The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-07-10
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
THE HEATED TERM-LUXURY-H
D-DOGS-BUSINFSS
NEw YORK. July s, 1874.
TIE HEATED TERM.

/ The HEATED TERM-LUXURY-Ho
/ D-DOGS-BUSNESs
NEW YORK. July s, 1874.
TIE HEATED TERN.
Think Of being compelled TO stay in
i,.lITo" i..il' streets. built up with stone or
- el'her side three. four, five, SIX
anu Ven stories. with the SIMS hot rays
SeiioIlS Ire thermometer up TO 90 de-
i Ssres. ana on occasion 10 1O5 de1rAas
[ IAl~ Is what New Workers have had m
! endure Tor the last two weeks It has
I been terrible in the best and most r,eas.
ant parts of the city-in the roomy and
airy partS-anl what it has been in the
lower parts. where people herd together
il SuE-cellarS and attieS, may be imagin,
ed Think of a building six stories high,
with windows only in front and rear.
say 80 by 100 feet in dimensions, con-
tanning >ix hundred men, women and
children. all the cOOAinS. eating and
sleeping being done therein. And this
with glowing sky, a burning sky, a
burning sun. with no air, Imagine the
atmosphere of such building, yhen the
Thermometers in the open parks stand
ut 100 degrees,
-''AN tAAN eAAN AlNf lAuAlOlFu AAOuc<AAlu
people in New York who exist in such
buildings.
LUXURY.
Where there is extreme poverty, there
Is extreme luxury. Probably one makes
the other 1t Is a curious contrast, these
hot, sitting tenement buildings in the
lower part of the city, with the luxuri-
Gus mansions up town. While the me
chanic smOtherS in n tenement house,
Mr.. VIM. B. AStOr revels in the posses
sion OF -, 500. 600 in pictures, plate and
furniture. Geo. w. Burnham cOnfesSeS
to $3.50, 900; the LennOX family can't en-
JOY life with less than 81 ,655, 900 worth
Of iewclry. plate and pictures; the Brown
Bros. bankers. have over 81, 900, 900 in
vested in these things; a. Il. Stewart
has -. OO0, 900; the kingslands, Taylors,
SpOiIOrds. LOrillardS, and a score of
Others wear. sit on and look at, such
property to the amount of S20C, 900 each,
and upwards. And, bear in mind, these
sums represent only the rare and curl
Gus in these Injuries. the diamonds, pic
lures. ornamental and luxurious fdrni-
ture. the quaint and curious, the
beautiful and Injurious. 1t is nothing
for these people TO pay $50, 900 for a
picture or piece of Statuary, and that
sum for a piece of jeweIry, is as common
as eating. That is to say. it GCGS common.
Just now, men are not investing in this
way rs much as they were. The tight
times has checked this kind of extrava-
guuce. and for some time to come the
dealers in articles of mere luxury will
anguish.
HORSES AND CARRIAGES.
Speaking of luxuries, vehieular ex-
is not the least thing that the
Nav Yorker has to encounter. Fashion
lecrees that any family making any pre-
ense to means must be carried, and of
course the vehicles and horses must be
amily discovers.
To begin with, a simple phetOn for
wo horses, (and two, at least, must be
ldd) costs, with the horses, not less
han =, 600, and to keep it going re-
luires II cOachman, who costs per annum
rot less than ) 800.
This is the very least that can be done
% be anybody. If you desire to be more
han merely comfortable, a coupe can be
lad for anywhere from 81, 500 to g, 500,
md still higherup is the Clarence, which
will require something like 50, 600. A
wealthy family will have six or eight
lOrses-One for single driving, two pairs
'Or carriages. one or two for the saddle,
and so on. They will have several, for
L i a point to be seen one day in one
lnd another in another Then i'm addi-
ion to Il solemn looking cOachman in
livery on the box, you must have two
iunkies equal in sOlemnity ON behind,
he entire outfit costing probably $50,
iO0, and requiring an outlay of fully
SO 600 per annum to keep it up.
THE NOBS.
This statement includes only quiet
people who do not especially desire dis
play. Those who wish 20 make a figure
in the Park and ON the drives spend
much more.
HELMBOLD
For instance. the great medicine man,
bad one team! of six horses, that cost him
81, coo; he had carriages that cost So
poo, and his cOachman that he sedueed
from the service Of Potter Palmer. of
;hicago, he paid -, 900 per year, beside
house rent. fuel and lights. This man
was six feet six inches in height, and
probably tine best whip in the world. 1t
was "a sight to see him handle that team
IF hOrsrS-all thOrOughbreds. | say it
rGy for poor llelmbOld's hOrses-he had
w"uty of them-are scattered to the
our winds. As enormous as were his
profits, high living, horses, and the ac-
eXtravagances broke him,
md he is to-day living ON charity in
.oudOn. In the last days of his pros
,erity he called in "a friend to advise him
What to DO to save himself.
DO, said the friend. "Why, it's
asy enough. Sell off your horses, and
Our carriages, put 'em up at auction,
ct what you can for 'em, and live semi
,Iy-7
''>rll nv horses" quOth HelmbOId,
With tears in his eyes, Il can't do it,
Who knows into whose hands they
would fall Imagine Hiy feelings, stand
~ IN front Of my store and seeing that
iN-iu-hand driven down Broadway by
ylySed gJiNcE!
Hehubold wept at the picture in his
minds eye, but his friend didn't.
Dogs
THE hydrOphobia question is up again
ercer than ever. Several persons have
.een bitten by dogs and died of what
Jokrd wonderfully like hydrophobia,
,ut the learned men differ as to whether
.ydroPhObia or fear of it killed them.
;ut in the meantime the killing of dogs
s going On very lively. The gaMi1Is
apture them by the hundred, and they
.re put Oat Of their misery the moment
ne hours Of grace expire. The trade in
logs Is about the only brisk trade in the
.ity.
BUSINESS
S a little duller, if any difference, than
when I wrote last The bottom is out
md 10 viii stay ont till the fall. The
man vino T., making "a living, and is not
ia debt, Is the lucky man Just
now. Nobody expects anything better
lam that. PIRTRO.
Il RAILROAD SCENE.
.Iurlci-h" writes from Washington