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Year: 1879

Under the above head the HERALD has
during the winter published considerable
information about deserving persons who
were suffering all the privations peculiar to
utter desti.ution. From the small sum of
the contributions which have been received
at this office for the benefit Of the sufferers
we must assume, out of respect for chari-
table New York, that benevolent people
have preferred to do their aims privately
and personally. This is as it should be. if
the work has really been done; but who
knows what cases have been relieved and
what have been neglected and overlooked :?
This is matter which public spirited citi-
zens should investigate. The members of
the Chamber Of Commerce. the Stock Board
end other prominent bodies which did so
generously by the yellow fever sufferers
few months ago are certainly not the
men to let equally deserving persons die
from an equally horrible but more protracted
trouble in New York. One half the world
does not know how the other half lives, but
if any good hearted banker or merchant
wishes to know what starvation literally is
he can find out for himself within half an
hour by consulting the appropriate column
of Che HERALD and making one or more per-
sonal calls at the addresses given. Men of
this kind, who are quick judges of human
nature, are just the ones to see through
an impostor, if any of these people have
deceived our reporters. Business men who
have wives and children will be able
to tell at glance whether the families
alluded to are really well fed and have suf-
fcient clothing. Certainly no man Of ordi-
nary humanity has any excuse to wonder
what these stories Of destitution amount to
if he has few spare moments and dollars.
And We can, in advance. assure any one
who will investigate for himself that he
will get the worth of his time and money
in the shape Of a new sense of his own per-
sonal lot and comforts.
Year: 1879

and most healthful locality in the city will
be brought within easy reach for residences
on the west side. One promising feature Of
the evident improvement in real estate is
that it is gradual and moderate and has in
it nothing of spasmodic or speculative
character People are beginning to build
residences up town because thore is de-
mand for them and because the facilities OF
rapid transit will induce thousands to leave
crowded tenement house districts and seek
homes III mora healthful and more pleasant
localities.


From an article published elsewhere it is
evident that New Jersey has taken the
alarm and sees that the rapid transit roads
must draw back to New York thousands OF
our citizens who do business here, hut who
have been driven to make their homes i'll
that State. The advantages of living in
New York are conceded, and necessity only
has induced our business men, clerks and
others Of limited means to seek residences
outside the city. When they can hire
houses at moderate rents in the upper part
Of New York and reach their hom as from
the City Hall in half an hour or less they
will no longer be willing to cross the river
and submit to the many inconveniences OF
a New Jersey residence
Year: 1879

To read OF Arctic explorations is one Of
the keen delights Of some imaginative New
Workers in the summer time, and for SIM
liar reason our Cadiz letter, published to-
day, will affect many people as most deli
cious reading matter for winter day.
Cadiz is not only city of sunny skies and
soft winds, but venerable, picturesque
place, where people have leisure in which
to love on Sunday and pray daily through
out the week-where sailors sing while
sober, men serenade their sweethearts with
out being arrested by the police, and every
body finds time in which to walk to the
Battery. Could anything be more unlike
New York?
Year: 1879

There is no reason to doubt that real
estate in New York has seen its worst
troubles, and that its steady improvement
is now certain. Rapid transit, as far as it
has gone, has caused marked revival in
the market, and has given an impetus to
building that cannot fail TO continue and to
increase. Yet the real advantages of
rapid transit to uptown property are
yet 10 be felt. The Third avenue
line has only been open to Harlem
Bridge for short time, and its facilities
have not been equal to the accommodation
of the travel The Sixth avenue line at
present stops short at Fifty-eighth street.


When the west side al" road is open to
159th street and the Second avenue line is
constructed the movement in zeal estate
now distinctly perceptible will be-
come active. The great flood of
east side travel will then be fully
accommodated. while the most beautiful
Year: 1879




