Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-03-03
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
uilding-Political-C News
papsrs-Businsss.
THE BUILDING PROSPECT.
There has been no building IN
New York to speak Of for three
years I; because there is now on the
island moro houses than there arc
families, and more stores than there
are merchants. Real estate is the
poorest property man can have in
this city, for there is no such thing
as lodging taxes on it, and rents
are nothing. But as bad as the
lookout il for rents, there will be
a very large amount of building
this season. The average New
Yorker is foolish enough to believe
in the final triumph of the city over
the adverse circumstances it finds
itself in, and that within a year or
two there will be a demand for
property; and he is going to build
this summer, because he will be
able to build cheaper than he ever
will again. For instance, common
laborers are getting only 80 cents
u day, hodcarriers, 81; and brick
layers, %. The latter used to COM
mand from $5 to 81. Carpenters,
painters, plasterers, in short all the
trades that enter into building. are
reduced in the same proportion.
Aud there is almost as great a diff.
ference in building material. Brick
and stone are down to hard pan,
and there must be an Improvement
IN them next year. The owner OF
improbable real estate reasons that
if he can build this summer at half
what it will cost him two years
hence, he can we'll afford to let the
building stand idle for the time.
Consequently, there will be a great
many buildings erected this year
which will stand empty. But it will
be good thing, for it will give the
poor employment, and will help to
bridge over what otherwise would
be a terrible year.
POLITICAL.
There is no change in the politi-
cal situation. The Democracy are
chagrined beyond telling at the
turn things have taken in Washing
ton. but the business men in the
party insist that the decision of the
Commission shall be respected.
That eminent reformer, Mr.. John
Morrissey, is indignant at their ap.
athy. Mr.. Morrissey put up great
deal of money to aid in making his
friend and associate, Mr.. Tilden,
President, under the promise that
he was to control the appointments
in New York, He wants Tilden to
make him good, but the astute Sam
uel declines to do anything of the
sort, claiming, and properly, that
Mr.. Morrissy went into the specu-
lation as a speculation, and that if
he has lost it is the same as though
he had bet it on any other game.
Morrissey swears that there is no
honor among politicians, and he is
going back to regular gambling.
He says the worst skin game in New
York has more honor in it than he
has found among the Democratic
politicians. He is Disguised, and
has made his last appearance in ma
tional politics. He will confine him.
self hereafter to plundering the city
and State, and his faro banks. l
think, myself, he will do better.
There isn't gambler in New York
who is up to the tricks of Tilden
and his gang. They can lay such
men as Morrissey out every time.
The city is full Of it. Men are
killing wOmen-women are killing
men, and cashiers are getting away
with the balances. The gamblers
are getting their harvests in, and,
in short, the ten commandments
are having hard time of it. A
curious case came to the surface yes.
terday, The confidential man in a