The New York Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1877, Page 4

/ : } “THR DEAD COMMODORE Te ES Arrangements for the Vanderbilt Funeral -To-Day. A POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION. Interesting Reminiscences of the Railroad King. HIS THREE GREAT QUALITIES. pte: Anautopsy washeld on the body of Commodore Vanderbilt yesterday, when it was found that the im- mediate cause of death was ulceration and perforation of the colon, andthe secondary cause was chronic in~ ftammation of tho bladder. Dr. Linsly says that o pertoration of the colons necessarily fatal, and that % was the faithful nursing which he received during bis illness which had enabled the Com- modore to hold on to lite as longas he had, The ex- amination was made by Drs. Thomas E. Satterthwaite, L. A. Stinson and Francis D. Buck, in the presence of Dre. Linsly, Flint and Eilios. ‘THR OBSEQUIES TO-DAY. The funeral services to-day will be carried out in ac- cordance with the programme published in yester- day’s Hxnatp, The music in the church will consist of the chanting of a psaim and tho singing of the hymns, “Rest for the Weary” and “Sweet Hour of Prayer,” both of which were among the deceased's favorite hymns, The Rev. Dr. Hutton, formerly of the Washington place Dutch Reformed church, will be unable to assist Dr. Deems at the morning ceremonies, having an engagement which be cannot break, but will conduct tho evening services in the Church of the Strangers. A detachment of about thirty policemen, under the ebarge of Captain Byrnes, of the Fifteenth precinct, will be in attendance in the vicinity of the church, in the morning, to keep the strect clcar. THR CASKET. ‘The casket is a metallic one, made especially for the reception of the Commodore’s body, and 1s of the fol- lowing dimensions:--Length, 6 feet 4 inches; breadth, 24 inches; depth, 18 inches, Tne inside linings are of pearl colored satin, handsomely upholstered, with a cushion of the same material for the head to rest upon, The outside is covered with the finest black silk velvet, and ornamented with solid silver trim- mings, plain in design and chasing, but exceedingly rich 1p appearance, The handles, which run theentiro length of the casket, are also of silver, with the hand grasps covered with the same velvet used in covering the body of the reveptacie. The plate, also of solid ailver, in unique design, contains the following inscrip- tion:— Qreerecccsececeseqroocecoceroccoese rece seseceoeoereee® 3 CORNELIUS VANDERBILY, 3 z Born May 27, 1794, z Died January 4, 187 Qavnrsraeenenee se wt tene rete te NEONATE AOLO ODE HOOF: DR. DERMS’ VIEW OF MR. BRECHER’S REMARKS. A Henatp reporter yesterday, during a conversa- tion with Dr. Deems, asked the reverend gentleman if he had read Mr, Beecher’s remarks on Mr. Vanderbilt at the Plymouth prayer meeting. He replied, “Yes.” ‘When asked what he thought of them he said “Public speakers are so often misrepresented, even by con- Sclentious reporters, that] am not willing to hold any gentleman to account tor what he 1s reported to have said until 1 find that he undoubtedly used the expres- sions imputed to him. I confess 1 did not like the tone of Mr. Beecher’s talk. I could most heartily sec- ond ali that he said of the good Mr. but the two men were not to be com pa The report of Mr. Beecher’s re. marks truck me all the more unpleasantly Decause 1 know that when the cloud lay most heavily on the Plymouth pastor and the evidence against him Seemed to be accumulating and thousands were do- pouneimg bim; while many of bis brethren in the min- istry were praying for bim, of whom the Commodore's pastor was one, the Commodore himself always spoke tost kindly of Mr. Beecher, and exerted his ingenuity to invent methods to parry the force of the evidence arrayed on the other side, He was always ready for ex- cuses for Mr. Beecher. Being myself on frieadly re! tous with the Plymouth pastor, and sympathizing, as 1 trast Ido, with all ministers of the Gospel in their troubles, | was dehghted to see this disposition in the Commodore. lt was so much more agreeable than to find bim cynical toward clergymen, as so Many men of the world are. fhe Commodore tor years bad been cherishing that charity that unnkeih no evil Hypocrisy, uncharitubleness and cowardice were conspicuously absent {rom the map. “LE regret the apparent unkindness of Mr. Beecher’s vemarka, becauee | think he is kind hearted and would Dot go out of his way to disparage a dead man, who, when living, invited Mr. Beecher to his house ata time when every kind act must have been valuable to Mr, Beecher.” As to Mr. Beecher’s remark that it would have been better tor tie Commodore to have sung hymns thirty yeara Dr, Deoms said:—“I happen to know that the hymns he sang were no new iavorites of the Commodore, that be was committing them to memory when Mr. Beecher was in his cradle. He had lately repeated one long hyimn which none of us had aver heard, and which was copied by his wile under bis repeated correction, Kecentiy the family came In possession of an old hymn book i wich we found the very hymn, and the accuracy of the Commodore's memory seemed most mar- velloux it was a mistake in Mr, Beecher if be said that Cornelius Vanderbiit, as be could get about, never sang any by! when bi then be sang hymns. The second time I was ever in his house be asked that there should be singing, and while i was going on I glanced at him and saw tears Tolliug down bis cheeks. ‘1 am giadour mutual friend—no, don’t report that seo I might be misund the Kev, Lyman Abbott made a statement in the prayer meeting to show that Mr, Beecher bud done the Com- | mouore 1njustice. take in the report. intend to do injustice to a dead man, him,” 1 think there must be some mis: Tt ts not like THR LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, In what manner Mr. Vanderbilt has disposed of his collossal iortune is mere matter of conjecture as yeu ‘The will will be opened on Monday. Said one ot the wit- hesses to the document to a HekaLp reporter yester- day, in speaking on the subject: — It will probably be pe the papers for publication after being read, here it isto be read 1 cannot say, but probably it will be at the lave residence of the deceased, ull the family being present “The will was drawn up about two years ayo, foes not, It is said, very materially diller trom one p y made, had made and destroyed. 1 can fetails of the will until after the family have read it, as they are yet in the dark about its provisions, The Commodore,” the speaker added, ‘was indeed a cha! Mable tan,” which significant remark would indicate Nberal bequests to various imstitutions bulk of the wealtn will, it is bell Vanderbilt, some estimating bis go to William H, aro as bigh ag COMMODORE VANDERUILT'S BIRTHPLACE, EARLY HOME, NEIGHHOKS AND MEMORIALS. Sratey Isiany, Jan. 6, 18 Staten Island is Vanderbilt. New York stepson board a Vanderbils ferryvoat at Whitehall, gets off at the Vandervilt landing, sees the Vanderbilt bouses—three or four of them—near the tandiug; obeorves Jacob Vanderbilt, the Commodore's brother, at se pier; rides iv a Vand othe island, and sees, en route, the lite of tho United Brethren, where all the Ju across rhite church Vandervilia are buried, standing out from a snow-ciad bilk wide among the gravestones. Highest of all these | stones is the Commodore's family tomb. Ie is obelisk of heavy hewn biocks of granite | with @ messive base and an iron door, and over the base Outlined against the dar bive granite, is a white fe- male figure, as of a Fate, or Death Angel, with a MuMed face The monumentis probably twenty-five feet high and 1s said to have cost $20,000. The base re:ts on Doric columns; 4 railing surrounds the lot; marble tablets, coniaiuing no names, are on three sides of tho base, and over the entablature, in the gran- fte