Show GOTHAM GOSSIP the murderous tide A merchant Mero bant of the old school retorts of vice the cigarette nuisance from our correspondent WHAT IS 15 THE USE OF or IT there is very little e stirring s t in in tile city except the rain that irra the bright green leaves in the newly decked trees and the noisy sparrows only four murders since boist the I le last jast execution six days ago and three at ills tempts one of which roil mal provo prove a success so you see the papers arc are dull for what is a daily paper now without its regular plethora of horror herror it has long been a subject of remark that immediately after the hanging banging of an assassin the tile very air seemed to fill with the mysterious force that impels impels the criminal classes to deeds of at atrocity roty and that before the week ia is closed the columns of the tile papers teem with new stories of capers bloodshed lood shed the question in the mind of a great many good men who use their brains to think with is whether the brutal strangling of a murderer does or docs does net deter the thugs from the bloody work that BO so many of them have learned to look upon agthe as the crowning glory of their lives horace greeley was wont to say that the worst possible use to which you could put a man was to hang liang him his death is the tile result of ofa a judicial mur derand aided by the tile quick and graphic pen of the ever ready reporters it serves not to in vicious but to en coura o them nine out of ten murderers die game and I say it with no ir reverent feeling nearly all according to the solemn asseverations of their spiritual advisers go right straight to heaven h care n but what of their victims HOSES MOSES TAYLOR moses Tay taylor loris is added to the tile list of the tile distinguished dead of the year he ile was one of the typical business busi noss men of new york when lie was only 20 years old he lie had bad a capital of earned by his own P private specula speculations lions and at that t time me such uch an amount was a fortune of course in the present a ago of large things lings ti bonanzas and baack black fridays this would not be considered much for a young man of 26 but the tile big fortunes that have been accumulating in the metropolis tro polis have been in the first place earned by honest endeavor and have multiplied through careful supervision the astor tho the lenores es the durhams De the Goe Goelet lets sand and the few others of what are recognized as tho the blue blood df d IT new york society accumulated their wealth by degrees in the goo good old told times our staid ancestors would have looked with mortal c ty Vcra awl as a special cr creation ration of the evil one but times chaff change ige and we change with them the detthof death of moses taylor comes as a reminder of how lie a man may carve liis ills way to honor lionor and fortune and die honored lio nored and respected his ills father jacob B taylor was a cabinet maker and was a member of the board of aldermen from 1817 to 1820 long before aldermen were selected from tho the keepers of rum mills but mosea moses taylor tylor never entered actively into politics although althou gl during rang the tile civil war he lie was lavish in in his ills expenditures tures for the preservation of the un union TI on he lie was one of the oldest shipping merchants in the city doing an enormous business with the west indian and central american ports unlike some of liis his predecessors however lie seems to have taken no special interest in the city of hig his birth so far atlease at least as donations go a and nd while we have an ai astor ator library a lenox library and a roosevelt Hospit althere is no public institution bearing the name of taylor AND POOL FOR ron DRIKS are now in this and other cities which are hardly lesa less powerful in their damning in influence over the young than ruin in ita its most devilish forms I dont refe r to the bo so called boys and girls wae weeklies klies that scatter poison broadcast over the land bat but they are bad enough and their publishers should all be doing the state some service in the stone breaking departments of the prisons I dont count even the variety shows which are pest holes even the best ot of them the two I wish to printout point poin out tout par particularly tien are cheap cigarettes and pool for drinks 11 nearly every boy beyond the watchful eye of his mother smokes cigarettes the ns nastiest biest apologies for cigars that were ever devised made of refuse tobacco gathered by italian lazzaroni in the gutters that po poison son the breath and ruin ill the e lieal and excite the morbid a appetite petite of many a bright lad in intended tendeS as an ornament and and an lionor honor to his ity to purchase them two for a cent many a little fellow has become a thief and yet no effort ia is made to put ut a stop to the traffic pool por for drinks is a sign to be seen on nearly every busy thorough fare mos most t where the same game is played the chief customers arc are boys the majority of whom it were ere folly t to mince matters must steal the money which the game costs them the largest of these places is on the bow bowery ery open day and night all the year round it is crowded constantly policemen pass by the doors and hear bear the click of the balls on the twelve or fifteen tables in the two large rol rooms orns see boys goi going ng I in n or coming out often tipsy yet never never attempt to close the place the so society for the suppression of crime is is busy in a hundred different dl directions ions its agents tempting men to ille alie conr com mission of crime with a bew view to the tile punishment but I have never heard beard of au effort on the part of the society or its agent to bring the prop proprietor rictor of this pool for drinks place to justice it is a den of thieves it is a school far for thieves every day and every night t it is opened in violation of tile law fights take p place lace here every night and und a fighting man is keut liere here to look after the interests of the house men have their pockets picked here every night boys get drunk hero here day after day and ana night after night and yet the place is is never entered by an officer of ill the c law ex v capt cent when he comes to get his ills cocktail A few nights ago I visited this place for the purpose of inducing one of its is new customers a boy of seventeen to go homo honic to his mother an estimable my living on street who had not seen her son in three thre days it was in the morning when I entered the rooms were crowded and every table was busy on the seats at the sides of the rooms were about fifty loungers a fair proportion of whom were asleep the 1120 young man I was looking for waa was not in in sight so I took a scat seat and waited knowing that sooner or later ho lie would woula make lna his appearance just opposite to me a casual was rt as slumber slumbering ipg peacefully nearly in front of him stood one of f those characters so well known and so easily distinguished nowadays in new york a well dressed sed but thoroughly bad looking young fellow whose business in life is without w work rk to t prey upon t the li e c cup fools a and d tile simple ru rustics t gip always to be found on the busy thoroughfares of the great city to tile right of this man who was evidently serving as ws a screen for liis his comrade was another of similar aspect who was busily engaged in III probing tile slee sleepers pees pockets ills 11 is work was done with the utter matter of fact coolness of a man measuring a fence rail and he lie displayed no more nervousness nor fear than though in the performance of the most ordinary honert labor under the eye of the passing world I quietly juicily called the attention of two young men sitting near me do you see that fellow over there picking that sleeping mans pockets said I now look here where n young feller said one of of tile two your photograph would rould look a he ap better if only keep your mouth shut cant you let a roan man make a quiet dollar in inam a moment afterward the fighting man of the establishment was on the spot and the pickpocket was so thoroughly battered that I doubt whether his ills mother would liim him N ell 10 NEW YORK may |