Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-16
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Special Correspondence of the Monitor.
.ifi'1e Neao York, Jan. 9, 1882.
Another walking match has passed into |
the limbo of achieved feats and the feet of |
a wild Irishman have enabled him to beat |
the record, but the craze for sued things |
has died out. The spectators ON the pres
ent occasion were not select nor were
they numerous, and John Ennis, a pedes- |
trian of note, who engineered the thing
finds himselfout several thousand dollars.
But little while ago small fortunes were
earned by endurance on the sawdust
track. 1t is a tickle world!
The mild, not wild, Irishman who has
| set the world of fashion agog with asthet- /
| icism, the great Oscar Wilde himself, has
| descended on US. He was dressed too
| intensely sweet for anything, from his
| patent leather shoes to his purple-plush
necktie, when he disembarked. 1t ap-
| pears the Atlantic disappointed him. The
storms that have ragged for SO many weeks
had subdued to tamest Gains as the poet
was waited over, and his yearning soul
found vent in the expression of his hope
for something livlier: ''Would that a sea
would sweep the bridge away" he said,
"Would / had him dashed on the wheath-
erbow for an hour or So" growled the
unsympathizing captain. The hardy mar
liner apparently objected to swells, wheth-
er of old Ocean or as a development of
British snobdom in it's most lackadaisi-
cal phases.
Now is the time when business men are
| up to their eyes taking stock and figuring
in profits. The old year seems to have
passed out pretty well, but the croakers
are abroad and prophecies of approach
ing hard times are in the mouths of
good many staid old fellows, and have
found expression in sundry journanls.
The Journal Of Commerce, which is GER
tainly anything but optimistic, as a rule,
takes a brighter view of things, and in so
many words says that the apprehension
is ill-founded, and that the abundant pros
perity of the past few years has so
brought general stability to our concerns
that panic like that of 1873 is well, nigh
impossible. Still, it's well to be cautious,
and not fool away ones savings in stupid
but specious schemes. The Wall street
brokers divided $50, 100000 in commits
sions last year, and that means the shear
ing of multitude of lambs. Take notice,
the boys didn't get any wool from old
Radix-not much.
Our old public favorite, Lester Wal
lack, has opened his new theatre. 1t is a
gem, and the premiums paid for seats on
, the first night were enormous. Taking
it all around, it is, perhaps, the best the
atre, with the best company, in the En-
glish speaking world, even if it dosent
discount the carefully managed affairs of
France For certain kinds of plays it is
still excelled by the famous double stage
, of the Madison Square Theatre, and old
playgoers are beginning to look forward
to the Thespian temple projected by the
designer of the latter, Steel Mackaye, the
author off, Haxel Kirke," who promises to
provide one combining the virtues of both.
, To Judge form the boom in real estate
! and building generally, here and in
Brooklyn, there must be lots of money to
invest. Ten story business palaces and
= and apartment houses, as superior to the
original French flats of Paris as they are
1 to tenement houses, are springing up nu
: merously. Architects are driven in at
: unexampled way, and there is corner il
draughtsmen, while artisans of all kinds
: are fully employed, with wages rising
8 and threatening to rise still higher.
I Beecher has been getting into hot wa
S ter again. Abiding to various reforms
n to be inaugurated in the City of Churche
!, he instanced the alleged fact that posi-
= lions in the public schools were obtaine,
u in the most disgraceful way, statemen
e which no one believes. The Brooklyl
v Eagle, which fought manfully for him du
IS ring his long trial, very bluntly remarke
"a that the. subject true or untrue, was IN
fit to be discussed before men, wo
uuCu anu llOh buC PulplO,
1 that the best thing he could do would b
~ to avoid fiuttering around sexual topic
at / like a moth round eandle-a prett
ia rough slap. By an unfortunate coinc
>, dence, young Mayor Low, the rich tee
mans son, had just declined to reappoir
. thirteen time-expired memberes of th
~ Board of Education, some of them deciG
he edly eminen4 men, and known by Ion
an i lives of unselfsh usefulness to desery
II the title of excellent citizens. The SIT
seemed so manifest that q committee Wa
, appointed to wait on the dominic, with
" request to prove his words or take the
= back. They couldn't find him. He ha
retired to the country. Tho young Ma,
4 or, by the way, seems to be marking OF
5i- for himself hard road to travel T
o. means well, no doubt, but he has sim
,r, ular knack Of treading on everybody
to corns, and he is as naughty land inacce
yn sible as a fifth-class German grand dul
W. objectionable failingsJ in an official
to this country. Your Radix will ventu
he the prediction that the young fellow W
ON never be President, though the Mayors
ar ty of Brooklyn is no bad first step on Il