The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-09
OUR t.NEW YORK LETTER.

OUR lWEW york LETTER.
From Our owa Correspondent, n t>f -, @
l,,ar,e NEW YORK, JUNE S, 1881. r
Well | Decoration Day has come
and brought summer with. it, or was
itubecause of Whit rMonday1 Every
one enjoyed that most perfect of
holidays, and the procession in New
York was the most gorgeous ever
paraded here. The President and
the ex. President, with a distinguished
group of visitors, reviewed the war
worn veterans and the trim young
militiamen who are ready to fill their
part should they be called on. A
prominent figure was that of Lieut..
Danenhower, of the Jeanette, whom
everybody cheered enthusiastically.
BY the way, he snubbed Bennett and
the latter got so mad about it that
he published the lieutenant's declina-
ton of dinner with him on the
ground of a previous engagement,
in the Herald the next morning.
There was some hitch in the matter
of engaging a steamer on the Lena
to search, for De Long, on account
of which, it may be remembered,
the government took the matter out
of Benefits hands and arranged to
bear the cost themselves, and it is
supposed there is some soreness of
feeling between the distinguished
explorer of Africa (by proxy and
the latest victim of his vicarious
enterprise. Bennett has given De
Longs widow $4,000 in United
States bonds, and will provide for
poor mad Jack Cole if the navy will
discharge him. Jack was one of his
old yachts crew. He himself is
detained here because his yacht
requires repairs after her trial trip,
and the boilermakers are on a strike.
Talking of strikes, they cause a
dreadful waste of money, and yet
sometimes it is difficult to imagine
any other way for maltreated men
to bring greedy employers to reason.
From all accounts it would seem
that John Roach, who has been
showing off for years as the friend
of the American working man, has
been paying meaner wages than any
body else, and in manner bulldozed
the other masters of works to resist
the demands of the boilermakers.
At any rate masters and men are
alike exasperated at him now, and
it would not surprise me to find that
| John Roach was boycotted out of
the business altogether. He can
afford it, for he has lots of money,
and if he doesn't get roped into
Wall street, will probably manage to
keep it. The bosses have all practi-
cally surrendered to the men now,
and uniting against Roach has made
them friends all round. ...
Roach says he doesn't know what
wages his men get. His foreman
attends to it. This is too thin. In
these days of close competition and
close figuring, man who couldn't
estimate down to very fine notch
would soon get badly left--unless
he depended entirely on corruption.
The loose business methods of our
Monte Christie magnates are remark
able enough. A few years ago a
soap-maker had his cashier arrested
for embezzling something like Sa,-
900, 600, which he said he hadn't
missed. Now suit for the recovery
of certain money in Newark reveals
the fact that the teller some years
ago found a shortage af S95,ooo in
his accounts. He couldn't explasn
it, but without taking the trouble to
defend himself and raise any amour,
of row about it, stripped himself and
his mother Of S1oo,ooo and paid il
in as hush-money, resigning hi:
position. Of course now that the
rascality of the cashier and most o
directors has been found out, the
ex teller wants to get his money back
! All the same, l shouldn't care te
leave my safe open with him around