New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-28
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND.
THE PERSONAL MOTIFS AND NOTIONS or BROAD
WAY LOUNoEI.

THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS or A BROAD
WAY LoUNoEG.
During the week an old New YORKER OF Dutci
stock said to Ny brother bought about inc c'oeo
OF the war corner lot fftl-ave five or SIX SQUARES
from the Park gate which was not one prek OF o"u
amcro lot lie gave $4,000 for IT, being al tha' '''o
man worth n million and half lie went 10 E"'ope
to stay year and left me power oil ATTORNEY o'o' "s
rronertv One day was walking past the lot whom
,v.s surnriscd TO see bill stuck mp ON IT, For sale
took down the address the bll ana caed on the real
estate man and asked him how much he wac Offering
TINT corner lot for. He answered $4,000. Said !:
81 will take II at that's when will you have the deed
ready for met lie said he thought In about week. and
asked for my name. when I gave him my card the
name being the came that OF my brother hc turned
red and began TO crnee. Said ]: Now. YOU ec"undrc
take that bill within two hours or that fence .or VIII
have YOU arrested lie wrggled good deal aud tried
10 get my temper down. and said finally: Indeed sir
xre often do thing of this kind to tempt good offer
that may he happening along and then we communicate
with the owner and perhaps make sale to our own good
pro6t and not to injury OF the seller either Never
mind said ~ that notice is on that fence when go
oui To drive this afternoon will send policeman to
arrest you. l."
To continue the above story my Knckerb0cker friend
said "well In the course Of two or three weeks the
same real estate agent came to Inc with bona-tde ocr
of S6I 600 from customer. which was an increase on
that corner lot in fifth Of $4,000 Itclegraphcd
my brother Europe and his was to use my ow
discretion about settling. then went to an honoraoc
real estate man and asked him for advice. Said he: 'l
were YOU would not sell It, Well said ], will you
nut the property your list and SEQ what yoa can get
for III There hurry about It, but Just nurse II
along Well. air." continued the Knickerbockcr. |
finally sold that lot for $9s.ooo profit of $4,000
few years after the same lot was sold for $350oo or
100000 Increase in few years"
aNow tell me-" said I TO my Knickcrbockor friend.
what was of that lot - "Only % by 100 feet
merely suoh lot plain family has In this ana
every other city" &" What arc the taxes on that LOT
now a. said "They cannot be less than $1,000 year
The man who gave $4,000 for tho lot has erected upon
n house which with his furniture hns cost him at least
100000 The interest therefore. the investment Is
about S14 600 year Add taxes. $1,000 and 1t comes
along to nearly $1,000 and then It will cost that man
TO ye on scale commensurate with his house. $4,000
ayear making $4,000 yes. $4,000. my friend for the
privilege OF living at a corner OF Fifth ave"
NV informant then drew back and with swell OF HIS
great KnickorbOcker thus harangucd me: :" tell
you my boy there are no people IN tho world VINO Two
at tho figure that rich mon In New-fork do The rich
men of London do speud the money that hundreds OF
suo persons described above get away with to
keen fine houses In New-York. I have friend who
often says TO me: Well have got million and half
well invested. yet am not much moro than solvent
pauper In this city" "What did he moan by thstf
sWhy no meant that his fortune was nero song com
pared to the really noh around him. million dol
lars had ceased to any distinguishing quality In
Ncw-York. The who thus spoke TO me was born on
this island OF very pain parents and had for money
than he had ever expected and perhaps lived on
ten thousand year. but he me ant that his fortune dd
not procure for him anything Of the superiority he had
expected In this city"
N nar I'm
es assistant about the extension OF the Eric Railroad
from Hawley 10 Scranton distance OF perhaps sixty
miles Mr. Barber said "we arc going to build that
tine In get legitimate supply OF coal rhore
are two railroads running In there,-the Pennsyl-
ysnls Coal Compsny's and the Delaware and Hudsons
graded nes Those tracks full OF tonnage belong
ing TO the roads themselves that forced to build
N get nj the coal We shall build any rate 10 6cran
ton. and may continue further among tho mines.
Tbis suggested that there will be much more rail-
roaa built during present year than anticipated
a FEW weeks ago. when 1t was commonly said In Wall
Street that no enterprise could DO fosted
epeakjng to veteran operator who has not been very
fortunate In tho past two three years. but sim pre-
serves good and from bis misfortunes Is per-
hans the better qualified to give opinion. no sad My
observation Ia that all the strong down town are
bulls and the interest is nervous and has entirely
failed to make any capital out OF tho yarns they have
been telling the predictions OF evil they have made
On the other hand several OF them seem to be In dub
Gus condition. Mr. Kcene is now called Been.
md It has everybody with blank nsonishment to
read that he recently morgagcd bis house at Newport
What do you mako OF that' said I. "Wby, can
onv make of that lie has Clipped In TO almost every
thing and being Clipped off here and there. the aggro
rate chips have brought him fiat He docs not hold any
controlling power in the street to-day. nor is his udg
,nent regarded determining much OF anything I"
What do you think OF Vanderbilt" al can only
hnl ho,,ff ha faru fail IN
In remarkable activity little while ago when ho sold
block OF HE Central stock It interpreted TO be tim
faty but look ut the ground he has covered since that
time First Michigan Central, next tho Northwestern
and now they ANY tho Illinois Central bcsidos his Cana
dian road and the Omaha and Nickel Plato purchases.
and finally extensive operations In Pennsylvania which,
An my Judgment will assist TO put Pennsylvania In ten
or ffteen years abe d OF this State In population"
aLook at IT," observed my HISTORIAN friend; much OF
tho railroad building OF tho whole country is pointing
toward Pennsylvania. Coal and iron. and particularly
coal are attracting toward that State oil tho railroads
New-York Hero the Eric. the Central and the
Rochester State lines reaching for TO Penn
sylyania The old Cumberland Valley has become the
line OF route 10 the South. and the southern por
ton Of to be crossed westward making
three east Pennsyyans trunk lines white mid
die and western Pennsylvania, the northern line.
being poughed into by milf dozen stems branches.
The pOpulhtOn of Pennsylvania at tho last census
was nearly 100000 and that OF New-YOrk less than
bIO0, 600 While New York Ia growing magnifcently,
particularly In her Cities her country parts not dc
yeloping like Pennsylvania. We shall think. keep
our distance from her by the growth OF NewYork City
and Brooklyn. which nothing seems TO arrest Said
10 this friend: How much railroad do you
anticipate will be built during 1887 "NOt less than
three thousand miles, and IL may be ak thousand YOn
must remember that two trunk lines TO Buffalo
not finished by any means and they will into this
years work. The Reading Railroad extensions OF vnr
GUS kinds In Pennsylvania will AMOUNT TO several hun .
dred miles Indeed there IL 10 largo trunk system that
Is not building something this year"
observed that among the burned bodies in the rail