Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-03-15
SIDENOTESOFNEW YORK
INTERESTING NEWS AND GOSSIP
FROM THE METROPOLIS.
How the Pennsylvania Road Handled the
Big Inauguration Excursions -Politi-
cal Pull in the Police Courts-ENilcs
in the Adirondacks.
From our Regular Correspondent. ]


Saturday or Sunday night would certainly
have come to the conclusion that all New
York city was on its way to Washington
This big railway company is without doubt
the best equipped and the greatest in the
country. But the crowd OF people bound
for Washington to see the Inauguration over
taxed the resources of their rolling stock
Excursion rates were made from all cities
east of New York and half fare was given
from this city The result wns that not only
thousands Of individuals went to Washing
ton. but great many military companies,
clubs and social organizations went in body
For two weeks back the Pennsylvania rail
road had been calling in its sleeping cars
from every section of the United Stntcs.
Every train from the west has been drag
ging in two or three empty Pullman cor
riages and they have been accuInulating on
the side tracks near the Jersey City depot.
Saturday night l had occasion to see some
friends off on the midnight train. This eX
press is usually made up of six sleeping
carriages but Saturday night the train ran
out with eight sections and was over crowd
ed even then. The first section had eight
sleepers on it and pulled ont from the depot
with every berth filled and every seat even
in the smoking rooms occupied. AT inter
NalS dIler lldU Oh 10 minutes each one after
another the other seven sections Of the train
started off for Washington. Each one was
made NJ Of from seven to nine Pullman car
riagcs and when the last car had disappear
ed ont of the station there were 400 or 500
anxious eXcursionists who could not find a
place to stand on any of the trains The
crowd was even greater all day Sunday and
Sunday night and there il probably no other
railroad company in the world that could
have handled the thousands of excursionists
as well as the Pennsylvania did. Besides
the 80, 900 cars in service between New
York and Washington there We're over
1000 drawing room coaches hired by private
parties, who took along a cook and butler
and lived in the cars during their stay III
Washington
The ordinary citizen who has any sort Of
| regard for justice and courts of law would
be Mortified to spend day at one of the
city police courts and see how justice is
meted out to the prisoners. In the first
place there is probably no city in the world
that has such "A ridiculous lot of police jus
tices as New York Think of man who
has been bartender the early years of his
life and finally arises to the proprietorship
of a liquor saloon graduating to the posi-
tion of judge Of police court, Well the
famous Judge Duffy was an expert i'll mix
ing drinks in his own saloon, yet he was ap-
pointed police justice. He is a sample of the
seven men who hear and decide the cases
every day in the Criminal Courts. Ofcourse
nothing but political influence ever placed
them where they are and they only hold
their positions because they manipulate the
courts in the interest of their organizations
! The result is that some crook is arrested and
i Io
against him is overwhelming and he is sent
to Blackwell's island for three months. But
within IS hours the same individual is
brought before the same Judge on the charge
perhaps of drunkenness; he is this time sent
/ to the Workhouse for 30 days and then with
| in a week the same old familiar face is be
/ fore his honor. this time perhaps on the
charge of wife beating. He gets fine and
in default again goes to Blackwell's : island
/ for a couple of months, The question natu-
rally arises how can such state Of affairs
exist without an uprising of popular indig-
nation The truth of the matter simply is
that every man in the city whether he he a
professional, criminal or an honest man has
a vote and may possibly control two or three
votes besides. Therefore, whenever he finds
| himself within the grasp of the law his
| friends hustle around to the alderman in his
ward, gather up one or two personal friends
of the police justice and together they call
upon his honor and inform him that the man
must he brought down from the island The
! judge RENTS the sentence and sometimes
within three hours after he has left the
! court he Is at home again and his sentence is
never served, The whole scheme of the
police courts of New York is one of politi-
cal manipulation and the police officers and
judges and the present officials are wanted
to make themselves valuable TO the political
| organizations to whom they owe their eX-
! istence
New York physicians are sending more
! and more patients every year TO the Adj
rondacks to be cured Of pulmonary diseases.
There are now up among the mountains sew
era thousand eXiles whose only hope of re
tanlng grasp upon life lies in their re
naming in the cold but hracing air of those
mountains. These poor consumptives say
good bye TO New York forever and buy Il
/ little plot of land far up on the side of some
wild hill where they live the rude and prmi-
| tive life of hermits. Many of them are or
dered to be in the open air just rs much as