St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-04-01
Our New York Letter.


To the Editor Of the CaIedonian.
Grant has thrown up the presidency
of the exhibition commission after all,
and Tn afraid that enterprise-Or mon
ument of lack of enterprise in bad
way. However, we shall see what we
shall see. The great commander is 60
ing to sOlace himself and enjoy the
handsome income so kindly raised for
him by a few old political friends for a
considerable part of the summer at
Long Branch, which charming resort, if
we may judge from the preparations
now being made by the shrewd proper
ty owners there, is going to shine with
Meantime, Grant is on the move to
Mexico.
Among all the discontinued working
men, whose recurring strikes whenever
times seem to grow a little brighter OPP
crate as check on them, the brewers
have hitherto never been found. In fact
they have had little cause to be discon-
tented. Their employers are mostly a
kindly set of men of very democratic
manners and hearty German habits,
and have given the men wages on which
they manage to rear large families in
very tollerable comfort; and it appears
they get about all the beer they can
possibly drink free, while they are not
obliged to choke themselves drinking
it. No sharp timekeeper stands ready
to dock their earnings, and it is esti
mated that perhaps three hours day
are spent by the average brewers man
at the stand of kegs where he swallows
his frequent potion and discusses things
in general with his fellows. They have
led calm, cheerful existence, never
hurried, and laugh and grow fat. But
the demon of discOrd has crept in, and
in three breweries there was strife be-
cause of the discharge of one or two
troublesome hands. The other trades
unions promptly fomented the quarrel,
and no less than 5000 men pledged
themselves not to patronize any saloon
which sold the beer of these three
breweries. Ia other words, to borrow
the term for that sort of thing invented
by circumstances in the current troubles
in Ireland, the united trades-uniOns of
New York proceeded to Boycott" the
employing brewers. The strife was Il
short one, and the employers surrend-
cred very speedily.
At this season of the year, when the
near approach of May day, or moving
day as 1t is more generally known in
these parts. forces itself Oh the atten-
ton of the business man as well as the
, householder, the projected change of
! of
ness is apt to suggest, among other
/ things, the purchase of safe. There
. are a great many safes, good, bad and
t indiffel ent, and as even the poorest va
rietv is by no means an inexpensive
, piece of furniture, it is quite as well be-
fore deciding on what particular kind
to buy to consider the question with
some degree of caTefulness. The crucial
tests which some kinds have stood tend
to solve the difficulty of choice. OF
course the safe isn't vet built which
burglars can't break into, provided
, they have sufficient time to use their
l superior tools and best ingenuity; but
l there are some safes an ordinary black
5 smith conld open i'll half an hour and
2 Others that Il committee OF expert en-
r. gineers would take a week to get at
: the true inwarduess of. Fire is better
- guarded against in some kinds than
burglars can be, and no one unaffected
= with very crooked ideas of economy
] need hesitate in selecting a protector
5 for his books and papers of make
A known to have passed the severest or
t deals. Those who remember the great
Bond street fire, when that large and
5 magnificent iron and brick building oc-
= cupied by several firms of manufacture
T ing jewellers was RACED to the ground,
| may also remember that among the
dozens of safes taken from the ruins
only those of the Marvin Safe Co. were
found to have preserved their precious
= contents absolutely uninjured, not even
: the faintest semblance OF scOrch be-
ing perceptible on the thinest tissue pa
\ per inside any of them. The expert
+ ence of your correspondent with the
Marvin safe is such as to lead him to
warmly recommend it, and that good
many people agree with RADIx on this
point seems very evident from the num-
Der of Marvin's safes seen on trucks, oil
9 . with a crowd staring at them as they
are hoisted into lofty offices or rolled
tenderly into Easements all over the
S city.
e Did you ever see the elephant L
t. you'd like to make the acquaintance o
the Gotham variety of the beast yOr
II can do so very simply. just get int
l. the dry goods trade, and have you
C name rated y Y z 2G2, or something o
d that sort, in Bradstreet's or Dunn &
e Barlow's commercial agency books anC
Il YOU can see the animal cheap. Hospi-
l. table Young men, emissaries of grea
e and dignifed commission houses-suct
V are the changed conditions of trade
). now-a- days and keen the competition
IS brave in elegant clothing and mucl
e iewelrv, stand in clusters ready t.
<. pouuce on the wayfarer and take hin
in and do for him. 1t seems to be o
l. no consequence whatever that a pros
Il porous looking possible buyer shOulC
n have the slightest previous knowledg,
q of his warm hearted entertainer. If b,
! only betrays the faintest symptoms o
being interested, his new friend will
:, stick closer than brother, and stan'
i" no end of drinks, cigars, and more ex
y pensive delights as the night wears Oh
to the small hours of tomorrow morn
ing. This queer way of doing bushes
seems to have grown up of late from
the more generally prevailing custom
id of giving very small salaries and yer,
rs liberal commissions to statesmen, SO tina
l. in self-defense each and all have t.
I'd hunt their game with the cunning O
d. foxes The old plan of sitting dow
III and waiting for customers was NOR
W comfortable, but it don't pay nova
al days.
le Two gentlemen, one native and tn
l. Othar f,rai0n bova haan StrupE simul