The Sunday herald., 1886-11-21
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
YOUNG BENNET SHAKING UP THE
HERALD OFFICE.
Celebrities In Sing.sing-Fish. Ferd ward, and
Jimmy Hope, the Prince or Burslars-Inf,nx or
Foreign vssrants-ThestricM and Art GOSSIP.
[Sneclal Corrcsnondence.l !

tlon OF the restriction OF immigration made an issue
In Congress- It Is already forcing Itself upon the
attention OF tho authorities Of this city, and has be-
come serious problem. The class OF foreigners
now immgrang to America and locating in this
city and Vicinity Is not desirable population
either mere laborers or rs citizens. Almost every
degenerate nation of Europe, Asia, and Africa is
represented In each ship-load ofimmigrants dumped
on our docks every week. Not sturdy Irshmen,
Germans, and Norwegians, such as we used to see
land here and be heartily welcomed, but dirty and
dimnu,ve Italians, Algerians, Moors, Bulgarlans,
and Gypsles now pour in upon us. They are not
merely poor, but they are Ignorant and otherwise
undesirable. The most OF them look as though they
had never been able to accumulate q ten-dolar bill
In their lives Few Of the women or children seem
ever to have known the use Of bonnet or hat, and
their clothing is outre and limiting as to make
them worse looking than scarecrows. They seem to
como here without definite purpose, and after lin
gerng for while In idleness they disappear nobody
knows where. The aqueduct contractors seize and
bury many of them in the great tunnel they are dig
gng, but these are only a small fraction OF the
many who are constantly landing. on Sunday last
family OF Gypsies banlshed from Bermuda was
landed here, arrested as vagrants, and finally ban
ished by police court justice from the city, the
learned justice directing the officers OF his court to
that they crossed the river into New Jcrseyl At
almost any hour OF the day one may see groups OF
these undesirable immk rants In City Hall Park,
Idly looking about them ana suenly regarding
everybody who observes them. One cannot walk
from City Hall to the battery without encountering
parties OF them evidently newly landed. Tho Emil
grafton Commissioners send back great many but
not halt enough The disposition of the vagrants
among them gives rise to many discussions in the
board. The many Idle laborers of native birth--and
there are many thousands Of such In the city at
present-regard these new comers with distrust
and trouble will eventually come from this Influx
Of cheap and ignorant labor The Italians are clean.
ing our streets, tending our parks building our sub.
ways, and digging our aqueducts at about one-half
the wages which the native laborer demands.
On the steamer Germanlc, last Saturday, met the
Princess Kamatza, of Japan. intimated In pre-
vous letter that the Prince ridiculous specl-
men OF oriental nobility, but he was Hyperion
compared to his wife, She had not only the vacant
and inexpensive face OF the Japanese but almost
every other deformity OF that race. Her teeth had
evidently been extracted for the sole purpose OF
replacing them with gold. They were not merely
decayed ivorles filled with gold; her entire upper
Of teeth of gold. and they proruded far ont
beyond her lips She had the Japanese wadde
which the "Mikado" chorus girls made 40 enticlngly
| coquettlsh, but In the Princess the waddle was
nlueOusy paluIul 10 OUServe. TOOK ner
to be hopelessly Ill or lacking some part OF her
| spinal column. Aud her dress! 1t was not ,Iapa-
nese in style, but American; but venture to say no
servant girl in New York would be caught in such
shabby and tasteless attire.
| For the first time In its history New York this
| week convicted a detective OF blackmail. The Of
fense Is frequent enough, but punlshmens are most
infrequent. Jay Gould had the courage prosecute
man who had been ruined In Wall street, and who
made threats against his life II he did not pay him
| large amount OF money, but think Gould after
wards relented and secured the mans pardon. A
few years since policeman shot down black
mailer whom he had attempted to arrest. But that
one of the horde of social spies who call themselves
| private detectives should be convicted after tria!
rather surprised this town. There are hordes Of
them here who ought to be in the hands of the
police. The police know or suspect them, and keep
something of surveillance over them, but they do
| not seem to be able to suppress them. Almost
every trial OF Importance reveals the operations
| one or more of them They have little legitimate
| business. The lawyers who employ them hardly
trust them and use their evidence with great reuc-
tance Yet they exist and solely because OF the lack
| OF courage on the part of their victims.
