BROADBRIM'S NEW TORK LETTER.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11868, 16 October 1893, Page 2

BROADBRIM'S NEW TORK LETTER.

\i ' — ■-^i — * — 'SPECIAL TO CHBONICLK. Have I lived to see it— the despised greenback selling" at two per cent, premium, with gold at par and silver worth about fifty-five or sixty cents on the dollar ! And it is sot the ten dollar greenback nor the hundred dollar greenback ; but the insignificant ragped ones [ and twos, and this week rich bankers, great importing merchants, railroad corporations, and heavy manufacturers, stood in a Ions; row in a dingy little shop in JV^U S,tree,t and poured out bags full of gold, aad taking at two per cent, one dollar and Wo dollar greenbacks. This week the New York Central made a drift on the' Chemical Bank for eight hundred thousand dollars in email bills to pay its hinds' 'along tjie road. The bank informed' President Depew that £hey could not/ accommodate him ; they sent him twq hundred thousand' dollars in small' bills, and advised him to pay the hands in checks bo as to draw the greenbacks out; of the local banks. He was a " canny chiel" that small money buyer in Wall Street; who foresaw the coming scarcity of small bills. He was a man of excellent credit, who had beau many years in his dingy little olljce buying foreign Hjjehatige and commercial paper. He hac} about three hundred thousand dollars of his own, but he borrowod on short tims from hjs friend^. He then sent out agonts gathering 6mall bills, and now comes the time when he reaps the reward of his foresight All our largo dry goods houses need small bills for change, and must have them, Banks noed them, and iv fact they aro one of the most important factors in trade. It is a strange condition of things, but it gives us a gratifying evidence of the value of Uncle Sam's promises to pay. Gold at par and green backs at two per cent, premium ; banks bursting, factories closing, cotton and woolen mills suspending, and even the most fortunate of them working half time j Congress all alloat on the silver bill, everything looking very rocky j but in the midst of this financial cyclone Uncle barn's promise to pay- is better than' solid, shining gold. Hooray for Uncle Sam! Hooray again! Hoo-flooray and a Tiger ! Speaking of gold, the German-Lloyd steamer Spree brought back four millions and five hundrad thousand dollars in gold this week and there is more on the way. General Classen, the President of the Sixth National Bank, who tried to loot it of six hundred thousand dollars, in con-

