The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-09-02
Our New York Letter.


Regular correspondence of ADVOCATE.
NEW YORK, August 80, 1882.
SUMMER TRAVEL, THE SLACK SEASON AND
TRADE.
Nobody can tell how many people leave
New York to live in the country during
the heated term; but the number is GER
tainly very large one. Yet a look at
le streets, the stores and the shops of the
great city convinces you that the popula-
ton has not been at all diminished, al
though the crowd of the incoming and
out going steamboats, aud railroad trains
every morning and evening bears witness
to the fact that the regular increase of
temporary residents is very great. The
Superintendent of the Elevated Railroad
says that travel on these roads falls off 80
much during the summer months that
he is obliged to discharge 500 train hands
who are employed during the winter
The slack time is between the beginning
of June to the middle OF September; but,
unless appearances are deceiving, that
period will close two weeks earlier. Large
numbers of people who have been at the
seaside and in the mountains for several
months are now hurrying back to the
city, ard the prospect is, that before
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with Western and Southern buyers, and
that our merchants in every branch Of
trade will have their hands full of bust.
ness long before the opening of the au
tumn season. as prescribed in the altman
&C. That trade will be heavy this fal
there can be no doubt, and, according t.
the best judges, the winter trade bids fail
to be better than ever before in the his
tory of New York.
Rags are not pleasant things to look at
especially when they compose the gar
ments in which a fellow mortal is eniold
ed His looped aud windowed wicked
ness is something that disturbs the cur
rent of aesthetic thought and Giverts
into a diluvian channel of mental reck
lessness, much like an afternoon night
mare. Yet rags are of great importanc
in the worlds economy. The pruden
housewife boards them for purposes o
barter and for inexpensive qnilts, and al
so fo- patches. While needed stitcl
has, many time saved countless othe
stitches. how oft have we seen pate
save the price of a pair of breech. trousers
Then of r,gs we make paper; and thin
of the millions of reams We use ever
year on which to write and print the val
p ious combinations of which the alphabe
is capable. In New York alone we ex
pend $50 900 600, every year for rags, tn
4 business of one street in Worth stree
reaching 50 600 600. There are 200
, -ag-pickers in this great city, the mos
3 Of whom are Italians, the descendants q
r the Caesars, the Catoliues, the Ciceros an
the other great calthunpians of ancien
e Rome. These industrious but extreme
I ly filthy sons Of noble sires, take nearl
n 81, 900. 900 worth of rags annually froI
!. our cutters and ash barrels, They dres
;. in rags; and not putting too fine poii
9 upon it they live on rags. What the
f p OK up they sell for from one 10 thre
g cents pound; and for the better grade
n of woo!len rags they receive rs high 6
!. 20 cents. While Boston imports gret
a quantity of cotton rags, the bulk of th
trade is in New York; and here We hay
a Dumber OF heavy capitalists who oW
their success in life to the careful use
n what their less thrifty neighbors hay
# thrown away. One of them is building
It in the upper part of the city, a magiit
= cent mansion which will cost near
n $4,000 1t has already been christen'
K the "Ragman's Palace" It will not
# SO grand as the house that Vanderbilt
m but the owner will have the satisfactiC
re- of knowing that while his is built {
"a rags, the other was erected on greenbacR
,t which are only rags in new form aft
"A all.
woMAN's PLUCK AND Perseverance,.
in Visitors to New York rarely fail
IL spend few minutes of their time
ir Printing House Square to admire t
lie TINES building, TO wonder at the displ
H. portion between the TRIBUNE buildll
lis aud its magnificent next neighbor frC
he which the Sun is published, and TO c,
el. admiring glances at the statue of Bt
OF franklin. A hundred yards northeast
re the statue, the STATS ZEITUNG is edit
on and printed III building occupying
of site of what was once the country re
IN depce of one of New York's earliest G,
gal ernors-Gov. Tryon. Tais handso
Ith and stately structure, built Of white grl
nd lite, is a monument 10 the courage, co
on mon sense and indomitable persevereI
in of a German lady, whose husband d
he several years ago. leaving her a lii
for newspaper aud family of six childr,
nd She was offered $500 for the paper, |
tx would not sell. The editor who had bt
in her husbands employ agreed to O.
or tinue at his post, aud as be was well
M ted for his.woEk and WAS not inteTfeFl