Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-07
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence ofthe Monitor.]
NTSv1 VoDu No4 1901

New YORK, Oct, 81, 1881.
Your old friend seems doomed to en-
ulate great Philadelphia genius and
patron of crowned heads and other aris-
tocrats as an obituarist, but l assure
you it is no pleasure to me. 1 regret to
have to chronicle the passing away of
the good and great or even the simply
pleasing, but should have to regret
more the Indifference or negligence
which would let their removal to the
great majority pass unnoticed. Oorlon
is dead, the prince of oysterme1, in
whose cosy retreat, an oasis of refine
ment in the crowded rookery of old Full
ton Market (of which, by the way, very
little is now left standing), ladies 60
unattended, and eat with evident relish
from mahogany tables with no covering
but the beautiful polish impaired by
wax and elbow grease, and when from
time immemorial, or thereabouts, all
our Presidents and bigbugs generally,
to say nothing of visiting kings, princes
one emperor (of BraziD. several am
bassadors too numerous to mention, have
INDUCED in "oyster in every style" and
recorded their praises of Dorlon in the
register which is probably the most val
liable book of autographs in existence
to-day. Dorlon began in a small way,
but digniGed the oyster trade and by his
enterprise and example did more than
any other man to hoist it to the eleva-
ton it now enjoys. He was the pioneer
of export, so far as oysters are concern
ed, as well as an innovator and improv-
er in many ways on the old style oyster
stand keeper. A good citizen, he was a
consistent member of one of our two
great parties, without indulging (be-
yond perhaps an occasional scratch, as a
man is justified in doing with feas, dis
agreeable politicians or other vermin) in
fractions, factional fights, and while
liberal as the summer sun, lived modest
ly and happily for years In an unorten-
tatious two-story cottage in the out
skirts of Brooklyn, which, however, was
as to the interior revelation of artistic
taste developed by domestic needs. He
Was one of the men we read about, and
his memory will long live among US
Dorlon and Delmonico-both gone!
Good drinking water is being sold in
some sections of the city. The water
famine has become most serious. The
authorities have now taken to shutting
off the supply for so many hours day
and the consequences have been very
disagreeable, the most scientiGcall,
plumbed houses on the Fifth avenue
hurry hill and other aristocratic local
tiles suffering more than the region
further down. There are fears of pes
-. thence, and there's nervous dread o
fires, for not only is there too little wa
ter to get up good head to extinguisl
a fire when it starts, but every drop s
used is serious loss. With an extr
reservoir Brooklyn is better of, Blu
even there the people are beginning t
be seriously alarmed, and two big fire
in one day gave fearful warning of dan
ger. The Pioneer Iron Works in Sout
!, Brooklyn were utterly destroyed afte
twenty engines had been pumping cor
: tinuously for three hours on the blazin
:. premises and adjacent property, an
: then popular dry goods store in th
> heart of the fashionable business qua
ter was assaulted by the Fiah Feenc
The Artesian Well business is lookin
up these times. Your RADIx is thinl
i ing of getting up, to meet the boom.
grand well-boring joint stock compan.
: and if you or any of your friends hay
- any spare dollars you can just sen
= them along and they will be solidly il
= vested where they'll do the most good
: The establishment of Commercial E
!: changes for various branches of bus
ness, for all of which the Chamber
, Commerce once suficed, is a feature
= these times, and they are multiplyin
:, the oil, paint and drug trade being Il
- last, so far as heard from, to indulge
one of these trade clubs, while value
:. The members of the Produce Exchane
J. who contemplate erecting new al
- magnificent building, are having
grand powwow just now on the que
- ton as to limiting the membership
T. 5000, and charging $4,000 for Sc;
/, Whew Think of it The mere inta
giblc possession of seat in this me-
- worth in the aggregate $30,000,000
:. What lot of groceries and farms cou
be run on such an amount, and what
:, number of farms and groceries are t;
= ed in order to give these 5000 and 0
gentlemen living with a few m;
sions, carriages, yachts, trips to Euro
&C.. thrown in) as distributors of
part of the produce of the country VIII
~ seeks New York as an outlet. Veri
m this a great country. RADIx
ave --s
Mr.. Chas. B. Wayman. Erie, Pa, writes: my
III, scians had given up to die. They told me
inc lungs and liver all decayed and gone. 1
very weak. pale and emaciated. BY chance
~ Browns Iron Btters advertised. I Immediately