The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-08-11
OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRlM.

| Demolition of E4-as!lin Ston aIarisct-.Sstor's
mcnt, Suicide, Stocks and the Strike.
New YORK. August i, iSS3.
! EDITOR CHIEF:
After long years of suffering, the old his
toric roozery known as Washington Market,
has passed away. On Monday morning,
bright and early, q corps Of sappers and
miners appeared before its ruined walls,
and while the venders We're still busy with
| their sales, the crashing sounds OF axe and
| hammer were added to the usual uproar of
the market; and il was not till the falling
tinbers and crumbling walls warned them
OF their peril, that they reluctantly gathered
the remnants of their stocks and rushed out
into the street to find near the neigilboring
curbstOne5 z precarious shelter. till such
| time as the new market shall be finished.
While among all decent people to whom the
sight of this filthy, rickety ruin was an Of
fensc, there is general rejoicing, a howl of
disappointment and rage has gone up from
most of the old market-men and women,
VINO hoped that the evil day would be put
off till the crack of doom. In the days of
the Tweed ring, an effort was made to move
the market uptown, and a beautiful market
was erected by a stock company, but the
move was; opposed by all the old Washing
! ton Market men, and when it seemed prob
able that the city would insist on moving
! them. one bright morning the market was
| burned TO the ground. The butchers and
market men formed associations to fight
off the evil time Of moving. Thousands of
dollars were subscribed; Boards of Alder
men and Street Commissioners were bought
up, and for fifteen years the fight has been
going on: but this week settled it, and
praised be Allah, old Washington Market is
now thing of the past.
| Forty years ago, the butchers of Washing
| ton Market ruled the city with q rod Of iron.
Nose, who ''killed foI Keyser,' graduated
! there. and Sykesy, who held de butt, was an
embryo butcher. Everybody was proud of
their acquaintance Brokers and bankers
affected the slang of The meat stall and the
! slaughter house. and fine young ladies wore
their colors and boosted of their acquaint-
a1lce. L was a strange phase in Rev York
| life, and one that decent people will not care
| to see repeated. Rutlianisn ran riot. Or
carnations were formed which furnished
the materials for the Bloody Ender' the
Short Boys, and the Empire Club, which,
for years, were the terror of New York. In
many respects we may not be much bet
ter now than we were then: but on one thing
| at least we can congratulate ourselves and
that is that the Judiciary are not controlled
as they were, by the criminal classes. The
aftermath of the time | spea!. Of was Bar
| nard, Cardoza and McCunn. We lived tC
see our Supreme Court ruled by the ring
thieves, and the most gigantic rob5er of his
time, knowing that he had courts anG
judges at his back, asking his fellow citi
zens. in the pride of his strength: What
are you going to do about IL" These are {
few Of the memories that rolled back upor
me, as saw the old decaging timbers scat
tered upon the ground.
From this market millions of people de
rived their daily supplies. Nearly all tiit