Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-03-07
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the MOnitOr.]

| orously looked into recently. The Soci-
| ETY. for the Suppression of Vice have en-
| joyed their annual treat of listening to a
] lecture from their well paid agent, An
| thony ComStock, with his edifying sta
tistics of SO many thousand tons of OBJ
| jectionable literature destroyed, SO many
million corrupting circulars handed to the
/ young and tender of both sexes, etc. ETC.,
information which wellinformed persons
| declare is largely adulterated with too
much Imagination. Anthony has to do
something, however, to earn his wages,
and as he has successfully railroaded to
| State Prison most of the actual misde-
| meanants, he must needs draw on his in
| vention to supply reason for his con-
tinued official existence. The Reverend
| University Chancellor DIR. Howard CroS-
by has, too, been busily stirring up the
Mayor and other municipal big-wigs anent
the breaches of the excise law, etc. And
| the chief of British kindred association
is with US now, following Talmage's pro-
| gramme of seeing the elephant under the
guidance of detective. In fact, Satan
should have hard row to hoe. in pious
| Gotham jnst now. The old boy seems to
get along pretty comfortably, neverthe-
less.
Turning from moral to physical clean-
liness, or the reverse, may mention the
growing popularity of instruction for the
masses about plumbers and plumbing.
DR.. Janeway of the Board of Health has
been spouting before mixed audiences,
about the peppermint test" (frst adyocat-
ed in this country in print, in the form of
handy little pamphlet, by your RADIx)
and similars matters. A new and possi-
| BILE quite lucrative profession is starting
into life. For instance, the eX-editor Of
the Sanitary Engineer, Charles F. Win
gate, has disconnected himself from the,
not over literally endowed position he
held in that establishment, and has start
| ed as an expert adviser in domestic ply
| sizes. He is one of the new. combinations
of practical architect, chemist, physician,
and philantropist, styled Sanitary Engi-
| neer. He is a brother of the famous rifle
man, Gen. Wingate, and bids fair, from
his full experience and ripe judgment, to
be as prominent in the lead of the reform
of plumbing as his brother was in the es-
tablishment of Creedmoor, the pioneer
rife range of this country. The Metro
politan Museum of Art has inaugurated
new department, devoted to Hygienic
matters, and Wingate has been appointed
one of the lecturers, a thoroughly deserv-
ed recognition of his value. 1.
Gen. Grant is winning golden opinions
by his industry, tact, and bonhOmnaie in
many directions. He seems to be far
buster man than when President or Com
mander-in-C Chief, and is becoming appre-
ciated widely as pleasant, well-inform-
ed, frank, and quite outspoken sort OF
person. In fact, he is quite changed from
the character he was supposed to be ex-
cept in one respect. He still smokes. At
the head of the Great Fair Commission
he is working like beaver and putting a
little of the ginger into his somewhat lag
ging companions, after the fashion where
with he was wont to inspire his heuten-
ants in old Virginia campaigns. At the
Fair of the Brooklyn Fourteenth 'Red
: Legged Devils" his old body guard by
the way, he was the cynosure of all eyes,
and the fact of the presence of the hero
of Appomattox was worth a great many
dollars to the widows and orphans fund
of the veterans. His business as pre-
siding officer at great gatherings where
prominent men expound their views is
quite lively, and altogether the greatest
American traveller manages to distinguish
himself right royalty.
The great Fernando Wood lis not his
history written in the book Of the New
! Gospel of Peace by Richard Grant Whitef)
is no more. He was a representative
New Yorker, one of the most extraordi-
nary wirepullers and putter-up of jobs
that ever lived, an aristocratic-looklng
Democrat of the Democrats, whose life
was closely linked with some of the most
memorable events in the records OF the
great CITY. He will have a tremendous
funeral following, provided, OF course
: that his family will submit to any public
| demonstration man of iron will, with
. the persuasiveness Of woman, he won
his way up from low round on lifes
ladder. Few have been so bitterly hated
by some men, while so heartily loved by
many others.
5 Our latest brave fireman is Luke Kava-
e | nagh, whose name has been ordered to be
/. inscribed on the s1Ron of Merit for
most risky but successful life-saving feat.
At the recent burning of the. supply fac
tory for the Western Union and other
D important customers for electric goods,
D after everybody has been supposed ito
4 have been removed to a place of safety,
o a very eshy feshy Dutchman, weighing
. fully $50 pounds, was observed in an ap-
: parently hopeless and inaccessible posi-
ton in the sixth story of the burning
. block. Kavanagh, who is necessarily
o | somewhat of an athlete, though his ap-
d pearance, modest and mild, would not
e lead any one to suppose so, made his way
to the caught and bewildered captive,
and. bracing himself, managed to hoist In
. his monstrous burden. We Gothamltes
are proud of our firemen, who turn out,
Il rain or shine, in an incredibly short space
& of time, reckoning by seconds at the
d thrilling tap-tap of the electric bell, and
d shrink from no hardship or danger in
d their vocation. By the way, some West
;c ern s:smarties" have been trying to rig US
with yarn of a creased pole and lub-
- ber's hole, through which their men slide
y down to their work greasy and oily-look-
s. ing enough. Our men claim to be able to