Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-08-24
NEW YORK LETTER.
Auq. y, IS5

aug. II, 1921.
Dear Editor of the Monitor, Those of
your readers who are fortunate enough
to live in Orleans County or Northern
Vermont can not be thankful enough
that they live SO far north The past
two days have been the hottest we
have had this summer. The mercury
has trotted up into the nineties, pret
ty close to one hundred. People have
clung to the shady side of the street,
carried fans and umbrellas, walked
bare headed when out of the sun, wore
as little clothing as possible and wish
it was less, and perspired. Perspired,
did l say? better roasted, boiled, stew
ed, sizzled. But words fail to express
the looks of torture on the faces of
the thousands who have endured the
insufferable heat as best they could.
There have been, as usual, many cases
of prostration and few deaths. We
had two light showers-on each day
| but they only added to the general
humidity of the atmosphere. Every
on who could get out of town has
geAe and the seaside resorts are crowd
edo overdowing. But this is not all.
The mosquitoes, plenty enough at all
times around New York, have been
increased a thousand times by the
moist, hot weather, and have swooped
down on the Manhattan Island, Long
Island and New Jersey with voracity
only born of such a small but blood
h Il
Elizabeth, New Jersey, Sunday night
in a cloud like a storm and drove the
people to all sorts of extremities to be
able to live Police officers on Jersey
City Nights, on night duty, have to
wear screen masks over their heads
to protect themselves. Brooklyn has
not had so many in years. But we
must expect some bitter with the
sweet, and we have enjoyed a very
comfortably cool summer so far, and
have had no mosquitoes to speak of
until now.
1t may not be necessary to remind
you that New York is a great place for
big enterprises. But since Chicago
stole the ''World's Fair Plumb" she
has wanted to be ''The City," and has
blown her trumpet loud and long.
There is, however, only one New York,
and that is on Manhattan Island. A
few years ago, when the Brooklyn
Bridge was being built, the eyes of
the North were turned on us and we
were often reminded of the ''Big Ele
nbant1 vya had on nUT hands title
more than a dozen years have passed
since it was completed and it has paid
for itself, become a means of revenue
to the sister cities, and last June the
promenade was made free. Within a
few months the Hudson River Tunnel
hands with New Jersey underground,
and bridge across the Hudson will
without doubt be built within two or
three years. Let me tell you some
thing of the magnitude of this bridge
of the future. If you were to build a
a bridge from Bloomington Center to
Irasburgh it would be but little longer
than the projected length of this bridge
and its approaches. 1t will have six
railroad tracks, and its New York ter
minal being near the center of the
city will connect with all the railroads
and elevated roads in the city. All !
this to facilitate travel. And yet, be-
fore it is begun, we can take any one |
of several of the railroads centering |
here and be whirled away with almost |
lightning speed. The n. Y. G. & H. |
R. R. r. to Chicago and the West, and |
the ''Royal Red" of the Penn. r. R. or
the "RoyaI Blue" of the Central r. of |
n. j. will take you to Washington in |
less than five hours, and you can enjoy |
the most luxurious coaches to be |
found in the world; or you can take |
either the Boston and Albany or the |
"Ghost" or white train over the Shore |
line and be carried to the Hub of New |
England in an incredibly short time. |
"Red" 'sWhite' and EEBIue' trains
what next? l am not going to tell you,
but venture prophecy that you will
see equally as fine trains running over
the Boston & Maine before many years
or months, even; and that greater
progress in railroad travel will be made
in the next decade than in the past,
however improbable it may seem.
wanted to tell you about some of the
immense buildings built and being
built, but will wait till another time,
fearing have already taken too much
of your valuable space.
Yours Truly, E. WORTH.