St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-09-16
Our New York Letter.


Well they've moved the President at
last, and splendid job it has been.
Francklyn, ex-agent of the Cunard
line, nephew, by the way of the Gun
ards, to the humblest tracklayer who
put his shoulder to the wheel to bring
the car home after its long, swift jour
ney from Washington, every one con-
cerned with the movement has done
well, and the gallant patient felt bet
ter for the change, even though land
breezes, instead of sea breezes, well
coined him at Long Branch. The
weather has truly been awful every
where i'll this vicinity, the streets,
with their well-baked stones and
bricks, being, of course, the most
stagnant and devitalizing, as well as
hot. For days pail of smoke has
hung over us, and when we toss rest
less on uneasy beds at night we in
hale the flavor of wood smoke from the
flaming forests in New Jersey. The
waste of timber and drying up of wells
and water courses is becoming re-
curing calamity of growing proper
tions. Thanks to the parsimony of the
railroad people who will not adopt any
plan to prevent cinders from the loco
motives setting fire to the parched
fields and woods they pass through,
and to the recklessness of our people
who chop wood as freely as if trees
would grow like cabbages, our climate
is actually changing and we are ex-
posed each year more and more to eX-
IRENE heat and cold and "A scarcity of
water at all seasons. Almost every
other country is ahead of us in the mat
ter of forest cOnservancy, and why,
with our readiness to multiply bureaus
in order to give second class politicians
a chance to steal, we don't organize
one, is one of those anomalies that
would have sOrely puzzled Dundreary.
One of our worst nuisances was
snutfed out in very effectual manner
the other day. 1t was IA rendering es-
tablishment of some very offensive
sort, and the Board of Health had at
last ordered it to be closed up, but the
official wheels having probably been
creased, the fiat was evaded for IA
while in spite of the incessant and in
dlgnant circumstances of aggrieVed
thousands, till finally the clamOr be-
came too loud, and the comfortable Gull
prits were given just two days to clear
ont. They worked those two DAYS to
dispose of all the filth they could, and
put on extra hands, who worked night
and day. A part of the process neces-
STATED the employment of benzine.
An overcharged pipe through which
this was running burst, and the vapor
it was evening-getting ignited sim
ultaneOusly by numerous gas-jets on
different parts of the premises, an ap-
palling explosion occurred. The whole
place was dissolved like dream, the
machinery and buildings were dissipa-
ted into dust, two men were destroyed
and the balance blown away more or
less hurt, the foreman having been
sent flying over high wall forty feet
down an adjacent street. Some peO-
pie say the Board of Health, which
was responsible for the liberation of
this vile abuse, should have been blown
up too. 1t is very virtuous bureau
on paper, but every now and
then, as in this case, something hap
pens to show that its practice isn't al |
ways what it is cracked up to be.
The question of anti-mOnOpoly is at
tracing much attention and bids fair
to have an important bearing upon flu
ture political movement. There can |
be no doubt but that many of our