Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-30
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoN1ToR.l
NEW YORK, August %, 1880.

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tank of large dimensions from which
they supply the multitude in the dingy
tenement districts with ice water. They
have baptised the machine, with sim
gular disregard to etymology. the cam
bulatory Thirst Ameliator." Some one
has suggested that "Oatmealiorator"
would be better, as it is we'll known
that oatmeal mixed with water makes
an elegant hot-weather tipple, the Brook
lyn Railroad Companies even supplying |
it to their horses, and finding it profita-
BILE to do so.
Brockway the famous forger has been
arrested again, and with the usual Sc
quence of events another somewhat
prominent person has fallen into troub-
lie for similar alleged crookedness. This
is Elijah Alliger, who year or so ago
was one of the wealthiest insurance men
and agent for London company which
withdrew his commission and sued him
for some $4,000 which they claimed
he had wrongfully converted to his own
use. He is now charged with negotiat-
ing stolen bonds after having technically
committed forgery by erasing the trans
for ptc IN than
Drexel, Morgan & Co., in the person
of their noble-hearted naturalized Ital-
ian partner, Fabbri, and Morton, Bliss
& Co., have jointly done very noble
thing, which is practically philanthropi-
cal in very modest and unpretending
way. | told you some time ago about
the poor workmen on the new mammoth
hotel at Rockaway, who were paid in
promises and had to subsist for weeks
on wind pudding. Finally the western
capitalists, whose conduct certainly gave
color to the suspicion that they were
trying to Chicago" the poor fellows
out of their hard earned wages, got
things so mixed up that their affairs
went into the hands of Receiver. He
proposes to pay off in interest bearing
scrip. The men hanged him in efigy.
Then cooler counsels prevailed, and one
| &c = - h. kho hinh-
est praise. persuaded them to appoint a
committee to try and get the paper ne
gotiated in lump in Wall Street. The
financiers looked shy at such securities,
till at last the two firms | have men
toned took the whole offering at par,
so that none of the laborers and me-
chanics should suffer, and thus circum-
vented the sharks who were greedily on
hand waiting to shave the time bills
The affair was very disgraceful, but
gave an opportunity for the best side Of
human nature to show itself, so it Is nc
doubt all right-except for one pool
fellow whose disappointment and ange,
J drove him mad, and who deliberately
starved himself to death by way of get
ting square with the soulless corpora
ton which had employed him.
/ Poor Ole Bull, the Wizard of the Cat
gut, is dead. This greatest of modern
iddlers had grown into an American in
t stitution. and his kindly presence will
7 not soon be forgotten. His last publ
e appearance was in the sacred cause Q
e Charity, at the famous benefit perfor
e nance in behalf of the Herald Irish ia
b mine relief fund. Adelaide Neilsor
!, too, has gone to her rest. Her chic
i fame was won here, and it is here wher
J, the saddest memories of her will lir
d ger. People wonder when Fred Schwa
Il erstwhile dramatic critic of the Time
i her business manager. will pick up anc
e Their such Juliet to escort to scenes
it triumph. Another artist not yet deat
'e but bound to 60 over to the majorit
pretty soon, is Mr.. Robert Donaldson
late of Scotland, whose performances
the Sam Patch order are quite thrillin
His latest feat was jumping from IL
High Bridge at Harlem. l6 feet. 4
IS he fell fat he nearly knocked the Ii
ID out of himself, and will probably su
ii coed at an early date.
d. A funny strike has been gotten +,
in by some cracker packers. 1t appea
Id these ungracious men, whose wages we
en- apportioned by piece work at the "a
lie of cents barrel packed, were acct
d. toned to jam solid lot at each end
in barrel and fill the rest quite loose
d. Their rapidity was great, and SO We
ed their weekly bills. Unfortunately,
N customers of the establishment object
es, to the method and returned the goo,
A reform in the packing was met by
Use demand for more pay, and when the N
Id couldn't get it they struck. In t
ed case, at any rate, public opinion is d
it tinctly on the side of the employers.
es. The Thirteenth N. g. Armory is p