Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-01-28
[SpecialC spondence ofthe Monitor.l
NeW York. Jan. "a.

NeaU York, Jan. "a.
What with cold snaps and croakers
the year has not opened as joyously
as it might. We have had good
many failures, three roads have been
handed over to receivers, Wizards
mishaps are getting an old story, and
people with indigo spectacles exclaim
that the shrinkage of stocks in wall
street aggregates s450,O0O,O0O, and
this being presidential year business
can't pick up. Well, this may all be
true, and perhaps it is well for people
not to be extravagant, but choking
the wheels of enterprise isn't the way
to make them go.
Among festive occasions were the
Old Guard ball, where the privates
are often Major-Generals in other
organizations, and pretty well fixed
citizens, which went off splendidly,
except for little ''run i'm INDUCED
in by CERTAIN gentlemen Under an APP
parent surplus of spirits and defcien-
cy of temper. A good many of the
old boys finushed the night at the al
legged French ball, which was largely
attended, chiefly on account of its
supposed tinge of the forbidden fruit
idea. 1t was tame and decorous.
The Knights Templar have also
given splendid entertainment
where Terpischore shook hands with
Mars, and fairy feet responded to the
massive step of marching warriors
with nodding plumes responsive tC
bright diamonds and brighter eyes
The recent burning of so much of the
Masonic temple had little effect il
dimming the glories of the ancien
brotherhood.
What city New York has become
And it is growing SO fast and being
changed so rapidly with superb struc
lures, that an absence of even sly
months almost makes stranger O
an old Gothamte. 1t is wonderful
what superb structures are going NJ
on every hand, as if to do honor t
the great Bartholdi statue, to- which
by the way, the always liberal Travel
er's Insurance Co.. of Hartford
Conn, have contributed 81, 700, wit
a promise of more. At this rate i
begins to look as if we should, ate
all, manage to pay for the pedesta
and not be handed down to posterit
as monumental misers.
Let us hope the future historian
will have better things to say of us
and, by the way, posterity may b
thankful if they can be ministere
unto by such noble rival of Prescott
and Bancroft, as Mrs. Martha Lamb
the editor of the Magazine of Amer
lean History, has proved to be. Sh
has given us history of New Yor
city, which is history indeed,
work of patient, concise, accurat
information. No other city in tn
world can boast of such a chronicle
and we may we'll be proud of tn
chronicler. Literary men, statesmen
members of the old families, ever
one agrees in praising this marvelou
outcome of sixteen years devotion
the task by this lady, who, beside
her natural and acquired qualific;
lions as wielder of the graceful per
has had social advantages and acces
to secret documents which have Ell;
bled her to attain as near perfectio
as it is in the power of humanity
reach. The book has created
furOfe, giving as Il does, the hlStol
of the city in fullest detail, includin
manners, customs, etc., of the inhal
itants. from the earliest times TO I'll
present. AS George William Curt
says, no school or library should
without it. The first volume pract
cally gives the most complete histol
extant of the State of New York, al
indeed, of the United States. II
work has gone through three edition
with rush, and [ have only ju
been able to secure my own copy.
is got out in splendid style as to ty
ography and binding, by A. s. Barn
& Co., the well-known publishers al
purveyors of ammunition for t
young idea to learn to shoot wit
Mrs. Lamb, by the way, is memb
of Sorosis.