Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-05-12
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence.
NEW YORK, May 5, 1879.

given over to vernal warmth and season.
able flowers. In fact it may be said to
have been invernally cold and buster
ing. 1t was therefore marked by good
deal of 500 horse power language from
those young parties who had premature
ly pawned their listers, as we'll as from
the numerous heads of families who
spent their waking hours in loading and
unloading their household effects, and
following the latter dinnerless through
the streets. Those coldblooded wretches
who deal in statistics inform us that
there was less moving in the city this
year than for several years previous
but there was certainly enough of it
visible to satisfy the most cynical hater
of his species. 1t was sad occasion.
1t always asa sad occasion. No man
likes in the first place, to have to turn
the whole contents of his house into the
street for public inspection. Almost
everybody mas some desire to keep up
appearances, and to tacitly ignore, in
the presence of strangers or even Of
friends, the existence of many indispen-
sible adjuncts of housekeeping. To feel,
therefore, that you are watched by your
neighbors and the general public while
you drag down the front steps and up
into the express wagon the rag carpet
from the servants room, lot of dilapi-
dated old bedding, small car load of
rubbish from the attic, all the pots and
kettles from the kitchen, and a terribly
miscellaneous assortment of crockery In
various states of repair-all this, say,
constitutes an ordeal which will almost
start the cold perspiration on book
agent.
Of course, in as big a town as this,
people are too busy to pay much atten-
tion to such scenes; but is useless to
urge this upon the sensitive householder.
He feels that the eyes of the world are
upon him and his crockery, and he suf-
fers accordingly. And then this is only
the beginning of trouble. The same
anguish of spirit is repeated at the 9TH
er end of the route, its poignancy in
creased by the three-leggedness of fur
niture and fragmentary condition of
glassware which usually insinuate them
selves into load during even the brief
est journey. Then comes the soothing
process of settling with two or three
husky and spirituous truckmen, whose
memory totally fails them as to any
previous bargain, and who sturdily de.
mand from $40 to $50 per load for
smashing your chattels. But why pur-
sue this painful subject further Cannot
every American citizen of voting age
look back into his own experience and
sufficiently ell in the details
Thursday, however, was dedicated moi
alone to the slow transit above referred
to, but to rapid transit as we'll. Or
the evening of that day Mr.. Cyrus W
Field, President of the N. Y. Elevated
Road, gave an elaborate banquet at Del
monico's to the directors and officers O.
that institution and of the Rival Metro
polltan Road. The dinner was prepared
on scale worthy of some great festivity
The bill of fare were on gorgeous piece
of silk, and the wines were rare ant
costly. The occasion of this CRANE
spread was twofold. 1t was INTENDED
first to symbolic the general rejoicin,
over the long expected compromise o
the difficulties between the two compan
les arising out of the interference of thei
east side lines, and secondly, to cele
brate the payment of the first DIVIDEND
ever declared by the New York Elevate'
Road. The general opinion being tina
the company has been coming none
ever since its establishment, it is some
what surprising to learn from Mr.. Field
speech delivered at this dinner that tn
company has been in existence for THU
teen years, and only now declares il
first dividend. There is every prospe(
now, however, that dividends will folio
each other hereafter in satisfactory SUI
cession Last week the two roads ca
ried an average of nearly 10000 pa
:, sengers a day, or at the rate of abol
fifty-six millions a year, and their pa
ronage steadily increases. The Metr
politan Road is now pushing the wor
of extending its lines with great vigo
employing some 1000 laborers. Tw'
thirds of this formidable army struc
, for higher wages one morning this wee
but as the company already had pa
roll of some six or seven thousand do
lars day, they declined to accede
= the demand. The laborers stood out f
n about half day, and then, wisely CO.
y Guiding that nine tenths of loaf W
: better than no bread, returned to work
# Another strikers in progress while
# write. The 'longshoremen of the Nor
IS River, who load and unload most of Il
r. steamers and sailing vessels plying fro
is this port, came to the conclusion th
g they ought to have five cents an no
l. more for work than the steamship col