The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-09-25
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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.


The people who are brought to New
York certain number of times each
year growl Cand very UNJUST at the enOr-
nous bills that run up a-aiust them at
hotels. One cannot liy- ,sr any first
class house on less than : .,-r day: and
if ones tastes are at all eXtIdyagant. the
cost will come very close 10 twice that
sum. The fault is not altogether with
the prnprietOrs-the owners of the prop
erty have something TO do with il. The
rents paid for these hotels are simply
fearful. For instance, the Fifth Avenue
rents for $500. 600. the owners paving
taxes, assessments and repairs. But we
must guard carefully against shedding
any tears for these MARTYRS. DESPITE
the enormous rent, the lesSeeS manage
10 skin the public so that they clear
$2JO, 600 per anuum. The Windsor. n
liner but smaller hotel, pays a rental of
Sl2j, 600; tie Giisey SS5, 900: the
st. Nicholas S95. 900; the Metropolitan
SlGJ, ,OOO; the Huffman SO. 900. and the
Brunswick SSj, 600. On this latter house
SZ5O, 600 was paid for improvements in
1873.
You see the prcprietOrs have to make
the people pay TO pay their rents and
keep up the style that the said peoDle
seem 10 demand 1t is estimated that
it costs the proprietors Of the st. Mich
olas 500. 900 per annum to keep the
house in repair and make good the wear
and tear of furniture But notwith-
standing all this, the prices are too high.
and there must be a break before long.
Wealthy men can afford to pay these
rates (they don't like tor. but to the
country merchant in moderate circum-
stances the matter of hotel bills is a verv
serious one. \ merchant from Wiscon-
sin cannot come TO New York for goods
and get home again without its costing
linn 500, which is two per cent. on
$40 900. his probable purchase. II cuts
"a hole in his profits.
THE TRICKS OF THE GAMBLERS.
The fact thar gambling is u regular
profession, and regularly followed rs IA
profession, IS well known, but the meth
OdS are not - well known. | came
across Il circular, the other dav. of
dealer in what are politely called
sporting goods, that throws some lit
tie Light on the subject.
The manufacturer proposes TO sell to
whoever wants such goods advantage
and marked cards" which can be read
from the back a. well as from the faces,
an advantage that iS obvious, for the
player who knows the cards reads his
opponents hand readily. Then this
dealer ObiigeS his patrons with cards cut
peculiar shapes. by which any kind of a
hand can be dealt. For example. the
backs of these cards are marked to show
the size in the right hand upper corner.
and the suit in tie left 4 certain mark
in the right hand upper corner shows
the card TO be king. and a certain
mark on the opposite corner shows it to
be a spade. which brings gambling
down to Il tolerable degree OF certainty.
But this dealer doesn't stop with cards.
He makes dice that will throw any num-
Der you choose; and furthermore he
will sell you machines which YOU may
conceal in your sleeve, by the aid of
which you NAV -'hold out" cards or Diay
extra ones. And that a young man
snail have no lack of facilities for being
II scoundrel, he sells, for the abSurdly
small sum of fifty cents,'a book giving
full and explicit directions for using all
his devices.
mention these things for the purpose
Of warming impulsive youths who are
iu-t commencing that there is no such
thing as honest gambling; that men
gamble to win, and that there is but one
end to gambling. In one way or an
other the hawks will pluck the pigeons
The gambler never plays Il game of
lis side it is Il certainty.
pz-rClT;.T2-TTF TOY
Moulton's last statement has brought
forth the regular crop of litigation. Miss
Edna Dean Proctor. WHO srpposes her
self referred To IN his last statement as
:ayiug been uHe Of the victims OF
8accicr. las brought suit against MouI-
ON for 500, OGJ damages, and Beecher's
friends say that ne will commence suit
against him for libel at once. TiIton's
next statement is in print. and will be
JUt In few days. This. it i hoped.
viii end the statement business. What
ought 70 be done is now being done.
The courts furnish the proper arena for
hese giadiatOrS, for in the courts. with
sworn witnesses, something approXima- |
ing the truth can be arrived at. and the |
public mind be se5 at rest.
lSj II ANlONb IHlEDRtE.
It's terrible thing to see a fuII-grown |
nan hOpeies,ly under the influence of |
,lcoholic stimuIents: il is a thousand |
lines worse to see a woman "a confirmed |
lruukarl. But If it is so fearful for |
ldults. what can be thought of it in the
,is-e Of children. Drunkenness among |
.iiIlren in this city is quite common
low, and il is growing with fearful ra-
1iiify. One boy in Brooklyn died last
week aged fourteen. y pOSt-mOrtem
revealed the fact that
death had been caused by the cOntin-
lal and excessive drinking Of the vilest
un." The medical testimony went 10
how that the vital organs had been lit
rally eaten away. that the liver was in
: shocking a state as if it had belonged
o a druuIsard of fifty years standing.
The mother of the deceased boy stated
0 the coroner that he had arrived at
hat stage when ne could do nothing
,ut drink. He had not eaten any kind
f solid food Tor considerable time be
ore death.
l saw. yesterday. from my window, a
10Y and ii girl not over twelve years OF
ge-the girl could not have been ten
Cii!ug along the .idewaik-nOw III the
utter, then ia the middle OF the street,
18th in a state OF beastly iutOxicatiOn.
tagged and dirty. uukempt and Un-
ras.Ied, their faces blazing with the lu-
i'll light of hell. they wore tie deDaucn-
d look OF dFunkards of long standing.
II oonrSe they will keep on a. they have
eaun, and VIII. in a very few years. 20
o graves ii Potter'S Field, Of de!iriUm
the terrible thing IN all this
/, lis frequency. IN the lower part Of
be- city There are thousands Of these !
lveniie drunk:r.lS. aud then there are
Iou-i Ct them III the upper part. IN
b. good residences. The common /
IacJiae Of keeping liquors on side
cards. and using them at the table. Is
earring its fruit The American child
too nervous. TOO easily excited, 20
lake such indulgeuce> safe. There /
,meJhing in the atmosphere and eli
afe Of this section Of the heritage that
axes ruin il every form danger
nd. unsafe a. il i. there Is no city in
ice world where 50 much if 1t l. used.
BUSINESS
Is revived little-nOr much, but
rough - make H. feel that life Is not
lrirelv extinct: that people still live,
!d that they have got 70 eat, drink
Id wear. The great tea mouse OF IL
-. B. Harrington s Co. informed me
at since the war trade had never been
dull a. during the first two weeks OF
e present September: and the dry
.ods. clothing. hardware and boot and
oe men bear similar testimony.
snt among them yesterday, and found
cir faces a little broader and not quite