The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
new TORK. April I. 1867.
Thas Aiserabla scamp, ex.Carpeibag
GovsVAsE frHnkiis j. Noses. 5r., sI GouGh
Careless, has bsss up 10 his old ESicKs, and
ID again in Inc clutches Of the Ia Tor swind.
ling and forgery. His LAST published eaper
Was passing himself OF on . piano zaaker for
9 brother OF GOV. Colquiit, sf Georgia, xui
after inspecting me sweet.scs.a Supplying.
shop in the most patronlzing way, ordered
piano, and got little cheque cashed
On bank which never existed. He once
before simulated an imaginary brother OF the
Mayor of Boston in like adventure, and
the similarity Of procedure gave the clue at
once. He was speedily arrested, as he had
long been g shadowed' as a suspicious char.
acter, and nineteen other complainants have
been found out. Just fancy Twenty fresh
victims of soft saWder And yet we think
we're awful smart.
All the world and his wife are agog about
the forthcoming simultaneous fandango in all
the theaters for the benefit Of the Actors
Fund. All the knights, DANES and donzellas
of the pleasant science of the Sock and Bus.
kin now enjoying engagements, together
| with the multitude who are only employed
at their own expense on the sidewalks of
| Union square, have volunteered their SER
vices; the managers pay for gas and all the
incidentals, and the public pay for tickets
TO the extent of many thousands in excess of
the possible holding capacity of all the places
of amusement in Gotham put together
You'll hear every one declare that nobody
but fool would attempt even to try to get
in among the crowds at such performance,
and might be led 10 suppose the wise ones
would stay away, and that the attendance
would be slim. But il won't. They'll be
there, my boy. all of EN-, for sweet Charity's
sake, you know, don't forget it, and two.
thirds of EN- will be crowded out ON the side
walk.
There are some drawbacks to living in
this city, with all its beauties and conve-
niences. For instance, even if we are COM
| fOrtably off and own several carriages, we
may prefer rapid transit by steam 10 equine
locomotion when in hurry but il is incon-
venient when party of friends, or two busy
men try to board one of the I" II trains, and
the humorous brakemen make il their bust
ness to divide them. Young fellows ha ne
thus been separated from their adored ones
ON the way to the theatre-the A. O. pos
sibly not having cent in her clothes to pay
her car fare home again-husbands from
wives, and so on. Sometimes the comedy is
turned TO tragedy. One of the employees of
Bogardus, the photographer perhaps the
Oldest in the business in New YOrk-he took
my photo, in my joyful youth during the
war, when proudly bearing my first shout
der-straps after quite spell at shouldering
a musket) IAN old gentleman with wooden
leg, friend, and little daughter, were 90.
ing home last Saturday. They were very
happy, anticipating the pleasure some little
gifts they had purchased would give the
mother. The train came, with its ill paid
| nunkies in their usual haste and brutal ill
temper. To save time the cripple boarded
it first. As the child tried to follow, the
cars were started and the poor little thing
fell beneath them, and was ground to frag-
ments before her fathers eyes, The pieces
dropped through the rails to the avenue be-
low, and some realistic and narrowing ana
tomical details were published in daily pa
| per, which ought 10 make an example of the
| ghoul who wrote the story and of the night
editor who allowed it. to appear in such
shape.
The trainmen are on the verge of a strike
About tenth of them should be hung, on
general principles, for they are sure to de-
serve it some day, if they don't already.
The service is corrupting, and is so badly
paid, and the men are treated so like slaves,
that il is wonder to me how any sane man
with shred of self-respect could endure
week of It, In point of fact, scarcely de-
cent man does. and the exceptions must be
soft in their heads. To fulfill duties which,
with human life by the thousands to take
care of, require experience, judgment, de.
cision, and good temper, incapable persons,
who possess not one of these absolutely nee
essary qualifications are employed at from
| 81. go to $2.50a day. Now, with rents and
provisions, clothes and everything else go.
ing up, such wages are attractive only to
chronic failures, and it is notorious that the
"L'' roads are the last refuge of the incom-
petent.
| Yes Rice is rig, as the French say, and
skilled and unskilled labor are on the ram
page with the Oliver Twist demand for
more" Capital is getting ugly, and there
are symptoms Of general buttonng up of
wealth which may change our hallalujahs
for prosperity 10 walls of woe for wasted
time, ill-feeling and all kinds of unpleasant
ness. There's plenty of money being made,
but quite large number of people are get
ting left in the operation, and they feel
mad. Strikes are springing up on every
hand like early peas, and there is no peace
with them.
One of the meanest, was a rumpus kicked
up in the World office at P. Nj. on Tuesday,
about whether 40c. or 45c. per NJ was the
proper pay for compositors. The paper
came out in queer shape on Wednesday,
only three men having remained at their
cases-with a lot of standing matter intend
ed for the Sunday miscellany editorials of
the day before repeated, paragraphs cut
short in the middle, &c. The proprietors
say the trap was unfairly sprung on them
The printers say they were harshly used
and sprung no trap, and had no intention to
Estrike. As matter of fact, / happen to
know, of my own personal knowledge, that
one of the printers went to work in another
Office, rat job Office at that, early on Tues.
day morning. He could scarcely have
thrown up steady job unless he knew
something were in the wind.
Easter cards, eggs, &C., are having an i'm
mense sale. Some of them are very expen-
sive and are veritable works of art, the COM
positions from which the chromos are made
being often the work of men and women of
worldwide renown. One hugh card by
Moran is simply exquisite in its poetic
beauty and suggestiveness. The glow of
heavenly sunrise. over heavenly city of
promise, is almost worthy of Turner in ex-
ecution, and superior to anything Turner
ever did in imaginative feeling.
| Oscar Wilde has been utilized to mike
money for numbers of ingenious people,
There are fans in the shape of innocent.
looking cigars, which expand in the shape of
sunfowers. There are sunfower pen. wipers
| (patented forsooth), and sunhower pincush-
ions. The latest thing I've seen was an
Oscar Wilde concert, gotten up by a lot of
small children, with great trouble and great
expense for their small pockets, in order to
swell the amount of their Easter offerings.
An ancient victim, who can draw a little,
was called on to paint gorgeous dropscene
with sunfowers and lilies In the middle
of the sunfower we're holes. Through those
holes appeared before succession of de-
/ lighted audiences at Children's Fair nv