Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-28
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence ofthe Monitor.l
New YORK, Nov, 81, 1881

LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence ofthe Montor.l
NEW YORK, Nov, 81, 1881.
Why is it that the heads of success
full retail dry goods houses are all SC IN.
sufferably distatorial and afflicted all |
over with diseased dignity" sort of
caricture of aristocratic haughtiness?
A. L. Stewart was just such another
Tartar. He got precious sight more
of his own way than any car or sultan
who ever lived, and your RAD1x can lay
his fingers (metaphorically) on dozen
more of the same trade as like him as
two peas.
You've heard of Tom Collins, l pre-
sumo? Well, it appears first cousin of
his Tom Cod, is supposed to be around,
but danger attend too persistent or ia
miliar inquiries after him. A man in
state of whiskerous excitement was sent
to blacksmith's smithy the other day
to ask for Tom Cod and was promptly
killed. The blacksmith was described
as a quiet man.
Times are good, very good, except, as
a rule. for people on fixed incomes,
whom the grocers. butchers, etc., have
been skinning alive. The Herald has
gone for them, and carefully tabulate
wholesale and retail prices every day to
their great discontinue. For some two
or three days the streets have been al
most impossible with women with bask-
cts, and the tradesmen are in despair.
1t is tough to have to pay 80 per cent.
more than thing is worth, because
sugar, say, rose cent pound six
months ago. The retailers carefully
make the most of the rises in price, but
their mouths are sealed as to declines,
and people are desperately ignorant any
way. Two big drug houses have gone
up, and though it's smooth sailing now,
it's prudent to keep ones weather eye
open for squalls. There's a good deal
of rottenness still in Denmark, and some
people have been getting rich quite toe
awfully fast of late.
Washington's Headquarters on the
Battery are to be pulled down, Cyrus
Field, the Andre statue raiser, has
bought it, and the whole block in fact
and is to erect l0-story business pal
ace, with dome and electric light OF
top and ever so many elevators to &C
commodate 1000 or so tenants of tn,
well-furnished offices. 1t is the mos
, beautiful site in New York, married GER
tainly by the grimy cobwebs of tn
Elevated Railroad, but commanding
charming view of the Bay, Narrows
Staten Island and the Jersey Highland
alive with the commerce that throngs t.
OT6dG U0Gndm.
People have been grumbling at Patti
because she charges $40 seat at he
- concerts. She gave one the other even
ing for the benefit of the Michigan suf
:. ferers. and then forewent-that is t
say foregoed-at least she omitted anc
e Their concert on the last day of the week
10 because an opera company was to Civ
them another benefit, and she didn
- want to draw away any of the possibl
patrons of the entertainment. | fame
- her contribution may thus safely b
figured down at not less than $2O,OOt
If we all did our little possible wit
just one days pay or average profit
:, what fund there'd be There'd |
- enough to set up every Michigandt
- well next spring, after keeping the
all winter. and plenty left over to
:. slung in lump to help the next tro
- bled community. Why shouldn't the
- be grand permanent fund of the kind
:, A dollar in the nick of time is oft,
: worth more than ten delayed. 1t wou
:. be grand example of goodwill and P
Q triotism for the world if next time CT
cago is burned, we have it built
again in couple of weeks or so.
RADIx.