Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-07
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
SOME INTERESTING POINTS ABOUT
THE RICH lORILLAROS.
A Romance of Which the Hurrying World
Knows Nothing - The Terribly Hot
Metropolis


Especial Correspondence.l
NEW YORK, July Am old New Yorker
great grandmother in Israel, whose mem-
ory goes back to the time when dugouts were
street was covered by bridge and the boys
bobbed for cells along its muddy banks; when
on the site of the Fifth Avenue hotel stood
q country road house, and Central park was
long drive beyond the city imits-said to
me the other day while passing one of the
"Who would have thought that snuff bought
itF'
"Yes," she continued, "a little more than a
century ago the first Lorillards came to New
York, poor, uneducated and unknown The
head of the family kept little shop in the
neighborhood of Peck slip and Water street,
and there the first American snuff was made
in Dutch coffee mill, held on the lap by one
hand while female member of the household
turned the crank with the other. This was
the germ of the vast enterprises that have
succeeded; and. in the same manner that the
brand of a favorite cigarette is nowadays the
passport to its popularity, 'Lorillards snuff
became famous among the old stock of people
whose nasal bliss depended upon its seductive
Utilization. The family made prime article,
undersold the importers, whose goods were
subject to heavy duties, and soon reaped q
rich harvest Close attention to the shop,
a frugal manner of living, scorn for super
fluous apartments and careful outstanding
of the small coin soon enabled the old people
to enlarge their quarters, purchase some real
estate and send the children to school John
Jacob Astor was plodding along in similar
field, not far from the same neighborhood."
''Old Petern Lorillard, as he was called to
designate him from his son and namesake, al
though penurious, was in his day considered
pnerring authority on the subject of invest
ments "Young Peter" however, was not
so parsimonious, but even when advanced in
years, perhaps as a matter of habit as well as
in Difference to the teachings of his father,
lived plainly and INDUCED in but few luxu-
ries
1t was intended that the grandson should
bear the family name, but the world by this
time had grown too refined for society" to
tolerate the honest old sound of Peter and
SO they changed it into French, and the boy
was dubbed Pierre" But with it came an
other change. In Pierre all trace of penuri-
BUSINESS disappeared from the Lorillard fam
lily. He lived like prince. Money to him
was something to spend, not to hoard. He
kept fast horses, helped the poor, hated cheats
and cheating, was generous to the extent of
prodigality; would leave IS in barber shop
where twenty-five cents would have sufficed,
and in numerous ways illustrated the fact
that he carried big heart on the right side
of his shirt buttons. And everybody liked
him.
1t is estimated that the family estate is now
worth upwards of one hundred millions Of
dollars; the income from the tobacco bust
ness alone amounting to several millions OF
dollars annually. Turning from the palatial
residences of the family today to the humble
little shop, meagerly furnished and swarming
with children, all embryo millionaires, what
contrastl Then, while
Others talked of their Raphaels, Correg'os and
stuff,
Peter shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.
Now, it is only necessary for one Of Peters
descendants to take snuff and the rest of the
beau monde sneeze. f. G. De FoNTAINE.
have private information of little semi
tragedy, of which the general public will
never know.
In the upper room of handsome house in
Madison avenue girl lives behind bolts and
bars. She cannot be permitted to leave the
house because she is bent on following an
actor about the city. He is, of course, one
of the beauty men of the profession and very
much married. forget how often
With this gentleman the girl, a delicate
young lady with no evil propensities, is ro-
mantically infatuated
She is only desirous of feasting her eyes
upon him, and has created a sensation at the
theater several times by her long drawn
sighs If anything of an unpleasant nature
happens to pe in his role she faints All this
might not necessitate locking her up, but she
will follow him about to restaurants and sit
where size can see him and trot at his heels
up Broadway, and she has interviewed his
hair dresser and besought "a little snip" OF
his curly hair.
All this is ludicrous to us, but fancy ones
own daughter so exhibiting herself.
As soon as possible she will be taken to
Europe, though she has threatened to drown
herself on the way.
Her mother, sensible and charming won,-
an, is in despair.
An anonymous letter, said to be written
by the actor himself, first revealed the facts
OF the girls conduct to her parents.
There are many school girls who know all
the actors by sight and fiirt with them out
rageoisly, but this is the most desperate case
ON record MARY KYLE DALLAS.
June has passed, and if the latter portion
Of it is to be considered prognostication OF
what the summer will be, God save the poor
who cannot get away, and must needs suffer
In the crowded tenement houses which go to
swell the death rate in extremes of weather.
For several days during the heated term the
signal man on top of the Equitable building
predicted a cold wave from the west. Every
day it grew hotter. There is something irri.
tating in passing thermometer marking lOl
degs in the shade, and having some govern
ment official a hundred and ifty feet in the
air, with delightful breezes floating past him,
insisting that the highest record for the day
was only IS degs-
The death rate increased seriously dur.
ing the hot week, and when we consider that
those who inhabit the better class of dwell
ings were out of town, and the figures are
made largely from the poorer classes, We
may imagine possibly the sufferings of thoss
who live in the tenementsl The unequal di-
vision Of wealth and its consequent, at least
apparent, injustice, is evident from the fact
that during the hot week people were dying
in tho overcrowded tenements, while hun.
dreds Of residences were shut up empty, their
owners being in the country.
Those New Workers who can do so mostly
go to the New England coast The Long
Island and New Jersey coasts are plagued
| with mosquitoes, while in Massachusetts, and
New Hampshire there is an absence of this
pestiferous insect, and more northerly
cooler climate. Still Long Branch on the
southwest and the Long Island beaches on
the northeast claim a large number of New
Workers. The Adirondacks is the favorite
among those who prefer inland and highland
regions F. A. Mitchell