The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-16
OUR NEW. YORK LETTER.
From Our Own Correspondent.
New YORK, JUNE IL, 1882

NEW YORK, JUNE IL, 1882.
Whew Hot Ya-as, very hot.
People are beginning to think of va
cations and summer scenes. As a
sort of foretaste, large section OF
society have invaded West Point to
assist at the graduation of the latest
batch of young soldiers, and having
broken the ice, as it were, of that
troublesome job, the packing, will
finish it when they return, for longer
trips 10 favored localities here and
abroad. The Atlantic ferryboats are
already densely crowded on every out
ward voyage, and intending passen-
gers have to secure their tickets
weeks before their proposed depart
ure. And while these votaries of
pleasure go to enjoy leisure and spend
the hard cash they've been making
so freely, the incoming steamers bring
still denser crowds in the steerage.
Such an immigration has been un.
paralleled in history. For one thing
it is peaceful, for another it is an out
pouring of all nations and potent
factor in the future solidarity Of the
world when all men will be recog-
nized as brethren-no Tartar horde
with raging swords sweep down with
devastating course, but earnest seek
ers after happy homes, and some of
that wealth which is SO tangibly dis
played by their forerunners, crowd in
from Germany and Ireland, Russia,
the Sandwich Islands, everywhere,
The dusky Hindoo is not unknown
among the crews of Calcutta ships,
or as children's nurses in the families
of retSrned missionaries and mer-
chants. 1t is a pity some Of our
guests are not better treated. One of
the Dutch lines has been convicted of
i'll usage of immigrants. In
one ship, by means of drunken doc
tor, bad food, and disgusting accom-
modations, there were eighteen deaths.
The Masons have been holding
high festival, and the benevolent or
der has never been so fourishing or
so generally popular. Special atten-
ton has been directed to them on ac-
count Of the death of the illustrious
brother Garibaldi, who was made
Mason in Tompkins Lodge, Staten
Island, in the days when he was the
head of the then very small Italian
colony, and started candle factory
to give employment to his country
men, and very successful enterprise
it was, too. There are over $4,000
Italians in New York now, and ex-
cept for an occasional stabbing affray,
they give little trouble to the police,
and for the most part support them
selves very creditably. 1t is true that
among the rag.pickers and organ
grinders, fddlers and monkey-leaders,
who are imported like cattle by
there is more dirt and i'm
morality than is alleged to exist
among the Chinese Coolies in San
Francisco, but they somehow seem
to emerge from this sort of thing and
accumulate money enough to live
quite decently after while.
The Stock Exchange have been in
in decapitating member.
They expelled Mr.. William J. Hutch
inson for "obvious fraud" in trans
actions with one of his customers,
who complained that Hutchinson
seemed to get rich just in proportion
as he got poorer. Hutchinson
glanced over his books and acknowl-
edged that possibly there might.b be
some trihing errors, and handed over
s75oooo- to make things, square.
The story got wind, yand there are
such things as business rivals. There
was a trial and the result I have
given you. 1t is serious. The for
feited seat with its life policy secured
by the arrangements of the Exchange
is worth nearly $4,000, and the
stigma is such that it would seem i'm
possible for man resting under it to
do any sort of business henceforth
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