The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-09-04

Tor lle crowds winch l expected WOulu
be paying the hero of Appomattox their
reverence on such a day as this; but
there were not fifty people in the portion
Of the Park where the tomb is, and not
more than a half dozen about the tomb
itself. | uncovered my head and stood
in silent reverie as the scene passed
rapidly in review before me, when we
met last in life. 1t was about year
before his death. | was in Washington
at the time and there was a grand camp
fire at Masonic Hall, which brought all
the old soldiers in and about Washing
ton to the front. General Grant being
in town was, of course, invited, and
Black Jack Logan gave the history of
the Vicksburg campaign. l stood with
General Grant in the ante-roon awaiting
the signal to be given by the committee
that they were ready to begin, and when
it was given followed him to the stage,
and sat beside him till the close of the
exercises. ] shall never forget the wild
enthusiasm of the old soldiers that night;
then we parted, and / meyer saw him
again alive. While | was pondering
over that thrilling scene, a couple of
Irish servant girls came up to the iron
gate of the tomb; a policeman stood
guard there and no one was allowed to
approach within eight or ten feet of the
! entrance. Both the girls peered cauti-
ously into the gloomy portal where
nothing could be seen except bed of
flowers; they then walked slowly all
around it, that no detail might escape
them; and finally arriving at the gate
again, turned to the policeman, and
asked inquiringly, Is this all That's
all, he curtly replied. The elder then
turned to the younger, in high dudgeon,
and said somewhat tartly, "Sure, it's
raglar swindle, Julia. Faith, if I'd
known this I'd meyer have paid me tin
cints to get here. Shure, thought we
wor goin' to have look at the corpse"
and turning up her nose she flirted off,
satisfied that she had been robbed of
her tin ciuts. A year has passed, and
not shovelfull of earth has been turned
for the foundation of this magnificent
| Mausolcum, that was to cost million
of dollars, at least. Only trihe over
| 100000 has been subscribed, under the
management of the respectable fossils
that haye the management in charge.
Unless something is speedily done to
redeem the city's honor, and to fulfill
the pledge given to his relatives when
lie on the banks of the Hudson, it is not
impossible that they may yet be removed
to the capital of the nation, where it is
to be hoped they will meet with more
honorable treatment than New York has
yet accorded them. And now word TO
the visitor to that sacred shrine. Eat
| good hearty meal before you go, or carry
| your refreshments with you, for if by
chance YOU should be lured into the only
hotel on the grounds, you will be feeced.
EXtortion is practiced with impunity:
for it is the only place where you can get
anything to eat or drink. If you are un-
fortunate enough to have lady or two
with you, the rascals who wait on the
tables take advantage OF it, and pile on
the bill knowing there is no escape.
The best way is to avoid the place alto
gether, and thus escape an intolerable
and annoying nuisance.
1t has been lively week among the
yachtsmen, and Lieutenant Hem with
his cutter Galatea, has kept all of our
racers on their metal. Apropos of Lieut..
Hem, he seems to have stepped into the
good graces of the public and the press,
without an effort on his part, and every
where he is voted tip-top sawyer. He
is not very large, but what there is Of
him, is first class, and that's the class
that is always welcome to these shores.
He looks every inch sailor, with good,
frank, honest face, and while, of course.
we want to keep the challenge cup at
home, If it must go back there is no
yachtsman that ever crossed the sea
whom we would sooner see carry it to
Albion's Isle than Lieutenant Hem.
While the Lieutenant has been busy cap
turing the men, his estimable wife has
captured men and women indiscrimin-
ately. The ladies appear all to have fallen
in love with her, and the set of her yacht
ing jacket and the style of her marine
dresses are now the town walk. They
are immensely popular and deservedly
so, and the bold challenge which he is
sued for a race around Bermuda has
raised him infinitely in the public esti.
nation. In this connection il is not
pleasant to be compelled to say that
Beavoir Webb, who accompanies him,
is a suob and a cad. His insolent and
oyerbearing manners to the members of
the press, who have sought information
of him, have disgusted them all, and it
is generally agreed between the scribes
that the difference between the two per-
sons named, is precisely the difference
between well-bred, courteous, polished
gentleman, and a vulgar, conceited,
purse proud clown; We want no more OF
Webb.
Though this is usually supposed to be
the dullest season of the year, we have
had quite business week. Wheat took
a jump the week before; corn followed in
its footsteps; stocks responded all along
the line, in short, it was Bull week.
Our smile was widening to a broad grin,
when the tie up on the Broadway and
Seventh Avenue surface roads, suddenly
reminded us that the Knights of Labor
are not dead, nor even sleeping; or if they
do take nap, it is generally with one
, eye open. The strike was not ordered