The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-09-11

authority on the one hand, and lawless
destruction on the other The police
were numbered by hundreds, and the
rioters by thousands. On the first day
the rioters attacked car which was
manned by new conductor and driver.
The crowd dashed against the car like
the mad waves of an angry sea, and the
air was dark with flying missiles, and
men were falling right and left as if in
a regular battle. At first it looked as
if the little body of police would be over
whelmed and swallowed up by the ours
ing, bowling and infurated crowd, that
roared and surged around them. The
struggle was desperate and deadly; but
at last discipline and courage began to
tell as the police got down to their fine
work. Clubs rose and fell as regular as
trip-hammer, and at every blow a skull
was cracked, and a rioter laid out. sad
to say, in the thickest of the fight were
viragoes of women, who urged on the
drunken and half crazed men to a more
terrible and desperate resistance. These
miserable creatures were, many of them.
stricken down with the rest, and one old
haridan made such fierce and wicked
fight that it required six policemen to tie
her hand and foot and lug her to the sta
tion-house. In no single instance were
the police turned back; in every conflict
they were triumphant; and in almost
every instance the rioters outnumbered
them ten to one, 1t is safe to say that
In New York we have as dangerous and
desperate elements, ,and as much of them,
as can be found in any city of equal
population in the world. Fora century
it has been refuge for criminals from
every quarter of the globe, and it seemed
at times as If their influence predomin-
ated In every department of our city
government; but in times Of peril like
those which threatened the peace OF the
city last week, the police have done their
duty bravely, and l take great pleasure
in according them the praise VIII ch their
noble conduct merits.
Order reigns once more; and when l
contrast this triumph with the condition
Of Belfast with the whole British army
at its back, l confess that / feel proud
of New York. 1t is reported that for
more than a month not a policeman
dared to show his head on Shankhill
Road in Belfast; yet here, with more
desperate population than Belfast ever
saw (eyen in times of the most terrible
riot), there is not a spot oa Manhattan
Island that is not regularly patrolled by
the police, and no place where a New
York policeman dare not go. The les
son of the past week has been a salutary
one; it has taught the lawless masses
that in no case will they be allowed TO
rule, but the supremacy of order and of
law must be maintained, as the only ark
of safety alike for rich and poor.
II was fortunate that the riots oc-
CURED when the days were comparative
ly cool, and the weather excellent for
fighting. No sooner had the riots been
quelled than the Thermometer ran I'D to
81 ; in the shade, and having accom-
plisled that much, evidently thought it
might as well give us the benefit of the
other ten degrees and make it the even
100, the last three days of the week being
by all odds the most trying and oppressive
of the season. All through the week eX-
press wagons full of trunks have block
aided the streets, and have been happy
to note among the returning tourists Il
number of clergymen with straw hats
encircled wit h blue or red ribbons, red
neckties, alpine jackets, and lawn tennis
or polo shoes. 1t is very stylish, indeed
pretty 20 behold; especially if his rever-
ence cultivates mutton chop whiskers
but it is not orthodox according to my
old-fashioned notions, and when, in addi-
tion to his other charms, you mount this
vision of beauty on top of 56-inch BIZ
cyle, he takes the cake, and he can take
my hat.
In Brooklyn, near the City Hall, an
immense building is now going up on the
site of the old Dutch Church. This was
the spot originally selected by the govern
ment for the new Post Office, but owing
to the price set on it by the owners, the
government was forced to take location
in another quarter. The church itself
was one of the finest pieces of Corinthian
architecture in the United States and
the situation was most admirable. After
the failure of the government to pur-
chase, a Snowman came along with II
bag-full of money and paid nearly $780,
900 for the property. The beautiful
church was Immediately torn down, and
the magnificent ems that surrounded IL
were leyeled to the dust, and now on its
foundation we are to have a Cycorama
of Gettysburg, which promises to be one
of the grandest and most realistic pic
lures ever seen on this continent.
| don't know whether our sister city
is progressing in piety and morals, but
there is food for reflection in the fact
that a Cyclorama occupies the place of
one of the noblest churches in Brooklyn:
that the Standard Dime Museum covers
the foundation of former Methodist
church;that the Grand Opera House was
a Presbyterian church; that the Lee Av-
enue Opera House was the Second Bap-
tist Church of the Reverend HYATT
Smith, who abandoned the pulpit for
politics, and another theatre was former
ly ii church. This is not a particularly
cheerful showing for the believers in
gospel progress. If, as some assert,
actors are the children of Satan and
theatres are the high road to Gehenna,
the chances are pretty good for at least
three-feurths of the inhabitants of the