The New York Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1877, Page 9

OUR SUMMER RESORTS, A Difficult Problem—Where Shall We Go for the Summer ? THE MOUNTAIN AND THB SEASIDE A Trip Up the Hudson and a Tour of the Lakes, New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Long Branch, Saratoga, Newport. The Past and the Present—The Outlook and the Preparations. In «@ few weeks the more famous among our water- ing places and summer resorts will claim public atten- tion as the resorts of wealth and fashion; but just now, with the hot weather full upon us, the troubie- some problem to be solved is, Where shull we go tor the summer? Newport, Suratoga, Long Branch, the White Mountains, the Adirondacks, the Catskills—theso to inest minds aro about all there are to choose from, besides a few special resorts suited to special tastes; and while it is undeniable that every one of these has Its attractions there ure people who do not caro to go for rest and rocreation whero everybody goes, and 80 Mt becomes aduty to fad new fields for the pleasure Beeker, The great resorts, it 1s well known, are tre- qnented by a peculiar class. Newport is gradually becoming only the summer home of ‘cottagers,” who Tesort to it as reguiarly every season as the wild geese fly northward, Saratoga, on the other hand, 13 a col- jection of vast caravansaries, where people who bave left behind them ‘a great big house and nobody living in 11,” cramp themselves and their buge trunks into 10x15 rooms, in order to “drink the waters,” participate in the racing sports or enjoy the giddy whirl of the ballrooms Long Brauch 8a combination of the other two, its splendid surf and its contiguity to New York being mmensely in its favor, Then come the mountain re- worts, where pleasure is too often confined to breathing ‘he mountain air on the verandas of the great hotels, the people who frequent these places know long in advance where their summer quarters are Lo be, but ajart from thein there is « class, anda very largo class, of rummor tourists and pleasure seckérs who tre rever sure unuil they start where they are cong for the summer, and theee are just now on the look- put for undisdovored fields of attraction. UNDISCOVERED FIELDS OF ATTRACTION—DEEPHAVEN, In that quamt hitie book, “Deephaven,” which 1s making something of a stir in the literary world, wo have a suggestion, if nota revelation, of one of these undiscovered ficids of pleasure. ‘i'wo young girls who had rejected Newport and Lenox and the Berkshire Hills and a trip to Europe, even, determined upon housekeeping in an old mansion it Deephaven, Tho oid Brandon House described in vhis book 1s ono of those queer and spacious dwellings 10 bs found only in the decayed commercial towns of New England left untouched by the transforming Manulacturiog interest, Th: towns end the houses tre to be found in the most unexpected uooks and cor- fers, Sometimes away inland, sometimes on the sea: shore, but always at a distanco from the ratlway sta: Mons and tar out of hearing of the puff of the locomo- Nive and the hum of tho loomsand spindles, The book “\s astudy of New England Ifo and manners as they exist in their most primitive fasbion and the quaint Sguies which come and yo through its pares are n no way a reflection of tho familiar puppets, whether v'si- tors or natives, with which oue cowes in contac: at the watering places, If aby of our readers ure anxious to take a house for the summer we would say to them, “Go to Deephaven by all means.”? Geographically Deephaven is anywhero, everywhere, on either side of Long Island Sound, at Huntington, at Easthampton, at Puirfield, at Guilford, at New London, on the sea- toast from Narragansett Bay to Cape Cod and beyond, in the neighbornood of Indian Mount Holyoke, or Mount Iron, of as far inland as North Conway and Moosic and Memphramagog. City people who long for rest in the country would perhaps best enjoy themselves if they went where other city people go not, and that place, 1 a word, is “Deephaven.?? There one may catch bis own fish and cook them to his own taste, gather his own mush- | rooms, as fresi as the rich inould out ol which they spring, dig his own clams and bake them ia his own succulent clambake—in short, do anything for one’s {, and be “beholden”? to noone, A summer resi- dence at Deephaven is one of great possibilities it you | have the mouey and the pluck and the energy to realize them. You have only to determine its geography, whether for trout or cunner fishing, whether for seashoro, or lakeside, or country brook, and then settle down in the most spacious and out-ol- the-way house you can hire in the villa Should a* n!wspaper correspondent come your way he will write abou the place as ‘a stupid, common country town,” one did about Deephaven once; out this will make no difference so long as there are walks and drives, hunting and fishing, mushroome and blackperries, and only the Deephaven aristocracy instead of tashion- able society. PLEASURE SEEKING IN THE CITIES, ‘There are two ciasees of Bummer tourists, and only two—those who go from the country into the city, and those who go trom the city into the country, Wha fre the penalties of those who go to the ‘cities in the summer not even those of us who are roasted in the offices and baked in the boarding houses of the metrop- olis can tell, What is there in New York to see worth teeing that tho stranger ever finds? The new Post Office, the County Court House, the Astor Library, Broadway, Fifth avenue, Central Park—these and the tike of these are all that come under the notice of the pleasure seeker, The hopes and fears, the gayety and joy, the Iife and suffering and death which ure bebind all these are bidden as with a deep veil from the eyes of the tourist and pleasure seeker. Take up any one of the numerous handbooks of our American cities, and what do they show—a long list of hotels, res- taurants and clubs, railroad depots, streets and drives, public squares and parks, public and prominent build- ings, churches, theatres, hbraries, art galleries, edil- cutional and ‘charitable institutions and objects of bistorical ~=and = antiquarian —interest—only these and nothing more, These, or cveu ® part of these, cannot be revexled to the bummer tourist, for even to begin to understand New York-a month at least, and a mouth of very hard work too, would be necessary; and yet there is an unde- niable pleasure in waking a suiomer sour of tho prin- cipal American cities, swooping down from the Waite Mountains upon Boston, the hub of the universe, or approaching New York’ trom the Highlands avove on the bosom of the Hudson. lt is all commonplace enough, it is true, but there is some recompense in Beemg with one’s own eyes What a rickety, shambling place the famous Boston Common, ‘a park of forty- eight acres in the heart of the city, surrounded by a handsome iron feuce and faid out in sioving jawns and rambling walks, shaded by great numbers of rugniti- cent treer,’’ really is, Phiiadeiplia, too, has its ob- jects of interest, though these are mostly coufived to the possession of Carpenters’ anu Independence alls , and some noted Villas and mansions, now transiormed into restaurants of anot very inviuing cl Baiu- More, also, bas 118 attractions and monuments, and the public buildings at Washington invite at least one it from all American citizens, Tie autuinn, how- cf, ts the best time for pleasure seeking in the cities, and this branch of the subject may be dismissed with- out further comment IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF NEW YORK. Wo are very aptto forget our own summer resort iy 90 called, because they are at our very door 1 ‘n Isiavd wos a