Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-30
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence Ofthe Monitor.l


Neac York, Jan. %, 1882.
January and May had touching
turnup the other day. and racy was
the record thereof. The old boy is a
faithful old bill collector, the young
woman is a more or less faithful
clearinghouse keeper. Financially
they prosper, she especially being
popular in her vocation, little too
popular the old man thinks. Think
ing so he has occasionally said so.
His outspokenness has been rewarded
by boxes on the ears, camly inflicted
at each repetition of marital authori-
ty. Finally the stalwart lady, ac-
cording to her own words in court,
where this story came out, poured
six cups of ice water and one of vim
egar down his back, to preserve him
for future reference" She is under
bonds to keep the peace. He is an
exile form his home. 1t seems to
me May got the best of it after all.
The railroad horror at Spuyten
Duyvil, where Palace-car Wagner
was victim of the errors of carfit-
tings as well as of official negligence,
is still an absorbing topic. The ''leg-
islathurs' who were so unpleasantly
interrupted in their poker-playing and
whiskey guzzling, are never weary of
relating their hairbreadth escapes to
admiring constituents, while the fun
eral of the victims have occupied a
large share of public attention and
private sorrow. The scapegoat so
! far decided on seems to be the brake
man, an employ of 20 years standing,
who can't read and write, who it is
said ought to have gone back some
distance to warn following trains,
and only went back short way.
But in these days electricity with the
experience of other calamities, does
not this seem primitive and childish
plan to avoid accidents? Suppose the
following train were close at hand
when the brakeman started? Or sup
pose in his hurry on slippery track
the brakeman fell and broke his legs
or smashed his head? If the legs of
man must be utilized as more econom-
ical than mans brains and telegraph
wires, would it not be prudent on the
face of it to send out brakemen by
relays of two, in constant succession
having a car full of brakemen for the
purpose? Even this, however, which
would cost considerable, would hard
ly serve if, as n.this case, a belateG
train is stopped just outside tunne
with another overdue behind it.
Vanderbilt is happy, however. Oh
the day of some of the funerals, HI
gave his home warming to all thu
shoddy millionaires of Gotham, kill
ing two birds with one stone, by ring
ing in reception for his recent,
married daughter, Mrs. DR.. Webb
! The aesthetic mansion was inspected
: from cellar to attic by rapturou
maidens and business-like mamma
and papas, and brothers and lover
who mentally appraised the cost o
, the marvelously expensive outfit
4 The million dollar stables, with Min
: ton tile furnishings for the @theti
horses, and vaccine purveyors o
homemade milk for the prosperin:
plutocrats were greatly admired
Among other visitors who felt deepl
fiattered by an invitation was youn:
Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, who puz
. zled the politicians by putting ''busi
ness principles" carefully on the shell
f for the day, and going home to dres
at noon. He did't say where he wa
y going and the evening papers VIII
did, get invitations to the too-to
, toney racket were editorially inquisi
. tive. They stumbled" next day
q To pay court to richer people is n
h doubt a good ''business principle. .
The young fellow celebrated hi
32d birthday and first magisteria