The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-06-02
Our New York Letter.
Regular correspondence of ADVOCATE.
New YoRR, Nav 30, 1888


New YORK, May 80, 1883.
Tomorrow is Decoration Day, and as
usual all New York will be nstir. So
far as this city is concerned Decoration
Day has practically supplanted the
Fourth of July as public holiday in the
popular mind. The public display this
year will be on smaller scale than for
the last two seasons; that is to say, there
will less spread-eag on the part of
the men who push themselves forward
on such days in the ranks of the Grand
Army of the Republic. and more quiet
genuine private offerings to the memory
OF the dead who fell IN the battlefield for
their country. Last Sunday was de-
lightful day, and in consequences thous-
ands upon thousands Of people visited
the cemeteries and ornamented the
graves of their dear ones so as to have
them look well on Memorial Day. Poor
women whose faces and hands showed
that they had to live life of toll could
be seen marching in from the cars with
basketfuls of n nIwers. The sun was
broiling hot, and from their flushed faces
the perspiration flowed in streams, yet
they were happy for memory brought
them back to join hands with their dear
departed over the river which they had
passed before. The hollowness of the
doctrines of Ingersoll is never so appar.
ent as on this national mourning day.
Since tue entire detective force has
been placed in the hands of Inspector
Byrnes, the thieves and bunco men of
the city have behaved very quietly, and
never has this been SO apparent as dur
ing last week The crowd Of out of.town
visitors t1ocked in not only on Thursday
but every day until to-day. Now under
ordinary circumstances the confidence
swindlers would have reaped golden
harvest, but on this occ ,sion the influx
broug ht them uothing. Chatha IN Street
is their camping ground because game
purposes it has been improved because
the entrance to the bridge is on that
street now. On Friday morning saw a
knot of about hall dozen of men whose
faces are shining ornaments to the
Rogues Gallery, standing in front of the
old Fr0uch Hotel. They looked sad aud
lislless. A New Jersey farmer accom-
panied by verdant looking young man
passed by, One of them left his com.
panions to go up to him, but he had
scarcely advanced few steps before l
noticed that he turned 0ack. Looking
around l saw detective standing at the
| door of cigar store near by. In con-
versation with him l learned that the
Inspector lad massed his men on all
dangerous spots and issued strict orders
that he would hold every man on his
staff directly responsible for every theft
or swindla committed in the imme diate
vicinity to which he was assigned. As
result few more than ordinary skillful
shNrpers were arrested the moment that
they were seen, and this vigorous action
so teTrori2ed the small fry that they did
not dare to ply their neiarious trade.
Visitors who come to New York f. the
purpose of seeing Colonel Roehling s
engineering skill should not neglect at
the same time to have look at High
Bridge, across the Harlem River at two
Hun1reath Street. They will there be
treated to fine view and as perfect q
landscape as could be found in the East,
Beneath you the Harlem glides smoothly
along dotted with rowboats of all des.
criptions, but chiefly racing shells, as
the Harlem is the Headquarters for all
the boat clubs in the city. On either
side rocky declivities rise whose gray
outlines are hidden beneath masses OF
juicy green. In The distance you see the
broad meadows and the green mountains
of Connecticut, while if the sun lust
strikes it right, the mouth of Long Is,
} land sways like a mass OF molten silver,
To the East is tire Hudson, fanked on
one side by the Palisades with their time
scared steep ascents. aud ON the other
by charming variation of hill and dale,
J which can scarcely be riva!led by even
the far famed attractions of the Rhine.
: True, you get no ruins in your landscape
here, but is it necessary for a scene OF
absolute beauty that the finger of death
} or decay should have left its traces? Re.
freshments are easily obtained for there
are plenty of inns and hotels, where Won
can have ANYTHING from glass of beer
and sandwich to an elaborate dinner
with the choicest wines, and at prices nc
higher than those charged anywhere in
the city.
One Of the eleveTest women in town il
the Mother Superioress of Manhattan.
vile Convent and Young Ladies' Semin.
ary. For years, even before Manhattan.
willie became PARTON Of Nv York CITY,
commissioners and legislators endsaVor.