Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-06-28
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR
NEW YORK, June 81, 1880.
An characterization society has re-
Gently held its first meeting here. at
which the time honored practice which
we have come to look upon as our great
bulwark against small pox epidemic,
was handled without gloves. Two we'll
known physicians read papers attack
ing the custom on the ground that vac
cine virus had killed more than it had
saved, and in fact insisting that its
use is mere superstition and never
serves to ward off the disease. This is
all rather startling, but fancy that
this society will always remain mic
roscopic minority of the profession best
qualified to pass upon the question.
The fact that a few deaths have recent
ly occurred through the use of impure
virus gains hearing for the opponents
of the system, but they are merely the
exceptions which prove the rule and
don't initiate against the validity of
the theory of vaccination.
This summer we are helpless and
struggling in the grasp of giant mo-
nopoly-I refer, of course, to the ice
business. There is, however, a very
good prospect that it may overreach It
self, and that what to us may seem an
du msss in The oeeRRab 5RESye wf, blessing IN
called at the headquarters of the Pictet
Artificial Ice Co., limited. No. l42
Greenwich ST., to inspect their method
of manufacturing this great necessity.
They make beautiful, pure, crystal
like ice (by their very simple and COM
mon sense method, which is absolutely
free from any foreign matter, and which
to the opinion of experts, is preferable
to the natural article. 1t has been prov
en- that the Pictet Co.. ice, when pack
ed in refrigerators, will last fully
twenty per cent. longer than the natu-
raj. l am informed by the manage
ment that in large quantities it can be
made for about one dollar ton. There
is some talk of organizing large COM
pany for the purpose of manufacturing
it for next season. This, if true, will
cause the vampires of the present COM
bination to lose their hold on a long
suffering public. They have also &
method whereby in connection witt
their system, rooms and warehouses car
be cooled for storage purposes. Brew
cries can employ this system and there
by entirely dispense with ice. For hos
pital wards, especially for fever cases
this application will prove a postiv
blessing.
Millionaire weddings are not sucl
uncommon occurrences IN New York a
to merit special comment, but perhap
your fair readers may feel passing in
terest in the fact that there was qule
little wedding at private house up o
Twenty-seventh street the other evenin
at which the bridegroom handed hi
{ bride, for wedding present, chez
, for 81, 100000. The best of it all
that there is plenty more where thu
q check came from, so that there is r
r immediate prospect of the happy pair
, coming to want. He is Pennsylvanl
q iron-master, she is the daughter of
late Cuban planter, who lost his fortur
= through the instructions on that islam
. and both of them are now on their We
q is Europe, to see what combined effo
v will accomplish in the way of gettll
] rid of little of this redundant cash.
4 l believe have before this referr
70 in my correspondence to the curio
4 fact that crimes or accidents come
= us in groups of one kind. Sometime
d for example, months will pass, and y
q can only find occasional reference in t
to papers to suicide and then will come
III period like the month of May just pa
ed. when their columns will fairly br
tie with self-murders. Every obser,
at knows that the same is true of burg
b. ries, defalcations, and the long list
to crimes. | think the law holds equa
ms good with regard to accidents. I
i'm horror that followed the announcem
us last week of the terrible steamboat c
fe- lision on Long Island sound, was s
= at its height when news reached US
the collision of two great ocean stea