Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-31

| \ BROADWAY FARM SHERIFF. OFFICERS
CRAZY PATENT MEDICINE MEN-PoLITI.
CAL--THE SUFFERING PooR-.GoLD HUNT
ING-BUsINESS- STANDARDIZATION.
New YORK, January, 1877.
A BROADWAY FARM.
Stewart, Astor and Vanderbilt are gone.
md now the richest representative of the
old families is Peter Goelct, an eccentri,
old bachelor who lives on the corner Of
Broadway and Nineteenth Street, in tn
most expensive section of the street
Goelet's wealth is estimated at from TWEEN.
ty to thirty millions, the most of it having
been made by his grandfather and
grandfather in the hardware trade. 1t i,
the old story. A French emigrant com
menced the hardware trade before the
revolution, and by hard work made money
Every dollar made was invested in farm
ing lands mile or more from the store
down town, and for three generations this
had been the rule. What were farming
lands then is covered with six story build,
ngs now, and what the first Goelet bought
| for twenty dOlIOrS an acre is worth TODAY
hundreds Of thousands There are two of
them, Peter, the bachelor, being the best
known. He occupies several lots on the
corner of Nineteenth Street and Broadway
for residence; the property being worth,
probably, two hundred thousand dollars,
and he keeps it that he may have room for
II COW, dozen guinea hens, StorE or two,
and fine lot Of chickens. Uncle Peter"
us he is called has II passion for this kind
of farming, and he keeps this splendid
property idle that he may indulge his
whim. He doesn't put Il dollar into pictures
or books: he hasn't single piece of
sculpture; he never travels or sees anv.
thing never takes part in any public en-.
terprise; but the money that other men
put into such things he squanders on his
COW and chickens. Counting interest, it
costs him twenty thousand dollars Der
year to keep that COW, which makes the
milk come, | should suppose, at about IL
dollar drop. 1t is u queer sight-a COW
feeding quietly in the busiest part of New
York. But this is Goelet's whm, and per-
haps it is rs sensible rs many other mems
whlms. lie is over seventy, and has not a
child to leave his vast estate 10. His
nephews and nieces are all very rich, but
us they have not Uncle Peters" quiet
tastes, they will not object to adding his
millions to their own.
HOW THE CITY GOVERNMENT IS ADMIN
ISTERED.
The actual depravity of the New York
official, under what is left of Tweodism,
has never been sounded. Let me tell YOU
u true story. A store on Broadway, hard
ly stones throw from the Post Office,
was enlivened yesterday by the visit of IA
deputy sheriff,with an execution Tor debts
Of the. firm whose business the present
owners bought, and he proposed 10 levy on
the office furniture for debt of the old
firm; but the fact that it belonged to the
new head Of the house, personally, and
that the new firm was not holden for the old
in any way, did not alter the pertinacity of
the deputy. Even when these facts were
made known, he insisted he should levy,
My dear sir" said the sheriff, pleasant
ly," will tell you how this can be settled
very easily. If you will pay me my fees
will make return no effects found, and it
will be all right"
But | won't do any such thing" re-
torted the indignant merchant. Messrs
Blank u Blank don't own any furniture
here, and I've no more business to pay you
than the man across the street."
You had better pay the money, and
get rid Of the trouele," pcrsuasively said
the deputy. GAN want is my fees, and
if you can make them secure"
Get out of here, and 90 to Halifax"
roared the merchant; land if you don't
leave in minute, I'll send for IL police
man, and have him put you out"
My dear Sir said the deputy, cody,
how are you going to help yonrself9
What is to hinder me from evying on any
of this furniture | choose TO take?"
do So" was the answer: land I'll
send after you, and have it replevined in
five minutes"
"Ah! but before you could get out re-
plevin, could put the things where you
would never find them, and what would
you do to help yourself? Perhaps you'd
sue Sheriff Connor?" and again came the
impudent question, GLOW are you going
to help yourself?'
This is Il faithful statement of what
took place in the Office of one of the most
respectable and respected business men in
tie city. There isn't anything 50 rotten in
I the world as the administration of law in
this city since the courts and the officials
passed into Tweed's hands. There is No
responsibility anywhere, and IN officer
here has us much range rs an Arab Off
ciAl. When Helmbold's store on Broad.
way passed into the hands of the sheriff
the entire stock, valued ut over $4,000,
was partly stolen outright, and the bal
ance was eaten up in costs, the creditors
only got a few thousand dollars out of the
whole of it. There was vast amount of
valuable goods that never appeared on
the invoice, and which the sheriff s officer,
could probably tell all about. 1t is com.
mon thing for them to find some case Of
imputed irregularity, and To arrest the
party and hold him, till he pays, not the
claim that may be against him-that is al
ways compromised lor Il little or nothing
but the costs. The officers hunt up The
case, make the arrest, act as go-between
make the compromise, but mercy what :
long list of fees they have! They all ge
rich. Speaking of
HELMB0LD,
| This prince of medicine men is pool
lunatic in the streets, without dollar
, and subSisting on the charity of those
who knew him in prosperous days. Tb
man was ut one time worth milion-hi
annual income was over quarter of ;
, million. and he had the best horses. tn,
r most expensive CARRIAGES, and the fines
l retinue of servants in the city. He live,
extravagantly, got in debt, dropped out tt
' Europe, and there his insanity developed
in series of the most exllavapran
, freaks. His wife, most beautiful woman
= returned, and was compelled to get di
. yorce, and Helmbold, after being confin
ed in several lunatic asylums, was givel
| his liberty, and he roams the city Mt will
u mere wreck of what was never Il YER,
+ large pattern of Il man. His career was
curious one. Not dollar is left of hi
/ once great wealth, and he has become III
terror of his former friends. 1t is curiou
that so many of the men who have grow
a rich out of patent medicine have gone in
sane. Aver. the great pill man, who own
some of the most valuable real estate i
this city, is insane, and yesterday an an