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ind your oomwpoo- pnoU»a columns wen pnniM as it were m a ring 13 an accidental' kelerodoacopic haze of rope and poison, and '»• mimode!»too u nfofintm, Ur, Col. 6.,Metropolis.RICH MEN OF GOTHAM.muddy impurity, and being dashed from ! -great heights und life going out tbroagh the i . , ..blood, gargling up in the throat. It wa. YY110 r© til© MilliODDtll’ieS Of til© reai-oa.imt cnJersed ' j10rrjb]e _JO horrible iu ita frequency, indeed, j itea anJ bla friends «3« j lbat nothing coaid well bo more so.mfsss a knowledge of Then came the murder of the girl in ths ■ -rbich ruu or* raa tUe | orciiard. That was on Wednesday, only. Wlt;■lt; . _ jact felt called upon to have not quite done tulking of it yet, although W yS Ol DOlIlg JBllSlIieSS Slid indeed, live days have passed since Ida Buck-la now no per total lr- j ley looked tip through the canopy of the bare taeo, cr may i* i leaves and beyond the stars, and laid her inSome Large Figures,i , . - . . ... ..____ * i As o nr tax roll is now nnder preparation,ocrod'Dt in..,, J.ctnjtnt on the *jh* tbe throne.JJnlj „ y corM Jent o(l'tLu Cln.m.n .» .. r. .end ; hvo dnja ago and J« not fo.gotlonin, .notber J Q„,„l l'.nd „ ,h„ wi„ t„. cou. t.ltll U.lrom^ri, Inood; lr,g.dy. htranse, bot tnen Ida .a | lt;Kn fc A vacation i»»r dUMMilt not in her grave yet One Ik* m ber ice-bor | 6niahrfi eapitaliaU ol the cily are con-r n,.e. .ad a itor-I in the sLble-morgu., aud the n“r‘»‘»r | ^p^nng with nrnrh interest the amouuls b. t.., to f,i «. pwt, i no d, bia mqnest today. . | which may be levied npon them. PersonalhlniBn.lt,' days, did wa aay, and wetting for at ^ otten escape taiation, while landedanother horror ? No. not five, nor tom, nor i r, ba, lbe btnilt of tbethree daya. I wo days and anoth.r woman P £’ T however, is folly indead and a young life-bo young os scarcely . -■ • J •to live at all thrown into the stove to burn the tcll-ta!* iio ont of 6ight aud form, fir, as we are tolil ashes tell no talee. This is not all. As will be related circumstantially hereafter, on the third day another life is jeopardized and another young life is thrown by h r who will ba a mother in hell, into the stow. N-w York has not all the talent. We have cur Bosensweigs and Ri-stelles, but we don't pack onr victims in barrels. Our artistes throw them into the stoves where tbe ashes tell no tabs. It i6 an improvement,itrong claims upun it »h»ic be la b-at tiny more than me-i of honor, peralattney lb Intelligent, exhsltedDistrict. Col. MeMil-reepscUvely wlU icove ndioa tbe annoance-•ndldate, hi« friend* lo Congress If it lie Inwent ditvordanl ele-il! aub*lde when Ifer tt»t pi.tent, co-1 perhaps, on the express box, the barrel, andproportion to tbe latter, even though real estate figures at $881,000,000, while tbe other is not much more than one-quarter that amount. Tbe bank stock represented is not leas than t'l5,(XX),000, while tbnce that sum is represented in the capital of her merchants. Add to this such property as ships, steamboats, railroads, g*s compamm, and similarjvalnu and you will rapidly reach a sum j of immense proportions. There are coal stocks aud blt; nds held in this city lo an amount exceeding $30,000,000.LARGEST PROPRIETOR.:*J In ofize—Willneral Toombs win be a i *•» «*••»■•« »■•» *•*—11 k* ia contending for I '»a'y m l of cut-throats.then w« can have time to sicken on this be tore another novelty in blood occurs, and it enou^u to turn the stomach of a peniten-ict disfrsaoMdog bun. id from otfceVmmx.Monte.ID OUT OP A lU'SXlia Western bound0 railrciiil arrived re crusading ci.iss,1 the train for some could find either Ley Lad with them little ]!il!t{about doing geo: le on the train Ibty k*.d about religion would .wiibinit lo be tpped off the traio, Ll of ttie ba-ket, a them, there was a sengeis, and many l t!