St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-08-29


stored in a most careless way, in bulk,
in the premises, and was handled by
ignorant and needless employees. There
is no fire department in the neighbor-
hood, nor is it thought even the most
expert firemen could check fire when
once it has caught hold of these light
timber buildings, dried to the most in
f1ammable degree by the hot sun OF
Summer. The expense of other mate
rails is too great for the hotel people to
even consider. There is one thing, peO-
pie who are prudent will henceforth
prefer not to, sleep in the upper stories,
picturesque and cosy as are the little
balconied bowers in the Gothic gables
and towers. They stand some chance
of escape down stairs.
Levy, the popular but much married
cornetist of Manhattan Beach, has been
undergoing renewal of martyrdom.
He has obstinately declined to pay a
Judgment for commission due for ser
vices rendered in procuring his last sea-
sons lucrative engagement, to person
whom he persists in stigmatizing as a
"mouse.n Some of the proceedings be-
fore the Referee have been very funny,
and the raking up of matrimonial and
other difficulties of the two contesting
parties have been quite racy, if mot edi-
flying. The sweet trumpeter (whO is
than as musician) made one of the
best puns of the ay-unconciously. He
became so faint and fatigued with anxi-
ETY. about his case that he proposed to
treat all hands to he didn't care what !;
the juice of the grape or the Jews of
Manhattan, or anything; he must have
a nip himself; and then this guileless
Israelite could not understand why ev-
erybOdy laughed, and the contortions
of his right eye, and the single eye-glass
he screws on it were highly comical.
Everybody knows what an awkward
thing it is, when one has been appoint
ed to some position of trust, to have to
seek relatives or friends and ask them
to go on the bond usually reguired-in
other words to become personally liable
for any financial irregularities, crimi-
nal or accidental, which he may in fu-
ture commit, and this without the
bOndsmen's receiving, in most in
stances, any kind of compensation for
the risk assumed. '1t's only matter
of form, you know" says the applicant !;
but, unfortunately experience, in late
years especially, teaches that no man
can tell how soon his bosom friend or
his own brother may become reckless
or dishonest under temptation. And
this makes the matter still more awk-
ward; for the person applied to can
not very we'll quote this fact to defend
his refusal.
Still bonds have to be required and
have to be given, and the whole sub
ject is very unpleasant one, as the
writer knows from experience. 1t is,
therefore, with considerable satisfaction
that | see that the Knickerbocker Casu-
atty Insurance Company of this city has
just added what it calls "Fidelity In
department in which it issues
policies on persons holding or seeking
positions of pecuniary trust, thus fur
nishing corporate guarantee on
safe business-like basis, instead of such
an inequitable personal bond as l have
alluded to. The company of which
VIM. M. Richards is President, is a re-
liable one, numbering among its direc-
tors and stockholders such men as F. S.
Winston, I'll. B. Clafin, A. S. Barnes,
George S. Coe, Norvin Green, Presi-
dent of the Western Union Telegraph
Co., and George Il. Hope. Now when
ever some pleasant friend OF uCquuint-
ance comes to you for such use of your
name, "as mere matter of FORM" you
can politely direct him to where he can
get what he wants in a perfectly legiti-
mate manner, and without imposing
upon anybody.
The filling up of New York Harbor
Dy the willful breach of the laws by
hose sworn to guard them, has assum-
ed such Importance that again has a
general cutlery been raised against the
Police COmmisS, Oners who are RESPONSE
ole for the outrage. An enterprising
paper chartered a yacht, and
for days reporters followed the street
cleaning scows, noting their violations
Of all ordinances, and their observations
we're suddenly printed with map,
which fell like thunderbolt among the
guilty officials, who at once bestirred
to effect remedy by means
80 simple that one has to wonder why
they never carried the plan out before.
1t is to have a stationary scow anchored
IN sheltered place where the dump
ing ones can rendezvous, thence to be
tugged out far to sea at the beginning
Of the ebb tide. Hitherto, the filth has
been deposited as near shore as possible
at the dead of night, and usually at
half flood.
One great New York institution is
The annual Fat Mems Clambake, when
staunch steamers are tenderly laden
with a few of our well developed gas
tronOmic giants and wend their way to
some shady grove in fair Connecticut,
where mountain of secculent proven
der is leveled by the nimble knife and
fork, and song and jest go round. Un-
this year the managers of
the bake admitted as spectators numer-
GUS lean and hungry persons, who fell
to on the provisions before the fat men
could get to them, and vOraciOusly
made away with the best part of their
dinner. Adipose tissues, however, be-
get good temper, and the cruel disap-
peintment was phiIosophically borne.
The newly elected president weighs
nearly 500 pounds, but is comparative
ly light now. He was once heavier,
and as candidate, beaten by a much
lamented Jerseyman of Dutch descent,
who turned the scale at something over
500 pounds.
Our famous police captain, Williams,
formerly a Nova Scotia shipwright,
where he cultivated his muscle by cop
pering keels and who, as cooper" is
the envy of the force for his skill with
the club is again in trouble. For the
second time in a few months he has
varied his usual amusements of beating
old men, women and children, by as
a reporter, and is again to be
tried by. the Commissioners. He is in
deed a much tried man, but never
seems to be the worse for it.
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