OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 306, 5 October 1887, Page 4

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

A.ionlniQtttjKl _' i -:i^Btf',TOflßlsl in thei Emigration t<>eS>9*Sia94onbeitigfeadly knocked out; Theyi pompous, ignorant blockheads > s'-'^o exposed that they Were placed id' W | #^o|.the United States,? armed ;';. wfliK full ..poweri to say who should land and Who should not land npon our shores, end ( tb^y deemed Jk> fchink that their final decision, was above all law, t Matters in Oastle Garden! have been oarried on with a very high hand r fprieev*Orai»yearß past, and nobody has questioiaiid their olaims to power. The arbitrary' 'fcfcij^pltlqJßend ba-'k to Norway a couple of strong healthy women who had money: enOiUgh to .pay their way, and whose friends ; were willing to give ample bob da tKat' they should never become a public charge, ., called : iorth a* bitter criticism from the World. Commissioner Stephenson, a hard-headed old fossil, forbade the admission of the World repdtt'er into CDBtle Garden. Then the World went for the entire Commission red-handed, nnd for a few weeks there was Some very lively- reading. The Secretary of the Treasury was appealed to,.and he gave the Commission ,to } understand that they were BXoebaSiiiJiheir powers ; but, as' I said, the stuped' Commissioners supposed themealveß above the Secretary ofthe Treasury. Indeed they were not quite sure that they were nob beyond the reach of the Coun c. They bave received a, very rude awakening, and the result was tba*< the two women whom tbey had determined to Bend back, were allow, d to proceed oh their journey by order of the Oonrt3, and one of them was smuggled out of town in the night to avoid a prospective action for damages for false imprisonment. A LABOB PAPEB. After a desperate struggle of three years, daring which he has Bunk every dollar he had jn tho world, John Swinton's Labor Paper-goes to the wall. Few better newspaper men in New York than John Swinton; large brained, understanding mecjand things a ripe scholar, thoroughly read in every branch of literature, honest beyond all qdestionV a lover of his' kind, a tireless FB&V*i 4 never weighing principle against self, never self-seeking, not scheming for office or money, and yet in his old age a financial rain. Not that John. Swinton is likely; to. starve, for abilities like his are too rate not to be always in demand. But why has he failed, you ask ? Horaoe Greely gave the answer to that question a quarter of a clntnry a&o : "no man was ever qualified to edit and publish a daily paper." Greely was a dead failure till he met Moßlrath, and Dana of the jS«» would have gone into bankruptoy yefitrago if it had not been f or the judicious management; 'of Mr England. At Frank Leslie's death, his paper, was thousands of dollars in ..debt, and Mr England was appointed receiver by the Court. So well did he administer his trust that all the debts were para dollar for dollar, and the property restored to Mrs'lieslie without any encumbrance ; whioh.CduldnoVbe easily paid. John, Swinton started on his labor crusade long before Henry George was heard of. Before the advent of the new prophet of AntipOYWtyrt)Job,^S,winton.was the oracle of the ' working jne^t.^,, but with' the rise. of Henry George, whq" received his ; first boom fin New Yorfeiftoril Jt>hn Sv?iriton, Mr Swinton's star bdgan and while 'Henry' George's Standard is making him rioh and is bought by his Anti-poverty converts . ai ten cents a copy, John 'Swidton's paper sinks in ruin, and after this week will be heard of as a labor factor no more. / THE IBISH/:%^.EE AND THE -laißK VOTE. We are nW trjring. to suppress the Irißh wake by due process of law, but as every one f pjE the wafers hasa -vote next election, wj^aie rio i t\hi,ving a very easy time of it. Dipjbhjera has prevailed extensively in the tenement houses, and .every little angel had to^ have a, wake. The rooms were filled with, peo'jtfg for two or three nights preceding the funeral; ,then all the children ; inrthe' neighboiirhiiod had to come in and take a look, anif^ija natural consequence business was . ;, ;<U|»rr'Banong. the undertakers, and they gave •• >thdj&jmost unqualified approval to the wake, Tjj& Xan^ily that had the biggest wake and the.ibiggeat funeral was looked upon as the bijj;!i^;fajauly in the neighbourhood. Then came'tihe, co^t pi carriages— every carriage costjl^e, dollars— and the loss of at least a half '<qay 'swprk for all the mourners. It is no' uncommon, sight to see twenty, or thirty carriagea, at, the funeral of -a child. The ! ext^g^iof i^e jwake and funeral will, some- , . timegi^yolve aTiamily^in debt for months .