-e train would While wandering or tbeir wares they )ching individnal, ing around threeA ltepnbiican reporter who vi.si’ed the third eli-tte ! distriiV police station List evening, and by 1 tnaoy c.reams'antial evidences, became con-i vi need in at something of an nnnsnal nature ! ,m troubling tbe police. There was a ‘mys-I t» nons w hi-pcring among tbe other officers j un i detectives that was calculated to excite the curicsily of anvoce, mncb less a newspa-: per man. Inquiry tailed to satisfy his enros-ry. h ;wever, us the police were v-ry reticent in. r gard to the matter. It was accidentally | drop j ed that an abortion Lad been pertormed ! sciinewhere, and no*, long afterward the name I I'ortmevi r wi.s uccid-.ntully mentioned above a wfafopur. Here mm u starting point. The I directcry showed that Fortmeyer, Julia by ucuj i name, w as a midwite, aud held office at No. aud I * l2y Korli* I'ourteenth street. Tbe profes I sirn might have some relation to the word-; •‘abortion, and the rtyiorleT fill confident I that he was on the scent. He lost no time in visitmg North Fourteenth street, but there he met up with his first discour-1 -gementiu the announcement that Madam ! Fortmeyer had removed—the inf rmantknew i not whither. The keeper of a saloon ou the I corner was iu igooraueo as to her new home, but alter some persuasion, he agreed to try to I obtain tbe desired information.Guo rThe other Lis ii tion. were They ready to ta! curtaila ab!the co enter und li live, i (ronbl lands, strony soldie in the mereThe chief holder ol personal estate in this cily is Commodore Vanderbilt, who is estimated at $40,000,000, the largest part ot which is in railway property. He owns enough in the Connecticut Itiver and New Ha ven roads to be a director in each; aud be also owns the controlling interest in the Ceii tral, Hudson, and Lake Shore, besidts his ■•ockpio Ohio . Mississippi aud other important roads. It was said of George Peabody tbat he made almost the entire bulk of his enormous wealth after his fiftieth year. I think a stronger statement can be made of the commodore, for be has made the largest part of bis money since he was sixty—that is, within the last score of years.I suppose that when the wor broke oat he was not worth five millions. Tne enccss.tui and enormous increase of railroad values a il the colossal extent of his operations have brought an increase so stupendous as to rcmiud us ot tbe old stories of oriental mngic. when the stock of the Central was watered it added at least an additional ten millions to his capital. His income|from the different lines nnil-r his control must be six millions per year. He has tbe cream of the paesenger traffic, which he obtains by farming the sleeping-car company. This company is fimply the commodore, Webster, Wagner, und a lew other lncky men, who obtained the privilege of vanning their cars and collecting their extra fare. The railroad track and the motive-Tlilt;suchWilli*vptitoby ealt;Princteuunknowliusiuspecatue t:neverWallconldexistto.gle,tbe dwharlwildmustacts (knowSuchhousiWall• hemaic—w He was ab-, ...sent Lot a few minutes, when he returned and power with all expense of switch-tenders,! announced his success. Madam Fortmeyer station agents, etc., is Inruisliod free to this w'i i liwmiil K* i kad removed about two mouths ago to a hou-e favored circle, which simply provides a sleep-Thev Ire *- niuh ‘ ou S=ventcenta street, betweeu Franklin ave- i *D8 car an^ collects about $50 per trip. A is fiueiv cnt olaaii I nu - aud Morgan street. Thanks lor so much, sleeping-c*r should make $15,000 per year, ad wilb shades of *uA awa^ *° tLe locality mentioned. But and the company which the commodore con-' here no one kuew where the midwife lived.She had probably occupied a bouse there, but uvra-raJ...,tra. «».- (,^ie moved. Here was discouragement little game just Vo I uumber two- rhe reporter, not yet thwarted, eepthem quiet He i Waited a neighboring saloon-the headquar-asked them to pick , ter8 of Rossip—but tound the saloon keeper 4 nmvinn- lo «Knmi *1eolation und a Bible hat there were no good-natnrcdly re-d previou:ly shown ! '«nora,,t of the profeshional's whereabouts.. twice, three times. iin, and one of the t is; yon c^n't fool im quick “No, i,” he replied, and ket a ten and two id, “I'll bet yon $50 the Jack.” ‘•Oh, we em; “but you can't ingers. And then so gold pieee*, and hey would do t-.em, isor, apparently, ap-'alching for tue luckless young man seeing its you ; I'll ng you are so sore i tilty dollars against lo, damme, they’re oes as it lays—3 on ow they were cm-iat he va-lt; a bold,Well, if he did not know this, probably he did know whether a woman had been injured or killed or had died under suspicious circumstances in tbe hands of a midwife in that neighborhood of lute. No, be did not. liuttrols runs not less than one hundred. With respect to the commodore's personal estate, it may be estimated as equal to that of a score of our richest men.ASTOB'S TIGCRER.Next to the commodore is William B. As-tor. His chief wealth is in real estate, while that of the commodore is personal; but still Astor is rated at five millions oi tbe latter and ten times that amount in the former. These men are about of an age, having reached four score, and their lives have been spent simply . . | scuie, null wen men umo uctu muipivstop. it was reported on the streets during jn mBkiDg money. There is a difference in, t,u n.APr.tn,, Inal turr. up iKp.a V,..