Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-07-01
Correspond nrr.
OUR NEW YORk LETTER

NEw YoRK, June, 2s,h, 1881
Editor ofthe Times:
While small boy lsments the good old DAYS
when Gotham enioved . real old fashioned
Fourth Of July, aud is busily boarding. his
pocket money tor the fireworks that he is bound
TO explode, city ordinance TO III. conirury soi-
withstanding, the boys Of a larger growth who
delight in the rapid right asd left of shoiguns
are kicking up terrible racket al Couey Island
The ozone of old ocean is quenched by the
aroma OF ssltpeier and the air is blue with fiy.
ing pigeons and the profanity of those who
miss them. 20 ,00O OF the beauties have been
gathered from far aad near for the wholesale
sacrifice at which good Mr.. Bergh, r. p o. T.
G. A. S. +. 7. p. o. c. I. A. we'll nigh wepi
as he appeared on the scene and loftily tried to
check the slasghier. After all. rs matter OF
taste, pigeon shooting on such a scale from
traps doesn't seem as sportsmanlike or desi a.
BILE an amusement as a quiet little tramp after
them in the woods by a small and select party
Of friends. Ia fact your RApix fails TO see the
fan of this hurried butehery in a greedy scram-
bic for n lot of moro or less valuable prizes
amid promseuous horde of spectators chiefly
of highly objectionable nature, the "sporls"
not sportsmen, BIO iniest such gatherings
peaceful revolution has At LAST been effect
ed in our street cleaning arrangements, aud
has already resulted in marked Improvement
Mr.. Coleman has been appointed Commits
sioner, and has gone vigorously TO work, as all
enw broomS pfoverhially do. He will protab by
continue TO keep the streets clean, as il will be-
TO his interest if he does; and he can engage
and discharge his help wholly irrespective of
so-caled political reasons. He escapes the
buldozing by pothouse politicians tor places
for aged and decrcpid voters and his brooms
are for use and his carts as we'll they'll be
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mud leisurely into heaps and sending the carts
round week or so after they have been re-
solved into dust and dissipated into the neigh
boring houses, S ores aud inhabitants lungs
will not prevail. Ii is great relief and so
simple that ii seems pity no one ever had the
backbone 10 insist on il before.
For very many years, in fact, from the very
beginning of steam ferry boats one sherman to
. boat was considered sufficient and proprie-
tors of ferry lines, old sailors, and the rest of
the world, secuted the idea of any possible
danger from such condition of things. Some
Bohemian last year wrote sensational article
about the disasters that might occur should a
pilot suddenly die at his post and singularly
enought the very n-xt day one did in his sleep,
and another was disable in mid-stream and his
boat was capsized, the passengers csc ping mar
rowly with their lieVes and the rest of their
possessions. The other Cav a veteran of the
East River currents collapsed He had been
invalided from the Fulton Ferry, and had arriv-
ed position on the Annex Line which connects
with the railroad in Jersey City, hut was
evidently rather shaky, as his son was in the
habit OF reinforcing him with his presence
every night. No doubt most worthy man,
It seems hard thai he was not pensioned, if in
such circumstances as to render it needful It |
vas cruel 10 him and might have been disast-
rous to others to keep him at work,
Sneak thievipg is nothing very nev, nor is
The following case very novel, but the artist
being rather of more finished style than most,
gives me the occasion for little homily which
may act as one of the drops that one of th.s
lays will wear away the stone and change
hings. A Miss Eva Jacobs, ali :, &c, &c.
ss been arrested in Brooklyn after brief