Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-12-05
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence ofthe Monitor.7


LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence ofthe Monitor.1
NEW YORK, Nov, %, 1881.
Bred on farms, we'll stuffed with bread,
onions, ETC., to make them savory gravy
shed, many turkey on Thursday graced
the groaning board, which soon was into
toothsome fragments sawed, and l sup
pose the great majority of people had a
good time. Some didn't. Charity is
usually pretty active about thanksgiving
time, but somehow some folks seem al
ways to manage to get left out. Pris-
oners Toasted, and even tramps got a
square meal without lying for it, but
some of the poor, sick and wasted didn't
come into the sunshine to any extent.
We didn't have much practical sunshine
in Gotham any how. In fact it was
kinder miserable most part of the day in
a weather point of view. The boys
didn't seem to mind it, and as Radix
was looking out of the window in his
suburban retreat at gallant company
of quite too carefully, too very Light
Guards" with real target, buckshot,
slugs, and great carriage to carry the
prizes, the small boys saw an old woman
in a thin calico garment with an old
carpet sack picking up cinders from an
ash heap. She didn't get turkey, so far
as Radix knows, for the domestic tri-
umph wasn't half cooked, but detach-
ment of small sympathlzing Samaritans
helped the old lady home with something
more appetizing than cinders for lunch.
Perhaps poverty has its redeeming fea-
lures. It's very certain the doctors had
more to attend to on Friday in relieving
the overfed than the underfed.
They say Jay Gould and Cyrus Field
have struck hands in a grand double
Samson Philistine smashing art and are
going to shatter the Stock Exchange
| (whose recent actions have been disa-
greeable to them) by the establishment
of rival concern on the Battery, con
venient to Coney Island and the elevated
|
railways, to which will be surrendered
the major part of the grand commercial
palace | mentioned as projected in my
last. Some of the interested are incens-
ed and in purely ocular mood, of course
the proposition has been made in Sc
lect circle to euchre the giant stock
gobblers By carefully training small
army of determined "cranks" to kidnap
them for an Arctic voyage, selling short
on all their particular little dogs mean
while. The results would be somewhat
upsetting, no doubt.
Modern science in the hands of an
ignorant Irish contractor and an Italian
assistant has been displaying itself in q
somewhat disagreeable manner. Dyna
mite has. it appears, been used for some
time in blasting the rocks of old Man
haitian in the line of some uptown i'm
provements. The other day can o.
the delightful substance was hung on tc
a steampipe to thaw out. Tho expert
ment was a grand success. The dyna
mite did thaw out and smashed th,
windows for couple of blocks. beside
cracking the walls of some sevent
houses. Storekeepers bivouacked for tn
night with blunderbusses. pistols, bee
and bologna sausages in order to protec
their property from myriads of thieves
and there was high old time generally
Then a Croton main burst in Fifth ave
nue., flooded cellars, and played the mi:
chief all round. Life In cities, with a.
the modern improvements. is by u
t means monotonous. There's Away
something exciting, if not altogethe
, pleasant, going on.
: Bank cashiers seem to be getting in
r beetle, and from recent developments
would seem as if they ought never to b
3 allowed to 60 about without nurse
: keep them out of mischief Another hs
: come to grief and complains that he W;
e seduced into gambling by some anciel
O faro sharps, whom the bank has sue
e with view to recovering the losses
r their weak-minded employe. The vi
Y tuous sports, on the other hand. declal
: that they only want to play with ge
t tlemen of fortune: that they were j
# ceived and if they only knew bar
n cashier was among them to get fleece
y would have kicked him out with phys