The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-10-09
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entire decent vote of the city. This
would not elect him, but the fact is. h4
/ Is going 10 get 2 very large share of the
indecent vote. The part Tilden took in
| bringing Tweed to his present quarters
! embittered the Boss against him furious
| ly. and though it was impossible for him
! TO prevent his nomination. he and his
| friends have control of votes enough To
prevent his carrying the city, and if they
caf be held together and cast eH HGesa
! they viii do it. The Boss is Il hearty
hater. as well as devoted friend. and
| he mas his henchmen on Tilden's track.
| and they will follow him ike sleufh
| hounds
If Dix does carry the city. it will 60
| great way toward settling his candidacy
| for the Presidency. If he shows strength
enough to carry New York, that fact
will make him the strongest candidate
for the succession. While Dix does not
expect the nomination-indeed.I | think
| he does not desire it-he has friends iii
this city who are actively pushing him,
and If what they calculate upon as be-
| ginning becomes an accomplished fact.
l see no reason why they should not end
as they desire. The only thing that ]
see in the way is the age of the candi-
date. Gov. Dix is n very old man to
take place that so taxes the energies
of a man. Still the Governor is hale
and hearty, and has in him doubtless,
many years of good work. He will be
Governor again-may be President yet
CHARITIES
Mendicancy is a profession here, a reg
ular profession with its reguler practic-
ers, who are governed by sort of un-
written law which they all respect
When a begear, man, woman, or child,
has obtained the right to given locality
or beat, the right of possession is respect
ed by all of the fraternity. Indeed, IA
vorite corners, or especially good lOcali
ties are sold for money. Begging is a
very good business in New York. There
are hundreds of thousands of people
who are careless i'll the use of nicl1les, and
who, from habit, drop them into every
hat or box that is OfTeTed-there are the
tipsy-generOus. and the actually Eenev-
olent-all these make up enough to keep
up the army of beggars that infesU the
city. and to enable the sErewdest of
them TO anasS property. There Gre beg
gars in New York who own buildings
and collect rents, and they are not few
in number One man stands near the
corner of 18th street and Broadway and
works in the nights alone. He is always
a mechanic who has just arrived in the
city. and can get no work, and has no
place TO sleep The theatres are out
and the jolly parties are returning to
their hotels. and from them this sad, re-
spectacle man IS certain TO make from
five TO ten dollars every night in the
week. He has run this game for two
years that I know of. l wonder what he
does with his money.
AUTUMN
is finally here, and glorious is it. The
weather is cool and crispy-the morn
ings are gorgeous and the afternoons
magnificent Broadway, from three to
five in the afternoon Is now "a sight. The
milliners and people who dress the
women have got their fall styles on the
backs of the feInhines. and they are
resplendent in beauty. The fashions
this fall are very snowy aui taking. The
hats are rakish in strle. and are as pret-
ty as the most exacting could wish. The
white felt hat, with uptUrued brim.
trimmed with all sorts of feathers, and
beautiful material. make the street
snowy. Then the dresses are especially
pretty this fall. and for the comfort of
husbands. AM happy TO add, not fright
fully expensive. \ woman may get her
self up for an afternoon promenade and
create a positive sensation for a thOus-
and dollars. / walk down Broadway
every afternoon to enjoy the gorgeous
scene. and | am so thankful TO the ladies
of the city for going to so much trouble
and expense TO please the people. l get
as much pleasure out of the display as
do they who make it, and it costs me no |
trouble or money. | am under Obliga-
tions to the fashionable people.
CIGARs-How AND WHERE MADE.
There Is some little trouble about the |
cigar business. The cigars makers have |
held convention TO see if it Is not pos |
sible to refofm the trade and put it on n |
better footing. Some curious facts were /
elected. There are %, 600 persons in the
city who are dependent upon cigar max |
ing for a livelihood. Cigars are very /
seldom made in factories. but the tObac-
co is given out and the work is done III /
the tenement houses in the lowest |
and filthiest quarters of the city.
Now the trouble lies in this. Ia one
not very large building four thousand /
men, women and children are employed
in making cigars, the operatives living
in the rooms in which they work That
is to say, a family consisting of man and
wife and six children, eat, drink. sleep
and work in a room lily ventilated. and
filthy to a degree hardly possible TO be
comprehended. IL is held. and. j am
sure, that tobacco handled and manufac-
tured in such a room cannot but be lilled
with impurities and that diseases are
not only generated by the use of cigars
so made. but that contagious diseases
are sent broad east. I went into one of
these buildings aud penetrated into one
of their rooms | would not DO it again
for all the cigars IN New York. There
were eight persons at work IN q room,
the odor Of which was so absolutely hOr-
rible that | could not understand how a
human could exist it it for a minute
The man was filthy-his wife was filth
ier and the children-well. / have no
word at command that will express the
absolute rot of their condition. And I
there they were rolling their cigars, which
you. my reader. will put into your mouth |
and hold there, taking into your system
with each puff the reeking, sitting fever
with which it must be inpregnated.-
Cheerful. isn't it
The regular eigar-Inakers propose 10
petition the Board of Health to stop the
in tenement houses for
sanitary reasons, and it i TO be hoped |
for the benefit of cigar smokers that they /
will succeed. Nevertheless, Il is gUes-
ton whether a man who can endure to-
bacco can be injured by any other poison
BUSINESS
is as dull as dull can be. The buyers
are not buying and the sellers have long
faces. When it will revive no one can
tell. for no one knows. Itis to be hoped
that it will start up soon, or some Of the
men will 90 mad. II is some
what curious. but despite the stagnatiOn
the retail business of the city is good
and is getting better daily. There seems
TO be as much extravaganza in dress as
ever: the theatres are filed as usual;
the drinking places have their usual
business-in fact everything that i I'M
necessary seems 10 be fiOurishing- Men
and women seem 10 have money 70
on luxuries, but that Is all.
There is no building in progress, and
trade generally is at at fearfGliy low
ebb. New York Is living or hope.
PiETRO.
GEN. W. T. SHERMAN has published
in the Army and Nary Journal the con
eluding chapter of the forthcoming me-
noir Of the events of the war. IL i de-
voted to the military lessons growing cut
of the war. and among the Generals
are the following: The men
who voluntarily enlisted al the outbreak ;
Of the war were the best soldiers, better
than the conscript and far better than the