing the work of extending its lines
with great Sigor employing some 1000 la
borcrs. IWo.thrds of this formidable army
struck for higher wages one morning this
week, but as the company already had pay
roll of some six or seven thousand dollars a
day, they declined to accede to the demand
The laborers stood out for about half a day.
and then, wisely concluding that nine-tenths
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to work.
Another strike is in progress while write.
The 'longshoremen of the North river who
load and unload most Of the steamers and
sailing vessels plying from this port, came to
the conclusion that they ought to have five
cents an hour more for work than the steam
ship companies are willing to give, struck
work on Thursday, and to the number of
5000 have been standing about the docks
idle but peaceaUle ever since. Neither side
seems inclined to yield.
One of the morning papers very Justly re-
marked the other day that it costs money to
come into collision with some people When
recently Vim. Ii. Vanderbilt ran over "A man
on the avenue, the court took no notice of il
aud the man went of to work again, feeling
rather chagrned at having been in the way.
1t should be added that Mr.. Vanderbilt did
not appear to have been to blame When "A
poor man ran against the vehicle containing
the person of August Belmont, which occur
renee mentioned in my last the man was
arrested and was yesterday fined 500 and
sent to Jail for ten days, although it was
proved that the collision WAS a simple acct
dent which this driver did all in his power to
prevent 1t certainly makes a difference who
is who.
Current amusements are sufficiently numer-
Gus and varied to merit more of a notice than
l have time to give them this week Aimee
and her rollickng troupe are about to COM
mence II season of scinullation at the Park
theatre, that very funny play Engaged"
having been forced reluctantly TO withdraw
i'll her favor. Nine. Modjeska draws cultured
crowds to the Grand Opera House LAS
sommoir," the latest Partisan sensation, holds
the boards at the Olympic the Standard the
atre has entered upon its fifth month of the
immortal "PinafOre," which opera is about to
push its conquests even to the elegant and ex-
elusive stage of Wallack's in miniature shape.
A company of children from four 10 fourteen
years Of age, who have been giving the opera
with great success in Philadelphia, have been
engaged by Mr.. Wallack for a series of matt
nees, commencing ON the 9TH. This engage
ment promises to be extremely successful in
spite of the threats of our local society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to in
terfere and stop the performance. In COM
menting on this threatened interference, the
World very aptly begs the society to reflect
that n good deal more harm has probably
been done in this world of ours by awkward
people who have been bent on making it bet
ter than by wicked people who have set out
seriously to make it worse RADIx
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