Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
METROPOLITAN LIFE.
New York Not n City Of Homes-somr Quay
Gosslp-Bnrnum's Modern Moral show
Why Dan Lamont Thinks Cleveland

Why Dan Lamont Thinks Cleveland
Needs Club-Tfp for Travellers.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE pIsPATcH.I
NEW YORK, April I9.-There is much more
interest here concerning Pennsylvania
politics and other Keystone matters than will
be readily imagined west of the Allegheny
| mountains. used to think the quips of the
New York press tar-fetched when they played
upon Philadelphia as a suburb of the metropo-
lis. Now understand the significance of the
allusion. A large and rapidly growing number
of PhiladelphianS do business in New FORK
and reside in Philadelphia. Every Saturday
night train is loaded with them. going home
to spend Sunday with their families.
And they are parlor-car citizens.
too. So crowded are the daily evening
vestibule traips that you can rarely get seat
this side of Philadelphia unless you engage it
IL hours in advance. know even newspaper
men In the City of Brotherly Love who work all
the week on New York papers and pass every
Sunday at home. Between living here in ex-
pensive downtown fats or in cheaper apart
ments in Harlem or Brooklyn, and retaining
their homes and home comforts in Philadel-
phia they prefer the occasional two hours ride
which brings them to the latter
New York is not city of homes except for
the favored few. These must be able to invest
spend from $4,000 to SIS, OOO year to keep up
the establishment 1 live in a modest fat on
Sixty-ninth street, west side, about midway be.
tween the Hudson and Central Park, paying $40
month rent for that privilege. The same fat
three squares nearer the elevated railway
station would bring $50 per month. There are
solid rows OF residences about and being built
near me, not one of which can be purchased for
less than $4,000. and they run all the way up to
100000 1t costs from $1,000 to S25, 900 to fur
ish one of these appropriately. Strolling up
Ninth avenue the other day noted a sign
board on vacant lot between two residences
on side street (Eighty-first street): This lot
and party walls, S35 000." 1t was only the regu-
lation A-foot lot, but the cellar had been exca-
vated. Fancy man in Philadelphia or Pitts
burg investing such sum in such lot five or
SIX miles from his business. asked a con-
tractor about the matter. He tells me that
Park will cost SIC, 900 excavated, and desirable
ones from Sl5, 600 up. The cost of excavating a
shallow cellar for high stoop residence is con-
siderable. as the solid rock must be quarried.
The steam drills are at it in every direction.
There are six of them hustling away within
pistol shot at me and the dynamite explo sions
OF the blaster rattle you up In almost any block
north of FiIty-ninth street. At the present
rate of building within the next five years
there will not be an acre of vacant ground the
whole length of the great park. Each succeed
ing year makes all this still more and more ex-
pensive. Where will the New Yorker of the
future live? In Philadelphia Well, if be
does, we can't blame him any more than we
can for living there now.
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Through Anti Quay spectncles.
"NHAT's the matter with Quay?" I asked
Pennsylvania Republican of anti
Quay professions few days after the appear
ance of the Lea epistle. He was sitting at one
of the little tables in tine Hoffman art gallery
studying art at 25 cents nip. Instead of the
n ans al Of fba CInh
few off in tangent of zig-zag
profanity that almost startled the walters out
of their studied English stupidity. Devoid of
his remarks we're:
Quay, in the opinion of some Of us, is the
biggest load the Republican party of Pennsyl-
vania has had to carry. Why. if there was
State election next week, with Delamater as
Republican candidate, Democrat would be
Quay has not learned to distinguish between
the political leader and the political boss. He |
is not shire wd in this, for he could have much |
more easily have accomplished his ends by
the matter. Now his opponents have taken the |
bit in their teeth and will lie down in the road
unless Quay gives in."
But is Quay any worse than Cameron |
was?" innocently inquired
'.Cameron! Why-zig-zag-didn't the party |
lei down under the weight of Don Cameron? |
And didn't 1t get up promptly and travel on |
stupid. Guy is persistent and openly aggres- |
sive. Cameron had no political sense until it |
was pounded into him with club"
"And then"
"Then he was accepted as the best man
where the Quay tactics would have defeated |
him. In my opinion Cameron did the smartest
political trick OF his career when he cut loose |
from the politics of the State and |
went abroad. Bill Wallace has been trying |
The same game. Had Cameron remained here
managers" done the boss act he would have
been retired to private life permanently in
stead of being sent to the Senate again without |
much of struggle.
Tip for Travellers.
THE proposition by Judge Cooley to amend
the interstate commerce law by, among
,ther things, compelling railway companies to
'edeem the unused portions of their tickets,
'eminds me that the Pennsylvania road has
been doing that for some time. 1t is the
,nly road, believe, that has adopted the hon.
st course IN this matter. True. the fact is COM
unknown, but il is a fact. The |
calper does not trouble the Pennsylvania.
Not only will the road redeem the unused
icket but if you should get left by any acci-
lent after having secured seat on particu-
ar train, you can get new seat on a subse-
Iuent train without lOss-by immediate notice.
we tried it and know. Since that, in converse |
ion with others, my statement was disputed and
he question was referred to Mr.. George Boyd,
Assistant General Passenger Agent, and set
led Dy him IN Tile aIlfmatlVe. don't suppose |
his applies to special tickets, excursion and
ound trip, and so on, though you can certainly
.et your money back on any regular unused
icket by sending it to headquarters at Phila-
elDLia stating the circumstances. The Cooley
Proposition should become law, and in my
Judgment, such law would be greatly to the
dvantage of the railway companies in Destroy
ng the means by which one scalps the other on
he sly
Lamont on the Cleveland Boom.