-I ... ■the morning ihat two or three women had i their personal appearance correspondingluY.n mi.Anpi nr anm.fhinn paaanllv a« I . I . .... * ,been poisoned or something recently at a | tbeir ioim of wetaltlx. The commodore is tall house ou Morgan, between Eighteenth and | and elegantly hnilt, while Astor is ponderous i streets. Perseverance rewarded ! ( A a heavv. with a face as dull as the nnminn.NineteenthWhere was the house, and what time did tbe lost poisoning case occur ? The hoase was near a plauing-xuill, on the north side of tbe street, und u woman had died there Saturday night. This proved to the reporter that be was at last in a fair way to learn the strange secret, and he proceeded to the house indi cated. No. 1817 is a one-sti ry house of aboutaud heavy, with a face an dal! as the commodore’s is brilliant. The one is mere clay while the other is qaicksilver. Astor owns a large amount of Massachusetts bonds, bank shares, and also coal stock. His proprietorship in tbe Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. (which is onr chief coal corporation), is eo large that his son, John Jackson, has been made n director. Astor is now said to be accumulating... ICVWI. ..JIWB am uw O'.I'B '' ' *' - IBVl ituiuraten leet frontage auu lias glass doors backed per()nal properly very rapid y. He buys,V ni.Ifir 111* inlQITl^nrillTthpuarn.ll .aab,, ■ 5 ... ..by paper. It contains only three small rooms, one bebind the other. It was closed and de-m»» Uu wu- a uv i. Iflan living nixt door knewibey**det»-ruiinedto ia colored or mulatto woman had died them along in the IlbeiC on Satnrday night, but, like all the other i neighbors thus far interviewed, he knewsy were engaged.both Were certain ' notbj,1l? of eircumstanoee of her death.o one they were af-it with “this is the r, and—it was tbe nrally long faces at d more serious cost, ird, at the money, Bibles, thoroughly sharp pat np him his plunder, and be-ended the situationA colored lady across the street, however, know considerable about the matter, and tbe r^porUr immediately proceeded to see ber. He found ber sitting oa her door-step, and she expressed a willingness to tell all she kuew, which, with soma additional information gained elsewhere is contained in the statement here given. Sbe,bad a young friend, a delicate mulatto girl about eighteen yearsof „Se. oamol Leira Millar. They bad b«n P“ ™*r«lt;l * real c.tale ofBo« ahould oolr . - Kara ilAvnllifl l.lmuAlf tn thly unaoiolf 0 1.1,1t.told. The winner tin and distributed passengers. Sever-uw on exbibition in of tbs woman is notn's end was not lack-IVhen the detectives ui and h*:K-posse4s (1 it kidnapping affiir. was not, and hearing y t*f the arrest, he t be taken through ted the privilege of ’ heavier ones, and ed for tbat purpose, s bed, pretending to , wheu he seized a [ wid not go a sUp right ear and fired, islantly. II■* career irdly less romantic i said to have been ■rents living on tbe 18C9 be became in-., jewellers of Edin-o, and ran up a bill He ingrutia ed bim-er named Patterson, sums amoooliug in on jewellers, beii-v-of the Dake of Ham-Hastiue, as be arnd, t of I50.U00. Subse-mtieued ou inqairv I*y knew of no aach end ol Gordon’s ca-id he embArked forimerioa.orraina 48,833 young military service, but imselves to the au ifore loses this year . in that country.land on account of ita ixtraordiuary high price, and as the income of the estate is about $3,000,000 a year, there is a fine chance for lay ing np money.UOSBS TAYI.OB.Th al est vast j A. T. these rich, dry g the .Nrim i in At busic Bleecavem perse capit be $1 bank both eutir latt. l stock f«rm He 1 whic i* sai $30, ( Stew and 1 voya behii is thtO W'caseveryHemayabutilionsuffecever,VliCH prov for a prev: estal at, aatThis man is estimated as bolding about four millions iu personal propelty, the largest part of which is in coal Htuck. Taylor is about seventy, and commenced poor, but be is one of the keenest business men in America. In real penetration be stands next to Vanderbilt. His father was a life-1 ng clerk for John Jacob Astor, who found him very nseful in his land office, bat only paid him a small salary. It may seem ►trange that a youngintimato for fonr years; Lena earned her living by domestic labor; recently was in the employ of a Mrs. Barnett, who keepe a board-in house on (Olive, n»-ar Fourteenth street. Lona was unmarried, but through tbe irailty which enrsea too many of her box, she became cucicnte, and on Friday night last she came to tbe bouse of informant complaining of illness. 