Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.
New YORK, Jan. Is, 1877!

They have made 1t their business to
save the lives of those who, willingly
Or unwillingly, have found themselves
in the waters about our docks. Like
Topsy, Nan seems to have "growed.
He appears to have burst upon the COM
munity at bound, as full blown hero
and to have constituted himself and his
two companions a life-saving service.
After the work of the day is over they
devote their time to this humane and |
entirely self-imposed task. With rub
Der boots, cork belts, life-lines and Ian
terms they patrol the dangerous and
unprotected portions of the wharves.
guarding drunken sailors from tumbling
over the low stringpiece, or plunging into
the water when too late to prevent
fall.
This homely devotion to the good of
humanity has not been permitted to 60
unnoticed. The newspapers have taken
the matter up, and it looks now as
though the the boys would have SUBJ
stantial recognition of their services in
the shape of funds with which to carry
out mans" pet idea-the establish
ment of a service in good and regular
standing.
Captain Paul Boyton, the inventor of
the life-saving armor suit. has taken a
great fancy to Nan and his comrades,
and gave them an invitation to dine
with him at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
1t must have been harder thing for
the brave young fellows to face the
gorgeousness of the fashionable hotel,
than to have leaped into the icy waters
of the bay but with oysters soups, fish,
entrees, roasts, game, and dessert, TWEEN
ty,year-old hunger got the better of shy
ness, as we'll as of the viands. "Now
1T 4 home ssT5 Their n6S ost
tlemen," said Nan, "this here is Gilbert
Long, and that's Edward Kelly" and
then the destruction began. Have {
little light wine Nan ?" mo, it would
raise me head; we're all temperance.
As the dinner proceeded, vests were I'm
buttoned, and collars gave way unde
the strain. Nan told story about
woman who was determined to jump Of
one of the piers. Il ketched her b.
the back hair just as she was Throwing
herself over the stringpiece. Then sh
tried to scratch me. 1--we lost all m
money and all my things said she, IAN
1 don't want to live any longer. [ Sc
she was as full as a tick, and says
,, You've kept away from the water u
, to now, and I guess you can keep ava
awhile longer" when I'm grabbe
around the neck by man in the waite
I clips him over the ear, and If tn;
don't make him let 60, then | belt hi
in the mug. That always fetches him.
With mans heart in the right plac
the relative positions of subjects an
> predicates, and the somewhat shady u
Il of the English language in general, ia
. to the background as matters of no II
portance.
: The cost of organizing the corps co
" templated by Nan, together with Il
furnishing of three stations at differe
points along the river front, will
about 500, and the cost Of keeping
in the service about $4,000 a year. A
OF ready the open-handed brokers of W;
or Street have subscribed enough to insu
Is the success of the scheme. The DO
I'd have received little or no reward
k their unselfish devotion. 1t IS we
if known fact that a rescued person {
ey presses little gratitude for his deliv
re. ance' Captain Boyton says that if
ng want man to avoid you ever after, lie
nd him $40 or save his life.
rs, Since June last, Nan has ssved fife
ge lives ; Long, six and Kelly, two, a
he as their labors- are among those fir
be whom no reward could be expected,
at work is the result of conscientious
as sire to serve the cause of humanity a
* if little romantic excitement comes
is as Que cause of keeping up this servi
h no one will think the less of it, or h
ed back his hearty plaudlts for the g
all works done, or his best wishes and
lev sistance for the future of Nan, the Ne
ng boys e-saVing corps.
for New York policemen, with their fal
re- have one strong point. They ligi
tn uphold the dignity and majesty of
re- law as embodied in themselves.
in couple of these noble creatures are l
ce, up before the Police Commissioners,
eof whom it has been clearly shown, on
in testimony of score of witnesses.
of they nearly dubbed to death man '
ing ventured to demonstrate against his
we'd expected and causeless arrest. Dun
of their examination, one of the offend
rit- peelers admitted that he didn't X
in what they arrested the man for,
re. he only dubbed him as matter Of fc