The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-06
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OVer-CrOWded Condition or the city,.
IneredIbIe Rents.s..ExtraOetIina
Prices for L4iylnE-,..steRart,S New
Project for the POor-.Tlle RenIans
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go NEW YoRK, Nov. 8, 1866.
This always oyer-crowded city has
not been more densely packed for years
than it is at the beginning of the last
month. of the present autumn. Rents
and houses and real estate, which were
exorbitantly and unprecedentedly
high in the spring, have been advanced
from ten to twenty-five per cent. over
those figures. The influx from every
part of the. country seems to be not only
steady, but increasing here constantly.
The North, the Sonth,ethe East and
| West are daily sending their represent
atives to New York to become perma.
nent citizens. Especially is the South
moving in this direction, and it is esti-
mated that forty Thousand reside tents of
the late tnSurgent States have domi.
ctled themselves among us since the
war. sAI -
To quiet, steady New Englanders
prices of everything here must be as
tonishing. Think of.a man; who has
been living in one of yonr pleasant
towns comfortably FOR one or two
Thousand dollars q year, discovering
tolerable home for less than three to
five thousand; not speaking of the
small fortune necessary to the purchase
of furniture, Eaiment and other house
hold requirements. If Nautilus were
In In the flesh, he would regard New York
as one of the most favorable places on
the globe to prevent the increase of pop
ulation through marriage. Itrequires
notonlYa bold and hopeful, but a pros
perous man to take wife on this island,
He who does it; unless he be a needless
of-to-morrow fellow, convinces his ac-
quaintances. of his financial substan-
ttalityi just as he would II he bought a
brown, stone front in the avenue, or
paraded sleek;span of trotters in the
park. Few persons, save the sufferers
themSelVeS,are aware to what desperate
straits and shifts men of family de-
pendent upon salaries are compelled to
resort. They toll night and, day, and
dwell In dark corners and out-OE-the-
way'apartmentS, and augmentthe cen-
sus, and are barely" able to meet the
absolute expenses of the current week.
What q singular fascination 1t is,--it
must be such since reason cannot ex-
plain it-that men will remain in this
expensive, densely thronged city, when
the broad, thinly settled West offers its
prairies and hills and streams and val
leys as the sites of easy and delightful
homes for, thewhole nationi 5i5s3
wHERIINa ouTDoNE IN. THE Way 4 OF
e.i,e ago. RENTS. 4 lstI.f
I have spoken of rents. Let me give
you specimen or two of their enorni-
ty. "A family that had engaged an or
dinary dwelling for ak months were
Informed by their landlord few weeks
since, that he had raised the rent from
$1,000 to $500. They declared they
would not pay it, but finding that they
could not obtain another house cheap
cry they at last agreed to the demand.
The landlord said he had meanwhile
rented the dwell ling to an applicant for
$1,000. SO they were obliged to move; /;
and at last, though they had a supers
abundance of furniture, were compelled
to take a furnished house for s., 600 q
year After occupying It a few days,
they thought they would never be able
toimeet the payments and were agree
ably disappointed when real-estate
broker took it off their hands at s.. 600
advance. A mercantile firm doing
business in Church street paid $4,000
a'yearl rent; but lately the property
owner apprised its members he would
have to ask them 80, 600, They felt
tempted to assault him for his audacious
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cred to their chagfin that they could
not get any that suited them as we'll
even for the sum named, Humbled,
they told their land lord they would
pay the advance. Can't take It, gem
ltlemen,s % was the. reply, 'tthe store is
already rented for $50, 900 to Mr.. Full
purse The result was. that Fullpurse
was looked up, and bonus of SIC, 600
given him SO that the firm paid $50, 600
fot. what It had had. for SIS, 600. These
things seem Incredible, 1 am aware, to
istrangera.i5 Nohwonder, when a.poor
devil with $lu1uOO o year income is al-
ways a prominent candidate for the
ipoorshouse, and Is In perpetual dread
of waking mp every morning to find he
is elected.s Persons who. bought prop
erty about the, period of the breaking
out OF the war or even later, find them
selves Wealthy-or would any where
else put I'm New YORK. Houses and
stores estimated at $4,000 to $40, 600
then; are Wheld at $50, 600 to 500, 600.
20, that my enemy would write a
book I" this has always seemed to me
q most hagrant INTERPOLATION OF Job)
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