Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-06-27
LETTER FROM NEW YORK,
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor

respectable capltal clues IN almost any
other country, and one in particular,
Brooklyn, is important enough to rival
Gotham itself in some respects. Some
terrible fires that have been raging along
its water front have attracted attention
to the enormous value of the goods stored
there, amounting on an average for some
years close on to S3OO,OOO,OOO a year.
Part of the Atlantic Dock and Pierre
pont stores have succumbed to what is
said to be spontaneous combustion, but
it is probably the butt of a surreptitious
cigar or the s'heel of pipe" smoking
being an objectionable offense in these
stores. The burning of the Pierrepont
stores full of rich tropical products. hard
by Wall street Ferry vas a grand sight,
and drew better than any theatre. The
grandees on the heights at the back of
them whose hanging gardens, like those
of Babylon, are sometimes actually laid
out on the tops of other stores were sore
ly alarmed for while lest their richly
furnished manors should fall victims too.
Hundreds of barrels Of sugar were con-
verted into caramels and the experienced
generalissimo the Fire Department., chief
Nevins, got off an eppigramatic version
Of the old adage, "mind your own bust
ness" that will stick. Young Pierre
pont. consequential, funny. funning, was
skipping about with the dignifed mien
af a majestic flea, and undertook to or
der that such and such store that had
gone past redemption should be let alone
and efforts made to save the next, which
had just caught. Nevins simply re-
marked: I'm chief here You go to
hades' and the astonished plutocrat
wilted. AS matter of fact, the ware
house indicated might have been saved
easily enough. but if the other had been
allowed to burn unchecked half Brook
Ign would have burnt too. Some peo-
can't see farther than the end of their
own noses. The price of jute has gone
up two cents pound in consequence of
the fire.
Dead newspaper men were few years
ago as rare as defunct mules, or dead
cavalrymen in the early days of the war,
but the boys are beginning to drop of
now-the last is Jack Hamilton, genial,
witty fellow, who graduated on the Her.
aid, but earned handsomer salary than
newspapers can afford to pay men of his
calibre, as the literary man of Barnum'
circus. To him we owe these marvellous
spirit-stirring broadsheets that annually
drive the young and unsophisticated era
zy with yearDing to view the wonders
Of the show, and even in the most pre-
posterous of them were displayed tn,
fine touches of the trained journalist
He was general favorite with his breth
rem of the double pointed lead pencil
and his sad fate-he was run over b,
the cars at Peoria, Ill.,-is general,
regretted.
This may be called the week of com
mencements and in this vicinity the,
have been held with fatiguing frequenc,
for them whose task it is to chronicl
them or pleasure it is to assist at tn
triumph of young friends. The doctors
allopaths and homeopathic, held thei
celebrations at Coney Island and warm
ed up JOLLY inside to make up for tn
most unpleasant weather outside, tn
dean of the Long Island College Facult
distinctly telling his graduates to forge
all he'd ever said about the evils of stui
fng and intemperance and do as he die
, They did, and the scale on the thermon
eter of their joys might distinctly be dis
, cerned as mellow" before they &C
through. The delicious damsels at th
E Packer, which is the Brooklyn rival {
5 Vassar, and better liked by the girls bt
5 cause of the flirting that goes on as the
: wend their daily way to and from il
? classic walls. had gorgeous time an
E were almost buried in great banks {
e flowers. One of the most promising {
t the class died at Easter but was represen
t ed by a superb silver vase presented 81
: memoriam" by her mother to the Cla'
o of 81. "The Ancient, in the shape
e the most Objectionable Of the text bool
n has been solemnly cremated or otherwi'
: ANONYMOUSLY put an end to by the ST
d dents of half dozen neighboring inst
f tutes. of learning and altogether tt
e boys and girls have had glorious SEM
t off. The weather and the well-to-e
It are beginning to fit to summer region
J, actors and actresses are back from the
s provincial tours, business is gettir
# Stacker and the signs are patent on evel
hand that, rain or shine. summer
o last is here.
n A wet sheet and flowing sea. bril-