The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-05-04
BROADBRTMS N. Y. LETTER.

BROADBRlMS N. Y. LETTER.
As remarked last week everything has
to give way to the coming Centennial
celebration. The air is full of IL, the stores
are full of 1t. Everybody is full of it. 1t
is delicate subject know, but the ques-
ton is forced upon us, whether we will or
no, and that is, Was George w. as correct
a man as posterity supposes him to be?
When we promised to provide for his de-
cendarts and give them free blow out, we
counted all there was in sight, and came
to the conclusion that we would carry them
all in a hackney coach with a one horse
buggy contingent, but counted without our
host, for from present appearances there
will be enough of Washingtons and Wash
ingJon's collateral issue to fill the Opera
House and cram the surrounding streets.
Now, mind you, these are no sham relations,
or as they say in the classic yernacular of
Chatham street, no "snides," but the real,
genuine Simon Pure article, and no mis-
take, and every one of them comes with a
carefully prepared pedigree, straight as a
string, from hiWself to George Washing
ton.
In my last spoke of the immense in
hux of thieves and of the measures taken
by the police to prevent their depredations
on our visitors. A bill was introduced at
Albany intending to give the police en-
larged powers in arresting well known
professional pickpockets and thieves, and
its passage caused rather acrimonious de-
bate which brought Dry Dollar Sullivan to
the front. Who is Dry Dollar Sullivan,
you ask? He may not be known on the
outside, but in New York we know him
very well. The Sixth Ward, which Mr..
C,lt In l,a lotn Of
the State, is the great centre of thieves,
murderers, harlots, gamblers and all sorts
of disreputable characters with which this
city is cursed. There are very many very
bad places in New York; places where your
life would not be safe, If YOU were known to
have dollar in your pocket, but among
them all there is nothing quite SO bad as
the Sixth Ward. II is not large Ward.
In can be crossed in any direction in ten
minutes, but within its borders sin enough
blooms and blossoms for city of ten mill
ions. On Centre street the Tombs rears its
solemn front, and within its sorrowful walls
many eminent citizens of the Sixth Ward
have ended their days, the expenses of
their taking off being betrayed by the
county. The Five Points stands nearly in
the centre of the Ward, and the wretched
space from which the Points radiate is. in
the very irony of fate, called Paradise Park,
Though its associations for a hundred and
fifty years nave been those of the place
which is supposed to be the very opposite
of Paradise. In old colonial days it was a
plague spot, then far on the outskirts of
the city. Part of its domain was occupied
by klOck or pond, in the centre of which
was An island on which all the executions
took place. 1t has sustained its evil repnta.
tion from that day to this. The most re-
l. Il,
though thieves and gamblers are held in
high repute. Its most prominent politicians
have graduated from the rum shops apd
gambling hells, and one of its choicest pro-
ducts is Dry Dollar Sullivan, who now rep.
resents the Ward. That Mr.. Sullivan Is
deficient in the three RS is not to his dis
credit, for his opportunities were few and
his constituents did not require it. His
compatrlots, Fatty Walsh and Paddy Diver,
have fought many a hard battle in disput.
ing the supremacy of the Ward.
When the bill to arrest known thieves
without warrant, and which was specially
intended to protect visitors during our Cen.
tennial celebration, was up before the '.egis
latHre, Dry Dollar Sullivan jumped to his
feet. for it threatened large portion of hi:
. constituents with not only the loss of theil
liberty. but also it deprived them OF one oi
the most profitable opportunities of the
century. The gold watches they have miss
ed, the pockeobooks they would have rak'
ed in, the purses, they would have snatched
No wodder that Dry Dollar felt outraged
ami besides this much of the money looted
in these successful raids would have found
resting place in the till of Dry Dollars
saloon. Inspector Bynes says it, thieves
den, and that robbers are the companions
Of the individual whe represents the Sixth
arIf In l.aI ela g
knew long before he found a home in
States Prison that Doodle Alderman
Jaehne was receiver of stolen goods. Ii
is f1attering to our amour pr0pre to know
that these are the men that represent us il
our State and Municipal councils; without
their aid politics could not be successfully
run in this city.
'Tis true, tits pity; and pity tits, tis true.
The bill / trust will pass, for it is our in
tention TO make this city so safe during Lh'
celebration that, while we will not be quit
prepared to ask our country friends to hans
their wallets on the telegraph poles anC
lamp posts, still as far as human care anC
foresight can do il, Superintendent Byrne
will make travelling and sight seeing in th
city so secure, that the average country
man, with ordinary care, can see everything
have good time, and get back home with
out the loss of a dollar.
Easter Sunday came to us as one of tn
most glorious days in the year. For th'
first time this season the south wind cam
genial and warm, and naGure responding
to the challenge, seemed TO leap into suddei
and glorious life. Everybody was out o
doors, the Parks were full, and our German
population, who take their greatest pleasur
in the open air, fairly revelled in the warn
and inviting sunshine. Our German
friends do not resemble their English o.
American cousins. Instead of puttini
twenty dollars in his pocket and starting OF
alone TO have good time, Hans takes hi
wife and all the children. What leave tn
baby at homel No, not by long shot
bring MIN along too. And so the who'll
family start of, and the German will hay
a better time with all of his family on tw,
dollars and half, than an Englishman o
an American can have alone on twenty.
Glorious was the Easter music at all tn,
churches. Grand anthems of thanksgiyin
and praise rolled up 10 heaven, rejoIcin
that Christ has risen, not less to-day thai
niReteen hundred years ago. Like Christ
mas It is season Of blessed and open hande
charity, bringing joy and gladness 10 tn
homes OF the poor. Next TO the splendi
music come the flowers which every yea
grow more magnifcent-the floral decor
ations this year surprising. anything eve
before seen In New York, Brooklyn, toe
covered herself with glory In her Easte
celebrationsi Dr. Talmags's Tabernacle, q