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New York summer exodus and editor life in 1885
Broadbrim writes from New York City describing summer travel plans of clergy and editors, rising rents and wages, and social scenes at Long Branch, Coney Island, and Rockaway Beach. He notes Beecher earnings, political graft, a cruel child abuse case, and municipal corruption amid a hot May move-out period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coshocton Age
New-York
the Battery
Harlem Bridge
Brooklyn
Dr. Cuyler
Europe
DeWitt ‘Talmage
Mr. Beecher
Blaine
New York
Beecher
Coney Island
Long Branch
Rockaway Beach
Reynolds
Sarah Nelson
City
Sarah
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Marcy
Cleve Pigaidont Ieom Sear
Wall Street
Matthew Calbraith Perry
William Elliott Griffis
Roger Maos
Arnold
Canada
Horace Filewin Hayden
Burgoyne
Charles Ledyard Norton
Jvicus Iss
Lafayette Place
New York City
Schlum
Bryant
North American Review
Just Out
Robert Buchanan
Buchanan
Mirabeth Cady Stanton
J. J. Spalding
J. J. Pickard
David Dudley
David Dudley Mell On “Industrial Co-operation,” While Prof. Andrew F. West
Princeton
Bret