The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-07-01
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

Advanced OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of New York
Streets-Fatal End of s. Summer-night
Picnic-Morality of Our Press-A Dis
trict Attorney goes down to Jericho-An
Avalanche of Russian Jews-The Rus
sian Bear an Elephant, etc.
New YORK, June 10, 1882.
EDITOR CHIEF:
1t is IL pleasant thing to take up a
newspaper these delightful summer days
and reflect how fortunate we are to have
the privilege Of living in such Il place as
New York. Ispread the paper out before
me, and the headlines that catch my eye
are -" Frightfal Murder" Shocking
Outrage, y" Daring Robbery" "Horrible
Accident" and as if this was not enough
in all conscience to season your toast and
coffee, the Herald gives three columns of
it's valuable space to a prize fight, and
disgusting details of !. couple Of human
brutes pounding each other to pieces.
In New York and Brooklyn there are
about six thousand police; they are
maintained at cost of several millions
of dollars per annnm. The staff Of the
Herald is not fifty, all told; but one Of
it's reporters can tell You weeks before
hand when fight is going to take place !;
lie is first on the ground, and is always
in at the death; but, us a general thing,
about the first iptimation that they get
at headquarters that mill has taken
place, is by reading the account in the
Herald, or one of the other sporting
papers. 1t is said that the Herald has a
regular schedule for news not furnished
by its regular staff, which, reads about
as follows: Friyhtful murders, with two
columns of details, SIP so; shocking out
RACES, $40 90; reports of sermons and
lectures, so cents; charitable institutions,
25 cents; dog fights, where one Of the
animals is killed, $50 90: prize mills
where one Of the principals is beaten te
death, $50 IS per column. Notice-rcli.
gious articles must not exceed seven
lines. Prize fights will not be allowed
more than four columns.
/ don't know what people will think
of us. A man going quietly along the
street is murdered; all the parties arr
eminently respectable, and yet the cor
oner's inquest brings out a state of a fair.
which represents our civilization in al
unfavorablc light. A lady is living il
luxurious apartments separate from hcl
husband, and she makes the acqnaint
ance OF Il fascinating commercial drum
mer; Of course there are commercial
drummers who go to Sunday school, ant
say !" Now l lay me-" etc, every nigh
!, before they so to sleep; but commercial
drnmmers who do that sort of thing III,
by no means plentiful, and very few 0
them hail from New York. Well, thi
particular drummer invited female
! friend to mako an evening call, and thi
female friends husband was fishing TO
salmon or Smokers, or something of thai
, sort, away i'll the wilds Of Canada. Thu
} party broke up quite late, and instea'
of going home as propristy would die
} tate, they adjourned to a lager beer gar
, den and stayed there till five O'clock il
} the morning. They conld have got
street car and ridden home, as the friend
, who accompanied them did; but the,
} preferred to walk. Every one who know
any thing about our streets knows tina
, it is dangerous to walk those thorough
) fares at midnight. At that particnla
: time the police are taking their .nsua
evening nap, or taking a quiet nip will
friend in the corner SALOON. 70 max.
long story short, the man is attacle,
and murdered; the whole affair take.
only a couple Of minutes; the woman
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