Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-04
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor.1

Grant has thrown up the presidency of
the exhibition commission after all, and
I'm afraid that enterprise-or monument
of lack of enterprises in a bad way.
However, we shall see what we shall see.
The great commander is going to solace
himself and enjoy the handsome income
so kindly raised for him by few old
political friends for considerable part of
the summer at Long Branch, which charm
ing resort, if we may judge from the pre-
parations now being made by the shrewd |
property owners there, is going to shine
with revived splendor this coming sea-
son. Meantime, Grants on the move to
Mexico.
Among all the discontinued working
men, whose recurring strikes whenever
times seem to grow little brighter oper-
ate as check on them, the brewers have |
hitherto never been found. In fact they |
have had little cause to be discontinued. |
Their employers are mostly kindly set |
of men of every democratic manners and
hearty German habits: and have given the |
men wages on which they manage to rear
large families in very tolerable 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 es-
timated that perhaps three hours a 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
! a calm, cheerful existence, never hurried,
and laugh and grow fat. But the demon
of discord has crept in, and in three
| breweries there was a strife because of
the discharge of one or two troublesome
hands. The other trades unions prompt
| ly tomented the quarrel, and no less than
5000 men pledged themselves not to pat
ronize any saloon which sold the beer of
these three breweries. In 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 'Boy-
colt" the employing brewers. The strife
was short one, and the employers sur
rendered very speedily.
At this season Of the year, when the
near approach of May-day, or moving-day
as it is more generally known in these
parts, forces itself on the attention of the
business man as we'll as the householder,
the projected change of location or posi-
BILE increase of business is apt to suggest,
among other things, the purchase of a
safe. There are great many safes, good,
bad and indifferent, and as even the poor
est variety 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 carefulness. The crucial tests
which some kinds have stood tend to
solve the difficulty of choice. Of course
the safe isn't yet built which burglars
e can't break into provided they have SUI
, fficient time to use their superior tools
and best ingenuity; but there are some
safes an ordinary blacksmith could opeI
in half an hour and others that commit
D tee of expert engineers would take weel
: to get at the true inwardness Of Fire il
q better guarded against in some kinds thai
q burglars can be, and no one unaffected
:, with very crooked ideas of economy nee'
J.. hesitate in selecting protector for hi
y books and papers of make known t.
" have passed the severest ordeals. Thos
g who remember the great Bond street fire
II when that large and magnificent iron AM
o brick building occupied by several firm
of manufacturing jewelers. was RACED t
the ground, may also remember tina
% among the dozens of safes taken fror
the ruins only those of the Marvin SAT
d Co. were found to have preserved thei
l. precious contents absolutely uninjurec
Il not even the faintest semblance of
scorch being perceptible on the thinnes
tissue paper inside any of them. Th
'e experience of your correspondent wit
is a Marvin safe has been such as to lea
y him to warmly commend it, and that
st good many people agree with RADIx o
"a this point seems very evident from tn
= number of Marvin's safes seen on trucks
or with a crowd staring at them as the
- are hoisted into lofty offices or rolled tel
Sc derby into Easements all over the city.
d. Did you ever see the elephant Ifyou
We like to make the acquaintance of the u
ia than variety Of the beast, you can do
. very simply. Just get into the drygooC
trade, and have your name rated X Y
Do 2O2 or something of that sort, in Bra
III streets or Dun & Barlow's commerce
Is agency books, and you can see the amin
K cheap. Hospital young men, emissari
~ of great and dignified commission hous
such are the changed conditions
=, trade nowadays and keen the competitit
brave in elegant clothing and mu'
d jewelry, stand in clusters ready to poun
ct on the wayfarer and take him in and (
to for him. 1t seems to be Of no cons
q quence whatever that prosperous-loo
ing possible buyer should have the sligf
est previous knowledge of his war;
u hearted entertainer. If he only betra
the faintest symptoms of being interest
~. his new friend will stick closer to hi
Elk than brother, and stand no end
bo drinks, cigars, and more expensive {
y lights as the nights wears on to the SIN
hours of tomorrow. This queer way
DIS doing business seems to have grown
act of late from the more generally preva
nd ing custom Of giving very small salar
it and very liberal commissions to sal
men, so that in self-defense each and
have to hunt their game with the cunni
NJ of foxes. The old plan of Citing do
d. waiting for customers was more 90