The National tribune., 1884-05-29
GOTHAM CHAT.
AbOnt Hen and Things.

Even the approaching political convention is
still secondary matter of discussion and gen.
eral interest in comparison with the recent
financial eccentricities developed among bank
presidents. In fact, nothing is so interesting
to the average New Yorker as money The
rise and fall of shares is the main thing, and
what little attention this Chicago proceedings
viii attract will be IN the light of the effect
the nominee will have upon the bull " or
bear" side of the market New York, as a
whole, would be devoutly thankful if there
were some way to avoid this great political
contest once in four years, with its attendant
inconvenience of business stagnation and
moments Of disturbing uncertainty. "Presi-
Dental year" has charged up to it all the lis Of
the financial world, and all will respond with
an unanimous amen when it is over, with
out much thought for who has won. Not more
than one man in Eve ever votes, and while few
know the difference between the great party
platforms, all have some fixed and strenuous
opinions upon the subject Of commerce and
business affairs.
So
After much more than week Of indifference,
apparently, the Federal officials last Saturday
suddenly concluded that a national bank presi-
dent who had enbezzled a couple Of milliOnsof
the money of the institution of which he was
the head had violated the law, and two deputy
sherifs were sent to search the house of John
G. Emo with warrants for his arrest. Having
thirty million dollar father, who had made
good his pilferings, the local authorities had
lost interest in the man, and it seems that the
Comptroller Of the Currency at Washington
required about week to make up his mind
what duty the statutes imposed upon him.
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At about the same hour deputy sheriffs were
sent TO search for President Fish, ofthe Ma
rine bank, and they found him on Sunday
night at his rooms in the Mystic Apartment
House. He took his arrest coolIy.
SIS
Ferdinand Ward seems to rest uneasily in
his cell in Ludlow street Jail. he is badly
shaken, and it is believed will tell ali he knows
as fast as he gets the opportunity. The more
his wonderful system of fnancering is inyesti-
gated the more it appears that Ward was sim
/ ply clever swindler, aud was working out
scheme as a result of which, in a few days more,
/ he would probably have been en- route for parts
/ unknown, with several millions IN his baggage
| had not the crash been pTecipitated before he
( anticipated IT,
1 The cell Ward occupies is the one in which
/ Boss" Tweed was housed after his return
! from Spain, and where he died some years ago.
+ 1t Is pleasant room for prisoner, and by no
means conforms to the popular idea Of a cell.
/ In the center stands table, over which hangs
a large gas-burning chandelier of half a dozen
/ jets. There is an upholstered sofa against the
wall at the left of the entrance, and three easy
! chairs TO match there are two or three light
cherry-stained chairs ranged about the room,
[ and the walls are decorated with a couple Of
mirrors and several historic eBgravings. A
Brussels carpet covers the floor. The prisoner
| takes his meals down stairs at his own-or his
late customers expense.
Mrs. Ward is lady of stylish appearance,
with light, curling blonde hair, cut short IN
| the English fashion, and she wears eyeglasses.
She comes daily 70 visit her husband.
as
Memorial Day is to be observed very gener-
ally in this city and Brooklyn by the Posts OF
the Grand Army. At Central Park there is TO
be a ceremony Of another character in the IN
yelling of the Bolivar statue presented by the
Republic of Venezuela. The figure has been in
place forsix weeks underasqu2re tent to prevent
exposure TO the eye of the visitor until il shall
be formally uncovered. This is plan adopted
with all the statues made by the Henry Bonnard
Bronze Company, as was this one. 1t is an
idea OF Mr.. james Gillian, late United States
He regarded it as a farce to have work of art
or historic interest exposed for weeks, and then
covered up the morning it was to be unveiled.
He conceived the plan of erecting high square
tent over the foundation where the figure was
to stand. All the work of putting it in place
was then carried on under this canopy.
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hear that the proprietors of summer resorts
are very blue The mammoth hotel at Roeka-
way is not to be opened at all. In this venture
and the railroad built TO feed it, were sunk
some hundreds of thousands which Fisk &
Hatch would have been glad had they never
allowed to leave their vaults. 1t is currently
believed that but for this Rockaway enterprise
the firms doors would not have been closed
and barred during the recent trouble. Al
Newport the rent of cottages has fallen twenty
per cent. within a month, and there are many
reported empty yet at Long Branch.
SIS
The American and Colonial Exchange wa
formally opened ON Union Square Saturday
night with great pomp and no little SPLENDID
in the way of appointment and attendance
There was a large crowd of famous people VIII,
travel, or act or write or sing. Among Others
were Lord Vaudeville, the Marquis de Leuville
and Mrs. Frank Leslie, whose dozen publiea
tions net her $4,000 year.
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Mr.. Edwin Fl. Low. the manager of the Ex
change is brother-in-law of the Counties
Marchetta, Wisconsin girl, better known b,
her nom de plume Blanche Roosevelt, who ha
made name as 8 writer and singer.
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