Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-04-01
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Drew's Faiiure-Judge Barren-Rents
-Poliiical-A Sad Story-Business.


Reaches out u long way, and Is max.
ing trouble all around. A great
many years ago he endowed sever.
al seminaries by giving his note for
q large amount the interest on which
would be sufficient to maintain them.
1t was understood that the princi-
pal was never to be paid, and the
benetactions were put in the form of
notes, that in the event OF his death
they might become charges on his
estate. Tho Drew Seminary in
Plaindeld, n. D., held his note for
$250,O0O the interest being about
$4,000, which he always paid
promptly. Now that Bro. Drew has
gone under the notes are worth
Just what the paper weighs, and
tho seminaries are mourning. They
have nothing whatever to run on,
and are as hard up as Drew himself.
Hereafter they will probably insist
that the money be paid over when
it is subscribed, that it may be safe.
One church did that, but unforln-
nately it lent the money to Drew
shortly afterward, and that is gone
with the rest.
THE GETTING AWAY OF JUDGE BARRETT
Is the sensation of the week. The
Judge was one of the most promi.
nent lawyers in the city, and was
supposed to be rich. But alas last
Tuesday he sailed for Europe, and
it was Immediately discovered that
he had converted everything con.
vertable into money, and had taken
it with him, forgetting to pay an
enormous load of Indebtedness.
His affairs were found to be in such
a muddle that nothing can be made
out of them, and. in brief, it is ruin
all around. There is no woman in
this transportation and high liv-
ing did the work.
The question of rent is a very Sc
rious one in New York. Upon the
avenues a tilst.ciaSs house is worth
or rather was wOrth-$12,O 900 a
year, and running from that all the
way down to $4,000. The "French
fiat" system is coming into vogue
for families who desire to live in
something like elegance but cannot
afford a whole house. A fiat has in
it about eight rooms, that is to say
it is one floor, through from front to
rear, fitted up into rooms. The par
Tor, sitting room and bed rooms are
elegant, and the kitchen and celler-
age are not only roomy, but com
modious. These apartments rent
for from $4,000 per year, down to
$1,000. The poorer people get small
Ter fats higher up from $500 down
to 5000, though at the latter figure
they 60 up a long way, and in a
very mean part of the city. You
will see from these figures that rent
is a very important item in living in
the city-that it is the cancer that
eats out income at fearful rate.
Take what a man has to pay for a
house to live in, and store to do
business in, and there is mighty lit
tie left. Nowadays if he gets out
even he is doing exceedingly we'll.
POLITICAL.
The action of the Syracuse con-
vention in instructiDg for Senator
Conkling does not strike the Rcpub.
licans of the city favorabIy. While
Conkling is popular, and while pos.
sibly the majority would prefer him,
the coolest heads see that this is no
time to push fayorites, or consider
sections. What is wanted is to hold
the Government in the hands of the
Republican party, and they feel it
best to go to Cincinnati unpledged,
that the best man may be put in
nomination. Pledged or unpledged,
Secretary Bristow holds very high
place in the affections of the Repub-
leans of New York. The shysters
in the party don't like him, but the
solid men do. They want just such
man, and when Conkling's friends
find that he cannot be nominated
they will support the honest Ken.
tuckian with hurrah. He has done
his whole duty, and is very strong
here. Mark this, New York is go.
ing to press him in spite of instuc-
tons. There is an overwhelming
sentiment in his favor, now, and it
is growing.
SAD STORY.
The wife of a decent wOrkingman
left her family in Brooklyn. Mon
day morning, to do some shopping
in New York for the children. She
did not return, and Tuesday even.
ing the husband, searching for her,
recognized her in the body of a wo.
man floating in an East River dock.
1t was found early in the afternoon,
towed in and made fast to a corner
of the pier by ropes, where it lay,
waiting for Coroner to release it.
The distracted husband begged to
be allowed to take it home, but was
told that it could not be removed
without Coroner's order. The
proper message failed to reach the
authorities till the offices were clos
ed and the poor man walked the
pier all night, mOurnieg by the body
of his wife. Not till eleven o'clock
the next day could he take the
corpse of the wife and mother home
to her children. Anything sadder
than this sight can hardly be ina
gined, the helpless figure, dressed
as she left her home, her pocketbook
clutched in her hand, tied in the
water by ropes about the waist, ex.
posed to the mockery of the wind
and waves, her crying children wait
ing her return, and the halfcrazed
faithful mourner keeping his watch
all the wild night in the darkness
by her side. The spectacle was seen
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