If anything is worth doing at all it is
worth doing well, and we believe the SUBJ
ject Of the safety Of human life and prop
erty at sea is of such paramount importance
as to warrant the thorough investigation
we have been making of the safety water
tight bulkhead systems Of steamers engaged
in the ocean and coasting trades. If we
accept the assurances of the proprie-
tors and officers of these vessels we
must be convinced that everything is
done in their construction and manage
ment to assure safety. But as vessels of the
class to which we refer have foundered from
stress Of weather or have gone to the bottom
by reason Of collisions and other mishaps,
it is safe to doubt that perfection has
yet been reached in steamship building.
The effect of our Investigation cannot fail to
be beneficial, because its prosecution will
cnlighten the travelling public on many
matters about which people are ignorant.
1t will also show the steamship companies
that the popularity of their lines must rest
on some more substantial basis than mere
wordy assurances Of safety. 1t will not
pay to build steamships on speculation,
and under that dangerous system by which
the builder gets small price and the
owner bad work. When the matter is con-
sidered there is nothing so easy as to build
good steamship If the parties to her con-
struction are honest men. We may feel
certain that when vessel proves to be
defective in any important particular
the hand or influence of dishonesty has
been at work on her. Underwriters can do
much toward driving deathtraps from the
seas, because legitimate business in
marine insurance cannot be done in such
bottoms 1t is mere gambling, in which the
owner, though paying q high premium,
generally wins in the end. We commend
to our readers the article printed else
where, the third of the series on "Safety at
Sea-" as it contains much information Of in
terest to travellers and SINNERS
Year: 1879

bill has been introduced in the Assem-


bly, requiring the 81" railroads in New


York to run trains at five cents fare from


half past five until nine in the morning,


and from four until eight in the evening


This proposition is by no means unfair to


the com panies, as the extension of the hours


for cheap trains will, we are confident,


actually increase their receipts. 1t is only


just to the public, because the main con-


valuable franchises bestowed on the


companies was that the poorer classes of


our citizens should be afforded the privilege


Of travelling at five cents fare, and the


hours now set apart for the cheap trains are


entirely insufficient Many thousands of


persons who cannot afford to pay ten cents


fare do not 60 to their work until after half


past seven in the morning at which time the


cheap trains cease running. This is espe-


cially the case with female employees, who


frequently do not leave work before seven


o'clock, and SO lose the advantage of the


reduced fare both morning and evening.


There is no reason, therefore, either on the


ground of equity or of public advantage.
why the hours set apart for the running of
cheap trains should not be extended


But it will be far more satisfactory to the


people if the concession is made voluntarily


by the rapid transit companies, instead of


being forced upon them by Legislative
| action. There is strong disinclination to
see the Legislature intermeddle at all with
! rapid transit. Already bill has been in
troduced to prevent the construction Of the
Second avenue 81" road, and other equally
suspicious movements may be in store.
Visions Of obstruction and blackmail will
force themselves into existence whenever o
proposition comes from Albany to inter-
fere with the business of corporation,


and the people of, New York desire


that the Legislature shall keep it's hands off
rapid transit. Mr.. Field at meeting Of the
directors of the New York IL" Railroad
Company, on Thursday last, stated that the
proposition to extend the cheap hours is al
ready under consideration, and we have no
doubt that both companies will assent to SO


reasonable apublic demand The best thing
the Legislature can do is to leave the rapid
| transit roads alone. The people are not
yet hopeless that the desired improvements


and concessions will be made in good time.
Year: 1879

1T WILL Nor he the most fortunate thing in
the world for the country if Paul Boyton during
his visit to the capital shall succeed in teaching
the politicians the secret of buffeting the
political waves. The drowning of u batch of
them now and then is, on the whole, good
thing.
Year: 1879

Our LONDON LETTER this morning paints q
somewhat gloomy winter picture Of the British
metropolis. The weather is unusually severe,
crime is rife and the spring outlook is far from
encOura ring.
Year: 1879

The NOVEL aud interesting experiment of
attempting to save life by the TRANSMISSION of
human blood was recently made III Brooklyn
1t will be seen from our report that the patient
was slightly revived by the operation, hut the
nature of his disease precuded the possibility
of elfecting a complete cure.
Year: 1879

In THIS SHARP WINTER WEATHER the upper
Hudson is the scene of some exciting although
dangerous sport. For some weeks the ice
yacht fleet has been coursing over the frozen
river, and the marvellous speed of a mile a
minute is said to be not an unusual occurrence
Year: 1879

