The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-10-01
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
A. NEW FRAUD.


they do to their swindling schemes, they
would be the richest men in the world.
For certainly the genius wasted III rogu-
cry, that always ends badly, could not
but pay largely in any Legitimate bust
ness. The last dodge in thievery has
Just been unearthed, and most mgeni-
Gus dodge it is. A scoundrel sailing
under the alias of Walker, few months
ago. went to work and deliberately forged
conveyances of real estate belonging to
the estate of a man who has been dead
five years. He made deeds from lssac
Young, the aforesaid deceased, to him
self, of land worth $50, 1000, and went
with them to the Registers Office and
had them recorded. Of course this was
all regular, for the registery clerks have
no means of knowing whether Issac
Young is a live or dead man. The con-
Yeyances put upon record. Walker takes
them and goes into the street to nego-
tiate loan upon them. He finds man
who has money to loan upon real estate.
The Registers books are examined, the
aconveyances are all clear, the money is
loaned. Walker disappears, Of course
the fraud is discovered after the lapse OF
a week OF two, and Walker is arrested,
and Will 90 to Sing Sing. Now, itstrikes
me that a mind capable of concelylng
and executing SO magnificent pelce OF
villainy ought to know that legitimate
business is its proper field. What COM
binations could not such genius effect
in dry goods
If that man had to be a rogue, why
did he not go to Wall street, OF get into
politics in this city?
These are safe fields for such geIiuses,
where there is ample scope for Sound
relism without risk. But they never do
1t. When Walker gets out of Sing Sing
he will get into a similar transaction In a
week, and go up again. Such men only
keep out of prison few weeks at a time.
When in quod, they devise schemes that
invariably take them back agnin. Speak
ing Of
REAL ESTATE,
Some of it in New York has valuable
despite the terrible depression. Mr.. r A.
Witthaus has sold to the Union Dime
Savings Bank, for 1915, 900, the plat of
land on the southerly side of Thirty
second street. between Broadway and
Sixth avenue. The buildings are of lit
tie value, and formed no part of the
value. The lots Oh the triangular public
place at the intersection of Broadway
and Sixth avenue, ~ feet on Broadway,
40 feet on Sixth avenue, and about 100
feet on Thirty-second street. The price
is at the rate of 1915, coo for lot of the
usual size. Mr.. Witthaus paid $45, 900
for he property about twenty years ago.
Isn't that rather steep price for SO
sma II a piece of earth? At this rate,
Eh; is New York worth?
BEER.
] he Germans are up and in arms.
We ilnesday last three thousand saloon
kee pers met In council, and resolved that
the hcenee laws must be repealed, and
that the traffic in beer must be treated
the same as any other business, and also
that this question must go into politics,
and be made an issue The beer inter
est in New York is one that has positive
power, and of course politicians will be
found who viii recognize it. The Ger
man element is immensely strong here.
and on the question of free beer and the
right to drink it Sundays as well as 9TH
er days it is almost an unit. They do
not like to be driven out of the city for
their Sunday recreations, and they viii
make vigorous fight for what to them
rs vital matter. This question is one
of the distUrbers that come up every lit
tie while to -ex the soule of politicians.
The American religious element is in
Hexibly opposed to the violation of the
Sabbath, the German Is as inhexibly de-
sermined to spend it as he pleases. I'M
agine the perplexity of the ambitious
politician III whose district these ele-
ments are about even! Won't he have
a splendid opportunity for lodging
EXPENSIVE FUNERALS.
Under the present system, it costs
from $50 to $3.50 to bury corpse in the
most modest way. The most exorbitant
prices are charged for coffin and the &C
compartments, all of which are paid
without question, for no man can ask
prices over the dead body of one loved
and lost. Then come carriages, price OF
lot, etc., all of which makes a sum that
is oppressive to poor man or one in
even modest circumstances. The Ger
mans have a society for doing away with
all this. They have taken up the idea OF
cremation. aad propose to bring it into
vogue. They are building hall 60x4O
feet, fitted with an altar at which rehgi-
Gus ceremonies may be had. Back OF
this altar is TO be a furnace capable OF
being heated to 1,000o, which melts soft
plates in the metal coffin enclosing tht
remains, which heat Will reduce the re
mains, to ashes in an hour and half
And all this can be done for IS, which
is bringing burial expenses within reach
of the poorest. The Germans viii tax,
this idea and act upon it, for this peonl,
have not the reverence for ancient forms
that the Americans possess, and the form
of disposing of remains is in entire con
sonance with their ideas of the fitness o
things. And who knows but after it has
become common practice among tn,
German sit may be adopted by the res
of mankind
BEECHEE-TILTON.