St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-06-09
Our New York Letter.
NEW YORK, June 2, Il


The President and the ex-President,
with a distinguished group 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.. Danenhower of the Jeanette,
whom everybody cheered enthusiastic
cally. BY the way, he snubbed Ben
nett and the latter got so mad about it
that he published the lieutenant's de-
clination of dinner with him on the
ground of previous engagement, in
the Herald the next morning. There
was some hitch in the matter of engag-
ing IA steamer on the Lena to search for
belong. on account of which, it may
be remembered, the government took
the matter out of Benefits hands and
arranged to bear the cost themselves,
and it is supposed there is some sore
ness of feeling between the distin-
guished explorer of Africa (by proxy
and the latest victim of his vicariOus
enterprise.
Strikes cause dreadful waste of
money, and yet sometimes 1t Is dIthcult
to imagine any other way for maltreat-
ed men to bring greedy employers to
reason. From all accounts 1t would
seem that John Roach, who has been
showing off for years as the friend of
the American working man, has been
paving meaner wages than anybody
else, and in "A manner bulldOZed the
other masters of works to resist the
demands of the bolermakers. AT any
rate masters and men are alike eXas-
perated at him now, and it would not
surprise me to find that John Roach
was boycotted out of the business alto
gether. 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
all practically surrendered to the men
now, and uniting against Roach has
made them friends all round.
Roach saws he doesn't know what
wages his men get. His foreman at
tends to it. This is too thin. In these
DAYS of close competition and close fig
uring, man who couldn't estimate
down to "A very fine notch would soon
get badly left-unless he depended en-
tirely on corruption. The loose bust
ness methods of our Monte Christie
magnates are remarkable enough. A
few wears ago soapmaker had his
cashier arrested for embeZzling some
thing like 4, OOO, 900, which he said he
hadn't missed Now suit for the re
] 4 y pfA-
veals the fact that the teller some years
ago found a shortage of S93,OOO III his
accounts. He couldn't explain 1t, but
without taking the trouble to defend
himself and raise any amount OF row
about it, stripped himself and his moth
er of SIOO. 900 and paid it in as hush
money, resigning his position. OF
course now that the rascality of the
cashier and most of the directors has
been found out, the eX-teller wants to
get his money back.
A practical move. against monopo-
lists has been made by some energetic
Staten Islanders, charmingly situated.
1t has been so difficult to get to and
from it that it has remained as thinly
populated as many country places a
hundred miles away. The ferry COM
panies run their boats to suit them
selves, and in fOggy weather or when
there is much ice about sometimes don't
run them at all, so that IL resident OF
the island, doing business i'll New ork
must be prepared to lodge at hotel OF
some hospitable friends without any
warning perhaps nine nights every year
At last the people have kicked and
started IA five-cent line, and they have
found ont that they can keep the pot
boiling capitally for that rate and make
money too.
The way A. T. Stewards business is
melting away reminds one of lee cream
in sunshine. The successors to the
= man who made the business Il success
f have been advertising immensely anC
: getting rid of lots of stuff at reduced
rates. However, as everything deslra
BILE was bought up in blocks, the resi-
due does not attract the attention one
would suppose ut first sight. In tacl
the matter does not seem to disturb
the trade here particle. Such firm
as that of Lord x Taylor, for instance
which long ago gathered the cream o
what was once Stewards trade, has
been steadily pursuing its task of sup
PLYING the choicest fabrics for the
adornment of our leaders of fashion, a
its uptown headquarters, while the rusl
at their dOme-crOwned editice III Crane
e street has been immense.
< The great Jumel estate has beel
8 sold. The old mansion in the middle
: was the home of George Washington
; first love and afterwards his headquar
e tiers, and after that again belonged t.
n the widow of Aaron Burr. The lat
Emperor of the French, forseeing thu
grand bounce he got, wanted to buy l
to make little Paris and home for dl
lapidated Bonapartes. But the wa
with Germany caught him before hi
II negotiations were completed, and
p clique of New York schemers who ex
pected to make quite little pile i'll tn
operation were disappointed. The OLE
e home is full of interesting relics ant
z romantic stories of all kinds, and l
Y even inhabited, according to SOM
: peoples yarns, 10y George Washington
ghost. Part of the estate consisted o
: property in Broadway near Wall street
# and sold for Sll5 foot at auction, tn
e largest price ever paid for land in tn
4 United States, and not often exceeded
in London. RADIX.
Y College RecreatiOnS.
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