The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-14
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
From Our Own Correspondent.

4 rIIEsPIANs--FRoM JOY TO SORROW
WITH RAILROAD SPEED-TORPID TER
RIERIsM OF TRUCULENT TRAINMEN
-DIsGRUNTLEMENT OF THE UN-
wEALTHY-THE WORLD IN A STEW
= TART FOR THE fMILLIoN--oscAR
: fwILDEsAs A CHURCH DEBT RAISER
A BIG BUST.
That miserable scamp, ex-carpetbag
Governor Franklin ]. Moses, Jr., of
South Carolina, has BEEN up, to his
old(trcks, and is again in the clutches
of the law for swindling and forgery.
His last published caper was passing
himself off on a maker; for a
sbrother of Gov. eColquitt ofGeorgia
and after inspecting the sweet-sound-
supplying-shop in the most patroniz-
ing way, and ordering a piano, and
getting little cheque cashed on
bank which never existed. He once
before simulated an Imaginary brother
of the Mayor of Boston in like adj
venture, and the similarity of pro-
cedure gave the clue at once. He
was speedily arrested, as he had long
been Swallowed" as a suspicious char
acter, and nineteen other complain
ants 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 for
tickets to the extent of many thou
sands in excess of the possible hold
ing capacity of all the places ofamuse-
ment in Gotham put together. You'll
hear every one declare that nobody
but fool would attempt even 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. They'll be
there, my boy, all of 'em, for sweet
Charity's sake, you know, don't for
get it, and two-thirds of 'em will be
crowded out on the sidewalk.
There are some drawbacks to living
in this city, with all its beauties and
conveniences. For instance, even if
we are comfortably off and own sew
eral carriages, we may prefer rapid
transit by steam to equine locomo-
ton when in hurry; but it is incon
venient when a party of friends, or
two busy men try to board one of the
sL" trains, and the humorous brake
men make it their business to divide
them. Young fellows have thus been
separated from their adored ones on
the way to the theater-the A. o.
possibly not having cent in her
clothes to pay her car fare home
again--husbands from wives, and so
on. Sometimes the comedy is turned
to tragedy. One of the employees of
Bogardus, the photographer (perhaps
the oldest in the business in New
York-he took my photo. in my joy
full youth during the war, when proud
ly bearing my first shoulder-straps
after quite a spell at shouldering a
Musician old gentleman with a
wooden leg, a friend, and little
daughter, were going home last Satur
day. They were very happy, antici-
pating the pleasure some little gifts
they had purchased would give the
invalid mother. The train came,
with its ill-psid flunkies in their usual
haste and brutal ill-temper. To save
time the cripple boarded it first. AS
the child tried to follow, the cars
started and the poor little thing fell
beneath them, and was ground to
fragments before her fathers eyes.
The pieces dropped through the rails
to the avenue below, and some realis-
tic and narrowing anatomical details
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