New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11
TOWN TALk.
PERSONAL AND PRACTICAL.

lOWN 1ALAs
PERSONAL AND PRACTICAL
REAL TRANSPORTATION scEsE.-rhis year WIZ
nesses transformation OF the last OF the npe oio resi-
denccs which stood the south side OF West twenty
thrds between Fifth and Sixth from once fasn-
fonable dwellings into stores and shops. only TWO OK
them remained on May 1 last, and these now change
their fronts their styles. On the north side only
ono large dwelling house remains, and ADJOINING
1t @ museum summer garden and dry-gooos store
combined rapidly going Is safe to assume thas
In year the whole block will be devoted to business
purposes. Twenty hirdst as it was-s place OF real
dences only-is practically far noi th as Forty
second7st, with strong upward tendency.
or INTEREST TO Bio DINNER GrvERs-The new ban.
quoting hall which Stokes Reed, of the Hoffman
House. have built the chief feature OF the addition TO
the Twenty hfthsts probably the moss
spacious costly the country II VIII nave coss
when completed IN the furnishing and decorating alone
and in the (which Mr.. Stokes Is now bringing
with him on the Alaska which sailed on Saturday, over
| $l25,OOO.
WHY LOTTERIES HAVE FAnED-"I should suppose"
said yer yesterday who has been engaged Ia soma
growing OF the lottery ventures IN TINS STATE
that THE TRIBUNE would feellikc congratuating itself
over the decision Of Gresham srevv'
| ing the order excluding the lottery companies
from the mails." "whyr asked Be
| cause when all other papers were either silent
or were publishing the advertisements and cookedup
! defences OF the lottery companies The TRIBUNE wa
almost daily exposing the frauds committed by them.
To 1t alone the credit 10 due OF bringing about this
actios." well what does the action amount tot Peo-
pie wiz gamble in lotteries" YES" was the repy.
but it isn't everybody every lottery company that
can afford to keep up the eonvenences for gambling
takes money to lottery fraud and II the machinery
does not pay for itself by bringing dupes enough then
nobody Is going To iun It, The Louisiana company had
perfect machinery long Ii had the nails deprived
OF them II will die" Z" have heard there Lottery
Ring in the Post Office" I, did long survive the
practical death OF And 1t can't be readily
revived again."
| VARIED ESTIMATES VALUE" You have some
queer value here" said Chicago publisher
| In conversation with TRIBUNE writer day or two
| ago. "In what way I" asked In two lines" he
replied the legal and the literary 1 notice that tho
highest value you place upon life lost In an accident
$4,000 while lost limb may DO valued By jury at
amount, and the shocked OF Major Harold
valued as high as $4,000 breach OF promise
higher the girl Is all pretty and the jury suscept
Bile. to several times the valuation OF life and notice
that for libel her character Miss Marie Prescott the
actress allowed two and half times what ner heirs
would gotten IL the corporation had killed her out
right" and In the literary way r. "I mud publishing
houses get English novels at low rate $3.50,
| while English publishers paying some American
writers 81 500 for their novels Then, look at your
metropolitan newspapers Sunday; their prices OF
/ the most extraordinary variety. HE TRIBUNE anu
Times for instance, enlarge their space 90 per cent
but advance their price only 25 per The HeTdd
snlarges from TO per cent in size and SO cent In
price. The Sun aud Star double their dimensions but
increase their charges only half much. and still taat
| double the advance charged by THs TRIBUNE And,
finally, there is The (new World which doesn't enlarge
at oil, but advances its price Sunday so per cent
Where is the philosophy OF oil this %
"CogSEEL" vASDERBTLr's OgBr.-The settlement Of
the the Cornelius Vanderbilt has
ed revival of statements regarding the OF his
Indebtedness the late Horace Greeley Some OF these
which have noticed" said gentleman who took part
IN the final closing OF that extraordinary account "do
injustice to the dead man and fall TO do Justice 70
! those living The only evidence OF Cornell Wander
bits indebtedness TO Mr. Greeley two notes. each
for half OF the which credited to Mr. Greeley
when Cornell took advantage OF the bankrupt law and
eyaded all payments He gave these notes to Mr. Greeley
acknowledgment OF his indebtedness and his inteR-
ton pay him day. and then he began borrow
OF Mr.. Greeley again. Years elapsed and when Cornell
4 furnished with means to pay, the principal and in
aggreg eighty odd thousand dollars Of which
all but $4,000 paid to the daughters In cash. Two
notes for 900 each at were given to each OF
the daughters in lieu Of this but they have
been Endorsed by Mr.. L. ID. Worcester who prac-
| cally the guardian OF Cornell. but who figured
trustee Of the fund Mr. Worcester Endorsed
these notes. for that II Cornell should
before tsey became due he would have to pay them
OF his own pocket. Cornell asked TO pay them
cash. perfectly willing do but Of his
lawyers opposed him in doing It, 1t finally the
ears OF Mr.. william H. Vanderbilt that these were
out and he directed that they be taken up Thoy
thereupon paid the daughters in person In the Office
OF Scott Lord. The money TO pay the Greeley claim WA
furnished by Mr.. W. H. Vanderbilt and in addition
| to trust fund Of 100000 which he added the
$1,000 left Cornell by his father 1t cost tho Van
derbit estate and Mr.. W. H. Vanderbilt about $4,000
In all 10 quidate Corneeps debts and to take of
| HIM"