The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-01-31
..morloy,s, Letter from New York

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When New York takes snuff, Americf
sneezes-commercially- and therefore, ,wher
you know how much snuff is being taker
here you can guess quite cleverly how much
sneezing you are likely to undergo. Gotham
had the honor to inaugurate the late hard
times in the grand Wall street crash of 1873
She was the first to feel the quickening lif,
pulses of trade which all the country now
feels; and close observers of our national
condition have always been able to forecast
the general condition Of trade Throughout
the land by knowledge of the forces oper.
ating on Manhatten Island. So when tell
you that business OF every legitimate kind
is better here to-day than at any time since
1872, it means hope for all throughout oul
fair land who have been looking wearily
and anXously for the dawn of better days
Every branch of industry here is in full
blast. Everybody reports an increased vol
ume of business. Many factories are run
ming overtime and almost everyone is run.
ming full. Almost all products are bringing
better prices. Paper has advanced from 80
to 40 per cent. within four months. Iron
has gone up almost 100 per cent. and the
prospect is that even our immense deposit:
of iron ore will fall far short of supplying
this years demand. Mining for the useful
as well as the precious metals is likely tc
get an immense impetus this year. An i'm.
mense amount of building is going on, and
too of a most substantial kind. Capital i:
abundant and is cheaper than at any time
since 1860. Failures are reduced TO the
minimum and confidence, that much talked.
of essential to prosperity, seems fully re-
stored. We are having the best OF time.
here and this means that your turn i.
quickly coming, ifit has not already. Now
let the politicians keep hands off This il
presidential year, unfortunately, and such
are additionally bad for business. If the
men whose trade is politics are able, they
will plunge the country this very year int
a perfect maelstrom of partisan strife thai
will again disorganize business, unjoint the
hinges of trade, and work fathomless evil t
every legitimate interest. Let the people
resolutely keep at their own proper work
vote as near right as they can regardless o
the shrieks of the "outs" or the protestationi
of the Ems" and tiding the country ovel
this exciting year, we will have entered up
on career of prosperity which, with al
our mighty resources just unfolding thei
treasurers, will eclipse any area of the past
however bright.
RECENT IMPROVEMENTS.
Among the Improvements most interest
ing to non-residents is that of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, at the foot of CortlanC
street. Here the bulk OF travellers from tn,
West and nearly all from the South ar
landed, and here the most enterprising 0
railroad managements has torn away tn
old ferry-house and erected large coin
modious and well-arranged structure, whicl
is credit alike to its owners and TO tn
city. Only few years ago, "Tom" Scot
stood knocking at New Jerseys door 70
permission TO get to New York with hi
road. For several years he met bitter or
position, but finally secured the lease OF tn
then only railroad between Philadelphi
and New YORK, despite the dismal proph,
cies of his opponents. From that very da
dates a steady, gratifying improvement
the management of tie old "Camden an
AmboY." A fine depot went up at Jerse
| City, another at Desbrosses Street, auoth'
adjoining the Battery, and the whole wor
of improvement is now completed in Il
structure which receives the main travel b,
tween this city and the South and Soutl
west. This Railroad King has completed
overwhelmed the prophets of evil, and,
marked contrast with his great rival, Val
derbilt, has used his mighty opportuniti
for the public welfare, instead of makir
them serve only his own interests and tho
who successfully eourted his favor. TT
Pennsylvania is unquestionably the be
outlet from New York to-day.
, One Of the landmarks "as IS Landmark
is in a fair way Of being "improyed" out
existence. What visitor to Gotham does II
, remember rieketty, eluttered-up, tumbl
; down, over-crowded Washington Market
: with its tons of turkeys, its ship-loads
5 beef, its mountains ofbutter, its cords of C,
a. cry and spinach its foTtifcations OF hams al
D shoulders and cheese--manned with grea
. men and slippery-looking wOmen, al