Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-01-26
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR
New YORK, Jan. 10, 1880,

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoEIToR.l
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 1880.
Frank Leslie is dead-and regretted.
Perhaps the most American of publish
ers, in the sense of periodically catch
ing everything interesting to our people
on the wing and giving it full promi-
nence in his publications, he was by
birth an Englishman, and his name was
Henry Carter. An artist by instinct,
with keen literary perception superadded
he naturally gratifed his bent by con-
tributing to the papers. but his friends
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plume of Frank Leslie, which, after ar
irving here, he formally adopted. and
the change was sanctioned by an act of
Legislature. His career was phenome-
pal. A simple list of the numerous Pc
riodicals he conducted with such signal
ability would take considerable space.
That financial difficulties overcame him
in his later years was misfortune he
shared with many other men of promi
nence, but his pluck was undated, and
had he lived little longer he would
have been clear off the harassing inter-
ference of his creditors committee, whose
annoyances, it is charged, fastened his
DEATH His collection of woodcuts, ac-
cumulated during his long and industri-
Gus business lifetime, amounted to over
a million, and cost for the drawing, en-
craving, and procuring fully s8.0O0,-
900, mere item in the gigantic BUSH
ness. A faded photograph of some half
forgotten celebrity suddenly brought in
10 notice, when furnished in the nick of
time. has often brought the lucky owner
5000 or $500. Mr.. Leslie's superb
mansion, with its park. was the glory of
Saratoga In it he dispensed an elegant
hospitality. Mr.. Leslie was an excel
lent judge of character and firm friend.
His employees. from his chief editors
and artists, down to the scrub-woman
who polished the floors of the new and
magnificent building in Park Place, were
devoted to him. He was married twice,
his second wife, to whom he was fondly
attached, being the sole 1egatee of his
large fortune. The funeral was quiet
enough, but among the hushed throne
of mourners were many of the foremost
citizens in this country, men distinguish.
ed by learning, dignity, wisdom and ge
MUS.
AS a pleasing instance in point of oul
present prosperity, | may just remark
that on Tuesday last Uncle Sam took il
1898. 900 (only $1,000 less than a mil
Hon) at the New York Custom House
Of this sum $4,000 was in gold coin
weighing about ton and quarter.
The preparations for the comm.
Worlds Fair in 1888 are likely to b
begun shortly. Two rival organization
have consolidated in the most amicabl
fashion, and at preliminary meetin,
under the Craftsmanship of Presiden
Jewett of the Erie Railroad. considera
BILE enthusiasm was manifested. TIL
appropriateness of the date selected, be
ing the centennial anniversary of tn
acknowledgment of American independ
ence by Great Britain, and the place
New York being the last portion of GU
soil evacuated by hostile foreign troops
was dwelt on with effect.
The defalcators have been having
high old time of it. Finding them GU
} seems catching complaint. J. Lloy
| Haigh. the wire-rope man, whose rascal
/ tiles | mentioned in my last, was quick
| ly followed on the roll of infamy b
Treasurer Bogart of the Produce En-