Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-05
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoN1ToR.I
NEW YORK. June %, 1880.

LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoN1ToR.I
NEW YORK, June %, 1880.
The season has about come now when
every New Yorker, with any pretension
to a fashionable standing in society,
closes his shutters carefully and peeps.
furtively, through the half-opened door
way in answer to summons from the
bell with the assurance to his visitor
that he is supposed to be away in the
country. But the butterflies have not
all escaped yet, by any means, and you
notice but little diminution of the
throngs on the street, save, perhaps,
during the fashionable shopping hours
in the afternoon. There is less need
each year from New York during the
dog days. The city, with Rockaway-
and Coney Island just at hand. has be-
come an immense watering place in
itself; and it can show more attractions
for pleasure-seekers, from all parts of
the country than all such little side
shows as Newport, Long Branch, Cape
May, etc., combined. From eighty to
one hundred thousand people visited
Coney Island and RockawaY last Sun
day, it is said, and the claim will be
readily allowed by any enc who saw the
immense throngs of men, women and
children who covered the beach, filled
the surf. and blocked up the immense
new hotels along mile after mile of the
glittering sands. The Coney Island
and Rockaway Improvement Companies
are accomplishing wonders. What wi tn
the new railroad, the elegant hotels,
and the fine parks, drives, etc., all over
looking an immense stretch of clear
blue sea, it will soon be sacrifice for
the New Yorker to absent himself from
the city during the Summer season. By
and by we may expect to hear in very
sympathetic tones of those respectable
but questionable people who 60 off tc
seek the shelters of the distant nook:
and corners of our unoccupied seaboard
The proper thing to do will then be tt
stay at home. One of the most crafty
ing things to be observed in this exodus
of New Workers to Coney Island, which
occurs every Sunday during the no
weather, is the orderly character of thu
excurslonists. The remarkable contras
in this respect with the exhibitions o
twenty years ago on similar occasions
cannot fail to impress every man who's
memory carries him back so far. You
correspondent. begging pardon of tn
strict sabbatarians, went on board tn
steamer Grand Republic, last Sunday
> determined to carry his observations a
:, far as Rockaway. The law limiting tn
number of passengers to the contrar
notwithstanding, it will be no exaggei
alton to say that there were betwee
+, two and three thousand people on th
boat; and there was music and dancin
- abaft the shafts, and lager bier by th
y tun, on the main deck forward. Th
" immense boat was SO crowded IN ever
. part that locomotion was everywher
impeded, and in many places imposs
. BILE; but the most perfect order reignet
l. and no illnatured nor improper lal
. guage was heard. This was not onl
- true on the down trip, it was true
p the beach among all the throngs
many thousands there, and it W;
equally true at seven o'clock in the ev
~ ming when at the various landings
New York and Brooklyn the thousan'
of passengers thronged from the dec
- on their arrival home.
The following, an interesting pha
of city life, is reported of Carrie Ca
Per, age 9 years, of 45 Even stree
- Brooklyn, who was before Justice Sci
- Ter, yesterday, on charge of pickil
pockets. The detectives who arrest
nc her, at Bollerman's dry goods store,
" Broadway and Ewing street, said th
~ they saw her make three attempts
y steal an old lady's pocketbook. a
~ when they arrested her she had 70
pocketbooks in her possession, contai
~ ing $l2 in change. The child COME
:. ed to stealing the pocketbooks, and So
~ that her father had trained her to
~ business, and that whenever she "
" successful he took the money away FRI
:" her. If she did not get at least Q
!, pocketbook day, she said, her fail
'ne abused her. Capt. Riley sent poll
CIV men to Casper's house. AS the d.
was locked, and no one responded, tt
broke open the door. Casper was
side, and he threatened to strangle
first policeman who tried to arrest h
He struggled desperately for some ii
,dl- but was at length overpowered. WI