buodred miles away from New York ite advantages asaretreat ior the hot days of summer would be sounded far and wide. The beauty ‘Of its location, its sylvan shades, its invigorating sea Dreozes, would all be told over and over again, and, in- end of the two common enough hotels which now lay jaign a6 SUIMME resorts the island Would be siudded wiih magnificent palaces rivaling those of Saratoga. Then, soo, there 16 Coney Island, with its magniticeut beach and unrivalled sea bathing, whieh has beeu ut- terly ruined by the sharks and sharpers Who took pos- session of it; and Rockaway, which has supplanted it in pabiic favor in consequence, With the increased facilities which the latter resort will afford this year it ys to be hoped there will be inereasea pre- pautions against the dangerous Classes who are o apt to make resorts of this kind disrepntable. Bath and Babylon and Fire Island on the south side, and imnumerable villages and coves and necks and headlands all along Long Island sound afford Hu, | are a hundred villages easy of access to New Yorkers. In the whole hist of watering places and summer re- sorts there 18 Bot one anywh more charming than Luke Mahopac. Only a quarter of a coutury 420 this lake War unknown 4s a sumter resort, and though the fishing was good ard game abundant the neighvorhooa ‘was as little trequented by New Yorkers as tne Nyack Hiils are now, Twenty-tive years bave wrought mar- velious changes in this locality, in many others, and Lake Mahopac, with ts pretty villas and its excellent hotels, is both famous and fashionable. UP THK NUDSON. To the New Yorker who is tired of the bricks and mortar of other cities as well as his own, for wiom Newport and Sarutoga and Long Branch have ote tractions left, and who has vo inclivation to settle down in asummer house near the metropolis. or to fathom the mysteries of Deephaven, a journey up ‘he Hudson could’ 11 to be especially attracuve. Go- ing up and down that noble river by bout or rail gives one oniy @ faint idea of the beauty of its scenery and the interest of its associations, At every step, almost, from Spuyten Duyvil Creek to the Catskills there is something to claim attention if only tu please the eye. With all the splendors of its sconery the Hudson River is almost ttle known to many New Yorkers as the sources of the Nil Not more than a bunared, prova- Ay, of our citizens have ever traversed tho right bunk of the river at a pace slow enough to enable them to en- Joy the fulness of its grandeur. Even the Palisades, although at our very doors, would be a novelty to mostol us Thousands ot our people who ** go to the country’ every year have never been to Weehawken | or Fort Lee, or Fort Washington or High Bridge, even, Many of us seek the birthplace of the Swan of Avon, bether about Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey, and ever bore Tennyson and Longfellow with our visits, while wo are Dot aware thut just across the river from New York 1s that quaint old poet, Raiph Hoyt, singing to us in our Impatience:— Still sighs the world for something now. For something new ; Some Will v' the Wisp to help pursue, Imploring me, imploring you For something new. How few of us who have road the romance of Wash- ington’s first love—even those of us who take as pro- fouud an interest in the old patrons as Theodore Wia- throp evinced in his story o “Edwim Brothertoft"— have ever cared to visit the old Philhpse mansion at Yonkers? Yhe writer of this article bad it in bis power, not long ago, to do a kindness to a lineal de- scendant of one of the captors of Major André, aud yet he 18 compelled to record 11, with regret, that he as never bad the curiosity to'visit the old town of ppan, Where André was executed, or Tarrytown, even more famous for its associations with tho fife an: memory of Washington Irving than lor André’s cap- ture, A whole summer might be very profitably and agreeably spent in some quict farmbouse on the banks of the Tappan Zee. Some modern Baltus Vao Taseell might be found ulmost anywhere willing to accommo- date the summer visitor with a homme in which to dream away the drowsy, listless days, while the en- ergy of “morningtide and nighttull could be devoted to excursions to that unique —iittie Stone cottage, Sunnyside, which for so many years Irving made nis home; to tbe village churea at Tarrytown, where ho worshipped apd where be is buried, to Sleepy Hollow, made famous oy the ride of Ichabod Crane, the schoolinaster, when Brom Bones, his rival, Invoked the ghost of tho galloping Hessian to pursue bim to Verplanck’s Point, where Henry Hud. son’s ship the Half Moon came to anchor 266° yvars ago, and to Caidwell’s Landing, one of the many places where Captaia Kidd, “as he sailed, as bo sailed,” is supposed to have secreted his treasure, IN THE HIGHLANDS. Then the Highlands, too, will afford a delightful summer retreat for such as bave ao eyo and a taste for the objects Which out of nature's common order riso, The shapeless rock, or huning preelpiee. Who could not make his home, at least for “the heated term,’ as the veteran journalist is apt to mark, somewhere on the Dunderberg Mountain? Who would uot be happy in the bot noons of summer perched on: the very tip of Anthony's NoseYy Wuo Wouid not bé invigorated seal the dechivities of Sugar Loaf Peak or caluly descending the inclined Jeages of Buttermilk Fails? Wuo would not be trans- formed 10 nestle with the tays of Drake’s poem in the Cro’ Nest, and iée1 thyse airy beings of the 1magination ory forins arty ed pomp of tairy pride? © Between the Cro Nest and Storm King (**Boterberg”) is the lovely Vale of Tempe, not less beautiful than the famous deflie between Ulympus and Ussa in ‘Thes- suiy, Which Neptune opened with his trident, We care bot tor West Point or Cozzens’, for ail the world goes there to sce Much Lat 1s grand acd glorious, but to loll listlessly in the sight of all the grandeur which Nature's fingers vuve unprinted in tue very heart of toe Highland Pass, The Cutskilis even less attract the summer tourist, uniess indeed he has choseu them as the scene of his “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” where day after day he ts determined to scramble ap the ledges mm the ootsteps of Kip Van Winkle the mght be Jeiv bis termagant wile and went forty with only bis dog aud his gun lor Company, saratoga, with its waters aud its cflee folly, 118 lake and its semi-protessional | bout races; the Adirondacks, with all their wild beauty ; | even Champlain aud George, with their historical asso- | cumtions aud picturesque sweetness, are but for the summer traveller to whom the Highiaods of the Hud s0n uppeal, uniess indeed he feels that be can placo himseit near the hauots of men and womeo who ure the mere butterflies of pride, buzzing aimlessly near so much that is beautitul, not for Ns beauty, but bee Cause 1 18 fushionable, and yet keep apart trom thom to;commune only with Nature in her most onchanting mood:. THK NEAUTINS OF PENNSYLVANIA SCENERY, As the New Yorker rushes to Long Branch or Sara- toga when be 1s in search of a vreath of fresh air ora day's rest and recreation, so the Philadelptisn = hies away to Cape Moy aud Atiantte City, and as the former forgets the thou-anc attractions which tue banks of the Hudson afford, so the latter 18 oblivious of ull the chorms of the Scbayikilland the Wissahickoa, And yet of the one Moore could #ing— Alouo by the Schuyikill # wanderer roved, ‘Ans bright were Its Howery banks to bis eve: Bat tar, very iar, were the friends that he loved, Ant he gazed on its owery banks with a sigh, And the other is noted everywhere for its romantic and beauuiul scenery and the succession of cascates which