The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-11


all the people, to bodies unknown by the
Constitution, meeting in secret chambers
declaring their votes behind closed DOORS
and assuming to bind the action and stihe
the conscience of individuals.
THE QUARRELS AND CALAMITIEs OF.
AUTHORS.
From the NJ Y. Tribune.
81 didn't think, remarked Mr.. Bofin, at
the end of the first evenings entertainment
with the Decline and FaH Or tie Rooshan
Empire, there was so many scarers in print:
but I'm in for it now" Something like this,
we suspect, is the reflection alike of the Hon.
A. Oakley Hall and Mr.. Edward l. Sears,
LID, when these eminent men contemplate
the row into which they have got themselves
anent Mr.. Sweeny and the Central Park. Mr..
Hall is pretty we'll known, at least by name,
to the civilized races of the earth. MIR. Sears
is perhaps in need of an introduction. We are
given to understand that he is from Ireland
Probably his ancestors were kings of that
country. Like MIR. Hall, and also like Mr..
Silas Wegg, he is a literary man, and all print
is open to him. You couldn't show him the
piece of English print that he wouldn't be
equal to collaring and throwing on the spot.
He is the editor and proprietor of periodi-
cal called the National Quarterly Regieao, to
which ''Mr. Charles O'Conor," the "Hon.
Nelson j. Waterbury, 'Maj jor-G General Dix"
and probably some other persons, are sub
scribers. MIR. Sears alludes to his friendship
for MIR. O'Conor, who once invited him to
Washington Heights; for Chancellor Ferris,
who loaded him with invitations and homo
rary degrees; for Mr.. August Belmont,
who sent him some money mot more than
four days ago." and for other distinguished
citizens, in style which has not been equalled
since Captain Costigan discoursed of his con-
vivial intimacies with the Prince Regent and
the Duke of Kent. Mr.. Sears knows all about
Shakespeare, Horace, Cardinal Mazarin,
Samuel johnson, and General Ingalls,. And
yet with such man Mayor Hall has ven-
tured to get into trouble. This was the way
of it,
Mr.. Sears, with that acuteness character
istic of great men, saw that his Re0ieao, COM
ing out only four times year and having no
particular circulation, was an excellent me-
aium for corporation advertising. He wrote,
therefore, long letter to the Mayor, setting
forth his claims, and asking for a Job of
work; and though he did not, as it seems, get
favorable reply, he put in some advertise
ments at venture, without waiting for au-
thority. by curious coincidence lust about
the time that he wanted his bill for this lob
approved, he was urgently requested, in the
name OF the Mayor, to notice highly lauda-
tory biography OF the Hon. A. Oakley Hail.
published In weekly paper. Mr.. Sears did
not comply with this request, and by another
curious coincidence his bill was not approved
later number of the review contained
an allusion to the Mayor leaving
II apparently uncertain whether Mr..
Sears regarded that functionary as "yillain"
or just the reverse; and by third coinci-
dence, more extraordinary than either of the
others, the bill was thereupon approved i'm
medately. Encouraged by the result of this
engagement, Mr.. Sears now printed the ordi-
nances of the Central Park and sent in a bill
OF 1912 80, which was promptly repudiatsd.
1t WAS his turn to have a coincidence now,
and accordingly the Regte0 opened upon the
management OF the park with a furious srti-
Gle, showing that the place was going to ruin,
and that Peter b. Sweeny was chopping down
trees more recklessly than the Youthful
Washington. Then Mr.. Hall and Mr. Sears
published each others private letters. and
told all the little facts which we have Just
narrated.
But before this lamentable affair reached
the point of open war, curious incident is
SAID TO have occurred, whose significance has
YET 10 De explained The number containing
the Central Park article was printing when
MIR. Sears tells us he was surprised by a visit
from no less person than MIR. David Dud- |
ley Field. MIR. Field proposed TO buy the |
Recte1. At this. offer Mr. Sears was aston |
ished, for the reason that he never had offered |
to sell-and probably for another reason
also, which prudence forbids him to men
ton. MIR. Field was inquisitive respecting
the contents of the forthcoming number,
and especially interested in knowing what
was to be said about the Park. The nego-
tiations for purchase, however, seem to have
fallen through, and Mr.. Peter b. Sweeny's
came of at the appointed time.
Now MIR. David Dudley Field is shrewd
man, and rich man. but we can hardly be-
lieve that he formed the daring design of
buying out the National Quarterly Reoies0 as
a commercial speculation. 1t is not likely
that he wanted an organ through which TO
answer General Barlow, because he has the