The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-15
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
Correspondence of the Democrat. ]
New YoRK. Nov. 1Otb. 1889.

ton costs in this city. In conversa-
ton with a lifelong managing politi-
clan the other evening, I was told
that both the Republican and the
Democratic parties this year would
spend but little less than 100000. 1t
cost ten dollars in each of the $50 odd
election districts to handle the tickets.
Besides there are the cost of booths,
porters etc. These are only the
strictly Legitimate expenses. This
for Supreme Court ~Judgeships $751;
600 each. The other organizations
assessed theirs $4,000 each. The can-
didate for Register is assessed 49,
600 by Tammany. Then for others
the assessment is lower, as low as $500
for a candidate for Assembly in some
districts. The number of ballots
printed for the different parties falls
little short of a hundred millions. In
Presidential years the cost is ofcourse
much higher.
This is the season of the year when
the adventuer comes back to own
and prepares for the winters cam
paign. Some of the devices resorted
to by these worthless that live by their
wits are really remarkable, and the
genius exercised by these adventures,
if directed into legitimate channels
would make them rich and prosper
u in almost any undertaking. 1
came across rather q queer case the
other day. A lady whose husband
had recently died, leaving her in not
exactly af1uent circumstances was
looking for something to do to in
crease her income. One day she 10
ticed an advertisement in a certain
paper, in which the advertiser desired
a lady as partner in q dress-making
business, she to manage the home de-
partment, while he proposed to travel
about and drum up trade. The lady
answered it, requesting the advertiser
TO call at her home. 1t might be add
ed that the lady in question is a state
ly woman, of superb figure and as
clever as she is good looking. The
same day a Ratchet faced individual
with a strangely foxey look called.
After a few minutes conversation
the lady noticed that the business he
proposed was not entirely that o.
making dresses. At least she Judged
so from the guarded and at the same
time significant manner in which ht
spoke. Her curiosity being aroused
she encouraged him, and then he I'm
folded his plan. 1t was no less thai
+ a scheme to run a ladies gambling
house, the dressmaking business to D,
!, a cloak for it. He grew quite enthusi
astic as he unfCided his project
i "Why," said he, 'every great Euro
= man oonifoI lilo par;o CT Daso,,h,,u
Londen and Berlin, have establish
ments of this kind. New York is un
provided. The income of such
: place is enormous. You are just tn
woman for the business. l see b,
!. your looks hat you have executiv
ability, and it will be your bushes
= to get such men as Vanderbilt, ia,
8 Gould and others under your contro
), SO that you can call on them for
e cheek OF $1,000 or 5000 at any time.
The lady is a Southern woman, an
d therefore hot tempered. When Ii
was through she opened the door an
exclaimed "get, and thank your stai
9 that / do not throttle you, you villain
to insult ME in this manner Sh
afterwards regretted that she had nc
quietly sent for n policeman and -ha
! him arrested, TO prevent him fror
earring out his %nefarious plan.
{ 1t is understood that Mr.. Benne'
{ is shortly expected back from Europ,
y because the Herald's war against til
t. newsdealers is progressing in any
1t thing but a satisfactory
,r was talking with an old Herald ma
about the affair the other day, an
| conversation turned upon the extr:
ordinary manner in which "the youn
man" is pulling Mr.. Williams, who
conducting the war for the pape
'e Said he ''if Williams has q level hea
he will resign from the paper IL
IS moment he hears that "the yoir
re man. is at Sandy Hook, for oiherwi,
d he will either be decapitated or SCI
IS to report fires at space rates. That
70 Benefits habit he raises a nan so his
:. and makes so much out of him as
u almost make his head turn, then ]
% knocks the conceit out of him by d
s grading him 10 the ranks of ordiual
I'd reporters. He has always done hi
- Look at poor Sam Glenn, one of Il
IN brightest zen on the staff, and wi
L. worked with the elder Beune
gs When he was racked with consum
ton and scarcely able to walk tn
~ put him to reporting. 1t was q pit
= fui sight to see the old man waikiki
III about. 1t was a relief to ones sen;
y bilities when the old man died.
OF Mapleson expects to give Abb
IL the COUP DE GRACE when Patti
rives. She will reach this port I
morrow and will. make her debut
ho Friday night in La Gazza Ladra.
f is now generally understood that I
a. new Metropolitan Opera House is
gigantic failure. 1t is now a questi
~ to save what a be saved by a redl
ton of prices of admission, but wi
i the expenses at SIP, 500 a night it
de hard to see how II money can
- made. Ofcourse this will necessit.
he Mr.. Vanderbilt's going down into
an pockets and making good the deici
or Hence nobody will weep over I
,;s affair.
Henry Irving and Miss Terry We
mr. the cynosure of all eyes on Fl
- Avenue last Sunday. The lady no
ever dresses in very bad taste. S
III. is thin as a rail, and is evidently Il
OF ing to conceal this sparseness of
We lures gifts by an abundance of clotl
IN which leaves her without any fgl
De- at all.
10 The proposed walking match
tween Rowell and Fitzgerald will l
"a take place until December. Row
III is not very we'll, and his training
consequence is very light. JOHN