IT WILL BE SEEN from our Dublin letter that
the extraordinary Bagot will case still occupies
the attention of the Irish courts. Mr.. Butt, in
his argument against new trial, sustained the
reputation of the Irish Bar for eloquence and
NIT
Year: 1879

A wall grown up between the two,


A strorg thick wall though all unseeA'
None knew when the first stones were Iald'
Nor how the wall was built ween
And so their lives were quiet apart =,
Although they shared one board, one oed'
A careless eye saw not amiss,


Yet each was to the other dead
he, much absorbed in work and gain,


Grew soon unmindful of his loss,
A hard indifference worse than hate


Changed love S fine gold to worthless dro"s'
She suffered tortures all untold;


Too proud to mourn, too strong to die;
The wall pressed heavy on her heart,


Her white face showed her misery
Such walls are growing day by day,
"rwixt man and wife, 'twixt friend anu


friend; -,
Would they could know who lightly build


How sad and bitter is the end!
A careless word, an unkind thought,


A slight neglect, taunting tone,
Such things as these before we know


Have laid the wallis foundation stone.
Year: 1879

The use of small savings has not been
enough insisted upon. We have had
plenty of light on cooperation IN labor
and in expenditures, and there has Aoeen
no end to the wild schemes for making
men wealthy by short and easy meth
ods, as by redistribution of property,
the limitless manufacture OF paper
money, etc. But the slow, simple, old
fashioned plan for providing for to-mor-
rows contingencies by setting aside
portion of to-day's receipts has fallen
sadly into disuse. 1t is tedious business
and not at all in accord with the prevail
ing desire to get rich all of a sudden and
with trifing exertion. We are all tami-
lar with the calculation which shows
how much ten cents a day or twenty
cents a day laid aside or put out at in
terest will amount to, twenty, thirty or
forty years hence. But we smile at the
figures as a mere freak of enthusiasts,
and souander every day upon insignifi-
SAINT enjoyments or out of sheer care
lessness sums of money which, if saved,
would make the 'rainy day."
which lies somewhere in waiting
for most of us, good deal
brighter that it is likely to be otherwise.
1t is probable that the 'hard times"
from which we are emerging, have helped
to teach this lesson, and that more people
than formerly will be disposed to test the
utility of small savings, 1t is bad
enough, out Of an income of f20 to
spend EGO and make no provision for
the future, but the trouble with most
of us has been that we have been spend
ing the extra shilling which was not
ours to spend. Hence our settlements"
at considerably less than one hundred
cents on the dollar. Boston Journal
Year: 1879

Down in Indiana when they don't
want man to be candidate for office,
they get the papers to speak of him as
IAN aged citizen whose many infirmities
will prevent him from entering the poss
litical field"
Year: 1879

Some men will spend Sl5 per week to
send an advertising wagon around the
streets for the benefit of corner loafers
and school children, and then curse a
newspaper because advertising" doesn't
nav
Year: 1879

The clasp of the feverish air at lG00 in
the shade is perhaps not made any more
agreeable by reading of snow'drift seventy
FIVE feet deep and thousand feet long that
White Mountain visitors are sitting on.
Year: 1879

The man who goes fishing and sits in
cramp.inviting posture on narrow plank
from early morn till dewy eve, and calls it
fun, is the same chap that never goes to
church because the pews are not comfort
able- YonkerS Gazette.
Year: 1879

The recent weather has been favorable
for the Northwestern wheat harvest; the
crop stands strait up, and the fresh breezes
of the last week have dissipated the fears
that the previous heavy storms would pro-
duce rust. The farmers throughout the
centre of the State are jubilant, and it is
probable the harvest will exceed the
average through the whole spring wheat
region. The hurricanes of Wednesday
night do not seem to have been felt West of
| Cleveland.
Year: 1879

1t cannot be doubted, says the PhiIadel-
phia Record, that the effect OF late discussion
in and out of Congress, with regard to the
powers of the General Government over the
conduct of elections and the rights of the
States, has been to call out and strengthen
at the North the remnant of the old war
feeling, so that some men who have been
disposed to vote the Democratic ticket are
now more than half inclined to train with
the stalwart leaders of the Republican party
and to believe that the old question between
the North and the South has returned to
vex the nation. That the clamor of the
Republican leaders and a portion OF the
press should have had this effect is for the
most part due to the fact that, owing to the
effect of the war in distorting the meaning of
terms, the expression Estates rights " has
come to represent. with the average public
simply the right of secession.
Year: 1879

