Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-28
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor.1
NEW YOpR March Of 1891

New YORK, March 81, 1881.
st. Patrick's Day, for wonder, passed
off without rain. The observance out
wardly and visibly, at least, was quiet.
The professions were limited far below
their old proportions, and the gallant
Goth didn't turn out. Inwardly the cele-
bration was, am led to believe, very
joyous. The wit and whisky flowed in
parallel and copious streams, and the wet
ting of the Green was observed most re-
ligiously in this sort of privileged Carni-
val in the middle of Lent allowed to the
Hibernian branch of the great Celtic race.
Lenten marriages seem to have become,
by the way, rather more common than of
old. One OF the most noticeable, though
very quiet affair, was the wedding of
j. S. Simonton, the Chief Of the Associ-
ated Press, to the stepdaughter of an
Episcopal clergyman. The somewhat
elderly bridegroom of the most prominent
papers of the Pacific slope, besides get
ting very handsome salary in the i'm
portant position he occupies with relation
to the great dailies who established the
| news agency Of which he is the active
| head. He is well liked, and has my con-
| gratulations, as well as those of several
| thousands of newspaper men here and
| elsewhere.
Our proposed Exhibition doesn't seem
| to go off at half cock, as it were, by any
| means, and it was said that Grant was
going to resign the presidency of the
Commission in disgust But he isn't that
kind of man, as some people have had
/ previous occasion to remember, and is
| going to stick. He has expressed him
/ self, however, with considerable freedom
| about the stinginess OF certain parties
who cannot but reap enormous benefits
by its being held at Inwood, the site de-
termined on. Vanderbilt has agreed to
put in, all told, less than $500, 900, and
will probably make that in month. 9th
ers who cannot possibly make anything
like such profit on their subscriptions
naturally hold off till they see whether
the Railroad King can't be induced to
pony up little more freely. Meanwhile
time flies, and some of the work to be
done should be started right away, but
no beginning can be made with any pru-
dence till more of the sinews of exhibit
tions as well as ofwars are planked down
One of Gotham's permanent exhibition:
is Greenwood cemetery The cost of thu
monuments and floral decorations of tina
anything but lugubrious resting place fo
our dead runs up far in the millions
There are 592 vaults, and to date no les
: than 45, 283 monuments, most of them ell
egant, and many of great artistic value
The flowers, massed in groups by tn
cemetery authorities, or planted by in
dividual taste, are mostly of costly AM
all beautiful, while the unequalled site
g affording the most exquisite views throug
s outrageous vistas of the bay and harbo
: render the cemetery one of the favorit
! spots for Sunday visits, especially anon
the more pious classes, who think
wicked to go to Coney Island, Hoboke
: or the Parks.
q There have been some more heavy an
e mysterious robberies. Nearly millio
v dollars worth of bonds, luckily unsigne'
6 were appropriated by some smart blu
glars in French fiat, and an unfortuna
" Brooklyn boarding house keeper was TO
/ bed in broad daylight of some 9th
2, bonds less in amount, but more yaluab
IS because they were signed and easily n
-. gotiable, by four ruffians, who delibe
- ately bound the inmates of her house al
proceeded to ransack it. We spend
great deal of money on our police, al
\ yet there seems but little protection VIII
W any fairly determined gang decide to
&c dulge in a bold robbery. If this sort
To thing is to go on, our street architectu
- will have to be changed, and we sh;
probably all have'to live in flats in gre
+" hotels, built round central courtyard
le with double iron gates, and a savage pc
er ter, with blunderbusses and bulldogs,
e. guard the entrance and scrutnize, I
ID possible future recognition, the visito
= he may, after due consideration, think
to admit. The present system, with
~ mere ignorant Bridget to let in any o
III calls, who can play Ike very mischief
r. ter getting inside, without in any W
es disturbing the neighborhood at all, does
y seem to answer. RADIX.