The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
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NEW YORK. Ian. 25. I8s

New YORK, Jan. %, 1884.
At last the January thsw has come, with q
vengeance. The wind hasn't been blowing
Of late to any alarming extent, but the rain
has descended, and cutters are choked,
roofs leak and cellars are awash-0h De-
lightful days are these. Too suddenly did
it break up the crisp, freezing weather which
makes New York and its suburbs musical
with sleighbells from Jerome Park even UNI
to Coney Island. Musical were the road
houses with goblets upturned by amateur
astronomers with ruddy cheeks and noses
blushing with contact with frosty air or in
| haling the fumes of inner lubricants appro-
PIRATE on such occasions. Somewhat I'M
musical were the shrieks and yells of few
over. exhilarated persons.
One would think we ought, by this time,
in this free and happy country to have out
lived the cruelties Of the good old times"
But it seems we haven't. It was only the
other day that ship captain was fined $500
for having kept his second mate nearly two
months in irons in q dark hole for alleged
mutiny. Now, small boy named Luckert
is suing another captain and the owners OF
a vessel for $4,000, because he was driven
to work at the ropes end while so badly
| frost-bitte that on relching land his feet
and hand had to be amputated.
Under the.impression that within ten years
New York will have population Of 100000,
sundry colossal metropolitan improvements
will shortly, it is expected, be under weigh.
Old Gen. Van Cortlandt and other property
owners in the wilds of the annexed district
will pocket some millions, and New York
| will be no more or less enriched by the adj
| dition of new and gorgeous parade ground
and several parks, including Bronx Park,
Cortona what name Why not Croton
| oil p Park, st. Mary's Park, CIaremont Park
and Pelha Bay Park. Some 1000 acres
| in all TO be converted into a superb tree and
lawn-bordered boulevard. New York is
travelling on the road to beat Paris in arti-
| fetal beauty. and good Americans need no
| longer look forward to death for unalloYed
happiness.
The Astors have celebrated the Centennial
of the family's arrival in New York in a
graceful but splendid manner. Since the
founder Of the family landed with three old
flutes as his entire available capital. the
family have made quite little money, and
they have been liberal, while quite judicious
| in iisbursing it.
And still there is an under-current Of
trouble, Mr.. VIM. Fl. Guion, the well known
agent for the fayorite Guion line, and always
at the fore front of any benevolent enterprise
has fallen victim to his good nature in
helping other people out Of difficulties, and
has had to leave the great firm with which
he has been identified since its inception
Il with the loss of all his fortune. Every
dollar is gone and everybody is sorry for it
Another failure does not excite SO much
J sympathy. A Mr.. Peck retired with .
comfortable fortune from chandelier
mandatory to Oyster Bay. Then he mus
needs feel greedy about more money, stuck
J up his shingle as banker, and soon hat
every spare dime in the country side Ther
he trotted over to Wall street, and industri
} ousy set to work to lose it ALL at least all b
could keep track of. He was so busy gamb
ling that he didn't keep his books in an
sort of order and was too economical % t
hire bookkeeper, and after all the row AM
a sensati onal firing Of three bullets at tn
} ceiling ami one through his lip, assets keel
} turning up in the most remarkable way
i In fact it does not seem impossible, if b
only had kept his courage up, for him t
: have pulled out Of the scrape without an,
} one finding out how near he had been shay
} ing the mark. AS it is, it, q bad case, an
! ruin for many Of the wretched depositors.
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