The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-01
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
NEW YORK, August, 1881
To the Editor of the ENTERPRISE

NEW YORK, August, 1881.
To the Editor OF the ENTERPRISE.
p With the dog days comes hydropho-
bia, several horrid cases of which have
recently occurred. Wiseacres have tried
to make the people believe that muZzles
are cruel in summer, and that dogs
most often go mad in winter, but facts
seem to be against theories, and whether
muzzled or not, the ours that infest the
city are an unmitigated nuisance.
Swarms are drowned, numbers are shot
by the police, but still they swarm. The
utter determination of the whole race
within the city limits is advocated by
some people. For my own part, can
find no use for a dog in the wilder ness of
brick and stone and iron, which is
enough to spoil the temper of the noblest
canine, which might run little risk of
getting rabid if enjoying happy exist
ence, ranging forest, field snd mountain
side.
The Almond-eyed admirers of Amer
icsn institutions are fast becoming thor
oughly acqnajnt with them. 1t is sur
prising to foreigners, with none of whom
will the Chinese and Japanese domesti-
cate themselves as they do with US, to
find how comfortably they have settled
down and imbibed our ways of doing
things, even sometimes the less agreeable
phase of Ameican life. For instance,
q Japanese of rank, who met
the widow of a chief engineer of
the U. 8. Navy at Toxic, Japan, Gnd
wanted to marry her, but wasn't allowed
to by his Government, entrusted his lit
tie daughter 10 her care to be brought
up here as an American, providing in q
,princely way for her maintenance: Now
there is suit to recover possession of
the child, and an accounting for the
money paid on her behalf, it being
charged that the lady utterly neglected
her and squandered immense sums on
her own selfish enjoyment. The story
is, it is understood, based on the report
of some Japanese Naval Officers, who
recently called to see the budding beauty.
On the other hand, it is said that the
young girl Is most sweet and accom-
plished specimen Of the best home and
academical training. In another instance,
Chinese washerman has been divorced
from his Irish wife, who used to belabor
severely the unfsithful Celestial.
T. All but q small percentage of Immi-
grants to this country land here, but the
State of New York, although so many of
the must tnIHIy pass tnrOuSn anu enIlCn
other communities, is the only one which
contributes q cent 10 the est of enter
tanning and protecting them. The dregs
of the influx remain, and fill our institu-
tions of charity and correction. For many
years the Emigration Commissioners re-
ceived 81 a head from the steamship
companies for their passengers, and with
this fund erected houses of refuge for the
poor and sick, established employment
bureaus and organized an admirably
effective staff of interpreters and others
to protect the newcomers from imposi-
ton. This tax was resisted by the
greedy Britishers, who gobbIe all the
Atlantic passenger traffic, was declared
unconstitutional and stopped. An effort
is being made to reimpose it. Something
! ought to be done, certainly, about it.
kCCmmon sense recommends the measure,
but suppose it will linger till the poll