St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-01
Our New York Letter.


THE JEws-No MORE HEBREWS AT
MANHATTAN BEACH.
NEW YORK, July 25, 1879.
To the Editor of the CaledOnian
The administration of justice here
abouts, especially criminal Justice, is
characterized by inscrutable popularity.
1t may be remembered, that L spoke IN
nv last about the amount of work done
by judges and the absurdly dispropor-
tionate pay some of them take for do
ing it. A still more interesting para
graph might be written about the
character as well as the quantity OF the
iustice melted out to us, although con-
siderably more than paragraph would
be required to do the subject justice.
A question would be apt to arise as to
how much verdicts and decisions de-
pend for their quality upon the di-
gestiOn or moods of those rendering
them and how it is that IN city
where hundreds of cases of fragrant
crime are passed by almost unnotlced,
humble and trivial wrong-dolng is
sometimes visited with heavy doses of
the majesty of the law. Defalcating
officials, aristocratic brawlers and muir
derous politicians have the best posi-
BILE chances of getting off cheaply, if
e. c,,o,,, gslittIa SaranpS ~
but one day this week little boy took
a bit of broken ice from a passing ice
cart-as thousands of youngsters have
done before him-whereupOn he was
promptly hauled into court and sternly
sent TO Jail. Members of the FINEST
police in the world" levy good deal
heavier contributions than this every
day of their lives, but nobody says a
word. More than this, hardly week
passes in which one or more cases OF
brutal clubbing by the police is not re-
ported, to say nothing of the more nu-
merous instances which never get be-
fore the public. But what does local
''iusticen do about it? Practically moth
ing. Once in a while policeman is
reprimanded, or perhaps fined two OF
three days pay, but more often the
matter is treated as Il joke and the
officer complained of, goes on with his
clubbing with renewed energy. If the
present police methods are persisted in,
it wont be long before every citizen
will have to carry his own revolver and
club so rs to have at least an equal
chance with his blue-coated adversary.
Mr.. Austin COrbin, President of the
Manhattan Beach Company, COney
Island, is in serious trouble. He has
brought storm of indignation about
his ears, and all because he wishes to
keep our Israelitish citizens away from
his premises. The Jews of New York
have not been so excited since Judge
Hilton's famous pronunciamentO ex-
Guiding them from his hotel at Sara
tOga. Then they swOre that Hilton and
his crew should never see the color OF
their money again. They vowed that
they would never buy at the Stewart
Hilton dry goods store, and insisted
that the name of Hilton should be held
up to everlasting scOrn.
That excitement did not last long
for comparatively few Jews were affect
ed by it. There were not many who
were inclined to summer at an eXpen
sivc Saratoga hostclry- But tho Man
haitian Beach blow was a sweeping one
1 All classes of Jews from the wealthies
to the poorest have been in the habit
of congregating there, and to be de-
prived of the delights of the Beach
would be to lose one of the chief charms
of life in the heated term. The Jew:
are the most insane of all the COney
Island maniacs, and they make theil
visits with an ardOr that would be com
mendable in some noble cause. How
ever, if they like it, they have a RICH
to please themselves, and only Mr.. Cor
bin says they have not.
Mr.. COrbin has expressed himself il
very decided terms; he says that the
Jews are offensive to his other clas
of patrons, and that if he must Civ
up one class he would prefer it to b'
the Jews. But as an irrepressible maj
that | know, remarks: "You can't Jew
between people in that way"
Our Hebrew friends are holding in
, dignation meetings, and eXpressin,
themselves in very decided terms, al
belt with cOmmendable moderation
about the matter, but as a class, the
will probably let Mr.. Corbin and hi
t company and his Manhattan Beach sc
verely alone in future, and will patron
hn nf1 N
hotels along the island at which the
are entirely welcome. They will no
t invade Manhattan Beach by the thou
n sands and over-run its piazzas to shO'
9 their contempt for the company a
- many of them have threatened; sue
proceeding would only act agains
Il them.
S By the way the following story
X told upon Mr.. Corbin, though will ne
- vouch for its truth. 1t is said that ever
= applicant for rooms at Manhattan Beac
/ is subjected to a rigid cross questionin
IS before he is permitted to enter I'll
e sacred precincts. The other day gel
= tleman approached the room clerk, an
when that young man had adjusted h
u eye-glass, arranged his necktie, revive
himselfwith his perfumed handkerchie
and had taken look up and down IL
piazza to see whether there were al
4 pretty girls in sight, he deigned to lei
. qurreo the genrf6tifife"'N "o"""St -
= eve have,n answered the clerk.
IS 81 would like one then.n
d VERY well but you will have
answer the regulation questions. Ho
! old are you 7"
! The gentleman smiled and told.
Married or single ~
II "Single."
f. what is your occupation ?"
: II am manufacturing Jew
!. 'Oh that settles it you can't bav
> q room here y