pediment just under the obelisk, aro carved the three sbarp syllables: —Van Der Bilt. Peopie havo an ide: large tomb curing bis life, on the best advice be could have, ¢o as to keep his grave ag plain and substantial fy bis life, and that the virgia taplete are to be filled with jnscriptions to his parents, bis first wife and bim- self, Tue monument is unposing, thoagh gloomy, and | qwthe largest in a cemetery of many stately tombs The to the associations of tuo grave, anu there ts a faces blole lok about the whole aflair, as I the great Captu , had gots down to death as bo the deops, taking the ehances and loaning upou bimeelf, No tian ine wighia are about the grave—neither cross nor text, | Egyptian and early Grock forms mingle in the massive tomb, and nothing of vegetation is there beneath the | smow except some vine sprouting ap the base of tl ty of cue spot Is more remark- s long | ns, DUE | pt crippled and could not do anything more, | Lum sure Mr, Beecher could never | It was the last of about twenty whieh | ot enter into the | The greas | The passencer from | | that the Commodore built this | face of the imago gives the'sternest reality . | able from the presence of thi from the low foreground to the airy horizon, islands, In this stracture Commodore Vanderbilt several tombstones of hia father, motber, deceased children and immediate family, and none of them are to be seen, He enters that graniie aperture like the last of the Pharaohs, going into bis dynasty’s pyramid and closing the door upon himself. years ago gathered the VANDERBILT'S CHURCH AD CAMPO SANTO, The Moravian Church of Huss, = ica by Zinzendorf, settled upon Stat missit Georgia and Delaware, Thirt: bilt came into the world the M years before Vander. nited Brethren, as th luding iu she view the Highlands of Navesink and the outer transplanted to Island ago ary fleld about the time it made settlements in NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDA ocean, which rises up | nelius for years be worth about $: as captain and manager, and {8 6aid to 00, He Island which ig only thirteen miice tong and requires only three Jocomotives and fourteen cars to equip i completely, It represents $800,000 of atock, and the debs and bonds amount to $249,000 more. Commodore Vander- bilt was supposed to bave bad $200,000 of its bonds. Captain de Forest, the Van Duzers and the Sim- monses are buried in the former Vanderbilt jot, where still lie some tufant children o: Jacob Vanderbilt, vane ' Van Duzer was one of the elder Vanderbilt's heirs. George Law, Charles Morgan and W. H. Webb were among tho last of Vanderbilt’s rivals on the me aed he bégan a seafaring life when steam was more thin a cortosity. For many years Vanderbilt hauled shad, market gardening, fulier’s earth and manure for bis lives on Staten Island joraviaus were Called, had a congregation on the heights of Staten Isiand, near New Dorp, an old | father, He never fished much, but he knew a borse Huguenot and Dutch settlement, four miles distant | as well as it. At the age of Ofteen or sixteen he from the residence of Vanderbilt, Sr., near Sta) They ministered to the as a and the Commodo: mother looked on them with ki several years ago the by his second wife to make some religious ‘* ndliness. Consequently the family chose this Pitch for their long rest, and | ommodore, who had pag meee foun owned his own boat, and spent his time chiefly tn the back parts of the \d, around Elizabethportand New Brunswick. He made at Port Richmond the associa taons which led to bis marriage. { A naval oilicer intrusied ap important package to him one night about 1812 or 1813, and no other person tion, devised a coliege, seminary or some other | could be found to cross the bay in a gale which pro ntable bequest to this spot uuong af property, Tho Pennsylvania iri sisted that be should give ty society, and not to the Staten Island congregation. founded a uny got the bequest, The following families, in the order of their conse. the Vanderbilt vault:— sons, Van Duzers, Egberts, Ogdens, &c. ben Weed (killed at Gettysburg), De Witts, Duysters, odenwalds, Norv Frosts, Garretaena, Ebringers, Courtelyous, Rogers,’ Littelis, Lymans, Clymers, Wi- nants, Thibauite, Bedells, Osborna, Bodines, Colons, Van Pelts, Jacobsons, Brinsteds, Ustranders, Captain | Isaac Kip (drowned by the loss of the Atlantic | in 1842), Snedekers, Fountains. In tront of the church 1s the tnscription :— Sr eae i 3 3 Protestant Eptscopal Charen | ot the United Brethren, Founded 176: Kenewed 1844. 3 Peace be within thy walls, g z Poaims, exit. 7. Qeccerecercccsccccccccsconcessareoccccsreserarerete re The parsonage beside the church |s alow pitched Dutch house, long and quaint, 112 years old, Near by are two race tracks which Vanderbilt used to patrou- —one called the Sea View. The celebrated trotier Vanderbilt was formerly here, . VANDERBILTS FATHER. The Vanderbilt were probably settled on the waters of New York in the first century of the Dutch occupa- tion, but the name, so spelled, docs uot anywhere ap- pear among the inhabitants of the city. They wero probably of the rustic or mariner Dutch of New Jersey ana the Kills, Vanderbilt's fatherhad a periauger, and was a respectable farmer, fisher and truckster, of no superior wealth or vigor, but of saving thritt, His mother, Phabe, was a tine-cyed, able woman, one of the strongest on Staten Island, No man owed more to woman than Commodore Vanderbilt, His mother gavo him a vigorous constitution and great example and comfort, His urst wife worked at inn-keeping, and in New Jersey, to build up bis fortunes, nd wife was @ superior woman who mude his old age happy. ‘The Staten islanders of other days were a simple, sturdy set of people, very much like Irving’s Dutch with the burlesque element omitted. The island was rocky and wild and its waters often angry. No person is said to have been executed for crime in Richmond county since the Revolutionary War. ‘the ‘cause célébre waa the alleged murder of her family by Polly Bodine avd the tiring of her. house. She was three times tried, at the little tslund Court House, and in the city of New York and at Newburg; but, de fended by John Graham, the well known criminal lawyer, she escaped punishment and 1s said to be yet | alive. Obediuh Bowne, once member of Congress, poisoned bimself at the Court House two or three ears ago, owing to domestic calamity and irregular Rabite, ‘The tree 1s yet pointed out where a negro was: hanged tn old times, and there Is also a large elm tree along the bayside, used by navigators as a steering mark, Richmond Court House is # wonderlully retired nook to be so near a great city, and tho seat of jus- tice of an original provincial county. It has no sta- tiow on the railroad, but a mere shed in the woous, and asI proceeded through the hilly and brush to the village, along the road in the green and backward vegetation of spring, At Richmond a hittle brool of sult water, into which the tite backs, stretches up to the hamlet, where there aro three churches, 4 mill, several taverns and trom a dozen to twenty houses. The ancient jail of brick and frame 1s now a stab‘e, and the old Revo- }| lutionary Court House is a dwelling. The new Court House is built of browu sundstone, with brick side- walls, and the jail ts placed against i, Although the county contains 87,000 people there were only twelve persons incarcerated, the overflow being takeu to tne municipal station houses along the Nortn Shore. | The County Clerk and Surrogate have a sep rate building for their records; tife oldest boo! of wills dates to 1787, ail colonial records being depo: ited at Albany, Nothing hkea history has yet been published of this romantic old county, which General Howe seized July 4, 1776, and the British wero never dispossessed of it until the close of the war. Hey. Dr. Kingston