The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-07-11
BTOadbTim'S New York Letter
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.


Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.
The first day of July, and the ther
mometer at IS c hardly ia the memor,
of living men has there been such
month as the June just past, Their,
has not heen night in the past thirt,
days when it would have been safe tC
venture out without an overcOat.
change of few degrees in the ther
mometer may seem to be very small
affair, but il carries with it calamity
and ruin to thousands. Around New
York millions are invested in our water
ing places and seaside resorts. So fal
they have proved delusion and snare
and the balance has been, for the land
lords, on the wrong side of the ledger
Once or twice in the course of the
month Coney Island has had boom
the thermometer crawled up to 70 Q OF
so Q, and the rush became tremendous.
Brighton, West Brighton and Manhat.
tan BeecheS were black with the pleas.
ure-seeking multitude. For hours at q
time 1t was impossible to get mouth.
ful to eat at any of the hotels. All the
tables were occupied, and once a party
got hold of table they showed no dis.
position to let go. Saturday last was
simply immense, but the happy tourists
shivered and shook as they strolled
along the beach, as IL il had been Marcel
instead June. The fellows who had
gone down with their girls to enjoy a
Meet me by moonlight alone" by the
seaside, were almost frozen to death,
only here and there some level headed
woman had provided herself with a
wrap, and the only wonder is that nine
tenths of them were not thrown into a
galloping consumption Saturday was
such success financially, that the ho-
tel-keepers at the sea beech laid in an
immense stock Of provisions to feed the
expected multitude of Sunday. Sunday
came, and with it cold miserable fog
the thermometer fell almost to freezing
point. Being summer hotels, there was
no provision for keeping warm. Every
body was shivering and everybody was
miserable; bad language was the rule
and good language was the exception
nobody asked his lady to take ice-cream,
but he said, My dear, won't you take
something warmP and to do her justice
she did. The demand for hot Scotch
and other caloric drinks was terrific,
and even men of moderate temperance
views took their whiskey straight with
out wink, owing of course, to the de-
moralized state of the thermometer.
The number of visitors fell off twenty
or thirty thousand, and this fact brought
CONSERVATION to the hotel-keepers. The
immense piles of provisions on which
they expected to realize 800 or 900 per
cent, were spelling on their hands, and
the result was that the disaster of Sun
day completely swanped the success of
Saturday, and more money has been
sunk in this unhappy June than July
and August, if favorable, can retrieve.
The big caravansary at Rockaway,
which is one of the most tremendous
seaside hotels on the whole Atlantic
coast, was sold out last week after ruin
ing everybody that had anything to do
with it, except the Bald Eagle of West
chester, who was the post-mortem Re-
ceiver of Its effects. The summer, so
far, has been a regular Black Friday to
every one in the hotel business at the
out of town resorts.
The blessings of living In Republic
and under free government were ad,
mirably illustrated by case which oc-
Cured here this week. The captain of
an American ship shipped a Chinese
steward and cook in the East Indies.
They performed their duty well, and in
the course of time they arrived in New
York, where the voyage was ended.
These poor fellows had committed no
offence against our laws, but they were
seized and cast into Jail, simply because
they had the ill-luck to be born In China,
Their Captain gave them both an excel
lent character, and would have given
security for them if he had been able;
but the question was finally settled by
sending them back to China.
As we all anticipated, Yseult Dudley
was acquitted of shooting O'Donovan
Rosa. From the first, nobody doubted
but that the woman was mad as March
hare God knows, she has had enough
to make her mad-betrayed, deserted,
ruined, forsaken, deprived of her only
child by death; what wonder that her
brain reeled and her heart strings
cracked, and that she became a wander
er distraught. From what we know of
her life, she owes the world nothing,
life has been wretched blank to her
Time and again she appears to have
made an honest and earnest effort to
sustain herself, when the mad taint in
her blood cropped out, and hurried her
down to ruin. One link alone bound
her to life, her little girl; she was taken
from her, and after that she had moth
ing left to live for. No sane Jury could
have arrived at any other conclusion;
and even the valiant O'Donovan Rosa
is satisfied by this time that Miss Dud
ley is not an emissary of the hated Sas-
sanach, hired by British goold.
The imprisonment of Boyd, the glass
importer, for defrauding the Govern.
ment is another terrible lesson. No
other merchant has been imprisoned in
New York for this offence for fifty
years. Mr. Boyd had no excuse for his
theft. ewas worth a million-he had
risen from abject poverty up to his great
estate nn1 N h.,l r 1.