Herald Interview with Mr. Halstead.l


The ring influence was traceable
through both of Grants administra-
ton, though in his second term he
had learned more of politicians, and
was consequently better able to control
it and keep it under. Still it CON
tinuod to exist, and when Grants sec
ond term was about to expire | used
what influence | had to help Bristow
as being the one who, most of all men
in that party, had shown determina-
tion to fight these influences and stand
up for honesty in tho government.
These various rings, | had observed,
were nearly, if not absolutely, in con-
troll of the party. They were given
opportunities for making vast sums Of
money, and this enabled them to con-
tribute more than all the rest to the
support of their party, ahd, as they
thought, gave them also the power
to control its organization. This
was apparent in the last Presi-
dental election, when railroad
ring-I will not specify what men
were in it, but simply that it was a
ring managed in the interests of GER
tain railroads = rolled barrel of
money into the Republican campaign
fund that was an offset to Tilden's bar
rel, and did more to supply their wants
at a critical moment than all the 9TH
er contributions beside. This was
done in the belief that they could
control Hayes, just as Grant had been
controlled by similar influences. But
it was mistake of theirs. When
Hayes put Carl Schurz in charge of
the interior department | knew they
could do nothing further in that way.
Schurz is a man they cannot use. Not
all the money in the world can move
him from an honest administration Of
his department, and their failure to
use him for thoir purposes and their
failure to use Hayes to their own ad-
vantage is what gives rise to stall
wart Republicanism. They can't put
their finger on single thing Hayes
has done that is against the welfare of
his party or the good Of the country.
Year: 1879

Poor old Dan Rice, the veteran
Snowman, probably one of the most
abused, as he certainly is one of the
most unfortunate, men in this coun-
try, remarked in a recent conversation
that although his life had been long
and eventful one, he had but four
things to regret First, that he had
not become a minister of the gospel
instead of a minister of fun; second,
that he did not buy up the Democratic
nomination for the Presidency in 1868,
when he was advised that he could get
it for $4,000; third, that he encour-
aged little boys to steal into his circus
tent when on his travels, and fourth,
that helearned Adelina Patti to swear.
Although personal to himself, this
will probably strike the average reader
as a most impartial and disinterested
review of life's career.
Year: 1879

New YORK, January 19.-The fire
last night at the corner of Worth and
Church streets will cause, it is said,
the suspension of six or eight small
insurance companies. Tho block in
which the fire occurred was regarded
as valuable in the goods stored there
as any single block in the city.
Year: 1879

The committee of ways and means
have at last agreed upon a discrimi-
mating duty on sugar which as usual
with such compromises, has disap-
pointed both sides who will probably
unite for its defeat in the house On
grades of sugar under number thirteen
Dutch standard the committee fix the
duty at 2 4l-l00 cents a pound, on
sugar rating between thirteen and six
teen Dutch standard, duty of %
cents pound and on sugars above
sixteen Dutch standard, 4 cents a
pound. This rate of duty is favorable
to the refining interests.
Year: 1879

st, Louis Times-Journai,l


We don't know that we particularly
fancy the kind of man Ingomar is
represented as having been. And vet
how the women folks do enjoy seeing
Parthenia lead the big spoony rufian
by the nose through two hours and a
half of romance and sentimentality |!
1t does them a world of good, because
it discovers to them power that few
Of them ever imagined they possessed
that subtle, heavenly influence
which womankind alone exercises.
Every woman goes away from the
playhouse imagining that she too is a
Parthenia-and so she may become if
she will only dispose her soul to con-
quer her Ingomar with love instead of
broomsticks, and kindness instead of
sad-irons. And as for the burly lingo
mar-contemptuously as we may view
his maudlin sentimentality, we cannot
help having great deal Of sympathy
for him, for, if we we're Ingomar, and
if Mary Anderson were to roll her
great, juicy eyes around on us and hold
out her plump, white arms and tell us
about the "two souls, etc, we would
be ten thousand times worse than the
most irrevocable demon if we did not
forget our ferocity and crouch like a
quail on toast at her No. 3 sandals.
Year: 1879