Goddard, the bumaue avd liberal pastor of St. Andrew’s church—whose life was abbreviated by the petty vexations of his intolerant paristioners—wrote several historical sketches of Staten Island, and Dom- inie Cloots bas a larger history ready to publish, St. Andrew's church, and tne village of which it is the principal object, ‘points {ts blue stone spire under the shadow of tue rolling heights which cross the island southward and make a mero dell of the court house hamlet, a sort of Rip Van Winkle solitude. There is Queen Ann guve the collection plates to the vestry; the | edifice is the third on the site. T took down the leading family names on the marble or red sandstone gravestones, and will begin them with ‘a list of the Vans, whose wills are recorded on the same index page with Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sr. STATEN ISLAND VANS. Van Duzer, Van Pelt, Van Name, Vroom, Van Cleef, Van Buskirk, Vandeventer, Vanderbeck, Van Allen, | Voss, Vilt, Verhoef, Van Schenck. | Here aro French Huguenot names from the grave- stoues:- Lafarge, Perine, Egbert, Harmann, Guyon, John Latourette (died 1851, aged eighty-seven), Croche- ron, Simon Bogert, Journeay, Seguine, Larzalene, | Micheau, Dongan, Fenning, Van’ Dyke, Deeker, Loc! man, Keteltas, Lake, Bonue, Bourne, Rott, Gillaspy, Mersereau, Haughwout, John Wood, who died in 187 three, is buried here close by Dr. Thomas Frost, who | died tn 1874, also aged ninety-three, Their added ages | make 186 years. In a neighboring churchyard 1s a at tbe age of ninety- Staten Island is unhealthy. Rev. David Moore, pasior forty-eight years, | be seventy, He was son of the Bishop of Virginia. | tomb in this graveyard bears the singular name of | Abrabam Lot Ralph. Other notable names are Simon- son, Dissoway, Billopp, Seaman, Hopkins, Gurret, Gar- retsou, Cubberley, Bond, Lord, Braisted, Laure! | Anne Hitlyer (a couple who lived, added toget yeurs), Cornelius Cole, Peter M. Gayon, Georg: of England, and lis wife, the daugater of tates Commodore Silas Talbot; Mary Gillaspy (nee Eisicorth), the mother of the celebrated Dr, | Poiladeiphia; G. Jobuson and family, Dr, Wrignt Post | and his father-in-law, Dr, Richard Bayley, who founded | the Lavaretto and was the victim of its malignant | fevers in 1801. | Phe ablest men who have lived on Staten Isiand cha! ‘The strict formality ot the United Brethren, however, who wanted all things in common, antagonized the Commodore's vanbon no pity ins 8 bequest to the whole ‘The Commodoro’s connections @-De Forrests, Simon- ‘The Guyons, Butlers, Leakes, Bonuers, General Ste- a mile and a half distant, wild rabbits were running |. not a more vencrable graveyard in the American States, | Methodist preachcr who died at 102, Yet they say | | Paying no more attention to the subject Vanderbilt H rsity in Tennessee, and the Methodists ; quence, are buried in the Moravian churchyard, near | | } | except for Saratoga in gummi | ships. vailed, This led to his recommendation to naval men, and finally to Ogden Gibbons and otbers, early steam- boat and transportation men. ‘His Judgment Qnd stapility were as good as bis courage. He made the acquaintance of government offl- 8 and Congressmen yoing and coming oo his bo: d obtained some mail and naval contracts, He finally developed into the profitable and adventurous | business of running opposition to profiiavle mouopo- hes, and continued this until 1849, when he was made President of the Nicaragua company, He maintained @ predatory marine warlare, however, as late ag 1 when he abandoned the sea. During the war be made large sums of money i government transportation, &c., and the bulk of his fortune was acquired between 1862 and 1874. The previous part of lis life is merely interesting and heroic, He grew very rich when he ceased to be pugnucious. He resided in the house where his mother died for many years; afterward in a iarger villa of white trame, He generally took adrive daily, when not absent Irom home, and olten drove his horses in the ferrybout to New York. He jived there on Eust Broadway several years, or until he took up his resi- dence in Washington pluce. Other parts of his tife were passea at New Brouswick, !u toreign travel and on the Isthmus. Although a sailor, be preferred do- mestic life to adventure, and seldom left New York, and tor the Bufalo races In more recent years, He took life with more and more conservatism as years crept on, losing +o some degree his combative character. He was last on Staten Island avout 1574, GARKISON, VANDERBILT'S AGENT, 1 The drst steamship which reached Sun Francisco was the California, in 1549 From that time until the fatlure of Adams’ Express and Page Bacon in 1866 (Trevor W. Park frst turning up notably at the latter gate) the energies of every shipper were set toward California. Nelson Robinson and Commodore Vanderbilt at a very early period seut Cornelius Garrison to the Pacific coast to buy guid dust for Luem as a partner, They specified that be should not draw upon thei for more than $500,000 ata clip. He was so smart, it 19 said, that 1t took twenty mento watch hin, Garrison has led a great carcer and was one of Vanderbilt’s most jn- timate acquaintances, About the time Vanderbilt relinqutshed seataring pursuits Garrison algo quit tho sea, altbough for sov- eral years he was financier for the West Lndia steam- They were sold to Anthony Dimmock, of Elizabeth, N. J., who tailed witn them upon his hands, While Vanderbilt took tu railroad stocks Garrison made a specialty of gas stock, und bought large inter. ests 1p the gas companies of the great cities, as San Francisco, Chicago, 3% Louis and New York, Garr son hud been originaily a Western steamboatman, who took the route to California when the Americans dis- covered gold, and with headquarters at Panama pur- sued banking and transportation, and was elected Mayor of Sun Francisco, Hw was of the same race and type as Vanderbilt, New York Dutch, his grandiather’s Hame having been Garretson, generally called “King Garretson” of the Hudson Highiands. Where the Hudson passes the Alieghany—tbe gate which De Witt Clinton saw when be would reach the West through it with bis canal—Garrison was born, amid gcengry ag inspiring as sround Vanderbiit’s birthplace. WIS NOTION OF RECENT FINANCIERS, Commodore Vanderbilt bad a poor opinion of men who mixed business and sentiment or gave reckless hospitality. Last summer when the news was received of Ralston’s tailure and proouble suicide tn Caliornia Commodore Vanderbilt piacidly remarked : “Bill Ralston was nothing but a humbug, anybow,”’ Commodore Gurrisou resented this, as he had been the original patron of Ralston and bis partner, But Vanderbilt quanified his remark very littie, He calles men promiscuously *‘suckers,” a word much in vogui thirty years ago, ‘He believed in substantial but unus- tentatious living, {n the pleasures of exercise aud the trae gravity of business, $ iS DOMESTIC LIFE, To his family tue Commodore was kind, without being demonstrative. He expected bis children to do well in marriage and life, and had little patience with those who continued dependent, as several of them did. One of his relatives had a passion jor borrowing, and On one occasion obtained a lurge sum of money irom the lute Horace Greeley, which be was unable to pay, Mr. Greeley supposing his connection 10 be security enough. But the Commodore was pot to be affected by the social or political consequence of the lad’s cred- (tor; he retused to pay the borrowing and did not do it through years, thereby leading to a coolness with tho editor of the Zrivune, At Greeley’s death, however when his fumily was temporarily embarrassed, Van derbilt said :— “Gre ‘s girls can bave any money they want.” He is also said to have made his word good, Hie opposed Mr, Greeley’s election, and after the rise of the war spirit, Lhe