gives an air ol’ grandeur to everything about thom | Few States offer such atiractiye or such diversitied scenery us Pennsylvania. Within a stune’s throw of New York wlmost is the Delaware Water Gap, Further on are the coal regions and the veautilul Wyoming Valiey, of which every Jancy makes a Mecca Tho pen ot Campbell and the pencil of Turner have taken their themes as well as (heir inspiration from this beautitul valiey, and Halleck, to whom we raised a statuo in Con- tral Park the other day sung, in its praise, Dature hath made thee loveticr than the power Even of Campbell's pen hth piecured, Wyoming is a spot which the summer tourist woald find as interosuing as it 14 beautiful, but Peunsylvania bas otier retreuts not less beautiful which few sum- mer tourists ever see, One of these 18 the Vahey of the Juniata, Ib is strange that the banks of this lovely stream, in the highest degree romantic and pic- } turesque ana lor many wiles along the line of the Penn- sylvania Railroad, suould ve ulmost unfrequented, and yet such is the f Then again there are the Cam- berland Vaiiey, Where the blue mountain top straight hue along the sky tor @ two hours’ ride by rail; Gettysburg, the ecene of the most sanguinary battic of the late war; Bedtord Springs, one ot the quaintest and oldest eummer resorts in the country ; tue Alleghenies, With Cressou on the summit and un- discovered wonders and Leauty in every direction. THE VIRGINIA SPRINGS. The natural wonders of West Virginia were better kuown a quarter of a century ago than they are to- day, for hen the famous White Sulphur springs were what Newport ts now—the fashionable summer home Ot people of Wealth and position, Among tho old painphicts in the HeRap library 16 one of which tho readers of the HkRALD never beard perhaps, called, “The White Sulpbar Papers,” Lt was written in 1839, | when it was estimated that not tewer than six thousand | persons had visited the Virginia springs during te suminer, ‘There were no railroads then, and it was a ride of many weary days to reach the White Suipuur from Wasbfugton, but the ve.y aifiiculues of tae jour- hey seem tu have made it attractive, The White sul- bur was then ws now'in the Lourt of the group of the Virginie springs, and it Was @ mere matter of course | torige to the Sweet Sprivgs, 17 miios distant; tho Biue Sulphur, 22 miles diswut; the Salt Springs, 24 miles disiant; the Hot Spring, 38 mules distant, or the Rea Springs, 41 miles distant. Everybody who was unybouy Visited these springs al that day, and, following the suggestion of Shukespearo’s lines, When thon haply seest Some rare, noteworthy vbject li thy travels, Mako me partaker of thy happiness, they wroie books about the springs and the scenery and each otber, Captain Marryat was up there that summer and it Was reported he was writing a boox on America, ‘1 hope he will speak well of our party,” suid one of the authors of these papers, and not forget the ladies he danced with at the White Sul- phur.”” That year, too, the President (Van buren) Was at the Sweet Springs, “travelling in a wild part of the country, sever: red miles from the reat of governinent, without retinue or even au attendaut.’? As Long Branch will scarcely auswer uny longer for our summer capital here is a bint tor Presigent Hay The #1X thousand people who annually visited the Virgina springs lorty yours ago bave dwindled down to lower than six bondred in 1576-77, aad jew of our summer tourists ever saw the Hanging Rocks or Candy's Castle, the Sait Pond or the Ice Mountain, the Hawk’s Nest or Weir's Cave, the Pouks of Otter or the Natural Bridge, All this region, Once the Mecea of American fashion, may be explored all over again, aud the summer tourist who cares to go over tbe old ground will find a reminiscence of the past at every step. A TRIP THROUGH THE LAKES. For atour of two or three weeks nuthing can bo more delighttul than a trip of the sakes, Starting trom Caldwell, where old Fort Wilham fenry stood, both Lake George aud ike Champlain may be wi ersed, Montreal and Quebec being reached by rail from Piattsbarg. From these points the tourist can go down the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Saguenay and up the Saguenay or up the St, Lawrence, by tho Thousand Ivinnds, to Kingston or Niagara Kalin, “season”? at Niagara begins, they say, When the © ton House opens, at that this year will be the 1 but the Falls are there ail the year, and in visiting them the tourist can consult his own con- venrence. If the lake traveller desires wilder scenery aud (reer communion with Nature he may start from Port Kent, opposite Burlington, on Lake Champlain, visiting the remurkable ravines and cascades near Keeseyilie, cailed the walled banks of the Ausabie, and camping on the Lower, Mid le or Upper Saranac. Raquette River and Tupper’s Lake, and the Adirou- dack hills and lakes are not far removed trom the Suranac, and in every direction there 13. a profusion of Wild veduty Which surpasses the power of pon to do- scribe or of pencil to depict, THE WINTE MOUNTAINS AND TIE NEW ENGLAND COAST, The White Mountuns and the New bugiand coast always presenta certain attraction for tourists who are anxious to gaze on the trausivecnt waters of Lake Winnipiseogee ns much because they Oud difeaity in pronouncing the name as anything else and trom or can be made to afford splendid facilities tor recrea. von and health. On the mainland opposite, all the jay, indeed, irom the Bronx to the Connecticuy there | turns ot tho Artist's Brovk, tho grand ledges of tho thence make the trip of the mountains, The broad meadows and wooded banks of the Saco, the nooks and Paquauket Mountain, tbe Echo Lake, the Crystal Falls and Diapa’s Bath, ali tempt the tourist to stop at the very portals of the mountain passes, Ten miles from North Conway is Bartlett, at the very tvot of the mount rig ood eight miles further ou is the Mount Crawiora House. A few miles further are.the Willy House, the *Noten” and Mount Washington, the as- cent of which 1s itself worth the whole pharmacopaa ot the doctors, The journey is a repetition of the as cent of mountain peaks—Mount Clinton, the tirst summit to be attained; Mount Pieasant, with ts gentle slopes at the top; Mount nklin, with Red Pond at the bottom, aud Mount Monroe, which leads 10 the fout of Mount Washingion, aud the “Lake of th Clouds,”” When the journey is continued further ob is Franconia Notch, near which are Mount Lafayette, | or the Great Haystack, Mount Jackson, on which | 8 “the Ola Mun of the Mountain,” the Basin and the Fiume. From the White Mountains it would be nat- ural for the tourist to seek Mount Katahdin and the Movsehead Lake, but most of them go at once to the Now Engiand coast, streiching themselves ali the way trom Passamaquoddy Buy to Newport and Now Lon- don. 1 the visitor here cannot sketch the bold Tucky cliffs,’’ says one of the guide books, speaking of Mount Dosert Island tn language too poetic for a pro- saic book of reference, “he can beguile the Msn to bis heart's content,’ It may be assumed that artisisouly seek this out-of-the-way pluce, which is so hidden away from the eyes of ordivary mortals that it would puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer to decide whether it is on the sea const or vot, Persons of a literary turn of mind seek the Isle of Shoals, but ordinary peopie go tw Rye and Salisbury beaches, Nabant, Naotusket and Swampscott, and us camp meeting times, to Martha's Vineyard, tis thus that many of us spend our sum- mers; but, after all, the real season 18 cuntived to turee localities—Long Branch, Saratoga and Newport. OCR THREK GREAT WATERING PLACES. It is only ton yeurs since Long Branch began to