Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28
For the Republican.
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
New YORK, Feb. Goth, 1883.

make tour around the world, has natur-
ally caused great deal of comment, and
the question is. common OH the street, who
can take his place as leader in that bat
tie for wealth should he die. Certainly
the Vanderbilts have no chance. They
lack breadth of view, attention to detail
and energy of execution. From Will
lam H., down to the youngest, none of
them possesses in any way the qualities
Necessary to make great operator.
Gould's son George is in active training
for the position, but although clever, am
bitions and hard worker he is yet too
young to be able to weld the sabre de
Son pere. Among the leading people Of
the street it is the belief that Henry Vii
lard IL the coming man. Although of
German birth he is every inch an Ameri
can. He has genius for management,
and during the past few years he has de-
veloped into the most accomplished rail
way manipulator perhaps, outside of
Gould. His schemes are on large scale
and he therefore has the experience nee
essary in order to lead. Besides he has
the reputation Of being reliable. He has
never betrayed his friends, nor has be
ever deliberately given one the wrong
point. Furthermore he has horror for
law suits AMI is thus a safe man in every
respect. He is one OF the principal own
ers of the Evening Pest, and his upright
ness can best be Judged from the fact that
the financial columns Of this paper are
never used t. b lister up any pet schemes
rs Gould does in the World
Apropos of the World 1t it is still in
the market. but somehow nobody seems
to want it. There is now talk of reduc-
ing it to a four page paper, and emitting
all financial matter and Wall Street gos-
sip, excepting the mere exchange and
market reports Gould seems TO have
had enough of it.
The Lenten sermons preached this
year in the various churches are general
ly of a high order, much above the aver
age. The preachers as rule suggest
practicable subjects, and therefore obtain
practicable results. Rev. Dr. Morgan
Dix IN particular has attracted particular
attention by his lectures on Womans s
| Duties The sermons, [ understand are
to be collected and printed in pam
! phlet. Dr. Dix is also col Getting material
for biography of his father, the late
Governor Dix. This should prove an in
| teresting work and a valuable contrIbu-
ton to the history of the New York of
century ago.
Our friends "a the other side of the
North River, the New Jerseyltes, predict
that spring is at hand, or at all events
will make its debut much earlier this
year than formerly. The reason for this
is the advent of blue birds in large
focks These charming little harbingers
of Spring usually come to stay and hence
there is every prospect that the terrors of
winter are nearly over. And how glad
everybody will be in this city. 1t seems
to me that winters in town are getting
more disagreeable from year to year. This
beneath slush. We have a Street Clean
ing Department which annually swal-
lows up many millions and yet we have
nothing to show for it. With the excep
ton of Broadway and few very few
favored localities, people have not seen
t le paving stones since the first snow
storm. The slush alternately freezes and
softens but stays. A physician tells me
that hard times are In store for US this
summer. in consequence Of this shameful
neglect of the authorities. Malaria and
typhus will carry off thousands 'of victims.
''The ground" said he, "could not have
been better prepared for an epidemic, if
Commissioner Coleman and the contract
ors bad made league with death against
the welfare ofNew York.
Blanche Douglass the notorious he
roine of the Jennie Cramer mystery, is
fast going the downward path She has
taken to drinking, is rapidly losing her
good looks and is on the highway to be-
sotedness. The woman despite her career
has always found sympathisers and the
police SO ready to override the down
trodden have invariably been kind to
her. The other morning she was found
almost intfront of Police Headquarters
helplessly drunk. Instead of arresting
her good natured policeman took her
home.
Rather an interesting will controversy
is that over the property left by Elias Fl.
Elias who died at the st. Cloud Hotel in
the summer of 1881. Elias was the or
iginator of the dollar store system. He
was typical smart Yankee and an indie
fatigable worker. In his time he must
have made millions, but as he did not have
the faculty of retaining them they slipped
through his fingers. He was one of those
men who would bring a marvellous in
genuity into play to get the better of you
if it was only a matter of a few cents,
and then turn around and present you
with as many dollars out of pure good
nature. When he died he was supposed
to be worth about $4,000. The most
diligent search, however, failed to discover
more than $1,70O, and his three brothers
and his sister are now trying to get this
from the widow. Seventeen hundred
dollars is of course not much for the law
yers but they will take it all the same.
Strange how quickly the dollar store sys-
tenn disappeared after Elias died. Now
you cannot find them anywhere outside
of the backwoods towns. In this city
the drygooGs houses haye become the leg
itimate heirs of the system, and under
the circumstances as they are driven to
cut prices To the nuick almost in the in