The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-10-30

MEN CLUB-THE BROOKLYN TRoUBI.E
BUSINESS.
NEw YORK, Oct. 2S. 1874.
THEPAY OF THE PEOPLE WHO AHITsE rs
They who do the world the most good
are not those who get the best nav for
IT, The Clergyman who gets 500 a wear
IN the country has to bring to his pro-
tession talent of the highest possible or
der, and Is compelled to do an amount
OF labor that would kill an ordinary
dlay horse, and the same may be said of
the eountey editor, the lawyer and the
physician. But the popular aetors or
singers-they have all the good things
OF life unstinted. Sothern for instance
has played Lord Dundreary 5, 200 times
for which he has received an average of
$500 for each performance, making the
snug sum of g, 900, 600 for the one piece.
/ Joe Jefferson has played Rip Van Win
kle 1000 times, and has averaged over
$500 for each performance. He has
made land has it yeti over a million of
dollars. Booth gets 5000 night, when
he plays for a certainty, but he has re-
eeived as high a. S3, 900 for single per-
1 formances.
But the opera people beat the actors
| IN entieing money out of the pockets of
the people. Nilsson does not open her
mouth short of 81, 900 night, and Luc-
ca and the other song-birds get but little
less. They live like Princesses and throw
away money with both hands.
But the writer's and artists do not fare
as well; 500 for a magazine looks rath-
er large, but then it takes Parton weeks
to write one. When a poet gets fifty
dollars for little poem it looks like
paying great ceal for a little piece of
work, but remember that the poet Ia
bored weeks and weeks constructing the
poem, and polishing and finishing the
lines after they were constructed. The
highest pay journalists get in New York
is paid Whitelaw Reid, of the Tribune,
who gets 81, 600 per annum. Bromley,
who is the clearest wit on the New York
press, does his delightful sarcasm on the
Tribune for 5, 900 year. But there are
exceptional cases. From $40 to $50
week is considered good pay, and the
men who get it are counted as lucky.
The authors of books make but very
little by their werk. There is occasion
ally an Uucle Toms Cabin, which made |
fortune for the writer, and two or three |
for the publishers, and the Lamp-Light-
er was just about as successful. But
these are two out of million. Out of
one hundred books published, ninety are
fiat dead failures. OF the remaining ten,
probably one may reach a sale of 10, GOO
copies. The author gets for his copy
right ten per cent. of the retail price,
which on a 81, so book would be fifteen
cents. If he sells 10, 600 he gets 81, 500
But its chances are as a hundred to one
against its having any such sale. A book
that sells 81, 500 is considered a fair sue
cess, which gives the author 1915 for his
labor. The most of them manage to
run their work through a paper first, thus
getting double pay. Bret Harte makes
good fair living by his pen, but as yet
has saved nothing. Messrs Henri Brown,
Col. Thomas w. Knox, and that class of
writers, make more money because they
work harder. The women writers do
just about as their Shirley
Dare, Nellie Hutchinson, Mrs. RunkIe,
''Olivia, and the great army of cores |
pondents and magazine writer's manage |
to make from 50, 900 to s., 900 a year,
though there isn't one of them who |
ought not to have twice that.
How these ladies must envy Nilsson
with her 81, 900 a night.
FAST HORSES.
This is the season to see fast horses in
the parks and on the travelling roads in \
the vicinity. The cool, crisp weather
makes driving delight. and doubt if
any city in the world can show So much
in the way of speed Commodore Van
derbilt is the heaviest patron of rapid
horse flesh next to Bonner, of the Ledg-
eT; but there are plenty of men un-
known to fame who keep stock quite as
progressive as either of them. There is
one team to be seen every day on the
road that can make its mile in % easily.
The horses have been driven single, one
in 2:19 and the other in 2:1S. 1t was
sold to California speeulator last week |
for $40, 900.
And by the way there is no business so
profitable. that | know of, as the raising, |
training and matching of carriage |
horses.
Any kind of a matched team that will
do at all for n carriage, is worth 81 200;
and teams sell anywhere from that figure |
to $1,000. These teams, understand,
make no pretensions to speed or any ap-
proach to it. They are simply hand
some, well-matched, stylish horses, that
have fairly decent action and look well
in plated harness. They must have some
blood in them-must be well broken and
kind, but above all, must look we'll
To look well in horses is the same thing
in New York as it is in everything else.
Most everything goes here by looks. The
demand for horses of this class is always
brisk, and the market is always certain.
The life of horse in this city is necces-
sarily brief, even though they are as
carefully taken care of as carriage
horses are. The close stables and hard
payements finish them rapidly.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Some of the workinglnt n of the city
have made a move in a direction which |
/ count good, and the result of which
shall watch with interest. There Is To-
Gated at 113 West Twentieth Street,
workingmen's club, modelled after those
so successfully maintained in England
Although of recent origin, it has a MEM
bership of one hundred, composed EN-
tirely of working1nen- The reading, |
game, and conversation rooms are not |
only neatly but tastely furnished, thus
providing pleasant, home-like place in
which they may spend their evenings
All the daily and weekly papers are on
file, not to speak of a library Of fair pro
portions. It must be borne in mind that !
this is entirely a workingmen's move
ment, that all the members are poor,
and hence the success is more of a sur
prise. Attached to the club in the lower |
part of the building is a co operative |
store, where groceries of all descriptions |
are sold at wholesale prices. This branch, |
only a few weeks old, has been attended |
with gratifying reeults since its inaugu-
ration. ] am not so certain about the
cooperative store, but j am entirely sure
as to the reading room and that part of
it. Anything that will keep working
men out of doggeries, and give them
rational amusement combined with in
struction, is a good thing and cannot be
too much encouraged. 1t is a success
that is the lsb-ary and club part of it
and there is earthly reason why there
should not be hundreds of them in this
city, and one or more in every city or
village.
THE BROOKLYN TROUBLE
has settled down into the courts. and lt
is to be hoped it will stay there till It ls
decided Beecher has withdrawn all ms
lecture engagements, because he has 70 !
give his whole mind to his suits; and |
Tilton has announced that he will accept |
no engagements till after the first OF Jan
uary. for the same reason He Is Win
his counsel every minute Of the day, ana |
is as busy as he can possibly be- Mn.
TiIton, contrary to expectation, mani
tajns her attitude of hostility 70 Theo- |
dore. and Is cooperating with his enc
Inies. Florence. the eldest daughter OF |
the disunited pair. has taken a position
in one of the public schools in Brooklyn