The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-21
WHAT WE ARE ALL TALKING ABoUE

The census has brought out the fact that man can
| live in New York hotel for ten years and never
| speak to any enter Into any communication
with any ono except as to the commonplace affairs OF
eating and drinking This champion hermit lives stths
| Grand Union Hotel and is known as Bailey. That 10
| all that IL known about him. There Was statement
printed that the man had skipped that hotol
and in writing the supervisor To that the storY
was untrue and that the enumeration. with the assist
ance Of tho clerks mad made every efort to secure tho
proper information to,all permanent residents IN the
house tho proprietor MIR. Garrison, added that there
was ono man called Bailey who to the best OF his
| knowledge had not spoken word to n living soul
since he nrs to live at tho hotel ten years ago,
and from whom II had been impossible to obtain any
answers to tho questions There has been story tod
OF another similar hermit who used to 1.-Two at large
down hotel, but that ono did talk occasionally
Patrons OF Fulton street restaurant noticed for
eral DAYS recently that the water furnished them tasted
| perceptioly OF wine Tho explanation was common.
place The bursting OF the heating com panys pipes
in Fulton street had cut OF the power from the engine
used pump from tho mains for tho restaurant
and Il had been necessary to obtain the water when
would night and store It Old wine barrels were
the only convenient storage facilities about tho placo
hence tile naVoring OF tho wasr.
Tho Law and order Society that set out some time arc
to make Fort Leo unpopular with the sort of folks who
had patrons for many years is alleged to have
accompshe its purpose. Tho steamer men and othera
Interested in the resort complaining OF poor
and laying all the blame to the local Law and order
people and their persistence in enforcing Sunday and
other excise laws
Tho new mlllion.dolar twelve milo boulevard from
end to end OF Hudson county will II tho money
gets far the roadbed, mako one of the finest
drives in this part Of the country Most OF will be on
high ground overlooking either New York ana the sur
rounding cities or tho Newark and llackOnsack mend
ows to tho Orange Mountains, magnificent outlook
either way There already hne driving roads
which will connect with tho boulevard and practically
continue It for twelve miles north along the
init of tho Palisadea
Tho Rapid Transit Commissioners made 4 personal
inspection OF every foot OF the route which they
have laid out the proposed new road and incidentally
saw some interesting things not connected with rapid
transit IL could not have conceived possible" said
Commissioner Steinway Ito have found such sQuAlid,
hhlf.nRked, unutterabo misery anywhere in tho city
found right thore in tho heart Of the town. at the
foot Marion and Jersey and in that neighbour
hood within 800 feet OF Broadway. That whole section
is filled with reeking pest holes"
~ noticed q queer thing in wanamakervillo the
other day" said in hotel lobby yesterday. "1t
Sunday and all the street usual except
that there no bells the horses. They told me
that tho law there. They have bells week
days that people will notice them coming and get
out Of the way. but Sundays, apparently, It doesn't
mako any difference whether folks are run not
The proprieties observed, you see, but business
isn't nterfered with. Isn't that Just like John 2"
Ono of tho problems with which tho rapid transit
question is complicated is that of solid construction
low part Of the city from the Tombs Canal
street Tho original steamboat of Robert Fulton used
float In the that formerly existed there said
Commissioner Stenway. An old man who said he
1t told me once, and afterward verified his
statement Tho water fifty feet deep in soma
places there then Years when factory used to
be down in Walker street. real salt water foot deep
used to flow in out OF the subcelar regularly tho
OF high tides showing that there still free
passage for tho water through little channels in the
Milling in"
The New Jersey authorities are growing s.ingy Of
their land under water. the title to which is in the
State. The Riparian Board has adopted regulations
which said TO have practically doubled tho price
asked for such lands Tho most valuable tracts In the
northern part of tho State Eobbled long by
railroads and other corporations the rcEua
not apt to have any important effect About s4oa
neal foot for the above limo and besides
for the land under water 10 tho price now charged.
This Is petty compared with the value OF such lands
when improved but chief element in this value the
filling 10. which usually costs many times the original
price of the lands although material may be obtained
at the bare cost OF unloading It from
Tho Battery boatmen have n fresh scowl on their
faces since tho twin screw Sandy Hook flyers Mon
mouth and Sandy Hook resumed their summe trips
They alleged make bigger swels any other
boats in the harbor. The boAtmen declare that the
swell hasn't fairly subsidized after Of them going
down tho bay before 1t is renewed by vessel coming
back tho return trip Az tho trip takes about three
4
Tho Bedlows Island steamboat monopoly 10 having
grand central station of Its own built since tho mmi
grants have ousted from tho Barge 0hco dock II
building the deck OF old barge which has been
tied alongside tho Battery wall above tho Barge Of
hca- Travel to tho island ia now heavy.
Talk about men not being bargain nsndG" said Q
bright woman in a downtown office. why, man
started Nassau year and bust
poor the first few months that he got dis
couraRed. But he filled his windows with signs saying
that he selling out at price going
out of business and his doors with pacArd This
to let and then he put the prices of all his
cont higher than they had been before and waited
Inside of two weeks he doing tho biggest business
of In his line tho street. and At tho end of
three months. whom he took down the sigma he had
made enough extra pron to put his goods down, too
regular prices again He is there yet and has per.
mnnentIy established business All his customers were
men. You couldn't catch women that way"
Travellers on tho Staten Island ferrybcAts often won
der why lot of old dismantled hulks always an
chored in the shallow water above Bsdlows Island and
indulge In pathetic references to the old ships aban
doned after probably gallant career. Tho old huks
coal barges waiting for cargo. and tho pathos is
mispaced for in the black and unwisdy old
things are making more money. net, now than they
did in the days before their rigging cut down.
whsn as ships, they used to ride the bounding pillows
with motive power OF their own instead of being
dragged up the Sound at the tail OF a putting tug.
Foreign Notes OF Heal Interest
Bsmarcks weight is 1875, he having once weighed 2+o
A sensation has been produced IN Heidelberg by the
rumor that tho Government may close tho University