Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-05-12

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tfon-Madame Borry-yKrs. Potter. etc.
Special Correspondence Of The EVENING STAR.
NEW YORK, May IL, 1888.
The sensation of the week has been the
Brooklyn bridge. Parties have been made up
every night of people from all parts Of the city,
who went down and crossed the bridge to
Brooklyn, came back in the ferry boats, ate
oysters at Dorlon's and went up again on the
elevated roads. 1t is o trip Of about eight
miles from the 9Th Avenue Hotel, and can be
comfortably done in three hours. There is no
| use intrying to describe the bridge. So many
men have rhapsodied over 1t that out of town it
! must be as great bore as it is here. Every
body knows that 1t is superb structure, but
nobody appreciates its vastness till he walks
across. The most remarkable sensation is that
felt when you reach the middle of the bridge.
The towers seem mile away on either side, and
there is nothing to support you except the wire
ropes, which stretch away apparently into in
f1nity on either end. Below it is vast distance
to the water. The steamers look like row boats
| and the people one-tenth their size. The abso-
lutte solidity Of the bridge surprises one for when
you stand in the middle it seems as firm as
earth. There is absolutely no movement or
| tremor to the structure.
ADVICE 10 SANDEkBlLT.
ALI Of the New York dailies have been giving
William n. Vanderbilt good advice ever since
| his retirement from the control of the New
York Central and active participation in the
stock market. The advice all runs in one way
The twO-hundred millionaire is urged to give
up all idea of future pelf. to cease boarding his
| money, and to make his name great by some
| noble work OF charity. He is informed-as
/ though he did not know 1t himself-that he is
| worth several hundred millions personally, and
| that each of his sons is endowed with an enor-
| nous fortune. He is asked why he does not 60
/ to work on something philanthropic on gigan-
tic SCALE l presume this amuses Vanderbilt.
| He Is the sort Of q millionaire who always
| looked out for his own interest. and the man
who approached him for charity's sake. as 2
rule, got beautifully left. There is no doubt
that he Is glad to get out Of the stock market
| and ont Of the financial world. He is not Q
| fnancier by instinct or liking. and his whole
transactions In the market have been
the result OF necessity. With the
perative duty to look out for his holdings In the
Central road. and keep brisk eye out for the
other stocks; but slowly he has been unloading,
until at present he is wei out of it all and in the
calm enjoyment Of bis almost boundless riches
Vanderbilt is accused Of Sinking his duty just
| when bis presence Is most needed In q month
or so the West Shore and Buffalo railroad will
be opened and In active competition with the
| New York Central The West Shore is by far
the better road. Its equipment IL superb. and
it has been built with every advantage in the
world. For the most Of the distance it IL q four
track road and granite bed with heavy ties
laid within three inches Of each other so that it
will run very smoothly. All of the rolling stock
and station appointments have been selected
| without regard for expense and there is no
doubt that it is the most formidable rival the
| New York Central ever had. 1t was built to
kin the Central. Possiblyit may succeed, and
If 1t does William H. V. Is well out of It, Again,
1t may not kill the Central, but 1t is certain to
| decrease the price OF Central stock. Again VIII
liam II. V. Is well out from under.
THE SALE OF THE ''woRLD."
When Gould declared some weeks ago that
he would get rid Of all of his interests here
except those In railroads and telegraph wires
people began to look curiously at the World.
Gould had SUNK 1t is said. $4,000 a week in 1t
ever since he had started, and he had decided
to get rid of the paper. The only question was
to whom would he sell It? John Mclean was
known to be in negotiation for it, as he wished
to start another Cincinnati Inquirer in New
York and Thomas kinsella, ofthe Brooklyn Eagle,
thought OF buying it. But the man who decided
to buy the World in the first place was the
man to whom the sale was completed last Wed
nesday. Joseph Pulitzer. Of the st. Louis Post
Dispatch. is the man who decided to buy the
World when he started the Morning Journal
is seven column penny paper, and has already
attained circulation OF Sc, 900. but it does not
pay. How can you print seven column paper
of city news. employ big staff of reporters and
compete with the great NewYork dailies fore one
cent? The Pulitzer brOthers-for the brother of
Joseph, Of st. Louis, runs the .Iou,-ndl-haye
claimed all along that their paper was making
money. The general impression among news
paper men is that it has already sunk CSC, 600
at least 1t is a fact that they have within the
last Il nd AZ Of
the paper was making money they certainly
would not have done this. Joseph Pulitzer
will now take charge Of the World,
and in his own language "shake
things up in New York" He Is tall
man with Jewish cast offeatures. protruding
nose and chin, such as We see In the pictures OF
witches In childrens books, and q thin and
struggling red beard. He stoops In the shoul-
ders and dresses extensively. His manner Is
extremely pleasant and affable and he has the
genuine ego" about him that is usually met In
western men who have realized large fortunes
in a little time. PulifZers career has been ex-
traordinary. He has been q coachmau, q day
laborer. a deck hand and q grave digger. Dur
ing the cholera epidemic In st. Louis he per-
formed the ghoulist task of burying the dead at
night. When he started the Post Dispatch he
received more kicks and cuffs than most men
would stand, but he stuck to his work like a
Trojan. and now the paper brings him in about
$50, 900 year. His career with the World will
be watched with interest am told on excel
lent authority that the World and Journal will
now be joined. Great prominence will be given
to city news and there is no doubt but they will
push the regular New York dailes pretty hard
in the race for the biggest circulation.
STRANGE FUNERAL.
Two mornings ago, as l was going down
Broadway In q stage, passed funeral process
sion, the like Of which / have seldom seen be-
fore. The hearse, which was without plumes
had plain black cloths stretched across the side
windows, drawn by pair of black horses, and
driven by couple of solemn and grave young
negroes, in perfectly fitting black livery. Behind
1t came six or eight carriages, and each equip
age was perfect in all its appointments. The
horses were perfectly groomed, and the footman
and coachman well trained and stylish in APP
pearance Each of them had black Grape on his
arm, and there was Grape on the horses harness.
On every carriage was q crest. 1t was the fune-
raj of Louis C. Hammersly. who was. perhaps.
one of the best known young society men in
New York. His father died five months ago.
and it is said that the son actually grieved him.
self to death for his father. For many years the
pair were inseparable They went everywhere
together. They were not apart five minutes In
the day, and were the warmest of companions.
Both the father and the son were worth several
millions anieca and thew lived I'm OuQf hurry