Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-12-11
Correspondence.
ORR NEW YORK LETTER,

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ORR NEW YORK LETTER.
B0SS TWEED-RENTS AND EMPTY STORES
-ECONOMY-TIIET TRADE OF TIE CITY
STRIKES AND LABOR-BERGH-THE
LIQUOR DEALERS-BUSINESS--
TIIEE AND HEALTH.
New YORK, Dec. :, 1874.
BOSS TWEED.
The wicked old man is on the surface
again. Tired of living in prison, knowing
that Gov. Dix will not pardon him, and
that the Governor elect, Tilden, dare not,
if he would, he appealed once more to the
| courts. He was taken out of prison On a
! writ of hnbenS corpus, and taken before the
/ courts, where he petitioned to be discharg-
| ed on the score that the court that tried
him had no jurisdiction. Judge JARRETT
( decided, Of course against the illustriOus
| thief and back he went. Wednesday
night Il rumor prevailed that he had given
the officers the slip. aud had got away to
| Europe, and the lie was for an hour gcncr-
/ ally credited. 1t was more readily believed,
| for everybody knows that if the Goss has
| the money he is credited with, he can buy
/ his way out without trouble. And the
comment upon it Was not encouraging to
| one who wants to believe in the honesty of
mankind II am glad the old man has
/ got away said one merchant in my hear
( ing. "Why glad - | asked "Oh, he has
been punished enough" was the reply.
. And that was the expression OF 2 full half
( of the people. Curious, isn't il? Here is
man who plundereG the taxpayers for
/ years in way that would have made 4
pickpockct blush-a man who stole right
and left, not only for himself, but 4 horde
! Of followers man who, By sheer stealing
! and IN adroit use of what he stole. held the
! city and state in the hollow Of his hand,
/ and even aspired TO the control Of The
| country; this thief, swindlcr, and rObber
is pitjcd by the men he plundered l can't
! help but think that the men who pity him,
/ envy him, and that, placed as he was,
I would have done the same thing. The
newspapers Of the city, 80 their credit be
il said, insist on his being kept where he
! is till his full term expires. Public opinion
viii probably keep him there till he buys
I his way out.
! And speaking of the Boss, Gov Dix did
n good thing the other day. He supposed,
rs did all the world, that the rotund old
thief was dressed in stripes and doing pri-
son duty the same as other criminals. Be
/ coming better informed he addressed 4
| communication 10 Maior iIavemcycr, pro-
| testing against giving the man who had
! plunGcrcd the city Of so, ,OO0, 900. a suit of
/ rooms, servants, citizens clothes, and other
! luxuries, and of aliowin. him visitors at
his own pleasure. Very properly, the Gov
! ernOr characterized this discrimination be-
tween one thief and another rs a ''mockery
of Justice" But the protest will do no
! good. The Boss has means at his disposal
and he will be 4 prisoner of state rs long rs
he chooses to stay.
RENTS AND EMPTY STORES.
The exOrbitant rents demanded on
/ Broadway are telling on that street. Be
! tween the Astor house ami 14th street
there are over one hundred elegant stores,
! in the windows of which are displayed the
disheartening legend "To Lct,' and this
! legend is growing more common daily.
! The broadway owners put up rents year
after year, without any regard to the value
! Of the property. Sl2,O geo, 81, 1000, $40, 900
| per annum We're common figures. This
| wa all well enough during the war and
| the flush era that followed il, but when The
! pinching times came it could not be cndur-
ed No business that could be transacted
| on the premises could pay this rent, and
| house after house went down in the vain
! cndcavor. The landlords would not re
| duCc, for they had faith if Smith wouldn't
! keep the store Jones would be glad to take
! it, and as they had become accustomed to
| living in the STYLE Of $4,000 rents they did
/ not like to come down. But Smith either
! quit business or he went over TO some Of
| the side streets. and Jones knew 800 much
! to 90 into ruin blindfold, and so stores are
empty. This is rs it should be. There is
10 reason in keeping up to war prices in
I auvthiug, and rents ought to be the first to
come down. True, it depreciates real
J estate; but why should it not There is
nothing made by calling fifty cents a dollar
Men cannot labor forever for landlords.
And by the way, speaking Of coming
down, - there has been and is being
CONSIDERABLE ECONOMY
practiccd at this time Gentlemen vino, q
year ago were in the habit Of stepping into
their fashionable Broadway tailOrs and
paying 800 or $50 for an ovcrcoat, with
out asking the price, are not doing it to any
alarming extent. They 90 into the BOwery
and the other cheap streets, and buy for
$50 to so what they would have to pay
>75 to 500 for on Broadway. And they
find that 4 pair Of boots on cheap street
for $40 looks Just rs well and wears Just As
/ long as the pair that the prctentious
Broadway maker coolly asks, and gets, SIS
for. This style Of cconomizing is gcttin"
to be very popular. NJ