take any rank as a Watering place, and yet we are told even this dull season that co.tages are beld at very bigh rates by the agents, who auswer uppeais fora reduction © aceount oO! the dulness of trade, **We koow no hard tunes here, sir.’ nu 4 week or two moet of the hotels will bo open, butit remains to be secon Whether the “hard umes” will pot extend to Loog Branch belore the close of the seasun, Suratoga just now isin the posgession of carpenters, painters, plasterers and plumbers, and all the great hotels are getting ready tor the opening. There is some dilllcully avout prices, 1 seems, the hotels see-sawibg between $5 40 and $450 per day, and chere is some talk of a conventiun of hote! keepers to determine a schedule of rates, The ruling prices probably willbe $21 per week for June and September, $25 for July aud $28 for August, A good many cottages are yet to bo let, andeven the now Windsor ilotel is for rent, turnished, Saratoga bas long lost its old time — characteristics. First it Was the resort of people who went to drink ‘iho waters.” Thea it became the seat of fashion, flirtation, love muking, marriage, In the days of the ing it was the political headquarters of the magnates of Lhe State, Later still it has beep a sporting centre, especially tor horse and bout racing, anu now it seems to combine all the characteristics of the past, becoming more nom every day. Newport, on the other hunu, has grad. ually losi its character as a mere “watering place” and become the “nummer home’ of people why wish to combine geaside und city, rest and amusement, Little 18 said about the hotels, but there is a great deal of gossip in regard to the cottages. The building of a hew houso or the alteraiion or improvement of an old one is an event ut Newport, Tne ‘news’? of the place 18 all like tp Rbode Island avenue, Irom Beach street to Baih road, bus been mucadamized; more omuibuses are to be pluced on the avenue ths year; the Rev. Dr, Pot- ter, of New York, has greatly improved bis house, breaking up its rigid lines, &c.; Mr, Euwara Casumen hus made extensive altorations in the Charlotte vush- man cottage; Mr, A. A, Lewis’ new cottage is on Cas- tle Hill, Across the mouth of the barbor trom Fort Adams; eX Governor Swann, of Maryland, has bought two cottages near the beach, and tho Hon. George HH Pendievon’s summer villa cost him only $12,000 to build, while Mes. General Cullum’s was qui pensive. Most of the Newport “cottugers’ go earher | to their summer homes and stay later than other tash- jonanles, and already the seasen may be said to have begun there, although 1% wil ve at least a fortnight week or two later beiore they will have fairiy’ begaa the summer of 1877. BaPly TRANSIT, THE CENTRAL UNDERGZOUND RAILWAY PRO- JECT—A PETITION TO THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Mr. U, Vandenvurgh and others, representing the Central Underground Railway Company, Have ad- dressed apetition tothe Mayor and Board ot Alder- men, in which the plav, cast and other leading partic. ulars of this project are set forth. They also ask tor certain privileges in s and public places as fol- lows:— First—To deposit muterials outside and south of the Jine of the works near the Staten Island ferry on tho Battery. Second—Similar privileges on the north side of the street between the Post Ollico und the City Hall Park, reserving #uflicient width of roadway for vehicles to puss cach other through the whoie length of the street, Third—Simiiar privileges at the junction of Worth, Baxter and Furk streets, with alike reservation of Passage. Fourth—Similar privileges on the northerly and southerly borders of Union square ou ground outside the square, and not within the boundaries of streets, Fifth—tbe same privileges at the Circle, southwest corter of Central Park abd in streets crossing and near Madison avenue, where no houses are erected on the lots abutting against the streets whore the ma- These privileges to be revocable by the Mayor and Bourd of Aldermen and subject to regulation by tho Commissioner of Puvlic Works. The proposed route of this underground ratiway 13 from the Battery to Eighty-second street and Madison avenue, on the east side, with a branch from Union equare, under Broadway, to the Circle at the souchwest corger of the Central Park. ‘The estimated cost, cover- ing ali lands to be purchased and compensations to be made, is set down at $7,750,000. Equipped tor 200,000 passengors per day, or over 60,000,000 per annum, so as to bo carried at a maximom speed of from thirty- | five to torty miles an hour, the road would cost about $9,000,000, Jess, it 18 coutended, thun would be re- quired for the section trom City Hail to Forty-second siroet, The communication s1 tes further the particular | benefits of such @ road, compuring it with a similar undertaking in Loudon, It ts argued that the capital for the whole work can be obtained more easily aua on better terms than for the section from City Hnil to Forty-second sirect; that the net earnings, alter de- ing every possible charge, will not be Jess thon 00,000 per annum, or seven per cent on $20,000,000 ‘apitai—over twice the amount required, Considerable space i taken up in the document forcible arguments pointing out the great benelits which must accrue to the metropulis from a speedy and sale system of rapid transit, FIELD ON TRANSIT, cYRUS W. QUICK The cause of rapid transit, according to Mr. Cyrus W, Field, will not be allowed to be overcome without rosistauce. He, as tho President of the New York Elevated Railroad, ts determined to maintain a strenuoue battle against the in- trigues of lovbyists at Albany who repre- sent the interests of the old horse cur companies, He declares, however, that be wiil not use the same Weapons that have been herctotore employed. Ho hopes that the Court of Appeals will next week render Auecision which will seitic the legal difliculties that bave delayed the extension of the elevated tracks, The work of constructing them on the east siae will be resumed and pushed forward with vigor as soun us possible, NUE GANG, A large crowd of roughs assembled at Jefferson Mar- ket Court yesterday morning to atiend the disposition of a case in which a couple of members of the notori- ous Tenth avenue gang were the accused persons, The complainant was Mr. John Hannon, of No. 439 West Sixteenth street, who testified that as he was passing quietly down Sixteenth street at an early hour yosterday morning he was attacked when near Eighth avenue, by one Bridget Reilly, who ussanited him with stones, brickbats, &c, fhe woman was soon Assisted in ber onslaught by Peter Wood and William J. Mackie, a¥ is alleged. Officer James F. Madden hearmg the reports of several pistol shots, hur- ried to the scene of the disturbance and saw the two prisoners named, chasing Haunon. After a short run the oflicor arrested both Juage Wandell yesterday tor examimation, denied avy complicity in the assault, and brought several girls to sweur bat they were not in the streot at the time the missiles were thrown by Bridget Keilly, Otlicer Madden found a revolver, several chawnbers of which wore discharged, in the middle of the sireet which the prisoners crovsed while be was pursuing them. Ata late hour yesterday afternoon an examination was held in the case, when Officer Selimitibeye, of the Twenty. ninth precinct, stated to the Judge that a charge of burglary was impending over Mackie, who for this rea- son Was remanded til to-day, and further examination of the case was adjourned, THE CONTINENTAL RECEIVERSHIP, For three days past negotiations have been in prog- ress between the legal representatives of Messrs, William R. Grace and J. P. O'Neil without any