Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-03-31
OLR NEW YORK LETTER
DREW FAILUEE-JUDGE BARRETT -
Rents -- PuLIrICAL--A CENTENNIAL
HLUHDEH--A SAD sTOEY-BUsINESS.


NET YORK. March y, 1876.
DEEW'> FAILURE
/ Reaches cut ioug way, and is makins
/ trouble AL around. y great many year.
a@u he endowed several srmiuarjrs bv civ.
/ Ing his note iUr II large amount. the inter.
! est Oh which would bc sufficient To main.
tain them. 1t was understood that the
| principle was never 10 be paid. and the
/ btnrtaCtpus were put in the form of notes.
/ that IN the event OF his death they mjvht
| become Cha:gcs on his rs ate The Drew
Seminary IN Plainiic.d. y. j. held his nurc
| Tor S2JU, 900, the interest being about %I7-
OJU, which he always paId promptly. Now
that bro. Drew has gone under. the rotcs
are worth just what the paper wcinhs and
the scmluarcs are mourning They have
nothing whatever to run on and are as
hard up as Drew himSel. Hereafter they
will probably insist that the money be paid
over when 1t is subscribed, that it. NAV he
safe. One church did that, but unE1rru.
nately it lent the money To Drew shortly
aitcrward, and that is gone with the rest
TIE GETTING AWAY OF JUDGE EAREE1~r
IS the sensation ot the week. The ,JuJop
was one ot the most prominent LAWYERS in
the city, and IS supposed 10 be very rich
But llas last Tuesday he sailed for Europe
and WAS Immediately discovered that he
had converted everything convertible into
money, aad had taken it with HIM. foroet.
ting to pay an enormous load of iudehfpd-
ness. His affairs were found to be i'm such
a muddle that nothing can be made out of
them and IN brlet, it is ruin all around
There IS no woman i'll this case-spccula- /
tiOn and high living did the work.
RENTS
The question OF rent i. very serious one .
in New York. Upon the avenues a first
class house is worth-Or rather was worth
-Sl2, 900 year, and running from that
all the way down TO 1000. The ''Frcnch
hat''system is coming into vogue for fami-
lies who desire to live in something like
elecauce but cannot afford a whole house.
A Hat has in it about eight rooms, that is
20 say it is on one floor, through from front
to rear, fitted up into rooms. The parlOr,
sittirp-room and bedrooms are elegant.
and the kitchen and ceilcrage are not only I
roomy. but commodious. These apart.
ments reut for from 5000 per year, down l
Tn 81 900. The poorer people get smaller
flats higher up from $500 down to $500,
thou,h lt the latter figure they 90 up Il long
way, and in a very mean part OF the city. !
You will see from these figures that rent I
is a very important item in living in the s
il is the cancer that eats out in- +
come at fearful rate. Take what 4 man y
has to pay for house to live in, and Ii
store 20 do business in, and there IS mighty n
little left Nowadays if he gets out even II
he Is doing exceedingly well. IT
POLITICAL. Z
The action of the Syracuse convention III {"
i,structius for Senator Conklin does not e'
@ .,rike the Republicans of the city iavorabiY a
WEiIe Conklin is popular. and while posi- 81
5'r the majority would prefer him, the ia
,o'lost 49,, heads see that this is no time to
bush favorites, or consider sections " n"' L