Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-29
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
MATTERS OF INTEREST IN GOTHAM.
Among the Musicians Local Enterprises
Robbery ola Hotel 6uest-Ialmage
in Hot Water-How the Poor
Spend Their Money.
Correspondence of the Register.
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ing Hall, is 70 me wonder. JOsetfy is
not beauty. He is a stout, putty,
round shoullered young man, who ia
cially mi mt be butcher as well as any
thing else. But he can get all sorts Of
music out OF the piano. He can fight a
piano with one arm tied behind him
and then punish whole orchestra be-
side. But he's not a piano FOUNDER.
He lust scratches the instrument gently,
and il will COO; be tickles il and It war
bles; ne strokes il and it gives down the
music OF the spheres. Now am not
pianist. nor lover OF piano music to
any great extent. Most people are, or
profess to be. Ii is heresy and high
treason to say that you don't like every
thing that a star performer from Eu-
rOpa can bang out of piano. l don't
and won't, but JOsetiy held me for an
hour and a quarter, last night. He kept
the audience two hours and a quarter.
JosefTy can roll off more notes IN less
time, "gO it as YOU please, than any
known pianist. He can get music out
of any part of the piano he touches.
This il not professional opinion. In
music | don't know a flat from sharp.
nor do l always in business. But Jo-
seffy can play.
Renewed legal progress is taking place
in the matter of improving the Harlem
river, and rendering il available Tor the
pasSa,e of vessels between the North
and East rivers. There are two hun
hundred property owners whose tracts
will be encrOached upon, but none have
as vet objected, and no opposition Is eN-
pectcd.
The government sadly needs mint
in this city. There are now in the sub
treasury building here nearly S4O,OOO,-
900 in uncoined bullion, awaiting coin
age. There has not been 50 much gold
deposited i'm the ASSAY office since 1851,
rs during the past summer, and IN less
than a month II is expected that $780,
100000 will be on hand. Beyond what
comes from the mines, each steamer
from Europe brings more or less bullion
anil coin. The old pOstOttice building Is
Nassau street, which belongs % the gov
eminent. is suggested rs a good site for
a mint and ASSAY office. The capacity
OF the Philadelphia Mint is not at all
equal % the coinage OF the immense
quantities OF bnlliOn pressing upon the
government.
A Mr. Nanderkeefe, stopping with
his family az the New York HoJel, was
robbed OF some $500 worth of jewelry
on SUNDAY morning, by some undevOut
sneak thief. IL is astonishing when the
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70 observe the average of the successes
OF these fellows. Few realize the num-
Der of men and women too, who make
robbery of this description the
business oi their lives. Their eyes
are ever on us and on our
houses and Our apartments. They note
our incOming- and Outsolugs. They
study times and seasons when peo-
pie are paid of. Ihey hang about bank
ing house doors, watching an OppOrtu-
nitv 10 snatch an inCautiOuSly held roll
of money. They track Us at night with
sand bays; they lie in ambush with
Yays, crOwbars and ''jimmies.' But We
grow callOus 10 these continued chances,
and forget our mauyrisks until the blow
falls on our own pockets.
Somebody seems determined 10 be al
ways keeping Talmagc in hot water.
The last charge against him comes IRON
London. 10 the effect thatEe drank wine
there. Talmage says he didn't. At
least, ne didn't drink wine in certain
place. rs charged. But somebody else
saws he did, and sticks 10 II.
The city press has Tor some time been
preaching a crusade against Police Cap
tain Williams. who, for his repeated
and unnecessary clubbing Of uDoIend-
ing individuals, is generally defined a.
"Cubber Williams He Is said 20 be
retained in his position mainly through
the influence OF John j. Davenport,
Superintendent of Elections, United
States Commissioner, and GeIr Bliss,
ex-Cnited States DiStrict-Attorney. PO-
lice Commissioners Wheeler and French
refuse 10 vote for his removal. VIII
lamsis vigorous worker Tor the Eepub-
hcan yaTty. and Is said to contribute
handsomely toward il from the bribes
he is said 10 take for allowing Illegal es-
adjustments in his precincts. These
are said 10 average $4,000 month. An
Indictment of Williams Is somewhat I'M
practicable, on account of the difficult
ties of procuring witnesses. The
law Furnishes with Imprisonment
both the official bribed and the person
bribing. Ii is urged that If the Gov
ernor or AttOrncy-Geueral would PROM
ise protection % those who are IN the
habit OF paving Williams money, a
number would come forward with atii-
davits against him.
Last SATURDAY. evening ] was standing
in one Of our large Third Avenue dry
gool stores. The Avenue and the store
were crowded, for Saturday night is the
night when the labOring classes are paid
Oft, and where they spend their money.
The store was crowded with working
girls. The night was very cool, and l
noticed that the majority OF them were
insutliciently clad. They had probably
earned from = 10 s. or = per week.
Eight dollars is a high average. They
needed hannels or warm underClOthng.
They we've buying cheap lewelry, rut-
fies and useless kulCS-knacSs, 10 be con
yerted into rags al the expiration oil SIX
weeks, aud Cream-c1iOTed kids at 81 per
pair. Cream-cOlOrcd KIDS sill Tot pro-
tect q young woman against thS seyerl-
~ OF our winter weather. In this man
ner was expended the balance of Sl.OOOr
500, after their board bills lad been
paid And vet We cannot bear down
100 severely on the poor girls. Youth
is the season Tor adOrnment, and the de-
sir in this direction with them Is as
powerful as il Is with their superiOrs
from pecuniary point Of view. You,
madame, in your Filth avenue mansion,
having al vOur command your wetl-ap-
pointed table, your servants, your car
rage and your front pew, may irown
down with economical and virtuous Sc
verify on the foolish purchases Of the
working girl, but what would YOU 10 ii
in her place? y
Pinkerton Tunnel Fire.