The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-03-29


shoes, coats and hats, and hire as many clerks {
or mechanics as the twenty per cent ever did.
The clerk gets less ray, but every item Of |
living is less. One class Of men has suffered
-. hose who were carrying heavy interest
bearing debts. They have generally lost every
thing, and when men see how sadly shrunken
they are, they are sure the times have been
hnrd--and SO they have. But what is the sign
that times are hard now? When men will
pay S3o,OOa to $50 900 for n corner residence
lot on Flfth Avenue without a sign Of build
ing on 1t; when you can see silk stockings sold
at Stewart every day from IS to SIS pair
when you see as do n oeaseless tide ofiemln-
ily, in silks and sealskins, trooping along
Fourteenth Street to the dry goods houses,
you will wonder what has become Of the "hard .
times" Go through Tifany'surpcr floor and .
you will see nearly hundred bronzes and |
marbles tlcketed for over $1,000 piece They
are kept to sell and they go every day into
Murray Hill drawing rooms. Broadway
baker, am credibly informed, did business
Of s250,ooO last year, mostly in cakes and bon
bOns, and last Sundays Herald had over s 400
advertisers represented in its sixty-eight col
umns OF advertisements. lfyou say these are
/ the signs in upper tendon, 1 ask who paid
| S6O,OUO to s1e the late walk9 Is anyone nsk-
Ing for soup kitchens New York's poor are
no more numerous, in proportion, or needy
to-day, than they always were. Business men
make less money but II goes further and
while have nothing to say concerning your
town, emphatically assert that he who would
| find unusual evidences Of hard times in New
York must, like Diogencs, search around with
/ u lantern.
A "REMINISCENCES OF GETrYsBURGH.
Can you stand an army incident Ifnot, you
needn't read it, that's all A student of the
free College Of the City Of New York called
on me the other day, mentioning Gen. Alex.
s. Webb as now President of that ins tuition.
General Webb "A train of the most stirring
memories Of my life started at the name, for
ii is indclibly associated with u sight such as
man is privileged to look upon but once in n
lifetime, and few men ever saw even once 1t
was at Gettysburgh- was an artillerist, and
so it happened that when that heroic charge
was ma de by Longstreet's divisions and those
splendid lines of gallant Southerners came
sweeping grandly across that field up into the
very teeth of our guns, the time eame when
We must cease firing, for our own N en- were so
closely engaged with the Conlederates that
they would receive as much damage from our
fire as the enemy would. During this interv.
al had, what soldier in battle rarely has
leisure to watch. On little knoll Just to our
right stood Webbs Brigade OF the old Second
Corps. In their front the brave Kempcr was
hurting down his brigade of Yirginians up
on them. Forward and backward went that
thin and constantly thinning line of brave
4, t,l
the impoverished ranks, waving their swords
and cheering on the men. Towards the left
Of the line stood two color scrgeants bearing
the only colors visible, and these they waved
slowly two and fro in that lcadcn storm in
the face of the opposing host. The battle
smoke hung like thick cloud above and in
front OF those brave men; the dcalennS roar
Of battle, the lurid line Of fire dimmed by the
thicl ening smoke, the hoarsc shouts of the
brave men on either side who struggled mad
ly for victory, the roar of she'll and whistle of
bullet swerved not hose heroic men from their
pcrilous duty-the fate of nation hung up
on their bayoncts and they knew 1t, and every
man became hero stool looking upon
that scene perfectly transfixed, the blood ting.
ling through every vein. sweeping in great.
hot, successive waves through my frame and
n thrilling through every nerve such as you
and have felt when reading some grand
heroic deed of ages past and gone. Suddenly
an officer breaks from the line. hatless, coat
less, pale. leaning heavily on his sword, limp.
ing rapidly towards where i stood. A great
shell-rcnt at his right hip was letting the rich
blood in streams down his Icy. He was evil
IDENTIFY seeking help to reach the hospital
Not he ! When near enough to be heard above
The roar, he demanded, "Who is the com
mandcr OF this Batteryr' Ipointed to Major
. Fitzhugh, commanding the Artillery Brigade,
I to whom he rushed ana besousht him for Gods
= sake 10 send section of guns TO the support
. cfh.s men, he coull not hold them against
! that fierce onslau.ht ten minutes longer. Two
gums dashed at a gallop towards Webb's en-.
iecbled ranks; they broke way right and left
with a cheer, and our canister tore great gaps
c in Kempcr's lines. He fell wounded. But
5 now came on Armistead and Garnett with
e their brigadcs, and again the odds are with
the Southerners. Would our brave boys be
, forced TO give way? Would the army be cut
c ing oh, somebody give the right order now
itcVer The fate OF the a'my-of Washing
. .nn-oI 'ro eounri! ,n"nss upon ,,,e"u' -
" Incd mod line IN of Of G,s,hIoG or,i1,crv GeaI ond DIV