The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-05-10
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
"MOrIey's, Letters from New York

''uOrIey's'' Letters from New York.
NEW YoRK, May s, 1879.
REIGN OF TERROR.
Once year New York forgets the glories
Of free democratic government and meekly
submits her neck to the yoke of q relentless
despotism. Her new Dictator is not the "Man
on Horseback'-this monarch drives dray
Whoever owns IA quadruped which can stand
between two shafts is Autocrat OF all the
household treasures he can pile up behind the
poor beast, and every mortal owing any allegi-
ance to the little Empire on Wheels watson his
royal pleasure and .humbly opening his wallet,
brgs his Majesty to help himselfto the tribute
money. Talk about "Cesarlsm ~ why, the
Herald's sounding periods on this fruitful
theme each exactly column and a thirdlar
like its jokes, or Messina orange-stale and
far-fetched-in the presence of the real thing,
the genuine article, the imperlous tribute
gorged Cesar OF Moving Day.
Paris has had two Reigns OF Terror, but
New York has one every May Day. Any man
who can smash sofa, scratcha piano or gouge
wall can ind free vent for all his diabolism
and swear at everybody until the air is blue
be done. Ten thousand other people are In
the same fix. Houses and stores that no man
can number are emptying themselves upon
the sidewalks. Everybody's back aches; so
does his head his fingers are bruised, his chill
dren impatient, and 1t rains about three times
a day. Toadd that Everybody is also irritable
is drawing It mildly. Everybody also wants
truck, and II would be pleasing to add, II It
were true, that Everybody observed the in
functions against evil thinking and coyeting
his neighbours truck. Smith takes Roblnson's
house and the latter must be moved Robin
son hurries Jones out upon the sidewalk /:
Jones displaee' Brown Brown displaces Fitz-
noodle, and so one large part Of New York
displaces another till you feel like describing
the operation about as the old deacon read the
llth chapter ofGenesis. when, after stumbling
over lot Of unprohouncable Hebrew names,
he ran his eye quickly to the bottom, and
gravely added And so, brethren, they went
on 6sgetting one another to the end Of the
chapter"
THE NEwsBor's LoDaINe HOUSE.
In that once famous and still unsaVory sec
tion Of The city known as Five Points" stands
tall brick structure, fronting on three streets
/ and bearing on It's facade a monstrous sign
"Ncwsboy's Lodging House" Sull haunted
/ by the spectre Of our street Arabs oflast week,
your CORES pondent bent his steps thither one
night about Line O'Clock, and ellmbed the
broad hre-prool sta lrease to fnd the boys as
sembled in the school room, at their evening
school. 1t was a nigh, airy room, plainly
furnished, the walls adorned with an assort-
] ment of texts maxims and regulations
Prominent among the latter was this, "Boys
WhOswear and chew tobacco cannot stay here
Al the seats was indeed motley array Of lads
from six TO eighteen years old, barefooted,
| generally ragged and coatless, some boasting
one suspender, more with none, but every face,
/ young or old, polished clean and bright, and
every pair Of stub-tOed feet absolutely clean.
/ This was the one palpable fact that struck
the beholder, aud commanded at once admiTa-
tiOR and wonder.
The school presently closed BY the boys ris-
Ing GAd repeating IN uniIon the Lords PfGI.