The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-27
HOME LIFE IN NEW YORK.
RICH MEN AND RICH MEMS soNs-How YOUNG
I MEN MAINTAIN THE FAMILY DIGNITY.
From the Cincinnati Gazette.l


NEW YORK, Sept. l6.
This city is vast mystery Of iniquity. My
attention has often been called from the more
attractive features of metropolitan lite to the
darker scenes which lie beneath the surface
have felt it my duty to hold the mirror up to
nature, and when the rottenness of our social
system has required it l have not refrained
from exposure. The autumnal season is now
commenced, and life in town succeeds life at
the watering places The strength regained
by a rural vacation is in many cases to be de-
voted to the worst purposes. Social sins are
now to be renewed, and the miseries and mis-
fortunes of the rich are again to stand in con-
trast with the display of their wealth. As the
poet says:
4 8 Can gold give happiness? Behold and see
What gay distress what splendid misery"
Social corruption has not yet become so
hardened as to contemn public opinion as ut
tered by the press. SO long, therefore, IS the
press shall be an object of wholesome dread,
we may entertain hope that all decency is not
lost
SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE RICH.
The corruption among the rich of this city
is hidden by many articles, but penetrating
eye can pierce the disguise. Wealth is offer
ing enorm JUS premiums t. splendid vice.
The uptown gambling bells are full every
night-full of young men who have plenty of
funds to risk at play. Where do they get their
money? The answer 49, chiefly by fraud in
some shape. They are bank clerks. and steal;
or they are rich mems sons, vino forge their
fathers names to bank checks, or it may be
they have fond and indulgent mammas, out
Of whom they cajole endlesses largess What
is the result? Nothing but misery, of course.
About five hundred of our first-class youth, in
point of wealth, are ruined every year. sThe
money expended by them may be estimated
by the fact that Delmonco, the restaurant
man, has returned the annual income of
100000. Estimate his average profits at
thirty per cent, bis entire receipts would aver
age $1,000 per day. This is very pretty
figure to be spent in tribes, and Delmonico is
only one of these establishments You can
find them on any of the fashionable Streets
and ca ID one is well patronized. Probably
three millions of dollars are spent by our
"gay and festive youth annually, in cham
payne, evening suprers, and dissipation gen
orally. How can this sum be thus spent with
out inficting incredible damage on the body
and soul?
CONDITION OF PARENTS.
Among our &c first families the domestic
relation is very peculiar. Here is the husband
who loves his wife SO tenderly that he keeps
away from her as much as possible. He is a
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later, being detained down town by Office d',-
ties. What a blessed excuse that word
business is, aud how, like charity, it does
cover multitude of sins Where are these
business men from 10 P. NJ. until the little
hours of the morning set in ? What strange
stories might be told of that business =
they are 80 often pleading as an excuse for
absence
PARENTS AND CHILDREN.
These men have children, but how much do
they know of them ? When do they see
them A glimpse perhaps on Sunday. The
wife, on the other hand, has her house with
its fine furniture, its pictures, its thousand
dollar piano. equipage, ETC.; everything but
domestic felicity.
The children grow up. They have no
home. That splendid dwelling has no do
me stic attachments They wander off to the
clubhouse, to Delmonico's and to similar
resorts to find that cheer which is denied
them under their parents roof. What rela-
ton do these children bear to their parents :?
They are simply nuisances. If daughters,
they are early instructed in the mysteries of
fashion, and create an endless drain on the
purse, while, if boys, they are packed away
to boarding schools, where the lessons in mis-
chief find apt scholars. 1t is wonderful to see
how " full Of the devil" these fellows get
DeIOTo are 1OuTIceu. WIlaL Is Tie lO6h
they entertain of mother? woman that
dresses in fine clothes, and sits chatting in the
parlor, while they are pl ying with the ser
wants. What is their idea of father? 1t is
that of strange man, of whom they stand in
fear, who appears once week or SO in the
family.
MONEY WANTED.
He is the governor or the cold man. "
He has money and tn 1t gives him importance,
and the great question is how to tap his
purse. Money must be had. It may be
ccaxed out of the mother, but the governor
is not so easily manage. From him it must
be obtained another way, and in that way it
is obtained. What a paternal condition is
this ! A man of the world has brace or
more wild sons who are going to ruin as fas.
as possible. They are his masters now, and
money they will have. 1 knew ore Of these
fellows to write to his father thus II want
you to send me hundred d,llars and never
ask me any questions" What a blissful rela-
ton did these hold to each other The son
ran through all manner of dissipation, was a
gambler, rake and drunkard. He ended by
en!isting while in state of intoxication, and
died in the service. l lately asked one of
these youths concerning his brother.
g Don't know where Dick is, was the reply.
'He had blow-up with the governor and
cleared out he udu not, however, gone OH
empty-handed, as the governors dimin-
isned stock Of governments" can testify.
HOW TO STOP LATE HOURS.
One Of these governors recently attempted
to stop his sons late hours by turning the
keys upon him. He never did this but once.
The ingenious youth did not need key. He
ri ched a paving stone through the plate
glass window of the second story, and this
needed no repetition. The next night he was
not locked out. Most Of the youth bring the
governor into treaty Of neutrality with a
regular subsidy. "My son." quoth one OF
these governors to another, twill have
$1,000 a year. It's too much, know, but
what can you do about it ? The boy is ruined,
and you can't make him any more so.
When 'the boy has got his allowance it is all
right. The governor sees him but seldom,
and never interferes with his schemes OF
pleasure. 1.-The boy is on the go all the
time-races theatres and gaming prove more
fascinating than even receptions and evening
parties. Several grand balls were given last
winter among the demi-monde, and the chief
patrons were found among our First young
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