Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1877 — Variety of Life in New York. [ARTICLE]

Variety of Life in New York.

Howe, the great Tombs lawyer, waa supposed to be doing one of the most profitable law businesses in the city. He defended nearly all the rogues in New York, and his fees were supposed to be large; yet be has been adjudged bankrupt. All the men of this class go under. The divorce lawyers, who are reported to have immense fees, seldom last long. Nine out of ten of the liquor men fail, though the common idea is that the profits are simply immense. I was in a leading restaurant yesterday, and waa told that the checks showed that $450 were taken at the bar the day before, let

every man who has kept that hotel has failed except the present proprietor, who has not been there long enough to give the Ching a fair trial. It is the same with the politicians who hang around the City Hall. It is feast or famine with those fellows. One of them waa distinguished for bis heavy drinks of brandy and for buying two dollars’ worth of cigars daily to give to his followers. He could not buy an oyster stow to-day. A city official told me that his office cost him $50,000 in clear cash, and he holds ii only for two years. I met a man the ether day whom I have known as a buyer for a leading stock house on the street. He was dressed in rough clothing and looked like a builder who goes out to days* work. “How is this?” I said. “I am in another business,” was the reply. “ I get S7OO a year. I have a quiet home. I sleep well nights, and have enough to eat day by day. On the street I made money one day and lost it the next. I had to watch my customers nights at the hotels. I had to eat as others ate, and drank aa they drank, or T could not get any business. It cost me all I could make to keep my p’ace. I’d rather be a scullion to scour the pantry than to do the drudgery of the itreet.”— N. Y. Cor. Boston Journal.