Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-08-01
LETTER FROM NEW YORK,
Especial Correspondence ofthe Monitor.1

new role and been the occasion of sue
session of interesting manifestations of
human nature. He was an Englishman
by the name of Fairweather, who fell
into very foul weather. an actor and
church chorister down on his luck, with
excellent testimonials, who couldn't get
work and was stranded penniless in
Gotham, which is so heartless to robust
people who unfortunately suffer hunger,
perhaps, more severely than the weakly.
Among the poor fellows property was a
false beard and wig. He put them on
for the double purpose of exciting COM
passion and of disguise, so that under
happier circumstances no untoward rec
ognition of his former restitution should
aflict him. His makeup showed the
excellence of his histrionic training. his
rich, cultivated voice attracted the at
teution of connoisseurs, and when he
trllled out noble old English ballad
in Madison Square throngs pressed
around him and dropped nickels in his
outstretched hat A kindly police
man informed him that he was violating
city ordinance and tenderly helped
the apparently feeble old man from the
precincts of the park, but his wig was
disarranged and on being removed as he
stood revealed the erewhile sympathiz-
ing crowd turned on the supposed i'm
poster in fury. He was arrested and
next day one of the Dogberries who dis
grace the very name of justice in our
police court sentenced the man to six
months in Jail. The papers took it up
and the poor stranger has found friends,
employment and release. A capable
man of good character, he had met with
nothing but rebuffs, one of them from
ST. Georges Society, which is supposed
to help Britons in such a scrape, but
spends its money in salaries and most of
the balance in grand annual dinner.
New York is called the City of Charities
and deserves the name, for no other city
in the world has SO many, or on the
whole SO admiralty managed institutions
for the relief of the sick, the poor and
the distressed, but all the same it is
more inhospitable to strong men in
search of work and not charity than, ]
believe, any other place under the sun
1t is good place for strangers with
empty pockets to steer clear of. A
terrible struggle for bare existence il
before such before they can even get ;
footing in the competing crowd.
Another more or less theatrical per
son has come to grief. He was
ticket-taker, usher. bookkeeper or some
thing of the sort at minor theatre
Harry Miners to wit, and was pre-em
inently "masher." His last explol
was to drug and betray a coastin
schooner captains wife who was FOOLS
enough to firt with him, meaning n
harm. Then he tormented the very lit
of the disgraced woman, his reckless &C
tions making her the talk of the neigh
borhood, and when challenged by he
husband with vlllainy not commo
even with scoundrels of this class, cool
ly acknowledged the connection. Th
husband of course sought for divorc,
hardly crediting the possibility of tt
innocence of the poor woman. Sh
crazed by the injustice, and the though
of being deprived of her children, Gale
for her seducer and deliberately sht
him, and few will blame her. The &C
desperate as it was, redeemed her mi
fortune and she has been reconciled
her husband. The traitorous cause
the trouble is dead.
The railroads are cutting rates at
most ridiculous rate, and it is becomir
every day more and more of a tempti
ton for people debating as to whe
they shall spend their vacation to fc
low the Star of Empire and trot on Il
: track of the Setting Sun. The roa
are dusty, however, just now, and L
going to the Catskills, where the me
| quitoes do not buzz and the candy al
t dime novel fend do not make one afra
that they'll be egged into committil
: homuneulicide. Perhaps, however, VIII
!; the rates have diminished to zero, al
0 the companies furnish free feed, cigar
q etc., as an inducement to their patror
:. may take another trip under their a,
It pieces.
o Oh, that [ were like Sir Boyle Roch,
IS bird, and could be in two places
$ more at once The accounts of the
IS lantic Yacht Club makes ones We
n mouth water, such lovely weather
i the boys have had for their whitening
e craft, and so we'll have their darlir
l. behaved and then again, in spite
if the attractions of forest and mount;
lie scenery, purling brooks, the dolce ]
lie msemte in the welcoming embrace
l. hammock under shady tree, the deligl
r. of perch on campstool with ca
l. before one and eager brush transfer
lie reminences of the light and shade a
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