The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-01-13
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Milk, Real Estate, Failures. New Years,
Fields, Crime.
New YoRK, Jan. sth 1877.

NEW IORh, Jan. OIL 1917.
You who know where the milk you
use comes from, can't imagine the
doubt that besets the New Yorker, as
he pours what he is obliged to accept as
milk into coffee, or if a mother gives it
to her baby. Years ago, the city was
excited by the statements made of milk
produced from distillery-fed cows, and
all will remember the horrible pictures
of cows IN every stage of disease which
were being MIXED regularly, as long as
they could stand. 1t was q fact that
milk wa sold in the city, from cows
fed on distilled Stops, that never left
their stalls, and were MIXED until they
absolutely rotted. There is another
raid on milkmen now, tho charge being
less serious, but just about as annoying.
You all know of the little girl from
New York who spent a few days at a
Cousins in the country. On her return
she was asked how she liked it. "Very
we'll" was the answer, ''only I don't
think Susy's ma is a clean woman The
milk We had had q yellow scum on the
top of it, and wasn't as pretty as the
nice blue milk 1 get at home" The
trouble is milk is too blue, and as there
is u very stringent law against adulter-
ating milk, the citizens have taken 1t
up, and are prosecuting the milkmen,
right and left. A dozen of them were
arrested, and a test case made of n
In this cas- samples of milk regularly
sold to customers were tested with the
lactometer and it was discovered that
the compuond could be hardly called
milk at all. There was a basis Of pure
milk, the rest was water, reinforced
with sugar, chalk, and all sorts of nasti-
ness, to give it consistency and body.
And of the hundred samples examined
not one was found pure or even fit for
use. The "Orange County'' milkmen
whose pastures ale stables just out of
the city, had a trick of keeping milk
from souring by the use of chemicals,
and all sorts of lodges were shown up.
Thousands of the best families use con
densed milk, the purity of which is well
established, but the appearance of the
compounds so aga n5t il, 1t doesn't look
like milk. The prosecution succeeded in
getting the seller whose case was made a
test into the To nhs, with a fine of $3.50,
w%hereupon the Milk Dealers Associa-
ton, true to stumptail, promptly ap-
pealed the case.
1t will take u long fight to get decent
milk in New York. Tie milkmen have
retained the best legal talent in the
city,sand will make a desperate fight.
But the people will win. The PROPOSE
tion is to have inspectors appointed,
with the best appliances for testing
milk, and to pour into the street every
can that has been watered or sophisti-
Gated in any way. "Pure milk or
none,'' is the war-cry, now.
REAL ESTATE.
Real estate is still depressed, and
there are no signs of Improvement.
There are but few sales reported, and
the number of empty houses II stores
is frightful. Occasionally IL sale is
made, but it is always at figures less
than half tile price of four years ago,
and then the purchaser is not sure that
he has a bargain.
Vacant lots nobody will take. When
the great boulevard was opened in the up
per part of New York, the ring was on
hand for bargains On the line of 1t
Connolly built his magnificent dwelling
at tine public expense. Genet placed
his more magnificent house, built on
the same terms, near C%onnolly's. Tom
Fields bought an elegant mansion on
the boulevard with sixteen city lots.
Nobody placed its value when the great
drive was opened at less than S125, 00U.
One of our most prudent cash compan-
les loaned ON the estate S5O,O00. 1t was
Gold under q foreclosure and the COM
-pany had to buy it in. 1t is in the
ket at $40, 900, with no tikers.
A business property near the Tribune
office was encountered with q mort
gage of 81, 0O0. SO good was it on
sidered that IA second mortgage for S15,-
600 wal placed upon it, and afterwards
q third for $4,000, and the third mort
gage was considered perfectly safe. 1t
was sold last week, by the sheriff, for
2l,ov0l And in this fearful depres-
sion lies the secret of the failures of the
banks and insurance companies. They
had their surplus capital loaned on
what was considered excellent real es-
tate security; but the shrinkage in val.
ues left them without any security at
all. They had to forclose, and to a v
themselves bid in the property, which,
as:in most cases in point stood empty, left
them without income. The city is go
ing through a terrible season, and no
one expects that real estate will ever
get back to old figures.
FAILURES
Are coming thick and fast. The end
of this year forces settlements, and the
weak ones cannot avoid exposing their
weakness, and are going to the wall.
MANY VI tuem arc nohcse ioiiuAoSs ~.
the vast majority are of men who had
no right to be in business for three
years. The trouble is just begun. But
it is for the best after all. 1t is very
much like a sick man taking medicine
the drug makes him sicker, but the
. foul matter is thrown off and he comes
out better than ever. The hard times
are simply wedding out those who were
never entitled to credit, and hereafter
business will be on a better basis.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD.
The Reform, Democracy have NOM
mated David Dudley Field for Con-
gress, in the place of Smith Ely, elected
mayor. Field is a fair representative
of the Democratic Reform. He was