The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-28

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GA NEW YoRK. March Is, 1859.
The all.sbsorbing topic which engrosses the
thoughts and conversation Of New York people
now, is where everybody ID going to live for
another year. May Is rapidly approaching, and
as the first day Of that month is the period Of
time when houses change hands and tenants
swap houses, 1t is o matter of considerable con.
Germ now as to where families and individuals are
to be located for the succeeding twelve months.
Rents have not decreased by any means; on the
contrary in most instances they have been raised
from ten to fifty per cent, according to how high
the rental was last year. Three thousand dollars
per annum viii secure . very fair house In an or.
binary location, but to procure nrst-class resi-
dence In an Al location, five thousand dollars is
demanded for twelve months occupation. A.
T. Stewart would show little charity toward the
occupants Of bis property, as be proposed to do
toward charitable institutions for the purpose of
getting q crack at the treasury, he would
bestow an everlasting blessing upon hun
dreds in moderate circumstances, who are
obliged to have 9 respectable place to live
in. This mode of doing generous acts
does not seem to suggest itself to his mind.
Whether 1t is because he fears that 1t 10 too quiet
q manner In which to do good with his immense
wealth, or whether he Is too penurious. nobody
Knows; but whichever il may be, IL Is quite Ger.
tain that either one is an unenvisble position for
one Of bis mesns to place himself in. Nobody
would object even IL he made great flourish Of
trumpets about it, as long as he rented his prop
erty at q price within the means Of people Of
moderate circumstances.
VIM. B. Astor, who holds the largest amount of
real estate Of any man In the country, has increas
I'D q nfa MIA and n 0rQaf n
sd ms ,as 81 e o.
heavily upon the poor of the city. This, for q
man of his wealth, Is positively crime, as in the
present stagnetion Of all commercial interests, he
| and others Of large means should come to the
rescue Of those from whom they receive the yearly
| additions to their income.
The demand for parts Of houses is still greater
this year than ever, this mode of living Is be.
| coming more and more in vogue here. There was
| time when living in part OF house was 30
beneath the ideas Of New Workers that hardly any
one would entertain it, but az necessity knows
no law" people, from the force Of circumstances.
have been driven to find some way In which to
| reduce the enormous price Of keeping breath In
their bodies and shelter over their heads.
stuyvesant is about to build number of
houses on the French plan, SO that people can be
\ provided with good and respectable accommo-
/ datons at figure within their means.
The rent of stores 10 still higher by far in
proportion, than houses; for instant, store and
basement on Broadway on the opposite corner
i TO Inc new i OK dOtels c6unOt % nau iesB tuhu
| sl2 600 per annum, and 1t Is nothing very extra
at that. The fact is, landlords must get stuck
/ the coming year unless business takes won
/ derful leap forward, for as II Is now, very few
can afford such rents unless they have means
| outside of the profits Of their business.
The metropolitan police board and John s.
Young, captain of the New fork detective force.
have now butted each other until nice kettle
| Of fish is presented for legal adjudication. II
/ appears Young received Sic. 600 reward for re-
covering sos 900 worth of bonds stolen from a
| bank In Connecticut and he offered $500 to De-
tectve Irving for assisting him. This, Irving de-
| clined. and reported Young to the board, where
upon Young Immediately resigned. The board
| considered the resignation and refused to &C.
cspt it, but had charges preferred against Young
| for violating q part Of the police act, which
makes it incumbent upon all members Of the force
| to report to headquarters all rewards they may
receive. and then the board decides whether
| they can keep the amount themselves or turn II
| over to the police fund. To all this Young yes.
terdsy entered his protest, and Is going into the
courts TO settle the matter. This is reloiced at
as but few people live In New York who do NOT
desire to see the whole concern well ventilated
| when 1t will undoubtedly be shown that in this
| as well as thousands Of other cases, these zeal
GUS protectors of life end property are frequently
in the habit of "straining ct a gnat and swallow
| ing ssw-mil."
| Amusements are as plenty and varied as ever
| and the witnesses are likewise. Wsllack'i
"School" every night is jammed full, aud Lydia
| Thompson's burlesque troupe still present the
| Forty Thieves TO large houses.
"Humpty Dumptyn runs 90 well as ever at the
| Olympic, and the "Seven Dwarfs" at the
Bowery is attractinglpeople, who do not ordinarily
| frequent that theater, for the purpose Of seeing
the most magnificent and wonderful transforma
ton scene ever put upon the New York stage.
The old Broadway IL to be vacated by Barney
Williams on the first of May, and the building il
to be taken down. We shall then have none o.
the old theaters left standing except the Bowery
L ROoth ia drawing we'll with I" Romeo AMI
Juletn at his thester, which Is certainly temple
| OF art.
Fiske opens his opera house Qate Pike's) Of
Monday next, with the Tempest" E. l.. Daven
| port and others in the company.
The New York Theater, late q church, and th,
property Of A. T. Stewart, Is closed-plsyed out
| No company or star can attract people to such 81
| uninvitng place as IL Is now-entirely united 70
dramatic entertainments of any kind.
EYES & EARS.