The Worthington advance., 1882-03-09

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LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
from our REGULAR CoRKEsPoS DEST.]
The Advonce-The Snow Blockade
Elevated Rail,cays- Immigration
Crime Young Criminals.
EDITOR ADVANCE: Your paper re-
ceived short time ago and in looking
over the contents find the same spirit
Of advance shown that has always
characterized its movements. Time
has indeed favored it, and to-day it
must be source of much satisfaction
to be still in the front, having distanc-
ed the several competitors that have
tried to force from the ADVANCE the
merited laurels Of an official newspa-
per. 1t is with pleasure that take
upon myself the task of giving your
readers ;ln occasional brief of the i'm.
portant events that occur in the East
and more particularly III New York
city and vicinity, hoping they will
pass their criticisms sparingly Oh one
whose talents i'll the line OF newspaper
correspondence is extremely doubtful.
The short acquaintance that the writer
has had with the Warm-hearted people
OF WOrthington, has made him bold to
open this correspondence.
The subject that has been agitating
the minds of the New York people OF
late, is, how are the streets to be clean.
ed after i; heavy fall Of snow? 10 per
SONS not acquainted with the problem
this would seem to he almost too simple
to bother the brains Of the metropolis
with. But when one sees streets block.
aided with Il solid mass of trucks, drays,
carriages, street cars, stages and snow
f'r 4 distance Of often 4 half mile, and
with no prospect of i check in the
blockade for at least half hour, then,
and only then, does he feel that the
driver is not responsible for the habit
ha has of swearing the merchant fol
complaining, or the pedestrian, who is
frequently knocked into the slush
FROM complaining in the 'Herald $
corner Of groans.'' The street clean.
ing contractors get the free advice dai-
~ of men who have more brains than
they can conveniently keep in Ole
small head. The beautiful SNOW is.
alas, no more beautiful when once it
touches the Island Of Manhattan. 1t
could be more appropriately termed
grease after it has once fairly settled
With the SNOW comes the question o.
elevated railroads. That they are OF
incalculable benefit to the people can
not be denied, but what the people art
trying to find out is whether they have
:;.ny rights that railway corporations
are bound to respect. When the travel
lis the heaviest, ut "a. m. and 6 p. m.
1the employees are the rndest. The
companies seem to have no care fol
life and limb, and the cars are lackeC
like those OH a western cattle train
There are three elevated roads running
the length Of the island. All are really
under the control Of three men, and il,
their greed for gain they seem to feel z
right to give the people just such &C
commOtlatiOnS as their own feelings il
the matter may dictate. Legislative
discipline is the prescription for theil
case.
The increase in Immigration thi:
year over previous years has been ;
subject Of much newspaper comment
The number OF immigrants that have
landed tins week at Castle Garden was
sips, being al increase OF 3,8O3 over
the corresponding week last year
The Bremen steam ship, EIbe, landed
925 on Saturday last, and every day
brings in q: fresh batch. The JeWisl
refugees are swaruing to our shore:
and in all probability WorthingtOl
v,nv GOO cn,,a I,f }o,n 1nnr
That crime is more on the increase il
New York city than it's growth war
rants is 4 settled fact. And the alarm
ing fact stands forth as shown by sta
tistics that 4 large majority OF thu
crimes committed were by young mei
between the ages Of eighteen and thir-
ty. The question naturally comes
how are the young men educated IL
CRIME? The answer is short; in the
pool room. There they learn to drink
there gamble, there embeZzle, and as il,
the case Of young man arrested fol
drunkenness, try to commit suicide
while in the cell. He was tired of life
at the age Of twenty-two.
The number of suicides is also in
creasing. Some of the means used tt
''shutlle off this mortal coil" are move
ana very sensational. AS IN I'arls. 81
here, oblivion seems to he the popular
place for those WHO think their lot par
ticularly hard.
The number of dreadful accident:
that have happened Of late are enough
to make the stoutest shudder
The Park fire, the Virginia mine ex-
plosion, the Chester fire-work factor!
catastrophe, the mill explosion il
Ba"oklyn, and the fearful colliery ex'
plosion in England are all food fo
thought as to the responsibility j,
such cases.
Society here is going through tn
usual round of winter enjoyment
Mrs. de Tompkyns gives recitation
and of course all the friends have t.
emulate that eminently respectabl
lady. The Elks, the French, the Ario1
and the Charity balls are the annua
society events.
II. J. SIIPWAY.