Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-07-04
NEW YORK LETTER.
NEW YORK,
.Tune 30 1890.

June SU, loSO.
DEAR REGIsTER-The braves of the
powerful tribe of Tammany are once
more happy. and why should they
not be? Their great chief, Croker,
has lifted the gloom that so long nov
cred around their devoted wigwam,
and has proven their arch-enemy and
accuser, one Pat Mccain, to be a YER
liable prince of liars. Not only are
McCann's many charges most emphat-
ically denied, but most clearly prOUen
untrue. The most serious charge,
that of Grants giving Croker's little
daughter Flossie $4,000 as a gift,
which. in reality, Grant was TO use for
political purposes, was the most clear
iy disproven of any, The money was
invested for the child in property in
this CITY, and all of this evidence was
substantiated by Mrs. Croker herself.
Every one who believes in American
fair-play must be pleased at the out
come of this most sensational political
inquiry, and to see that old Tainmany
is firmly and honorably established
again. There will be a big Tammany
meeting on the glorions 4th at the
Academy of Music, and great array
of speakers, including two from Ken
lucky, will be there; an account OF
which will be written for the REGIS
TER.
New York's chances for becoming
the greatest city in the world, wIth..l
the next ten years, are OF the most
brilliant description. Consolidation
of New York and Brooklyn is inevita-
BILE and is sure to come In time.
They are as virtually one now, as is
London divided by the Thames or
Paris by the Seine. All the papers
here are booming the idea and poll
ticians are taking it up. By taking
ir Brooklyn and the suburbs of New
York the population easily foots up
g, 0O0, 900 people, and this does not ln-
clude Jersey City. The business in
terests of New York and Brooklyn are
identical and the travel over the great
Brooklyn bridge Zone of the new seven
wonders of the world of people going
to and returning from work is some
thing wonderful. For three solid
hours every evening the bridge en-
trance and the steps of the Elevated
Road, leading to the cars is one mass
of moving humanity. But the great
growth of New York is uptown. The
elevated roads are inadequate to sup
ply the great demand for travel and
although they now carry over 800, 0OO
people daily, the question of real
rapid transit is now more prominent
ly before the city than any other
Tom Platt, that Jonah" to New
York. not only killed the Worlds
Fair for this place, but also its rapid
transit bill. He has been given some
more of his own medicine lately and
is dead politically. New York next
month will commence paving some of
it's large avenues with asphalt, as
Madison Avenue and some smaller
streets are now. This is a move in
the right direction, as the noise from
the travel over the streets paved with
the Belgian block stone is terrible.
Work will also commence on the cable
railways that are to take the place OF
Broadway and Sd avenue lines of street
cars. The cars will be larger and more
perfect in every respect than the
present ones, and the trip from Har-
lem to the Post Office that now takes
about an hour and half will be
made in so minutes. The greatness
of New York must be seen to be APP
preciated.
Summer has opened up here very
pleasantly and but for one or two hot
days it has been very cool June.
Fruit of all kinds is most plentiful
here now, but the watermelon is the
favorite. In fact, it seems to have
rained them here, and on the river
front streets are immense pyramids of
thousands of them Fruit is not the
expensive luxury here that people
think it is and cherries seem to be the
only high priced one of the more COM
mon fruits.
More theatres have closed here
already this summer than have been
known to do so in any June for years.
The popularity of those that have
closed is that all announce that Eek
tensive improvements are being made
before the opening next season.
This notice appears yearly, but the
improvements don't.
OF the theatres that are now open
it would be hard to find one that is
not the coolest theatre in the world.
All advertise TO cool the house with
hundreds of tons of ice, and one goes
expecting to be delightfully."- frozen,
but always finds those delicious watts
of frozen air missing. Still, what
would any business amount to with
out advertising?