Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-01-25
NEW YORK MATTERS.
The BeaHet.May Affair-The snow-yander-
biIt-The Death OF an Ac.ress-seciety. &C.
Weather
From our own Correspondent.
New YoRK, Jan. II, 1877.

From own Correspondent
New YoaK, Jan. IL, 1877.
This letter was intended for last
weeks HERALD, but the snow block
ade detained it until too late to get
it in type.-EDIToR.
THE BENNET-MAY ABsURDITY.
Young James Gordon Bennett is
an ass of the highest order, and
young May is another, with de-
cided trace Of the bully added. Ben
nett owns the New York Herald, and
has an income of something like
million Of dollars per annum, which,
ass as be is, makes him sought for by
all the damaging mammas who have
daughters to marry off. Miss Caro-
line got him hooked finally and she
was engaged to marry the Herald
man, blt all of a sudden the match
was declared off. Last Monday night
a brother of Miss May assaulted Ben
net in front of the Union League
Club, and gave him most satisiac.
tory horse-whipping, which resulted
in q dual fought in Delaware, in
which young May was slightly
wounded. May goes to his friends
in Baltimore, and Bennett sailed for
Europe. to get away from the talk
the succession ofevents has produced.
Bennett says he broke the match be-
cause be was satisfied that he was
not fit for marital life, while the
Mays, on the other hand, claim that
they broke il because Bennett dis.
played too much OF the blackguard
to be entrusted with wife. 1t is
told of his goir G to the house of his
affianced in state of besstly intoxi-
cation, of his getting the. ladies at
his house perched upon the billiard
table and turning loose a hclf dozen
fighting cocks, and not allowing
them to get down for an hour. In
Vulnerable stories are told of his es-
capsdes all of which are brutal and
seml-idiotic. The elder Bennett was
just as eccentric as this one, but he
was shrewder than satan himself.
He commenced the publication of
the Herald in a cellar in Ann Street,
and made it the property it is, by
courses, which if followed now,
would eonsign en- editor to the peni-
Tertiary. He was notorious black
mailer, and made it business to be
constantly involved in quarrels and
difficulties. Nothing pleased him so
much as 10 provoke man to cow
hide or kick him. He would take his
punishment meekly, and without re-
sis.ance, and rush to his office and
write a long account of it, in which
his agsailant would be more scanda.
lousy abused than ever. A kicking
was o-.light to him, and he absolute
ly reveled in libel suits. Tom Hanlin,
the actor, once forced his jaws open
and pat down his throat and James
Walton Webb cowhided him dozen
times. Almost every respectable man
in New York thrashed Bennett but
he hrived wonderfully for all that
While the Herald never influenced an
opinion, while it is conducted upon
the Principle of denying to-day what
it sad yesterday, everybody reads it.
Yong Bennett knows nothing about
Journalism, but the system established
by biz father remains, and the men
trained by his father still carry it out
in all its details. Were he allowed
to manage it he would wreck it in
year. But fortunately, he is so alb
sorbed in polo, walking matches, in
yachting and kindred amusements,
that re can give no thought to his pa
per, ard so it gets on as well as ever,
THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW.
Snow is very well when you have
logs to haul, or when you want to
sleighrde But in the narrow streets
of New York, it is a nuisance, pure
and simple. The street-cars are run
ming only half tie number at the time
when the capacity for carrying ought
to be doubled, and the streets are so
blocked as to make trucks superfiu
Gus. The consequence is terrible
interruption of trade. The terminal
facilities Of New York are wretched
at best, and very heavy proportion
of the produce consigned to this mar
ket has to be handled by trucks, Now
that trucking is an impossibility, it is
all going to Baltimore. The mer-
chants are indignant at the authori-
ties for rot removing the snow. Car.
goes intended for New York are 90
ing to Baltimore to save the fearful
cost OF handling in this city. 1t is
estimated that the snow, thus far, has
cost the city round million, and
general suspension of business is
feared if steps connot be taken to re-
move it.
VANDERBILT
Is dead at last, and his heirs are
quarreling over lis estate, as might
have been expected, He left eighty
FIVE millions, the most of it to his
fayorite son, William FL who has vir-
tually control OF the whole of it. His
other son, Cornelius, is not the best
man in the world, and the great am
bition of the dead fnancier was to
have his colossal fortune kept together.
William will do it, and will add to it.
He is as good a man of business as
his father, and has been carefully
trained to take his place when death
should exact the first mortgage he
holds on all of us. The other heirs
squirm at his having control of the
estate, but it won't make any differ
euce. The Vanderbilts never let go
OF anything they get their claws on,
and William has too good a thing.
The lawyers will have a soft time of
it, for the old man left them all enough
to make very pretty fight with.
There will be no change in the man.
agement of the great roads. William
has been virtually the manager for sew
eral years. Within very few months
the four richest men in the country
have gone to their long home-Astor
Vanderbilt, aud Stewart of New York,