New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-07
GLIJIPSES or CITY LIFE.

That trait OF the human which maliiests itself
In the crowdng together of those having interests or
feelings In common IS seen everywhere Throughout
this great city. Thus, In the swamp the leather
and hide merchants abound; the brokers are In wall
Street; there IS dry goods district, toy anu drum
quarter a Little Italy. French quarter. German
quarter. etc At Fity-fourthst. and Iifth-ave there
Is a standard OIL residence quarter. Al. No West
Fifiy-fourthst, a few steps only from the avenue
IS the cOmmoiious mansion Of John d. EOckeieliet'
president of the Standard OH Trust. wide yard
separates It from his neghbor on the east, and the
grounds of St. Lukes Hospital opposite his iront
windows. within a hundred yards OF his mont
stOop are No. 0sJ Fiftl-avc, the house OF Henry
NJ. Flaglcr, secretary Of the corporation: NO. 67o
Flfh-ave. the home OF william Rockefeller, brother
Of John D. and president of branch OF the
corporation and No. COS Ffthave., where benjamin
Brewster vice-president OF the corporation. lives.
All are magnificent dwellings. These magnates OF
the business world but little known TO the public
except by reputation for they studousy avoid making
themselves conspicuous. They are sta.d. soDergolhE
men as BELTS those having control Of great financial
Interests Some of them BapiIsts of The most
Oldfashloned type. and are regular attendants OF
tho Fifth Avenue BAPTIST Church. Of Dr.. Macarthur
Church In West Fiftyseventh-st In Ohio where me
ROckefeIlers came from. the unOstcntaiious charity
Of the brothers especially to Baptist INSTITUTIONS ID
proverblal
The billiard experts OF Now-York and Chicago are
talking about arranging tournament to take place
In this city this winter. but 1t seems to be ciear
OF is afraid and the other dare not Chai-
pIon Schaefer has issued a sweeping challenge I"
play anybody any sort Of game ana he oneis
liberal odds No ono denies that Schaefcr Is the BEST
player in tho world at any style OF billarus' Tie
prefers the fourtecn-nch balk line game 10 ahV
other but he is not likely TO find any one 10 pay
him at that game. His offer TO give two huhd' ed
points in eight hundred at cushion carroms IS likely
h,fn
DAILY is faithful. steady player. and at tho ODDS nc
would have an excellent Glance to WIN
The only drawback that Schaefer insists on playing
In Chicago. A little coaxlng would probably DIME
him East however. II has been long uno since
New-York has had a good billiard match. ana one
slosson DAILY and Sexton, NewYork has ample
material for a frst-cass match, but there seems "
DO no chance of bringing them together
"You North Americans don't know anything about
the gambling feature Of horse racing" said an adopted
son of South America at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yes
terday "You kick up a terrible rumpus when one OF
your plungers makes bet Of $4,000 on race.
Down In the Argentine Republic they would laugh at
that sort of plunGlng. Those fellows make no Dohes
OF putting up 100000 at a whack when they thlhh
they've got a good thing They are the most DARING
gamblers in the world. A year ago one of them sent
to England and paid 5000 gulneas for horse mat
he wanted to win just ono race with. The amman
arrived in good shape and walked away with the ned
at to l. making the owner half million ficher
than he before. great many horses VII VIII, hc
shlpDed there by and by from the United STATES
The business has begun already on small scale a 4
consignment trOtcrs and runners picked up aIOunu
New-Yor being the way there now"
six bunco secreIs may be seen any morning hanging
around the portico of the Post Office Building They
are early rsers part of their philosophy basng Itself
on the familiar adage about the bird and the worm
Many greenhorn becomes their prey. day or two
ago one of the Aston House walters who prdes himself
on his muscle saw countryman fall into their
clutches. sallylng forth he closed with the gang
Who taking alarm, scattered In six directions, leaving
their victim under the wing Of his protector.
"If l had the and the capital" said this
same pugilistic waiter I'd start bureau in New
York for showing strangers around and taking care
OF them Never day passes that two or three Of eTn
don't ask me where they can find somebody to show
'em the sights. II there was a responsible guide
bureau I'm town there would be less buncO steering"
Cases Of mistaken identity are extremely common
In New-Yorl. Some are ludlcrous, some pathetic
Men apparently composed in mind as well as non
compos mentis have been known to forget who they
were and where they came FROM Suicides occur from
time TO time and bodies Of selfmuGdercrs are put
away without positive Identification. Men are found
dead in tho and 60 TO their graves or Tic dis
secting table unknown. Victims Of accidents are
buried without names. Bodies picked up in the har
Dor sleep IN the MOrgue unfccOgnlZed