The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-03-10
NEW YORK LETTER.


600 The other. covering - per cent
less ground space, shelters 3,3aS per
sons or six times as many MS the rich
est block. And the aggregate wealth
of these 3,3oS persons is about $780,
600, or one-thousandth part ms great
ms the other. In the one each person
represents on an average 100000. The
incomes on this, figured ut 1 per cent,
is So, 900 per annum for each man,
woman and child In the block. In the
other the average is about 500 per-
son. or an annual income of 81 figured
on the same percentage. The differ
cnce is startling enough 10 satisfy any
body.
The richest block Is that bounded by
Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets
and Fifth and sixth avenues. The
poorest Is bounded by Second and
Third streets and Avenues Il and &.
Within the limits OF the Fifth avenue
block live John u. Rockefeller. with
his $500, 000,0 900, and DR. Seward Webb
and III. Mckay Twombly, representing
between them $75,000,o00 of the Van
derbilt hoard. Mr.. Rockefeller's resi-
dence Is Mt No. 4 West Fiftyfourth
street, which Is shown In the picture
The Twomblys and Webbs occupy the
entire Fifth avenue front of the block
with the exception of the space taken
up by st. Thomns's Episcopal Church
on the Fifty-third street corner. The
Twombly house is on the Fifty -fourth
street corner ana DR.. Webb il next 10
the church. Mr.. and Mrs. George
Crocker, OF the great millionaire fam
lily of California, live Mt No. Is West
FIFTY fourth. Henry II. Sloane, nnoth-
cr Vanderbilt connection. lives nj No.
Az West Fifty fourth, and the other
residents on this street, many of them
millionaires many times over, are ii.
NJ. Alexander John !. MeCook. vii
liam Bryce, Jr.. William w Skiddy,
Edward La Montague. John w. Ait
ken, the famous dry goods merchant;
Isaac Scllgman, .. u. Ashley, Jay Solo
mon, John II. Totten, William l.. Par
IRISH, John NJ. Fraser Frances Koch,
John II. Comey. And this list can be
swclcd up to many more of the same
sort.
ON the Fifty-thlrd street front of the
block lives the Rev. DIR. John Brown,
rector of st. Thomas's, said 10 be the
wealthlest clergyman In America;
Theodore Il. Starr, the millionaire
jcwelcr, of Fifth avenue: benjamin
Stern, of the famous dry goods house;
Julian l.. Myers, DIR. Ramon Ginteros,
and dozen or more other millionalres.
The 514 people In the block spend for
| living expenses III one week rs much
as the 3,35S In the East Side block
spends in n year. Despite this fact
however, 1t is doubtful II the million
aires get as good II time out of life, OF
the whole, ms do the East Slders. Their
tncy work hard ana make little, bu
what little leisure they have they max
The most of in u social way, leavln
worries 10 take care of themselves
Reduction In Death Rate.
The reduction of the death rate II
this city to 21-5i as against 2310 il
1895 and an average Of 1868 for the
| five years Immediately preceding, was
due chiefly to the fact that the number
! of deaths caused by infectious diseases
was considerably diminished. II *
noticeable that the morality percentage
| In dipllthcria has been cut down from
30 10 ia 1893 to 1888 in 1896. The
number Of deaths In tencments was
less last year by Z per cent. than In
1895 and less by nearly II per cent.
than the average for tho five proceed
ing years. These and other fncts ex-
hlhiied by the record emphasize the
value of an efficient and progressive
Health Department and also show how
ihc public health Is beDciiclally affected
4 by clean streets.
uorseie.s Carriages.
4 Automobile carriages propelled by
Electricity in II few weeks be
rolllng through the streets of New York
! In 1nblic service The Electric Car
rlaGc Il Wagon Company, represent
4 ing II combination of New York ana
/ Philadelphia capital, has perfected de
| signs For motor hansoms and cOupcs
4 The company expects the vehicles 10
! speedily demonstrate their success
and viii increase the number In ser
| vice to several hundred In the belief
| that the electrically Impclled hansoms
and cabs viii largely superscde the
1 hOrse-drawn vchC2es now in service.
| Clubs and Assooi stions Multiply.
| Judging from the surprisingly large
number of clubs and associations that
the last twenty years, the names of
which alone cover more than eight Of
| The finely printed pages Of the Cay Dl-
rrctory, the impulse 10 club together
| for some purpose must certainly DE
strong Whether this he for the trans
pnrent cornwall purpose Of the eight
hundred and odd Raincs clubs. 50
frowningly defined by Judge Beekmal
In his famous definition of what con
stltutcs n club or for the more legit
mate If less apparent purpose OF ih'
strictly social clubs seems 10 make Ms
little difference as The alleged common
bond of singing does in the internal HE
Of our old German clubs, the Arlon ant
Licdcrkranz, as long as the main pur
pose Of meeting others of the same SCI
is attained.
How true this IL may In inferred From
the fact that whenever soine new spor
or fad creates IA new community OF III
tcrcsts, clubs cailtlvatlHg such Interests
at once spring up like mushrooms Oyer
might. Thus. we have an untold mum
Der Of bicycle clubs, few of which ear
boast of an age exceeding five years
while in the face of such composition
no less than thirty golf clubs have SC
Gently been formed IN the Immediate
vicinity OF New York with fifteen more
to come, OF which only the 81. Andrews
land ShinDecock Hills date back further
than two years. CYRUS THoRP
/ 81
One Consolation.
We'll" said the absent-minded ant
new arrival in Hades. as he moppet
his perspiring brow. there's some
thing TO he thankful for down here
ANYWAY, Folks won't always be yell
ling at me to shut the door."-Baltimor'