gift of the ship Vanderbik to the government, and the death of his son George trom exposures in the campaign, Mr. Vanderbilt seldom louked with tavorupon a democratic candidate. Yet he had been a democrat in Pierce’s anda Buchanan’s administrations; in Taylor’s and Filmore’s he named his steamers tor Clay and Webster. He admired Henry Ciay and Genera! Grant, As be lived to great age and possessions tho woridly inequality of his large posterity ied tu the natural aui- mosities and expectations of kin, Some were stanch, asking nothing from him, His son Witham bluntiy en: tered the market against him on at least one occasion, aud hedged on the old man’s advice, thereby saving limsel! seriovs losses, for Vanderbilt had advised one way and operated the other, Whether he was testing the sagacity of his son or was willing to tuke contribu- tions from his property like any other operator’s, is not clear, The story of Martin Chuzzlewit is apt to be the story of every greatcstate, The great possessions breed great shines, suspicion and jeaiouay. We have been liv- bg tn the tbira rich generation of the Astors, the first of Stewart and Vanderbilt; consequently there was a composure about the settlement of Wililam B. Astor's property at variance with the struggle over other lega- tors. Stapleton, lived 4 | ANECDOTES AND PORTRAITS OF VANDERBILT'S CONTEMPORARIES, Vanperniit Laxpina, S. 1, Jan. 6, 1877. “The Commodore,” said one of his old neighbors, “had three great qualities, Heconld measure 9 man froin his crown to his toes by Jooking at him, He was not afraid in his youth to back against anything that ilaspy, of | Had money and power to aivide, and he bad a fine con- stitution, which be kept up by fragal and semperate | 1 | have been Governor D. D, Tompkins, Commodore | } Sloat, George Witham Curtis, Th | the numerous naval officers stationed thera | PARENTS AND | Tompkins ana 7: site ends of tue tsland, They t fortifications, Tompkins Was one of the most su | (ul of our politicians. Governor two or three ROGENY. tering and Vice President trom 1817 to 1825, He was of Welsh stock on bis father’s side and Dutch on bis® motner’s. His son ts now President ot the Staten | Island Gas Company, and his posterity are well to do, | To such men as Governor Tompkins snd Governor bore the curly rejation of & cvol and reliable skipper, one who bly, and bad no social aspirations beyond mand, ‘fhe Dutch in bis nature gave | him phlegmatic silence and patience; the | bim tine appearance and leadership, He ne | much, but took to water like a duck,~ He was nearer | bis mother than any barman being, and had a willing, child bearing wile, The will of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sr., 18 flea in this court house, Itisashort document, tnade June 6, 1suz, und proved by Surrogate Richard Crocheron, by Phebe Vangerbit, the widow and executrix; by Sami- | uel P. Smith and’ Mary Jolnson. Commodore's wile, they say liere, wis ua ‘ophia Johnson, and the utnent Was recorded June oO, when his son was rything to his widow ‘of wound, dis- tutors Then forty-!our years | hire it years old, He left Phebe (Hand), pronouncing himself posing mind and memory,” avd ordering his | to “pay uli my debts of my personal estate, comes tity provisio |. Tg anu bequeath to my wife Phebe durtng ber life aud aa jong a8 @ remains unmarried all uth it 18 to Bat in at her ¢ eli ldr lt rely wotan, the creator of the spiritot ber son, lived down (0 the ciose of the civil war, surviving her | husband about thirty ive | ergy, with eloquent eyes (oven in old age), a command years, She was of great ene ing’ Will, aud ber son attributed his success tu her im- | planted vigor aud virtue in his nature. |” The whole family of the elder Vandertiitare probably dio this will, as OW Sm Cornelius Vanderbiit, Jr. (the Commodore), Jacob H, Vanderbi Mary, his wite, Ly, rand Eleanor, his wife And two or turee of their children. that Commodore Vanderbilt helped to fortane not oyiy his kin but lis connections. ’ “le did a great deal of good,’ said Mr, Barnes, bis | couneetion, “ot which nobody but thove beneltod heard; for he had a way oO! making them work partly | indoor mere He was opposed to hetping any vod Some people who mad think tt Was all for (he benent who would not help himselt, | money through him bad the vanity t | tier own work, There, tor ng bIB ships, the De Groots, De ite to commanding then make statuary lor him." XDERMILT, only years ago, and young De Groot hi JOHN AND JACOB V3 Joun Vandervilt, who died above t aud was ¢aid to Ve the Commouore's brother, had a | He ran opposition to | ert ‘ d re bell” and the People’s Line on the North River witha | extensive ) good deal of Cornelius’ ature, his elder brother trom Quarantine to New York a Bligabeth in the Wave, and “bucked"’ against boat only 140 (eer long. Jacob Vaudervill, the ien gave name to villages at oppo- | or tat | frugality and had so much of the flavor of cpen air and odore Winthrop and | Which he lived. sn gave | farmed | | | | | | | j | Jt will be found | tui old age 1 oxampie, he put the | estar e » and | wond brother, assisted Core | dox conviction habits,"” So instinct, force and temperance mele Vouderbilt, To which we might add the opportuyay of the time in 118 SPAN OY USKYULNESS, Cornolias Vanderbais mingled enterprics so well with of exercise and bravery that we retein a guswey remem- brance of him, He smetied of Uae sea nud its preserv- ing Salt, and although @ raliroud man for the latter part of his life the name of “Commodore”? stuck to yim. No other railroad man of America had bis personally a | heroic character in associnivion with antique decds—as piloting, pulling an oar, standing to the wheel, match- ing his activity and money against old and rich monop- olies, and even subduing the predatory peccaries ot Wali street by his Bonaparte power of hurling masse of money and stocks against their combinationg, Me wns moro nearly than any rich American an independent man. He never woula buy nor control o newspaper, although liable to cunstavt misinterpretation, assault and cabal. Me felt so certain of the tmpregnability of bis personal ebaracter, his chastity, responsiviity and temperance that he knew nobody would assaii them, or, axsailing. would not be believed by the people of his day and generation tv no personal advances to corrupt or conciliate Legisiatures beyond giving the members {rausportation, Sowmeone else did most of that species of work without acquainting Vanderbilt, necessarily, of the matter, [do wot mean a regular lovoyist was employed to do corrupt work, bul there Was what night be called a political manager of the road, who was the Albany representative of 1% Such a piece of propersy, ebartered and partly regulated by the State, had to have a conciliator, Vanderbilt was independent of towns aud town councils, imperious but hot tyrannical, captain, but pot privateer, He had that greater power than s the power both to be silent ‘nd to speak. [1 speecn be stivered and silence golden he usea the perfect currency of civilization, the gold us Well as the silver, Lt ts poxsivle to liken him in weve era) respects to the groat soldier of our age, President Grant. He had obtuse and, indeed, callous sides of character, but be loved horves, centaur company, personal rominiscence, domestic comiort abd 4 ease, He Was ‘ueisher a reciuse nor & ither restiess wor sul. He caitivated bis believed in the text (hat 1 was a temple estined to be gloriied, aud a most pe quietly upon bim, still straight, col urna, expressive and resolute, facing death Uk satior, ‘to wuom itis ever new, ‘He bad no meekr bul ihe Want of meekness—lor character 18 wot periect | Without something enting, He was pot the mere wnt that Stewart was, although @ more iragal mau in matters of uppetite and entertainment, hor the cioseted conveyancer (hat Astor