The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-05-22
No. 2.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

NEW YORK, Nay 20, 1874.
Olemargarine is in more peoples
mouths now than any other word in New
York l referred TO this two weeks ago.
Some ingenious chemical fiend discover
ed that the properties OF butter did not
differ, except in flavor, from tallow or
suet, or anything else in the way of fat.
so this diabolical wretch goes TO work
and finds out the chemical atrocities that
gives the flavor to butter, and proceeds
tomake bitter which he STYLES OIemar-
garine. He takes suet or tallow and re-
lines 1t, then he adds these other iDgre-
dlents and works them all together, and
the result isa compound which looks like
butter, smells like butter, tastes like but
ter, and,-he says.i is butter. But. good
nessi what kind of stuff is itl When
/ you spread it on your bread, what earth
/ ly confidence have you in it2 1t will re-
| quire more sublime faith to eat it than
| 1t does the complex hash at n boarding
/ house. There is trouble among the
business men about it. The dealers who
! bring the yellow article made from actu-
al milk drawn from the actual teats of
actual cows, insist that they shall not be
/ put in competition with the manufae-
turers of suet and tallow. They assert
that the Oleomargarine shall be branded
as such, and put upon the market as
such, that the public may know exact
ly what they are buying. Then, if the
people want the manufactured article,
they can buy it, and if they want actual
butter they may buy it.
tried Oleomargarine, and hasten to
give my testimony. 1t won't do. Poor
people may be compelled to use some
L. ~ . 4
can get pure butter will try the new ar
ticle just once, and never again. Since
trying it, my respect for the noble ami
mai, the COW, has increased thousand
per cent. She knows her business.
PEDEsTRIANIsM.
Pedestrianism is the rage here lust
now. Weston, the great failure. who has
tried to accomplish more feats than any
man living, came here to walk rs miles
within "a hours, which, fora wonderfle |
accomplished. The mania for physical |
develOpement has spread to the upper /
classes. Young James Gordon Bennett, ]
the proprietor of the Herald. always /
fond OF muscularity, commenced paying !
some attention to pedestrianism. A /
lawyer named Whipple had an idea that
there was something in his legs and feet,
and match was made The race was
from Mr.. Benefits house on Fifth ave
nue. to the gate of Jerome Park, and the
stakes s., 600 side In addition to this,
over $50, 900 was wagered by the Union
Club alone, beside a large amount i'm
Wall street. The journalists won the
race, making his ten miles in one hour
and forty-six minutes His competitor,
the limb of the law, reached the gate
just six minutes and five seconds later,
badly blown and very much crestfallen
at tie loss of the $50, 600 which his
friends in the Union Club had wagered
upon HIM. Bennett is a staunch sailor,
and with all his other business, manages
to devote great deal of time to manly
sports. And speaking of
MUsCULARITY,
John Morrissey has been and gone and
done it. There is a Democratic pOliti-
elan in New York named Fox. who. from
a common laborer, has in a few years
become very wealthy, by which | mean
he has been in the Legislature a few
years. Fox and Morrissey fell ont, and
the other night they met in n drinking
saloon. Fox stigmatized MOrrissey as a
prize-iighter, and Morrissey denounced
Fox as thsif. Both were correct. Fox
got excited, and Morrissey losing control
of himself, became for a moment the
gladiator of old, and knocked Fox
through several partitions Now, fight
between ordinars men is nothing, but be
tween two such men it means something.
They are big chieftains each with his fol
lowers of fthOusands-they aremen whose
acts are public property, possessing pub
lie interests. True, one was n prize
fighter and is n gambler, and the other
was and is a ring politician; but that
matters not The first represented
Democrat District in New York in Con
gress, and the other n District in the
State Senate, and between them, they
control more political power than any
two men in the State. The party is al
ready divided on it, and what the result
Will be no one can say. When MOrrissy
whips Fox, the Democratic party of the
nation is shaken to its centre.
lt is a curious commentary on the civ
iliZatiOn of the 18th century that such
man as Morrissey should possess any
power whatever He was for years a
pugilist by professional man whose liv-
ing was in the ring-One of the kind that
had he lived in Rome in the time of the
would have been compelled
to the life of a gladiator for the amUse-
ment of the citizens. But this man
this bruiser-not repentant of his past
but glOrying in them chang
ing his method of life only for the worse
for he now runs gaInbling-hells-ha
been elected to Congress, and to-day
holds in his hands the political destinies
Of the great city that controls the great
State that really controls the Nation,
Is civilization "A failurel
Fox is really the worst man, for Nor
rissey has occasionally good streak.
ICE
is an article very much discussed just
now. The last winter was 50 WARM and
open that very little ice was made, much
less housed Probably the amount act
uallv stored is much less than half the
regular supply. and that half il Of an
inferior quality. In the country. where
cool springs and cooler wells furnish the
water, ice is n luxury, but by no means
D necessity. But here, where the water /
runs through miles and miles of pipes
and comes out of the faucets warm 70 "a ,
-ickening degree, IL il a. much a neces-
Sity a. flour. for without ice TO cool it,
L i really unfit to drink. The butchers
have TO have il: the brewers, and every
body has to have il. And now comes
hot summer and less than half a supply
on hand. The people up in Maine who
rut lee for the New York market have
doubled their prices, and of course
prices are more than doubled here.
Consequently, the poorer classes Will be
to rub along in some way
without it-how, cannot see. But did
you ever notice the wonderful capabili-
ties of poverty. The poor people who
cannot get lee, will discover that they
can do without il and live They have
been forced to the discovery that they
could do without great many other
things, which would be essential If they
had the wherewithal to get them. But
the doing without lee i only "A small
part Of the trouble The butchers make
lee the reason for advancing the price
Of meat. the brewers for putting up the
price of beer, and 80 il will 20 through
all the trades and occupations. lshOulf
not be surprised if tine street railroads
would advance their fares on the strength
Of this shortage.
REAL ESTATE
There has been n marked decline IN
real estate in New York within the last
year-a positive decline. very lew
dwellings and stores were rented TINS
spring at the old rates, but a great ma
icrity of landlords were compelled 10 be
content with a reduction Of from 20 to
so per cent. And consequently the price,
or rather value. or real estate, has de-
eIined eorrespOndingiy. This is not al