Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-03-16
NEW YORK LETTER.
SPECIAL CORREspoNDENCE.

sons. She has had money nd lib to
crafty her every desire, much more
of the worlds pleasures, in fact, than
anyone could give her that she might
marry on this side of the water. What
she and what we all live for, is what we
can get ont of -experiences-an
as nothing remained for her to explore
on this side of the pond, she naturally
looked with longing eye to the smoth-
cred pomp and glory of the ex-court
society in foreign lands. In the Fau-
bourg st. German set in the gayest
capitol in Europe, there are unknown
worlds to conquer, depths of social
dissipation to explore, a ma9nifcence,
a luXuriousness, Il regal splendor, be-
wilderment, perfect dream of exist
ence, certainly n novelty, among the
rich, gouty old adherents to the lost
monarchial cause which is not to be
obtained by hob-nobbing with some of
the barbaric aristocracy Of New York.
Such prospect is enough to turn any
girls head.
The wedding has blown good to
hundreds, nay thousands, and has put
dollars and dollars into circulation
that might, had this event not oc-
Cured, been still lying in some safe
deposit vault doing nobody any good.
Money has been spent lavishly for all
sorts of trinkets that cost pretty
penny, and there is more money for
us all when these things are being
bought and sold than when the rank
and file can buy nothing but crackers
and cheese. The wedding was nuts
for the modistcs, milliners, jewelers.,
florists and all.
Let's have another
| am told and 1 know it very we'll,
that when man gets to criticising my
lady fair, he gets very much out of his
element, but | cant refrain from maxi
ing one little remark about an obser-
vatlon of mine Mt the Gould Castel-
lane wedding. ! was there, not as a
guest perhaps, or tluuky. The top
of Il fence in the back yard was a good
enough, if not very dignitied point
OF vantage for me to see something of
what was going on. The dandies and
dudines ! had heard were TO be
deckcd ont in raiment more gorgeous
titan old Solomon in all his glory ever
dreamed of, and | wanted to see what
twas like. Besides, the Count YOU
know, designed the dresses of the
bridesmaids. / saw tor myself, and
my verdict is, he did well-magnitioue
to be French. Sable furs which in
the good old days past and gone, so
long restricted by sumptuary laws to
kings, queens and princes, were as com
mon rs black ties on restaurant wait.
ers, and collars-merciful heaven
they fairly shocked me. But the clod-
hopper of to day can wear collar
foot wide of the beautiful fur, pro-
vided he has the mighty dollar.
Could Catherine de Medicis but
walk the earth once more in the flesh,
how astonished she would be to see,
ladies and nursemaids, cooks and soul
lions, all wearing the collar named
after her, and bordered, (oh horrors y
with the precious fur or else imitation
of it Could Catherine have attended
the marriage she would see the precious
sable galore, and might demand to see
their patent of nobility. The count
could produce his without doubt, but
the bride well, she has money and
good heart, and the SIS, 900, 900 would
go a long way, even in Catherine sight.
If this wholesale slaughter of inno-
cents by reckless Brooklyn trolley
men continues, our grayeyards will
soon be full to overlooking. One way
to stop it, is to heavily mulct the
managers for every death caused by
such criminal carclessness that has SO
long existed. The pockets of these
magnates like the heel of Achilles is
a very vulnerable spot and IL raid on
them would prove as convincing as the
missionury's tract for the heather.
Police Justice Joseph Koch has
made living argument of himself in
favor of bill for his deposition. Dur
ing the trial of an old crony of his in
court he refused to hear evidence and
scored the police department. 81
wouldn't believe policeman under
oath - he shouted; "no' raising his
voice still higher, 'nor the whole de-
partment either 1kuow you police
men when You get a good lawyer in a
station house. You try to ride rough
shod over him." Then Justice Kock
added excitedly: "Its been tried on
me.
Koch is one of the Police Justices
who would be removed if the Seventy's
bill, which has been chung up" in the
Legislature for month, were passed.
ioll iutl . ,hShu against Mayor
Strong and reform permits his pre-
sence on the bench.
And there are others like him in the
city.
Du Maurier did a good thing all
around when he wrote "Trilby."
Even the street fakir, who is an ire
pressible individual, is bound to be
up to date if he is nothing else. |
saw the other day an enterprising
street merchant who was selling what
he asserted were small plaster casts
giving "an exact reproduction of Tril-
by's feet" They were pretty, con-
fess.
"Sky scraping" buildings are a
phase of New York's development II
the present activity in this direction
continues for another decade, the