Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-26

known on the Rlalto. They, too, were
found to have known the mystery of the
stocks, and they had passed
them from hand to hand while the de-
tectives were following up their various
clues. OF course, when the secret was
finally discovered, and the bonds were
found in the hands of Mr.. Patchell, it
was very evident that they were only
being kept until favorable opportunity
appeared for their return to Brayton,
Ives g. Co. but the over suspicious
Justice Duffy, before whom the case
was brought, could not understand why
an interval of some days was necessary
to make restitution which might have
been made in few minutes. In default
of bail, therefore, two of the gentlemen,
Messrs. Patchell and McGibbon. were
obliged to lie in the tombs under
charge of larceny, while the third party
only succeeded IN escaping that lndig-
nifty through the agency of Jerome pere,
who owned sixth interest in hun
bred and twenty-seven acre farm on the
great fashionable driveway in the Twen-
ty-fourth Ward. By the time the gen.
tlemen get through with their difficulty
and it is to be presumed that they will
not be sent to state prison, they will see
the improperly and danger of holdisg
lost porperty just 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 in its chain of
evolution, and stands forth to the world
as fully perfected metropolis. For
two years past the trains flying through
the air on the elevated iron railways
have made the city bedlam of strange
sounds, not to be heard in any other
quarter of the globe; and in a little
more than one year we are promised the
completion of the Brooklyn bridge, with
all that 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, sub
ject to the embargo of fogs and ice
blockades. This tunnel is a great un-
dertaking. 1t will be something more
than mile long, about five thousand
and nine hundred feet, and the bottom
will rest one hundred feet below high
water mark. The lowest estimate of its
cost is $10,000,OOO; and its projectors
promise that, when completed, it viii
have capacity for the transit of four
hundred trains per day. That will pro
badly do for the present, but not for al
time. There are at least four hundred
passenger trains entering and leaving
the various depots in Jersey City now
and within twenty-five or thirty years l
is to be presumed that the demand will
be nearly doubled. And so it will com
to pass that the tunnel will hardly b
completed before it will be found nee
essary to have still another tunnel along
side of the first one. The estimate
cost of this work seems rather excessiv
when you look at the cost of the Brook
Ign bridge. with its immense mountain
of granite in the approaches, its tower
buried seventy-fve feet below high wa
ter mark, and rising two hundred an
eighty feet above, and its intricat
framework of steel wires and chains i
the suspended structure. The bridge
nearly as long as the tunnel; 1t ha
: taken twice the time fixed for the con
pletion of the latter work in construC
ton; it has demanded the labor
twice as many men it has compelled
large outlay in the way of compensate
, for property taken, and it was bui
from the treasury of two cities, with a
that is supposed to imply of corruptio
and leakage. Yet the cost is to be onl
about three millions more than we a.
1 assured that the tunnel. built by priva
enterprise, is to cost. Can it be tn;
the cry against watered stock is teacl
ing corporations the shrewd policy
; overestimating the cost of production
a their enterprises =? 1t looks so, som
t times, to a man not practical enginee
: Another evidence of reform in Ne
i York was seen on the 18th of July, Il
= anniversary of the battle of the Boyn
i Orangemen with their wives, swee
/? hearts and babies, to the number
h three thousand, went on an excursi
II up the river, and, though they faunt
/ their yellow ribbons and their regal
J. in the face of all the world, there W
y never a ''croppy" to modest them, al
" they were enabled to get along with b
D slight protection from the police. Tn
fought some among themselves, and the
IN would be good reason to doubt their
L scent had they not; but they were l