The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-10-29
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
THE TILToNs - FAILURES - BUSINESS
GAMING AND RUM-PAID POLITICIANS
FASHIONS s-CHASDLER-THE wEATH-
New YORK, Oct. q, 1875.


Possibly the world has heard enough |
Of the Tiltons: but there always is Gu
riosity to know something Of the up |
-isines and down -sittings of those who |
have been prominently before the pub |
lie OF the children of Theodore and |
Elizabeth. one only is with the father
Florence, a beautiful, bright, accom-
n,isbed. good girl of seventeen. She
loves Theodore in an idolatrous fashion,
and while she loves her mother no less,
She stays by her father, that his home
NAV not bp entirely desolate. Mrs. Til
ton i with her mother, Mrs. Morse.
The Plymouth people made up the mag
nificent sum of 500 for her, on which,
1 suppose. she j. expected to live this
winter. Theodore is building up hls
wrecked fortunes on the lecture plat
form. He l. having wonderful success
all over the country He is probably
the best platform orator in the country,
and then who is there who does not want
to see the man who tackled the great
pulpit Boanerges. The curiosity of the
public. and Theodore's talent, will give
him all the money he wants. There are
rumors ahoat that negotiations are in
progress for a reconciliation between
him and his wife, and / am inclined to
believe there is foundation for it. Til
ton always loved his wife, and know
he believes her more sinned against than
SHINING.
Beecher never.d drew bigger audiences
than now, and seems never to have had
so firm hold upon his people.
FAILURES.
The Wednesday morning papers re-
ported six failures, five of them rather
large ones, and every day since the list
is growing. This year will go into histo-
~ as a disastrous one to the mercantile
classes; but it will have a great deal
more charged to it than it deserves.
The fact is the failures now being an
nounced should be charged up to the
account of the last tlnee years, for these
houses have, almost without exception,
been bankrupt for from three to five
years. So long as the times were flush,
and credit easily obtained, they could
swim in the current, but the moment
the pressure came, and banks began to
tighten up a trifle, down they went.
Besides, this is good time to fail. The
ruined man who might squeeze along for
a year or two more, prefers to fail now,
when he has a good excuse for it, and
when lie does not have to go IT for
reason. The Chicago fire and the fail
ure of Jay Cooke were two splendid
opportunities for shaky houses to get
out creditably, and thousands did it. So
don't get frightened at the long list of
failures. Those only are going under
who ought to go, and the most of them
should have gone long ago. Neverthe-
less,
BUSINESS
is horribly dull here-an uncomfortable
fact which the merchants cannot give a
good reason for. 1t is not so in other
cities, especially those of the West. Chi
cago, st. Louis, Cincinnati, Toledo, and
the other great business centers of the
couptry, are all doing more than usual.
and the retailers all over the country are
paying better than usual. I have a no.
ton that New York has permanently
lost portion of its trade. Her business
men have relied so long upon her natu-
raj advantages; they have trusted SO
much to them, that they have permitted
other more enterprisiDg points to steal
trade, little by little, till the aggregate
makes a very serious showing, Boston,
Montreal, and Baltimore are taking the
grain trade, and the great inland cities
are doing the jobbing. 1t is not impossi-
bic for New York to get it back, but
there will have to be work done to do it.
Natural advantages" don't count very
much in this day of railroads. Any
point that has enterprise enough can
have them. One good effect of the hard
times is the
ETTJT>-c. oJ-r OE cANTCc ANO RITNT
The gamblers are having a terribly
hard time of it. John Morrissey found
it didn't pay any longer and he has sold
his magnificent uptown establishment.
The smaller gamblers are in an equally
hard up condition, and the keepers of
the rum mills are in despair. 1t used to
be a very nice thing for young De
Smythe to drop into a gaming house,
eat a magnificent supper, drink bottle
of splendid wine, and lose a few hun
dred at faro, and it was equally nice for
the proprietor of the house. In those
days all the stores and houses that the
ancient Smith left to modern De Smythe
were renting at enormous rents, and the
young gentleman didn't know what to
do with his money; but now two-thirds
of them are empty, and the other third
find tenants at half the old rates, and
Augustus finds it difficult to keep his
mother and sisters, to say nothing of his
vices. The high priced drinking places
are scantly patronized, and the clubs are
in a fearfully demoralized condition
financially. The receipts at the bar of
one prominent club has dropped within
a year &c per cent, and the others are
still worse. 1t takes more labor to make
a dollar now than it did year ago, and
the people haven't got it to spend. So
some good comes out of evil. The rum
business isn't what it was in New York.
INTERESTED POLITICIANS.
There be Republicans and Democrats
in New Yo k, Tamma ~ and Anti-Tam-
many, Resormers, aud those who are
not credited with reform; but these
classes are not all who are interested in
the elections in this city. There is a
vast army of strikers" who do not care
stIaw who is elected and who defeated,
but who depend upon the elections to
make money out of them. There are
thousands OF well-dressed, fairly-appear-
ing men in the city, who infest the
doubtful districts, and who offer their
Services" to whatever candidates choose
to bid for them first. They always con
trol, or, at least, pretend to control, a
certain number of sure votes-that is,
votes which they can throw wherever it
is made their interest to place them, and
the candidates are expected to fee them,
either in actual cash or with share of
the fat places, ir the event of success.
OF course seventy per cent. of these fel-
lows are the merest pretenders. They
IA Sfn fvof do
is impudence and self assertion. Candi-
dates new to the political field are taken
in by them: the old ones laugh at them.
| overheard, the other night, conver-
sation between the proprietor of -four
ishing rum mill and his managing man,
which illustrates the method in New
York politics. OF course all the names
are fictitious:
Proprietor. Has Jones been bringing
people in here to-day?
Manager. Not man.
Prop. He thinks he has a sure thing
of it, and don't propose to spend any
money.
Han. Smith was in to-day dozen
times, and every time with a crowd of a
dozen or twenty, and he paid for 'em
literally. They all had all they wanted.
Prop. Smith is a gentleman, and he
will poll a sweeping vote in the ward. If
you get a chance, let Jones know what
Smith is doing.
This brief conversation has meat in it.
Jones and Smith are running for the
same Office, but as the party nominating
Jones has a large majority in the ward,
he does not think it necessary to squan-
der money on the election, Smith, il the
mean time, using the grog-shop to make
his calling and election. sure. The pat
riotic proprietor of the rum-mill wanted
Mr.. Jones to know what Mr.. Smith was
doing, to alarm him into using the same
weapons. The grog-shop proprietor
hates the candidate who will not pay for