Was, elihough wh ower of immense real estate, Vanderbilt's reat nthe lurge cities of New York, along the water {routs of tue Hawson and Lake Brie, and 1, the me ¢ prodigious; for be was the majority Wauat it brought was bis Yet he Jed to the real estate mania, and Was the itby man of Lis period With the sagscity to Wh lols Were Hot productive forins of prop- nd Wet Work and not rest was the curse and Dies#ing of the ground. Aibough an untntormed man | Many Chins tis business perceptions were of an WIOBL Le inspirations; bab 1 Feallty rut of holding fixedly to @ few ortho s Wught Lim, perbapa, by bis mother, | they were with beavy Corinthian columns, on the shore road at | | CHAINED IN JAIL THE ASTORIA MASKED BURGLARS IN A QUEENS COUNTY PRISON—SWORK STATEMENTS OY THE PRISONERS. In the cells of the Queens County Jail, at Hempstead, Long Island, and securely chained to ringboite in the floor, lie the five alleged members of the gang of masked burglars who so boldly robbed two Astoria residences of $30,000 worth of property upon the night of the 22d of December. Captain Murray and Deteo- tive Carr are in search of the others, with every pros- pect of success of arresting them very shortiy. When the preliminary examination, conducted before Justice Parcells, at Astoria, by District Attorney Downing, on Friday night, ended im the forma! committal of the prisoners to await the action of theGrana Jury, the crestiallen burgiars were locked up {n the cells under the cours room until yesterday forenoon, when they were removed to Hempstead, by advice of M Downing, who has but little confi in the security of the Astoria lock-up, ‘The prisone: all continue to assert their innocence, Schmidt, the Horculean German, being particularly loud in his re- monstrances against being incarcerated, McCarthy preserves a moody silence, as docs also Reilly, the youngest member of the gang, and whom the authori- Wes for a time thought of freeing on condition of his turning State’s evidence against the others, Indeed, they may be obliged to do so yet, sbould Captain Murray not succeed in etil} further strengthening the evidence against dome of the prisoners) Joho James, alias “Fauty”? Stewart, seems to chafo inwardly and to feel anxious about the result of the trial, while he out- wardly declares that there is no proof against him, and contends that not one of gthe witnesses ideniifed him jn a fair and positive manner, John Roberts, the re- puted leader of the gang, a young man. of about twenty-six years, who Kept 8 saloon tn James street which \s said to be the resort of thieves, has made the following statement under oath in the presence of o Hegatp reporter: WHAT JOU ROBERTS GAYS. That his place of residence was at No. 242 Fourteenth street, South Brooklyn, where he had lived for more tha @ year, having previously resided at No, 14 Dover street, New York, for about toree years, He kept an | ating house at No, 66 Bleecker étrcet, and also was roprietor of a liquor saloon at No, 99 James strect, Re did pot attend to his own busine: vor was his pame used on the doors of his dil ut places of business. Thieves were in the habit of congregating ut the saloon in James Street, and they made it a place of meeting, although be had instructed his barkeepers to eject ail such persons when they came in. said Shat ho bad often told these barkeepers to cali in the’ aid of the police if necessary, and he hud bimself applied to Captain Williams for assistance from his officers to keep the thieves away. Robercs aenied all knowledge of the burglaries at Green's tavern and Mr, Hillier’s house, aud aiirmed that ho had not beenin Astoria for years belore he was brought there under arrest, He acknowledged being acquainted with two of hig fellow prisoners, Schmit and James, but did not know anything of their where- abouts on the day betore the robbery, or on the night of the 22d of December. James had resided with Robertsdor somo time at the latter’s house in Brook- lyn, but he had not been home for some days prior to the'robbery. ‘At firas Roberts denied betng in the company of | James two days before the 22d of December, but af- | terward recollected that he did cross the ferry with him on the Wednesday belore the burglary. Roberts said that he voluntarily surrendered him- self to the police *;whea he heard that they were atter him.’ He denied at! knowledge of Reilly and Mc- Carthy, and said that although arrested on different charges he has never been convicted of any crime and bas never commitied any. He made an urgent appeal to District Attorney Downing to be released on bail, claimrng that there was no evidence against him, but he was held to answer with the others, After the narration by Roberts there was a general disposition to talk, upon the part of his fellow prisoner, who did not, however, hear tho story told by bis asso- ciate, and the reporter succeeded in obtaining another THR GERMAN’S STOR John Schmidt, the German prisoner, owned to hav- ing been urrested twice in New York city. The irst time he was churged with stealing packages of tea, but the jury acquitted him; the second time he was taken into custody for disorderly conduct. He did not, ho said, know whether he was convicted on the latter charge or not, but remembered that he wastaken to Blackwell's Isiand and remained there three days, when an order for his discharge arrived und he was re- leased. This occurred about three years ago, He in- sisted that he worked honestly fora living a8 @ car- and earned sufficient to maintain his which cousis! of three children, aged respectively three, eight and ten years. He positively denied ever having been in Ravenswood until he was arrested, aud had no pr- sonal kuowledge of the robberics at Hillier’s and Green’s; on the day of the burglary no was at No. 13 Oliver street, New York city, until ten o’clock in the évening; he then went to the place of an acquaintance named Long, Where be stayed until twelve o'clock and then went home to No. 142 Cherry street, New York, and went to bed; he was admitted to the house by a woman with whom he is living (his wile having left him about three years’ ago) and at onco retired to bed; be knew the prisoner, Jonn James, and aiso of his being arrested and convicted, ‘McCarthy asserted his ability to provo that be was far from Ravenswood on the night of the burglary. McCarthy, in answer to a direct question, acknowl- edged having served his time in State Prison for oflences of which he was convicted. He refused to give the details. “MR. ELIHU ROOT’S LIFE. GENERAL BARLOW BAYS IT DANGER. In reference to the correspondence between General Francis C. Barlow and Mr. Elibu Root, which the latter conceived to endanger his life,a Haratp re- porter called upon General’ Barlow yesterday with a request to know whether he had anything to commu- nicate to the public, and & conversation occurred of which the following {8 the substance on the General’s part:— “ have nothing to say,’’ replied the General to the inquiry. ‘The letters now have been before the pubs lic for a day or two, and if anybody after reading them can possibly suppose that on my side they were in- tended in earnest, nothing that I could say, probably, | would change his opinion. . “But,” continued the General, “I have observed one statement in some of the newspapers which gives an entirely false improssion about the matter. | reter to the statement that 1 had hag any difficulty with Mr, Root about the brief, or that there was any ill-feeling between us on the subject, This 18 notso. Mr, Root had a perfect right to the bricf, and my only desire was to get the papers in the law case together and NEVER was IN to submit them to the referee, aa more than throe months had elapsed since the ar- gument, I and one of my clerks had written to Mr, | ‘oot several times urging him to burry up, and finally I