Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-04-05
NEW YORK LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE

appeared upon the scene. But IN
this year of grace, 1895, deiiveiance
seems near, and before another year
rolls around, il is to be hoped that the
wedding and purifying process may be
complete aud we shall have new New
York. All attempts Ia take the nnni-
cipal service of any city ont OF poll
tics is great stride in the direction
of reform and satisfactory city gov
ernment The recent action of the
New York City Civil Service Commis-
sion in extending its rules to all en-
ployes of the city, including the lowest
class OF laborers, is long step in
this direction. 1t is radical de-
parture from recent methods, and its
enforcement can hardly fail to pro-
duce results equally beneficial to the
city and to those who seek employ
ment in the departments.
After all great public improvements
have been accomplished, it becomes a
matter of wonder how the community
ever got along even for day without
them. So it viii probably be in re-
gard to the proposed New York and
New Jersey bridge, which has long
been a great necessity not only to the
city but to the nation. 1t will annex
Manhattan Island to the continent 1t
will hasten and cheaper the commerce
and the travel of the country. 1t will
make it easier and less costly for the
producer to get his product to market
through the principal seaport of the
nation. 1t means growth to the
metropolis and wealth to the people of
all the States. Such an enterprise
should not be bafiied or defeated upon
any small technicality. The law re-
quires that plans shall be approved by
the Secretary of War before the work
of construction is begun. 1t also re-
quites that the plans shall be SUBJ
mitted before the 7th of next June.
The company submitted plans last
fall. The secretary rejected them.
He now requires that new plans shall
be submitted before June 7.
The company will comply with this
requirement without doubt But sup
pose the Secretary rejects the new
plans also? Under his ruling the com
pany must hastily get together the de-
tails of still another plan and submit
it before the 7th of June or lose the
franchise granted by Congress- OF
course no such Interpretation as this
was ever intended by Congress. The
bridge is a great public work, sorely
needed. Those who propose to build
it should have full opportunity to sat
isfy all reasonable requirements. So
great and SO beneficial an enterprise
should not be defeated upon an un-
reasonable and unjust technicality
when they are manifestly endeavoring
to satisfy all public requirements.
Here are some things that may hap
pen soon.
That pneumatic tubes will soon be
used for conveying mail to and fro
between New York and Brooklyn.
That the Brooklyn trolley magnates
who are now on trial may be indicted,
but guess not.
That the statue OF Diana that caused
SO much gossip when it stood on the
pinnacle of Madison Square Garden
and now lies neglected, dismembered
and disgraced in cellar in Chicago,
because it was too awfully nude even
for that India rubber city, may come
back.
That Boss Platt will join Croker.
That Boss McKane's reported in
sanity is only feigned and is a ruse to
get out of Jail. He may come back,
but hope not.
The new girl of the period is a mos
fearless and bewitching creature. She
is not the timid sweet Priscilla of long
ago, or indeed modern Portia, but
something indefinably chic, dashiug,
fearless and gay. AS full of ideas,
fads and fancies as her little head car
hold, and quite up-to-date in all she
thinks, says and does. Consequently
she rides bicycle and declares she
gets as much pleasure out of it as hel
big burly brother. It's perfectly
lovely exercise she declares. These
pretty creatures with shapely fig
ures can now stand the public gazs
and still remain quite serene. Fol
the girls of Gotham bifurcated skirts
proved too old fashioned and they
had to give way to bloomers which
are now all the ''go."
As for the bloomers, which, by the
way, are not to be used solely in tn,
still watches of the night when timit
maidens are being held on their ma
chimes by older members of the club
but in "broad daylight and noon" tn,
, style of garment is the 1896 patterl
| and the material used is usually nav,
blue serge or heavy soft wooden goods
in light shades, to avoid showing th,
dust. Stockings, plain or striped
match the costume, and the jacket il
the same pretty little cutaway affai
| advocated for women's wear in sport
! ing circles.
Mrs. Grupdy may frown, but re
gardless of oil criticism the girls de
clare in favor of bloomers as tn
proper costume for women who in
dulge in the delights Of bicycling.
The newest entertainment gottel
| up by the New York Decorative Societ
for charming dollars out of rich purse
is the musical luncheon, where on
eats to the accompaniment OF vocal o
instrumental music at the rate of al
admission ticket The grub must b
something extra, but the music can b