There are serious efforts being made here and at
Washington to secure the release OF James d. Fish
from Imprisonment at Auburn, N. Y, on the GROUND
that he has softening OF the brain. / am not sur
prsed to hear OF his hapless condition, but prison
fare and convict labor haven't brought 1t upon the
old man. His reckless life here for years past wal
calculated to psralyze him both In brain and body
He was an absolute imbecile about women. II,
consorted with scores, and always seemed to selec
the most common as companions. He kept two
suites Of apartments, which they frequented, ofeI
going In pairs to meet him at feasts he would pre-
pare for them. He most affected ballet and choru
girls Of the boisterous sort. Those who knew Of hi
habits expected the end to be paralysis and brazil
softening, but none anticipated that other crime
would lead to that end within PRISONS walls.
/ was at Sing-Sing q few days ago and saw Fish
companion in crime, Ferdinand Ward. 1t wa
while he was at his dinner Of lean pork, beans, po
tatoes, hard bread. and coffee He WORKS q smal
i printing press when he Is working at all. He shun
observation, and looks nobody In the eye. do nc
believe that Fish can suffer more than Ward froI
humiliation at his punishment. lie is thin and hap
gard his breast Is sunken his gait that OF an ol
man. l also saw Jaehne, the convicted "bOOde
alderman He has pleasant task in dstributIn
tobacco among the other convicts. Johnny Hopt
the burglar, one Of the gang which robbed the Mar
a haitian Savings Bank OF TWO million or more
a bonds was pointed out to me as twenty-year pris
II oner. He and hls friends are said to still hol
II s?,loOOOO Of the bonds and demand 100000 In cas-
for their return to the institution. Only 100000
these bonds were ever restored. They belonged
n Augustus Schell, and were recovered through III
!, agency OF the man who subsequently organized tn
|. theft of Stewards body. Johnny Hope was one
regarded az 'the handsomest and best dressed ma
!. on Broadway" but he certainly did not look 1t
a sinR-sing."
i, Mr.. Brush, the warden Of the prison, told me
N curious fact which suggests thought. He has g
90 equal number Of Jews and Italians as prisoners
=. thirty-nve Of each, think he said. Every one
~ the Jews Is under conviction OF crime against pro
erty all the Italians for offenses against the perso
~ They have both Protestant and Catholic servic
% every Sunday, and asked the warden which se
a was In the majority. "Until quite recently"
answered, "the Catholics were In the majority, b
- the Protestant clergyman has organized very go'
!. choir and has pretty fair music, and think Il
M Protesants have the best OF It now; but neither
= them have any religion to boast Of"
=, met James Gordon Bennett, OF the Herald, I
~ other evening, coming out Of the Gsey House, al
m was surprised at his young appearance Eyerybo
still calls him "Young Bennett" to dlstingui
4, him from his father, though he cannot but he ov
80 forty-nve. lie does not, however, look more t1
thrty-nve. OF course, he had no sooner landed III
-, he "shOok up" the Herald once. Every editor al
70 writer was changed, from the managing editor dow
-. This change brngs to the managing editors CHI
\, julius Chtmoers formerly Phllade!phla corr
spondsnt Of the Herald. Chambers is a bright al
s w Drany young man, and, II he Is not hampered, "
- 70 make brighter paper OF the Herald than 1t h
~ been for long time past. Some twelve years a
:" sent Chambers TO the insane asylum at Boomil
dale to report from actual observation abuses Will
-, were said 10 exist there. He went there under d
ny process OF law. lie pretended TO be insane, a
"a acted his part 40 well as TO deceive two physician
ia aprofesslonal nurse the magistrate who commit
,e him, aud the expert doctors who had charge OF
'a asylum. lie was In the asylum for two wee
and was released when writ OF habeas c,
=, Dus was served on the keepers. When 10 Spain
~, the Herald, some years since, Chambers got pt
ho session Of a treaty between Spain and this count
%, which Gen. PANEL .sickles was negotiating.
no wished 70 telegraph II to the Herald, but knew
me could not get the spanish censor TO approve IT,
a. hit upon the queer alternative OF telegraphing
points OF the treaty AZ II applied to some adyentu
nm OF the Prince Of Wales In India. 1t was all nonsen
az 10 the censor and to the man who received II at
In Herald ONCE, but Chambers, after the despat
NJ was sent over the wires, teegTaphed a key TO Z
~ plain the hidden meaning. think II was the d
nd (and LAST Instance on record Of sending cipt
M nrst aud the key 10 II afterward.
"a. The long "run OF luck" at Daly's was unbroken
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