The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-04-04


ing engagements in the bailiwick Of our
enterprisiug neighbor. In the matter of
preaching, it goeH without saying, that
Brooklyn has for many yenrs held fore
most place In the country-Bsecher in
Plymouth Church, DR.. Storrs in the
Chrroh of the Pilgrims. De Witt Tai.
mage at his Tabernacle, DIR. Hall Of Holy
Trinity, aud the Rev. John Chadwick,
the champion Of UBitarianism of Ameii-
ca, an accomplished schoi " and gentle
man, who combines the genins Of Emer-
son with the sweet persuasiveLeS and
eloquenoe of Channing. An Iconoc asst
when Iconoclsstic sacridcs would ad-
vance the cause of truth, yet rare and
pious builder OF the good, the beautiful
aud the true.
With all these advantages It is not sur.
prisinR that Brooklyn has become the
city OF homes More people own their
homes among the 700 900 inhabitants of
Brooklyn, than among the 400 900 of
the City OF New York. Brooklyn, though
the fourth city in the land In point Of
population, has none of the rookeries,
slums or gambling bells that we have on
this side of the river. Though ono of
the most accomplished pickpockets in
the world. Wesley Allen. lives there, be
never attempts to ply his vocation inside
the Brooklyn city limits. If he gets
short of money or wants TO make de-
posit for missionary purposes. be comes
over to New YORK, and generally sue
ceeds in getting what he wants. No bad
characters parade its streets; shop-lifters
and rascals generally give it a wide
, berth. aud while it may occasionally
furnish sensational elopement, a first
class murder, or sample rascals like
Ferdinand Ward, President Fish, and
others of like ilk-it Is when compared
with other places Of its sizs q very re-
spectacle and moral city. Rapid transit
in few weeks will be an accomplished
fact, aud with rapid transit will come
the great Increase OF Brooklyn's popula-
ton. New York has no outlet for it's
laboring poor, Manhattan Islaud is SO
small, that the tenement house with all
Of it's abominations is their only resource,
but BROOKLYN stretches away for miles
into the sweet and wholesome country,
the sea is on every side. there is no such
city for comfortable homes for the poor
on the continent of America, If in the
world. Here then is the solution of q
great social problem. Vice in it's wors
and most repulsiYe forms is indissolubl,
engrafted on the tenement house system
there never can be such thing a,
home in tenement house. and in Brook
lyn the poor lab1rer can get comforta
BILE little house for the same rent that b,
pays for filthy tenement iu the city o
New York. In five years it is altogether
probable that Brooklyn's population vii
exceed o million. There are no. many
cities in the land that touch that figure
Brooklyn las none of the colossal for
tunes that we have on this side Of tb,
river. There is no man there worth fft,
or hundred millions, but there ar,
thousands worth anywhere from $50. .00C
to $500. 900. In twenty-five or tbirt,
years it is possible that the popul, tior
of Brooklyn will exceed the population
of New York, and become the great cit,
of The continent. New York has no suc
storehouses for the storing of commercial
goods as Brooklyn. Nowhere in New
York can vessel go into dock right
alongside of the storehouse and dischargt
her cargo. Wharves line Brooklyn on
every side with abundance OF deep water
for the mightiest steamships, and it may
be in the future, ualess the two CITIES
are united. that Brooklyn will enter th,
race for commercial supremacy. A few
wears ago man from Brooklyn travelling
abroad invariably sigued himself, Johr
Smith, New York. No Brooklynite doe
this now; in fact, he makes it point L
let outsiders understand that he Gomez
from the Long Island end of the biz
bridge, and be signs himself.J. Columbn
Smith, Brooklyn, L l., aud unless he il
, in foreign parts he scorns to put on th'
N Y, and substitutes U. s.
A complicated case of divorce gave th'
courts food for reflection, and the law
yers one of the hardest legal nuts tC
crack that has troubled them for SOM
time. A woman sued her husband fo
abandonment and support; he claimet
that abe had q husband living when b'
married her. of which fact, at tue time
he was totally unaware; she on the othe
married before, as the man whom SUE
once supposed Was her husband had tive
wives living when she married him
The court record was produced wher
husband number two was tried and con
yicted Of bigany, but the other lawyer
showed where the casehad been appealed
and the Supreme Court reversed the de
} cision of the Court below, as beth Of thu
women said to be his wives had husl andl
living at the time. They were all Yer,
much married. and now the Court is try
ing to fiud out who is who.
Herr Sonnenthal has left us for tn,
Konigs Theatre at Vienna, aud he carries
back to bis Austrian home tho 60,
wishes of our entire German population
and big bag oI American guilders. He
has made more in two weeks in New
York than he could make in two years il
Vienna. His engagement was for $1,000