Jif'ction with tv.n o'her rogues, Pell and Simmons, r. cm J<ii Mi pardon from Prosi-d-.'nt Cleveland »'\ Thursday last. The tiirea knaves, who had hardly a dollar batwoi n th> in, formulated a scheme which waa nearly successful — of getting into tboir possession fix hundred thousand dollars in cash. They took options on tho stock of the bank, and with what they got on the outsidp, and that hold by tho President, it gave them a clear voting innjority. They offered to buy tho President's stock, paying him GOO for ill ho hold. Ho took the tempting bait, made the deal, and the conspirators went down into the bank vaults, and paid him with the bank's money- Fortunately, the cashier was an honest man ; he informed the bank examiner, and he soon laid bare the plot. Classen, Simmons and Pell .vere arrested, and after a protracted trial the whole crowd was sent to States Pr'son. A boh of Lester Wallack's -was mixed up in the affair, but waß allowed to turn States evidence, and so escaped. The President in granting the pardon refers to the fact that the other conspirators who were equally guilty were pardoned long ago ; and so ends one of the most daring schemes of open daylight robbery that was ever conceived. The conspirators aro all free again, and although their plot miscarried it involved others besides themselves in hopeless and irretrievable ruin. The ranks of the Brooklyn Four Hundred have been sadly depleted by affairs of this kind; quite a number of its representative men are still wearing striped suits in remembrance of their misdeeds, while the history of their crimes remains, to point a moral and adorn a tale. Within threo months no less than nine brides|hayobeen deserted on the weddingday, and three of them almost at the altar. Strangely enough seven of the nine were Jews, and only in one case doeß the difficulty appear to be the marriage of Jew and Christian. The latest sensation in the marriage calendar is the sudden disappearance of David J. Solomon, a member of a large importing house, who wbb to have been married on Wednesday last. In the morning he went out with his intended bride, took a lide in tho Park, and on his ratura home stoppod in at Tiffany's, where he made his bride a present of a beautiful diamond ring, and then started forborne to get roady for the wedding, while the expectant brido busied herself arranging her trosseau. Night came, the friends assembled and the Pabbi was on band to perform tho ceremony, for they were to be married according to the Jewish forw although tho girl was a Christian. There 13 a certain romance abont this desertion that has created great sympathy for Miss Clara Perrj Thomas the bride. Sho was forewoman in Solomon's factory, when Mr Solomon's eldest Bon David fell in love with hei seven ago. The elder Solomon was a strictly orthodox Jew, and would not listen to one of bis children marrying a Christian, so it was agreed among them that they would not marry till after the father's death. They waited soven years, each being faithful to the other, and after the father's death the marriage was annonnced, but it waß still opposed by bis youngei brothers. As related above, all wen< Bmoothly up t~> the dav of the marriage, when tha brothers sant word to Miss Thomas that ho had been taken violently insane, and was confined in a lunatic asylum, Bliss Thomas immediately applied for a writ of habeas corpus, when it was discovered sure enough that her lover had been incarcerated in the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, on the petition of his two brothers, and that' his insanity waa testified to by a couple of reputable physicians, who got a good fat fee for the job. Miss Thomas wont to the Asylum, but was not permitted to see her intended husband, but walking about the grounds, discovered him at a win ; dow. B> was immediately spirited away, and Miss Thomas now awaits his pro duction before the courts. A more satisfactory conclusion took place at another Jewish marrmge, and kopt the whole of the -Hebrew colony in a fevei las'; week. And here let me remark, in marriage your Russian Hebrew has nc romance whatever iv his composition Ha regards himself as a mercantile com modify with a price j if any woman wants him she must pay for him. It doesn'l matter "a kopac if he has made a bargain to marry, and the pnrchaser has advanced money on the goods, if another comes along who will raise the ante, the lasl bidder is smo to catch him, and the first invesfor can go whistle for hor . money, A case of this kind occurred last week which ended in a ti^nal triumph for the bride. Miss Esther Lampel was engaged to Samuel Tftkarski. They had known each othjr in Russia. Esther had caved up two hundred and fifty dollars, and when Samuol promised to make her Mrs Takarski, sha advanced him several dol. lars, on which Samuel had a good time. Meanwhile helmet Simon Golinski's daughter Rebecca!,. and Golinsk'i offered to set'him up in business if he would take Kebecca, so he shook his first love Esther, and engaged himself to Eebecea. The marriage was.fjnuounced, the Rabbi was on hand and Samuel and Ketecci were standing under the tora, when in pop 3 a 4epnty sheriff with a writ for breach of promise and Ings him off to eaol. At first he said he would rot thorp rather than marry Esther; after a few days he changed his wmd and promised to marry her if sho would let him out. I am not prepared to say that " she had been there before many a time," but old birds are not caught with chaff, so sho said he must marry her before he left the jail. Then the hitch occurred. No fiabbi could be found in New Tork or Brooklyn who would marry them in prison j then the aiij of the prison chaplain was invoked, and Miss liampel became M« Takarski, I don't know which to congratulate, the bride or the groom, but judging from all appearances Mr Takareki has got a wife that it would not be Bite to fool with. The businefs situation remains unchanged, that is to say, decidedly uncomfortable. Therß is an unpleasantfeature ■in connection with the failure of the Madison Square Bank, that closed its doors last rcoek, which leaves a high official under a cloud of suspicion. The State had two hundred thousand dollars on deposit there. It is now alleged that about two hours before the bank closed its doors, someone on the inside gave Mr Danforth the State Trsasurer.ths straight tip, and he drew out; the State's money, and also that dno' of the directors drew out fifty thousand dollars. Thon it waa discovered that among the assets of the broken bank was Treasurer Danforth's note for fifty thousand dollars, the intereat on which, amounting to three and four thousand dollars, had not been paid for over two years. This had such a scandalous look, that to prevent investigation, his friends resolved to get possession of that note. A hasty meeting was called at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and the money was raised to redeem it. A ball was made on the Receiver, who accepted the fifty thousand dollars with interest, and he delivered up the'note. ■The 'wholo thing has a bad look. Mr Danforth, as State Treasurer, deposits with the Madison Square Bank a large amount cf the State's money. Mr Danforth. wants au accommodation of fifty tbqusand doljais, and gives his nqte of hand for the amount. The question naturally arises, has M? DaufortK tapped every bank where h,e made State deposits for alike amount? Our whole system seems permeated with ofljuial rottenness. In many of the vacant hank collapses it haa been discoyed that the president and directors havo absorbed aU all tha funds. Failures etill go on, and tho end is not yet, BuOADURIM.