The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-13


100000. Bids were advertised for by the
treasury department., no bids for less than
the amount named 20 be considered. Not
one bid has been received. Officials and
special agents Of the treasury department.
have been here aud tried in vain to dispose
OF the property at private sale No one
wants It at the price and no one will bid on
1t. The building is a very old. ugly and
badly arranged one. The material In il Is
scarcely worth the cost OF removinRit
The building Is on Wall street. and the
lot Is big one, but real estate men say il
Is not worth more than 1000, 600 There
is no prospect that the building will ever be
sold at the price fixed by congress, and
after thousands of dollars have been spent
IN fruitless attempts 70 dispose of It some
future congress will probable reduce the
price TO a reasonable figure.
VALUES AND, ASSESSMENTS.
Some cities that ~ disposed to complain
OF the naturalization of property when the
tax assessor comes around may find some
figures from the metropolis interesting. 10
Is claimed, and the claim is no doubt true.
that New York suffers more from under
valuations than any other city In the
country,
The building of certain insurance COM
pany in this city which is valued at SIS.
600, 900. In the reports OF the company ls as
sessed at $500, 900, or about one-third OF the
actual cost of construction. The building
and lot OF one Of the newspapers OF the city.
for which = cash offer of 1900, 900 was re-
fused, is assessed at 1895 900.
These are not isolated cases. but fair
| illustrations Of the great under valuation of
property. II all property in New York was
assessed at its market value, the tax
rate could be reduced rs per cent
DRUNKENNESS CURED BY MAIL.
Temperance societies and prohibitionists
may as well go out Of business. An enter
prlsing New York doctor has opened a
chloride of gold institute, and proposes
to cure tho worst cases of drunkenness by
mail.
For $40 he will send box of chloride OF
gold pellets to be taken internally and he
| guarantees that they will reform any old
| topper living in from ten days to three
weeks. His course is similar TO the Keeley
| cure, he says, but being philanthropic in-
| dividual he has placed his remedy at a price
| that can be paid by tho poorest Inn. He
cuts rates on the Kelley institute FOR the
same method Of treatment and guarantees
the same or better results.
Mail orders are coming in rapidly, not
| withstanding the fraud of the thing has
been exposed. AS bunco game the plan of
curing drunKards by mail is a pronounced
| success.
HARD ON LODGING HOUSE KEEPERS
The outbreak of typhus fever In the city
has for time ruined the business of the
keepers Of lodging and boarding houses on
the Bowery aud the East side.
| When contagious disease makes It's ap-
| pearance in the poor quarters of the city
one of the first things the health officers do
is to go through the lodging houses and cut
down the number Of dodgers, to a point
where each one can get a small amount OF
| fresh air.
The keepers of these places thrive on the
| poverty of their patrons. They crowd their
boarders like cattle in a stock car. Often
there are 80 many dodgers in a room some
| The health officers drive the poor
wretches out of these places until
those remaining are sure OF certain
| number of cubic feet of air each night.
! This Is good for the health of the dodgers.
but 1t cuts down the profits of the owners
OF the houses. In fact, they cannot make
any money until the disease has been
stamped out and the health officers relax
their vigilance.
THE BUILDING OF THEATERs.
New York is already well supplied with
theaters, but capitalists apparently have
| an idea there is 70 IN for more.
| Oscar Hammerstein, who owns a theater
in Harlem, is building another on Thirty.
fourth street near Broad way, which will b &
| one of the largest and handBomest play
houses in the city. Arrangements have
also been made for the building of large
theater at Broadway and Thirty ninth
street, which will be 10 sed and managed
! by Henry e. Abbey. The new Fifth Ave-
nue. theater is now nearing completion and
1t is rumored on the Rialto that at least
three more new play houses will be built
during the year. All OF them will be up
! town.
There is no longer any chance for a the,
| alter located below Fourteenth street. except
on the Bowery. Historic old Niblos, the
| only downtown play house remaining, has
been playing road companies this season
| with Indifferent success. Some of the best
| paying theaters in New York are the popu-
| lar price house, houses where the best seats
| can be obtained for rs cents or 81 at all
seasons of tho year. The lessee of the Grand
opera house, the leading popular price
theater, it is said, pays an annual rental OF
$50, 900 and is making money.
PUSHING CIRCULATION.
The tricks that are being resorted to by
the publishers of some Of tie New York
daily papers, to push the circulation of their
respective journals are enough 10 make the
public believe that newspapers are moi
printed for profit. Handsome oil prints are
| being given away, In place OF the cheaL
| chromos formerly given, life, accident aud
debt paying insurance takes the place of the
old time gift distribution and lottery
| schemes.
1t is rumored on Newspaper row that one
OF the big newspapers that has recently beer
outdone in generosity TO subscribers, Is soor
to inaugurate the somewhat startling plan
of giving away ton of coal with every
subscription.
BY the time this reaches the eye Of the
reader, New Workers will probably be en-.
joying the novelty of having a morning pa.
per given them every morning by boys
hired for the purpose. This is the scheme
of an enterprising western man, who pro-
poses 70 steal his news from other papers
issue his paper about breakfast time, and
give it away. He will depend on adver-
Using patronage for an income. The plan
is novelty, and novelties succeed in New
| York. CURTIS KINGLAKE.