im- portant results. Yosteraay afternoon Mr. O'Neil was served with an Injunction issued by Judge Pratt, re- straining him from interfering tn any way with hr Grace, This result was unexpected, and will hardly relieve the complexity of the caso, CHURCH DIFFICULLIES, An order bas been granted by Justice Pratt, Supreme Court, Kings county, by which the Trustees of the Deutsche Evaugelische Lutherische Kirche of St Lucas are authorized to morigage the chureb property | for 100 to Franklin ©, ©. Beback, § amount 1 to be paid to the Williamsburg Bank, to pay offa prior mortgage; and Louisa . heim, who holds. scoond mortgage, is to reveivo the other $1,000, util the otner resorts will be open for business, and ae Wood and Mackie, who, on being arraigned betore | temp NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 20, 1877—QUINTUPLE SHEET. POVERTY IN THE COAL FIELDS, THREATENED IDLENESS—MISERY OF MINERS AND MERCHAN!S—THE RESULT OF STRIKES AND COAL COMBINATIONS, (BY TELEGRAPH TO THY HERALD.) Scnanton, Pa, May 18, 1877. The extent of destitution prevailing throughout the coal folds 18 again assuming alarming proportions, Au earnest me<sage from Mayon McKune, of this city, ac- companied by a pathetic petition tram a vast body of suffering poor, was read at a meeting of the Common Counell to-might. The men want work, so that they can oatn the price of bread for their starving families, Au ordinance appropriating $10,000 for street improve- ments Was introduced with a view to furnishing work for the unemployed, but there are poor prospects of its adoption, os the municipal machinery bas a faculty of grinding such inoasures to death. The announcement that the principal coal operators have conctuded to suspend mining operations for a mouth has caused considerable consternation among the merchants and minors througbout the anthracite region. ‘the “spring opening,” which every one hero hoped would bring a season of prosperity to our lan- guishing industries, bas failed to iniuse any life into business affairs, and there is no disguising the fact thay the community throughout tho anthracite coal fleids of Pennsylvania is in a probtrate and pauperized con- dition, Despite the fact that the coal com- panies have been shipping more coal this sea- son than for many years previous we have the anomaly of more idleness and sullering among the Poor than have been Rnown for some time past. The cuuse for this is furnished in the small wages paid at the mines. A system of economy haa grown out of the great rivalry of the prineipai coal producers, which has crushed the poor deeper in the scale of social ile, aud made their {ato darker and more cheerless than ever, By the presont system of working ball time at the mines the operators are able to got within twenty- five por cent ol the work done that they could havo were they working on full time, while none of the bonetit accrues to the workmen, This is easily ac- cvunted for, Men knowing that they can work only ‘“bulf time’? work more diligently, and will miss no hours or half days, as was the case veretofore, The Tepairs incidental to accident ure carried on during the “oll days” of “hal(time,’? so thaton working days men and machinery are in more perfect order and nota moment is lost, Theso largo quantities of goal aro mined at hitle: cost, The hgh price of pro- visions, especially flour, which is the great support of tbe miner, has maue it a severe strugglo with tho toil- Ing Classes to exist for the pust few months, and they look upon the approaching season of idleuess with dis- may. ‘The average earnings ot mince employés at tho present rate of working do not excced {rom $10 to $13 amooth, and, with flour at $i2a barrel, 1 takes no great cflort of calculation to ascertain the condition of the man ol family, Most of the*miners have lamilies, and When a Whole mouth’s earning has to go for the purchase of a barrel of flour it becomes a bitter task trying to obtam the other necessaries that go to make up tho most miserable means of a mere existence, In some homes the monthly earnings of the head of tho house have uot been suflicient to vuy a barre! of flour, and corn meal forms the prime article of dict, ‘There | are thousands of poor people Woo have learued to took upon ilour as a luxury, and meat and potatoes are alto- gether out of the question. 100 MANY LABORERS, The prevailing idicness and want have been ina great measure augmented by the unprecedented influx Of unsKilied labor into this portion of Peunsylyania during the past four years, 10 1873 Mr. Thomas Dick- sou, of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, was seriously considering the question of importing coolia labor, 80 scarco were workmen even at that period, We have now four times the quantity of labor in tne coul fields that we require, and its ouly salvation from famine 1 to strike out boldly for Western farms. Tho curse of the coai held bas been brought on by strikes among the workmon, combinations among the em- ployers and all jhe upbealtuy fluctuations incident to Such abnormal conditions, A large and very impor- tent Class that bas been ground to the brink of ruin between these millstones is made up of the sinall merchants who are tottering on the yerge of bank- Tuptey. They, too, behold the impending idieness with dismay, Their shelves are empty, thoir sank wccounts drained, their credit with’ the largo mercantile wouses in a shaky condition and their goods scattered among the poor, who are vow wuable to pay them. They struggle bravely on, but cannot witustand the tide before which they must eventually succomb, one by one. ‘This is wot only the case in Scrauion, bat in every city, town and hamiet throughout tho coal folds, Stores are shut up daily by the Suerif, and streets whore once a thriving busi- ess Was pushed reflect the universal decadence, with shatters up at noon apd groups of idle men sitting on the doorsteps. The people are without meney, with- out credit and without avy prospect ot work, aud many ofthem are without hope, Apart trom the miae there 's bo resource to be relied on, and wholesie starvution must evyontually be the result of this dis- tressing situation, BEKKING TEMPORARY IKLIKF, A-eominities of workinginen has waited on the Mayor, usking bim to furnish them with some relief Jor themselves and families, or some means by which they could earn food, Tne Mayor has no power to aid them, aud the scheme introduced some time ago into, | the Select Council for buiiding sewers and giv-"| ing the poor employment has tailen through owing to ® Vigorous Opposition on the part of real estate owners, who allege tbat they are too poor to bo | taxed for $200,000, which it is estimated the work would cost, A relief committee afforded temporary aid to those who were most destitute, but even that has been # sort of economical sop for Cerberus, and the poor of Scranton are as destitute wow as they were in midwinter, Tue Poorhouse 1s filled 10 overflowing, aod the efforts of the Poor Directors are simply help: le+s to avert the widespread and continually spreading destitution which claims their consideration, RUSINKSS DEPRESSION, Tho poverty among the sinall storekeepers is quite general, iho country is overcrowded with them, Years ago, when tines were good, every man who had $500 thought he ought to go into *business,’? This also proved agroat evil, Books were opened, credit Mvited and reckless extravagince encouraged among the working classes, who could get anything thoy wished wherever they siw Ot, whether they bad money or not, This class of basiners “h injured old estabiished merchants a good deal, because of giving rise to a ruinous system of credit which bas been a bane