Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-04-10
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence ofthe Monitor.1


Especial Correspondence ofthe Monitor.1
Neeo York, Apra 3, 1882.
That miserable scamp, ex-carpet-
bag Governor Franklin j. Moses;
Jr., of South Carolina, has been up
to his old tricks, and is again in the
clutches of the law for swindling and
forgery. His last published caper
was passing himself off on a piano
maker for a brother of Gov. Col
quit, of Georgia, and after inspect
ing the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
in the most patronizing way, and or
dering piano, and getting a little
cheque cashed on bank which never
existed. He once before simulated
an imaginary brother of the Mayor
of Boston in like adventure, and
the similarity of procedure gave the
clue at once. He was speedily ar
rested, as he had long been "shad-
owed as a suspicious character, and
nineteen other compliments have
been found. Just fancy Twenty
fresh victims of soft sawder! And
yet we think we're awful smart.
All the world and his wife are agog
about the Forthcoming simultaneous
fandango in all the theaters for the
benefit of the Actors Fund. All the
knights, DANES and donzellas of the
pleasant science of the Sock and Bus
kin now enjoying engagements, to-
gether with the multitude who are
only employed at their own expense
on the sidewalks of Union square,
have volunteered their services the
managers pay for gas and all the in
cidentals, and the public pay fol-
tickets to the extent of many thou
sand in excess of the possible hold
ing capacity of all the places of
amusement in Gotham put together.
You'll hear every one declare that no.
body but fool would attempt ever
to try to get in among the crowds at
such performance, and might be
led to suppose the wise ones would
stay away, and that the attendance
would be slim. But it won't. The,
will be there, my boy, all of 'em, TO
sweet Charity's sake, you know don
forget it, and two-thirds of 'em will
be crowded out on the sidewalk.
There are some drawbacks to liv
ing in this city, with all its beautie
and conveniences. For instance
even if we are comfortably off an
own several carriages, we may prefe
: rapid transit by steam to equine loco
: motion when in a hurry but it is IL
y convenient when a party of friends
: or two busy men try to board one c
: the 81" trains, and the humorou
o brakeman make it their business
o divide them. Young fellows hay
l. thus been separated from their ado
Ii ed ones on the way to the theatre
/ the A. O. possibly not having Gel
e in her clothes to pay her car fal
e home again-husbands from wive
: and so on. Sometimes the comeC
lie is turned to tragedy. One of tt
e employees of Bogardus, the pilot
/ grapher (perhaps the Oldest in Il
u business in New York-he took II
d photo. in my joyful youth during Il
u war, when proudly bearing my fiji
Ut shoulder-straps after quite spell
5 shouldering a musket)-an old ge
and little daughter, were goil
ne home last Saturday. They were We
NC happy, anticipating the pleasure sol
'O little gifts they had purchased won
q give the invalid mother. The ira
u came, with its ill-paid funkies
d their usual haste and brutal litter
" per. To save time the cripple boar
= ed it first. AS the child tried to fl
NJ low, the cars were started and t
~ poor little thing fell beneath thel
IL and was ground to fragments befo
NC her fathers eyes. The pieces dro
% ped through the rails to the aven
d below, and some realistic and hs
i rowing anatomical details were pu
I'll lished in a daily paper, which ong
% to make an example of the ghc
~ who wrote the story and of the MIG
Il editor who allowed it to appear
{ such shape.
The trainmen are on the verge
e- a strike. About tenth of the
ny should be hung, on general prin
us pies, for they are sure to deserve
ry some day, if they don't already. T
tn service is corrupting, and is so bs
ly paid, and the men are treated
like slaves, that it is a wonder to
how any sane man with shred
self-respect could endure week
:, it. In point of fact, scarcely a {
cent man does, and the eXceptio
must be soft in their heads. To
80 fill duties which, with human life
the thousands to take care of.
quire experience, judgment, decisio
= and good temper, incapable person
who possess not one of these abb
lutely necessary qualifications, ;
employed at from $1.60 to $3.50
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