Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-22


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time look ;esiousiv unon thess naryenus
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thern arc1,d "a :h.o-s - ~ tha hc-n.as
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GAMBLING CENTER.
to me yesterday: This city of New
earned BY the hard toll in the interior
roads and tbs fields of produce. and
Dsr and they inst alim the cream OF
The saxninas Of the vhole sentinsus."
But til o0u1d net Is nm Il the whole
eontinent were not disposed to gamble.
Il 10 like Ensups twenty ysars ago when
Baden Baden With & ro1oe q noir and
baoaIat, drew rich spendthrifts from
every ooontry and paucksd them, yet it
vas not entinely Baden Baden which
made al gamble. The example Of these
epeoulatoes in corporate schemss Affects
the most sober people. One man from
Colorado came hsre three years ago and
soad mine with little or nothing IN II
Tor some millions of dollafs. Naturally
be was followed BY every honest miner
from Lake Superior to the Gulf Of Cal
ifornta: In little while they got away
With all the m0nev OF the crodulo0s
minds IN this vicinity. and are mon
toned now at q mans peril But the
railroad fever has Just passed its climax.
The last remarkable feat OF few men
N Ohio building . railroad between
Chicago and Buffalo and selling 1t for .
pro6t OF twelve million dollars, after
working only . year and . halt, would
provoke abundant imitation but for the
fact most OF the railroads now launched
~ sostern& on tae D5lnx 0! 1aAufe
the word ..syndioate" in oonneotion Mn
the Northern Paoifo Railroad eleyen
years AGO: TODAY eyery third man Won
meet down town has = syndicate. he
tells you that his svudicafe IL the lar
Rest ever formed: that il has fiftv mil
ion dollars in Il. and be repeata oyer
q list of bankers to Won. and ends bv
giving Won The private tin that voa had
Batter 6uv a Iittle of the oonstruction
stock. which is going nm next veek.
These coustructien stocks arc runnino
down "A fast a. thev can 90. for. In me-
the old phrase. many of these promoters
have ssbitten off more Cham thev can
chew" That is vhy Vanderbilt 6ouoht
the Nickle Plate road. / fancy-to brino
to their kueee the more eastern railrOads
which we're pointinQ towards Chicaoo.
all expecting to make LONG contracts 10
use the nickle-plate road. Vanderbilt
Qobbled up the one rival link betveen
him and the west. and naturally ali theae
c0nstruotion stooks feel diamaved. anal
presently. unlees thinos CHANGE. vou win
hear Of work beina stouped on several of
the Largo railroads vhlch are proceed
inc vestvard from New York.
orvv, p,u~., ,~ov.,c.
l have omitted to refer to another
CsiIornlan VINO ID hardly second TO any
oody nore In the power OF his money
ana ms falIroao extensl0ns-C. +. HUNT
you, VIII nus large OOoy, broad 6EEnk
ders, and very mild and almost timid
ceuntenAnoo. de ID un0btrusive, never
reaents being spoken to. will walk three
Dlocks 20 get his l1nch Tor 70 cents IN
stead OF 5O, and still nobody wants to
tack!e MN. In addition to tho proper
~>~S 49, "e~~S>e
ne controls With Gould, or perhaps con-
unues 20 contro! while Gould has gone
Out o! tnem, ne mas the great central en-
serPflse OF the Chesapeake and Ohio,
vnlcn ne mas been able to push forward
III u now apprOache6 the MlaNselppl
river; put lacking terminus at New
Iofk, y - spoken OF mare and less
spScoiaseo in IMAM some OF the small
fal!roaoe wnich run but 1OO miles west
OF the clsy. Another man much beiea-
Rueo aco abused, but Who keeps his
temper ana stays out OF tne turmoil, ID
deniy wizard: Nearly every interest
previously established ls opposed 70 him:
him -, sd~..cerssr ~. "a; -. -. 1870 49,
ty. and ia this oreaf oitv. vhere NOTHING
but wealth and What wealth can buv IL
considered, Willard il but half q sound.
II he would 90 into the street and bull
and bear in 4 dozen stocka hia name
would soon be in every mouth; but he
has an interesting family, aud an intel
lectuaI bias, and no admiration, / sus-
pect, for man like Gould and Keene. Who
are nothing without their money.
The life Of New York Civ ia nov yery
much what that of San Francisco was
before the Comstock lode gave out. Il
is city of spectators, capitalists.
skimmers and foreigners. Nobody here
has any time 70 pay attention to the
common safeguards of the Government.
We are having municipal elections who're
tho most outrageous characters are put