to business ever since. buildings were erected and mortgaged; bu clutions were organized and robbed by disho designing officers, and other speculations of a spuri- ons natare engazed in by men who, huving no knowl- edge of business oF financial matters, soon fell a prey | to their own duplicity or the thieving tendencies ot those who proved talse to the trust reposed in them, This picture of the,present condition of the coal Melis js vot overwrought. It may be an unwholesome sub- 4 tO contempiate, but It is not without its lessons, en should that long promised, inch desired, but ex evedingly tardy season of prosperity return to the coal fields of Pennsylvania, | LO! THE POOR INDIAN, BREAKFAST COFFEE FOR THE INDIAN TRIBES av $19 82 Pen HUNDRiD POUNDS. Mr. J. Q. Smith, the Commissioner appointed by tho Indian Department, opeved, yesterday afternoon, the proposals which bad been received at the Indian Olfice ageney in this city for furnishing 445,000 pounds of coffee to be delivered at New York, Baltimore, Phila. doiphia, St, Louis or Sioux City, Schedules showing timo of delivery, conditions to be observed by bidders and terms of contract and payment had been fur- | nished to the bidders, and the bids closed yesterday morning at eleven o’clock, Immediately after this hour the inspectors carotuily examined the numerous samples which were sent in by bidders with their bids, and after duo deliberation the contract was awarded to Messrs, B. Y. Arnold & Co, lor the whole quanity of cofiee, 445,000 pounds, delivered in this city, properly packed, at $19 82 per hundrea pounds. The imspec- tors determined that, considering the quality of the collee offerea and required wnd the place at which it was Lo be delivered, tne bid of the firm of B, ¥Y, Arnold & Co. Was the lowest one received. Mr. Smith stated that the prico of coffee, ai this proposal, wax a trifle higher, perbops ubout a quarter of ucent a pound, than the contract awarded 1p Sep. r last, wt Which timo the just proposals were received, but that, on the other hand, the quality of the coffee Was considerably bette livered in bags, in the bean and not roasted, Mr, | Smith also said that in coffees and also in ovher ma. | terials used in supplying the Indians there were more outside bidders this year than ever beiore. He at- tributed this to a growing confidence among t ner- cantily clusses in the integrity of the Indian Depart. ment, andwuduedAbat he thought that there conid be bo complaint ax to the quality of the supplies ture bisned to the Indians by the government. All these supplies must be transported to the Indian agencies on the several reservations, and separate bida fon transportation muet be received. Mr, Smith stated that the transportation from New York to the Missouri River this year was higher on floar, lower on beet and about the same on coflee aud dry goods as last rear, while from the Missouri Kiver to th veral agencies transportation Was a great deal lower on all varieties of supplies. The coflee is de- | THE STENOGRAPHERS' SULT, An order was appliod for beforo Justice Pratt, Su. preme Court, Kings county, yesterday, by Winchester Britton, counsel for some of the partios interested in the Continental Life Insurance Company, to pronibit Receiver Willam R. Grace, of said company, trom paying $1,000 due stenographers employed during the litigation, 1t was claimed by Counsel that there was a question new pending as to the Jogal status of Mer, ag receiver fur the compony, and te question uid be passed npon » by the Court of Appeals, Though Justice Pratt reserved brs decision, he said that he coula not seo Woy the rights of the olatmants should be made to depend upon the result of a litiga- _ on that had no reference w the payment of a,just bill, 1 | were not weil closed and the THE PEACH OFFICIAL REPORTS FROM THE DELAWARE PEN: INSULA--THE LARGEST ChOP EVER KNOWN EXPECTED THIS YEAR—OVER SEVEN MILLION BUSHELS, CROP. Mipp.etrowy, Del., May 17, 1877. Middletown is on the northern border of the peach growing section of the Delaware peninsula, but itis the banner stution on this railroad for (he shipment of this juscious fruit, not only bec.use ot the fmmense Fichness of the country, but because it isthe point from which the farms from a large surrounding district send their product 10 the markets of the great cities, The largest orchards io the State are in this uelghbor- hvod, there being several of over 100,000 trees here, the receipts at Middietown im 187) bemg over 600,000 baskets, THK PROSPECTS. Tho season baving been fuvorable to the develop- ment of the tree this year, and the buds being so far advanced as to be beyond injury by any probable changes in the weather, the usual annual official ex amivation has just been made. The railroads running through the peniosula have instructed their agents lo get the resulis of tho oiliziul estimates of the Peach Growers’ Association all through the district, and the returns bave just been handed in. ‘The crop is pro- nounced vo be in splendid order, the truit being im muny places 60 abundant that the trees will have to be sbaken, The young peacwes bave alreaay begun lo grow vigorously, und the reports almost without exception indicate a uniform excellouce in all the or- chards inspected. Estimates of the probable yield this yeur have been made by the most exverienced growers, bused ou tho business of ormor yeurs, and the shipments from the geveral stations on the ral. | Toads #ili be about as follows, the igures representing, the number of baskets of turee pecks cach, such us are seen iu the city markets ;— A REMARKAMLE SHOWING. Buskets. Baxkets, Kirkwood seer 500,000 Woodside, 40,000, Armstroug + 230,000 Canteroury 60,000 Miudictown,..... 950,000 Futon 189,000 Ginn station, 167,000 Harriugton... 75,000 ‘Towusenu, ~ 20,000 Farmit Bluckuird......4. 79,000 Groouspring ..... 119,000 Cluytou Junction ot the Kent County Road. ..1,800,000 Broad Greek Breuiord, 240,000 Laurei.... Moorton.......,. 19,000 Deimar, Dover... + 280,000 Wyoming... idv,0v0 Total. Add to these Ugures the shipments vy wai saies by Cauning factories and Lue yiel bers, Will reach 7,000,000 baskets. AN UNYRECEDENTED YIELD, If these calcuiations prove 1 be correct the great yield of 1875—ihe iargest crop ever Larvested—will be surpassed. —1be present condiuion of Lhe crop 1s every~ | where udinitted lo be Lwenty-lVe pe: cen: better than im that famous year, aud Wad number ol trees in bear. ing 1s SOMeWuAt larger than ever bejore, The ratlrodds ure muking every preparation to. han- die this Uuprevedented Larvest, und Lue fruits will be sent nearly uli over the couutry 1m good condiion, iu cars specially cousiructea ior the purpose, ‘The must distant points to which she fruit is likely to be sent | are, inthe Norch, to Toroutu, Canaua, in torty-tour hours; in the Hast, to Portiand, Me, in forty hours; inthe West, to Omuba, in fifty-five hours, and im tue South, to Louisville, Ky., im thirty-four Bours, Lt ts | sont through (o New York im teu hours. Tbe truwis havdied by the Delaware divisivn of the Philadeiphia, Wilimingtow and Buitinore Katiroud Company and 18 Sinwiier branches, and is carried through odestina- tun withval change. YuoaVerage returns to the growers 1 1876, cloar of all expenses, Was filty-tive cents per basket, and the Preceding yeur 1b was orty-turee cents. A MARCHING MEVIEW. PARADE OF THE TWENTY-SECOND AND TWENTY- rand the ) iu round Wud THIRD REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY YESTE- DAY—AN INTERESTING SPECTACLE. New Yorkers are coustituted somowhat like Parisians tu their capacity for the enjoyment ot dis- play of auy sort, More especially do they always give enthusistic attention to miliary