Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-12
MANHATTAN'S STREETS.
WHENCE SOME OF THEM De
RIVE THEIR NAMES.
Many of Those with the Most Aristo-
cratic Names Among the Most SquaIid
An ElOpement of the Early Days Of
Manhattan-TwO Negroes with S13,-
900, 900.
Correspor.de1lce 80 I[ornfnn Ne,ns

would not feel cOmplimented if they knew
to what base uses some of those thorough
fares are put, and how given over to pow
erty, if not to crime, they nearly all are.
AS rule the more distinguished the
name a New York street bears, the more
squalid and poverty-stricken it Is. Wash
ington street, for example, which in Bos-
ton is the chief thoroughfare of the city,
here is lined for the better part of its
length with tenements, and nowhere is
worthy of it's name. Franklin street is a
great improvement on Washington, but
the street named after the distinguished
English contemporary of Washington and
Franklin and sympathizer with the cause
which they representative great Lord
Chatham-has become a synonym for
roguery and dishonest dealing. A Chat
ham salOon-keeper, by the way, has the
announcement outside his premises, ''Pe-
ruvian cocktails a specially" l wonder
whether they were Blaine's favorite drink
when the plumed knight was Secretary
of State! Madison, Monroe, jefferson and
jackson streets bear evidences of having
seen better DAYS, but are equally evidently
| on the downward path. The same may
be said Of Clinton, Montgomery, Morris,
| Roosevelt, and a host of other downtown
| streets with distinguished names. De-
| lancey street commentaries the Tory
| leader of the Revolution in an unsavory
manner, but Judge Jones, his fellow Tory,
who, like true patriot, left his country
| for his country's good, is remembered in
! the still respectable Great Jones street,
which marks boundary line oftbe Jones
| farm.
The site of the St. Charles Hotel. on
! Broadway, near Blocker street, is APP
! parently all that there is left of that farm,
| and, despite Its situation, owing to Ger.
| tain circumstances, it is far from paying
| property. 1t is left in trust to the chill
| dren Of the survivor of two members Of
the Jones family. Mrs. Seabury, widow
| of a descendant of Bishop Seabury, and
her brother. Mrs. Seabury has the rental
of the hotel, but as that merely covers the
taxes, she is not much the gamer from it.
Of course, the Anticipated structure
should be pulled down and a bust
ness building with modern improvements
erected in its place, but Mrs. Seabury is
naturally not inclined to spend fortune
in improving property which may never
be hers, and her brother of course has not
so much interest in rendering the premi-
ses valuable as she has. Consequently
the spectacle is presented of building
on Broadway renting for no more than
enough to pay taxes and repairs, and this
has been going on for years.
WHILE ON SIMILAR SUBJECT LET ME
TELL YOU
a bit of family history connected with old
John Cochrane, the candidate for Alder
man-at-large on the Tammany ticket.
The story is an old One-Older even than
Gen. Cochrane himself-but it has prOba-
bly, never been told in print, and it is in
teresting, as it treats of a parent possess
ing harshness usually found only in the
hard-hearted fathers of fiction. Gen.
Cochrane's father, who also had some
military title-I think it was Captain;
Generals were not so common in those
days-was in love with the daughter of
Peter Smith, the founder of Peterboro, in
the central part of this city, and father of
Gerritt Smith, the great Abolitionist. His
suit was not countenanced by the Iady's
parents, her father being especially
averse, but he was nevertheless allowed
to visit her. He was even permitted to
take her out driving-in those primitive
days it was not considered improper in a
young woman being alone with young
man-and he made use of this privilege
one Eday to drive to a magistrates and
get married. This done, the bridal pair
continued their drive to the house of
James Kip, one of the family, after which
Kip's bay in the East river is named, in
Utica, where they spent their honeymoon,
Mr.. Kip being a friend of both bride and
RIOOuls 16bGI u6NGI lOEgdfG LIS
daughter, and when she attended her
mothers funeral, father and daughter
went to the grave in the same carriage
without speaking to each other. He also
punished her in his will, if / remember
rightly, by cutting her off with the pro-
verbal shilling, but her brother Gerritt,
who, fanatic as some considered him, was
equally just and generous, repaired in
great degree his injustice.
While, as the secret marriage of Miss
KernOchan last winter, as well as the
more recent cOachman Opponents, show,
1t IS perhaps as easy for maidens to mar
ry against the will of their parents now as
it was in the days of Peter Smith. Young
people Of the social standing of Miss
Smith and Capt. Cochrane would not now
be allowed to be alone together as they
were, at any rate if they were New
Workers. A properly brought up New
York girl only sees young men in the
presence of others. Her callers are re-
ceived either in the midst of the family
circle or with the other members OF the
family surveying the scene from an adj
joining room. She goes to balls with her
father or brother, such thing as an
escort not related to her not being
tolerated. The young man who asks
her to go to the theatre must ask mar
ried woman to accompany them to play
prOpriety; and, as so small party would
company, he generally feels obliged to
ask others, so that theatre party, with
the accompanying supper at Delm0n-
ioo's or some other expensive place, is too
expensive for any but the pOssessor of a
fortune to often indulge in. Such a girl
is only called on in evening dress, and the
result is that man may know New
York woman for years and never see her
alone, while, unless he has time to go to
afternoon receptions, she never sees him
in anything but swallow tailsl
MUCH is CONTINUALLY SAID OF CLEvE-
LANDS UNPoPULARTTY
with the working people. Now the Lon
don Theatre in the Bowery is principally
frequented by this very class. How I'M
popular Cleveland is is shown by the re-
ception which his name met the other
evening when one of the performers in
song enumerated the different Presiden-
tial candidates. Blaine's name was
passed over in silence; Buffers received
a few scattered cheers; when Cleveland
was mentioned the entire audience arose
as one man, and cheer after cheer rent
the building. 1t was some time before
the performance could go on.
A newspaper man, in whose judgment
l have great confidence, told me few
days ago, as the result of fOrtnighHs
tour in Ohio, that, while the Republicans,
in his opinion, will carry the State, their
majority will be kept under 10000, and
the result would, therefore, not affect the
general election one way or another. He
acknowledged that the Democrats were
confident of victory, but he does not be-
lieve their confidence justified in view of
the tremendous efforts the Republicans
are making. The latter know that if they
cannot hold their own in Ohio-and Ohio
has gone Republican in the October of
Presidential years every election since
the foundation of the ''grand old parity
their candidate might as well withdraw,
and, if money viii carry Ohio, money will
do it.
A FRIEND OF MIME MET GEN. CHRISTEN-
SEN,
business manager for DrexeI, Morgan a.
Co., between the banking house and the
sub-Treasury building tae other day.
EsWhat do you suppose those two men are
carrying" asked the General, pointing to
two negroes who preceded him with an
iron box between them. My friend CIV
ing the conundrum up, the General an
sWered it himself. ''Thirteen millions Of
dollarsP' On my friend expressing sur
prise that such an enormous lot of money
should be carried through the streets so
openly and apparently so unguardedly,
the General called his attention to six de-
tectives who, with himself, formed guard
for the S1S, 100000. Each of the negroes,
| too, was handcuffed to the handle of the