The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-07-11
OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRiM.

Detroit Free Press.
OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRiM.
A Cool Summer-Seaside Hotels Sinking
| Money-The Chinese Must Go-Acquittal
of Yseult Dutlley-Conviction Of u Dis
honest Merchant - Brooklyn Dlsap-
! pointed - A Desperate Criminal Sem
| tenced-Englisl Fashions.
New YORK, July 4. 1885.
EDITOR CHIEF:
The first of July, and the thermometer at
So degrees; hardly in the memory of living
! men has there been such month as June
| just past There has not been a night in
the past thirty days when it would have
been safe to venture out without an over
coat. A change of few degrees in the
| thermometer may seem to be a very small
affair, but it carries with it calamity and
ruin to thousands. Around New York mill
ions are invested in our watering places
proved delusion and a snare, and the
balance has been for the landlords, on
the wrong side OF the ledger. Once or
twice in the course of the month ConeylIsl-
and has had boom; the thermometer
crawled up to IS or 80 degrees, and the rush
became tremendous. Brighton, West Brigh-
ton and Manhattan Beaches we're black with
| the pleasure seeking multitude. For hours
at time it was impossible to get mouth
full to eat at any of the hotels. AL the tables
were occupied, and once party got hold
of table they showed no disposition to
let 60. SATURDAY. last was simply immense,
but the happy tourists shivered and shook
as they strolled along the beach, as if it had
been March instead of June. The fellows
who had gene down with their girls to en-
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 wrap, and the
only wonder is that nine-tenths of them
were not thrown into galloping consump-
ton. Saturday was such success fnan-
cially, that the hotel-keepers at the sea
beach laid in an immense stock of proyi-
sions to feed the expected multitude of Sun
day. Sunday came, and with it a cold, mis-
cradle fog; the thermometer fell almost to
freezing point. Being summer hotels,
there was no provision for keeping warm.
Everybody was shivering and everybody
was miserable; bad language was the rule
and good language was the exception; no
body asked his lady to take cream but
he said, My dear, won't you take some
thing warm?" and to do her justice. she did.
The demand for hot Scotch and other ca
loric drinks was terrific. and even men of
moderate temperance views took their
whiskey straight without wink, owing, of
course, to the demoralized state of the ther-
mometer. 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 500 or 1000 per cent.
we're spelling on their hands, and the re-
suit was that the disaster of Sunday COM
pletely swamped the success Of Saturday,
and more money has been sunk in this un-
happy June than July and August, if favor
able, can retrieve.
The big caravansary at Rockaway, which
is one of the most tremendous seaside hotels
on the whole Atlantic coast, was sold last
week after ruining everybody that had
anything to do with it, except the Bald
Eagle Of Westchester, who was the post
n,orten, receiver of its effects. The sum-
mer, so far, has been regular Black Fri
day to every one in the hotel business at
the out of town resorts.
The blessings of living in a Republic and
under free government were admirably
illustrated by q ease which occurred here
this week. The captain of an American
ship shipped a Chinese steward and cook
in the East Indies. They performed their
duty we'll, and in the course of time they
arrived in New York, where the voyage was
ended. These poor fellows bad committed
no offense against our laws, but they were
seized and cast into jail, simply because
they ssaa the ill-luck to be born in China.
Their Captain gave them both an excellent
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 ali anticipated. YscuIt Dudley was
acquitted for shooting O'Donovan Rosa.
From the first. nobod: doubted but that
the woman was mad IS a March hare God