Omaha daily bee., 1883-09-27
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
Strange Bed Fellows in Political
Partnership.
The Stewart Schools - Tenement
House Property - Conk-
ling's Fortune.

, eral of the dead journalist, Hugh
Hastings, brought together an unusu,
number of prominent politicians, an
their presence was still mere strongl
suggestive OF the absent, who we're in tn
full swing Of power here fifteen year
ago. Then both sides Of the politics
house pulled together personally when i
was a question Of office and spoils, an,
the go-betweens grew rich. The leader
are widely scattered now. Tweed anc
Connolly are dead. Sweeny and Ton
Field are %exiles, who would give all thei
money to return to their old haunts will
IMMUNITY. Genet has served hi
term at Blackwell's Island
John T. Hoffman, whom Tweed
would have made President had he re
manned in power, fingers like q ghost
around the scene of his former glory, as
do the three great Tammany Senator's
Mike Norton, Dreamer and Bradley,
Twelve years ago they we're the political
dictators of the city. On the other side
of the house, pulling with these men
politically, as occasion offered, was
Folger, who had been a County Judge in
the country on a small salary and had
risen to be State Senator (it was Tweed
who made him Judge of the Court OF
Appeals afterward). Tom Murphy, Sena-
tor and ally of Tweed in all his spesula-
tions; Chester A. Arthur, who was Tom
Murphy's lawyer and counsel to all
the politicians in turn, and Hugh
Hastings, the power behind the local
Republican throne, were the friends
of Tweed and Swesny, and
helped them to rule the city and S-ate.
1t was a curious copartnership. They all
played cards together, and never dreamed
of disputing over politics. OF all the
gang luck has specially befriended the
one who least expected it, General Ar
thur. At the funeral of Mr.. Hastings
he headed the procession, burly, sun
burned, yet courtly, conscious that all
eyes were upon him and that he was
playing the part well. Senator Conkling
who is growing stout az his hair and
beard whiten, was there as courtly as of
yore, still more the observed of obser-
vers than the President. Poor Tom
Murphy, who is aging under the neglect
that has followed his loss of wealth,
took . back seat and did not court
observation. Jay Gould looked as
placid as if he had Just "died in the
Lord" himself; but a rude bystander
threatened to upset his equanimity once
by exclaiming: "By Jove, Jay Gould is
the homeliest man among the whole gang
Of pail bearers" But, while there were
many political stars of the first magnitude
among the throng at the dead lobbyists
funeral, a good many of the white haired
men of olden times showed by their re-
marks that the occasion had been uuusu
ally suggestive of the ghosts of departed
politicians and the cyclonic changes that
had sent our present rulers to the front.
President Arthur did a very graceful act
in being present and acting as pail bearer,
thereby atsning for a personal neglect of
the living man, which had ranked in the
latter's heart.
A notable ecclesiastical event is the
opening this week of the new st. Paul's
school at Garden City, Long Island, in
its handsome new buildings erected by
the liberality of Mrs. A. 7. Stewart.
The school is intended to be a copy OF
Elton and Rugby, in England, and will
have six "forms," four of which are al
ready at work with thirty-five scholars.
The full capacity of the school will be
800, and the charge fer a pupil is $500 a
year, which removes it effectually from
all suspicion of charity. A girls school
on the same plan is to be opened shortly.
These schools are part of . system which
intends to make a cathedral city out of
Garden City, and to 80 arrange financial
details that heresy and change can find
no Judgement there. The elegant cathe-
dral is almost completed and
a bishops palace is in
course Of construction. In fact,
money is carrying out on a grand
scale a plan which the late Bishop Doane,
Of New Jersey, contemplated and begun
at Burlington. His boys school, with
its six "forms," had 100 scholars at one
time; but the Bishop, who war the most
eloquent ecclesiastical orator Of his day,
was no financier, and he came to grief at
a crisis when success had just become
possible. Mrs. Stewart has the none
to do as she pleases at Garden City; but
she ia old, and tho work progresses slow
ly. This sets people to thinking of what
Judge Hilton did with the Stewart Hotel
for young women, and they are in u hur-
ry to see the buildings completed and
handed over to the ~Episcopalians.
Half Of New York certainly does not
know how the other hall lives, Colonel
Emmsns Clark, who commands the
Seventh Regiment, and is also Secretary
of the Health Board, told the wa ndering
Senate Committee on Labor and Educa-
ton the other day that half the population
of this city, SOC, 900 souls, live in tene-
ments. "Ars tenement houses fit for
human beings to live in2' asked Senator
Blair, of New Hampshire. 81 cannot
say that they are" was the reply. Colo
mel Clark explained subsequently by say
ing hat many of the worst tenements
were owned by mon living in Europe or
travelling elsewhere abroad, and the
tents were collected by agents who
were not responsible for their evils.
Tenement property pays from 12 to
20 per cent on the Investment, and is
exceedingly difficult to purchase. 1t has
advanced in value much more rapidly
than real estate in fashionable quarters.
The demand is constant and the people
seem content with any kind of a roof that
will shelter them. About sne-fourth OF
the population live in flats or apartment
houses, in addition to those who board,
and this leaves a very small percentage
OF the population who can afford the lux
ury of a separate house-ofa home of the
past generation. Yet New Workers love
their city and will endure any sort of pri-
walton sOoner than leaya IL fnr tha snL.