The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-10


in the world-certainly the latter,
At any rate. II Is difficult to con-
coi.c OF anything more beautiful.
There Is a hall for promenading extending
the entire length Of the building, beauti.
fully frescoed and adorned. which Is grand
beyond description. There arc few stair
cases the extreme loftincss Of the build
ing making elevators necessary but those
that are there are in themselves triumphs
OF art. l noticed one "a spiraD with pill
lars. balusters, and steps OF pure whlte
marble, beautifully carved. A prominent
feature Of the building Is an extensive COZ
lection OF war relics--every sort OF article,
from the largest-sized cannon-ball down 10
an old Confederate cap, canteen' or
wooden-solcd shoe being represented
Nothing that might be picked up on a pa'-
tle-feld or used in naval warfare seems 10
be missing. ! observed that my guiue,
who did not know whence / hailed, TOOK
narticnIor delight in exhibiting and de-
scr;bing the old "Confed." relics. And
truly they were sorry-looking objects.
Leaving Albany, run OF six miles
brings YOU 10 Troy, and Immediately adj
Joining It the village OF Lansingburg, the
MAGE OF nv destination, where proposed
IN snend nv vacation. This is the head OF
Underwater and OF navigation. Here are
the falls of the Mohawk river, when
empties into the Hudson, which furnish
abundant water power for the vast woolen
and cotton mills Of Cohoes, opposite Lam
singburg and connected by bridge ana
street-cars. The street-car system Is eX-
cellent, and is extremely well patroniZed.
For ten cents a continuous ride may be
had from the iroD-works, ut the south enu
of Troy, through Lansingburg, across tne
river. and through Cohoes, distance OF
four or five miles, | should Judge. The
fare is five cents inside city limits. The
mills of Cohoes far exceed anything OF the
kind in these parts. The city is not
large. about 10000 Inhabitants; but
there are many mills, several OF them
as much as three squares long, and other
dimensions in proportion. They are al
most entirely owned and operated by
the Harmony Manufacturing Company,
which also owns the bulk OF the dwelling
houses in the place. No one is allowed to
work in the mills unless he rents OF the
Harmony Company, which is decidedly
comfortable arrangement for the latter. "A
strike for higher wages was IN progress
when / was there. These mills have an
immense capacity, and their products are
the great collar factories OF Troy. which
NAV be said 70 supply the whole world with
collars and cuffs.
Collar-turning," as it is called, is the
universal feminine employment in Troy
and Lansingburg. Worldly station or
welfare makes no difference. High and
low. rich and poor, all alike turn collars.
Unlike III the South, it is considered no
disgrace there to work. "They all do it"
The better classes OF the people, however,
do not work in the factories, but have the
work brought to them. The "collar-girls !"
have not generally savory reputation, and
the more respectable ciass-the stay-at-
/ bomes-repard it as a mortal insult to be
! Chased with them. One OF these assured
me. with supercilious toss OF the head,
that she did not "belong to that .fT0tcr-
nifU.v There are none TOO proud TO do the
work. however, and the result is that their
/ homes and themselves all look prosperous
and bright. An expert hand at collar"
turning can make by hard work as high as
81 per day, but it is not often done.
Nv "notes" are already strung out
longer than l intended, and | fear that
space is wanting in which to touch upon
the social aspect of Troy and vicinity rs
presented to me during my brief stay. The
people are kind and hospitable to degree
| ] had not anticipated. Courtesy and con-
sideration marked all with whom 1 came
in contact The effort to suppress any al
fusion to the "late unpleasantness" was
sufficiently pronounced to be no.
ticeable at times. However, though,
it needn't have been, rs went
prepared to practice large amount
| OF liberation and oversight. Some prosy
old gentlemen yentured occasionally on
the pretty safe ground of southern indo-
lence, or laziness. as | said it, seeing they
wished TO but wouldn't. 1t seems that
women do not fare rs well as men, how
ever. | heard OF the case OF 4 young lady
who lived South during the war who has
been and is still tainted with the fact.
| They would say, "There goes little
southern girl; why amt she got her little
niger following her." and this notwitl-
standing that she is of northern birth and
parentage, and well known to be so. But
there are few such cases.
Negroes are admitted to full equality,
but few OF them are to be found i'll this
section. Two, ] believe, were all | saw in
Lansingburg and Troy during my stay,
and these were BARRIERS. Sitting III the
shop awaiting my "turn one day could
not but notice to how much better adj
vantage the negro appeared than white
man, who treated him not only as an equd
but Familiarity, bantering jokes and wagine
conversational "bets" with him as freely
as if he had been Of his own color. OF
course the darby presumed upon it, and
"bet" him back every time. And il he
did not believe in or agree to all his Gus
toner said, he was no way backward OF
| a Il; IN N dIShnlilf n
position.
Ladies at the North seem to have consid
cradle license allowed them, or take it, in
their talk. was several times absolutely
shocked at some of the expressions hearC
, used by perfectly respectable women, anC
that is a great deal for quondam newspa
per man to say. This is q free country, bu
such conversational freedom is not one o.
, its choicest products.
! A feature in which the ladies Of thu
= North do particularly shine, however, Il
4 the loving remembrance in which they
hold their dead. lakewood cemetery, stu
! ated on a plateau overlooking Troy an(
q Lansingburg, is most beautiful. Its neat
ness is phenomenal. The graves, almos
o without exception, have handsome and i'm
y posing monuments over them-nO slab
4 and boards, but genuine sculptured monu
5 meuts. The grave OF Malor-General Johl
d Ellis Wool is here, and the monument owe
O it is extremely high-said to be the secont
highest of the kind in the world, II IN,
r memory serves me. 1t is the custom TO
&c section-owners to pay an annual sum 70
v keeping the lots in order, regular fore
II being employed for that purpose. Most o
IS them conform to this rule-the sections o
e all who do bearing an iron plate with tn
k words "Perpetual Care" inscribed upol
"a it This strikes me as beinO a GOOD idea