The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-12-18

| -ECONONE-TIiE TRADE or TUE CITY
STRIKES AND LABJli-BERGH- THE
| LIQUOR Observation-Disclosures SES>;-wEATH-
ER AND HEALTH
New YoGE. Dee. l6, 1Ss4
BOSS TWEED.
The wicked old man i on the surface
again. Tired of living in prison, know
| ing that Governor Dix viii not pardon
| him, and that the iioyerEOr elect. Til
! den, dare not. il he would he appealed
| once more 10 the courts He was taken
out OF prison on u writ OF hGJeGS corpus,
and taken before the courts, where he
petitioned to be discharged on the score
that the court that tried him had no
| jurisdiction. Judge Barrett decided, OF
course, against the iliustrious thief, and
| back he went Wednesday night a ru-
NOR prevailed that he had givelRtllc oil
GERS the Sip. aid had got away to Eu-
rope, and the lie was FOR an hour @ausr-
ally credited. it was the more readily
believed, fer everybody knows that if
the Boss has the money ie is credited
with, he can buy his way out without
trouble. And the comment upon il was
not encouraging to one who wants 10
believe in the honesty Of mankind. -
ain glad the Old Eiaa Las got way. " said
one merchant H. lny hearing. WHY
glad = | asked. "Di. he has been pun
ished enough, was flI- reply And that
was the expression Of full half of the
peopls. Curious, isn't Il. Here i a
man who plunieFeI the TAX payers for
years in a way that would have made Il
pickpocket biuSil-a man who stole right
nd iaff hi t,,,.
horde OF followers man who. oy Sheer
stealing and an adrOit use Of what he
stole, held the c!ty and State in the hoi-
low of his hand, aud even aspirej 20 the
control of the country; this thief, swim
dler, and robber Is pitird by the inan he
plundercdi | can't help uut think thar
the men who pity him, envy him. aHd
that, placed as he was, world have d0ue
the same thing. The newspaper 81 ;lie
city, to their credit b. / s;.i,. insist Oh
his being kept where he Is till lis fail
term expires. Public opinion viii prob
ably keep him there iiii tie buys his way
out.
And speaking Of the 8,ss, Gov. Dix
did Il good thing sis other day. lie
supposed, as did all ;;,a world. that the
rOtund cid thief was dressed in stripes
and doing prison du.y jhe same as other
criminals. Becoming better informed
he addressed communication to Mayor
Havemeyer, protesting against giving the
man who had pluudered the city of
$40. 600, GEO, a.suite of rooms. servants,
citizens clothes. and other luxuries. and
of allowing him visitors az his own
pleasure. Very properly. the Governor
characterized this discrimination be-
tween one thief and anotlieras "a mock
cry of Justice" But the protest will do
nu good. The Boss ilas means at his
disposal, and he vii! be IA prisoner of
state as long as he chooses to stay.
RENTS AND EAn'TY STORES
The eXcrbitant rents demanded on
Broadway are telling on the street. Be
tween the Astor House and nth street
there are over one hundred elegant
stores, in the windows of which are dis
played tlIe dishe|rteuIng legend To
Let" and This legend Is growing I1ure
common daily. The Broadway owners
put up rents year alter year, without
any regard TO the value OF the property,
S12, coo, SIS, coo, ~. 600 per annum were
common figures TuiS was all well
enough during the war and the flush era
that followed it, but when the pinching
times came it could not be- endured. No
business that could be transacted on the
premises could pay this rent, and house
after house went down in the vain eIl-
deavor TIE landlords would not re.
duce for they bad faith If Smith
wouldn't keep the store Jones would be
glad 70 take it. and IL, they iiad become
accustomed to living in tie styie Of
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down Bat Smith either Quit business
or lie went over to some of the side
streets, and Jones knew too much to go
into ruin biindfoll. and SO the stores are
empty. This is "a it should ne. There
is no reason in keeping up to war prices
in anything. and rents ougilt 10 be the
first II come down. True. it deprpciat,.S
real estate; but Why should il ;ioi
There is nothing made 10y calling iii,y
cents q dollar Men cannot labor for
ever for landlords.
And. by the way. Sp-iAing OF coming
down, there l'as been and Is beng
CONSIDERABLE ECONOMY
prac!iced ut this time. Gentlemen WHO.
year ago were in tie habit of stepping
into their fashionable Broadway tailors
and paying 500 or $50 for an overcoat.
without asking the pfica. are not doing
it To any alarming extent. They 20 into
the Bowery and other cheap streets, and
buy for $50 TO $50 what they g0u,d
have 10 pay SIS to 500 for on Broad
WAY. And they find that Il pair Of boots
made on a cheap street tOr $40 looks just
as well and wears just - long a the
pair that the pretentiouS Broadway
maker coolly asks, and gets, SIS for.
This style of ecOuOnIiziug is getting 70
be very popular Ien joke about il and
take pride ia IT, And, to the disgust
of the hiyh-priceG hars. thousands of
them have changed Their drinking piace-
They get their m1iaS Sgu=.1che> or their
stiH inv:goratOrS ~ tai. quiet places
around tEe corner. Wlrrs II cents does
as much toward sending them into a
drunkari's grave a. - or - would AZ
the fashionable bars. OF course there
are plenty of noodles who still submit 10
be fleeced as of yo-e. but the number i
growing smaller every day. Let Us hope
that it will continue until We get down
to anti-war prices. That i what the
country wants. II is impossible 20 hold
up to the old key. and the sooner we all
drop the better.
NEW YORK and TRADE.
New York is being exercised once
more about losing "a portion OF its trade.
1t is fact that tile grain trade Is going
TO Boston and Baltimore very rapidly,
and that the prospect is good that the
remainder will 90 to those cities. New
York has depended 50 long upon her
natural advantages, has 50 long believed
that the Continent must come 10 her,
that she has got arrogant and lazy as
well. She is content to have grain taken
out of cars and carted 10 vessels. and TO
have horde of leecbes fasten upon
every bushel and suck the life out of il.
In the meantime, Baltimore, which, by
the way, Is nearer TO Toledo and the
other grain centres. builds splendid ele-
vators, with which size can handle grain
at a nominal cost. and Boston does the
same The Baltimore and Ohio Road,
whose arms cover al the territory that
produces anything, refuses 10 go into
combinations, and the result Is, that
this important traffic goes there. Belti-
more has captured the coffee trade, Bos-