The Cecil Whig., 1877-05-26
BROADBRIM'S NEW YORK LETTER.

A Wrecked LJe-Deah of a Celebrated
Painter from Star0ation-7he Dog SAsao
-Romance Of a Fifth Agenue Belle-Ste,c-
arts Memorial Cathedral, ETC., etc.
The saddest event of recent occurrence
is the suicide of John 7. DAILY, proprietor
of the Windsor Hotel, whose mysterious
disappearance | mentioned in my letter of
last week. 1t is hardly necessary to tell
you that the Windsor is the grand, fash
ionable hotel of New York; it is situated
on our most aristocratic avenue, not far
from the Grand Central Depot. Mr.. DAILY
arrived in this city about six years ago with
fortune of five hundred thousand dollars
in gold, which he had accumulated by specu-
lation in California. Not satisfied with this
immense sum, he Immediately went into
property speculation in New York, and two
years ago he erected and furnished the
Windsor Hotel. 1t was originally projected
at half a million, it swallowed up that
amount and half million more, leaving
him in an embarrassed condition, which
jeopardized his entire fortune; then came
the hard times and the shrinkage of real
estate, and the mind of the great operator
staggered and reeled under the dreadful
load which was expressing him, and for
time ruin stared him in the face: at last he
began to consult the spirits, and it was not
long till their communications seemed to
have taken complete possession of him.
Styor 81.
ness man, who had energy sufficient to build
up a colossal fortune, who controlled vast
sums of money, who was capable of giving
direction to hundreds of employees, of man.
aging all the intricate arrangements in one
of the most superb hotels in America-ths
man became mere shuttlecock in the
hands of a spiritual charlatap; at last his
mind gave way and toppled into ruin. He
wandered away from his hotel on Tuesday,
May the 1st, and on the following Monday
he was found hanging in a deserted house
on Long Island, only short distance from
Woodside. Mr.. DAILY was literally worked
to death-work self-imposed, and which
might have been avoided.
Jacob D. Blondell, long and favorably
known as one of the foremost artists in the
city, died last week in a state of the most
abiect wretchedness and destitution. Many
years ago he ranked alongside of Henry
1nman and others equally famous. His por-
traits now adorn some of the most magnifi-
cent drawing rooms in the city. For the
paired by constant and terrible dissipation.
Three or four times he has been rescued
from death by his friends when on the very
brink of starvation. Last week he was
missed from his usual haunts, and, on his
studio being broken open, he was found
dead upon an old lounge, wasted to per-
feet skeleton. Another victim to the curse
of rum.
Barnum had scarcely vacated the old
quarters formerly occupied by Moody
and Sankey, than it was taken possession
of by the most tremendous congregation of
ours that New York has ever seen. Big
dogs and little dogs fat dogs and lean dogs,
dogs with two tails and dogs with no tail
at all, brindle bull pups, skye terriers, and
Siberian hounds, Irish barriers, English
mastiffs, French poodles, and Italian grey
hounds divided equally the honors. And
the same roof, which one year ago re-
sounded with "Ninety and Nine" and
"Hold the Fort" is echoed with barks,
yelps, snarls, whines, growls, kills, and
such an Internal canine chorus that a casual
visitor, unless very much in love with Tray,
Blanche, and Sweetheart, would wish the
whole caboodle of them consigned to that
warm place where dogs do cease from bark
ing and roast purp is the order of the day.
"Is them NewfoundIanders ~ said fat
old lady to one of the attendants, as she
curiously surveyed stub-tailed Scotch ter
rier, who was quietly gnawing bone.
"No, ma'am," replied the man, with a
face like pine board, them dogs is ST.
berian Kanabas from the Kickeraboo ISL
ands, and the fust of the kind ever i'm
ported.'
:" l thought they was some such critters"
said the old lady, as she wiped her specta-
cles and passed on. The attendance has
been immense, nearly sixty thousand peo-
pie in four days. One ugly cur was val
ued at $50, 900; it is not true, as reported,
that purchased him. was looking for a
dog worth about two dollars and a half
but strange to say, they did not have any
of that kind on exhibition, though l saw
several labeled five and ten thousand dol
lars. Wish =! was dog, said to myself,
for l have no recollection of ever being
worth ten thousand dollars since the day |
was born.
The fashionable sensation of the week is
the clandestine marriage of Fifth Avenue
belle with California gambler, whom she
met in the street. Her family are almost
crazy, and the girl, believe, has been sent
to private lunatic asylum.
Ex-Mayor Lambert, of Brooklyn, who
robbed his brothers widow and orphans of
eighty thousand dollars, has been expelled
from DR.. Cuyler's Church. Mr.. Lambert
had been associated with the church from
its earliest foundation. He was deacon,
a trustee, and the bosom friend of DR.. Guy
ler-close and intimate as it was possible
for man to be. The Rev. Doctor was terri
bly, shaken as he pronounced the Judgment
of the Presbytery, which was expulsion
from the church, and suspension from all
its privileges At its conclusion there was
scarcely a dry eye in the house, and the
wretched criminal might have exclaimed
like Cain, MY punishment in more than
l can bear"
The Episcopal Cathedral of Long Island
is to be erected at Garden City, the place
founded by Mr.. Stewart, and the funds, to
the amount of Il million, for the church,
will be furnished from the Stewart estate
With the exception of the new Catholic
Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, it is expected
to be the finest church establishment on
the continent of America.
Yours, BRoADBRIM.