The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-01-23
TUESDAY, JAN. %, 1877.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Bennett-Nay Aaair-The SnOw-Van-
derbilt-The Death of an Actress
Society Etc.-weather.
New YORK, January 18th, 1877.

THE BENNETT-MAY ABsURDITY.
Young James Gordon Bennett is an
ass of the highest order, and young
MAY is another, with a decided trace of
the bully added. Bennett owns the
New York Herald, and has All income
of something like a million per annum,
which, ass as he is, makes him sought
for by all the managing mammaS Who
have daughters to marry off. Miss
Caroline May got him hooked finally
and she was engaged to marry the Her
aid man, but all of a sudden the match
was declared off. Recently a brother
of Miss May assaulted Bennett in front
of the Union League Club, and gave
him a most satisfactory lorse-whipping,
which resulted in II duel fought in Della
ware, in which young May WAS slightly
wounded. May goes to his friends in
Baltimore, and Bennett sailed for Eu-
rope, to get away from the talk the sue
cession of events has produced. Ben
nett says he broke the match because
he was satisfied that he wal not fit for
marital life, while the Mays, on the Off,
err hand, claim that they broke it be-
cause Bennett displayed too much of
the blackguard to be trusted with Il
wife. 1t is told of his going to the
house of his affi;;nced in a stat. of beast
ly intoxication, of his getting the ladies
at his house perched upon u billiard
table and turning loose half IL dozen
fighting cocks and not allowing t lem to
get down for an hour. lnnumerable
stories are told of his e~scapades, all of
which are brutal and semi-idlotlc. the
elder Bennett IA just as eccentric as
this one, but he was sirewder b Satan
liuIself. lie cuInuIeuveu the publiUa-
ton OF the Herald in Il cellar in Ann
street. and made it the property it is,
by courses which. if followed now
would consign an editor to the peniteu-
tiary. lie WAS 4 notorious blackmailcr,
and made it Il business to be constantly
involved in Quarre.S and difficulties.
Nothing pleased him so much as to pro-
woke a man to cowhide Or kick him.
He would take his punishment meekly,
and without resistance, rus to his
office and write Il long account of it, in
which his assail INT would be more scan-
dalously abused than ever. A kick was
a delight to h m, ard lie abso utely rev.
el.d in libel suits. Tom Halnliu, the
actor. once forced his jaws open and
spit, down his throat, and james Watson
Webb cowhided him q dozen times.
Almost every respectable man i'll New
York thrashed b :nnett, but he thrived
wonderfully for all that. These affairs
attracted attention to him, and he did
make the Herald the best newspaper
the country ever had, and it is SO now.
His business WAS to collect news, and
in the doing of it he displayed wonder
full energy and amazing snrewdness; he
had pony expresses before the days of
railroads, he had fast sailing boats to
intercept vessels, and he was the first
to realize the power of the telegraph.
And so while the Herald never influence
ed an opinion; W. lie it is conducted
upon the principle of denying to-day
what it said yesterday, everybody reads
it, and it is the best newspaper proper
ty in the county. Young Bennett
Knows nothing about journalism, but
the system established by his father re-
mains, and the men trained by his faith
er still carry it out in all its details.
Were he allowed to manage it he would
wreck it in a year. But fortunately, he
is so absorbed in polo, in walking match
es, in yachting and kindred amusements
that he can give no thought to his pa
per, and so it gets on as well as ever.
THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW.
Snow is all very well when you have
logs to haul, or wLen you want to sleigh
ride. But in the narrow streets OF New
York, it is a nuisance, pure and simple.
The street-cars are running only Ina
the number of cars at the very time
when the capacity for carrying ought
to be doubled, and the streets are SO
blockaded as to make trucks supertlu-
Gus. The consequence is a terrible in
terruption of trade. The terminal facil-
tiles of New York are wretched at best,
and a heavy proportion of The produce
consigned to this market has to be haIi-
died by trucks. Now that trucking is
an impossibility. it is all going to Balti-
more. The merchants are indignant
at the authorities for not removing tie
snow. Cargoes intended for New York
are going to Baltimore to say the fear
full cost of handling in this city. 1t is
estimated that the SNOW. thus far, has
cost the city a round million, Il Il gen.
eral suspension of business is feared, if
measures cannot be taken to remove
it.
VANDERBILT
is dead at last, and his heirs are quar-
reling over his estate, as might have
been expected. He left eighty-tive mil
lions. the most of it to his tayorite son,
William H., who las virtually the coll
troll of the whole of it. Ills ether sou,
Cornelius, is not the best man i'll the
world, and the great ambition of the
dead financier WIS to have his colossal
fortune keIt together. William will
do it, and will add to it. He is as good
a man of business as his fat Ter, and
has been carefully trained tn take his
place when death Should exact the first
mortgage lie L.olds on all of Us. The
other heirs squirm at Lis having cen