pageanys when the sous of the city march through the sircets armed as deienders of the commou weal, Yesterday such a spectacte took place as was well worthy the uppluuse with which is wos greeted, when the Twenty-third rogimest of infautry came irom Brookiyn to visit 18 sister corps, tho Twenty-second, Tue former was met about three o'clock by the latter at the ferry and was escorted to the City Hall, whero both regiments passed in review belore Aiderian Purroy, the V’rest- deat of the Common Council, who represented the Mayor, who was absent, Aldermen Morris, Stovin, Cole, Lamb and Cowing aud Comptroler Kelly wero also present, A crowd gathered to guzo at the sol- diers and cheeredthem lustily, They then inoved up Broadway, through Fourteenth street, aad up Fb avenue to Madison square, AT MADISON SQUARK On the east side of the monument inscribed to the memory of General Worth, and which bears in vas reiiel symbols oF bis victories, a stand had been erceted and distinguished fricnds ol the two regunents were admitted to seule, from whicu a fine survey of the yailant ranks could be had. ‘They soon presented long echelons vi humanity, fluttering with tans, which flutiered nervously, and with haudkerchiets, which were vigorously plied to absorb the wriny morstare which the excessive Warmth under a sky wh milly threatening drew forth, Among the spectators tne nb aud past militia and organizations Were quite uumerously rescuted. Auiong them were General Sualer, commandant of the First division of tue New York National Guaras; eral Kush G. kiu8, General C, A. Carleton, Mujor H. &. Lockwoou, Major Q Tailof, Major Stephea Cabot, General 0, V. Dayton, Colonel ‘Augustus Belknap and Quartermaster Weed, Of the Seventh recimeut, Police Counuissioner Wheeler was also a looker on, THK REVIEW. Alitile alter five o'clock strains of martial music reuched the ears of the throug, and S001 bearskin 0: the ‘Tweaty-second’s drum major majestt- caliy grew into distinctness before their yuze. As the column approached is uppearance Was sirikingly line, and the faults of discipbae which betong vo the escort: Ing corps we recognized, band an Wf superb musical pertormance en- ed the ladies, While the rep in the crowd Were ecstatic over the wondrous figure of the drum mujor, Both regiments parsed op Fiith avenue and halted above Twenty-titth street 13 order Lo rest belore reforming for the review. The order of the Twonty- third’s marching chened much admiration, which was even then indicated by clapping of hagas, CHPLINE OF ‘THY 8 regiments returned. nvited bu minutes belore Bix the General Ward, coinmandant of the Second division, Ten rode in advance of the column accompaniea by nis brigade stat, Iu tront of the Worth Monument he Lulted and sat on bis horse lacing the str troops under review then passed as lollows;—Cordon of police, Luspegtor Walling in commund; Colonel Rouney Wara, commanding the column; bana of the Tweniy- second reximent; Colonel Josian’ Porter, comman Twonty-secoud Fegiment; Twi cond regti ten companies of eighteen files each; bend of Twenty-third regim tenant ¢ iu coinmand; niue regiment of twenty — flies in rank the Colonel! of the Twenty-third commauded during the review. His regiment was Apparently about four bandred strong, while the es. cort did not cumber over three hundred, The mareb- ing and whovling of tho former wore vigorously cheered, While the Twenty-second was much erit by the crowd, iheir step wax uot steady, ther ranks unitoring seemed til e Was between them and their tho greater splendor of (heir nt, the ionel Partridge Impauies of the Twenty-third each, As sensor fitting. Altagether the: Visitors a contrast wh apparel did not hide. Hoth regiments proceeded to the armory in F teenth street, Where a quiet entertainment was giv in the evening. SAD CAS are ry OF ILUTION, D On Friday night William Smith was arrested in Now- ark under singular circumstances, He was observed 1 that city selling a piece of silk, It was supposed had stolen it, To the police he stated that the silk was a remnant of his wife's dress, that sho wus dying at home of consumption and lack of nouritiment; ° | that he bad vainly sought employ mont and had three children, all starving at boiwe, while their mother lay dying, He was selling the silk, he eaid, in order to buy bread for “the litle ones at home." Yester- day the cave was {nily investigated and found to be worse than Mr, Smito badreproseuted, Mrs, Smith bas been sick since just August and is in the last stages of jon, The picture the poor creature and ber children presented may be mach more readily dd than deseribed, The potiwe and Overseer of Je temporary provis.ous to relieve the family’s euflerings, and it is bop that the evolent of Nowak will seo lo it (hat Ube case is fully cared tor, NLEDY LIPTLE ONE St Stephen's Home, in Twenty-eighth street, will on next Thursday eveuing receive the enefit of ser- vices to be heid in Steinway Hall, The institution de- ponds whoily on voluntary contributions, and is wader the charge of Sister Frances Xavier, who bas long de- voted toitapareand kindly enthasiasm, The children who find shelter under her care number 130, Some of them are orphans, and their ages vary from extreme inlancy to budding sixteen, Sister Frances aud ber assistants teach Giem the rudiments ot edu- cation, and have been very — successful atiwching their little charges “to the principl of viriue and honor, — Their need just now ls clothing, and the entertainment to ve given his for its object the obtaining of sufflcrent money to re babilitave the fitile ones, The pertorm: » Thur day evening wil consist of inumeal eforts by ac. knowledged artists, bot the children will avo exbibit Sbeir graces and traming. | Box, subject toh volunteer | the plumed | The briliiant unitorms | The | OUR COMPLAINT BOOK, [Note.—Letters infended for this column must be accompanied by the writer's {ull wame and address to insure attention Complaimaots who are unwilling to comply with this rute simply waste time in writing. — Ep, Hunarp.) OPEN THE KESELVOIR PARK. TOK OY THY HeKALO:>— it that the “Reservoir Square”? Park, Sixt) etwoen Fortieth and Forty-second streets, @ allowed to remain closed during the warm summon cpings’ 1tis an outrage that thts beautiful spot should be closed to the public at the time its use would be inust beneficial Something should be done whereby tho huadreds of sufferers (rom heat in tne neighbor. hood could be permitted a little recreation tu this “ousis in the desert’! evenings, A SUFFERER. ANOTHER HINT FOR MR. CAMPBELL, To tie Eptron ov rue Hexauo: Will you please call the attention of the Department of Public Works to the condition of Fifty.secoud street, between Third and Lexington avenues, as that block is and has been for sone time past in a very bad condition? 