St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-28
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
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Gossip.
Especial correspondence Of the Globe

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readers who visit this city and who take an
interest in its public institutions, will no
doubt be pleased to know that the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Arts to be greatly enlarged
and improved 1t will be remembered that
Governor Cleveland recently signed bill
which had been passed by the legislature
authorizing the New York board of estimate
and apportionment to give $3.50, 1000 to de-
fray the expense of building the addition
and making the improvements and altera-
tons Ample room will be afforded for the
which will be made in accordance with the
liberal bequest of the late Levi H. Willard.
The pooling arrangement whereby the Bal
timore & Ohio, the Postal and the Bankers
d Merchants Telegraph companies are Vr-
tually consolidated for the purpose of COM
peting with the Western Union company
seems likely to lead to desperate struggle
for patronage.
From what hear I would not be surprised
if still further reduction in the rates
charged for the transmission of messages
should be announced by each of the rivals
within a few days. l was talking with an
old telegraph man yesterday, and after he
had assured me that the Western Union
people were well prepared to hold their own
in the warfare, he added:
''But the competition which Western Union
is now meeting is the most important with
which that great corporation has ever had to
cope, and fear that the fight will be fierce
and long. The contest will result in fnan-
cial loss to the companies, but the public
will reap benefit in the shape of cheap tariff
for messages. AS the new combination will
have control of cable connections with
Europe, there will be competition in foreign
as well as domestic telegraphic business.
The unwilling of the monument to the
celebrated composer, Beethoven, which took
place in Central park thissweek, was indeed
notable event in the history of the metrop
oils. One Of the principal features
in the programme was the sing
ing of ''The Day of the Lord'' by
the Beethoven M ennerchor, a German
organization which was started in this city
twenty-five years ago. The monument is
sixteen feet six inches high. The height of
the pedestal is twelve feet. The pedestal is
surmounted by the bronze bust of the COM
poser, which is four feet six inches high.
The head is bent forward, so that a person
who stands upon the ground and looks up at
it can see the whole of the face Near the
top of the column the name Beethoven" is
cut in capital letters Below the name there
is in bold relief female figure in bronze
representing Music. In the left hand of the
figure is held Tyre, while the right hand is
represented in the act of touching the strings.
The monument is fine work of art and is
regarded as a great addition to the attrac-
tons Of Central Park.
This week | met the Rev. Mr. Morehouse,
Methodist clergyman of this city, who is
well known as an organizer and worker at
camp meetings. He and the famous reviv-
alist, Mrs. Maggie VanCott, have an extern
sive programme laid out for the summer
and fall, buth he did not seem as sanguine of
| success as in former times. Indeed the
camp meetings at Sing Sing, Merrick, Sea
| Cliff and Ocean Grove are becoming less and
! less popular as the years pass by, and per-
| haps the time will come when these religious
gatherings will go out Of use altogether. /
was at Sea Cliff few days ago The place
| looks lonesome and almost deserted. The
| great wooden tabernacle in which so many
| lively meetings have been held is out of re-
! pair and rapidly going to decay. The resi-
| dent population are becoming fewer In num-
| bers, and if this sort of thing keeps on Sea
| Cliff will become typical Deserted
village" The indications are that the old
| fashioned Methodist camp meetings are on
the wane. Indeed they may be now called
things of the past, for the meetings of these
days do not bear much resemblance to those
of thirty or forty years ago. In the oldcn
time they were not, as they arc now, simply
fashionable places of summer resort.
| On Staten Island is Mount Loretto farm,
which is the seaside home of six hundred
orphans. Here are gathered the street gam
ms who find a refuge and shelter under
the care of Rev. Father John c. Drumgoole.
Tie farm is situated upon the shore of
Princes bay, and the land, which is OF roll
| ling nature is adapted to almost every crop
| raised in this climate. The larger proper
/ ton of the farm is devoted to potatoes, oats,
| corn, rye and cabbage. There are several
reformatory and charitable asylums and
| institutions in the vicinity of New York
City, but none of them are better conducted
than the one which is styled "Mount Loretto
Farm"
s'How do you like living herel" was asked
OF one of the boys by visitor.
sob. we like it tip-tep," was the quick
reply, ''an' its deal better than runnin'
about the streets Of the city with no home to
speak Of We have to work on the farm an
go to school every day, but we have lots of
fun, for we are given plenty of time 20 play"
As the visitor looked at the groups Of
happy youngsters and at their pleasant sur
roundings, he felt that Rev. Father Drum
goole was indeed doing great and noble
work and deserved the appreciation which he
was receiving.
The site which has been purchased by the
United States Cremation company for the
erection of furnace iu which the remains
of deceased people are to be reduced to ashes
is on a Hill at Newton, Long Island. The
hill is one Of q range OF similar elevations of
ground which diversity the landscape on the
northern side Of the island.
when VIII the work Of building your fur
mace be commenced.'' / asked of one OF the
directors of the company this week.
''Within few weeks was the reply.
'sHow much will the crematorv cost?''
sob, / presume that the furnace will
cost abo ut s6, 600. In DIXON to the fur
mace we will have a neat and commodious
chapel. The whole arrangement may in
volve an expense of $4,000.
SIS your capital all secured
''It is nearly all subscribed and more than
half paid in. | expect that the crcmatoFy
will he finished within year from the pres
ent time. / am very confident that the
! enterprise will prove SUCCESS"
Business in the stock exchange is be-
coming more and more improbable, and
hundreds of men who have heretofore specu-
lated in stocks are now turning their atten-
tention almost solely to the petroleum and
provision markets. know of several for
tunes which have been made or lost BY the