The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-12-22
OUR NEW YORK LETTER..

Liue-Ned Durke ani Tenfements- Grand Bmhd-
mys; Young Benam the HraM The TrJuHe;
! tAteiow Red Death nj Hapsmeve-G Grma,,
Nayors, S..
New YoRN, December Is, 1874.
II any of the readers Of the REGISTER
should inquire "what is New Y York" some
one might reply "a great city," but that
were hardly correct New York is
world and the man who understands the
whole Of New York life is very rare
character 1t is called the metropolis be.
cause it is the central city of this cont.
nent. Here center wealth, capital genius,
aud devltry, much piety and vastly more
sin. Here are churches Of great magnif.
icence contrastcd with gin shops and beg
gary. In the Fifth avenue lot 25xl00
costs $4,000 How many nice farms
that sum wonld buy? How many nice
dwellings would it purchase in an ordina-
ry village 4? John Jacob Astor lives in a
large, though not snowy mansion in the
Fifth avenue. with front of Is feet and
this property is worth $3.50 900. His
father who is now eighty has moved up
town to be near him and has small house
worth only S150,000. He will have a
smaller and still cheaper one soon. The
old man had lived for thirty years past in
La Fayettc place in large house whose
windows are so barred up that they have
prison look. This house is now vacant
and is to let Il any of our readers are
ready to pay the rent-Sl0,0OO year can
have it. Perhaps ifthey get in they may
catch part Of the old mans luck. Since
he commenced living there he has made
thirty millions; who would not live in such
mapsion Stewart the merchant prince
has the finest residence in America, that
is in point Of cost and internal finish. 1t
is 10 the Fifth avenue corner Of Thirty
fifth street The land is worth 100000
(for it is 75xl00 in size) and the building
cost enough more to make the property a
million The man that plastered it said
this job alone cost 500 900. The build.
ing is Of marble and its finish is beyond
that of any other house on the continent.
Ii is the home Of an aged childess couple.
: No babe ever gladencd Stewards resi-.
dencc. Babies are not fashionable in
New \ ork.
The Fifth avenue is street Of palaces
three miles in length and its population is
lcss than 1000. Now if you want to
know how the poor live, look at this rick
ETY. tentement house, situated in mar
row filthy street. The stencil when you
enter is distressing and is what some ap-
propr lately, call 1.-The smell Of the poor.
There may be thirty families living in
this wrctched abode-nore than an entire
square in the Fifth avenue. But how do
they live? A man who can hire two
rooms may call himself fortunate. These
two rooms will cost $40 month on the
fifth story, and SlJ on the second story.
, In the country the same rent would hire
nice house.
. Tentement property is the most profit.
able Of all real estate outside Of Broad.
. way and Wall street, but it requires u
I hard heart TO make it pay. Rent is de.
. nanded in advance and it unpaid the oc.
cupants are set out into the street.. There
!; are large tentemcnts which rent for So
n 600 a year, all drained out of the wretch
I odly poor. Ned Burke OF the First ward
y, owns more of such property than any 9th.
er man Of his years in this city. He came
d from ireland poor, but was economical
1; and after a while opened grog shop
:. With the profits OF this he bought tent
@ ement house, and SO continued till he Ii
f how sixty, aud is worth 100000.
|, There are in this city one million oI
u people of whom not more than one and a
half per cent. Fifteen out Of every thou
e -and) own the houses they ocenpy; JUS
y see what an immense number pays rent
At The aggregate snm thus paid is one hun
VI dred aud twenty millions. Many Crane
structures are going up at present, but il
Sc found too late, that grand buildings d.
d not pay The Manhattan market is q sac
ir illustration of this 1t Is the finest thing
c of the kind in America. 1t cost 81 200
600 and was sold by the sheriff for one
y fifth that sum Under the hands of il
d. new owner it may become profitable.
Another grand affair which looks lik
Il costly bubble, is the Domestic Sewin
i ! Machine building corner Of Broadway an
ur Fourteenth street !: is built on lease
N. ao lahu wh'eh Is 10 oe surrenuc'er m WI" u
it structure n ~ o"e '"e"'s' 'ono yca's me s.ou"
ne cost $500 900 This makes a gradual
y, y, rent of $50 900 which cannot be realize,
Ill ,,1 ,,ol..lI, ,ho o,ynor in ma ru;ned
ana pro'a".y 'ne owner Will, oe ru'neu.
at ouns nenne'' mas aiso 'a'e'y e'eo.e
he sra"u oallu'ng g onn wn'on nc eApeo'e
~onla rent 'Ur Soo'ooo year 'or once ''
but mus lar ne mas no' rea'iheu one quar-
in ter 'aa' amount ms is '''''e 70 nun no ~
ng Tue fie'a'a of'"eS II" '"co'lie % o' si'o'oo
IN aa,year' penn''' Is 'as' Young mar
ed lie Is aoou' 'h'r'y''nrt' anu Is ',nma,r'e
he when Is a great misfortune ne love
nd ya'ch'ns' anu c'"o NE ne ur'"As d
an tiincS W Sio"' oA'e'" 10 ~ '''"e' no