-' an'df^ears. It is in vain that the clergy and th^bity'authorities have endeavored to stop this barbarous custom ; the wake still goes on no matter how. dangerous the disease of which'the'subjecu died. 1 : Last week a child died of-a-mosirmalignant form of diptheria, and preparations were made for a grand wake. . The oity authorities were notified and when theiealth offioepcalled on the father and told hini^Jl 4 the feiMble' risk he was exposing himself and his djamily , and friends, ' his reply was that he did not care a — , he was going. to have the wake, anyway. Finding it .to reason with the man the office!?' forbad the wake, when the father Beitied' -"the '-officer and tried to throw him down the stairs. It required four stout Solicemen to arrest the maniac, and when the cad child was taken out by the authorities there was nearly a riot in the neighborhood. That fluoh a , barbarous custom should obtain a foothold ' Here is disgraceful to our oivilizationp'v I*s1 * 5 •''■ ' -, • AN ONDEBTAKEBS' BALL. While on the subjeotof funerals I would remark en passant that one of the moat agreeable and delightful receptions of the season) was the r Undertakers' Ball. The mottßd in' evergreen about the hall are not thos&i m'eaningle^B nothings whioh are so commdn)'on'isuch oooasions, but they had a point and taste for which these gentlemen in black are. proverbial. Just look at this — •• Ft^r^Wto oij," "Oar Absent .Friends: theyafe in our Memories." There iB a dflioady of Houoh about that that shows the ortißt and the p.6et " Lei all Animosities be Buried'" see the point ? Everybody who was^anybody in undertaking circles was there " ana the entire affair was voted a brilliant flucceSß. The bpening toast had a delightful business flavor with all the sparkle of veuve Clicglifot}^" Our Association: we always succeed in whatever we undertato.' A POLISH CELEBRATION. We! had; a narrow escape last- week from being captured by the Poles and Hungarians but were saved by the German contingent. Last week was given up to Polish and Hungarian celebrations. If there is one thing that thewrerage Pole gets fast in his noddle as sooDLas he, arrives on our shore, ifc is that the barbariouß, Yankees haven't the slightest idea of liberty, and with the Hungarian they proceed to give us lessons therein. Now to have any kind of a celebration a Hungarian orarrPole must have a uniform, a sword, a spear, or a gun and a fight ; celebrating with him meanp fighting and he generally Rets what' he wants before [he gets through. You can take fifty thousand Germanß and fill them up to the 'muzzle with Book bier and they wouldn't create as much disturbance in a month as twenty Poles and Hungarians wonM<in^fi hour. Thousands of Germans oan paraqe.pn our streets and' orowd our parks, . be'joUy and happy, and while everybody is talMrig l; at Hhe top' of his voice you will never see anything like a row, They like peace and fun; the^Pples and Hungarians don't. At the oelebration last week a carman tried to drive'through. an\opening in the procession ; there wad plenty of room, but the captain of the procession seized the horse and struck the man with his cword. If there .is vonej.lihing that a New York truckman Oikeji 3 toftter than whisky or stopping a Btregt car— it is a fight, and to the credit of our, -cUy be it recorded, that innocent rcorcu- ; tidg'isjpenerally within his reach. The truckman came back on the captain with the truck Btake.and a Polish private gavo the truckman a prMin the fear with a bayonet. Then the fighrbecame general, and the reserves were . called out., 'The Polish contingent finally reached ihe •Pftrk. For an hour or so thore ; .was comparative peace, that is to say, it wua > strictly oonfined to friendly fights among the Ishkies and the Vishkies and the Whiskies, ;- - in .whiofi^jjac' man got his eye knocked out, arid -;auotberlloßt part of his ear,^ — however, thb %afl\scarcely sufficient to disturb the 1 . frie^n^ly^feeUng^ pf the' different parties. But h V »t last the Getoafi waiters declared tha.fc the PoliK^aTrd "Hungarianß were trying to beat •• '^|b^:pnbeer,^n^inless time than it takes ;V j*D .*9ll the fltorgr, 1 beer mugs were flying by ■ ; ; : : huddreds through the air. The Poles and Hungarians dashed in with their swords and ll^f^^lS 1 !'-^^'-??;^ 6 P eacef al regalia of a %s%&&&%{)?!■■ i?i : -'i >: A3" ; ' "■: ',

