Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-08
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIToR1
New YORK, March l, 1880.

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIToR1
NEW YORK, March L, 1880.
Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, the In
defatigable digger, whose making At
RIGA into an island by means of cutting
the Suez Canal, has immortalized him,
and who is identified with the new
scheme to divorce North and South
America, for the best of commercial
reasons, is here, and being lionized to
the greatest extent. If they don't kill
the poor man before they get through
with him. it will be lucky for him and
his family. The very first day after his
arrival he was bounced on by industrious
citizens of more or less distinction. who,
in relays, gave him just about as hard a
days work as ever any man went
through. They took him from one ex-
IRENE end of Manhattan Island to the
other, caused him to inspect everything
from the Brooklyn Bridge and the Ele-
waited Railroad to the sweeping machines
of Captain Williams. They gave him
view of the shanties and the goats in the
upper wards of the city and then of the
superb buildings which ornament it all
over. The Ere brigade was turned out
to do him honor, and they wound up by
taking him over an American house
with "all the improvements" not only
those advertised by every smart real es-
tate agent, but all the gimcracks adopt
ed by clever lawyer with whole stud
farm for hobbies which he diligently
rides. DeLesseps has expressed himself
in almost extravagant admiration for
everything shown him, but if he can get
through the engagements 'chalked out
for him for the next few days without
swallowing American sugar-coated pills
by the gross and American cocktails by
the gallon, it will be marvel.
The 6remen have been having a hard
time of it lately. A great fire broke
out in Broadway in the dry goods store
lately occupied by the we'll known firm
of Evans, Peake & Co., and while brave
ly battling the flames. two of the mos
gallant fellows in the Department, on,
of them being decorated for conspicuou!
bravery with the Bennett medal, tina
annual contribution of the public-spirit
ed owner of the Herald, fell with tn,
roof, in the presence of thousands, int,
the raging furnace which the store, fill
ed with highly inhammable materials
had become. In Brooklyn, another fin
fellow lost his life in a similar way
The Broadway fire was not fully extin
guished for four days, and when tn
engines had returned to their quarters
like ships after very long and tempes
tuous voyage, all grimy and tired-look
ing, inanimate though they were, wit
the men completely exhausted, anothe
general alarm rang out. This time
was factory in the heart of dens
tenement house district, and again 81
firemen escaped a shocking death by th
: very skin of their teeth.
Perhaps it is the fish diet of Len
but with the balmy days already prom
Using Spring the average workman high
ly turns his thoughts of strikes. Their
are strikes in several trades with .dil
threatenings of others. The cabine
b makers, pianomakers, plasterers an
e fresco painters are all in fever, an
D while iron, crude and manufactured, an
s in fact everything else, except subscrl
# thong to newspapers, are going up, bull'
ers and real estate owners are beginnir
G to look pretty blue over their futu
i prospects. The boom seems to be boor
ing little too much for comfort.
i An example of the kindness of son
i folks for the police, has been furnishs
i by bold young Baltimorean recently
IS sojourner here. 1t appears that he W
l. engaged two years ago to young lad
Is who, as she afterwards explained,
y order to find out whether he'd made ,
y to some other girl, disappeared in Ne
e. York after carefully placing articles
e clothing near the river to convey Il
s. impression she was drowned. The ca
r. has been an unsolved mystery ever sine
is The young fellow turned up m sta
le of excitement to explain it. 1t W
ia good of him, for it may be taken as ;
d axiom that the police didn t care a r;
d about it, or any other mystery, exec
is as battling their conceit. He is marri
Z to her now.
% A fat but cunning detective. dets