The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-07-08

policeman TO take me around and show
ne New York by gas light" That sort
If thing has been done to death by men,
not one in ten Of whom ever went near
The places they pretend to describe. No
The dives 1 mean, nre those afforded in
ihe free swimming baths. Who was the
old moralist who started the
axiom that Cleanliness is next to Godli-
ness" on its travels9 He did not live in
New York, at all events. There is moth
ing your regular street gamin, who will
swear like q trooper, steal like magpie,
aud lie like a correspondent, so much
likes as he does dive into water, where
YOU can no more drown him, than you
can get Peruvian Bark out of cast-iron
dog. The public baths were opened last
week and were used by 1853, ,0l5 persons,
or rather that num- r of entrances were
registered. The rule is that no person
shall be admitted twice in the same day,
but the street boys try all sorts of skilliul
lodges to beat the policemen on guard
and to get in for an extra plunge. There
isn't much Godliness about the way they
lie to get within the gates a second time,
and they would steal nickel from
blind man. to pay the way into the water,
il they did not more enjoy the excite
ment of working their way through by
cunning and "oheek."
1 am not going To tell you how we
passed
THE FOURTH OF JULY
simply because we haven't passed it at
all at this writing. To be sure l might
follow a somewhat frequent example. and
write it all up before it occurs, but such
a practice is open to grave objections and
contingencies, which may injure a cor
respondents reputation for strict veracity
and, as you know, there is nothing he so
much prides himself upon as solid fact
aud no prevarication. get up into the
witness box and acknowledge that have
done such things in earlier and more un-
scrupulous days. was editing paper
in Western city, where there was to be
grand celebration with officials and
dignitaries from all over the land as hon.
ored guests, and military and civil com
panies galore. Thanks to tolerably
wide and varied acquaintance, knew
how every prominent man looked, and
got hold of what he was going to say. Al
4 o'clock in the morning, / had the whole
thing in type-nine columns, historical.
descriptive, anecdotal and incidental.
The last thing to put in was the weather
was not quite so sure of that as was
of the rest. The type was locked into
the frames and the compositors were
locked into the composing room, and the
secret was locked into my breast. You
can imagine the intense interest with
which watched the proceedings, as the
programme was carried out. / was pro.
gionsly busy (apparently) in writing
the thing mp, and taking notes; in fact,
W IS scouting around to see if the account
already in type was being faithfully car
ried out. At length, as the procee, ings
were nearly at successful close, / Sc nj
word to go to press, and in fifteen min
utes my extras were bought and read by
the multitude who were filled with ad
miration aid amazement and by my dis
comfitted but more honest competitors il
local journalism, who had toiled un
weariedly from the rising to the setting
OF the sun, only to fiud their labors scof
fed at as being too slow. trust re
ceIyed with b coming modesty the com
pliments 1 received for my rapid anC
accurate" work. and thanked my shee
good In for the precision with which
the pre-arranged programme was carried
out.
As to the celebration of the Fourth. j
is enough to say that there will be nj
military parade, that those who can, will
be out of town, that if the day is pleas
ant aud appropriately hot, there will b
rs, 900 to 100, 900 people at Coney ISLAM
and that everybody but the tireless smal
boy will be glad when the noise and fus
is over.