The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-02
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
A Broadway Farm-Crazy Patent Medicine
Men-The Suffering Poer-
Business-The Snow.
NEW YoRK, January 2sth, 1877.
BROADWAY FARM.

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an eccentric old bachelor who lives on
the corner of Broadway and Nineteenth
Street, in the most expensive section of
the street. Goelet's wealth is estimated
at from twenty to thirty millions, the
most of it having been made by his
great-grandfather and grandfather in
the hardware trade. He occupies sew
eral 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 COW, a
dozen guinea hens, stork OF two, and
fine lot of chickens. "Uncle Peter"
as he is called, has a passion for this
kind of farming, and he keeps this splen-
did property idle that he may indulge
his whim. He doesn't put dollar in
to pictures or books; he hasn't single
piece of sculpture; he never travels or
sees anything; never takes part in any
public enterprise; 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 per year to keep that
COW, which makes the milk come, I
should suppose, lat about dollar drop.
1t is queer sight-a COW feeding quiet
ly in the busiest part of New York.
But this is Goelet's whim, and perhaps
| it is as sensible as many other mems
whims. He is over seventy, and has not
child to leave his vast estate to. His
nephews and nieces are all very rich, but
as they have not "Uncle Peter's' quiet
tastes they will not object to adding his
millions to their own.
HELMBoLD,
The prince of medicine men, is q
poor lunatic in the streets, without a
dollar, and subsisting ON the charity of
those who knew him in his prosperous
days. This man was at one time worth
a million-his annual income was over
a quarter of million, and he had the
best horses, the most expensive carriages
and the finest retinue of servants in the
city. He lived extravagantly, got in
debt, dropped out to Europe, and there
his insanity developed in serious ex-
travagant freaks. His wife, q most
beautiful woman, returned, and was
compelled to get divorce, and Helm
bold, after being confined in several lu-
natic asylums, was given his liberty,
and he roams the city at will, mere
wreck of what was never very large
pattern of man. His career was a
curious one. Not dollar is left of his
once great wealth, and he has become
the terror of his former friends. 1t is
curious that so many of the men who
have grown rich out of patent medi-
cines have gone insane. Aver, the great
pill man, who owns some of the most
valuable real estate in the city,is insane
and yesterday an application was made
for guardian.
THE SUFFERING POOR
are likely to be allowed to suffer, fol
Charity moves very slowly this winter
st. Johns Guild, the noblest of then
all, is without funds, and distribute:
from day to day what it receives. Il
has not means for one-tenth the call;
that are made upon it. 1t gathers abou
one thousand dollars day, but that II
mere nothing. The other Charitie.
are just as poorly provided for the call:
that are made upon them, and the cit,
is doing very little work. Last Sunda.
thousand men were given twenty-fou
hours work clearing the ice from a por
ton of the streets. Ten thousand coulc
be so employed, and it would be mere.
could it be done. The suffering thi
year is among the honest class of peo
pie; the laborers who have been throw
out of work by the stagnation in all de
, partments of business. l have seel
, clerks and statesmen, who q year ag
were in receipt of good salaries, takin
= relief from Charities because they coul
do nothing else. They would roll bal
rels on the dock, but there are no bal
rels to roll-they would work on til
! streets, but there is no work for then
1t is terrible; and to add to the distres:
1 the cold is intense. God help the poe
this Winter.
THE SNOW
l stopped falling a week ago, but we al
/ suffering from its effects yet. Thel
has been but little freight over IL
roads for weeks, and great deal of il
: convenience has resulted. Merchan
: are unable to ship and produce from IL
e interior is lying along all the road
, waiting for clear tracks. The snow ia
on the coast has been the largest fl
fifty years, and it has been general. Ne
{ York suffers from it terribly. The roa'
are now we'll nigh cleared, and freigl
+ is pouring in in immense volomes. IL
q thorsand man two days would ha'