St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-10-22
Our New York Letter.

A CORNER IN wATER-wILLING WOMEN
VOTERs-A TELESCOPE PALACE
SALE OF VERY SELECT STABLE
CRosIERs AND CRACK REGIMENTS
TRAMPs TRooPING DOWNWARD -
BOOSTS AND BURSTS OF 81" TRAINS
BABY OF TWENTY OFFENDING THE
LAW AND THE WAY THE JUDGE TOOK
TO MAKE HIM FEEL SORE.
NEW YORK, Oct. Is, 1880.
To the Editor of the Caledonian:
Cleanliness, as we all know, is next
to godliness; but Brooklyn, the City of
Churches, will have to depend on the
latter chiefly for comfort. Politicians
aud preachers may never dry up, but
the long drought has left the city on
short commons of water for some time,
and now the best of the three great
pumping engines at the reservoir has
broken down and will take month to
repair. In Paterson, some 2, 200 opera
tives have been thrown out of work by
the scarcity of water. Mills and facto-
ries have had to cease running and the
unfortunate bosses, with heavy con-
tracts on hand, are in despair. The wa
ter company has a large reserve supply
but has special customers for whom it
is reserved and the rest may go hang
for all the benefit they'll get out of it,
while the fire insurance companies have
declared that unless water is supplied
to the public they will cancel all poll
cies and leave the burden of paying for
losses on the greedy corporation which
got up corner on the necessary fluid.
For drinking purposes the Jersey
men have abundant supplies of cider,
which is very cheap and plentiful this
year.
While torches glare and stump-speak-
ers spout and the welkin rings nightly
with frenzied yells about politics, the
women of the Empire State have been
quietly casting their first votes for
School Trustees. In some cases poll
ing places were packed by friends of
the candidates whom the ladies didn't
favor, but in others the fair and perse-
vering danes upset the politicians
smartly enough. They let them have
their own way nearly all day, lulling
their suspicious to sleep, and then
thronged in with mighty rush just at
the close of the proceedings carrying
their end in most triumphant style.
In East New York four farm wagons,
laden with 107 wives and daughters of
wealthy landowners, brought sudden
dismay to the hearts of their opponents
by their unexpected appearance.
The bulls and bears have been in a
feverish condition for some days and
when the first tidings of the October
election came in went wild altogether.
The uproar in the Stock Exchange was
of the most tumultuous character
clothing and hats were reduced to ut
ter ruin, and the police had the hardest
kind of a time keeping any sort of Or
der. It's wonderful how crazy people
get over an election.
A novel kind of hotel, on an i'm
proved Partisan plan, is about to be
erected on the west side of this CITY,
1t is to be a family affair, nine stories
high, of an elegant style of architec-
ture, occupying an entire block, with
large garden in the enormous inner
quadrangle, seven superb staircases,
seven elevators, and suites of rooms
with and without dining rooms, with
restaurants for those residents who pre-
fer to avoid the smell and labor of
cooking, purchasing and storing provis-
ions. The edifce will cost not less
than 81 100000 and will take, it is
said, fully two years to complete.
The fortunate owner is the president of
the Singer Sewing Machine Company,
and the enterprise promises to be as
popular and successful, in it's way, as
the excellent sewing some of
the profits from the sale of which have
enabled it to be put in practical opera
ton.
Queer things are put up at auction
Lately, one large and we'll
known firm sold first an enormous
quantity of the rarest and most exquis-
itely-died carpets and rugs, then sever
al cargoes of tea, and wound up with
the promptly forthcoming
SoiO VI OIL oIiul OIHI oCHhCbt Stuu OIL
polo ponies and other cattle, with all
the fixings, carriages, coaches, drags,
etc., thereunto appertaining. The
gray-haired youth is queer genius.
With initiative enough to start such
expeditions as the search after Living
stone and the North Pole, such chart
ties as the Herald Irish Relief Fund,
and in the winter of 1873 the soup
kitchens right here, which cost him
personally $50, 900, his greatest efforts
to promote sport, or social improve
ment in one way or another, seem to
pail upon him, and he drops bis favorite
pursuits for ever with ruthless severity.
Once a very prominent yachtsman, the
blue waters know him no more, and his
latest, and bestowed pastime, polo
playing, has gone to the limbo of cast
aside toys. Perhaps the cheerful boy
means to abjure wild oats henceforth,
marry and settle down, and perhaps
run for President. Who knows?
The Episcopal bishops are continu-
ing their pious festivities. Last Sunday
they deployed as skirmishers into nu-