Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-01
Our New York Letter.
NEW YORK NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF THE
JEWS.
N,,- LII.

NEW YORK JrsTICE-PEIsECTTloE OF the
JEWS
New YORK, July ~, 1879.
To the Editor OF the Free Press and Times
The administration of justice hereaboutS,
especially criminal justice is characterized
by inscruiaDle popularity. Dcfalcaiing Off
cials. aristocratic brawlers and murderous
politicians have the hest chances Of getting
of cheaply, if not scot free, from their little
scrlpcs," but one day this week a little boy
who took n bit of broken ice from a passing
ice cart was promptly hauled into court and
sterhly 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 word, Hardly Il
week passes IN which one or more eases Ut
brutal clubbing by the police is NOT reported,
stances which never get before the public.
But what docs local Justice do about ii
Once in a while a policeman is rrprimandcd,
or perhaps fined two or three days pay, hut
and ihr officer complained OF gocs ON with
his clubbing with r,nrwcd energy. II the
present police methods are persisted in, it
won't b. long before every citizen will have
To carry his own revolver and club SO aS 10
have nj least an equal chance with his blue
coated adversary.
Mr. Austin Corbin, president ol the Man
haitian Beach Company, Coney Island has
brought a storm of Indignation about his
ears, because he wishes 10 keep our Isra-
cl,ish citizens away from his premises.
Mr.. Corbin says that thr Jews are often
sivc to his other class of patrons, aud that if
hc must rive up one class hc would prefer
it TO he the Jews But a. an irreprcsshlc
remarks You cant Jews between people
| in that way
| Our Hebrew friends have not been 50 ca
| cited since Judge IIilton's famous pronunca
mcnto excluding them from his hotel at Slr
a,oga They are holding Indignation meet
| inas. and expressing themselves in very de-
cided terms albeit with commcndablc mod
Grafton, about the matter, bul a. n class,
they will probably let Mr.. Corbin and his
| Manhattan Beach severely alone in future,
and will patronizc instead the many other
beaches and hotels along the Island at which
they are entirely welcome 1t is said that
every applicant for rooms at Manhattan
Beach is subjected 10 a rigid cross question
ing before he is permitted to enter the sacred
precincts The other day gentleman APP
preached the room clerk, and when that
young man had adjusted his cyc-glasg, ar
ranged lis ncclltic, revived himself with his
pcrfumcd handkerchief, ind had taken u look
up and down the piazza to see whether there
were any pretty girls in sight, lac dei"ncd 10
lend an car H. his petitioner request.
Have you any vacant rooms - inquired
the gentleman.
we have, answered the clcrt
II would like one then
VERY well what is yoir occupation,
Il am manufacturing jew
''Well, YOU cant have n room here"
But you didn, hear me through | was
! saving that ! am II anuiaCiuring Jew
Move on We don't want any jews nj
this hotel
See here, SAID ilie gentleman, growing
impatient ''let me have my say o,.t Will
you? ! am manufacturing icwclcr'
The sickly smile with which the umiur-
tunate young man recognized his mistake
would have drawn tears from the ewes of II
pawnbroker. Yours, d.