desired (and [ think I wrote to Mr. Root to that | effect) to get my own brief back and band it to the referee, 80 a8 to close at jeast my part of the business, 1 seo it stated that Mr, Root answered me, explaining that he could pot return the paper because he bad made memorauda on the margin of it This is not 50; or, if be did so write, 1 never saw the letter. If after such an explanation on his part had threatened to ‘replevy’ the paper it might, perbaps, have been sup- posed that [ 1 t; and this is the way in whieh some of the pewspapers have put it, thereby giving an entirely false aspect to the aflair, Lawyers | often are behinénand in serving papers, and I had not | the slightest cause of complaint against Mr, Root in the matter. Ladded the threat of a replevin sait merely to give emphasis in @ Joking way to my re- quest, since several previous letters from my oilice to the sume eflect remained unanswered, ‘To suppose that I bad any il! feeling in the matter is to read the correspondence in an entirely false light “I saw by Mr. Root's answer,” continued the Gen- oral hat he took this letter of mine in carnest, aud 1 was a little embarrassed to Know bow to deal further with that view on big part, not wishing to make too serious a matter out of an error occurring in such a way, At Inst.1t seemed to me that the best way out of his misunderstanding was to write him a mock-heroic letter so avsurd that the situation could not tail to be understood. ‘there were three or four pointy in iny letter of December 27 which I thought would certainly make its character plain—as, for example, the remark about the ‘conversion’ of my argument, and my re- quest that Mr, Root would define whether the word he used was ‘damned’ or ‘durned,’ and | the proposal that Mr. Stanley be requested | to ubsent himself from vhe reference, in order that counsel might shoot one another in his office; und | fivally the intimation that] might bring tho innocent Mr. Kernan into the business, and my suggestion that Mr. Hoot’s jast pithy letter was the result of con- certed action between bimseli and Seuator Kernan, “But,” said the General, tu conclusion, as he re- sumod the examination of sbme savings bank ac- counts in a law case which he had suspended daring this conversation, “as so many persons have taken this lett 1 must suppore that 1 was mistaken tn (he absurdity of those remarks in tt. This is all whatsoever that I have to say. only peant, when [ began, to correct the notion that there was any ill feeling on my part about the briet, which would render the threats of ‘replevin’ and ‘shooting’ probable.” A GREEN BURGLAR. | Yesterday morning, while Ofiicer Grant, of tho Sec. ond police precinct, Brpoklyn, was on duty at Fulton ferry, he saw a suspicious Jooking man carrying a blanket, The officer stopped him and had tue bianket unrolled, It was found to contain costly silverware, marked “D. Mj” “G. Le HL," “J, M.S. FM! os. W. M2? The man was taken to the station house, where be confessed that he had robbed a house the im the viewnity of Fort Greene, but night previow: said that he was more im search Of food wt the time than silverware, as he was oy | and had no means livelihood, Officer Grant went with the of gaining @ prisoner to Cumberland reet, where he pointed o the residence of Albert H. Villes, No, 101 Cumberiand Y, JANUARY 7, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. | THEATRICAL STAGNATION. The Unemployed Managers, Actors and Singers. ART AS AN INDUSTRY. Theatres Closing and Combina- tions Breaking Up. ‘The haunts of actors and musiciang in this city are now unusually full of unemployed artista Since the “bare times’? set in with the panic of 1873 there have not been so many professional people without enguge- ments as at the present time, and many excellent per- formers on both the lyrie and dramatic stage are verg- ingon absolute want, At Moretti’s, acheap calé ip Fourteenth street, exhibiting the marks of maccaroni all over it, there gathers trom day to day a host of singers bearing distinguished names, who can only unite in singing “Waiting” and ‘Sweet By and By.” At the Belvedere House, in Irving place, there :s a fam- ily of prime donne hopfng that some manager will ap- pear to demand their sweetest notes, At the Albion Club, in Fifteenth street, and at the Union Place Hotel there is always host of unemployed man- agers and actors. iy is impossible to turn one of the angles in Union square without Jostling an idle tenor only to be tossed against | an equally idie “leading man,” and in crossing Broad- way there is more danger of being run down by an aimless “heavy” than a maddening stage. "Old men” and ‘juveniles,’ ‘old women” and ‘walking ladies, baritones and bassos, sopranos and coutraltos crowd the thoroughiares, mecting their old-time managers withoat hope that unything will turn up to relieve their distresses, The managers are as badly off as the artists, and one of these, just returned trom “the road,” declared the other day that it would bo impos- sible to succeed with a travelling company even if the | actors were willing to work without pay. The | theatrical and musical business has not been so bad im many years, Most of our theatres are empty. With the exception of Theodore Thomas’ or- chestra, the Philharmonic and oratorio societies, the Essipoff concerts and a week's musical festival given by Mr. James Morrissey at the Academy of Music there bas been no music in New York this season. ‘The travelling opera com- panies, with the exception of the Kellogg troupe, have disbanded, and nearly all the dramatic companies on the road have fallen to pieces. The members of these unfortunate combinations have found their to the metropolis’ to swell the army of the unemployed, and Chicago 16 ag tull of idle actors as New York. In every direction the outlook isa gloomy one, and the worst feature of the prospect is that nobody can tell when the clouds will break. IDLE MANAGERS IN NEW YORK. During the war it used to be said that it was impos- sible to shake a stick ata dog without striking a bri dier general Now it 18 impossible to traverse bal a viock in Broadway without eucouutering halt dozen theatrical and Operatic managers With nothing to do vut view the beauties of that splendid thoroughiare, Even our best known operatic managers are idle, Max Maretzek, to whom New York owes much tor good opera, is compelled to teach to eke out a liveli- | hood, but be ts looking younger and fresher shan in | his halcyon days, Maurice strakosch is busying nim- | self with his collogsai opera house, but be has Do im- mediate Operatic projects, Max ‘akosch has just re- turned {rom an uutortunate campaign in the west aud ig waiting for better tmes to begin again, These brothers are excellent examples of men who made money by good management and lostit by bad. Among | the tdie Mr. Carlberg, who ‘lost his all with the “Kiying Dutchman;’ De Vivo, just. back from the antipodes with “nothing to do,” and James | Morrissey, wno lost so largely and 60 patiently in bis Academy of Music venture that he is likely to wait a long time before he again temnts fortune with a col- Jossal concert, AS a matter of course, none of these ; people are absolutely idie, but it 18 auil work trimming their sails to catch the first favorable breeze, Leouard Grover has been in the city for head full of projects, but none of thein seem to be des- | tined to a Minerva-like birth. George H. Tyier, whose | Humpty Dumpty troupe collapsed the other day, here looking jor orders, and has, it is said, designs upon an uptown theatre, where some of the daring | people are smashed to “smithereens,” When times are better all these people will be ousy again, but for the present the idie managers present even a moro doletul appearance than the idle artists, SILENT SINGERS, The number of silent singers jp New York at