The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-01-24
THE HERALD ADVERTISEMENTS.

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A Daily Epitome Of Metropolitan Life Pre-
scented in the Herald Neutrality-suspicious.
vellOus Multiplicity Of Business and Wants.
daily map OF our busy metropolitan life, per-
petua panorama OF every phase OF existence In our
great and stirring city, perfect encyclopedias of
most diversified intelligence, grand eptome OF the
multifari0us business and wants Of the community,
acomplete compound Of commerce and trade, are
the HERALD advertisements. AS daily with ceaseess
regularity rises the sun, shedding golden light and
beauty and Joy over the world, SO daily appear
these advertisements shedding broadcast their
bright trains Of intelligence. without the sun the
earth would be in perpetual darkness. without the
HERALD advertisements the people would
grope In darkness as profoundly perpetual.
me SUMS rays Hume the pathway OF life,
ana through its bright halo one sees the way clear
| before him. The HERALD advertisements shed
like lustrous light, and through their efYulgent
beams make likewise clear every avenue Of business.
There Is one point Of comparison In which the
HERALD has the best Of the ENTHUSIASTICALLY the
sun Is under an eclipse; the HERALD s never under
an eclipse 1t is issued every day Of the year. Not
only has this become necessary to keep pace with
the daily progress OF mighty events In the worlds
history but to enable advertisers to lose no op
portunity to make daily known their business to the
public The many interested In the daily record Of
passing events turn to our news columns
RI, with the vooa., s: 81 'ssssi sy
Sss'an iRa
AL turn however, to our pages OF advertisements
and. though reading them with different motives
read them with more absorbing interest These ad-
vertisements come home to the bosom OF every
body-have to do with the wants OF every day life.
And what variety OF business Is daily made known
In these advertisements There is, In fact scarcely
any kind OF business that is not here revealed
finance and the fine arts, balls, business oppor-
runities, board and billiards. machinery, mer-
chandise and music, railroads and real estate
amusements and auction sales, lectures, loan Offices
liquors and legerdemain, churches and circuses,
sporting news and shipping notices, pianos and per-
sonals dry goods, dogs, divorces and dentistry CO.
partnership and corporation notices. theatres and
the trades, rewards removals and rooms to let lost
and found, coal ana wood instruction, and all the
varieties OF wants. from cooks chambermaids and
cOachmen to nurses and Mattresses and so on alli
teraton and ALTERATION, to the end OF the chap
give below samples Of the HERALD advertisements
as cassed under different heads and taking them in
| the order they come.
/ PERSONALS.
veil OF mystery Overshad0ws the meaning OF
some OF the advertisements under this head; but If
could only trace these to their results while in
expicably curious might be the denoument, showing
coas te a aadses% te fTg
| advertising. Through this channel estranged hus.
bands are induced to return to their wives and
Utce De1sd; prOgate and truant sons are rec0ncied
| to their fathers; the Whereabouts Of long absent
friends ascertained; important legal intelligence
involving large sums, and often the rights OF de-
frau1ed orphans, is obtained through this channel;
missing property is recovered, and in fact it Is i'm
possible to enumerate all the benefits accrung from
| Thursdays HERALD we find Catharne Kerigan
t hs an
Mary Brady seeking through the same channel to get
some information OF her son James from whom
| she last heard In Texas two years ago. The
Consul General OF Prussia offers reward for any In
telligence regarding the son OF a lately deceased
him his share OF his late fathers estate OF r.
Sherrmester, No. 600 Grand street. has been missing
for some time. and In the hope TO find out what has
become OF hm-whether he has been murdered or
is still liying-the father makes known the crcum.
obtaining the desired information. And thus runs
| on the record OF these personals-a in the pursuit
OF information and IN nine cases out OF ten as the
results prove the desired information being OBJ
| tanned.
OF common place fact stories almost SURPRISING the
farthest stretch of fancy, stories OF all kinds, and
| each revealing more or less that unusual though oft
| fiction, might be gwen. based on developments
brought to light through advertising in the HERALD
tale . and only one OF many that might be gven-in
/ connection with the "Personals'' in the HERALD:
= Five years ago Mr. Homer f. Sawyer came to this
| city from Boston. He stopped at the Belmont Ho-
tel, In Fulton street. He had $3.50 IN bank bills
% se S me- IN his
as TO its safety, keeping his pocket pinned Being
en- route to New Orleans, he went to a railroad
paid for the ticket, returned the remaining roll 70
his watch pocket carefully pinned II as before and
/ re urned TO his hotel lie shortly missed his money,
l but on examination found his pocket pinned. The
only conclusion he could come to that he placed
the roll OF bills inside the waist OF his pantaloons,
instead OF in his watch pocket thus lost it. This
was on January g. 1885, Ii rained hard all day. The
/ suppostIon was that the money soon got mixed up
| with the sush OF snow and mud OF the street, and
with the street refuse-for they cleaned the streets
In those days-would find its way to some dumping
ttv.A or. frrnFf al 10
| "What shall ] DO about it 2, he asked Mr.. ]. p.
Richards. proprietor OF the Belmont HOTEL after re-
Advertise It in the HERALD" answered the Keen
| ly penetrative Mr.. Richards.
Of the amount, was advertised as Mr.. Richards sug-
| gested, the finder 10 calbon Mr.. Richards. There
came no response TO the advertisement. Mr. Sawyer
| OF yellow fever That ADVERTISEMENTS was seen In the
| HERALD. The finder remembered it-remembercd
the name Of Mr. Richards, to whom the information
| was asked to be given. remembered the hotel, re-
| membered everything but giving back the money.
| The memory in fact, haunted him, followed
him through i've years The struggles OF conscience
| none can know. He determined to restore
the money but with the determination resolved not
to let himself be known He wrote q note, without
signature, to Mr.. Richards, asking him to specify In
HERALD personal" particulars Of the loss OF the
| Richards received on the sth OF December last In
the next mornings HERALD he inserted the follow
Mooney LosT-oN BROADWAY, FIVE YEARS AGO
~ q snowy day. about In s oTnsr
needy circumstances win be gratefully received by j. r r.,
| for hrA h. Sawyer
| The above was not sufficiently explicit. Another
letter by the same anonymous hand, was written 70
Mr.. Richards upon which the following "personar'
| was published
| Five YEARS AGO MONEY LOST MRS. n. r.
N. Sawyer, III Warren avenue, Boson amount 81,
smallest bill $780, the roll might have separated In
But vet the anonymous letter writer was not salts
| ned. He wanted TO know more about the death OF
| the original owner OF the money and date OF his
1 marriage. Tie Waters signed 10 THIS
| third note with special request that the answer
should be directed TO this address so there could oe
| no mistake that he was holding his communications
| with the same party. The following third personal
| was the result OF these further inqulries:-
| yVATERs.--H. 4. s.-MARRIED OCT -, 1853, HOP.
w kinton, Mass, by Rev n. =. Hill died Oct TO- 1857, at
New Orleans Of yellow The remains were Drought 70
Massachusetts and Inferred BY express 70 III West avenue
| In n fourth note the money finder-for there can
l no no douht NJ courae huf this individual