Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-09-26
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Hotels and what They COst-TrIcks of
The Gambltrs-8eeeher-TiltOn-Ju-
VenIIe Drunkards-Busine
HOTELS IN THE CITY.

York certain nulh6er Of times each
year growI (and very justly at the enor-
nous bills that run up against, them at
hotels+0ne cannot i've al anv first-class
house on less than 81 per day and if
ones tastes are at all extraKagant, the cost
viii come very close to twice that sum.
The fault is not altogether with the pro-
prietors-the owners of the property have
something to do with it. The rents paid
for these hotels are simply fearful. For
Instance, the Fifth Avenuerents for $780,
600. the owners paying taxes, assessments
and repairs Bat we must guard care
fully against shedding any tears for these
martyrs Despite the enormous rent, the
lessees manage 10 skin the public SO that
they clear $25O,OOO per annum. The
Windsor, finer but smaller hotel. pays a
rental of $I25, 900; the Gilsey SS5.OOO :;
the ST Nicholas, sos 900 the Melr"Poli-
tan $l05, 900 the Hoffman $4,000; and
the Brunswick $s5,0OO. On this latter
house $25O,OoO was paid for improve
ments in 1873, e. na'
You see the prOprietors have to make
the neople pay 10 pay their rents and keep
nm the style that the said people seem TO
demand. Its estimated that it costs the
proprietors of the ST. Nicholas $10O 600
per annum to keep the house in repair
and make good the wear and tear OF fur
niture.- Notwithstanding all this the
prices are too high, and there must be
break before longli6 Wealthy men can af-
ford topAy these rates (they don't like 10y
but torihe country merehantin moderate
circumstances the matter of hotel bills is
serious one. A merchant from Wiscon-
sin cannot come to New York for goods
and get home again without It's costing
him 5000. which is two per cen. on SO,
600, his probable purchases II cuts a:
hole in his profits.
ia THE TRICKS OF THE GAMBLERS.
The fact that gambling is regular
profession, aud regularly followed as a
profession, is well-known, but the meth
obs are not so well known came across
a circular the other day. of a dealer in
whatar politely called Sporting goods,p
that throws some 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 as 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 obliges his patrons with cards cut
in peculiar shapes, by.which any kind of
hand may be dealt. For example, the
baekof the cards are marked to show the
size in the right hand upper corner, and
the suit in the left. A certain mark in the
right handuppef corner shows the card,
To be king, and certain mark on the
opposite corner shows it TO be a spade.
Which brings gambling down to a tolera-
6le degree of certainty. -, =.
But this dealer dosen'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 con;
ceal in your sleeve. by the aid of which
you may "hold out" cards or play extra
ones. And that young man shall have
no lack ofIfacilities for being a -scoundrel,
he sells for the absuFdly small sum of fif-
ty cents, and book giving tulI and
explicit. directions of using all his deyi-
ces- ,t5,sf +. -. VIA e.os s-ra .,-gg --.
Imen;ion these things for the purpose
of warning impulsive youths who are
! just commencing, that there is9no such
thing as bont ST gambling that men gam.
Bile to win, and that there is but ohe'end
TO gambling. In one way or another the
hawks will pluck the pigeons. The gam
bier never plays game Of chance-on
his side it is a certainty.
BEEcHER-TILToN
Moulto last statement has brought
forth the regular crop of litigation
Miss Edna Dean Proctor, who supposes
herself referred to in the last statement as
having been one of the victims Of Beech
er, has brought suit against Moulton for
one hundred thousand dollars damages,
and Beecher's friends say that he will
commence suit against him. for libel at
once. Tilton's next statement is in print
and viii be out in few days. This. it is
hoped, will end the statement business
What ought to be done is being done.
The courts furnish the proper arena for
the gladiators. for in the courts, with
sworn witnesses, something apprexima-
ting the truth can be arrived al, and the
public mind be set at rest zt
RUM AMONG CHILDREN. et 50 -
It's terrible: thing TO see a full grown
man hopelessly under the influence of
alcoholic stimulants it is thousand
times worse to see woman a confirmed
fdrunkaFd. But if 1t is SO fearful for
adults, what can be the thought of it
in the case oil children? Drunkenness
among children in this city is quite com
nionnOw, and it is growing with fearful
rap:dity.. One boy in Brooklyn died last
week aged fourteen. A post mortem ex-
animation re evcaled the fact that "death
had been caused by the continual and ex-
cessive drinking of the vilest rum" The
medical testimony went to show that the
vital organs had been literally eaten
away, that the liver was in shocking
state as if it had belonged to a drunkard
of fifty years standing. The mother of
the deceased boy stated TO the coroner
that he had arrived at that stage when he
could do nothing but drink. he had not
eaten any kind of solid food for consid- !
BILE time before his death. raf,ss .fs!I
| saw, yesterday, from my window,
boy and girl not over twelve years OF
sge-the girl could not have been ten
rolling along the sidewalk--now in the
gutter, then 10 the middle of the street,
both in state of beastIy lntoxicauon.
Ragged and dirty, unkempt and unwash
ed, their faces burning with the lurId
light of hell. they wore the debauched
look of drunkards of long standing. Ofl
course they win keep on as they have
begun. and will, In few years, 90 10
graves in Potter's Field of delirium ire.
mems. The terrible thing in all this is
its frequency. In the lover part OF the