The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-14
Lincoln County Leader.
Saturday. July IA, 1873.
oUR NEW YORK LETTER.
NV YonK. June 80, 1888.
Prom our regular correspondent.

those who have left town, and the
rows of closed houses that meet
the eye in all the principal avenues
and streets, there are enough poo
die still left to crowd Delmonico's
and the Brunswick every evening,
and to admit Of the %jolliest little
dinners and suppers at Manhattan
Beach. For those whom necessity
or inclination induce to remain I'M
til the fag end Of the season, there
is always a compensation in the
additional Importance which their
isolated position gives them, and
the opportunities continually pre-
senting themselves for informal,
unconventional enjoyment. Even
that most prosaic of all architecture
al necessities, the front steps of a
brown stone dwelling, is the scene
of many a tender little episode and
sentimental t~ete-d-tete, which, with
the moon looking on, is often as
pleasant and as lasting as if the
parties were surrounded by green
fields or sitting by the sad lei
waves. This week however, will
see the final close. By the first
OF July society will be fairly es-
tablished in summer quarters.
Every hotel and boarding house by
ocean, lake, or on mountain side
will be filed, and the cynics of
Fifth avenue, club windows will be
compelled to turn their attention
from the study of anatomy, as dis
played in insteps and ankles, and
from the dissection of female char
acter, to the porusal of watering
Place Echoes" and the contempla-
tron of brick walls and stone pave
ments.
The Postal Telegraph Company
was reorganized Wednesday, and
the new board of directors is a very
strong one, including as it does
such men as Hugh J. Jewett, Gen.
Geo. W. Cass, Geo. S. Coe, Tho
mas Deckman, and others promin-
cnt in railroad and financial affairs.
Mr.. Henry Cummins, the vice-Pre-
sident of the company, says the in
fusion of new blood into the direc-
tory insures the speedy extension
of the line to allthe principal points
in the country, in addition to which
a contract has been made by which
one Atlantic cable, and perhaps
two, will be laid Immediately, the
money having already been raised
for that purpose.
There has been q lull of late in
the racing mania.
The removal of families and the
temporary claims of husbands and
children, have created a scarcity
of chaperones, and young ladies
compelled to stay at home by these
unreasonable e1actions have pout-
ed not a little, and suggested many
needed reforms inthe Via Dolorosa
of matrimony. At the last meet
ing of the Coney Island Club, to
take place on Saturday, the Both,
there is to bea general emancipa-
ton of wives and mothers, and
parties from all suburban places
and some from more remote local.
ties have already been made up,
and a very brilliant gathering may
be expected,
The Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, the richest in the world
though l think the Equitable is
now more activs-iS rapidly rush
ing up its eight-story building on
the site of the old post Office,
1S5x112 feet. The occupation of
builders never was more honorable
than now, and | %apprehend that
the time is coming whom we will
have a mechanical impressment
law, authorizing the l%assoing of
lawyers, doctors, students, divinity
prigs, DC. and forcing them on
erections, al the English Navy was
once recruited by the press-gang.