The Owosso times., 1882-03-10
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
New YoRK, Fer a., 1888

OUR NEW YORK LETTER
From Dur Own Correspondent.
New YoRx, FER a., 1881.
Our reporters are generally consid
cred to be pretty smart men. One
of them got beautifully caught the
other day. He was police reporter
and a murder case or something oI
the kind Sd absorbed him that tho
court closed. the court officials re.
tired. and he was locked'up. When
he had finished his work he sought
TO get out. A well meaning jani,ress
objected--she supposed he was a
prlsoner-and when he stuck his
head out of a window she met !,
with mop. aud she howled. AS
sislance came to her. A janitor who
had lost his keys heavcd bricks at the
poor reporter. /, was Sunday morn.
ing. The keys were miles away.
After some hours an Eruption was
made on the scene Of the supposed
culprit's exploits. fle. had escaped.
A hole in snowheap revealed his
likeness after a fashion. The repor
or had sot clear. like all his tribe,
but what an experience!
AS usual, the industrious laborer
has kept keen eye open as to when
he could squeeze his employer, and
we have had another strike. This
time it was the street-cleaning cart
men. Street cleaning carts are a
peculiar institution. They are not
inviting in appearance, and there is
no great surplus OF hand, SO that
when the clrtmen, demanded more
money for their use they practically
had the contractors at their mercy.
These poor men had to clean
the city or lose their contracts.
They have begin as if they meant to
keep it up, to give us cleaner New
York than the oldes, inhabitant can
remember, but it didn't seem as if
they'd make cent themselves for
their trouble. In some countries
laborcrs cannot play these pranks.
They are hired at fixed prices for
fixed terms, and cannot change un-
der penalty Of fine and imprison-
ment. l don't believe in strikes.
1 suppose you've seen the IL t
Century. What a wonderful magA-
zine that has grown to be Your
RADIx has correspondents far over
the sea, and several Of them take it
and comment on It's excellence, in
every letter he receives. John Bull,
in fact, seems astonished at the pub
LEGATION, which SO thoroughly eclipses
any home production in the same
line. don't know how many copies
of the Century are sold here, but the
sale in the rest Of the world Is enough
to keep any ordinary publisher
happy. 1t has a won ierful circula
ton, and deserves it. Fhr one
thing it is the pioneer of the di,linc
tive and revolutionary American
school Of wood engraving, and its
literary merits are fully equal TO
the artistic.
l told you how some detectives
had run d IVA thu murderers OF a
French restaurant keeper and given
the widow the reward they had receive
The affair occurred in he precinct com
manded by the redoubtable Capt.
Williams, and some of the residents,
Selling the opportunity, have pre-
scented him with a diamond bidg
and fulsome address in honor OF
the capture, with which he hal per
sonally nothing whatever TO do.
A young person Of the feminine
persuasion has been locked up for
earning her living in mems clolhcs.
She gave as her reason the fact that
she earned more Money SO costumed.
No one has word to say against
her character in any respect, and
she has been open to any amount OF
close sitting in the publicity Of the
Court house. Her counsel got her
out on habeas corpus, but she was
rearrested as vagrant before leaving
the court room on warrant issued
by the spitefnl Dogberry, who had
been checked in his first move OF
persecution. 1t is probable before
he gets through he'll wish he had
dropped the case like hot potato
at first, for the girl is beginning to
hit back, and reason for hunting
her down is becoming very apparent.
The Emigration Commission is on
its last legs. Their money has finally
given out. Their tax on the steam
ship people, or head money, has
been declared unconstitutional, and
they can't collect it. They are
mortgaged up to the eyes as to their
real estate. 1t does seem unfair that
the general government will not pro-
vide for the care of the immigrants
whose advent enriches the whole
country. New York has hitherto
paid all the expenses attending their
arrival, and now seems to have tired
of it. Our future guests will, as of
old, become the prey Of landsharks,
and embittered against the country
bef)ic they've been in it two days.
The Emigration Commission has
been great institution. Willy
WaIlach, one of its pillars, was burn,
out at the World fire, and died from
a cold contracted while looking at il.
Artists, whether Of music or paint.
ing, or boxing, are notoriously sensi-
tive people, when they agree to do
they always disagree before
they get through. Just now tine
water color people are at il, hammer