The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-03-07
OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRiM.

Detroit Joarnal>
OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRiM.
Brooklyn's Mixed Elements - Funeral
Fights-A PARADISE for Hood!ums-
Unique Avertising Scheme-Finc Sleigh
ins-Horse Play at. The Stock Exchange.
New YORK, Feb. %, 1885.
EDITOR CHEF:
have frequently had occasion within the
last few months 20 speak of the City of
Churches on the other side of the river.
Brooklyn is something more than q near
neighbor, or even big cousin; she is like
twin brother or sister, and frequently a
very uncomfortable twin at that. The apos-
ties of advanced thought have been paying
special attention to her spiritual and polit-
ical salvation; and on the first of this week
Henry George and Bob Ingersoll dropped
down upon her like an avalanche.
The man who captured the working
classes of England and America, and who
arrayed the hardy Crofters against Eng
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hammered gentleman, altogether unlike the
Dynamite Moses he has been represented.
Brooklyn turned en- nlasse to hear him, for
there is always something very attractive
in the idea of knocking the landlord out of
his rent, especially if you don't happen to
be landlord yourself. Mr.. George was
applauded to the echo, and times will have
to be much better than they are now when
Mr.. George will not find sympathetic au-
diences in New York and Brooklyn. Bob
Ingersoll lectured in Brooklyn on Saturday
last, and long before o'clock the house
was crammed to suffocation, with an au-
dience which had paid Is cents and dol
lar each for the pleasure of hearing the
great Iconoclast Never was an audience
and speaker in closer sympathy; applause
shook the theatre at every sarcastic allusion
to the Rev. Dewitt Talmage, who had at
tracked him in g sermon the previous Sab
bath, in which he proposed imprisonment
as a punishment for MIR. Ingersoll's Of
fense. 1t was at this point that Ingersoll
fairly carried his hearers off their feet, as
he rose to the supreme height of eloquence.
Our sister city must have some missionary
work, or the Radicals will run away with
her.
The elements are somewhat mixed. IF
they have Henry Ward Beecher and Tai
mage as apostles of peace, they have also
O'Donovan Rosa and Richelieu Robinson
of the ould fighting stock. McDermott,
the British SPY, on whose head the Dyna-
miters have placed price, used to live in
Brooklyn; and the Doctor whom he be-
trayed was resident of the same city.
Mrs. Peck, the s:nartest confidence woman
in the world, makes Brooklyn her home;
and here too have been found the most ex
pert counterfeiters and daring bank bur
glars that We have in the United States.
So there is room for improvement in our
sister city, and VIC are in hopes that the new
elevated road which is now being COM
pleted, the electric light, the telephone, and
the other appliances of modern civilization
now being forced upon her, may make her
in time almost as good as New York.
Speaking Of New York, We have had
few scenes within the past few weeks, which
make me distrust our boasted civilization.
The city ia full of undertakers. You can
get in New York almost any kind of fu-
neral you desire, and at any price from
twenty -four dollars to twenty-fo hundred.
Your undertaken, though very, necessary
man, is not always modest or economical
man. His bill resembles that Of Cont
mental restaurant, where they charge you for
for the plates, the napkins, the
tumblers, the pepper, the salt, the cups, the
saucers, and the use of the teapot in addi-
ton to the tea. In consequence of the
of these worthless, there is an active
for funerals, and on several
occasions. the rivalry has been 40 fierce
that the parties have come to blows. The
Coroners of New York have frequently
been among the most disgracsful of our
Chosen for their political ser
vices, without the slightest regard to their
medical education, they have leagued them
Gals, who enabled them to make the most
out Of their Offices. They were in with the
and these gentlemen kept
sharp lookout for every possible chance of
an inquest. Two undertakers frequently
fight for the possession of body, an d only
The other day, when the mortal remains of
the dead pugilist, Owney Gohegan, were
brought on from Arkansas, two under
takers were ready to receive the remains on
their arrival at Jersey City, and if the
widow to prevent riot had not surrender
I'd her claim, there might have been az
aard fight over the dead mans body as he
ever saw in the prize-ring. A disgraceful
scene occurred for the possession of the
bodies of Policemen Murray and his fa1ni-
y, all of whom were lost at the late fire on
John Street. The two undertakers seized