8be talked the matter over with her friends lor someltime, and finally said tbat she had heard tbat Midame Fortmever, the midwife across tbe way, was an adept in relieving persons in her condition, and she believed she would go over and see what the mad ime conld do to help ber. Her Iritnd gave Lena no advice io tbe mat'er, and abe went over. -Ou Saturday eveniug the midwile came over to informant and asked her if she had ever known L«na to have fits. She replied, no. The midwife said that she seemed to be suffering with something of that nature, and informant went over to see Lena. Hbe passed through a front room containing a table, sew-iou' machine, aud one or two otbor articles ; i hence int) tbe second room, containing the miJwife’s bed aud trank, and tbeuee on through into the back-room or kitchen. Here shqMaw two lounges on one of which lay a wbite girl, evidently very sics, and on the other lay her friend Lena, truly snffering ■p i rus On being asked what she had given Len i, the midwife said that she had only given her soma powders, to mike her sleep. After some time aud iff it Lena became better, and informant returned to her home, telling the midwife, in case Lena ahould get worse, to come over for her. Between twelve and one o'clock at night, the midwile called her,aud on going over, she fouud Lena dead._The midwife made no statement as to tbe oanse of death. The white girl still lay on. tbe other lounge, evidently in greet enfforing Yesterday morning tbe sadden death of Lena, and the etrangeneee of ber eurroond-mgs. awakened suspicion on the part of tbe police and ooroner that all was not right, and tbe mid-wife wee arrested and taken to tbe Ikird district elation. In the konee warehave devoted himself to this specialty, but such was not tbe result I think tbat the ambitions Moses became tired of tue slow movement of houses and lands, and wanted something more active. Iu gratifying this ambition be has succeeded to a remarkable degree, and he has been fortunate iu almost everything he undertook. He was the finest looking as well os the most gifted business man of bis day, and has been as fortunate as he is good looking.Thirty years ago there was a report that he intended to retire on a fortune of $500,060, bat be was of too active a habit to do this, and hence he accepted the presidency of the City Bank. 8inc* then be has made more money than ever before, by street operations. He works bard and bupes, no donbt, in time, to reach a competency, but as yet finds himself unsatisfied. As a man ol wealth he bolds bat little rest estate, but prefers bank shares, gas stock and coal stock, and what he holds is tbe choicest investme.ni. Tbtso stocks have trebled in value in his hands.atonok law.He is anotber instance of tbe sime preference, for while in point real estate he owns perhaps only his Fifth avenno mansion, he holds a million in personal property. He owns the Dry Dock bauk, and also the largest part of the Eighth avonne horse railroad.— The stock of tbia road is never lonnd in market, and it is worth twice its original cost. — He is eetimated at two millions. Twenty-five years ago Goorge was a prominent man in the native American party, and some of his friends thrust him forward as a candidate for tbe presidency, under the title of “Live Oak Georgs. He then owned several ships,which be has since sold. Of late he has falleu out of notice. He was at that time a greater man in pnblio estimate then the commodore, bat sinee then the latter has utterly distanced bim. This is In nc smell degree due to the phyeieal difference between them.— Lew waa e bag# fellow, of greet muscle, bat time bes changed bim into obese end slsmsf eorpoleoee. Heess bisamui milli cout. be ai of tl raise to pi upwi pow« •tu e steal the t (he i Thef hadCc requ muo said heal I sei p.: nu Othi lock cbie food notfa his 1 JSll liarltotbare(onaro i|ain;than8r in tl in w judii tbe ] mali duiq very of h soot slrai so; .WOKont era! for 1 tioui be bsentI'MneotonlyPic
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Atlanta Daily Herald
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Fri, Aug 14, 1874
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