Show THE GREAT metropolis from regular correspondent if a crae then wont somebody tell us it is when three men of no moral intellectual or scientific distinction can earn from to each by a weeks exertions when the class who feel the hard times can and pay over in one week to see three men in walk around a sawdust track when the herald devotes six to eight closely printed colum for eight days to telling what these chaps did in six pien what ie it if not I was hero the day tho news of bull allun was received and upon my word as an ex editor and who dare intimate better security wanted the crowds staid longer before the bulletin boards and were almost as big as on that memorable day the match supplanted alie ever convenient we atheras a conversational topic hundreds of gin mills posted hourly bulletins of tho match aal tho amount of drinking and all night street roaming was perfectly frightful inside the hippodrome a bar feet long with 40 bartender beer and madden ang chikey for 14 hours without a stop the authorities anticipated a riot at the close and bield the whole police force and regiment of troops in readiness altogether the business was demoralizing to alie last degree and the only parties profited are alie hippodrome people the gin mill keepers the pitiful class who make their living about midnight and the three walkers lot the belt go if it must be contested for at such u price in money sobriety and public morals new york richly afford to pas it over to london in perpetuity THE OF tisae grumblers Grumbl ers still refer to cheso as hard times what do they tell by look bilings squarely in tho fice and whit ilo wo u failures there have been less in four months alian during alie corresponding period for many year Bua ineas at a general standstill trade is better new york today to day than any day since tho inflated bubble burst the merchant and manufacturer instead of twenty per cent profit jakc ten and he calls that hard times why bless his heart that ten per cent will buy as good a house rent as valuable a store purchase as many slices coats and hats and liiro as many clerks or mechanics the twenty per cent ever did the clerk gets less pay but every item of living is less one class of men liaa suffered those alio were carrying L MW ia have generally lost everything when men see how sadly shrunken they they are suro the times have been hard and so they have but what is the sign that times are hard now when men will pay to for a corner residence lot on ditth avenue with a sign of a building on it when you can see silk stockings sold at stewards every day from to a pair when you see as I do a tido of in silks anil seil trooping along fourteenth street to alie dry goods houses you will wonder what has become of the hard time go through Tiff anys upper bloor and you will nearly a hundal bronzes and marbles ticketed for over 2000 apiece they arc kept to sell and they go every day into murray hill drawing kooim I nm credibly informed did a ami nes of liet year mostly in cakes and bon bons and last tun days herald had over too advertisers in its sixty eight columns of advertisements if you say these aro the signi in I ask who paid to see tho lato walk ie anyone asking for soup kitchens new yorks poor are no more numerous in proportion or needy today to day than they always were business men make less goes further and while I havo nothing to say concerning your town I emphatically assort that ho who would find anu unu evidence of hard times in new york must liko diogenes search around with n lantern A OP canyon stand army incident if read it tha teall student of alie free college of the city of new york called on ino tho other day mentioning aen ales S webb as now president of that institution general a train of the most stirring memories of my lifo started at the name fokitis indelibly associated with a sight such as a man to look on but in a lifetime and few men ever saw even it was at gettysburg Getty eburg I wa an artillerist and it so happened that alien that heroic charge was made by division awl those splendid lines of gallant southerners came weeping grandly over that field up to alie very teeth of our guns tho time came when wo must caaso firing for our own men wore eo closely engaged the confederates that they would receive as much damage from our firo as tho cancroy during this interval I had what a boedler in battle rarely liati to ivantch on little knoll just to our right stood brigado of tho old second corp in front tho blaive kamper was hurling liis brigado of them forward and backward went that thin and constantly thinning una of veterans the offic cra rushing up and down behind the ranks waving their sword und cheering on tho men towards alie loft of the line stood wo color sergo anta bearing the only celers vi ibl and these they waved slowly to and fio in tho leaden torm in the face of iho opposing host the battle emoke hung in a thick cloud aromnd those bruve men lie deacon ing roar of bastio the lurid lino of fire the hoarse shouts of the brave men on either eide who struggled for victory and whistle of bullet swerved not those hercio men from their patriotic duty the fate ot a nation hung upon their bay onata and they knew it and every man beyuka hero I tool looking upon that acene perfectly transfixed the blood tin eling in every vein and sweeping in great hot wave through my frame suddenly mi officer from tho line pale limping rapidly toward me A rent in bis right lip waa letting the rich blood in streams down hi leg seeking help tp roach the hospital not he when near enough who commands jhb battery I pointed to maj fitzhugh to whom he rushed and besought him to send a of guns to the support of in men who he said could not hold out ton minutes longer two guna dashed oft at a gallop tho ranks broke away right and left with cheer and the grape tore great gaps in Kein pere lines but now caino on armistead and Garnet tand the odds are again with the southerner alie sight grew maddening the fate of the army of washington of the country hung on a thread ta there no help A flag comes up the hill from he rear following hard after it are five solid columns of troops on a double quick step then we make out the blue st ti corge e cross of the third division siau corps and then wo knew victory was ours W ebbs brigade that dy made ft light that the imperial auard never I say every binau in that weak line of bebbs that day wa a hero and I registered a vow never to telling bow that handful kofl beroe that day fought for the deir old flag at gettysburg again I have performed eliat vow new york mar 25 1879 |