The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-09-22
OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRlM

Close of the Watering Seasonal Disas-
trous Epoch-Ilnposins Labor Demon
Standardization on Wall Street-Gould
| and Astor-A Brutal Policeman and an
Inhuman Broker-The War of Factions
etc.
New YORK, September Il, 1888.
EDITOR CHIEF:
The watering season is drawing to a
| close. Thousands are rushing back to
town; steamboats, and railroad trains are
pouring i'll whole cargoes of sunburnt tour
lists who have been playing lady and gentle
man for the past eight or ten weeks in the
hills Or by the seaside, that is, if the defni-
tlon of a lady or gentleman signifies an
individual with nothing to do. No, that is
not exactly it; l mean with nothing to do
useful. They have all found enough to do.
There is Mrs. NJ. of Brooklyn, who went to
Saratoga with her three daughters; they all
found something to do, and had plenty to
do it with. The mother set the example,
and it is no wonder that the girls followed
1t. They used to call the daughters the
three grace5, and the mother the disgrace
Six mortal times day did this old sybarite
change her dress, and, like Miss Flora Nc
Flimsey, "every thing that a woman can
put on, from the crown of her head to the
sole of her foot" Sixteen trunks were di-
vided among these four fair ones, and even
these we're insufficient for their wants.
they dressed in the morning for breakfast;
then they changed everything for the morn
ing walk: then they changed for lunch,
after which they changed again for ride
They then dressed for dinner, and after
dinner each one made most elaborate
toilet for the evening reception, or some
private party. They never worked harder
IN their lives, and while they were doing
all this and making the money fly, their
old father, who supplied the cash, was grub
blng away Ill dingy Office in New York,
into which the blessed sun never shines,
and where the atmosphere in the hot Au-
gust days was like that of heated vault |
But they have had their fun, and they are
all coming back singing, "There is no
place like home. We are now brought face
to face with the hard fact that the season |
has been the most disastrous ever known, /
and that all of our pleasure has been very
dearly purchased. Ever since the openinp |
OF the season misfortune has followed mis-
fortune, and calamity has followed calami- I
ty. The number of seaside accidents has /
been out of all proportion with any former
Yachts have been sunk; numbers
have been lost overheard during pleasure
excursions; steamboats, have been blown up;
cars have collided, and we wind up the sea-
3 IN with one of the most causeless and I
railroad disasters of the year.
A train loaded with happy excursionists on
their way from Rockaway Beach, is stopped +
On a crossing by a bull-headed conductor,
to put off a drunken man who refused to /
pay his twenty five cents. For the sum of
twenty-five cents this astute representative /
Of the Long Island Railroad jeopardized I
of lives, and he's actually killed I
n number and manned and wounded fiftv |
more. Murder has held high carnival and /
elopements have been an everyday occur
renee. SO. on careful review Of the /