this time is larger than cver was kuown betore. Mme, Pappenbeim and Mme. Palmiert made a little money early in the season; but, although both of them aro good singers, there is no prospect that dither of them will be hired this winter, Mine. Gulager and Mme. Brignoliare both anxious for an appearance; but there 1s no indication that either will flud an opportunity to be heard. At the Belvedere House are avy number of really endowed ladies, including such artists as Anoa Drasdil, Antoinette Henne, Henrietta Beebe and Clara Perl, who are sufferers on account of the unusual stag- nation, Miss Emma Thursvy is fortunate in holding the leading position in the Tabernacle in Thirty-fourth street in theso hara times, Miss Gertrude Voroett, who obtained appearance as Norma last year, is still studying, but without present prospects of extihiting the results of her studics, Then there 1s tho latest American singer, with the stamp of European success, Miss Emma Ab- Lott, to whom the times afford [ttle real encourage- ment, In addition to the above array of prime donne | we have for tenors, baritones and bassos, Signor Brig- noi, still the stiver-voiced alter 80 many campaigns; Mr. Charles Friteb, a fine German singer, who also do the Italian and English; Mr. William Castle, long a Now York favorite in English opera; Signor Paimicre, Signor Tagliapietra, Mr. George Simpson, of Brooklyn; Mr. Tom Carl, Mr. Romaine, Jacob Mullor, Mr. Sohst, Herr lum, Signor Reynaand Alberto Lawrence, Ln this bundle of artists there are singers enough to form two or three opera companies, and yet, even With the best | of them, wo manager has the courage to risk one short | season at the Academy of Music. THX PAST AND THE PRESENT CONTRASTED, In singular coutrast with ali this dulness is the ao- tivity of only three or four years ago. Up to the'pres- | ent year a season without opera would have been con- sidered a calamity to be averted at every hazard. Not | only wag tbe Academy of Muste brilliant with grand | opera, but the mivor theatres were all musical to the echo. Tostéo came and went, and other stellar attrac: tions in opéra bougfe followed until Aimée almost suc- | cceded In establisving hersel! as a permanent New York favorite. The question which had been agitat- {ng us—*‘Aro we a musical people t”'—seemed answered iu the affirmative, Rubinstemm came and gained a | great triumph, and Von Bulow was tempted to come itter him, Offenbach nearly believed that New | York was almost like aris, and came in during our | Centennial for a season of mutual felicitations, The | only wonder is that Verdi bas not been here. Sud- | déniy, however, ail this brikiancy was extinguished, | and musical art not only languished but died. Emi- | nent artists who hud learned to regard New York as | tueir home and the scene of certain aud long to be | continued triumphs found themselves compelled to | sing to ompty benches, while managers like the Strakosch brothers were in despair over au empty | treasury. Enforced idleness tollowed only two | quickly, until now the prospects of an engagement even tor the best singers are fur im the dim and misty future, ‘There 1s no Sign of revival 1m the present, and the danger is that tor somo years at least music in this country will cease to be a profession, | ‘ART AS 4 COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY. | | | | | | | | | | People who haye uot studied musical and dramatic art ag a commercial activity can lorm uo adequate con- ception of the distress which follows the present stag- nation, A single theatre gives employment to ag many persons as ong of our largest commercial houses. Ac cording to the reco:pts of the busifiess more money 18 paid out again 1p salaries than in any industry wiich Our statesmen in Congress take such pains to promote, A performance in a theatre represents lubor im all its forins, ag well as art in every phase, In such a play as “Baba,” recently produced at Niblo’s, the cast 1s oni: a stoall part of the Working force, aud when the pi stopped a jarge army of ballet girls, supers, sceue shilters, carpenters and skilled workmen in ali the diverse “properties”? necessary to such a spectacle were thrown out of employment It will be seen from this that when @ theatre is com- | close tts doors the event is a public If the necessity of closing becomes general, ‘as 16 How threatoued, the distress will be as universal ag when the milis shut down or the mines cease to be profitable, When a commorcial house in Broadway tails the failure is lamented, especially because so many persona are thrown out of employment. The samo sympathy is pot extended to the handreds who draw thetr bread from the theatre when disaster overtakes theatrical enterprise. ‘Jones, themanager, bas lost a | fortune this dull season—poor Joues,’’ people say whew | itis whispered that lack vf patronage has doomed a well known manager's fortunes, but to the public mind | Jones is only a gambler in such a delicious way that his fate 1s merely to be regarded as the fate of all gamblers, Theatrical managoment is gambling, pe aps, as much as speculation im stocks; butit differs from stock gatubling in this, that it is also an indusiry, | ‘There is vo more pablic benelit in gong “shorv” than in the turn of a curd, Theatrical bling only re- sembies either of these in its glorious uncertainty; but when a manager fails he pulls down with him a whole palace of labor, It 1s this which gives the mul- titude of unemployed actors and musicians who are to be seen on our streets so much sigaiticance, CAUSE OF THE “HAD DCSINKSS.’” ‘To the casual mind it may seem a little singular that what must be regarded as a very great calamity should have occurred so early in the season and with a universality equal to ite suddenness, In this city business opened with bright prospects, and the many combinations tormed here ip the sum w make the round of the iuland cities throughout the Winier met with fair success at the outse, So tar a# opera and music are concerned the «lard times made the business anremunerative ‘en strect, a8 the house he had burgiariously entered. The risoner, who stated that his name wae Unarles A. reen, Was then commit | For ths Kast wide Poor... | tions made on Chriatmas Day :— in the beginning of the season, and tosome eNent fa litte lacer on this affected our theatres also, but it will not uccount for Herel and unexpected abas- nation, The Brooklyn fre te the principal cause of the ‘bad busi which bas every- where been encountered within weeks, and which has resulted ip heesking. up pearl: wey, travelling company east of the Roc! lountalas, if the disas- ters continue one-half of the theatres in the count will be closed befure spring. and the suffering, w! 1s already intense, will become unexampled. PICTURES OF POVERTY. Ta HUNGRY AND HOMELESS—NO FOOD AND No* FIRE—SOME SAD PHASES OF CITY LIFE. “Now,” said the good man, “I will tell you of what I have seen in the last three days:—-I buve visited 163 families among -the poor of the Sixth ward alone. Of these seventy-one bad neither fre nor food.” He fas- tened a button @™ his coat, as though the recollection of the cold and gloom ne had: so recently left in some mysterious way affected the temperature of the warm and cheerful room in which we sat, “You see I am ‘No, 82° of the volunteer visitors of8t John’s Guild, I have the Sixth ward assigned to me as a special field, because | bave plenty of leisure, am not nice about little matters, such as unsavory smella or coarse conversations, and have gained @ modicum of worldly wisdom trom tbirty years or more of business life in this city. Nevertheless, I oiten Visit in the uptown districts, and often meet cases where the merest humanity requires quite as much delicacy and tact as humanity and shrewdness.” «Oh! yes, you see some instances of poverty that are truly