West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-27
RANDOM NOTES IN NEW YORK.

RANDOM NOTES IN NEW YORK.
A census of the tenement house
population of New York, just com
pleted, shows that 1,016,335 indi-
viduals live in 81, 534 tenements, an
average of thirty-two persons to each
| house. - atr
More strangers visit New York
than either London or Paris. One
can live cheaper or more expensive
ly than in my other large city. Re-
spectacle board can be had at 81
week. and some millionaires pay $50
day at hotels. He is 81
Rents are very high in the bust
ness center on and near Wall street.
Two adjoining rooms, on Wall near
Broadway, suitable for lawyers Of
flee on the 9th floor, cost 81, 500.
One is by ii and the other ii by
II. These have ante-room 6 by IL,
which is entirely dependent on arti-
fetal light.
The same space if on level with
the street would easily rent for $1S,
900. Roscoe Conkling had an aver
age office for first-class lawyer, say
one room Is by Is and two rooms s
by 10; his rent was $1,000 on the
9th floor. The Mills building is an
illustration of many others. 1t has
700 tenants; lawyers, brokers, bank
ers, railroad managers. DC. As
these tenants employ from to 10
clerks, there are in this building
probably 21,000 persons. 1t is ten
stories high and occupies about half
block. An average of II, 900 per-
sons use the six elevators every day.
Each elevator makes a trip every
two minutes. The staircase is not
used by one person in 10000, unless
it be to pass from one floor to an
other, and very seldom even for this
purpose.
Senator Stanford, of California,
and c. p. Huntington have their pri-
vate offices in this building. 1t is
quite common for the millionaires,
who have purchased seats in the
Senate and House, to keep an office
and confidential clerk in this city =;
so they can always be sure OF pri-
vate place in which to meet their
confederates to hatch conspiracies
based on using the powers of gov
eminent to plumber the unOrganized
masses.
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The Wall street day begins about
| 10 o'clock and ends at 3, with one
hour lost for lunch. OF course,
clerks and those who do the drudg-
cry begin at 8 and quit about 5, but
the capitalist is seldom at his desk
more than four hours. The amount
of business crowded into this brief
space can he better imagined than
described.
Ex*
I If one has ample means, he can
escape most of the bothers OF do
nestle life and yet enjoy all It's
pleasures. A man of wealth with a
large family recently decided to
move to this city from the West.
About noon Monday he sent for
real-estate agent and heard the de
scription of residence likely to suit
him. In less than three hours he
had examined the property and pur-
chased it. He Immediately wrote to
"furnisher":
See house No and street -; furn-
| ish it to cost $4,000; hire servants for
family of ten; put $1,000 in wines, &c;
have everything ready for dinner at D
this day week.
He then telegraphed his wife:
Have decided to live here. House will
be ready at 8 next Monday. Expect you
and children at No. =, street --, at
that time.
On the day appointed that family
were suited in their new home, per-
fectly satisfied with house, furni
ture, servants and dinner.
Again. A friend of mine con-
Guided to move to a different house;
he sent for "mover"; gave direct
ions and then his family of six went
to a hotel and spent three days.
The mistress never went near the
scene of action and never gave an or.
der. At the end Of three days "the
mover" sent word that the house
was ready, and in two hours the
family were living in their new
house as if they had never been out
of it.
Reading manuscript with view
to publication should be done pro-
fessionally. DR.. T. NJ. Coan, 20
West IA street will tell you whether
what you have written has merit; if
so, what revision it needs and what
it will sell for and to whom. He is
thoroughly competent and honest.
At "a Park Row is sign, "The
Literary Junk Shop" Attracted
by this suggestive sign the writer
Investigated further, and found Mr..
A. S. Clark who has spent his life
''trading in pamphlets" You can
get from him publication on al
most any subject, from Aristotle on
Poetry to Mills speech on the tariff.
Mr.. Clark knows, or can find out,