St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-07-23

Gaping that Indlgnlty through the aSeh-
CIV OF jerome peIe, who owned sixth
interest in hundred and tweHty-seven
acre farm on the great fashionable
driveway in the Twenty-fourth Ward.
by the time the gentlemen get through
with their difficulty, and it Is to he
presumed that they will not be sent to
state prison, they will see the lmpro-
priety and danger of holding lost pro
perty lust to look at, you know, and to
speculate on how it might be turned to
advantage.
This is the era of grand metropolitan
enterprises. and New York is fairly
launched in the work of creating great
/ local improvements, a work that can
hardly rest now until the city has filled
up all the missing links III Its chaIn OF
evolution, and stands forth to the world
as u fully perfected metropolis. FOR
/ two years past the trains t1yIng Though
the air on the elevated iron railways
! have made the city bedlam OF strange
sounds, not to be heard Ill any other
quarter of the globe; and IN little
more than one year we are promised
! the completion of the Brooklyn bridge,
with all that implies of rapid transit to
our sister city, Coney Island and the
coast. But more than this, the Hudson
River tunnel is at length fairly under
way; and in a short time the city, with
reference to the main land over in New
| Jersey, will no longer be an island,
subject to the embargo of logs and ice
4 i nj M
! dertaking. 1t will be something more
! than a mile long, about 59OO feet, ana
the bottom will rest 100 feet below
] high water mark. The lowest estimate
of its cost is $4,000. 200, and It's pro-
ieetOrs promise that when completed II
will have capacity Tor the transit OF 4OU
trains per day. That VIII probably DO
for the present. but not for all time.
There are at least 400 passenger trains
entering and leaving the various depOts
I'D Jersey City now, and within 70 or ~
wears il is to be presumed that the de-
mand will be nearly doubled. And so
it will come to pass that the tunnel
will hardly be completed before 1t VIII
be found necessary to have still anOth-
er tunnel alongside OF the nrst one.
The estimated cost OF TINS woIk seems
rather excessive when you look at the
cost of the Brooklyn bridge, with its
immense mountains of granite i'll the
approaehes. its towers buried 20 feet
below high water mark, and rising $50
feet above, and Its intricate framework
of steel wires and chains in the sHs-
pended structure. The bridge is nearly
as long as the tunnel; it has taken /
twice the time fixed for the latter work !
in construction; it has demanded the !
labor of twice as many men: 1t has /
compelled a large outlay IN the COM
pensatiOn for property taken, and II /
was built from the treasury of two cit |
les, with all that is supposed to imply /
OF corruption and leakage. Yet the cost |
is to be only about three millions more /
than we are assured that the tunnel, /
built by private enterprise, is TO cost. /
Can 1t he that the cry against wateIed /
stock is teaching corporations the poll
CIV OF oveTestimating the cost OF pTOduc /
ton III their enterprises 1t looks so, /
To man not 4 practical en-
gineer.
The exodus of the clergymen from /
New York ID the summer time is not /
quite so general a movement as the t
exodus of Moses and the Israeiites out /
of Egypt when Pharaoh was king. but /
1t Is sufficient to leave a great many Z
tiOcks wandering shepherdless among |
the sand hills of COueY Island anu (
of hot Sunday. They fig |
ure largely in the list of departures for ,
and they are to be found doing /
good at all the watering places and /
hooks where people lay of 4
for the dog DAYS. They travel to recu-
perate, To restore their exhausted en-
eTgies. 1t is said. 1t would be curious
to know how large proportion of the
people of this world think they are
overwOrked. 1t is question, indeed, /
if any amount of work to which man !
must apply himself is not regarded in /
his own Judgment, as little in excess
of the amount for which he is cOnstitu-
tionally qualified. But some of the 1
have better excuse than /
Overwork for their desire to get away. /
Churches in city so large as this par
take largely of class divisions. There /
is not among the Protestant churches /
so general a mingling of the rich and /
poor as you will find elsewhere and if |
a clergyman happens to repre- sent a |
hundred millions or so in his cOngrega-
ton, he may be sure that his elOquenee |
will not hold his flock beneath the drip /
pings of the sanctuary during the hot /
weather. He will have no cOngrega-
ton, therefore, and he may as well in
hale the sea breeze and see the world I
as to NOPE over dull and useless ser
mons in a not library. Those who |
teach charity may reasonably ask that
charitable Judgment shall be rendered /
upon their seeming worldliness.
Another evidence of reform in New
York was seen on the 18th of July, the
of the battle of the BOVINE.
Orangemen with their wives, sweet
hearts and babies, to the number OF /
three Thousand, went on an excursion
up the river, and though they Haunted
their yellow ribbons and their regalia
in the face of all the world, there was
never Il ''croppy" to modest them, and
they were enabled to get along with
but slight protection from the police.
They fought some among themselves,
and there would be good reason to
doubt their descent had they not. but
they were unmolested by those fellows
who wear hair all over their teeth. and
they returned as well and sober as
could be expected. This is cause of
as well to the public as
the 0rangemen and their Catholic op-
ponents. RADIX.
Public Opinion.