The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-16
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
NEW YoRk, Nov. IA, 1881.


his own good, and the collapse of the Me-
chanics' National Bank, of Newark, was
wholesale affair. OF course everybody was
very much surprised that a bank establish
ed over so years should so 60 up, or that
the eminently respectable cashier should
steal s2,50O 600; and nobody could under.
stand how he could do it or why he should
do ii, being in safe receipt of an excellent
salary. How soft and simple we are, to be.
surei Why, the thing was simple enough.
He was devotee of the great god Com
mission, and the idol went back on him.
He allowed, for consideration of 1 per
cent, overdrafts to an ignorant, brutal mule
of an overbearing wild Irishman, who had
by skill in his trade risen to the head of a
business too big for even wise man TO man.
age on small capital, but was no more than
a thick-headed mechanic, who understood
but one thing, after all. The consequence
was the mechanic had a practically un-
limited credit, and, like Monte Cristo, ex-
pected his drafts to be honored at any
moment, to any extent, in the ridiculously
reckless business he conducted, while, If
Baldwin rebelled he held the lash over
him of exposing his underhand acceptance
of this bribe of 1 per cent The cashier
after the first yield to temptation, became
the mechanics bond slave. AT the same
time, if he had saved his commissions in
stead of squandering them in Wall Street,
as no doubt he did lots of other money,
though he won't confess it now, he might
have got away with pot of money and
been awarded so much of respect as
knave sometimes gets. As he himself said,
+" no one respects fool"
This commission business is weed of
rank growth that prevails to startling ex-
tent in all circles. Some classes are freer
from the pollution than others, but none
are stainless Physicians get percent
age . on prescriptions from druggists, archi-
tects an honorariump from contractors,
fashionable young men presents" for in
Producing lady customers for shawls, etc,
trusted clerks consideration from ad-
vertising agents, stove dealers. anybody and
everybody who does any work or supplies
any goods for their principals. brokers,
weighmasters, etc, give share OF their
earnings to the youth who is supposed to
have the ear of the merchant they CLEAN
their living from-and so it goes. Every
now and then there's burst up on larger
or smaller scale, for easy come, easy go, y
is the rule, and the bribee is sure to drop
his lightly earned lucre in Wall street. the
pool room, or gambling he'll, and when he
meets bad "luck" dive into any money
he can get at is a step he is bound to take
after more or less hesitation.
In lamenting my frequent duty to say
few words in the role of an obituant,i
wholly omitted one of the peers of the
realm of letters whom it would be unpar-
donable to neglect mention of refer to
DIR. Holland, of the Century, formerly
Scribner's Magazine, which, by the way,
withits wider margins and extra matter,
is improving with each issue. A certain
school of critics affected to sneer at his
work, but if his style or the subject of his
pen were not like Charles Levers, for in
stance, or saturated with gall, like the
smart essays of "a Saturday Reviler,' y and
popular and their influence was good. The
sales of all his productions were phenom-
enally large, and some seem destined to be
favorites for centuries TO come. Hewas a
good man, and in the path of life he trod
was every whit as representative of the
persistence, gentleness and brains of purest
American manhood as the iamented Gar
field himself, for he sprang from small begin
nings, and was ON the top Of the ladder he
had started to mount as boy when he was
gathered to the fold of the blessed else
where.
Once upon time New York was great
ship-building centre, and the clippers
from the East River were scattered ineyery
part througout the wide world with
dashing variety of American sailormen
with glazed caps aboard them The old
style knock down and drag out Delaying
pin and handspike welding and foul ton
gue-wagging mate seems to have disap-
peared utterly as though he had never been,
and so have the ships, and so, to great
extent, have the builders. But some still
remain, and their devotion to the old Me-
f,chanic's Bel, !" which, as a result of some
old time stripe, was established to call
them from labor to refreshments, and vice
versa, has been manifested in many more
or less pathetic effusions in prose and verse
to their sonorous fetch. After much
trouble the relics of the adzemen have sue
ceeded in getting the old thing recast, and
It's 50th anniversary has just been celebrat-
ed with great glory.
Rossi, the much trumpeted Italian actor,
has displayed himself in several of his
principal parts, and does not seem to have
evoked the anticipated enthusiasm In
fact, most of the critics have given him q
practical dose of Shakespeare by dining
him with faint praise. Your RADx
thinks he is good Italian actor, but Ital-
ians and English-speaking people do not
express themselves IN the same way A
British, or Yankee, or Teuton Romeo
doesn't shrug his shoulders or wiring his
hands till he cracks the soles of his boots,
or roll his eyes, or lollop his heard about
like diving duck in thunderstorm,
whereas In an Italian lover these evidences
of passion are the propah capah. We
can all appreciate a quiet squeeze in a
corner OF a kiss behind door, but the
idea of turning ones self metaphorically
inside out, is, so TO speak, rather quite too,
too awfulB sick we've had a good deal
of foreign talent of late, and judging from
the recent account of Sarah Bernhart's
trip, il don't seem to pan out quite so sat
isfactory as of old to the theatrical carpet
baggers from abroad. We have some good
actors of our own nowadays. RADU.