The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-02-03
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

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Rapid Transit-Highway Robbery
Case betwixt Weaahersteik and Pistol
10 Churches and Theatres.
New YORK, January 27, 1888.
EDITOR CHIEF:
The glorious sleighing Of Monday ant
Tuesday got II black eye on Wednesday
when a storm of sleet and rain swep
down OH us, completing our wretched
ness with one of the most miserable day:
of the season. I have never been able tt
cipher out the psychological affinity be
tween stocks and tho weather; .but
have noticed for several years that i
there is q particularly miserable day
stocks are generally sound up, while ii
fine weather when you would naturally
suppose that the majority of people
would like to speculate, they go down
BY some idiosyncrasy which 10 fellow
can find out, stocks seem to take all up.
ward turn just rs the thermometer falls
The only way / can account for this mar.
vel is that cold weather does not agree
with bear. Bears are hibcrnating ami
mails, and are supposed to derive suffi
cient nourislment 10y sucking their paws
through the cold and frosty winter but
with a bull it is different; cold and
miserable atmosphere makes 10 differ
ence to him; the weather that knocks
the fight ont of every other animal gets
him up on his ear, and that is the cause
why stocks. so up on rainy, snowy and
sleety days.
AS our great bridge approaches COM
pletion the all absorbing question in the
City of Churches is rapid transit. Brook
lyn, though an independent city, is yir-
tually an integral part of New York, and
sooner or later they are lound to become
one municipality. There 10 NC moro .aa-
son for having two cities here than in
Philadelphia, which lies on both sides of
the Schuylkll, or Paris, on both sides Of
| the Seine, or London OH both sides of the
Thames. Brooklyn is more eligibly sit
| uated for residences than the greater
portion of New York. Out of the EtillirD
Of people in New York city less than fifty
thousand now live below Canal street,
which fifty years ago was the extreme
boundary Of the city. Beyond it, on
Broadway, was Niblvs Garden, and on
the Bowery, Vaushall Garden; these
were out-oftown resorts, where young
| mon and their sweethearts passed the
summer evenings eating ico-c cream and
slipping lemonade, sometimes making it
IL little stronger than Francis Murphy
would consider exactly orthodoxo But
to return, Brooklyn is stirred to its inner
most depths about rapid transit. Many
of our public spirited citizens desire to
have finger in the pie; one wants the
city to build the road, and when it is
finished they will take and run it and
pocket the proceeds; another wants an
elevated road over all tie principal
streets, and the third is sure that the
only way to solve the problem will be
by running the thing into the ground
that is. an underground road. Brooklyn
is seven miles long by five miles broad,
and Mt the present time to get to some
parts of the city involves an hours travel
from the various ferries and this long
penance and the immense profits of rapid
transit in New York, have made every
one i'll Brooklyn eager for it. Every
property holder in Brooklyn is quite will
ing that the elevated road should run
in front Of his neighbours house, but he
does not want it in front of his own. A
meeting was called on Tuesday last by
the young Mayor of the city, at which
Brooklyn was thoroughly aroused, and
the presumption is that by the time the
big bridge is finished, rapid transit viii
be we'll under way.
We have been very much exercised all
the week over the highway robbery in
tho tunnel which runs under Murray
Hill, from Both street to 42nd, just in
front of the Hudson Rvcr.railroad depot.
In the middle of the day, near the most
public thoroughfare in New York, a lady's
purse is snatched from her hands by
robber who, although seen and pursued
by several persons, successfully escaped.
Startling as this may seem, it is by no
mems All uncommon crime in this city
i'll fact, the bolder tho robbery the safer
the thief The papers are all full Of the
affair, as if such Il thing had never oc-
Cured before. 1t is only few months
ago since gentleman came out of his
house on Fifth Avenue, near Forty second
street the time was between 10 and il
O'Clock of fine summer morning; there
were but few persons in the street., and
on that particular block only couple of
nursery maids with some children, and
two well dressed men leaning against tho
lamp post on the corner. AS the gentle
man came down the steps Of his house
the men advanced toward him; he sup
posed they probably wanted to make
some inquiry and waited for them to
come up. AS soon as t'=sy got beside
him one seized bis arms sGd the other
made grab at . large diamond '"hich
he wore in his bosom, theE trippi!.e him
up on She sidewalk they started OH run
to Sixth Avenues and from that day to
this not a clue has been got of the thieves.