The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-19
NEW YORK CRAYONS.
ASilly Defense of Business Gambling-MOney
and MOnkeys-WOman Artists.

mark was made to Cyrus w. Field.
81 agree with you" was the reply OF Field,
''that the gambling element ought to be elm
mated from business"
Then l listened to these two mems denuncia-
ton of speculative methods as they sat in the
car seat next to me, and l wondered if they had
forgotten that they had gained fortunes by
means of something as dependent on chance as
the turning of a die. Before the outbreak of
the rebellion, when it was still a guess whether
there would be a war, Clafin took the chances
of great gain or loss by buying an immense
stock of cotton goods. In effect, he bet that the
prices would go up, and they did, tremendously.
THE winning of the wager enriched him. At a
time when the feasibility of telegraphy between
Europe and America was conjectural, Field
sunk his last dollar to the bottom of the ocean
in the form Of a cable, on the chance that it
would rise again in multiple. He freely admits
shat he felt as though buying a ticket in a lot
sery. He won, and is a millionaire several
times over. Clafin is a widely known man who
keeps out Of sight. Outside of his own trade,
he could walk the length of Broadway unrec-
ognizad. He is a small, round-faced, smooth
shaven old fellow, with a manner so nervous
that, seemingly, the fret of the smallest retail
traffic would keep him awake nights. Field IS
not less unfamiliar to the public which knows
him by name and reputation so well. His hair
and whiskers dominate the rest of his head, and
altogether he is not very impressive. He is a
philanthropist. but the majority of New Workers
won't believe it. The chief reason for the doubt
is his mistakes as to monuments. He erected
one to the memory of Major Andre, a little way
up the Hudson, and for that is accused of Brit
ish toadyism. Vandalism damaged the structure.
and brought it into notoriety. Again, Field
tore down the Washington headquarters, at the
lower end of Broadway, thus sacrificing a pa
triotie landmark, to get the site for a huge com
mercial building.
'What is the approval Of a populace worth,
anyhow said a cynic, Gin a city where the
names of Bill Tweed and Jim Fisk are more
loudly cheered than any others that can be ut
tered2H
A CITY OF MILLIoNAIREs
New York is being crowded with millionaire
asm. Five of the naen so enormously enriched
by Nevada mining are here now, or have been
recently. Families whose fortunes are perma-
nently enlarged come to the metropolis to live
luxuriously. Square miles of residences each
representing. on the average, a yearly expendi-
ture of $25, 600 for maintenance, aside from
whatever special and personal extravagances the
inmate may indulge in, make an aggregate Of
capital dazzling to contemplate. Year by year
the amount of money withdrawn from active
use in business, grows immensely, and the mum
Der of rich idlers increases proportionately,
Among all the young sons of the Astors and
Vanderbilts there is not one who has an active
pursuit save that of pleasure; and l mention
these names because they are familiar, and not
for exceptionally. Go into the evening resorts
of time-killers and you will at every turn
meet fellows who do absolutely nothing use
full from the beginning of a year to its
end. They are the heirs of dead -and-gone
workers. They are destitute of manly pride,
but full of the foolish ~vanities of dandyism.
Vicious, also2 Naturally. Their extravagances
in that direction are just now remarkable. 1t
has suddenly become the fashion among them to
keep bachelor apartments, no matter how ade-
quate to all rational requirements their family
homes may be. Within two years a dozen or
more magnificent buildings have been erected on
the French fiat plan, except that no women or
kitchens are included. Suits of two to four
rooms are rented at 81. 900 to So, 900 per annum,
usually to be lavishishly furnished by the ten
ant, who is very often a rich fam1lys scion on
bis rapid way to the devil. A restaurant, from
which the most elaborate meals may be ordered
for delivery in his own dining room enables him
to entertain his friends in as carousing a manner
as he chooses; and these guests need not be mas
culine, Notwithstanding the monastery rules of
she house.
JEROME PARK N ITS Ex~TRAyAGANcEs,
There is only one place in all New York where
lager beer is drawn from the keg at ten cents a
glass. L 40 nOb m6nUlOu Ine IdcU OecauS6 L
think that you are specifically interested in it,
or because I am proud of knowledge on the sub
ject, but to illustrate in a single sentence the
fashionableness of Jerome Park, which is one of
the six race-courses wherein New Workers get
their turf amusement. There are plenty of
drinking resorts where beer is sold only by the
bottle, so as to excuse the dime charge, and
these especially include the highest and lowest
of our groggeries-if prohlbitionist readers will
permit me to concede that there are grades of
quality in them. Go into the most sumptuous
Broadway bar-room, call for lager beer, and it
will be served to you from a bottle, the empty
ing of which exactly fills the glass, for which
you will pay ten cents. The same method is
used in the West OF the concert gardens. But
it seems to be an unwritten law that when the
popular beverage flows direct from the spigot
the price shall be five cents. The dispenser
may lower the quantity of real liquid until it
barely covers the bottom of the glass, and
serves as a bare basis for foam, but he
does not presume to raise the tariff.
Therefore / say that the charging
Of ten cents at Jerome Park distinguishes that
place as ultra for the reckless expenditure of
money. The point was distinctly made in my
presense by a broad and constitutionally genial
German, who emptied a glass of beer into his
eapacious self between races, and seemed de-
lighted by the unusually great proportion of
liquid to froth. He ordered a second, third, and
fourth, and then placed a silver quarter on the
bar.
Fifteen cents more" said the tender.
81 trinked fere glasses, the German respond
cd, blandly.
-Four times ten is forty
Zach! Undt fere times fimpt ish twenty.n
Fright you are; but beer is ten cents a glass
here"
'Gott undt himmelw
If any mans eyes every grew suddenly
:ounder, or his cheeks redder, or his breath
shorter, it did not happen under my own OBJ
servation. Righteous indignation could not be
Nor y ytitb erc eARfTSse eranb n eli pau ND Inc ieai phi, ana
liberation of utterasee, he said; 81 thinks you
vas a tiefs."
The aspect of the general assemblage on a race
day gives further proof of the favor which wealth
nAlE ashial hnatanr N Innannn Dnl- L :A4--