Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-02
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor.l

LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the Monitorl
New YORK, April, %, 1881.
Edison's and other electric lights are |
coming to the front in busy sort Of way, |
one Of the strong points urged in their IA
vor being that their use will tend to dis |
courage burglary. Another ingenious
person, not connected with Edison in any
way, has suggested that instead of light
ing the streets we should light up the po
licemen, by painting them all over with
the new Illuminating paint which is be-
coming so much used for nocturnal clock
dials, miners lamps, etc. He says there
might then be some chance of occasional
ly finding policeman visible on his beat.
The fact is, our blue-coated guardians
have so long INDUCED in the luxuries of
''cubby-holes" and free drinks that they
are proverbially never in the way when
they're wanted, though they are often Off
cious enough when they are not.
We have at last genuine American Ia
dy artist worthy to rank with Rosa Bon
heur in her own speciality of cattle paint
ing, with the additional aptitude for pro-
ducing the most charming and mastery
landscapes in way the Gallo genius
could never surpass. Mrs. Lakey, the
wife of the genial and popular Charles d.
Lakey, publisher Of the Builder and
WoOd,corker, under whose keenly critical
guidance your RADIX once welded an ed
itorial quill, is the lady mean. The New
York Press Club paid her the very unus-
ual compliment Of requesting her to exhib-
it her painting in their parlors, and there
they are and will be till May 9Th, enthus-
iastically admired by connoisseurs, and yet
appreciated by those most ignorant Of art.
They are simply superb.
The street cleaning fight still RACES, and
people are dying with alarming frequency
from zymotic diseases, but another cause
| Of disquietude has been found out in the
abominable flavor of the Croton water
which so those say who have tasted it,
which your RADIX religiously refrains from
| doing, is evidently due to the presence of
myriads Of decomposed fish. 1t has an
| ancient and fsh-like smell, like many 9th
| er Gothamite official and deficient institu-
tions.
| An amusing contest as to the literary
merits Of some persons in very humble po-
sitions has been going on among certain
"a a11 t. 4I,o4 4 lo
semi-reclaimed tramps, who in squalid at
| tire and very unwholesome, appearance,
there are, so it is gravely stated, sundry
college graduates. The Department of
Parks boasts of a more distinguished Ia
borer, and it was on the occasion of pay
ing a gardeners assistant gratuity for
preparing some exquisitely drafted plans
for landscape gardening, that the fact
came out that the poor wielder of artists
pencil and husbandmans hoe was a doc
tor of laws, doctor of philosophy and an
ex-professor Of the famous German uni
versity of Fubingen. Truly, this is a re-
markable city, and we rub shoulders every
day without knowing it, with men who
have borne no insignificant part in the
most stirring events of this century.
One of the wealthy family of Goelets, /;
brother Of the dear old bachelor, whose
city farm, with it's peacocks and poultry
cows and cooling doves, at the corner O.
Union square, Broadway and Seventientl
street, was one of the sights of New Y ork
has just had superb schooner zach
launched by the Poillons. From all pres
ent indications and the early start take1
in this splendid sport this season, this i
to be year in the annals of yachting t.
be talked about with both sailing AM
steaming pleasure craft The famou
Dauntless, once owned by Bennett of tn
Herald, sailed with a small, early and high
ly select party of true blue amateur salt
for rafting cruise the other day. Wher
she is finally to bring up to no one seem
/ to know, but she landed part of the CORR
THAN crew at Fortress Monroe the othe
day, men whose business demands thei
presence, but who must have been sorel
, tempted to extend their trip judging frol
: the glowing report they make of the pc
It Torrance of the gallant old favorite.
E; Mr.. Seney, the benevolent banker, hash
come to the end of his benefactions,
). seems. 1 really forget when he droppe
his last quarter million, but he is rolling U
- large total very fast of gifts of CHART
l. and mercy. Ex-Gov. Morgan, one of OF
q great war governors, has also been unbu
r. toning his pockets to generous tune, al
has just planked down 100000 in aid
;. the contemplated removal of the UniC
Theological Seminary on an extended sea
to some very elegant property in an adm
{. rable location up town in Fourth avenu
s. Their present quarters in the well-knov
st castellated building on the east side
Il Washington Square, is fine site, and,
sold as no doubt will be its fate, will u
= doubtedly produce enough to give the
= with the addition of Mr. Morgan's prince
l. gift, a splendid modern building,
It. RADIX.