The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-31
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
DREw's FAILURE JUDGE BARRETT
RENTS S-POLITICAL-A CENTENNIAL
BLUNDER-A SAD STORY-BUSISESS
New YORK, Mar. 90, 1876.
DREw'S FAILURE

interest on which would be sufficient 10
maintain them. Ii was understood that
the principal was never to be paid, and
the benefaetions We're put in the form of
notes, that in the event of his death
they might become charges on his estaf'.
The Drew Seminary ia PIainfieid, y. j.,
held his note for $3.50, 600, the interest
being about 1000, which he always
paid promptly. Now TINT Bro. Drew
has gone under the notes are worth just
what the paper weighs, ard the semina
ries are mourning. They have nothing
whatever 20 run on, and are as hard up
as Drew himself Hereafter they will
probably insist that the money be paid
over " hen it Is subscribed. that 1t NAV
be safe. One church did that, but un-
fortunately 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 prominent lawyers
in the city, and WAS supposed to be very
rich. But alas! last Tuesday he sailed
for Europe, and it was Immediately dis
covered that he had converted every
thing convertible into money, and had
taken it with him, forgetting to pay an
enormous load of Indebtedness, His af-
fairs We're found TO be in such a muGdle
that nothing can be made out of them
and i'll brief, it is ruin to all around
There is no woman in this case-specu-
lation and high living did the work.
RENTS.
The question of rent is a very serious
one in New York. Upon the avenues a
first class house is worth-or rather was
worth-S1 600 a year, and running
from that all the way down to So, 0O0
The French fiat" system is coming into
vogue for families who desire to live in
something like elegance, but cannot
afford whole house. A flat has in it
about eight rooms, that is TO say it is one
floor, through from front to rear, fitted
upinto rooms. The parlor, sitting room
and bedrooms are elegant, and the
kitchen and cellerage are not only
roomy, but commodious. These apart
ments rent for from s., 600 per year down
to 81 900. The poorer people get smaller
flats higher up from $500 down to 5000,
though at the latter figure they got up a
long way, and a very mean part of the
city. You will see from these figures
that rent is very important item in
living in the city-that it is the cancer
that eats out income at fearful rate
Take what man has to pay for house
to live in, and store to do business in,
and there is mighty little left Nova
days if he gets out even he is doing ex-
ceediDgly well.
POLITICAL.
Tie action of the Syracuse convention
in instructing for Senator Conkling does
not strike the Republicans of the city
favorably. While Conkling is popular,
and while possibly the majority would
prefer hun, the coolest heads see that
this is no time to pash fayorites, or con-
slider 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 Bris-
tow holds a very high place in the affec-
tions of the Republicans of New York.
The shysters in the party don't like him,
but the solid men do. They want Just
such a man, and when Conkling's friends
find that he cannot be nominated they
will support the honest Kentuckian with
a hurrah. He has done his whole duty,
and is very strong here. Mark this, New
York is going to press him in spite of in
structions. There is an overwhelming
sentiment in his favor, nov, and it is
growing.
CENTENNIAL BLUNDER-
All sorts of schemes are Oh foot to
raise money for the centennial. There
is to be great ball the 25th of next
month for the purpose of getting few
thousands. By the reports from the
committee of the centennial, it seems as
if the women of America were not to
have anything to show s2aept pictures.
There will not be wall space enough fos
all that are sent. All right. Mrs. Wash
ington spun and wove cotton dresses
stripped with silk raveled from old
stockings for her family; and the Wins.
low women, who are justly entitled to
be called the first ladies of the country,
as they came over among the first to
Massachusetts,, were clever at embroid-
cry and bead work, but their descend
ants have no such skill to display, or are
not to be allowed to display it. All that
the executive committee of the centen-
nial want to encourage in women is the
ability to sculp and paint. Aow plain
man may be excused for putting in a
word here. l believe that / speak the
sentiments of good many people of the
best class in saying that visitors to the
centennial would be greatly interested
to see all departments of women's work
there. They would like 70
see such relics of needlework as were
left by women of revolutionary times, |
who were notable house keepers, and
bcasted skill with their needles that will
show creditably at even this lapse of |
time. There is not an o,6 family in the |
which has not treasures boarded |
up of lace and sampler work, knitting |
and nmbroideTy-thati is, pictures by the
needle, and fancy work-whose name is
egion. We staid, conservative people
would like to refresh our ideas of old
lines by comparing these dainty femin-
SCIENCES with what our right clever
daughters end sisters can do. We would
ike to see the finest evidences of skill in
very department OF woman's l;.bor ex-
libited. to the credit and encourage
nent Of the industrious as well as the
of the gifted There is too
much of notion abroad that it is unbe-
.ominp m he expert at house kaeDinp