serious, do you ?”” “Well, my dear sir, 1 cam give you a hunared or more such cases, and | happen to know thas Mr. Wiswall can give you an additional thou- sand, or, yes, two or three thousand. Take, for instance, this family, Mrs, —, a widow, She ro sides, or rather exists, at No, 11 Poll street. Her hua band died recently, and a few days ago she was con- fined of a posthumous child, Now the only furniture in her room was one chair, Toudd to tho difficulties of her condition one of ber three little oneg, a girl of five yoars, fell down stairs, and while other little girls were nursing their dolls on New Year’s Day she oc- cupied her time in rocking her hungry little body backward and forward on the floor and nursing her broken arm. At No. 143 Pearl street I tound o mother with five children and vo work; husband sick and io the Charity Hospital, having ® comparatively good time. The oldest daughter, a girl of sixteen, was in ved when I called, and the mother, who was just com- ing in, opened tue door for me. She had been out pawning the daugbter’s shoes, She showed me the ticket, remarking they Were very good stout shoe They brought ifveen conts. I asked the motner if tl eldest daughter had tried to get work. ‘Triea’! said the poor creature, tears yes, sir; 1 bave tried and met with buttwo answere to my begging. One wus inthe shops, where they said, “We are full and shyll have to dischargo hands, now thatthe holiday rush is over.’’ The other was in offices, where | was asked to return when tho business of the day was over and the place was de- sorted, ‘Yes, yes,’ said the mother, ‘I used to tuke pride to myself because my daughter was band. some as well as innocent and good; but I don’t know now; it may be to punisb me; for where work is to be had they don’t care for good looks, aud she only meets with many an instlting look aud word where visa she might pass unnoticed. The mean, cowardly curs! when she aske for an opportunity to luvor, to provide bread for ber mother and her little sisters, they teil her, You are too pretty to work.” ‘Oh! curse the unfeeling, unmaniy brutes,’ ’” “Yes, that’s what she said,’? muttered No. 82, “and right, Well, ut No. 62 Park street I found a woman cighty-six yeurs old, Sne lives im an attic room, alone. She was in bed, bad no fire and had no means to procure one and bad not eaten in thirty-six hours, At No, 9 Mulberry streot there is auother old woman, a widow of sixty-live. She is helpicss, one of her legs being broken, the fracture never umited, 80 she cannot use the limb. Two grandchildren keep house with her, one a girl of nine yeurs und the other @ boy of twelve. The voy had work, earning $1 50 @ week, until a month ago, when he lost employment, For four weeks the three have subsisted somenow without even this slender pittance. Tney burn cinders to keep warm aud cat the retuse of the garbage barrels. At No. 280 Mulberry Streot lives a woman with six children, On Friday evening she was contined. For forty-eight hours pre- vious to her confi ent neither she nor any member of her tumi!y had eaten a morsel of tood., “Thoy had no tire, Tne husband, out of work, had pawned the clothes from his back, and could no longer enter the street, for mere decency’s sake. At No. 140 Mulberry strect, a widow, suflering from rheumatism and sleeping with her thre children gathered to her upon a bure floor and without covering. Here ts a complete invoice of the furniture there which remains to bi Two chairs; one rusty, cracked siove, All el: ad been sold to bay food, At No. 3 Worth street there ts an old woman who ts also sick with rheumatism. Her daughter went to California as servant in a wealthy family. She soon made room tor Ah Luck, the Colestial, and, out of work, is poor, in 4 strange but+ hospitable country. The old mother 18 without food or fire, They speak oddly sometimes. At No. 120 Centre street there is @ widow who bas seven children, the oldest of whom is twelve, They looked doubtingly at me.when | spoke of having a Hire built, anu when | told them we wou Start ‘a line of credit the corner grocery, a depo: from ‘No. 82,’ you know, to while away the time the Guild basket of provisions came round, ono of littlest came up to me and said, ‘Did you know my pu ‘o, dea Den you is notrich? Sister musn’t tell,’ ell what, little onef* *««Q,’ guid the mother, ‘that we are starving. We were living in our own house a few years ago, aud the children lave prattled to her of past pleasures, Poor thing, she never knew a better lot But I havo always,cautioned them to keep our poverty trom those about os, many of whom are generous. to a fault, but, God knows, have litle enough of their own and know not bow long they may have anything,’ “How long since you euten anything?’ I asked of the little one. “She thrust her hand in her mouth and looked 19 with great staring eyes, I tarped to another (older) and repeated the question, She answered :— “<The morning of the day betore yesterday,’ “Whal’s the trouble? Something in your eye. By Georgo, I’m sneezing. There must be a draught of something bere. At the charitable institutions yesterday the usual number o! applicants for hel» presented themselves, ‘The Department of Charivies and Correction, the sociation for the Amelioration of the Poor, St. Joli Guild, the’ St, Vincent de Paul’s Society and other private charities were the givers of relic! to a largo number of poor families who are destitute. Next week tho coai will be distributed by the Department of Charities and Correction. There are avout 500 appli. cants daily for this charity. RELIEF FOR THE EAST SIDE POOR, | To rae Epiror ov THe HERALD: — Since you published my appeal of January 3, on, be- half of the East side poor, have received the foltow- ing sums from the readers of the HxkaLp:— L. CG, Easton, Assistant. Quartermaster General United States Army, oy 3 gene H, Pomeroy. Mrs. Smith. ......+ S. F.3., a sucque and. Mrs, Foster, O11 City, A Friend, Newport, R. 1. Unkuown (who seut a Post Office order), Total... From Augw ne present time eo Vis 1,100 families and extended reliet to over, 4,400 per- sons. As the distress now is greater than ever | ask the charitable, ia the name of Clirist, to send imme- diate relict for these starving creatures before 1 shall be obliged to close the door against them. Donations may vo sent to Dr. A, H, Smith, No. 110 East Thirty- eighth street, or to the Rev. D, M. McUaltrey, No, 658 Lexington avenue. JANUARY 6, 1877, THE CATHOLIC ORPHAN FUND. The following amounts have been received up to this date for the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylumes collec. St Michaol’s eresa’s St. Joseph's . St. Mary's, Nativity. St. Paul's, Harlem. St. Laurence, THE BROOKLYN THEATRE FIRE, Relief for the sufferers by the late Brooklyn Theatre fire comes in slowly, and it is stated by the committee having the matter in charge that the sum collected is not nearly adequate to meet the applications made, Boxes for money deposits for the cause have beea placed in the various places of amusement in Brook- jyn, and small sams are gained in this manner, The committee On Outertainments throughout the country are working very Industriously, and: it is thought @ bundsome suin will be realized this way, The theatres of this city and Brooklyn aud some othors in aifferens cities hav ly responded nobly. At the office of Mayor Schroeder the following subscriptions have fold feat een, si Previously ACKNOWL ZOd seeese.. 4s +$12,682 15 Cashier Pita National Jonn Swinburn « J.y proceeds of an en- ah J. Bank, Paterso tertainment (throu: G, Jenkin: Colle¢tion in giass house of P, " biadhae 14 25 200 teen oe seeees veeee B12, The Brooklyn Police Commisstoners have naenéed the order lately issued by them in rel of stools pg ogo I intended to. apply. only, in cases where bMan B urches are used as places of springing to her ren