St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-12-21
Our New York "Radix' Letter.
NEW YORK. DEC. II. 1883.


The event of the week was the
grand Vanderbilt ball, attended by a
heavy delegation of the beauty, fash |
ion and wealth of the metropolis and
other cities. The mansion is admirably |
adapted to festivities on grand scale,
and the scene was brilliant i'll the eX-
IRENE. People who were not invited
were somewhat captious, but then
that is to be expected. The house is
certainly something to be proud of.
1t cost in the neighborhood of S3,000,-
900, and full value for the money is
there. 1t is full of evidences of good
taste, and has the finest private or
public collection of pictures in the
country, while some of the apartments.
such as the Japanese room, and Mrs.
Vanderbilt's bOudOir, are bewildering
ly beautiful.
An example of the evils of young
women being allowed to earn their
own living unchecked by any friendly
counsel has been shown by the suicide
of il pretty stenographer at the Wind
sor Hotel, the favorite brides resort.
The young lady called on newly
married couple, and after Il few re-
marks shot herself Why, can be
guessed. Her folks are wellto-dO,
and there seems no reason why the
girl should have come on to New York
and engaged in an occupation which
certainly allows many chances for
| i, g..
Minister Christiancy has just died.
She, too, was Il female clerk in Wash
ingtOn when she met the ancient and
cranky person who maltreated her.
Oakley Hall is off to Europe again to
begin life as a student for the English
bar. He is an excellent lawyer, but
cannot be admitted, it seems, without II
course of probation. Ofintinite wit, jest
and geniality, Il scholar of great at
tainments, and general favorite, it is
strange how he has slipped up so dis
astrously. A victim of the Tweed
ring, he seems never to have fully re-
covered his pOise.
The Bartholdi statue is exciting a
great deal of interest Just now, and
valiant efforts are being put forth to
secure the necessary funds for the ped
estal. For one thing, Il notable Art
Loan Exhibition is being held at the
Academy. Another scheme is the set
ting apart of 20 per cent. of all receipts
from the exquisite picture i'll 10 colorS
7 which gives the only authorized and
correct representation of the superb in
ternational trophy. The parties who,
for the present, control every copy of
this delightful masterpiece of lithO-
graphV, Robert Lows son, the Ameri-
can branch of the great firm of Messrs.
Low, Son x Hayden, of London, have
already subscribed Sl400 to the good
cause and there will he more to fol
low.
Some funny cases are occupying the
courts. and an Italian witness i'll one
of the railroad rows, Il Mr.. Morisini, is
creating II good deal of amusement by
his polite evasions of II task that is I'M
pleasing to the parties interested with
him on one side of the question. The
poor man cannot find the books of his
firm, with all the assistance that can
be rendered by his bookkeeper ANA an
: army of clerks and office boys, and he
seems so very distressed that even the
opposing lawyers can hardly have the
heart to lock him up during the holt
DAYS. Another Italian, " General hi
Cesnola, who claims that he had his
title verbally conferred by President
Lincoln, is in considerable hot water
in regard to some alleged antiquities
which he claims to have dug up i'll Cy-
prus, which it is said have been hathed
and plastered and patched up in Il
wonderful manner, to suit certain
theories of different vOtaries of Dry
asdust topics. The doughty warrior
and eX u. 5. consul certainly got Il
good deal of money for his old junk,
and the wiseacres who negotiated with
him are rather nettled at the notion
that they may have been deceived.
Whether your readers are tariff oI
anti tariff men, they ought to get hold
of the one paper i'll the country that
has fought, through thick and thin,
for the one great remedy for all our
trade fluctuations. refer to the Am
erican Exporter, which has grown i'm
mensely in influence of late, and has
attracted some of the brightest and
most thoughtful writer's in the country
and out of it as contributors. 1t is the
consistent uphOlder of the facts that
there is no such thing us ''over-pro-
duction," but we suffer from under
distribution, that we should expand
: our markets, increase production,
search for and create new outlets foI
our energies, and boom our home in
dnstries by diligent export. RADIN.