St. Louis Post Money is the great
power Of to-day. Men sell their souls
for it. Women sell their bodies for it.
Many who seem to be better PROSTATE
themselves before it And few, very
few indeed, are entirely free from its
influence and power. 1t is the great
power of to-day. It is the great dan
ger of tomorrow. 1t is the growing
dark cloud of our free institutions. 1t
is the natural great enemy of the
Democracy. 1t is the irresistible con-
fict of the future. The money power
has grown so great that the issue of all
issues, after all, is whether the corpor-
ations shall rule this country or the
country shall again rule the corpora
tions, .a
Year: 1879

A lady whose patience has been sorely
tried by the class Of people who always
borrow the weekly local paper instead of
buying one, makes the following plaint
to a eotemporary (which wish to re-
mark, and my language is plain" at least
Peter says it is and he ought to know.
Peter is my husband. dear editor Iwant
to ask question Cannot something be
done to suppress the terrible nuisance, the
newspaper borrower?


Here is Geld for the philanthropist; a
field ripe for the harvest, and one in which
no man has worked. Humanitarians go
about the streets looking up narrowing OBJ
jects of sympathy among the dogs and
horses, and l dare say many Of them bor-
row the newspaper from which they read
the account Of their prowess. Cannot a
society be organized for the protection
of publishers and subscribers against the
ubiquitous and iniquitous creature?
Year: 1879

An experienced and successful sales
man furnishes the following sensible
suggestions'to to shoppers:


Purchasers, should, as far as possible,
patronize the merchants of their own
town. 1t is poor policy to send money
abroad for articles which can be bought
rs cheap at home. DO not take hold of
piece of goods which another is exam
ining. Wait until it is replaced upon
the counter before you take it up. In
iuring goods when handling, pushing
aside other persons, lounging upon the
counter, whispering, loud talk, and
laughing when in store are all evil
dences Of i'll breeding. Never attempt
to cheat down" prices when shopping.
If the prices do not suit, so elsewhere.
The just and upright merchant will have
but one price for his goods, and he will
strictly adhere TO it. IL is an insult to
clerk or merchant TO suggest TO a GUS
toner that he may buy cheaper or better
goods elsewhere. II is also rude to give
your opinion, unaskcd, about the goods
that another Is purchasing. Never eN-
peCt clerk TO leave another customer TO
wait on you, and when attending upon
YOU, do not cause him to wait while you
visit with another. When purchases atc
made let them be sent 70 your home, and
thus avoid loading yourself will bun
dies, Treat clerks, when shopping, re-
spectiulIy, and give Them no more touhIe
than is necessary. Ask for what is
Year: 1879

SIS there no Democrat who has the
same equalityY


"NOne, unless ii is Bayard. He comes
of the pWest and brayest strain Of blood
thateycr flowed through American veins.
II he has the nerve of the old Bayard
who turned his back on Burr and his
party because he said Burr had led the
party where no clean-handed gentleman
could follow it, he viii do. | suspect
the blood is not losing its temper Tom
Bayard's father gave us hint of the old
spirit when he left the Senate in 1860 be-
cause he would not swear that he did
not sympathlze with the South. But if
Grant wants the Presidency, and think
he does, it will require Il man that can
meet the lightning open-eyed to stay his
steps to the White House. Once in
there you might as well try to tear the
lightning from its seat in the clouds as
to get him out. But let it come. Grant
and the Empire. That is the prophecy
of an unrepentant rebel !"
Year: 1879

No use Of having the chills. no use Of
headache, or any of the ills that come from
disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn case-will
relieve the system and make you feel like
a new person. Try it aud be satisfied.
Year: 1879

Probably the oldest timber in the
world Which has been subjected to the
use of man is that which is found in the
ancient temples Of Egypt. 1t is found
us dowcl-pins in connection with stone
work which is known to he nj least 1000
years old. These dowcls appear to be
Of tamarisk. or chittim-wood. of which
the ark is said TO have been constructed.
a sacred tree in Egypt. and now very
rarely found in the valley of the Nile.