Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-09
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR
New YORK, August 2, 1880.

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MoNIroRI
New YORK, August 2, 1880.
CONSERVATION reigned at Coney Is
land the other day when it was announc-
ed that eight sea lions, recently added
at great expense to the attractions there.
had broken out from their "crawl."
Tlmid bathers worried themselves with
anticiprtions of meeting dire chimeras
IN the water-terri6c beasts not unlike
the sea serpent, with cross of the cut
tie fish and suspicion of lobster with
large and magnetic claws-so they stay
ed out. 1t is needless to remark that, |
unless attacked, the sea lion, like all |
the seal family, is perfectly harmless,
and, indeed, readily becomes by gentle |
treatment very engaging pet, nor that
when one of the escaped family was dis
covered in a lock in the Raritan Canal,
thirty miles away from the scene of his
evasion, the ignorant rustics, after clos
ing the lock to secure him, should have
deemed him savage animal and treat
ed him accordingly. They fell on the
poor creature with shot guns, boat
hooks, pitchforks. and scythes. and
finally hauled him on shore half dead,
whereas a stout rope with running
bowline would have amply suficed. Then
they held the prize for an exorbitant re-
ward. and now there is legal scrim-
mage about possession.
Some land lions who roared peace
fully as sucking doves, though in other
scenes and other times they proved quite
dangerous, also made descent on the
sands of our great popular beach. I
refer to the strong delegation of the
Grand Army of the Republic who dined
together. 700 strong. and had the most
glorious time. The semi-annual en-
campment has been held in Brooklyn,
and the old warriors met from every
state in the Union in strong force and
the best possible spirits. The city of
churches, despite the fact of numbers
of its best families being out of town
in country side, abroad, or in far sea-
side villages, wore gala appearance
private and public welcome being most
cordially extended to the veterans and
bunting of the gayest description wav.
ing everywhere.
The Summer campaign against the
Street Cleaning Department. and Incl
! IDENTIFY against garbage bumpers of al
sorts. is raging. Tugs with wildly ex'
asperated inhabitants of our seaside
suburbs, and officers armed with war
) rants. bear fercrly down on scows mai
4 ned by Italian employees of the Polio,
Commission, and arrests have been made
repeatedly of all sorts of offenders
Sundry captains of steamships have
been heavily fined, while shippers O
n coasters have been locked up, and suit
: for something like 100000 damage
Il have been entered against the famous
Captain Williams and his supposed mas
tiers. Meanwhile, at Governors Island
in the harbor, list is kept daily of th
: more Objectionable waits and strays tina
y are cast up to offend the nose, anon
d others, of Presidential candidate, an,
), averages something like 60 dead dogs
. 500 horses, 3 suicides, Is decomposet
cats, Hill rats, IA mice, &c. Poo
General Hancock may find even thes
T. less obnoxious than some of the visitor
N who swarm to counsel, to Aattcr and elk
u to beg for office, and money and .'ir
+ florence There are other grievou
,r smells from oil re6neries. bone and fel
d. tilizing and rendering establishments
h. distress the stay -at-home Gothamite.
8 Central Park is grand lung for th
A. city, but it has its evils and at night
in the resort of some very questionabl
ct characters. There are comparative
to few police, and those few are, like th
,e majority of their kind, never to be foun
lie when wanted. Darkness pervades Il
at park to great extent and there is
We solid obstacle to furnishing it with MOI
K gas lamps in the fact that the laying
the necessary pipes would disturb ii