Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-17
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The INaeHer-SterJ' BrcEaRaD's Trouble
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New York. Jan. 10. 1917.

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Working Hen.
New York. Jan. 10, 1874.
THE wEATHER-sTREET CLEANING.
Drizzle, drizzle, pour, pour. These fou
words express accurately the weathe
that the city has been favored with 70
a week. A steady, soaking rama rail
that kept the cutters full, and the street
swimming, made New York the most IN
comfortable place in the world. TIL,
promenadeS were deserted, the trade pal
aces were empty and the pretty clerk.
who part their hair in the middle, hat
nothing 10 do but fatteu their sweet no.
ses against the damp panes, looking and
longing for the buyer who came not But
the fierce rain was good thing for New
York, for it cleaned the streets. The
streets are only cleaned by rain. The
city pays an enormous sum every month
for street cleaning, but none of It is ever
done. The contractors appear promptly
the'frst Of each month, draw ther money,
and go their way joyfully, and the city
swims in filth, till great rain washes it
out into the rivers. Then the stones in
the pavements show ther heads, the gut
tiers smell little less like pest-houses, and
fora few days, the man who has a nose
finds life enduIable. New York Is always
thankful for good ram.
SHERIFF BRENNAN's LITTLE TROUBLE
The Tammanyites are in a more serious
frame of mind than they have been since
the beginning of their troubles. Mr..
Brennan is the present toad under the
legal harrow. The escape of Harry Ge-
net was considered by Tammany one Of
the must exquisite jokes of the season. A
mere mention of it was sufficient to pro-
duce loud gufans, and when a ring striker
met any one connected with the sherifFs
office, It was made the occasion of many
iocose winks and much hilarious rib
punching. Brennan was the hero of the
rum-mills, and was the especial admira-
ton of every broken-nosed ruffian IN the
city But Judge Daniels put a sudden
stop to all this pleasantly for be-
hold you, he pulled Sheriff Brennan-he
adjudged him guilty OF contempt of court
in permitting his prisoner to escape,
and he fined him $3.50, and in addition,
sent him to jail for thirty days, this being
all the penalty he could put upon him.
And more, Mr.. Sheriff Brennan was no.
tilted that the moment he had served his
time out. he would be subjected to a
prosecution for conniving at Ge-
nets escape, which opens the cheerful
prospect Of Sing Sing to him.
Then the jocularity attendant upon
this escape ceased. The thieves did not
wag their heads and wink their eyes at
Mr. Brennan. In jail for allowing a
prisoner to escape! Preposterous! Why
the thing had been done a thousand
times. But Judge Daniels was infexible,
and SC the doors of Ludlow street jail
closed upon the Sheriff, and the ring is
quaking in its boots.
The man who has done the most of the
work in breaking down this malign in
fuence is man almost unknown outside
the city-MR H. G. ALLEN, the District
Allen is a magnificent law
yer, who when he knows thing, knows
that he knows it. He is man not only
of much legal learning and a plucky pug
nacious spirit that delights in encoun-
ters in which hard blows are given and
taken. Consequently, Mr.. John Graham,
who has brow beaten every lawyer at the
New York bar, and who had contrived
to make them all afraid of him, was as
Lonished to find in District Attorney Allen
a man who could neither be beaten at the
game of law, or frightened out of any
position he might assume. Then they
-ried money on him, but they found to
heir greater establishment, an honest Of
icial, who, in such a ml'ter, had no re
gard whatever for money.
Mr.. Allen, in short, gave the thieves to
understand that he was after them, and
that he should stay after them until he
lad every one of them in the penitenti-
lry. He drew the indictment against
Tweed so carefully that a mosqueto
could not get through its meshes, he chal- |
enged jurors day after day till he had
secured an honest one, then ne locked |
lorns with John Graham, and never let
Up till he had John Graham's client safe
IN BlackwelPs Island in a striped suit.
It was he who pursued Ingersoll to the
anne end, and Genet likewise, and he
S hunting the others with equal peril
nacity.
Mr.. Allen is Il man Of perhaps forty
With an honest pleasant face, that reminds |
ne ola good natured bulldog. He is a
favorite in all social circles.
lie is possessed Of a keen wit, wonderful
owers Of analysis, and what he does not
now of law is not worth knowing. He
) almost blind. His eyes are so defect
We that to read the coarsest print he is
to hold the page within an
lch of his eyes. Imagine the dogged
that has made great law
er Of man with such eyes.
BUSINESS
) improving rapidly. All the banking
ouses that were not rotten have resum-
d money is accommodating and the wheels
re revolving with something like the old
apidily. 1t transpires that the great
nauciers who went down in the late
nancial storm, are not down as much as
las thought. 1t has been published far
nd wide that Vanderbilt had lost 20,
lIllions, and was crippled. 1t IS true he
'ould have lost a large sum, probably
otas much as that, but enough to have
urt him, had he not absolutely owned
Il the stocks he held. Owning them,
lade no difference TO him. But the old
,x did very brilliant thing. He not
My held on to all that he had, but when
rices struck bottom (and he knew when
le bottom was struck), he commenced
uying all that offered. The rise on the
ocks he bought when they were at the
owest, will make good all his losses, and
leave him large balance
rev is damaged somewhat, but he man
ged, as the old fellow always does, to
IuVe fhe loss off uDnD others