gaiter. ( c m);|i; ; ,N.ew York beer garden is •a 1 'Btpnt lGoußt olub and a billy. The sailed -in under the, lead of the proprietor of the garden, andjigi|b.e end oiubs.were tfcumps. Skulls $js|P?crSckedi arms and legs were broken, in saoft^they had a 'refcl' nice Polish oelebratjdn. They could not have had a pleasftnter time at Warsaw oo Cracow.' °I suppose' we will have to wait a year for another. A WOMAN DBtJNKARD. Application hasjust been made hereby Mrs Hoy(i, the widow of the late Jesße Hoyt, for the appointment of a guardian for her daughter, Irene. Jesse Hoyt died leaving a fortune of several millions to his brothers, bis wife and his only child, Irene. She was a confirmed drunkard and Jesse Hoyt knew it; so that instead of leaving her the bulk of his fortune he. only left her the income of one million and three hundred thousand dollars. There is no question but the conduct of this woman embittered his life, and her own life has been a constant scandal since his death. At present she is out of reach of New York courts, but if she ventures here there is little doubt but the courts will shut her up where she oan do no further harm. A MODEL BROTHER. Brooklyn turns out; the model brother and takes the cake. la that city lived a brother and sister for many years, whose father died leaving them a fortune. For twenty-five years the sister kept the house for her bacuelor brother in the mansion left them by their father. Everything was amicable and bappy, but at last the lady died, and thinking that her brother had plenty she willed what t-he had to her poor relations. The brother has just applied to the cour.H to have the will Bet aside, on the ground that his sister must have at different times in the twenty-five years she kept bonsa for him robbed him of 40,000dols' without his knowing it. I have heard of aru^read of mean men , bus this miserable wretch takes the cake. A PAUPER LOBD. Lord Drummond died here the other day in abjeot poverty, at Sfc. Luke's hospital ; he was born to the Peerage and the heir to vast estates. While yet a boy he ran away with one of his grandmother's servants, and came to this country. His family cast him off, and for several years he lived in a cabin on Long Island, eking out a miserable living by hunting and fishing ; after that he tried various ; things as canvassing agent for newspapers, i working in the World's press room, and doing ;odd jobs wherever he could find them. After .enduring every, humiliation and degradation, he finally succumbed to consumption at the I early age of thirty-one, and but for the kind* jness of a friend he might have been buried in 'the Potters field. \

One of the most extraordinary celebrations ,of the Queen's jubilee waß that of the Presbyterian excursionists from the Winnipeg ;Assembly, who dined in the Glacier Hotel, on 'the summit of the Selkirk Range of the Rocky .Mountains, on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 21. The party numbered 80, none of whom had ever before dined so comfortably at so great a height, or in the presence of such grandeur and lonely magnificence. " Great mountains," says an eloquent Canadian editor who was present, "reared their snowy summits all round us. A mighty glaoier occupies the face of one mountain, and extends 4000 ft towards the summit, with a width of 2000 ft. Torrents foam and flash down the face of the hills. Dense forests of cedar and fir fill the dark gorges. No scene could be wilder, or .more desolate; not a human habitation in sight, or a single mark of man's hand, except such as are connected with the railway." Dr Burns, moderator of the assembly, pronounced a eulogy on the Queen ; arid Dr Pollok followed with a sketch of> her Majesty's career, giving' comparisons and contrasts with other sovereigns.- AS last all joined in singing the National Anthem-, and the train started towards the Pacific! A meeting to consider the question of tin influx of Chinese to Victoria and the neighbouring colonies was held in the Hotham Town Hall on the 17ih, when about 300 persons were present. All the speakers agreed that early action should be taken to prevent tbe Chinese coming in any numbers to Australia Mr Harwood referred to the evil effects which the influx of Chinese into tbe United States of America had produced amongstp the working classes, and Mr Laurens pointed out that the question could now be dealt with, but if postponed until Chinese were more numerous the difficulty of dealing with them would be greater than that of the rabbit plague. "Where rabbits come the sheep starve, and where Chinamen come the white working man will have to Btarve," said Mr Lanrens. Resolutions were carried • declaring the presence of Chinese a menace and a peril to the whole of the industrial classes, that any further icfluxahould be prevented, and that those already here should be placed under proper supervision. la the early part of the present oentury sporting men were fond of betting on the duration of the lives of celebrities. Napoleon I. was speoially tbe subject of these wagers. It is related tbar, at a dinner party in 1809, Sir Mark Sykes offered to pay anyone who would, give him a hundred guineas down a guinea a day bo long as Napoleon lived. The offer was taken by a clergyman present ; and for three years Sir Mark paid him three hundred and sixty- five guineas per annum. He then thought that he had thrown away enough money and disputed further payment. The reoipient, who was nob at all disposed to lose bis comfortable annuity, brought an action, which after lengthy litigation, was deoided in favor of the Baronet,