St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-07-02

| NEW DIRK, June 20, JoSU.
To the Editor of the CdledOniGn
The season has about come now when
every New Yorker, with any pretension
to fashionable standing in society,
closes his shutters carefully and peeps,
furtively, through the half-opened
doorway in answer to a summons from
the bell with the assurance to his Wis
itor 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 for an escape from New
York during the dog days. The city,
with ROckaway and COney Island just
at hand, has become an immense wa
tering 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 Rock
away last Sunday, it is said, and the
claim will be readily allowed by any
one who saw the immense thrOng of
men, women and children who covered
the beach, filled the surf, and blocked
up the immense new hotels along mile
after mile of glittering sands. The
Coney Island and Reckaway Improve
ment Companies are accomplishing
wonders. What with the new railroad,
the elegant hotels, and fine parks,
drives, ETC., all overlooking 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 sympathet-
ic tones of those respectable but IN
fashionable people who go off to seek
the shelters of the distant hooks and
corners of our unoccupied seaboard.
The proper thing to do will then be to
stay at home. One of the most graft
tying things to be observed in this ex-
odus of New Workers to Coney Island,
which occurs every Sunday during
the hot weather, is the orderly charac-
ter of the excursiOnists. The remark
able contrast in this respect with the
exhibitions of twenty years ago on
similar occasions, cannot fail to impress
every man whose memory carries him
back so far. Your correspondent, beg
ging pardon of the strict sabbatarians,
went on board the steamer Grand Re
public, last Sunday, determined to
carry his observations as far as Rock
away. The law limiting the number
of passengers to the contrary notwith-
standing, it will be no exaggeration to
say that there were between two and
three thousand people on the boat; and
there was music and dancing abaft the
shafts, and lager beer by the tun, on
the main deck forward. The immense
boat was so crowded in every part that
locomotion was everywhere impeded,
and in many places impossible; but the
most perfect order reigned, and no i'll
natured nor improper language was
heard. This was not only true on the
down trip, it was true at the beach
among all the thrOngs of many thou
sands there, and it was equally true
at seven o'clock in the evening when
at the various landings at New York
and Brooklyn the thousands of passen-
gers thronged from the decks on their
arrival home.
Stay! there should be one exception.
By seven O'Clock the babies on board
had become very disorderly, and hav-
ing silenced the band and driven it
from the field, they sang a sort of nurs-
cry chorus, very delightful to the low
ers of that sort of music. But the poor
things have TO be ventilated, and old
bachelors who go to Rockaway by
steamers, on Sunday may as well be
cautioned, here and now, that they
will do well to put cotton in their ears
at the hour when babies want their
bottles. But they will not need to
carry their revolvers, and they NAV be
quite sure of finding themselves at all
times surrounded by a very decent
sort of people.
A stock boom in Summer has been
one of the recent marvels in New York /;
and at a time when all the great oper-
atOrs are supposed to he restoring their
faculties fer the Fall campaign. the
market has been as active as though
the entire battalion of bulls. in an M
derIaken line of battle, were carrying
their adventures ON their horns. The
bears, as it is yery wei krOxn. have
. chronic habit ~ sitting down on the
stocks, in the absence Of their appO
Dents, and is requires tl.e coRssant OK
erfions eG tile balls TO maintain an Ad-
vaDtags IN the market. But the mys-
teries 81 stscs Jobbing - something
which lpIs hover vet bes'n mastered by
the avsNlge intellect This b Hure and
tais = c'irtain. h y eDly sale ta hes
stocks, ~ an investment. when none ct
tbc iarE' Operator. want ~ sell TO-
that b the ouly tip9e when tbes ar.
beld hsjow Their real value. When
the Naus-erhilts wisA to anisa6 W NAV
always kses Cor a sharp decline. Il
vii b. suA Of the 6rst symptoms Of the
mtitenniuaA when steek gambling u
nc Longer NEaciiced. Souteu here. the
real value az sso~ks must b. represent
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WI aevef b. rcactsed - isng a. a
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nack and tafth for their owl asisantaze.
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