The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-25
Qnr New Ynrk Letter.

NV York, Jan 10, 1877.
THE DRNNLr-MAv ABsuRDITY.
Young Jamcs Gordon Bennett 1
an ass of tho highest order, an,
young May Is another, with u dc
cldcd trace of the bully added
Bcnnett owns the Ae,o York Her
atd, and has an income of some
thing like a million of dollars PEI
annum, which, ass as he is, make.
him sought for by all the managins
mammas who have daughters to
marry off. Miss Caroline May got
him hooked finally and she was ell.
gagged to marry the Wrald man.
but all OF sudden the match was
declared of. Last Monday night
a brother of Miss May assaulted
Bennett in front of the Union
League Club, and gave him most
satisfactory horse-whipping, which
resulted in duel fought in Del
aware, in which young May was
slightly wounded. May goes to
his friends in Baltimore, and Ben
nett sailed for Europe, to get away
from the talk the succession of
events has produced. Bennett says
he broke the match because he was
satisfied that he was not fit for
marital life, while the Mays, on the
other hand, claim that they broke
it because Bennett displayed too
much of the BLACKBOARD to be trust
ed with wife. 1t is told of his
going to the house Of his affianccd
in a state ofbcastly intoxication, of
his getting the ladies at his house
perchcd upon billiard table and
turning loose Il half-dozcn fighting
cocks, and not allowing them to get
down for an hour. Innumcrablc
stories arc told ofhis cscapadcs, all
OF which arc brutal and scmi-idiotic.
The elder Bennett was just as &C.
centric as this one, but he was shrew-
der than Satan himself. lie COM
mcnccd the publication of the Her.
old in Il ccller in Ann Street, and
made it the property it is, by
courses, which if followed now,
would consign an editor to the pen.
itentiary. lie was notorious
black-mailcr, and made it II bust.
ness to be constantly involved in
quarrcls and difficulties. Nothing
pleased him so much as to provoke
Il man to cowhide or kick him. lie
would take his punishment mcckly,
and without resistance, and rush to
his office and write u long account
of it, in which his assailant would
be more scandalously abused than
ever. n kicking was delight to
him, he absolutel y reveled in libel
suits. Tom Hamlin, the actor, once
forced his jaws open and spit down
MS throat, and james Watson Webb
him Il dozen times. Almost
every respectable man in New York
thrashcd Bennett, but he thrivcd
wonderfully for all that. These
'ffairs attracted attention to him.
md he did make the Herald the
'est newspaper the country ever
lal, and is it so now. His bust
lcss was to collect news, and in the
Icing Of it he display cd wonderful
'ncrgy and Amazing shrcwdncss;
lc established pony expresses be-
orc the days Of railroads; lie had
asst sailing boats to intercept YES.
els, and he was the first to realize
he power Of the telegraph. And
%, while the Xcrold never influ-
need an opinion; while it is con-
uctcd upon tic principle of deny
ng to-day what is said yesterday,
vcrybody reads it, and it is the
est newspaper property in the
ountry. Young Bennett knows
otliing about journalism, but the
ystcm established by his father re-
lalns, and Tic men trained by his
';hcr still carry it out in all its de-
Ills. We're lie allowed to manage
he would wreck it in year. But
'rtunatcly, he is so absorbed in
olo, in walking matches, in yatcht-
lg and kindred amuscmcnts, that he
m give 10 thought to his paper.
nd so it gets on rs we'll as ever.
TIE BEAUTIFUL Snow.
Snow is all very well when you
i've logs to haul, or when you want ,
slcighridc. But in the narrow
reefs of New York, is nuisance,
Ire and simple. Thy strcct-cars
c running only half tho number
cars at the very time when the
pacity for carrying ought to be
'ubled, and the streets arc so =
ockadcd as to make trucks
pcrfuous. The consequence is
terrible interruption of trade. :
nc terminal facilities of New
DIRK are wrctchcd at best, and !
ry heavy proportion of the =
oducc consigned to this market {
s to be handled by trucks. Now
at trucking is an impossibility,
is all going to BaltiMorc. Tic !:
crchants arc indignant at tho /.
liberties for not removing tho /.
ow. Cargoes intended for New T.
'rk arc going to Baltimore to
We the fearful cost of handling in :,
is city. 1t is estimated that the m
ow, thus far, las cost the city g
md million, and general sus-
nsion of business is feared, if
assures cannot be taken to remove ", w