Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-05-24
THE NORTHWEST
OUR NEW YORK LETTER
New YORK, May IL, 1888.
dec.2l '52-yy.
From our Opn Correspondent.

New YORK, May IL, 1888.
We have had tornado and tremen-
dous thunder storm all within 4S hours.
The first was rather amusing to look at
from Broadway window in the vicinity
of the Fifth Avenue hotel as it made ter
rible havoc with the toilets of promen a.
ders, knocking bonnets, parasols and all
sorts of things in most confounded con-
fusion. Along the road where the fast
trotter5 generally have everything to
themselves, buggies were overturned and
horsemen knocked off their pins or rather
their seats, while a well proportioned
sport like Gabe Case, who happened to
exercise with dumbbells on the piazza of
his hotel, was whirled all the way up to
his bar. He claims, however, that he
was really "biown Off by some of his
friends.
1t is wonderful what an attraction the
dog show is to the ladies. Every after
noon the place is crowded with fairest
girls of New York, l will not say women,
because the majority are really misses.
Whence this canine enthusiasm on the
part of the fair sex? is the question gen.
orally asked by the locker on and nobody
knows, or pretends to know. One thing
is sure they pet and caress the little and
even the big brutes as if they were in
de ed such "darline creatures" and the
word hydrophobia had no existence at
all.
One dollar and seventy-1ive cents fare
in a palace car to Philadelphia is the la
test novelty in railroad travelling from
the metropolis, but heard somebody say
that the Philadelphia hotels have
brought about this reduction. They
want somebody to occupy their empty
rooms and yet / know of hundrt IS of
New Workers who wouldn't 90 to the
good city of brotherly love, even if the
fare was below dollar. There is an aw-
full .'cutting of rat going on, however,
again to various points of the compass
and everywhere l notice signs announc-
ing "cut tickets" notably to the west.
There will be extraordinary travel to
that section this summer. notably to
al encampment of the G. A. r. will
been west of Chicago.
Speaking of railroad matters, reminds
me that the story you have heard about
the Vanderbilt retirement from his road 1
and the circumstances cannected the e.
WIFI 10 uOL dlA COul0uI uc IOSts IL was
not because Mr.. Vanderbilt had too
much to look after, and wanted nothing
to do; the truth is, he never did look af-
ter anything and never attended person
ally to anything lately, except his horses
and his coupons. So this is all fudge.
We all remember when ia legislative en-
quiry three years ago,he was asked about
the amount of freight his road carried
per annum, he did not know it. When
asked about the system for bookkeeping
and the system of management general
ly, he had to refer to his lawyer. w. H.
Vanderbilt you may rely upon it, never
did days hard work since the Commo-
dore's death. But times change and so
does the railroad business. The West
Shore road running on the other side of
the Hudson. and going through to Buf.
falo, will be opened shortly and prove a
serious opposition to the Hudson River
and New York Central. In order to keep
the old road intact it was important to
get rid of figureheads and put practical
railroad men at the helm. But was the
Vanderbilt family to lose its control
financially. Not at all, and there came
in the shrewd mind of that ablest of rail-
road lawyers, Chauncey M. Depew, the
Vanderbilt family, which had made him
rich, must be nominally kept in control,
and yet the road which he represented
must be ably managed. So he devised a
new scheme which he made the reporters
believe is the English system, but which
is none of the kind, by which the chair
man OF the Board of Directors is made
an Office distinct from that of President
of the Board. The latter does really all
the work, has really everything to say,
while the former has the "honors." That
is about the English of it.
So our friend Barwich, the first man
who instituted a suit for $4,000 damage,
for breach of promise to marry, did not
get his amount after all, the refer J,
whose name, singular to say is "Croak,
deciding against him. That lawyer must
have been bewitched by the girl, for he
could not for his life's sake see where
Mr.. Barwich suffered injury or DANA
ges, as if fellow when he gets Tilted
don't get hurt in the most delicate spot
known to an upright man.
We are on the eve of having Hanging
gardens" Don't tell it to Chicago, be-
cause if they hear it they will surely be
ahead of us, as they always are, OF
course. Some fellow has got it into his
head to take advantage of the great span
of the Brooklyn Bridge, or use some OF
the arches and give US hanging gardens
II he don't hang himself before the gar.
dens are completed you need not place
any more faith in Radix.
The Casino, now the best constructed
theatre in this city, is also to have q
veritable garden, but that will be on
the roof, which affords ample opportuni
ty for promenading purposes. So you
see, with gardens in front Of us, gardens
on the top of us, and gardens below us,
we will have all the green we want dur.
ing the summer, even though immigra.
tion should be on the decline. RADK.