The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-01
New York, JAN. 26, 1877.
A BROADWAY FARM.

resentative OF the old families
Peter Goelet, an eccentric old bach
elor who lives on the corner q
Broadway and Nineteenth street
in the most expensive section O
the street. Goelet's wealth is csti
mated at from twenty to thirt,
millions, the most of it having beef
made by his great-grand father an,
grand father in the hardwar,
trade. 1t is the old story. 4
French emigrant commenced til,
hardware trade before the revolu
ton, and by hard work made money
Every dollar made was invested II
farming lands mile or more from
the store down town, and for three
generations this has been the rule
What were farming lands then il
covered with six story buildings
now, and what the first Goele,
bought for twenty dollars an acre is
worth to-day hundreds of thousands.
There are two left of them, Peter,
the bachelor, being the best known.
lie occupies several lots on the
corner of Nineteenth street and
Broadway for residence; the
property being worth, probably,
two hundred thousand dollars, and
ne h keeps it that he may have room
for a COW, a dozen guinea hens, a
stork or two, and a fine lot of chick
ems. "Uncle Peter" as he is
called, has passion for this kind
of farming, and he keeps this splcn-
did property idle that he may in
dulge his whim. lie doesn't put a
dollar into pictures or books; he
hasn't a single piece of sculpture;
he never travels or sees anything;
never takes part in any public en-
terprisc; but the money that other
men put into such things he squan-
ders on his COW and chickens.
Counting interest, it costs him
twenty thousand dollars per year
to keep that COW, which makes the
milk come, l should suppose, at
about a dollar drop. 1t is aqueer
sight-'a cow feeding quietly in the
busiest part of New York. But
this is Goelet's within, and perhaps
it is as sensible as many other
mems whims. lie is over seventy,
md has not child to leave his vast |
estate to. His nephew and nicccs |
ire all very rich, but as they have
lot "Uncle Peters" quiet tastes,
hey will not object to adding his
Millions to their own.
HOW THE CITY GOVERNMENT Is
ADMINISTERED.
The actual depravity of the New
lork official, under what is left of
'weedism, has never been sounded.
store Oh Broadway, hardly a
tones throw from the Post Office.
as enlivcncd yesterday by the
isit ola deputy-shcrif}, with an
xccution for debts of the firm
hose business the present owners
ought, and he proposed to levy on
he office furniture for a debt of the
d firm; and the fact that it be-
nged to the new head of the house. -,
,rsonally, and that the new firm +
us not holden for the old in any y
ny, did not alter the pcrtinacity
the deputy. Even when these
cts were made known, he insisted S
should levy. {,
This is faithful statement of !
nat took place in the office of one o
the most respectable and rcspcc- Z
1 business men in the city. There $
It anything SO rotten in the S
rid as the administration of law II
this city since tho courts and "
officials passed under Twccd's ii
nds. There is no responsibility :
ywhcrc, and an officer here has U .
arly as much range as an Arab II
icial. When Hclmbold's store on n
oadway passed into the hands of u, rs
sheriff the entire stock, valued l
over $4,000, was partly stolen NJ
fright, and the balance was eaten o'
in costs, the creditors only got Is
ew thousand dollars out Of the
ole Of it. There was a vast
CUNT valuable goods that never
'eared on the invoice, and which II
shcrifTs officers could probably
all about. 1t is common thing
them to find some case of impu-
irregularity, and to arrest tho
ty and hold him. till he pays,
the claim that may be against
is always compromised
a little or nothing-but the costs.
officers hunt up the case, make IL,
arrest, act as go-between, make n .n'
compromise, but mercy! what a rO
list of fees they have! The all ~,
rich. Speaking of t W.,
nELMBOLD, ant
prince of medicine men is OF
lunatic in the streets, with OF
a dollar, and subsisting on hrs
charity of those who knew him ant
is prosperous days. This man Cd
at one time worth n million lon
annual income was over a quar- the
If n million, and he had the has
horses, the most expensive dla
ages, and the finest retinuc of tive
lnts in the city. It's curious cri'
so many of the men who have pro
n rich out of patent medicines 'he
gone insane. Aver, the great app
nan, who owns some of the u -
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