The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-02-20
BT0adbrin'S New York Letter
Special to the CARBON ADVOCATE.

This Is the announcement with loaded
head lines, that one Of the most influ-
ential New York dailies gives Of one Of
the most disgraccful fights that has
taken place in the city. Seventy-five
men witnessed the battle, and fifty of
them paid twenty-five dollars a ticket,
and sat up all night in a miserable rook-
cry in the slums. Most of the so-called
gentlemen had handsome homes of their
own with every luxury that a reasonable
person could wish, or were qUartered at
our nobbiest hotels, Yet they were
willing to forgo the comfort and res
pectability of their own homes, pay
twenty-five dollars for ticket, and run
sharp chance of year in the peniten-
uary, and all for the pleasure of seeing
two brutes pound each other to num-
my. In the particular battle spoken of,
one of the brutes got his jaw and his
nose broken, which disGgures him
frightfully for life, and received as
compensation for his hurts, two hun
dred and fifty dollars; and his brutal
hackers or seconds robbed him of two
thirds of that. l was in hopes after
Sullivan's disgraceful liasco, a year and
half ago, that men were done with
prize fighting in New York; instead of
which there never was a time in our
history, not even when the thugs ruled
the city forty years ago, when prize
fighting and its concomitant brutaltes
oppress us so much as now. Only two
Sabbaths ago while the chuch bells
were ringing, in barn not three hun
dred yards from DR.. Talmage's Taber-
nacle battle was being fought--which
was only decided just before the con-
gregation sang the Doxology. And
right here am reminded of convcrsa-
ton which heard in street car. Two
gentlemen were conversing about the
very large sum of money which prom
inent politician laid out in a late esca-
pade, and which brought him to the
verge of bankruptcy, so that he could
not pay his tailor. "Yes," said one of
the gentlemen, "our vices are cash, but
our virtues have to go on credit" and
so even our police sustained, at an eX-
pense of three or four millions of dollars
annually, prey upon the haunts of vice,
and levy blackmail upon criminals as
the price of their countenance and pro-
lection.
III. loo,,or of q, io,, L.. 49,. ,
hundred yards from the Police Head
quarters, and on the same block with
the Excise Commission, is refused a
! license. Prize fighters, cracksman, pick
pockets and harlots have resorted to his
den for years. The man has made q
fortune out of the criminal classes; he
has kept himself and his place constant
ly before the public for years, through
the columns of the Police Gazette, OF
some of the sensational Sunday papers.
and whitewash from n leading Metro
| politan journal, whose circulation is
said to be over 100000 He was legiti.
mate subject for blackmail, and is q
splendid illustration of that homely
adage of Burns, that The best laid
plans of mice and men, sft gang aglee. "
Mr.. Harry Hill thought he had friend
ON the police on whom he could rely, in
the time Of trouble, so he had him trans
ferred to his district. Mr.. Hill soor
found out Chat there is no friendship ir
business, and that his new friend wa.
ten times worse than his old enemy
The Precinct shelters larger crimina
class than any other in New York. anC
if they all paid at the same liberal rate
for their police protection that Mr.. Hill
did--it is not at all astonishing that police
captains grow + ich, and that the position
of an ordinary ward detective, some
times is worth princes ransom. Harry
Hill stood bleeding like little man
while the checks ranged from fifty to c
hundred dollars. He had taken hi.
punishment in the p. II. and nevel
squealed; in fact he rather liked it; bu'
when they struck him for $500 at clip
flesh and blood could stand it no longer
and now our police department is turneC
upside down at the shameful revelation
OF official dishonesty and Yillainy. |
comes most opportunelv just after Id,
trial of General Shaler for bribery, whC
Tor the present appears TO have ESCAPED
the terrible consequences of his offensj
by the pigheaded obstinacy of a singl,
juror.
/ Some mouths ago l recorded the cast
of wealthy German who ran awa'
with the wife of his nephew. Th
nephew eventually sued his uncle, ant
recovered $4,000 damages for the aliena
ton of his wife's affections. Divorc,
proceedings were begun at once, ant
then the uncle married his niece
Against this disgraceful act the who'll
family rose in rebellion. He had 81!
children by his first wife. the oldes
thirty-three and the youngest nineteen
and they were all in the court this weel
agains, their amorous father. Some
years ago he gave his daughter mort
gage on house which he possessed
with the understanding that il was no
to be recorded, but after his row will
his family he disinherited all his chil
dreE, and settled his property on hi
niece wife; then the daughter recorde,
the mortgage, and the father tried &
have it set aside; but the Court decided
that the daughters title was good, an,
now the late husband of the niece sue
his uncle for 100000 in addition to tn
J $4,000 which he has in bank. BY villa
peculiar hypothesis a creature win
would run away from a good home am
! oi oiNNAlOllstlt iuSDdllu Win lti HOO
uncle, can be worth 100000 is NOR
than | can fathom. think he got
: heavy price for such baggage when h
recovered $4,000. for her-such wiyc
would be dear at a dollar ship load
and if | was on the jury. / woIld no
give him cent more, though / shou
like to squeeze old Blohm, the frisk
: old uncle.
, 1t looks now as though we might ge
p at the bottom Of the great Broadwa
steal. We want TO find ont who 60
the million and a half of dollars that S
mysterlously disappeared from tn
: treasury Of the Broadway railroad
Even the gentleman that signed tn
/ bonds did not know what became c
} them, nor had he the curiosity to in
= quire; lie remembered distinctly that h
; signed fifteen hundred of them, but
never occurred TO him that some car
ought to be taken of them, though the
represented a million and half of do
lars in solid cash. 1t Is said as high O
/ 5000 was paid for a single vote twh
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