The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-03-03
NEW YORK, Mar. /, 1876.

| NEW 1oRK, Mar. i, 1876.
HOW THE POOR LIVE.
A friend lately had delinquent wash
er woman, and not finding excuses as
satisfactory as shirts, set out with me
to hunt her up. not more out of curiosity
| to find the clothes, than to see for our
selves how the poor live. Her address
was a narrow street of a dozen blocks, i'll
the heart of down town, and there was
not decent building in it. The pave
ments were strewn with garbage. and
the houses stained with slops thrown
| from the windows. The woman was in
a crazy old wooden tenement in the rear
of the one fronting on the street, and in
consequence had just as little air and
| light as would do to live. We found
her in room ten by twelve, with bed,
washtub, cook-stove and boiler in the
corners, leaving just room to worm ones
way between them. Her grown son and
little girl sat on the bed; there was no
chair. and a string of wet clothes hung at
their heads. For this room and closet
for the boy to sleep in, she paid eight
dollars a month rent, her whole means
of living being her sons wages as boy in
a grocery store, at four dollars a week,
the washing from one family, and a trifie
of help from her daughter, who got two
dollars and fifty cents week as waitress
,,,o 1f Il,
way with the clothes, as we supposed,
we found her husband had been sick
with fever, and the doctor had forbidden
her to send any clothes out of the house.
The air could not get through the house,
the drains were out of order, and the
stencil in the entries was so sickening
that we were not surprised to hear that
there was diptheria and small pox in the
block. The man had been sent to the
hospital to die, and the house cleaned
and disinfected by the board of health,
but it could hardly be kept clean by
mortal hands, and never healthy. Com
fort! These people never expect that.
All Seih hopC lOi 10 thC bui Cob pOoci-
BILE life-so bare and naked that full
meal is something to be dated from, and
the possession of dollar matter to be
remembered. And the end of that life?
The hospital first, and Potter's field
afterward. That's all there is about it.
THE PROFITS OF TENEMENT PROPERTY.
Passing block of ruinous buildings
on In street by the river, asked the
owner why he didn't tear it down and
build something decent. He told me,
laughing the notion to scorn, that such
property was the most profitable in the
city. 1t cost nothing to keep it in re-
pair, for he never made any repairs, and
it was divided into lodgings, twelve feet
square, or, few, twelve by eighteen,
and they were always full. There was
no loss of rent, for the money was al
WAYS demanded in advance, and if by
the next month the tenant was unable
to pay, the agent bundled him out in the |
street, and there were always plenty to |
take his place. There are families on |
Fifth avenue who have incomes of sixty |
thousand year, from just such proper
ty, and they want no better. What a
horrid contrast between the fastidious |
down to his office in his coupe, of a
morning, from his luxurious, picture
hung home in the bright, wide uptown
street, and the fever scented Gems where
poverty stricken wretches toll their lives
away, to earn the price of his luxuries.
When will Moody and Sankey labor
that mems hearts may be softened to-
ward their kind and take for their text,
"Your gold is corrupted, and your riches
are moth eaten"
JAY GOULD AND THE TRIBUNE.
That Jay Gould did get controlling
interest in the New York Tribune, every
body believes, and that he is sick of his
bargain everybody also believes. Jay
Gould is tremendous man, but he is
not altogether infalliable. He wanted
big paper in his control that he might
the stock market, and he
took advantage of the trouble that fol-
lowed the death of Mr. Greeley to gobble
the Tribune, or enough of its stock to
have an influence in it, the idea being
that he could have this stock written
up, or that one written down, and there
by put money in his purse. But the
thing didn't work. Mr.. Reid did not
yield to the behests of the stock-ring,
aad the Tribune did not become a mere
instrument in his hands. And now
1ould wants to get out. The specula-
ion did not pay as well as Wall Street.
N fact it did not pay at all, for him.
He did not want newspaper stock unless
lie could use it to help other stocks, and
when the Tribune would not do that,
lis interest was at an end. Therefore
Reid gets rid of this stencil, and the TTib-
tne, freed from the odium that attach {
IS to the very name of Gould, will get
Jack its place in the hearts of the peo-
lie. The Tribune was a great power, / {
nd now that it is TO be freed from the {
equation of Gouldism, it will be again.
BUSINESS
During the week has been exception
lily dull, aud it will doubtless stay so
i'll the spring opens. The merchants
re puzzled to know why it is so. One !
obber, who is doing nothing, showed me
letter from a banker in western city
that the institution had r
400, 600 lying idle and doing nothing. q
nd he said that that was the case every O
here So it can't be the scarcity of c
loney that makes the dullness of trade.
he fact is no one has confidence in any, e
hing, and nothing is being engaged in. il
-ew York is not going to recover from g
he present stagnation till confidence is r
,stored, and when that will be the
isest man can't tell. e
IE MARTHA WASHINGTON RECEPTION. q
The affair of the 22d was, very ap- IL
-opriately, the reception in continental n
ress at the Academy of Music, which a
ot to see was to regret for the rest of il
le century, if one should live so long. II
hree hundred ladies and gentlemen of :,
e best circles, not only of New York, ST
1t of the Union, wore the full dress of | cl