The New York herald., 1870-07-19
A HEAVY SELL.
The Third Avenue Railroad Capture the Upper
End Of the Island-Debut Of Chamber.
lain Bradley as an Auotioneer-Ths
125ta Street Railroad Franchise
Under the Hammer.

With the thermometer showing the liquid up
among the ninetes, and everything tending to make
exertiOn Of any kind something to be avoided, 1t
might have been expected that the sale OF railroad
franchse at auction would be but little inducement
for crowd. SUCH however, did not prove to be the
case yesterday, for the announcement that the fran
chse the 125tn street Railroad would be disposed
Of at auction to the highest bidder drew g.;
SIZE LARGE CROWD lol e
to the Governors Room In the City Hall at high
noen. They came from all quarters, and comprised
all sorts Of politicians and other people. Tie pie
thorlc Park Commissioner, T. @. Fields was on hand
quite early, with his nalr In
ale ELEGANT CONFUSION, Ell
consequent on frequent brushing with his handker.
chief. He came In with o "Phew-by gravy, this is
q scorcher, I tell you" The news was received by
Commissioner J. B. Nicholson, who bowed politely
and assured the puling and perspirng Thomas by
saying ut 10 so indeed STR very warm. very warm,
indeed" Commissioner Isaac Bell said most
emphatically, T-tell-yOu-this--i
days that will try mems bodies and --pa-
tence." au3
TIN NEARLY MELTED"
replied the jolly Field whereupon Mayor Hall said
"5ince that is 80 I Will notify the Board Of Health
to indiot the for carrying on the business OF fat
melting within the city nmits.n "That's GOOD BY
gravy, that is good.n replied Fields. II wish you
would the Board can a,, st9p, S9, IT," w., III
came from the crowd with remarkable JUNCTION con-
edernR the tendency to non-exe. tion that every.
where prevailed. The crowd sauntered through the
room, gaZed ut the portraits which adOrn the walls,
commented on the continental furniture, Washing
sgitated % the aiMosphere hel a Mso S ssslSie with Win
FANS hats, papers and kerchels until the
ARRIVAL or The AUcTIONEBR.
his rst appearance on any stage as an auctiOneer,
entered the room br,skly, head frst-slightly and
iosKna Crow tussed his mustacSe, brushed his halr
back from hrs forehead, and after exchanging greet
ings with few present aud telling them that " 1t
GEORGE WASHINGTON ROOME,
who stood leaning against the massive irame on the
portrait Of bis namesake-."rhe first In war" &c.
he said, .Mr. Koome, where is the aucrioneers
srandf" George said 'Just mount that chair; pve
put q newspaper on II, and that Will do to stand
on" The Chamberlain, seeing the chair to which
George pointed, approached It; he found a por.
ton or HERALD on 1t, and he said "That will do
very we'll
THE HERALD IS GOOD PLATFORM,
and will stand on IT." He managed by the aid Of
TWO staWart men to get on 70 me chair, and then
tlemen It is very warm. don't suppose you need
to be told that but 1t u very warm, nevertheless.
am going 70 Sell the franchise Tor horse railroad
with double tracks, commencing at the foot OF l3Oth
street. North river through that street TO Manhattan
125th street to Last river; from i25th street, through
Third avenue to larlem Bridge; from Third avenue,
street, at its intersection Win Tenth avenue, north.
erly along said avenue 10 the terminus Of said
avenue the road to be completed before April 2s,
1872, except upon and along tue Tenth avenue, and
along said avenue as fast as 1t shall be opened,
graded and paved from l25th street."
lie then hoped they would bid quickly and
SAVE HIN FROM ANY EXTRA ExERTION,
for ~ q assure sure you; gentlemen" said he again,
Auclioncer Bradley tnen read the bin passed by
the Legislature providing fOr the construction OF
the road, and then the form or bond, for $3.50 ooo
which the buyer would be required to deposit Alter
he had struggled through these
THE "vAN-DOO" COMMENCED.
Those present crowded closer to the auctioneers
stand. There were whlsperings that Fisk was
present and would buy the franchise, and that he
was the ''boy would make it hum.u Some Of those
stood on tptoc and gazed on the crowd looking for
lOrld, stout party. Tneir eyes lit on Commissioner
Fields, and they were satisfied at once th0t ne was
the happy man,
They accordingly watched his every notion and
who came In as the veritabie FISK This. Of r COURSE
went through the crowd In whispers. The knowing
and smiled; the innocent and ignorant ones looked
ct hlm inquringy, and grinned as II fully satisfied
THE WONDER OF THE DAY.
Mr. Fields, finding himself stared at and griuned
at became somewhat nervous, and whisperingy In
he saw anything on his lFieldsD back "sweet
Ialk'' showed his pearly teeth and quietly said
your coats "ws wns what are they s ernana
at" The cause was explained to the anxious COM
missioner and then he TOOK the Joke ana laughed
quite heartily. This of course was all done In few
seconds and was interrupted by voice saying 'l'll
give o thousand doll ars."
IA THOUSAND Is OFFERED, BY 6EoRGEn'
said Auctioneer Bradley ODe thousan.i Mr.. George
Law bids Que thousand dollars; who bids any more?
speak lively, gentlemen. It's very warm and want
10 get through The bid was Increased by an oifer
of $500 better and IL continue 70 20 up five hun.
dred dollars at q time ....-''' ''''.t4
A PARTY BY THE NAME OF SMITH
ana Mr.. George Law being the chief bidders. At
s20,S 500 the gentleman with tae uncommon name
stopped and from this figure the price lngged along
to 100000. Here 1t hung lire 10f some time, until
Mr.. Squires, OF the Third avenue railroad, broke
the spell II logged along somewhat more lively to
S60,01o, bid by ~,
TIE THIRD AvEyuE SQUIRE, .,
when there came another lu l. AuctODeer Bradley
called fifty thousand once, nfty Thousand twice. fifty
thou "Fifty-one," said George Law, and then
another syurt was made, until at $4,000 It was
knocked down to Mr. Squires Several OF those who
mlsto0k Fields for FISK now thought that Squ,res
was Fisk, as they had heard that FISK has blonde
musache, which Fie,ds has not an0 Squi,e es has.
While they were debating that mOoted question The
crowd dispersed and IN few minutes the Cover