The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-05-28
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

Hot Weather and Its Consequences-Pes-I
tilence Threatened In New York-The
Romantic Story of q Molne Mcguire waif
Draw Poker among the Fair Sex-H0w
\ Brokers Wife was Robbed-Threat-
enei Destruction Of Coney Island
Our Ministers Preparing for the Summer
Hegira, etc.
New YORK, May 2l, 1881.
EDITOR CHEF:
While our legislators at Albany are
busy organizing raids on the various
corporations and industries Of the State,
seeing which they can strike most etfec-
tually. where it will do the most good,
we are suddenly awakened to the fact
that there is power beyond our control
which ward politicians ca,not influence,
and which even the average country or
city legislators cannot strike, which
cracks the whip, and 10! the death rate
of the metropolis leaps at once giant
bound nearly 20 per cent. All through
the winter the tocsin has been sounding
Doctors, lawyers and clcrgymen, bankers
and beggars, high and low, rich and poor
have begged and prayed for the boon of
clean streets, but the forty thieves have
been to busy looking after the spoils to
listen to or grant their petition. Now
death is knocking at the door; typhoid
fever in its most malignant form is right
in the heart of the city, and whether we
will or whether we will not, we arc COM
PEELED to listen to that fatal alarm. We
have only had two or three hot days, but
even in that brief space We can see the
tremendous possibilities of the coming
summer. In all this land there is no city
so eligibly situated to be kept clean as
New York; between two noble rivers, with
a heavy fall and rise of tide, only few
miles from the ocean, it would seem as if
the Creator could do no more for it.
The Street Cleaning Department has
million of dollars yearly at its disposal,
and, if properly managed, the sweepings
Of our streets might be source of revc-
nue. instead of a city charge. Judge
Hilton offered to take thousands of
car loads OH exactly the same conditions
as they dump it into the sea, but when
those having the supervision Of the affair
found that they could not bleed the
Judge for his tucats, they concluded
that they would sooner throw it into the
ocean than let him have it. And right
here comes another hitch. We are now
ut the beginning of our watering season !;
Coney Island and Manhatten Beach are
the bathing places of many millions of
people; the visitors will average sixty or
seventy thousand day, and on Sunday 8
it will run to nearly ono hundred thou
sand. 1t is not place exclusive for the
aristocracy, like Long Branch or Newport
lit is the poor man:s paradise. If he
can manage to save up dollar during
the week, he can take his wife and baby
(if he has one) Of a Sunday afternoon,
and hear splendid sacred concert free
Of charge, with admirable selections
from "Pinafore," La Belle Helene, y
and "Olivette and "Billee Taylor
, Oh! it is beautiful, tell you. And down
| !, ~, ,<>T = hcx,
heard of the Maine law, or the Excise
law, or, in fact, of any other law, except
be happy while you may. 1t is u matter
, of common scandal, which give fol
what it is worth, that all church trustees,
deacons and country ministers who visit
, Coney Island indulge, without remorse
or comment, in book beer aud pretzels
. trust it is not true-I hope it is only
an invention-but the average Coney
Islander believes it as much as he believes
in his clam chowder. But to return tc
my original proposition; the Street
Cleaning Department are dumping the
refuse of great city at the very doors
Of the magnificent hotels, where million'
of dollars have been invested, and thu
only convenient spot for nearly 1900, ,00t
Of people to get a breath of ocean air
The matter has got to he a serious one
, it is no longer question of dollars, bu
: Of life and death, and with this qnestio,
we are brought face to face to-day,
cannot see the end, but death is stalking
through the city, aud should not be a
= all surprised, before the summer is over
> unless some remedy is speedily devised
to hear of pestilence sweeping this city
= such as we have not known for years.
! In prominent store OH 14th street
beautiful young lady may be seen ever!
day, about whose life and history ther
hangs romance and mystery whicl
J. may never be unraveled on this side .
II the grave. She was child among tn
most terrible of the Molly Maguires, VIII
ruled the coal districts Of Pennsylvani
i with rod of iron ten years ago. Sh
y was kept by an old hag and her husband
i in a cabin in the widest part of til
h mountains, and was q witness of man
e Of the terrible deeds which sent Thrill
d of horror through the community. Whe
s tie terrible Mollies were convicted,
Y seemed almost like dream to her tina
e she had known in the dim distanc
e another home, with beautiful garden
IS and rich furniture, and the faces {
Y father and mother. She was different i