1 can scarcely drive through the without baving something smaxbed on my wagon, aud having it uli fixed over again, Now | should muen like to see that the street was xed also, Fw WANTS T0 GO TO SCHOOL, New York, May 10, 1877, To tur Epiror ov tae Hexato:— Wil you please inform me if the Compulsory Educa tion law is still iu force, as my boy cannot get admis sion in any of the schools in the Nineteenth ward? — would like the trustees to see about this, FATHER, THE MILK QUESTION, New Yorx, May 19, 1877, To tye Eptron or tux Heratp:— Don't lec the milk question be forgotten, Such a work as the H&KALo Las done deserves recognition at the bunds of every men, woman and child in New York city. It shouid not be fruitless, Even if the health authorities are powerlers and justice 1s not to be had through the court ch 4n exposé as you bave given tuese murderers cangot fail im the ead to break up their business Lf by law every mikman in the city was obliged to have « certineate trom the Health Board, stating that the daimes farnisning bis milk were cleanly and well kept, aud was obvuged to have a copy of this certiicate attached to bis monthly bills, Would It bot soon do away with the swill mile horror which tue HixaLp lus disclosed? =P, G. Hy TOE ONE-HORSY CALS, To rue Epiron or Tue Hkxanp: Is there no way forthe ciflerent companies of the ore horse car lines to abate the nuisauce of the smail boy riding onthe steps of the roar platiorm¥ Inase much as they have no conductor, I canuot see how they cau well prevent i, Nevertheless, it 1s olten dangerous to attempt to get on Lhe car while in motion, fas tho driver will uot always slop the car lor gentles men, and lo attempt to get on while in motion 13, to my own koowiwdge (baving had one fait already), Iriught with serious dupger. Auother, though not 60 rious objection, 1m tix case only onthe Bloecker street ling, 18 the money box, when one is obliged, whea the caris crowded, to be wedged up behind the © is cranium welt boxed if pot iy on the lookout for the many sudden carves this line so much abounds. 1 Was witaess to eIViN quite & scVEre CUL On the temples re. DAILY PATRON, contpu ot wh a lady re cently irom this cause, TRAVEL ON THE SEVENTH AVENUL CaRs. To tHe Eorron ov rie Hearn. ‘Ihe Broauway and seventh avenue line of cars in- variably require thoir passengers gong down town, from above Filtieth street, to change cars at ther depot, located there, compelling them to walk half a block or more, if they Wisk to Luke a Seventh avenus car, crossing many car tracks in their walk, aud olen dodging oulgoing cars or threading their way throug a growd ol conductors, a very disagrecuble thing to Go in rainy weatuer. Tuen (uo cars you enter come trom asbed wuere are couswuatly kepealarge number of horses waiting for their turn. Tue cur emerges trom this stable shed with au atmosphere very disagreeable and tual smelling. All tis is aoluig new, bus as the horse car companies are now on their good behavior aud ib 1s 4 popular thing jor our Aldermen or Board of Health to look a iitde rth zens? rights lo com. fort and health woile bog conveyed on these lines, it is a luyorable time to comment upon the disregard, 10 this particular mstance, of the rigots of those to Wuom the compuny 18 tndebled tor the privileges they eens, CUZ) SEATS FOR SHOP WOMEN, Raunion, N.C. May 9, 187%, To THe Epiror ov tHe Henao Your “Complaint Book’? 1s right to urge seats be- hind counters fr salcewomen, But bow to make them? Stationary seats would be in the way and 40 would movable ones, with the additional trouble of being beavy to handie, and Lo afford rest they must be | low cnough to allow the joints to bend, and then the | frequent strain of rising and sitting makos it worse Tt nding all ine time, 1 gave tried all these ping’ w female clerk very much fatigued, I pad a large ole—suy two or three ineves—bored through the standard of the counter, anda piu to fil it, some two feet long, This pin can be deawn out, say a foot, and pusbed back at pleasure, without troubie or loss | | of ume, and, Wien drawn out, aflotdé a perfectly con- | venient rest aud (ue best that the situacon affords, It costs nothing and takes no root. Try it, and every female will bless’ you. MERCHANT. STREET DANGERS, To tux Epiron ov rue Mena Pedestrians have sufficient peril to encounter in the | streets without having their lives endangered by falling | fragments of buildings in course of repair, Yesteraay 1 gaw in Browdway seven bricks fail to the sidewalk, one almost striking a ladyowho was passing. Looking up I saw a huge slab of Murole suspended in the air, Woah Ho ONE elxe seemed 10 MINK It, as peuple Are ac custom uch things. Is there no law, Mr. Buiter, by the force of which people making repairs involving | the hoisung of ston an be required ty take into the sittety of the people below, and 18 uot tho enlorcoment of such 4 law « proper subject for po- hice surveiliauce ? VIDEU. | PRIVATE AND PUBLIC EMPLOYERS, To THE Knirok OF THe HEKALD > 1 wish to call attention to a question of labor, Hudson River road bave mw luborers who render faithful aud «Mex service, They receive $1 25 per day for ton hours’ labor, ‘Thiet isan striking contrast with services rendered by men employed by and under the direction of the Depart. ment of Public Works. For tnstance, the meu at work on the Kingsbridge road, which is parailel to the Hadson | River ata distance sree of Jour hundred fest, tor s0 called repwirs receive twenty cents per hour for eight ours’ labor, und scarcely do one-third as mach | work, This is pot an exaygerated statement; but | your reporter or any person tuterested can readily Certain the jact by observing the workings of the roade | reierred to, This being thw case, ts 1b oot a matter of concern (o our citizens that « private corporation ean employ the best laborers for longer service and less | compensetion than a department which supposed by | its management to give ail Kuch advantages to the | to administer its affars with judgment and A CITIZEN, AN OUTRAGEOUS CARCLESSNESS, | To rie Borron or HERALD: — Among tbe maoy instances where hfe and property are jeopardized through carelessness in this coun. iry | desire to cite one in whieh the criminal | negligence of buiders ts only surpassed — by the disregard of authorities for the safety of the — public. eces of timber, bricks and other material frequently drop trom the hands ot | careless workmen on the beads of those pedestrians who bave the misiortune of beiog anderneath, and the | Coroner is ata joss to find a verdict, At present, on | the corner of Park place and Broadway, the Broadway Bonk 1s adding a lew stories to ther building. 1 de- sire to kKoow whethor said bank will be responsible in | cane seme passer-by has bis head mashed m vy abrich or other projectile failing upon tim fromabove I Ihe fai bank is DOL Fesponsivie who is and what bave the authorities to say about it? In Karopo it ts ens tomary to place a barrier to prevent people from pass | ing under places which are exposed in this manner, and the government hoids the builder reapon but in this country a man can be dashed into eternity and no one need necessarily be respousible, AMERICUS, The | their employ skilled THE HARLEM TRAINS, To Tu% Kpiror ov Tax Henato:— On Saturday afternoon tast! had occasion to view Mott Haven and also cesred, en route, to transact some business in Righty-sixth street. To accomplish this satiefactorily it was necessary | should take two suc cossive irains, and Godiog on consulting the Guide’ that the ball-past one P.M, stopped av EBightyesixth street, and the following one, at half-past two, seems ingly did not, | put the question to U Forty-second street, Who pusitively the hall-pasttwo train also stopped at Eighty-sixth street, whieh just suited me, and accordingly | started by the hal-past one train and got off at Kighey-sixth | sireet. Hero L inguired again of the agent there, and he al¥o Informed me that the next train stepped there, He hada list of trains siopping there piavarded on the outside of the vilice, and the bail-past two train was not among them, I called his attention thereto: but, nevertheless, insisted that tue train # | there, and I went away and attended to my bass returning in time to enteh the next tram at the | Righty-oxth street stavion, When Lreturued | found | the office shut up, and feaw the hall-past two train dash by, and Lloret’ an bour of valuable time, whieh £ passed in Woudering e@hy these ignoraat or poople are allowed to Mistead the publ In old derbill’s time things were diflereayly: ney 77 ’ 4 Vict