The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-28
Rents In Wall Street.

Rents in Wall Street for the coming
year have doubled, and in some case.
treblcd. The writer heard a conversa
ton between a broker and a German
~real-estate owner on Tuesday las
which he has permission TO print, with
the proviso that the names of the par.
ties shall not be made public.
This demand is simply outrageous
said the broker. "Here I've been pay.
ing you $500 a year for this ras-holt
of an Office, and now you tell me that
you must have Sc, 900 a year from the
LIST of May next. Why. it's an advance
of 800 per cent"
Now, don't you got excited" re
piled the real-estate owner. "Vt
meek nodding mid a wight already. o.
you can do peter nit yourself dom
you keep te blaze. OF l q do peter
mi. mineself l dock to o%bbortunity.
Dot is not my fault OF I got seven dou.
sand tollars for te blaze. ] dought you
a always goot bay, unit / geef you q
shanse-dot's all. 1 wouldn't pc hart
ma goot customer"
well" said the broker, "the loca-
ton suits me. Pve been here several
years, and my customers know where
TO look for me. / don't want to leave
the Office. Make q reasonable advance
and l won't growl. But 800 per cent.
i must say that's rather steep.
You've four other offices in the build
ing, all larger and better than this, and
a fair advance all around will net you
more than ten per cent. on the value of
the property"
Don't YOU know as eferding vas
gOin' up?' the owner replied. laying his
fat hand ON the young brokers shout.
der. Ivy, a pootpleck could seen that.
TIE real-estate is te shlowest
bcep,es in te shtreet. You put your
seats in te Shtock Exchange way up to
dirty tousant tollers. Dol is dirty-tree
millions for vot vas cost only dwelve
huntret tousant. TIE ShtOck Exchange
broberty dot is all she is worth to-day.
You make a bull NIT to shtock unit te
huntret per cent. dan the Orichinal
capitals. Wy you complain of a leetle
race OF dree huntret per cent. in your
rent-hay? | dink mineself We be too
easy mid YOU"
but l don't look at it in that way"
reioined the broker. Il know our bust
ness has been good; but supposing we
saould move the Stock Exchange fur
Their up town-what do you think this
fourteen by thirty of a place would bring
then?"
"Mine trent, dees ting she don't
work." the real estate owner remarked.
''Dot Exchange she kent move up down
you know dot shustso vel esS | know.
Now, We come to peesness. OF you
don't sign te lease for seek tousant
thees year, Wy | dock de seven tousant.
OF you sign te lease, w / don't dock te
seven tousant-dot's all apout id. Wy,
don't you see css | lose "a tousant toll
lars out of my regart for you--heh?"
The broker took the pen to sign the
lease. by Jove," he said, you'll
get as much i'm one years rem as YOU
paid for the whole building"
"Nell, dots my peesness," replied
the owner of the property. Il couldn't
help dot, ecf te penkers unit te brokers'
ees SD dhick tibet to Offices don't gone
rount. Ven o firm tey offer seven
tousant ~tollars, you must be insane of
You dink We let it go for wore tousant.
Vat you dink off a man who eskt o to
sell Il huntret shares of shtock at par
ven a hoontret en- feefty is beed-heh?
You plane yourself. and you got EN-
right. OF te wise men vat enare te
Shtock Exchange kept gweit teir intcn-
tons. or advertise for kround NIT a new
Exchange, den you vas all right. You
mex your leases. unit dings vas
deterrent. But lie new seals tev vas
solt, and dot broberty atchoining she
a pought. and you maket to Ex-
change pigger. Now, tey spent so much
moonish, tey SHAY we're tey is-not
much tey don't moot, no, no. Of teir
plumbers mex it SO nice for us, it vas a
good ting all arount."
"But the office is sadly out of re-
the broker suggested.
"Vell, den, you feex it yourself"
was the reply. "Ve kot no objection.
Dots all right. Of tie seven-tousant
tOllar firm took it tey fix EN- up in first
class style for tie p~eesness."
The broker signed the lease. and the
kind hearted landlord bowed himself
out, after assuring him that he had act
ed like a man of ''peesness."-N. Y. Sun.
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