The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-15
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
MAY-DAY-A FEW TkITE REMARKs-THE
AGoNIEs OF THE MovER-HAPPY RAIL-
RoADERs-soNE STRIKES.
From our oscn Correspondent

(From our otcn Correspondent
NEW YORK, May Cd, 1870.
May day this year was not much given
over to vernal warmth and seasonable
flowers. In fact it may be said to have
been invernally cold and clustering. It
was therefore marked by good deal of
500 horse power language from those
young parties who had premsturely
pawned their ulsters, IS well as from the
numerous heads of families who spent
their waking hours in loading and un-
loading their household effects, and fol-
lowing the latter dinnerless through the
streets. Those coldblooded wretches
who deal in statistics inform us that
there wss 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. It was a sad occasion 1t al
ways Is q 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 has 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, o lot Of dilapi-
dated old bedding, q small car load of
rubbish from the attic, all the pots and
kettles from the kitchen, and q terribly
- -
various states of repair-all this. / say,
start the cold perspiration on q book
agent.
Thursday, however, was dedicated
not alone to the slow transit above re-
ferred to, but to rapid transit as well.
On the evening Of that day Mr. Cyrus
w. Field, President of the N. Y. Elc-
waited Road. gave an elaborate banquet
at Delmonico's - the directors and off,
GERS Of that institution and of the rival
Metropolitan Road. The dinner was
prepared ON q scale worthy Of some
great festivity. The bills Of fare were
on gorgeous pieces of silk, and the wines
were rare and costly. The occasion of
this grand spread was twofold. 1t was
intended first to symbolic the general
rejoicing over the long-expected com.
promise Of the difficulties between the
two companies arising out Of the inter.
ference of their east side lines, and sec.
ondly, to celebrate the payment of the
first dividend ever declared by the New
York Elevated Road. The general opin-
ion being that the company has been
coming money ever since its establish
ment, 1t is somewhat surprising to learn
from Mr.. Fields speech delivered at
this dinner that the company has been
in existence for thirteen years, and only
now declares its first dividend. There
IL every prospect now, however, that
dividends will follow each other hereaf.
ter in satisfactory succession. Last
week the two roads carried an average
Of nearly 156, 900 passengers day, or at
the rate Of nearly fifty-six millions q
year, and their patronage steadily in
creases. The Metropolitan Road is now
pushing the work of extending Its lines
with great vigor, employing some 1000
laborers. Two thirds Of this formidable
army struck for higher wages one morn
ing this week, but as the company al
ready had payroll of some six or seven
thousand dollars day, they declined to
accedc to the demand. The laborers
stood out for about half day, and then
wisely concluding that nine-tenths of q
loaf was better than no bread, returned
to work.
Another strike is in progress while I
write. The 1ongshoremen Of the North
River, who load and unload most of the
steamers and sailing vessels plying from