Milford chronicle., 1885-04-03
COMMUNICATIONS.
NEW YORK LETTER.

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We arc crazy on the subject of fats in New York,
not the flats from the country who are picked mp
by bunco steerers and confidence men hut city lats
renting from fifteen dollars a month to Eve thous-
and dollars year. Flats are everywhere,and they
challenge the sky, turn whichever way you will
They advertise perfect seclusion with home com
forts and every modern convenience; but for the
most part they are a deluson and a snare. The
two apparent sources Of comfort and convenience,
the air shaft and elevator, may be looked upon as
two of the greatest Of modern terrors. The air
shaft connects with all Of the interior rooms, and
its sides are like a sounding board. The expert
ence Of an unfortunate friend OF mine, who occu-
pied the third story Of one OF these palaces, is du
plcated by thousands in this city. He had been
hiring q modest hOuse, but he thought that fiat
would ensure a higher degree Of domestic felicity;
so he engaged a floor in a fashionable house up
town. When he was first installed il his new quar-
ters he remarked to his wife that Paradise was not
far of Everything was neat and nice as a new
pin. II was not long till he discovered that some
one was using his coal, and then his servant girl
soon got acquainted with every other servant girl
in the house. The elevator afforded delightful
means Of communication, and very soon each ser
want became thoroughly posted in the affairs Of
every other servants family. The several families
were always in want OF something; they borrowed
the tea pot the coal scutte, wood soap sugar salt
pepper and kerosene, sending them up and down
through the elevator. Occasionally some neighbor
wanted a loaf Of bread, quart Of milk or a beef
steak which they were not atallF full about
rowing cups cancers, tin pat lrv ~flishesFirst
,ssa s.t'.issl o. tenant William
56Ifk. f,snd ip5arth n5Antry, to be First
Lieutenant Revenue Marine Servlce-Henry
n Blake. of New York. to be t'antai". SsF'rHl-'
there was not tumber or glass LETT In the mousse
These however. were minor misfortunes' whlch d
philosopher could live through if his bank account
was able to stand IT, but there was young iaoy on
the first floor who practiced for six weeks steadiiy
on the "sweet Bye-ano-bye," and on the seventh
she started in on the variations. Next above her
was a voutbful Levy.who had made mp his mind to
learn the cornet or die. He generally began aoon'
Ave in the morning and the dying strains of bis In
strument reverberated through the air smart aSou'
twelve o'clock at night; but even this might be en-
dured # it were not for the elevator and the an
shaft. One night my friend came home somewhat
| tired. but in the very best humor. On the way ne
had seen a fight, and at dinner was relating 10 hl'
wife inst how it came about. He told his wif'
about seeing a scufIle, and just as he ran up one
man called the other liar and then he slapped
HIM in the face, and then the other man knocked
him down. Just then his wife, who was ponrin.
the tea out accidentally scaded herself little an'
ntt,red piercing shrek; her affectonate husband
not divipipg the cause on the instant, jumped for
ward to aid her, and in doing so, knocked over
chair which fell on the cat, whose unearthy VOW
brought out every inhabitant Of the house to thel
resnective doors. The man on the first hoor' WI
had been listening at the air shaft distinctly hear'
his neirhbor in the third story call his wife liar
and then he told her he would slap her face,and h
afterwards threatened to knock her down, and nm
ally they heard him knock her down and then h
tried to kill her by throwing the cat at her. Ii
oompared notes through the elevator with the net
rslsia man in the fourth story, and finding his II
formation correct, he rushed out for policema
and told him the man in the third fat was KILN
his wife. The policeman sounded the alarm, an'
srnnorted by four others, rushed into the hous
, The gentleman demonstrated at the intrusion, oI
was opicllv clubbed into submission and WI
draoeed on 70 the station to answer for his crime
I, was in vain the next morning that his weepln
wife attempted to get correct version OF the rae
{ before his Honor The testimony Of sixteen pc
sons on the different floors who had been listenir
at the elevator and air shaft was against them
4 tbe man was fined ten dollars for assaulting h
f wife and .sent up" for three months for resisul
the officer; when he gets ont he viii move from Il
+ fat
"a Political circles are stirred to the centre by Il
q minors concerning the New York Postoiice. II
y, mnewumps want Mr.. Pearson retained, ans gre
, Mains was taken to circulate the report that he W
d NOT IN he disturbed in his soft berth. Up to
nresent time Mr.. Pearson has beer regarded as I
x model Of all model postmasters; the public ha
ST been led to believe that he the one official
s. whose record there was 10 flaw. 1t now appei
in that there are complaints against him on file in
O. Department at Washington,and that he is accus
o. Of being interested in private eiy expresseswhi
10 carry letters IN violation OF law, and by which
!. Government loses from $500 to $1,000 day; an
was told by a very influential Democrat (ant
warm personal friend of Mr.. Cleveland's) that
~ was going to write personal letter to the Pre-
lie dent against Mr.. Pearson's retention. His reas
for doing so was that on the day Of the Der
cratic procession Blaine flags were TAINTED ont
OF The postofice windows. and men with governm
o. uniforms on their backs made use Of such of
he sive language that it almost produced riot.
not know II this is true, hut if it is Mr.. Pears
will have to walk the plank, and the $1,000 sal
w which the position affords, will reward the lab
ls Of como good and upright Democrat who has b
looking from Pisgah's height for quarter o
mt century on the glories Of the Promised Land
to any event Mt. Pearson VIII not suffer. His fail
Ill in-law Mr. James and his predecessor in the OF
is now the banker Of the Vanderbiis; there
on plenty Of places within their gift worth more 4
IL Is. 900 year; so tina. If Mr.. Pearson should
he the post office, there is no immediate fear OF
~ becoming a county charge.
There has been tremendous excitement am
7H' our German population, caused BY the aIriva
ao- Herr sonenthal, the renowned German &C
The Scarcely the arrival Of Patti created as profoun
ar sensation; seats have risen five or six hundred
not cent sos have been paid for seats in the d
Of circle,and SO fer seats in the upper gallery.
, It whole town is talking about Herr sonenthal
IA not only the Germans but Americans, who C.
not tell the difference between picked cabl
and saur kraut, are rushing to see hiH. 1t Is u
for us that he has TO 90 back in a couple OF we
n's or he would bankrupt half the town.
The skating craze has attacked US severely,
ing Rink in Brooklyn. from which the Rev. Justil
mir Fulton has just taken his departure, and "
Y eight or nine years ago reyesberated with the :
2f Moody's sermons and the music Of sani
- e14 ow echo With The roar Of Thousand