The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1896-06-19
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Rich Metropolitan Sensational
ismAThe Fleming Trial.
ISpecial Correspondence.I

hon. InOmdS Z. IrdQy, Cn6 silver
tongued orator Of Tammany Hall, is
credited with having once remarked !:
woman is a great institution. Give
her half the opportunities that man has
in this world and she will make her
way with much less complaining than
we of the sterner sex" Thomas gal
lantry may possibly have betrayed him
into a slight exaggeration, but in the
main he was correct. In this city there
are now three women who are rapidly
becoming wealthy, and every one Of them
started in business without the proven
bial dollar with which to bless herself.
One of them in her prosperous days was
a regular visitor to Saratoga and lib
eral patron of the resorts along the lake
side at which were sold those toothsome
trifes known as Chips" When her
husband died and she discovered that
she was practically penniless, instead of
giving way to crying spell she deter
mined to start business of her own.
Saratoga chips homemade, it occurred
TO her, ought to sell we'll in New York,
and she began to make them, They were
put on consignment at the smaller gro
Gerry stores, and so delightfully."- prepared
were they that she was soon obliged to
hire assistants. Now she has regular
factory and a very fat bank account
An Employer Of Typewriters.
The second woman came to New York
when typewriters were not so common
as they now are. She conceived the idea
of starting place for taking in work.
1t prospered and then she began to sell
machines. She now does perhaps the
largest business of the kind in this city,
and employs several score young women,
whom she instructs in typewriting free
Of charge, they in the meantime more
than making up for their instruction by
the work they do for her while perfect
ing themselves.
Woman No found herself, like the
others, without the means of support.
She had been an economical housekeep
er, and had for some time been making
the pants for her little boys out of Pc
culiar cloth which was intended for an
entirely different purpose. She had
some of these put together, carried them
to one of the large department stores,
and after much persuasion induced the
superintendent to put them on sale. At
the present time thousands of the
youngsters of this city are wearing them.
and in spite of the fact that she has sew
eral times enlarged her factory she is
unable to meet the enormous demand.
A City Of Sensations.
There is perhaps no city in the United
States, if in the world, where it takes
so little foundation to build up sensa-
ton. The newspapers, in their mad race
for supremacy and scoops" seize with
avidity upon anything which holds out
the least promise Of possibility of de-
velopment into sensation. For that
reason the readers of New York newspa.
pers are constantly being invited to sub
scribe for the benefit of son pc more or
less deserving ffaaa4i or CRAFTY, out or
which or whom the newspaper of course
gets more than fair proportion of free
When Maria Barberi, the
homely and frightfully igno-
rant Italian girl, who shot and killed her
lover when he had goaded her past the
point of endurance, was convicted of
murder and sentenced to die in the cleo
trio chair, veritable wall went up
from this community, which had been
trained to sympathize with the girl by
the efforts Of the newspapers in her be-
half.
The Fleming Poisoning Case.
Mrs. Fleming is now on trial for her
life, charged with having administered
poison to her mother for the purpose of
the more speedily coming into the pos
session of about $S5, 900 which was held
in trust for her. The case is shrouded in
mystery, the defendant is member OF
the famous and for centuries highly re-
spected family of Livingston, her life
has been most unusual one, she has
figured in couple of notorious breach
of promise cases and she is of refined
manners and genteel appearance. She
was arrested while on the way to her
mothers funeral. Her mother and step
father were living apart, while Mrs.
Fleming lived at the same hotel with
Hill. lue lllJlS uuuShlCl VI tiiC dSOuSCN
is said to have furnished the most damn
ing evidence to the prosecuting authori
ties against her mother. The noted
medico legal expert DR.. W. J. O'Sulli-
van appears for the first time in his ca
reer on the side of the people, and there
are numerous other circumstances which
would seem to offer all sorts of induce
ments to the papers of New York city to
endeavor to work up sympathy in behalf
of the woman ON trial, but they have
not done it. Why the lack of commisera-
ton for Mrs. Fleming and the super
abundance of it for ignorant Maria Bar
beri?
Coasting Contests on Bicycles.
Two or three years ago hill climbing
contests ON bicycles were very popular.
They tested the stamina of a wheelman
and tended TO make him better rider,
with the result that he was enabled TO
extract more enjoyment from the sport.
Usually the worst hill in the vicinity
was selected, and the man who reached
the top first without having dismounted
was declared the winner, and he never
failed to feel rather proud of his achieve