The new North-west., 1890-08-22

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q AM NOW ABLE 10 KEEP A COW
referred to. AS a resident and taxpayer
Of Staten Island I know that but voice
the sentiments of many Of my neighbors
when say that we do not wish to have
New York annexed to us. . 5.s
In the first place, most of us removed
to Staten Island in order to get out
the city Of New York and its telnpta-
tions, and we do not desire to have the
noisy town follow US to our lair with its
civilization and its sewer gas For in-
stance, am now able to keep COW,
and every night with wild onion
scented breath she winds slowly DER
tile lea. II New York should be an
ne9ed to lis an alderman would mi Tx
her probably on her way home, and soon
also her sweet breath would disappear
At first she would seek to deceive me
by eating cloves or catnip on the way
home. Then gradually she would lay
aside all reserve and come up at a late
hour, getting into the corral with great
difficulty, accompanied by a jag.
This COW am especially proud of, and
l may truthfully say that she has led IL
comparatively blanleless life thus far.
That is, it would be SO regarded in Il
large city, | mean. She is as simple L; d
buttercup. She has almost cnust;ntiv
communed With nature and has never
slnelled a gas leak in her life What She
would do if we We're to become an
eiglty-seventh ward Of New York CITY i
do not know "
Many of my friends also keep goats
M. Tucson Kelly, Il ,,eiShbor Ut mine
on Ailyetty street, says that he has a
new milch goat that was born OIL Staten
Island, and has never yet seen an elevated
train He says he would hate to see the
noise and cussedness Of a great city creep
in and usurp the place for our bon homme
and dirt roads. .5-..#"5 5lM.-
Possibly adds NJ. Tucson Kelly, of
.Airyetty street, Tomcatsville Il may do
the better classes Of New York city Il
great injustice, for folks tells me that it
is not the best classes that comes over
here on Sunday to play ball and escort /,
large o9ydized jag home at night; but
from what we see we form an idea that
our relations with South and East New
York might become strained at most
any time if we should become Ward 81
Of the city uE
Mr. Robert Craig, of Rossville,
dealer in fresh laid cucumber pickles
and embryo hens, says that he hopes we
shall not be compelled to restore the de-
pleted treasury of New York city and
help pay for elevated sidewalks on Man
haitian island while we have got over
eighty square miles of green country,
fresh from the hand of the Creator,
where the soprano song of the thrush
mingles richly with the rumbing bass
of the lusty mosquito. why should the
three story high stoop brown stone
front creep stealthily into my truck
patch:" lie succinctly asks. and no one
yet has successfully replied.
Mr.. Craig says that the first man who
attempts to build o ten story brick block
on his premises will have to 10 so over
his dead body. He says that it may be
all right for Brooklyn to join New York,
because the feed for stock is poor there
anyway, but when Wall street gets to
running to his we'll to water its stock it
is time to call halt
It is urged that we would have larger
police force on Staten Island if we were
a part Of New York city. and that has
done a great deal to build up the opposi-
tion to annexation, think. That is one
good thing now about Staten Island.
She is almost free from the encroach-
1nents of that bane Of civilization-the
police. Three policemen on week days
and four on Sundays surround Rich
mond county with the clutch Of giant,
and any outbreak or disorder outside Of
the hospital is a thing almost unknown,
or, it finally known Of, it is so late that
the matter has already blown over.
claim that corruption ought to come
on a town gradually. It ought not to
be let loose like Conemaugh food
without notice. Staten Island has fair
start in this line, and as she grows her
political corruption will no doubt keep
pace with her growth; but it is tough to
turn loose the veteran cussedness of an
old and famous metropolis on the fresh
and dew laden districts, where the gentle
jay will at once fall a victim to the lust
and rapacity of the versatile and accom-
plisliel metropolitan felon.
What would IL horny handed aSric,llt-
urist like George William Curtis or
Erastus Wiman OF Willie Winter do if,
while he happened to be hlsgins his po-
tatoes or salivating his squash vines. the
legislature should suddenly turn loose
upon the Island a horde of accomplished
he-sirens with staccato voices to WOO
the pure patriot from his disagreeable
and poorly paved path of rectitude?
What would do?
I am almost sure that I would fall.
would fall with an ear piercing plunk.
Almost every time I go over to New
York now I do something or other
which, in the light Of cooler reasoning
and far away from temptation, can soc
was autre and almost dishabille.
No, we are not yet ripe, Mr.. Editor,
for city life. We would run right down
il you should take us off grass and feed
us on ground feed and rich victuals.
Linoleumyille, Rossville and Perth Am
boy feel just as do about it. If the
legislature makes us part of New York
city we will have to stand it, I presume,
and help pay for school houses, county
AAAo 4oauS aA1u SopueI scaIps Oh AAuuAL-
tan Island from that on; but know
voice the sentiments Ct IL man here who
writes a good deal for the papers over
the nom de plume of Taxpayer" and
several other well known writers both
at home and abroad, when say that the
Great Spirit gave us these lands, and we
shall oppose the paleface who comes to
us with smooth promises and tries to be
the godfathert to our little children.
We do not understand the ways of the
paleface from New York.
Yet we will accept our destiny, what
ever it may be, If it cannot be avoided.
The Staten Islander suffers, but he never
Weeps. He gets it in the neck, but he
never sqneals.
Our forefathers settled on the island,
and here they hunted the same fox that
We hunt now. He has grown up amongst
us. He loves us. He comes and eats
ont of our hand and lets us hunt him.
He comes up nights and is good road
ster. We are attached to these lands.
Here we can see the broad and heaving