Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-24
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor.l
NEw YOPK Oct. II 1891

of water, and real estate spectators and
the legislators they buy up are wrang-
ling about the terms on which we shall
some day be allowed new storage reser-
voirs and other facilities of the kind, we
must needs have our annual fire. 1t was
good one. and with the instinct of |
Communist walked into the possessions |
of the wealthy in a wholesouled manner.
Vanderbilt, or the chief transportation
company he controls, lost the Fourth |
avenue car stables, with all their CON-
tents, but after all perhaps that wasn't
much of loss, for the ground is now-a-
days great deal too valuable to board
horses on and will bring in an immense
ly increased income by having dwelling
houses erected on it. The Morrell's
stores were destroyed-of course they
were freproof Now don't laugh They
had concrete, and hydraulic cement, and
vaults and plastered girders, and the
architects of the lower world only knew
what else, but they didn't have iron
shutters. So when few million sparks
from across the street fell in through
the windows, the contents were consum-
ed as in crucible with excruciating
dispatch. What they were worth is still
to be guessed at for no one knows yet,
but the amount is immense. Our rich
est folks had stored their treasures there,
results of long years of careful acquisi-
tion. Putting aside the sentimental es-
innate of personal and family relics, the
intrinsic value of the libraries, furniture,
bronzes. tapestries, pictures. plate, jew
elry, etc., must have been tremendous.
A large loss to come from perhaps the
stroke of hoof on a cobblestone or the
butt of cheap cigar, and no water to
speak of to put it out with.
Another kind of fire of totally diff
ferent sort has been comforting the soul
of your Radix in the past chilly days.
When other folks are running around
blue with the cold, and filling the air
with blue swear as they hunt for plumb
ers, stove-ftters, tinsmiths, anybody
with tools to put up their many jointed
gas evolvers, your Radix toasts his toes
at his genial Fire on the Hearth. 1t is
domestic convenience that he isn't
quite so weak-minded as to take dowr
in summer, for it looks pice, and as IN {
CRATE one can light little fire and le
it out. or a big fire, and. improving OF
the CRATE idea, keep it in all winter i
he wants to, and having arrangement
for pouring out heated air as well a
warming by direct radiation it beats
: crate hollow; then, by having fresh al
led from outside of the house to the bot
: tom of the continuance it becomes tn
i best and simplest ventilating apparatu
I yet invented. With all windows shu
, the air in room is changed every FEY
: minutes and your Radix is never bother
# ed either in person or numerous famil
l. with colds. or typhoid fever, or malaria
! or any of the other ills and ailmeni
y that affiict his neighbors and their il
IS FAINT tribes. The Open Stove Ventila
a ing Company have devised stoves 0
% this principal to be set in houses {
CRATES and indistinguishable from CRATE
. except by the apertures at the top whic
a discharge heated air aud quadruple tt
, heating powers of any CRATE pure an
It simple, and ore of these is provide
" with an appliance for warming one
le more upstairs rooms. Next sprir
,e Radix is going to build long-planne
t. and well-earned house, and appreciate
o. a good thing when he gets it, while h
~ old stove will find an honored pls
. therein, there will be use found for Il
4 other styles as we'll.
es I'm afraid there'll be cold comfort
IN our poor friends in Michigan this wi
ct ter. | fear Gotham hasn't been actiI
ir with the large-hearted liberality usual
.ir so characteristic of the great city, and
%, heartily wish something could be do
ry to stir people up to give. | suppo
IL scoldlng won't do, or I'd scold and ho
,st to set the fashion. The Herald talks
IT. dramatic malaria" Perhaps our poe
he cts are troubled with temporary alta
it. of malaria of malignant meanness,
at in no other way can l account for t
of meagreness of the subscriptions for t
nj brunt-out farmers of poor Michigan.
re- The military have been leaving US
he installments for Yorktown. Governo
in island is almost deserted, and the mi
de tia armories are presenting a compa
on lively forlorn aspect. The Thirteer
to of Brooklyn-Beecher's Own-hs
le. wound up their fair, by which they "a
use ed the eleemosynary amounts to ena
of their poverty stricken delegation to p
ticipate in the CORVALLIS Centenni
and will be off at once. They ought
gu take along few dozen of the recru
'iS- they keep locked up for nonpayment
fy. dues, to exhibit to our French and G
III man descendants of Lafayette, Rochs
Oh beau, Steuben & Co., as q sample of
Us modern unmilitary application of sm
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