The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-01-22
NEW YORK.
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.
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the public. One dsy IL has been cold enough
to make one shiver in furs, and the next
warm enough for light overcoat; one day
the streets have been so blocked by snow
that getting about in horse cars, sleighs, car
riages or on foot has been almost impossible;
the next day the indiscribably uncomforta-
BILE mixture of melting snow and mud has
been knee-deep, only TO be followed twenty
four hours later by torrents Of water render
ing the fording Of "a Broadway crossing an
aquatic achievement of the most hazardous
nature. If this sort of thing continues
much longer Edison will haye to turn his
attention to the invention of some new
method of getting around. To meet the de-
mands of very much "felt want" this new
vehicle should combine the varied qualities
of the snow-plow, life-boat, ice-boat, snow
shoes, balloon, life-preserver, pontoon bridge,
and mud scow. And while the Wizard of
of Menlo Park is wrestling with the machine,
why not appoint General Grant to the posi-
tion of Old Prob? What he doesn't know
about weather no one would ever find out
or care to learn from experience, and his
trip around the world could thus be utilized
for the good Of the country.
That recent tenement house holocaust, as
yonr esteemed contemporary, the New York
Herald would felictously call it, has for the
moment revived the public interest in
subject about which a vast deal has been
written and said and very little done. |
was through the ruins of the tenement house
where the nine lives were lost and the only
wonder was that anyone got out alive. lit
| tie Charlie McKenna, who saved the lives
of his two brothers and one sister, is quite
hero, although he seems to think what he
did was quite the correct thing to do-which
it certainly was. Money has been sent to
the boy through the newspapers, poems
have been published about him, benefit
performance is to be given tonight for him
and others sufferers by the fire, and the only
danger is that they will spoil the brave little
| fellow. Altogether more pathetic than any
thing else / saw in that tenement house was
in one of the rooms where three children
were burned, or sufiocated, to death. 1t
was some hours after the dead bodies had
been removed and the mother, dazed with
her sudden sorrow, was at work in the wreck
of her former home, with fearless eyes dig
ging out of the debris the little shoes that
would never be worn by her babies again,
with the stockings tucked into the shoes Just
as they had been left by the children only
the night before.
If this unnecessary sacrifice Of life should
result in some action which will insure
greater safety to the unfortunates who are
forced to huddle in these human hives it
will not have been in vain. Apropos of
-
al Grant at the head of the Department of
Public Buildings2 His victory at Appomat.
OK would particularly fit him Tor the posi-
tion, a fact that must be obvious to the most
prejudiced person.
After tedious trip of several weeks the
Hu b ert-V t-Vanderblt-G Cleopatra
obelisk has reached its destination in Cen
tral Park. 1t is declared that this interest
ing monoit has history dating back 35
centuries Who shall say how long it will
, stand as an object OF interest in the metrop-
oils OF the New World? And a still more
interesting question equally easy to answer
is, how long will the present metropolis oi
the New World be here to afford refuge fol
this vagrant from the land of the Pharoahsi
| In this connection it may not be necessary
TO mention that General Grant, as matter
of course, will be the chief figure at the ina
e have been placed on its pedestal,
| One of the latest projects for adding to The
pleasure of New Workers. next summer il
| the building of a "large floating palace" tc
0 be permanently moored off the Battery. /
S is to be 500 feet long, so feet wide, witt
! three decks, and bathing convenences be
low. The charges for admission will b,
, graded to suit the finances of all classes
there will be music afternoons and evenings
aud eatables and drinkables dd lib. A
= night the whole will be gorgeously llumin
c ated by hundreds of gas Jets and a number
of electric lights. At present the only troubl,
will be to secure permit from the prope
S authorities. Should the "grand noatinj
!, palace" become fixed tact, of course Gen
] Grant will smoke his cigar there of an eve
: ming.
IS Now that the Commissioners of the pro
s posed Worlds Fair, of 1888 have come to
: gether, it appears that the delays and dis
/. putes which characterized the persons of tn
IS Executive Board are to be duplicated on
1t larger scale in the principal body. Th
e matter OF site now has to be gone all owe
e again, and the result is impossible to prog
e nosticate although preponderance of opin
ion appears TO favor lnwood. Vanderbilt
/, subscription of $3.50 900, conditional on tn
~ raising of S4 100000, is much smaller tha
OplHlun I'll
only thing needed now to insure the success
OF the fair is to elect General Grant Pres
dent Of the Commission. His former con
nection with Galena tannery would ad
'e mirably equip him for the position.
Among the leading social events of tn
season must be included the eighth-not th
s. FIRST, as the Tribune incorrectly reported
N annual dinner of the New York Pre-:
Club, given at the St. Nicholas Hotel la,
,s THU sday evening-tickets 50, including
ST pint bottle of very bad claret. There was
large attendance including many of tn
most prominent people, and that means,
r course, that General Grant was the honore
- guest of the evening. And he made yer
good speech, too, one of the best of the man
I'd clever post pranniai efforts with which b
III has recently surprised public that unit
within few months past were blissiull
e, ignorant of his best oratorical and rhetorica
lie possibilities. The dinner was a success an
st not the least important feature of 1t was I'll
bill Of fare, prepared with strict view
e the eternal fitness Of things, by Mr.. Ii. Cla
,,S Lukens, widely known as the paragraph,
~ OF the daily Neaes, and chairman of the n
~ ception committee at the dinner. The di
terent courses, instead of the conventions
P headings,or the frequent classical quotation
oy were all suggestive of the profession of whiC
thS lSSs Siuu 10 COHl llosooJ L OF eAanpl
no over oysters was --latest from Norfolk; ii
roasts were introduced by --latest from Il
he Fire;" "Farm and Garden" suggested Il
On vegetables and the other headlines we
a equally felcitous. Pardon the moment
nd digression, but it is hardly a step from som
thing good to eat to Gen. Grant, and as
,rs haye inadvertently mentioned his name,
NO must say he showed in his remarks at Ii
10 Press Club dinner such familiarity with Il
lie duties Of the newspaper man as to sugge
that at its next annual election the Pre-
,, Club could not do better than elect hi
We President.
"s Mr. Richardson, son ofW. D. Richardso
the editor of the Times who met with ira
70 ic end some years ago, has had varied e
SOS perience as newspaper man. IL may
remembered that as correspondent of h
heI Tribune in the Indian country, he was
Ike one time captured and killed, all of whi,
was suecinctly telegraphed from Mr. Ric
an ardscn's note book, left in place where
'na could be conveniently found, with that ei
= in view. Since then he has been editor
- the Dramatic Nei0S, and is now eorrespon
ly ant of several leading ont tnyVt, dafli,