Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-07-11

! OUR NEW YORK LETTER
The Heated Term LEzaFy-H Horses. dc
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THE HEATED TERN
Think of being compelled TO stay in
narrow streets, built up with stone Ol
brick either side three, four. FIVE, six and
seven stories, with the suns hot rays
sending the thermometer up to SO deg
and on occasion to 105 deg, This is what
Rev Workers have had to endure for the
last two weeks. 1t has been terrible in
the best and most pleasant parts of the
city-in the roomy and airy parts-and
what it has been in the lower parts, where
people herd together IN sub-ceIlars and
attics, may be imagined Think of a
building six stories high, with windows
only IN front and rear, say so by 100 feet
in dimensions, containing six Numbered
men, women and children, all the cook
ing, eating and sleeping being done there
in And this with glowing sky, burn
ing sun, with no air! Imagine the at
mosphere of such building. when the
thermometer in the open parks stands at
100 degl
But there are five hundred thousand
people in New York who exist in such
buildings.
Where there is extreme poverty.
there is extreme luxury. Probably one
makes the other. 1t IS a curious contrast,
these hot, stifing tenement buildings in
the lower part of the city, with the lux
urious mansions up town While the me-
chanic smothers in tenement house, Mr..
VIM. B. Astor revels in the possession of
$4,000, 900 in pictures, plate, and furniture.
Geo. w. Burnhsm confesses to $I5O,O00 !;
the Lenox family can't enjoy life with
less than $1,65S 900, worth of jewelry
plate and pictures the Brown Bros,
bankers have over 100000 invested in
these things A. T. Stewart has $2,OOO,-
600; the Kinglands, Taylors, Spofords,
Lorinards, and scores of others wear, sit
on and look at such property to the
amount of $500, 600 each and upwards
An d, bear in mind, these sums represent
only the rare and curious in these luxu-
ries, the diamonds, pictures, ornamental
and luxurious furniture, the quaint and
curious. the beautiful and luxurious.
1t is nothing for these people to pay 3d.
600 for a picture or piece of statuary, and
that sum for piece of jewelry, is as COM
mon as eating. This is 10 say, it was very
common. Just now, men are not inVes-
ting in this way IS much as they were.
The tight times has checked this kind OF
extravaganza, and for some tine to come
the dealers in articles of mere luxury Will
languish.
HORSES AND CARRIAGES.
Speaking of luxuries, vehieular expen-
diture is not the least thing that the
New Yorker has to encounter Fashion
DEGREES that any family making any pre-
tense to means must be carried, and Of
course the vehicles and horses must be
owned. And it costs, as the head OF the
family DISCOVERIES.
To begin with a simple pheton for
two horses, land two at least, must be
had) costs with the horses, not less than
$4,000, and to keep it going requires
coachman, who costs per annum not less
than $1,000.
This is the very least that can be done
to be any body. Ifyou desire to be more
than merely comfortable, coupe can be
had for anywhere from $500 to S2,5OO.
and still higher up is the Clarence, which
will require something like $4,000. A
wealthy family will have six or eight
horses-one for single driving, two pairs
for carriages, one or two for the saddle,
and so on. They will have several car
riages. for it is a point to be seen one day
in one and another in another. Then in
addition to a solemn looking coachman in
livery on the box, you must have two
fiunkies equal in solemnity on behind,
the entire outfit costing probably 100000,
and requiring an outlay of fully $4,000
per annum to keep il up.
THE NOBs.
This statement includes only quiet
people who do not especially desire dis
play. Those who wish to make figure
in the Park and on the drives spend much
more.
HELMBoLD
For instance, the great medscine man,
had one team of six horses, that cost him
twenty thousand he had carriages that
cost ten thousand dollars and his coachman
that he seduced from the service OF Pot
ter Palmer, of Chicago, he paid five thou
sand per year, beside house rent, fuel and
lights. This man was six feet six inches
in height, and probably the best whip IN
the world. 1t was sight to see him han
die that team of kGrses-an thorough
breds. say it aoGs, for poor Helmoold's
horses-he had twenty of them-are all
scattered to the fouI wis6s. As senormous
as were his profits, high living, horses
and the accompanying extraVagances
broke him. and he is to day living on
charity in London. In the last days OF
his prosperity he called in faiend to ad-
wise him wha: to do to save himself.
DO" said the friend, why. irs-easy
enough. Sell off your horses, and your
carriages, put them up at auction, get
what you can for them, and live sensi-
bly,"
"Sell my horses" qaOth Helmbold'
with tears in his eyes. Il cant do H.
Who knows into whose hands they Would
fall. Imagine my feelings, standing IN
front of my store and seeing tkat skim
hand driven down Broadway tg cusssd
qudck
Helmbold wept at the picture in his
minds eve, but his friend didn't.
DOGS.
The hydrophCbia question Is up again
fercer than ever Several p ersens have
baan hittan NV do0s and died of y,la . I