The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-09-18
CUR NEW YORK LETTER.
New YORK. sept. l.. l-sL.
4 NV FRAUD.

t-U-- ID ND.l..t give TO LtIlf--E
employment half the -irewdIl--- they
DO % their ---iEI ding schemes. they
would D. TIE richest u.-n II the world
For Certainly the genius wasted ii
E1G1erE. that always -ld~ badly, could
not bug pay largely in any legitimate
business The last dodge in tAievery
has Just been uuearthed. and n most in
-auiCCs dodge il i. \ scOundrel sailing
under the alias of Walker. few months
ago. went - work and deliberately
forged cJrvsvauces Of real ,--tat- be-
longing 20 gie estate Of 1; man who has
been dead tira year. lie made deeds
from Isaac Young the aforesaid de-
ceased. 10 himself. Of land worth SJU-
600, and went with them 10 the Regis
ter'S Office and had them recorded. OF
course this vas all regular, for the reg
lSJery clerks have 10 means Of knowing
whether Isaac Young i a live or Il dead
man. The conveyance put upon record,
Walker takes them and goes into the
street to negotiate a loan upon them.
He fluids Il man who has money 10 loan
upon real estate. The Registers books
are examined. the conveyanceS are clear,
the money is loaned. Walker disappears.
OF course the fraud Is discovered after
the lapse Of week or two, and Walker
i arrested, and will 90 TO Sing Sing.
Now. it strikes NE tina q mind capable
Of cOnceiving and cN.--.it;u= 80 maguiii-
cent piece of viiia..E ought To know
that legitimate busiI.y-- i it, proper
field. What combinations could not
such a genius effect in dry goods,
If that man had TO be a rogue, why
dii lie not 20 10 Wall street, or get into
pi.itics in this city:
The-e are safe fields for such gen
fuses. where there is ample scope for
scouudreIism without risk. But they
never do it. When Walker gets out of
Sing Sing he will get into Il similar
transaction in week, and go up again
Such men only keep out of prison only
few weeks at Il time. When in quOd,
they devise schemes that invariably take
them back again. Speak Of
REAL ESTATE,
Some Of it in New York has a value
despite the terrible depression. Mr.. r.
\. Witthaus has sold to the Union
Dime Savings Bank, for S275, 900, the
plot of land on the southerly side of
Thirty-secOnd street, between Broadway
and Sixth avenue The buildings are of
little value, and formed no part of the
value The lots front on the triangular
public place at the intersection of Broad
way and Sixth avenue. and about one
hundred feet on Thirty-SecOnd. The
price is at the rate of S175. 600 for lot
of the usual size Mr. Witthaus paid
&45. 900 for the property about twenty
years ago. Isn't that rather n steep
price for SO small n piece of earth. At
this rate, what is New York worth.
BEER
The Germans are up and IN arms.
"Wednesday last three Thousand saloon
keepers met in council, alG resolved that
the license laws must be repealed. and
that the traffic in beer must be treated
the same as any other business, and also
that this question must go into politics,
and be made an issue. The beer inter
est in New York is one that has positive
power, and OF course politicians will be
found who viii recognize it. The Ger
nan element is immenSly strong here,
and OH the question of free beer and the
right to drink it Sundays as well as 9TH
eC days il j. almost an unit. They do
not Ike 10 be driven out of the city for
their Sunday recTeatiOns. and they will
make i vigorous fight ior what 10 them
j. a vital matter. This question is one
OF the di-Jurbers that come up every
li5t!s Willie 10 veX the souls of pOli;i-
clans. Tie American religious element
Is iuii-Xibly opposed to the violation of
the Sabbath; the German is as iniicNibly
determined to spend il as lie pleases.
Imagine the perplcxity OF the ambitious
politician in whose district these ele-
Hcl.ts are about even. Won't he have a
splendid opportunity for lodging;
EXPENSIVE FUNERALS.
Cnder the present system 1t costs from
$50 20 $50 to bury "a corpse in the most
modest way. The most eNOrbitant
prices are charged for cofiins and the
accomplishments, all of which are paid
without Il question, for no man can ask
prices over the dead body of one loved
and lost. Then come carriages, price of
lot, etc, all of which makes Il sum that
i oppressive 10 a poor man, or one in
even modern circumstances. The Ger
mans have Il society for doing away with
all this. They have taken up the idea
or cremation, and propose TO bring it into
vogue. They are building Il hall sixty
by forty feet, fitted with an altar at
WHICH religious CEREMONIES lllstN De llGu.
Baci. of this altar is to be a furnace capa-
bic OF bein. heated to loco degrees,
which meijs soft plates in the metal cof-
iiu enclosing the remains, Which heat
viii reduce the remains to ashes in an
hous anE half Aud all this can be
done for -. which IS bringing burial
expenses within reach of the poorest.
Tie Germans Will take tii, idea and act
,Iuon IT, r9. this people have not the
rarere:.. Tor ancient forms that the
Americans possess. and the form Of dis
posing OF tie remains is in entire cOnso-
nance with their ideas of the fitness of
things. And who knows but after it has
became a common practice among the
Germans it may be adopted by the rest
Of mankind,
BUSINESS
Does not pick up as l (and everybody
else) hoped. The city is full of mer-
chants: the hotels are not only crowded
but over-crowded. but they do not buy.