New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-17


| 1853 hotels recorded in the business d.
rectory. But in this list mono OF the cheap
| lodging-houses OF tho Bowory typo figure. There
must be hundreds Of the 25 so cent lodgnghouse
grade Not less than $1,000 transient guests find
resting place In New-York nightly. Colonel Carr, the
veteran clerk at the Fifth Avenue Hotel estimates tho
number or "transients" at forty leading hotels as
averaging 5000 daily Joseph Lennon who reports the
hotel arrivals for the morning papers, confirms this
estimate Tho regular boarders not included In this
calculation They be two or three times many.
counted 1877 arrivals the Fifth register one
day last week. They have in extremely busy seasons
had as high as 275 arrivals in single day The average
expenditure OF transient guest directly for hotel
accommodations is about 81 day. This is $4,000
day that Is paid In at the forty leading hotels, or
S53OOOOO per But the items Of other service,
the money paid to the barber tho bar. the newsdeaer
the cigarstand, the billiardroom, the hackman the
walters and so on will bring guests expenses up TO 20
or ~ day Then what is spent in the general trade OF
the city i0tsup to an enormous sum- One hundred anu
NIFTY pacKases day are now sent to tho Ffth Avenue
Hotel for guests who have been out shopping They
an value that cannot We Oe e
| The number OF persons who DRIFT IN ana OUT
recently kept ut the main entrance Of the Fifth Avenue
and disclosed the fact that 1000 persons passed there
into confederation the PERSONS Using the twenty third
and Twentyfonrth-st. or the ladies' entrances. Ihere
were 1000 persons by count passed in and ont or the
main entrance OF the Hoffman House day last week
between 10 o'clock In the morning and midnight.
8. b. Elkns, who has been interested in securing an
accurate statement OF the number Of out of employ
ment In this country Is inclined think Bradstreets re-
port nearly correct in placing the figure at 3ooooo
Other statlstcans however, whose judgment Is entitled
10000 ''''''''A''0"' P'"00 '"' "'"''''
| The Rev. DR. Burchard was recently observed in
bookstore, buying copy of Spears History OF Re
ligiOus Suffering"
A lounged Fifth Avenue Hotel settoe, the other
morning. with Daniel Lockwood, OF Buffalo as "a COM
panion, stout, short hedyybu Irishman passed by In
| the lobby His sm0Oth-shayen face was remarkably
large the jaw being especially noticeable for s size and
topping the head huge silk hat worn after tho
Evaris fashion. "Thrro Is face" said Mr. Lockwood,
that shall never forget don't know the owners
name but know the face. That sat right In front
OF me- down I'm front n Democratic state Convention
several years aEo when Mr. Sawyer candidate for
the nomination for Judge Of the Court OF Appeals. A
delegate ON the stage presenting his name. The
spe ch eloquent one and this man in front Of mo
took II all In with eyes, and mouth Just as the
speaker closing he drow attention To the tact mat
Mr.. sawyer deacon Of the Presbyterian church.
aud spent much OF his time IN attending TO Church Iu
Irishman with voice OF disgust that set the whole con-
vcmtion IN roar He proved prophet for Mr. sawyer
not nominated. The orators slip was as bad Tor
him "a when Dorsheimrr was praised ~ "A Puritan"
Colonel ID. Hunter. OF ST. Louis. VINO was chairman
OF the convention OF cattle risers which held In
that city last o. discuss the National cattle trail
and kindred topics, has been In NewYork for day or
two on business, He asked last evening what the
prospects for the trail project. and replied: " II
will never go through In the word. II has come very
being accomplished twice. but 1t has failed utterly
The land that would taken in Kansas and Col
orado OF very little value. But the Texans would
have had plausible argument for their project II
they had first run cattle trail In their State before
demanding that ono no located IN anothcr state Then
they didn't 20 about the the right manner. AT
the st. Louis convention Tor Instance. they hs'ed down
a Kansas de egato who speaking against the trail
He told thom hoy would hear from him again. and they
did. IIc turned up member OF the Kansas Senate
Tie trail failed Washington through bad mauagmcn
strong committee appointed at our convention 10
adv the trail before Congress. IL contained repre-
senatves Of nearly all the states and Territories The
chairman never called II together. He and one or two
others Washington and attempted To nhhlpulate
thu whole scheme They were impotc ~ Their tfoat
ment NJ the Kansas congressman ana senators, ana
when the lhttcr gOt their mad up tue n Went SoEn
The Texans then tried pat the scheme through the
Kansas Legislature on tho quiet They had mighty
near succeecd-I inclined TO think they hal sure
maui and everything came to light Tho cattle trail
project II as dead ns u smclI"
Mr. Marshall Of san Francisco, with whom was chat
ting about California maguates the other day, remarke
There Is good deal Of chatter about Pacific Coast
men coming Ia NewYork 10 live. Really very few have
come Jim Kcone MIXED tho Coast stock market dry
and then came here 90 get MIXED dry himself lie had
about 80 600 900 to 81 when he struck Gotham.
which was mngLihed double ard treble by the press lie
has some of his lost dollars but Is
slow work. John W. Mackay would probably tell you
that his home Is at Gold I'm. lie has investments In
Fan Francisco as well as New York. and is In place
a. much as the other while his family Is 10 Paris all
the tine. c. r. Huntington has lived here for many
years The necessity OF financial management OF the
Central Pacific here Now-York brought him over. Mr.
Croker has followed him. and has been making grange
mens lie Will not give mp hs son Francisco
home but will bring his family here. Mr. Crocker's
two sons, who In the railroad business are hard
workers like their father Fred Croker is president Of
ffu naaniif A. al
with the main roal CrJckers removal TO New-YOrk Is
uecessltatcl by the burden Of Chesapeake and Ohio,
aud other interests ON Mr. Hnntihgtons hahds
They have about got through building on the Coast
"a that Mr. Croker could spared To come here aud
look after Central Pacific finances You count Leland
stanford something OF u NewYorker, but we have Just
made him United States Senator Well these all
our great who have been tempted tothanwaid anu
we still keep pretty good grip on all 81 them
Ex-senator wooiin's we'll preserved and Deaming face
showed up at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last week. aud
waylad him for information as to the political drlit as
seen from Auburn The conversation like this: ia
there any political movement up your wayi" mot
bit" Haven't picked out candidate for GOVERNOR
mo" "Going to pick outi" "No; and don't
want anybody else TO-" what do you wantl"
"want things 10 move along spontaneously and har-
moniousy-to grow up themselves" :" No planting
seedf' NO" No watering tho plant T. " No. " No
cultivation |" "NO." "Wel things might run wild at
that ratio r. That's what want" We have had
some things run wlld-the President IL sample. chr
Not so very wild" wlat Is the best party policy as
TO a oandhiatep ITO select who has scratched
any other mans face or trampcd on any other mans
toes We've got plenty OF young material In the state
-drstclass material. Let's use 1t. mentioned mans
name for Governor to-day, my nelghbor by way OF
illustrating what mean had never thought OF him
as a candidate. lie has q fine business record, me |
record rs a soldier, and In himself an able young man.
but what would carry him through the memory Oh MS
father refer to William II. Seward. should never
nave thought OF HIM but for chance observation OF ms
name In TIIg TRmUHE Yet when come TO thnk OF H.
he nossesses ali the requisites for good Governor
Thsre must DO lots more such men all over tile state,
and we only need to look around little 10 Seec,,
the right one after the convention IA called |
George j. Tyson the veteran newsdealer ana theatre
ticket speculator INDUCED In this bit OF rcmi- |