The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-06-09
Our New York Letter.
Regular correspondence of ADVOCATE.


The Commencement Season is in its
height now. and in every section of the
country colleges are grinding out degrees
at rate calculated to fill the stauncbest
heart with alarm. Particularly is this
the case with the law schools. Over one
hundred young limbs of the law were
graduated last week, and the first ques-
ton that arises is what is to become Of
themH Surely the proportion of lawyers
to clients is already too large, and nine
ont Of ten practitioners at the bar earn
scarcely enough money 10 pay Office rent
or wear passably respectable clothes. 1t
is almost pity to'see men full blooded
lawyers from twenty to fifty years Of
age, working in law offices at prices fire.
oiently less than five dollars or seldom
more than twelve dollars week. or
course when men are driven to extremes
they will do almost anything to make
money, thus those disengaged lawyers
foster litigation at frightful rate.
You slip IN the street and fall, infiict-
ing. an injury which may be painful
enough but is not very serious. The CO.
currence if possessed of any features at
all worth recording appears in the news
papers. In less than ten hours you will
have the cards of at least dozen law
yers, all of whom are anxious 10 begin a
suit for damages at once for from fifty to
seventy five per cent. of the prospective
winnings. Why, there wosld not be one
tenth the divorce suits, il it we're not for
impecunious lawyers who egg on foolish
women who come to them under the in.
flnepce of momentary excitement, and
thus take steps which cannot be retraced
in a life time.
1t is the same with the medical profess
sion. or course a great many young
physicians 60 out of the city. 60 West
to grow up with the country. But for
every practitioner that means to earn
his spurs in the West we get one from
there, who having earned u little local
reputation thinks that the world would
stop still were he TO hesitate longer about
impartipg his knowledge to the larger
circle whom it is possible to reach in the
metropolis. Que half of our practitiun-
ers would s!arve if they did not find
other occupations to keep body and soul
together until the long expected bell
sounds, which summons them to pa
tient.
It looks very much as if the money for
the projected Bnrtholdi's mammoth
Statue of Liberty Enlightening the
World" would never be raised. The
committee who bave the matter in Land
are too utterly high toned to put their
shoulder to the wheel and make means
and ways if they cannot find them.
They sit languidly and every now aud
then some one of Them writes an appeal
to the papers in very choice English, OF
gets himself interviewed. But the words
do not reach the public heart and hel ce
there is no response. Now here is a
scheme to raise good pc rtien Of the
money. Let every racing association
and trotting track give an extra days
sport, aud after dedu ;ting expe es pre-
sent the money to the committee. There
are so many meetings now, and they are
so well attended that the money they
could produce wouli be very heavy.
There is no need of being too bashful to
ask other States to contribute. for the
statue is n present not to New York but
to the United States.
The work of demolishiug the old
Washington Market was to have beer
begun yesterday, but somehow the stal
keepers managed to get another respite
until the fall. This Is certainly sensibl,
for if the old recesses under the flooring
of thu market which by court .sy ar,
called cellars, were to be opened in tn,
heat of the summer season they would b,
certain to give vent to very respectabl,
amount of sickness. As it is they ar,
regular hatcheries of malaria For tn,
s,ks of old New York traditions one can
not help rrgretting the approaching de
struc ion of the old rookery, but on th
other hand n new market there is aln c
, lutely necessary. more so than at Mint
Street and Sixth Avenue where ne,
S J,ffrrson Market is riSing, ph0niI lik
D out of the ruins of the old one. Th
m Irkets We have were built in early Me-
/. York days, They we're then large enoug
h to SUPPLY all exigeneies. The time fC
. these wooden structures is now gone b!
Before the building is to be torn dow
a the butchers are discussing project I
a having grand rat hunt. Washingto
"a Market has always been famous for Il
number. size and ferocity of its rat
During the day time they keep qui
enough. but the moment the stalls a.
"a closed and the shades of night begin
,f fall, they come out of their hiding plRc,
l. and after feeding on the scraps Of mea
=, vegetables ETC., which naturally aboun,
n they make night hideous with the
3 brawls and fights which frequently en-
!, in the death of several eombatants,
Pr II requires a brave man TO go into Il
1t market at night, for the rats are ferocioI
% and determined TO stick up for the
rights. Fhs butchers propose to got /
re gether large number of terriers OF
d have a grand battle TO wind up tine fe
i tivities of the occasion,
1t One of the silliest and yainAst modAs
ID expenditures demanded by fashion ~ Il