Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-07-21
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Especial correspondence OF the Free Press and
Timcs.l

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Guttermutb, Seventh avenue, month age
and now another murder is committed at tn
corner of Sixth avenue, and Fourth street
one OF the busiest and most respectable local
ties, and although four or five people wer
within sight, and hearing of the affair, tn
crime is not fastened upon anybody as yet
The victim was private detective, engages
to preserve order at a concert hall of tn
better class. Evidence goes to show that h
had some trouble with a party of fast Incl
and women, who were not ready to leav
when 1t was time to close the place at night
all hands, including the officer, had beef
drinking the quarrel begun inside the hall
was renewed on the sidewalk, and the watch
man received blow on the head, from which
he died the next day. This is another illus
tration of the danger Of attending midnigh
carousals in New York, and of the facility
| which great city affords for conccalmcnl
and escape of those who may strike muir.
derous blow.
But, on the other hand, we have an illus.
tration of the difficulty of Guiding pursuit, in
the arrest, day or two ago, in Havana, of q
man who stole over 100000 in Belgium,
more than year ago, and has since been
followed and hunted by New York detec-
tive, from this city through Canada, Georgia,
Texas and Central America, until run to
earth in the West Indas.
The Labor Troubles.
One of the railroad companies has given in
to the strikers and its freight is being handled
in busness-lke and rapid manner. The
great trunk lines, however. still try to get on
with green and feeble hands, and the block
ade continues. The question Of the RESPONSE
bility of the transportation companies is to
be tested in the courts, not their right to
decide as TO what wages they shall pay but
their right to refuse to receive and forward
freight when they might do it by means
within their reach. If they can supply the
places of the strikers with new hands at
less price and carry forward, with reasonable
promptness, the freight that is offered, they
have perfect right to do so but if they
fail to do it, and goods are damaged by the
reason of the refusal of the companies to en-
ploy ordinarily skilled labor for the purpose,
then, it is claimed, they must pay the cost,
to the shippers.
The cartmen have also gone to court
against the roads, and n test case is being
brought by a truckman, who presented him.
self at the freight house with load of
goods bound to ST. Louis. lie was told that
the freight would be received, ard to wait
until the company's employees could take it
IN. lie waited from : a. m. of June 90 I'M
til 1l:3O a. m. of June 22d, and he brings
SUIT Tor damages caused by the detention,
If he wins his suit, hundreds of others will
be brought on similar state of facts.
Metropolitan Growth,
A few years ago, the eight and ten storied
houses in old Edinburgh, were looked upon
as a curiosity and we wondered that brick
and mortar should be piled so high for dwell
ing places, or that anybody would risk living
50 near heaven. Now New York can dis
count the Scottish capital, and in few years
the lower part of the city will be mass of
towering structures, such as no other city can
show. Ten story buildings are going up to
be filled with Offices and every room is rent
ed before the walls are completed 1t is
serious question rs to protection from pos
sible fires in these edifces, one hundred feet
and more in height, and the only way to solve
1t is by the use of absolutely tire-proof ma
terials, and none other. Under no other con-
ditions should such lofty buildings be per-
mittcd. The progress of science Keeps pace
with the developments of our needs and
American inventions will test and experiment
until the burning to the ground of a large
modern building will be an impossibility.
In every part of the city, building has
been going on with wonderful rapidity, dur
ing the first half of 1882. In that six months,
the Building Bureau approved of plans for
1865 new buildings, and for alterations of old
ones to cost, together, more than twenty
eight million dollars This activity is no.
ticed in all parts of the city. from the Battery
to Harlem River, many of the edifices in the
upper portion being large, costly and elegant
apartment houses whose occupants must
pay rental of from $500 to $4,000 for
suite OF eight to twelve rooms.
Odd s'Ads..
All the entertainment in newspaper is
not to be found in the amusement columns,
nor yet in that fourth column on the Times ed
toral page, where Alden's grotesque articles
reto be looked Tor. The ordinary advertise
nents Cor, rather, the extraordinary ones found
among the ordinary ones) are often more curl
)us than the reading matter. At 40 cents line
he frugal advertiser counts the space, and bois
down his meaning into the fewest practical
words. II your name happens to be Gordon,
you needn't get mad to find, under "Help
Wanted. this call ; "Wanted. Boy to kick
Gordon, and make himself useful 1t is
only printer who wants boy to work Il
Gordon press, and he ready for anything else.
The spinster need not stop her paper because
t contains the shameless announcement of
hands wanted to work on bosoms !" for it
means sewing girls in shirt factory. Small
Joys generally manage to fill their pockets
wen unto bursting, but here is a man who
,dvertises for "boy in salt store to fill
small pockets" the ''pockets" being the
mail bags for table salt. Another advertises
or young girl improver," but what he
wants am not mlliner enough to find out
Perhaps he was the father OF the fiftecn-years-
Did girl who was arrested the other day for
wearing boys clothing and running away
rom home to consort with newsboys and boot
blacks. There is an ample field in New York
or young girl improvcrs. 1t isn't restaurant
Ieeper, nor the proprietor of country
iotel, who says "a Peerless feeder wanted"
Jut another printer who wants boy to tend
md feed II Peerless press. Otherwise,
know several men out of employment, who
would fill the bill, with peerless and insatia-
Bile appetites. To one who has watched the |
way the modern girls wind their tolls about
the eligible young men, and lead them on to
it seems hardly necessary to ad-
vertise for girls wanted for mending and
doubling" but investigation shows that they
are wanted by a manufacturer of braid 1t |
is not an anatomist, but an artificial flower
maker, who advertises for ''small girls to
branch, and boy to view," nor is it the man
lger of prize fight exhibition who calls for
IN experienced man to take charge of
throwing mill, but the owner Of silk factory
in New jersey.
We have all heard of galvanic garments,
electrical belts, magnetic clothing and divers
other metallic appliances, wherewith the hu-
man body may be clothed, but when firm
N Pittsburgh advertises, wanted, some good
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