Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-20

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VennOr-The Murdered President
= a vIetiOn 90 the Ethics of Physfe.
NEW YORK. September 17.-The summer
season growing TO close fills New York to
overfowing. New York at no time looks more
active and business like than in the last week
of August and the month Of September Not
s only is its own population returning from sea
shore and mountain and from across the At
lantic, but through it passes and is delayed
the entire human movement between the
South, West and East. AS a result the theatres
and places Of amusement and recreation are
well patronized, and merchants are doing q
tremendous business The railroad and steam
ship lines carrying freights outward from the
metropolis are taxed to their utmost capacity
never so much before as now, and the note of
barter and sale is being sung on high key
Walking up Broadway this afternoon was
astonished to note how many people from the
South are in the city; and how prosperous
and jolly they were. 1t is like the renewal
Iof old times. The Southern planter
and merchant with his pockets filed with
money and his anxious heart clamoring for
pleasure, came North to spend the one and
crafty the other. The North has responded to-
This demand-has taken his money furnished
fhim with the pleasure. and is now sending him
back home to prepare for another campaign,
and both sides happy.
There is, perhaps, no more interesting fea
5ture in New York life than its streets in the
business portion from the hours of 10 a. m. tO
CLOCK In the afternoon. They are crowded
with merchandise, With trucks and wagons
and it seems as if the whole volume of trade
was circulating in the streets and becoming I'M
&volved in a net from which it could never dis
3entangle itself. Miles and miles of streets are
blocked by this movement of freight. Street
fear travel is impeded, sidewalks blockaded
crossings rendered impossible, and the entire
end and aim of every interest appears to be tol
increase the existing confusion
Then it is that the New Yorker rises 10 his
strength and gratitude, and blesses the ele
{ waited railway system. Once upon a time
when the street blockade was frequent in theI
4 BUSY season or the year, the merchant sat inl
! the street car, perspired behind the shade of
his newspaper, and grew sick at heart as his
stomach grew weak for the dinner he couldl
not reach. Now, how different. He leaves his
tof1ce or counting room fifteen or tWentyl
minutes before his dinner hour has arrived,
3 saunters leisurely to the elevated railroad
STATION, looks down in the crowded streets
with sheer, finds q comfortable corner of
elevated air, and ten minutes later is turning
= his latch key on Forty-second street, or in anl
Uptown house where he may reside, Thel
provided streets are no longer a hindrance tOI
X n1s freedom of action. l believe that to re
Fmove the elevated railroads from New York.
city would be to awaken more angry protestsI
than would be awakened By the destruction of
1 the entire ferry system.
Perhaps there is no more inadequate servieel
s IN the world than the ferries of New York
There is certainly no service of steamers so.
Uncomfortable. Dirty, ill-managed with mol
protection against life. and no accommodations
.er.r afs.wsk \
& and are misery to those who have to uSeI
z chem. And this reminds me to tell you that
StheSe ferry franchises, worth in the aggregated
Five or six millions Of dollars a year profits toI
stheir holders. have paid to the city not onel
scent in twenty years, notwithstanding the fact!
that those franchises are held in the way oil
6 eases, naming certain annual rate of pay
ment, its methods, and the object for which,
8 that money is to be devoted
Fulton ferry, perhaps the wealthiest, certain
~ the most extensively patronized, is the prop.
erty or George Law, a gentleman whose bust
ness career has been identified with steamboat
4 Interests but whose fortune has been reapeds
ny carrying people from Brooklyn to New
York at two cents apiece and making thema
very unhappy in the transit. The day of ven
,geance is coming, however; the tall piers of
sthe Brooklyn bridge stand threatening overk
sthe track of the ferry. Already the cables
which will bear it from shore to shore ares
stretched on the spider web of braces. so that
one day soon the traffic between the cities will
be in transit from Brooklyn to New York for
5two cents, and that in comfort with the ferryE
boats running below.
SIP aking thus of our public EN- erprises amk
reminded to refer to its water supplies Waters
comes to New York from the CrOtOn tunnel orr
.Aqueduct, forty miles long, ten feet in diane
ter, built of brick and stone with capacity of
some fifty million gallons day, butt
lnoW forced to supply in the viciui- 5
lty Of one hundred million gallons perl
diem. and in summer time more Its con
1struction was such that it ay not carry safely
more than half Of the water now fowingk
,through 1t. IL was originally intended that's
the water should not be higher in the tunnels
|Or duct than che spring line Of the arch, whchf
us part of its construction Now the waters
runs within four inches of the dome OF the !
