St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-06-16
Our New York Letter.
NEW YORK, June 9, Is


People are beginning to think of vaca-
tiOns and summer scenes. As a sort of
foretaste, a large section of society have
invaded West Point to assist at the
graduation of the latest batch of young
soldiers, and having broken the ice, as
it were, of that very troublesome job,
the packing, will finish it when they
return, for the longer trips to favored
localities here and abroad. The Allan
tic steamboats, are densely crowded on
every outward voyage, and intending
passengers have to secure their tickets
weeks before their proposed departure.
And while these vOtaries Ofpleasure go
to enjoy leisure and spend the hard
cash they've been making so freely, the
incoming steamers bring still denser
crowds in the steerage.
Such an immigration has been I'M
paralleled in history. For one thing it
is peaceful, for another it is an out
pouring of all nations and a potent fac
tor in the future solidarity of the world
when all men will be recognized as
brethren-nO Tartar horde with raging
sword sweeps down with devastation,
but earnest seekers after happy homes,
and some of that wealth which is so
tangibly displayed by their fOreruu-
ners, crowd in from Germany and Ire
land, Russia, the Sandwich Islands,
everywhere. The dusky HindOO is not
unknown among the crews of Calcutta
ships, or as children's nurses i'll the
families of returned missionaries and
merchants. 1t is pity some of our
guests are not better treated. One of
the Dutch lines has been convicted of
shocking i'll usage of immigrants. In
one ship, by means of a drunken doc
tor, bad food, and disgusting accommO-
datiOns, there were eighteen deaths.
The MasOns have been holding high
festival, and the benevolent order has
never been so tlourishing OF so gener
ally popular. Special attention has
the illustrious brother Garibaldi, who
was made Mason in Tompkin's Lodge,
Staten Island, in the days when he was
the head of the then very small ltal-
ian colony, and started Il candle tacto-
tory to give employment to his cOun-
trymen, and very successful enter
prise it was, too. There are over
$1,000 Italians i'll New York now, and
except for an occasional Stabbing at
| fray, they give little trouble to the po-
| lice, and for the most part support
themselves very creditably. 1t is true
that among the rag-pickers and organ
grinders, fiddlers and monkey-leaders,
who are imported like cattle by pa
drOneS, there is more dirt and immor-
atty than is alleged to exist among
the Chinese Coolies i'll San Francisco,
but they somehow seem to emerge
from this sort of a thing and accumu-
late money enough to live quite de
Gently after while.
The Stock Exchange have been in
dulging in decapitatinG member.
They expelled Mr.. William j. Hutch
insOn for ''obviOus fraud" in transac-
tions with one of his customers, who
complained that Hutchinson seemed to
get rich Just in proportion as he got
poorer. Hutchinson glanced over his
books and acknowledged that possibly
there might be some tritiing errors,
and handed over S750,00O to make
things square.
That the lion and the lamb should
ever lie down peaceably together IN
less the latter is enshrouded within the
tawny hide of the former, is regarded
as the height of improbability. Some
| thing almost as startling is announced
i'll the probable fraterniZatiOn of those
widely differing doctors, the allOpaths
and the homnOpaths. Who first start
ed the idea is not exactly known, but
it is assuming more Importance every
hour, and there bids fair to be cor
ner in the olive-branch market.
Talking of corners, there seems to
be a corner in beef, and indeed most
kinds of provisions. The prices are
awful and a mild rebellion has set in
against them. Washington market on
Saturday is one of the sights of the
city, crowded as it usually is with ca
ger purchasers, but the last two Satur-
days it has been almost deserted. The
people seem resolved to do without
meat rather than pay the rates asked.
There is serious talk of getting up
companies to slaughter beef in Brazil
and Uruguay, and ship the carcasses
here in refrigeratOrs. 1t might pay
some of our capitalists who are anX-
iOus to invest their money at five per
cent, to open large farms and give
swift employment to thousands of the
immigrants | have been talking about.
The strikes are of course matters of
great interest, and before capitalists
will put a dollar into new farms or fac
tories, or anything else, they want to
have some reasonable assurance that
they will at least see that dollar again
when they want it, and they'd like fair
interest for the use of it, too. That's
the mischief of strikes. They stop
work money comes by work. The
boiler makers have won a victory in all
the shops, except ROach's and Delama-
ter's-that is to say, they get their ten
per cent advance, but they have been
idle for some time, and have not only
not earned cent, but made hole in
their savings, while the employers are
so exasperated that, if their turn comes
they will be disposed to show little
mercy. The Delamaters are particu-
larly angry. They never had strike
before. Many of their men have been
with them thirty years, and they can
not understand why any outside dicta-
ton should break up relations which
have been so pleasant. They have al
ways encouraged their men by extra
pay to the most skillful, and promo
ton whenever deserved. They say a
system which compels them to pay
Just so much to each man alike, would
result in dead level of material or ar