St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-10-29
Our New York Letter.

THE DEADLY BICYCLE-STYLE IN THE
sADDLE-CoLOsSAL PROJECT OF our
GREATEST MILLIONAIRE-THE Ro.
NANCE OF SOLDIERS SWORD AMI
DAUGHTER-A WANDERING wIGwAM
-BOARDINGHO BULLDoZING -
BAYONETS, BANDS AND BATTERIES IN
GALLANT ARRAY-A HINT TO PATER-
FAMILIAs FOR WHICH RADIx SHOULD
BE RUGGED.
NEW YORK, Oct. %, 1880.
To the Editor of the Caledonian:
The great American hobbledehoy,
neither man nor boy, with his last idi-
otto toy, has been responsible for a
most distressing accident. In Brook
Ign the other day the team behind
which was the feminine portion of the
family of N. A. BoyntOn, the famous
Baltimore heater-man, was frightened
by a bicycle and started off on a dead
run, finally overtaking an equestrian
party of four young ladies and gentle
men and colliding with the horse of one
of the young girls, killed the beast aud
mangled the rider in a most shocking
manner. She was beautiful girl, one
of that happy type that from very ten
der years is always the life of her socie-
ty, taken up and petted and made
much of by her elders and inspiring
devoted affection among her young
companions of both sexes. The BIZ
cyclist, no doubt, thought it was smart
to startle the horses and annoy the
dusky driver.
There Is one thing, bicycles in city
streets will have to be put down; and
another thing is that horseback exer-
else, which with good times and more
European travel was beginning to be-
come quite fashionable among us, has
received a serious setback. In the
older countries good horsemanship has
always been considered as more or less
a stamp of aristOcratic training, poor
or common folks not being supposed to
be able to afford the luxury or the time
to enjoy it, and it was common sheer
of the naughty planters of the South
before the war that the Northern
''mudsills" spent so much time grabbing
for dollars that they couldn't ride and,
in point of fact, driving has always
been more popular than riding up
North, though with such marvellous
anti-spilling saddles as Colonel Whit
mans, there seemed to be a probability
of all this being speedily changed.
After all, the highbred look which
grows on the votaries of out door life,
especially in such graceful exercise as
riding, gives one a far more distinguish
ed appearance than the mere human up
holstery of fantastic and expensive mil
linery than underlined and overdressed
shoddy can ever attain to. Fancy Sc, 900
bonnet Such an edifice for a FOOLS
wealthy New York woman, of fair av-
flowers, with simulated dewdrops of
numerous diamond sparks" set in nu-
merous small gold pins. Abused ex-
travagance in the worst possible taste,
akin to the mean ostentation displayed
in Railroad King Vanderbilt's new
$3.50, 900 stable, with paneled walls of
mosaic and fresco, within stones throw
of tenement houses swarming with the
poorest and most miserable of the poor
and wretched of this great city.
Vanderbilt it is said contemplates
building up a new commercial metrop-
lis at the extreme end of Long Island,
and by saving full days run on the
Atlantic voyage gobble up the vast
ocean traffic with Europe to the loss of
New York. 1t is understood that the
land bought last year for mere song
from the remnant of the famous Mon
tauk tribe of Indians was really for
him, and that on it will arise, like
Aladdin's palace, sudden visions of
stores, elevators etc., with railroad
communications direct with the lines he
already controls, and probably special
new line of ocean steamships. If the
man goes on in this way he will per-
haps, before he dies, own more money,
Individually, than the rest of the United
States put together and cause mankind
to regard the Rothschilds as compare
lively INDECENT. There is to be ship
canal, too, between Harlem river and
the Sound, and altogether we are bless
ed with multiplicity of gigantic engi-
neering schemes, any of which would
be a source of glory to any other city.
The proposed restoration of the
sword of gallant Union soldier killed
while supporting the stricken negro