The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-17
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
STfP FORwARD-BARNUI's sALEs-
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CAPE or BOSS TwEED-BUsIYEsS
NEW YORK, DEC. Is. 1875.
A STEP FORWARD.

after all Even the reckless adventures
who have control of the Democratic
party of this city have discovered that
they have not the moral strength to
brave the Indignation of she whole city,
and they are letting down. The crushing,
overwhelming defeat that Tammany mes
with in November, has had its effect.
TaInmanv will, in a week be Tamnany
no longer, for its chief strength will be
shorn away. At the last meeting of the
General Committee, II. l.. Clinton, one
of the IDagnates, and one of the few re-
spectables who control if, introduced
resolution that hereafter the veil of Sc
crecy should be lifted; in short that all
the meetings of the society should be
public. Ii is understood that Boss Kelly
has consented that this amendment
should prevail. and that hereafter Tam
many will be simply an open Democratic
club, in whose deliberations all the mem-
bers may take part. III this is accom-
plished, down goes Tammanv. The few
kid gloved gentry who were willing
enough to rule the unwashed member
ship so long as they did not have to asso-
ciate with them, will 60 out in disgust,
or, if interest forces them to remain, the
ardor on both sides will rapidly cool.
You might as well expect oil and water
to mix, as the unwashed Sixth ward and
the elegant Fifth avenue politician, who
wants not only the spoils, but influence
in political circles far removed from its
dirty source. Interest will hold some of
them, but when the grimy privates and
the perfumed offic RS come toge h ,r.
there will be trouble. Pat, when he gets
voice in the management, will not be
content with the scrapings of the pot.
but will insist upon his share of the solid
meat, which heretofore his owners have
monopolized. And when A. Fitz Hugh
Jones. Esq, of 5th avenue, is compelled
to rub shoulders with Dinnis O'Flaherty.
and not only that. but divide with him,
Jones goes out. He is in Tammany for
himself, alone. Dinnis, he is willing to
use, but he will never be used by him.
When TaInmany dies the most perni-
cious power in American politics goes
out. May its days be few.
BARNUM's SALES.
How many Of your readers did not see
Barnum's great hippodrome, either last
season or the season before! Not many.
/ warrant. Well, the great show has
come to an end, its glory is departed
and the mammoth aggregation" is dis.
persed.
The entire concern was closed out at
auction, last week. which was the occa-
sion of heavy groans from the great
Snowman. Barnum always dealt fairly
with the people, and when he advertised
English race-horses, that was the kind
he gave them. He imported thirty of
the best blooded racers in England, and
it was absurd the prices they brought.
Webster, an English thoroughbred.
which cost Barnum 5000, brought only
$40, and the others went at about the
same price. One. only, went up as high
as $50. The highest price paid for his
magnificent draught horses was S220 for
one team, the others going as low as $50.
There were 162 horses sold, good bad
and Indifferent, including the trick and
ring horses, and all they brought was
S2G, ,000-not tenth of what Barnum
paid for them two years ago. The fact
is, running horses have no value i'm this
country, because the trot is the only gait
recognized as valuable. Were Webster
as good a trotter as he is a runner. he
would have brought $40, 000 Barnum
would have made money had he shipped
the horses all back to England. His
other show property went at quite as
ruinous sacrifice The suit of armor
worn in the pageant, which cost $50
each in London. went for 81. Almost
anybody might go into the show bus
iness on these terms. But Barnum is
rich, and he doesn't mind it. He will do
faas f,rn
THE LACK OF WORK.
The work of organizing charities goes
on rs briskly as possible before bitter
weather sets in again. The number of
poor flocking to the city from the neigh
boring country is pitiable The farmers
want help no longer, there is no work to
be had in the country of any sort, and
men and women, walk in from thirty
miles around in drcvcs, in hope of find
ing something to do that will give them
food and shelter. A servant girl lately
told me that her family-father, brother,
and mOther-had came in from Port
Jervis way, because they could get moth
ing to do, and were depending entirely
on her earnings. There isn't work enough
TO go round. The manager of Booths
Theater lately advertised for five hun
dred men six feet high to act as soldiers
in the play of Julius Cesar for thirty
cents night apiece. He feared that it
would not be possible to find men enough
of the desired height willing to take
such poor pay, but at the hour appoint
ed the street was filled with applicants
absolutely fighting to be nearest the
door, and get the best chance for a po
sition. Heavensi what a pitiful back
ground that five hundred will make to
the glittering pageant lor every specta-
tor who knows the facts. There will be
more exciting scenes in the city before
winter is ont. Thefts are daily commit
ted simply out of hunger In one case
a tramp broke into the basement of a
house, where all the Thanksgiving eat
ables were set out in tempting array, but
left them untouched and carried of q
plate of cold meat scraps. The wine
decanter was on the mantel, but instead
of using the glasses beside it, the bottle
was carried to the kitchen and the wine
drank from a tin cup. Nothing else was
showing that starvation must |
have led to the deed. A respectable |
mechanic was arrested the other day for. |
stealing something outside of store to |
get his wife and three children food to |
eat, as he had been unable to get work |
for weeks. The Bricklayer's Association
have petitioned the Common Council to |
give them work to keep their families
from starving. and the Department of
Public Works is to push ahead all enter
prises possible to afford this relief.
CRUELTY.
4 strange malignity seems begotten hy