Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-01-14

New York business men are alarmed
at the prospect for cholera next snnl-
mer IL spite Of assurances 10 the cen
trary,n sald Charles A. BrockWay, the
veteran furniture dealer. In the iobt,y
OF the Morton last night t'lf cholera
ever reaches New York. goodbye u
business for = year anyway. Our ex-
perience With It last summer showed
what the effect must Dc II il ever be-
comes epidemic IN the ely. The Vac
torla, the Plaza ana other large fam
ily hotels were almost depopuiased.
Families that had engaged suites OF
rooms for the year immediately iefl
the clty, and Il cholera breaks out IN
New York this summer there Will bo =
general exodus But am not ~ favor
Of prohibiting immigration on that &C.
count. l think the NV York autE;t--
itles are able 10 cope with the disease
aud keep IL out OF the city. Dr.. Jen-
klns aud bic assistants did remarkable
work last summer when the scourgo
attacked them. They were unprepared
for il then, but they have been getting
ready for IL ever since, and II the chol-
era reaches New York harbor this year
| il will find the authorities prepared TO
deal with it," Speaking OF the furni-
ture business, Mr.. BrocEway said;
sGrand Rapids now makes furniture
that 10 superior TO the imported goods.
Imported furniture does not seem able
TO Withstand our climate. The Grand
Rapids goods are made upon the came
models as the imported. and are better
adapted TO our changing climate"
"Business In Kansas shows the effects
of the prohibitory law" said = Chicago
drummer, who has just returned from
. trip to the JayhGwker state, In the
New Livingston yesterday. "Leaven'
worth 10 dull; Lawrence 10 dull; Wichl.
Ia 10 dull. Topeka 10 not doing hall
the business il ought to. The city u
naturally = bright. lively, husliine
town. The pronlbitory Law has moi
prohibited anything either. There -
little more red tape about getting
drink; but you eau get II just the same
You have TO belong 10 club or some
thing like that,you know. Ii you don
belong, the hotel clerk does. and he II
always willing to introduce you as
personal friend. Then you 20 into 9
basement and through seven or eight
corridors and finally end up IN. pen
There yoE are privileged TO buy your
whisky for twenty-five cents drini
and pour rotten beer into yourself fol
ten cents glass. The drug stores al
sell liquors as freely as saloon would
A little difference IN the price Is all
| The man with an acute attack OF indi
gestion pays dollar for four bottle
of beer and another dollar for half |
pint of Missouri red-eye. Prohibitor,
laws are great things"
Don j. feathers returned from Lex
ington, Kentucky, yesterday, where n
had been TO attend the Woodward
Shankland sale. "Monbars and IT,
rest of our string were not sold" h
said, in the lobby OF the Morton. "ll
fact the sale was a failure. because !
had been advertised TO take place IL
February, and the dates we're pushed
ahead TO QUITO the Tattersall sale. W.
shall send our string to New York ant
have the horses sold at Tattersaii'
sale there. Michigan is not the oni,
state that is overrun with weather,
remarked Mr.. feathers, In speaking o
hia trip. "Day before yesterday TIT
thermometer was five below IN Lexing
ton, and Yesterday morning it was 81
below. There are about ten inches .
snow there, and the sleighing 10 a. gcot
there as it 10 here. 1t would amuse yo,
to see the rigs they turn out. Sleigh
ing IL q novelty there, and they are no
prepared for it. Everything that ba
runners 10 used for . eleign. Even "a
pipe. bent at one end, is utilized