Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-02-19
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Rich Men-7ramps-In Wall St.
The Great Nre-Moody aud Sankey.

| JUN NEW IONA LE ENs
The Rich Men--7ramps-M Val ST.
The Great Fre-Moody aud Sanhey.
THE RICH MEN.
Daniel Drew, the great stock gambler,
is sick, and will probably 20 hence be-
fore long. lie gave last year, over
100000 to Methodist seminaries and
churches, and as an offset gave the bar
privileges on all his boats to his son.
Daniel is a shrewd old gentleman-he
has whipped everything that ever stood
before him, but he will find his match in
grim Death. And then what will be-
come Of his property Where, then,
will be his railroads, steamboats, and
stocks? Drew is estimated ut $4,000
900, which is quite enough to ruin all
his children.
Commodore Vanderbilt, n greater than
Drew, has had his affairs in readiness for
a sudden departure these two years.
The old gentleman is hale and hearty,
but he has had number of very close
calls. The public are never permitted
to know when these men are sick. If
Vanderbilt should die, the vast interests
he controls would be so demoralized that
no one could foresee the end. A rumor
that he is i'll sends his stocks down ten
per cent. in minute, and its authora-
tive contradiction restores it just as
quickly. He cannot last long, however,
and when he does 60 under there will be
a smash such as the country never saw.
He has taken advantage of this fact to
manipulate the market himself Occa-
sionally more of the stocks of his vari-
GUS roads have gone out Of his hands
than he desired, and to get them back
cheaply he would take to his room for
day, and let it leak out that he was i'll.
His brokers would step in when they
We're down and buy up as much as he
needed for his purposes, when the old
gentleman would appear on the street as
smiling as ever. A very talented old
man is Cornelius.
TRAMPs AND WARRANTS.
The country is infested with tramps
and Migrants, and the city enjoys the
presence of four times as many as usual,
the question is where do they all come
from? Never in the history of New
York were there so many as now. The
streets are full Of beggars, who poster
you at every turn with there importuni-
ties, and the back areas are crowded with
them. Some few make show of some
kind Of business, but as rule that pre-
text is not observed, but they come at
you with bold, and, generally, impu-
dent demand for charity. If you give,
what you give is converted into rum in
the shortest possible time, and then the
station-house furnishes lodging for the
vagrant. The taxes the city pays for
these vermin is something enormous.
There are over $4,000 professional beg
gars and thieves in the city, and when
the semi-thieves, those who live unlaw-
fully, but manage to keep out Of the
hends Of the law, is added, the sum to-
tai is something awful to contemplate.
1t is apity that some plan for compelling
these sturdy villains to earn their own
could not be devised. The attention of
the public is being called to it, and
doubtless the Legislature will give the
city the relief it so much needs. If they
,nnld o"1y he arrnrtou cd compelled tn
work on the public works, or on the
streets, it would be an immense saving
% the city. and would do away with a
Nuisance that has grown into vast pro-
portions, and is daily increasing. Men
lecancy is so much easier here than in
europe that thousands como here to ply
heir vocation. Every steamer, and
very sail-vessel as we'll, brings its as
ortment of thieves and Migrants, to re-
nforce our native product. Congress
will be petitioned this winter to take
ONE steps to prevent New York being
made the receptacle of the crime and
of the Old World. But wh9th-
+ it can be done is doubtful. There is
10 doubt but that something ought to be
one, for the nuisance is well-nigh un-
i,
IN WALL STREET. |.
Wall street is as old as the city. butts
abitues are not so ancient. The aver. ,
&c stay of man in that street is very ,
rief. He may make a great deal of !
money one year, but he is morally GER r
lin to lose it the next, and ninety per !
emit, of them go out poor. The Oldest +
ian in the street has only been there r
years, and he has stayed 9
lat length of time by doing a strictly :.
commission business. and never take a
SIX. The office that this man now oc-
lpies he paid $3.50 per year for at the r.
eginning of his career. Now, he is
aging $4,000 for the same premises.
e has one building that he rents for 81
ore money each year than the premis- ~
cost him fifteen years ago. The ma al
rity of the men on the street are young, ia
1enty-one to thirty being the ages of
of them. A man can't live m
ng in that street, for the life is one of ~,
O much excitement. It is the widest
I'm of gambling known, for there isno III
ssation or relief. When the specula- al;
+ has put his all on certain stock it
ay take week for the result to be ar
lown, and that week he carries around
tn him a load of anxiety. 1t is with No
m at his meals, it walks beside him
d sleeps with him, or rather won't let bt
n sleep. He has his all staked on sr
ents which he cannot control, and he MI