Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-06-03
Cur New York Letter.
THE FAEEAGrT srATCE-TliE BEookLfN sun
DAY. SCHOOL sHow-THR REVISED NEW
TESTAMENT - REHABILITATION OF TIE
KN!cKEEBoCKER SEAT OF FAsfIIoN-lN-
CoysIsrENCiEs OF BOOK BUYERS, ETC.

er. Among the throngs in tie streets no
ticeable proportion is composed Of Quakers'
who, in all the glory of broad brims and
quaint, sad-colored garments. swarm into
the big city at this season for their annual
conventions. Madison Square has been
adorned with another statue, really good one
this sme, in fact, one Of the very best pro-
duced by modern artists, fully equal to any
of Marochcttis in the inspiration of the mo-
tive and executed with greater delicacy.
refer to Young St Gaudehs's bronze present
ment of the heroic Farragut. The metal is
all but alive, 81 natural is the pose, so adj
mirahe the idea of characteristic action mo-
mentarly arrested There was very pleas
ant ceremony ut the unveiling at which sew
eral of Tie survivors of the gallant admirai's
immediate followers assisted.
Tie Sunday school scholars OF Brooklyn,
81. 900 strong, made the avenues and PARKS
OF the City of Churches living parterres OF
the choicest flowers of humankind, on the
18th, and the churches afierward resonant
with their songs of praise. 1t is pretty
custom and pretty sight, this army with
banners innumerabe, fairy-like with flowers,
ribbons, lacos, etc Wee, little toddlekins in
kid shoes and shining garments ofevery hue.
like 50 many of the cunningest of hummlns-
birds. were at one end OF the human ladder,
and silver-hai men and women at the
other. The air was fragrant with flowers
and delicious with ripping voices of mer-
riment and the sounds of martial mu-
sic from our best militia bands. Be
tween the extremes of age and IN
fancy were the youth and hope of the best oil
the Erooklynites, fine children, most of them
good looking, too, grading upward to Tie
Bible classes and the teachers.
The next day was the annual festival OF
the Brooklyn doctors, for our earthly chcrubs
have stom--that is TO say, broad-baskets,
50 to speak, and some of them, not to put
too fine a point upon it. stuff; and too much
tSunday.school) ice cream, cake, and straw
berries means subsequent pills and seclusion.
This is the way Satan gets square with the
Sunday school people.
The event of this week, OF course, has been
the rush for the revised New Testament.
1t seemed to be everywhere the day of its is
suing. in the cars, stages, ferry-boats and
business houses, sold by newsboys, hawked
by pc,ldlers, and to be had at every alternate
store. II was actually sold by some enter
prising bartendersin sample rooms, who took
advantage of the boom to turn an honest
penny out of their patrons, who forthwith pro-
cccdcd to crticise texts instead of tods. The
pirates pounced down or some of the
first copies, which in an incredibly short space
Of time were cut up and delivered to an
army of ready printers, and by the evening
Of the first day one firm had out an edition
with the authorized and revised versions in
parallel columns, and the papers the next
morning were full of views of prominent
tlrravmcn and Others, who worked into print
some of them in a galloplng hurry. chiefly
10 say that they wanted time to think the
whole thing over before they committed
themselves | suppose twill be war between
the versions for some time, premonltory
rumbings having already been heard. Why
there should be, if the New is but more
perfect translation Of the same Old Story
which has been told to comfort the human
race, is more than your correspondent can
understand.
Electricians are agOg over the announce
mcnt that electricity has been bottled up in
condensed form and shipped just like Il case
of boots or canned turkey, and can be manu-
featured in one place and shipped by the
gallon and hogshead in quantities to suit.
Ii this is thus, it will knock spots out of the
PENNSYLVANIA and other railroads, for We
need not transport the coal they bring and
can get all the energy we want TO warm us;
cook ouriood light our streets, houses, churches
and theatros-and militia armories, 10 keep
all cur engines going, run all our steamships,
etc, by the crate or bucketful. Lord Lytton's
coming race will be ecllpsed by our home
made doublc-distilcd ''Nril." There's no
thing slow about us; that's fact.
Talking about electricity Cyrus w. Field,
the father Of Atlantic cables has just return
cd from Il tour around the world, where as
usual, lac kept his eye open. A compressed
IN the HeraH in the shape of an interview
with him.
Rufus Hatch and the iron per at the Bat
tory, which, with its numbcrless attractions,
Is apparently intended to rival Coney Island
Ills summer, are getting good deal OF at
tt1tiOn inst now. The first mammoth I'M
siaiablr steel excursion boat has made its
initial trips very satisfactorily. 1t would be
strange if after all its degradation as the
stamping ground Of the sharks who prey on
immigrants, the Battery should again be
come iasliioable resort. 1t was once We all
know, the toniest part of Manhattan Island.
q; in spite Of the Disagreement in its
vicun.,, il is still the most beautiful site in
the CITY Nature has done SO much that the
vilcst art cannot spoil that enchanting portal
to the city. In sunshine or storm, the view
from the Battery is unsurpassed anywhere
in the world, and TO my taste it beats Naples
or Constantinople.
Everybody is talking about the immense
wealth of Jay Gould. lie was up for ex-
animation in court the other day about West
crn Union affairs and couldn't recollect
whether CO rtan check he had drawn was for
$1,000, 600 or SlO,0OO,O00 lie lives hand
somely though unostcnallously and in fact
with great personal simplicity and handles
vast sums III Hlb thltl BllSC WIN 10 llti'
concern as IA gambling Russian prince.
Making money just for the fun of it is Il pas
sion with him. If he stopped now and be
gan to spend what he has to spend it would
take him all the remaining years of his life TO
do so in any sensible sort of way. He has
been too busy making it TO be able 10 learn
how to spend it judicially and perhaps is
now too old 10 lie taught. So suppose he'll
90 on making more and more till some day
the wheel will turn and he'll lose every dol
lar and flop away out Of sight like old Dan'l
Drew and other Wall street pOllywogs
Boolworms are usually interested in the
sale of choice private libraries, but the ways
Of these "kittlc cattle" arc sometimes very
hard to understand. DIR. Tying, Jr., has re-
signed his rcctorship Of Holy Trinity, i.
+. church, and gone into the insurance bust
ness, his library was put up FOR sale and the
separate constituents were eagerly competed
for and brought very high prices. Rabbi
Gotthold, one of the most scholarly of He
brew leaders also found occasion TO scatter
his collection among which are some of the
arcst of works, which an outsider would
naturally suppose would have brought bblio-
poles by shoals like fish round Il wreck, but
the results were mcagrc i'll the extreme.
Strange, ch
our resident British friends had n jolly
celebration of Queen land Emprcss) Nictoria's
birthday, on the oath and the signs of amty
between the great English speaking countries
were very numerous, the Cross of st. George
being lovingly coupled with the Stars and
Stripes from windows all over the city and
suburbs, and the way the ships at the
wharvcs were dressed in honor Of the day
was sight. The display was almost equal