Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-06-12
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
neutrality-suspicious. ofthe Monitor.l

NeU York, June D, 1882.
Well! Decoration Day has come and
brought summer with it, or was it be-
cause of Whit Monday? Every one en-
joyed that most perfect of holidays, and
the procession in New York was the most
gorgeous ever paraded here. The presi-
dent and ex-president, with distinguished
groups of visitors, reviewed the war-worn
veterans and the trim young militiamen
who are ready to fill their part should
they be called on. A prominent figure
was that of Lieut.. Denenhower, of the
Jeanette, whom everybody cheered en-
Enthusiastically. By the way, he snubbed
Bennett and the latter got so mad about
it that he published the lieutenant's de-
clination of a dinner with him on the
ground of a previous engagement, in the
Herald the next morning. There was
some hitch in the matter of engaging q
Long, on account of which, it may be re-
membered, the government took the mat
| ter out of Benefits hands and arranged
to bear the cost themselves, and it is sup
between the distinguished explorer of
Africa (by proxy and the latest victim
of his vicarious enterprise. Bennett has
given De Longs widow $50, 900 in United
States bonds, and will provide for poor
mad Jack Cole if the navy will discharge
| him. Jack was one of his old yachts
crew. He himself is detained here be-
cause his yacht requires repairs after her
trial trip, and the boilermakers are on
strike.
Talking of strikes, they cause a dread
full waste of money, and yet sometimes it
is difficult to imagine any other way for
maltreated men to bring greedy employ
ers to reason. From all accounts it
would seem that John Roach, who has
been showing off for years as the friend
of the American working man, has been
paying meaner wages than anybody else,
and in manner bulldozed the other mas
tiers of works to resist the demands of the
boilermakers. At any rate masters and
men are alike exasperated at him now,
and 1t would not surprise me to find that
John Roach was boycotted out of the
business altogether. He can afford it,
for he has lots of money, and if he doesn't
get roped into Wall street, will probably
manage to keep it. The bosses have al
practically surrendered to the men now
and uniting against Roach has made then
friends all round.
Roach says he doesn't know wha
wages his men get. His foreman attend.
to it. This is too thin. In these days
of close competition and close figuring
man who couldn't estimate down to ;
very fine notch would soon get badly lief
unless he depended entirely on corrup
ton. The loose business methods of oul
Monte Christie magnates are remarkable
enough. A few years ago soap-make
had his cashier arrested for embezzlin:
something like 50 900, 900, which he sai'
he hadn't missed. Now suit for the re
covery of certain money in Newark re
yeals the fact that the teller some year
ago found shortage of S95, 900 in his &C
counts. He couldn't explain it, but with
out taking the trouble to defend himsel
, and raise any amount of row about it
stripped himself and mother of $4,000
and paid it in as hush-money, resignin'
his position. OF course now that the ras
cality of the cashier and most of the dl
! rectors has been found out, the ex-telle
wants to get his money back. All tn