Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-02-07
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor.l

For sheer nastiness in thaw, down
town New York can beat the universe. l
1t is not generally known how costly it is.
for the city to have such dirty streets. |
Mere mud may, perhaps, be of use to
clothiers, who thrive by supplying fresh
garments to the victims of splashing We
hicles, just as hatters may be benefited
by the vagaries of umbrellas in rainy
weather on crowded thoroughfares but
the monstrous heaps offrozen snow which
have for weeks disgraced our streets are
simply costing merchants not less than
100000 day at the lowest computation
1t is next to impossible to ship goods on
time. The few streets which are COM
paratively clean are thronged, and jams
ensue which lasts for hours. 1t is dan
gerous to life and limb for pedestrians to
attempt to cross a street in the full swing
of exasperated traffic, for every one is
out Of temper, the frosty air is laden with
curses as thick as snowfakes, and man
and beast are alike worn out in the vain
attempts to get on. And then the papers
are full of letters from travelled wiseacres
to tell us how differently things are man.
aged in Parts or London, or the Canni-
bal Islands, or somewhere. It's too bad
to suffer so, and be told-truly, too-what
fools we are to stand it.
mentioned in my last an invention, or
what was tantamount to one, a revived
adaptation of well-known engineering
device to repairing great ships, by the
manager here Of the National Steamship
Line. I might have said good word for
the line itself, for I have travelled by it
and can truly say, after an experience on
several great ocean lines in the Atlantic
and Indian oceans, that / never was
more, comfortable as passenger. The
| saloon people seem somehow to be allot-
| ted rather more room in their staterooms
than is usual; the table is good, and the
officers are the pick of the Mercantile
Marine, all Of them being qualified mas
tiers, and the captains, one and all, men
with record. The steerage is, think,
admirably looked after. The provisions
are ample, decently served and properly
cooked, while the accommodations are
first to provide steerage stewardesses,
and did it of its own accord. With all
this, the fares are cheaper, as a rule, by
two or three dollars in the storage, and
| a - 10 +ho,
ed elsewhere. These facts have made the
line favorite, especially in the matter of
prepay tickets, when people who have
| been well treated on the way to this new
and happy land send for their friends,
franking them across the herring pond
by the line they consider the best. This
is human nature, and the management of
the National Line are reaping the steady
reward of long-continued liberality.
There's no cheeseparing sticking to the
letter of contract with them. Their
measure is full and running over, and they
i keep their friends. I'm one of them, and
| feel inclined to say so at every fair OPP
portunity.
A nice old banker, Mr.. Leney, of the
Bank of the Metropolis, finding he has
more money than he knows exactly what
to do with, in a selfish point of view, has
been distributing some of his surplus in
a very openhand and sensible sort way.
The superb Long Island Historical Soci-
ety's building has been recently finished
and formally and festively occupied by
the members, and Mr.. Leney has just
passed in his check for $4,000 toward
the permanent book-buying fund. The
Butler Street Home for Destitute Chill
dren is one of the many charitable insti
buttons which seem to meet with consid
cradle popular appreciation, and Mr.
Leney has just handed over $4,000 to it:
managers to erect a new wing. This il
all so far; but this sort Of thing is con
tagious, and there are plenty of rich an(
generous men who are quite ready to fol
, low such an example.
In line with the following, would sa,
just one word regarding the noble use t.
which several columns of space are DAHL
put by the Herald Under the caption
, ''Always With You,' is a directory 0
! thoroughly investigated cases Of distres
among the deserving but unfortunate
The expenses of gathering and presenting
these facts are immense, as any publish
er knows, but the good done is enormou1
There is no mistake about it. Mr.. Jane
7 Gordon Bennett has plenty of enemies
: and is very likely not entirely free froI
. some of the faults they charge him with
but his heart is in the right place, and
don't need very strenuous urging to ii
duce him to put his hands away dow
i deep in his pockets and bring them OF
s with plenty. of solid comfort for the SUI
e fering. / have before this alluded to hi
! princely muniicence on several occasion.
:, and he is one of those people who al
emphatically never tired of doing goot
and his Herald staff give him admiral
8 support. aA 4s
s. Referring to one Of the latest of h
IF greatest enterprises, namely, the Arct
" CApioldoloA III Inc oOiiHO1cO, thol
. seems considerable anxiety very gene
ally expressed about the fate of the bray
men who sailed in her, and it has -four
IL expression in an earnest appeal to tt
D, government from Judge Daily, Preside
to of the Geographical Society, to send
of relief expedition, which may be in tt
very nick of time to avert a second Fran
lin catastrophe: There seems little dou
&c that the weather is exceptionally seye
J, even for the ever-frozen North. T.
If coolest spot ON the earth, according
to the scientists, is Yakutsh, the caste
capital of Siberia, and with that hypt
borean city of the world has telegraph
communication. Ifthe government wol