FUNNEL, and the strain upon 1t Is so great thata
|every now and then it cracks and breaks ands
IL force Of workmen are continually engaged
upon its repair. Should it be broken, should
the water escape at one place and sever thee
connection with Croton lakes, from which :
the supply is brought New York city
would be absolutely at the mercy of waterk
famine 1t has no source from which to draw
another supply. There are no wells in the {
lofty, or even il there were the strata fromf
which the aqueous deposits are reached
would be soon impregnated with the sewage
.Of the city, and it would be unsafe to uSef
the water. There are no connections WITH
.Other supplies, and the sword that hung overE
'Damocles threatened no greater danger to him
Than this thin wall OF cracking brick work
which stands between New York and all the
serious consequences of a break in her water5
supplies.
The Greenback party Of the State of New
York has been making an effort to revive itself
and has Just closed the convention in Elmira
AS matter of fact it has not since then pre-
tented the appearance or conducted itself as :
very lively corpse and If ever a Greenbackk
party gave indications of being dead it GER
Itainly does now. There was, however, a pref
10y fair gathering Of delegates and the plat
form Of the National Greenback Labor PartyH
was endorsed. and to it was added some plankss
|Qfa nnnk VanTIR Tau
and finally a chip was thrown into thes
Irish basket, an expression of sympathy with !
the Irish cause of a promise of aid. Then the 3
|Greenback Convention adjourned, having,
however, nominated ticket This, however,
is an off year in State politics, and the Green
back party will not appear as a PROMINENT
factor in the campaign. This fact can now be
definitely stated, for the effort that this con
|vention sought to aid as trade has failed la &
|mentably for the now dead and buried party
An exciting scene was witnessed on a steam Z
boat last night, when team of horses becamek
frightened and making a dash the length of tbs s
boat broke down the barriers and plunged into
THE water, dragging the wagon after them
They Immediately sunk and were seen mob
more, but for few moments there prevailed
such a scene Of excitement as has scarcely anvil
parallel in New York history of local excite-E
ments.
Among the distinguished visitors now in Newk
York is Henry G. Vennor, the CanadianE
weather prophet. OF medium height, slightly
built, with moustache and hair almost auburn. E
Ia fresh countenance of sandy com
plexion. an eye blue and BRIGHT With
the air Of a man not likely to at 3
tract special attention in a cosmopolitan
assemblage, he looks the least of any one onE
whom the mantle Of prophecy might fall HeH
lis avoiding all newspaper notoriety, and, as AZ
matter of fact, has only been interviewed ink
the interest of one paper, and that by acct
dent. Some OF his weather predictions haveE
been fully justified; others seem to have gone
entirely astray. He is a man with whom toh
converse is to obtain an impression of his 8
strength of character, keenness and shrewdnessk
of judgment. But in the few weeks that he hasH
been here the stern eye OF criticism has fallenE
upon his predictions. blighting his prospects,
of forming an alliance with the Signal Service
Just about the time that he got the wires laid4
10 secure the end in view Capt Howgate took
Il hand in the great work of defalcatfon wbichE
days. and Vennor soon leaves for the Canadian.
cline with disappointment in his heart andE
sorrow. VOLTA Vennor.
As write. news.comes that the Pres dent is
again set back, that rigors, vomiting and de 5
lirium have ensued, the feeble pulse has gene
up to 1877 and fiuctuated below that figure down.
to ITO. Poor, poor man This is the seventy y
seventh day since he was shot. On that hot =
day ia July hurried on to Washington behind :
the flying train that bore Mrs. Garfield to the Il
bedside. Until to-day my journalistic mission. 8
excepting only ten days which used to makeE
a trip to Savannah, has been in and about the 4
White House. Travelled with him on that ter
rible. wonderful journey he made from Wash 8
ington to Elberon, whittier / shall be hurryinq 2
In the course of an hour and know that DEATH
to him will come as blessed release from the S
most terrible suffering man can know. II
the facts in the surgical history of his casek
tied. They began with shameful quar-
rels between the doctors, which went Oh &.
while the sufferer lay painting in his own blood &.
For hours the doctors were discussing whether