Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-01
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.

z w 1OxAhs
Special Correspondence.
NEW YORK, August 18th, 1879.
Our great railroad and telegraph mag |
nate, Cyrus W. Field. has fallen out with
an old friend, Mr.. Samuel J. Tilden,
and the sad story has excited unseemly
mirth. Mr.. Field says he is Disguised
with Mr.. Tilden and will never again
have social or business intercourse with
him. He yearns. however. to see him
but once more when he proposes to give
him a piece of his mind. What Mr..
Tilden has done to offend the old gentle
man is not very clear. 1t is certain
though that he has made 100000 in
a few days in connection with the Ele-
waited Railroad, by the practice of that
judicious business principle of buying
stock when cheap and selling when dear.
Everybody knows uncle Samuel to be
shrewd and to have succeeded in most
similar enterprises. Mr.. Field, it is
believed. unloaded quantity of the stock
on the ex-governor when it was quoted
at IA. and it was by no means certain
that it would not soon be quoted at zero,
and wanted ga strong legislative ally"
Mr.. Tilden obliged him, bought the stock,
and when Mr.. Field was half way across
the Atlantic, sold it pocketing the diff
erence. He has been interviewed and
frankly acknowledges the corn.
of the almost continuous line of hotel
villages that, centering at Coney Island
now fringe the coast near New York from
Rath to Far Rockaway, has called atteu.
ton to the fimsy structures themselves,
and the inadequate means of protec tior
they have against fire. The father o.
Coney Island, ex-Mayor Godfrey Gun
ther, owned the destroyed property. Foul
lives were lost, including the manager
of the pavilion and two chambermaids
Kerosene was stored in most careless
way, in bulk, in the premises, and wa
handled by ignorant and needless EN-
ployees. There is no fire department il
1
the neighborhood, nor is it thought ever
the most expert fremen could check
fire when once it had caught hold o
these light timber buildings, dried t.
the most infammable degree by the no
sun of Summer. The expense of othe
materials is to great for the hotel peopl
to even consider. There is one thing
people who are prudent will hencefortl
prefer not to sleep in the upper stories
picturesque and cosy as are the httl
balconied bowers in the Gothic gable
and towers. They stand some chanc
of escape down stairs.
Everybody knows what an awkwar
thing it is, when one has been appoints
to some position of trust, to have to see
relatives or friends and ask them to e
on the bond usually required-in othe
words to become personally liable 70
any financial Irregularities, criminal 0
accidental, which he may in future com
NIT, and this without the bondsmen'
receiving, in most instances, any kind c
compensation for the risk assumed. alt
only matter of form, you know" say
the applicant; but unfortunately expel
fence, in late years especially, teache
that no man can tell how soon his bosol
friend or his own brother may becom
reckless or dishonest under temptation
And this makes the matter still NOR
awkward for the person applied I
cannot very well quote this fact to d,
fend his refusal.
The filling up of New York Harbor b
the willful breach of the laws by thos
sworn to guard them, has assumed sue
Importance that again has general ou
cry been raised against the Police Con
missioners who are responsible for th
outrage. An enterprising morning papt
; chartered yacht, and for days reporter
followed the street cleaning scows, notin
their violations of all ordinances, an
their observations were suddenly printe
with map, which fell like a thunde
bolt among the guilty officials, who
once bestlrred themselves to effect rem
edy by means SO simple that one has
wonder why they never carried the pla
out before. It is to have stational
scow anchored in sheltered place whel
the dumping ones can rendezvous. then,
to be tugged out far to sea at the begin
ming of the ebb tide. Hitherto, the fill
has been deposited as near shore as DO
sible. at the dead Of night, and usual
at half food.