New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-16
JOHN PAUL AT THE HUB.
A DISCOURSE ON RAILWAY SECURITIES.

SIR TALKS OF TRIBUNE sUPPLEMfNlS-AD oA'"
oUs VIEW OF wALL-sr. OPERATIONS AND RAIL
ROAD STOCKS.
iFRos AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRiBuShl
HYANNIs June MY mind is much improved
for / have been 10 Boston!
What thing Learning is to be sure! Let the
Poet sing of the pleasures found in Woods and fleds
playing policy and reading yesterdays WIN
authors, for instances let the Voluptuary get up III
the afternoon and sit down with torpid liver anu
head as big bushel basket to tell You OF the
pleasures which qualification of the senses bringS
let the Mlser Jingle his greenbacks and claim that
real happiness is be found only in the possession
of solid wealth; let the Female Crusader paint IN
brilliant water colors the ecstatic JOY of kneeling
down on the soggy floor of a barroom to address a
Throne which might be reached quite as easily from
the comparative elevation of a clearly clOset-i
claim that there is nothing half sweet in life as
holding social converse in several different
languages with any Bostonan whom Won may hnd
not home To dinner between the hours OF ii anu
on any day of the week.
To be gone home to dinner at the exact time when
business men of other parts OF the world are TO De
found at their places of business seems peculiarly
Of the New Englander, and never before COM
mented upon, to my knowledge, in any book OF nat
ural history. Go to New-Haven, Hartford, North
amptOn, Swampscot, Portland, Newton, West New
ton, Newton Center, Nantucket, Boston-travel
thousand miles 10 see man on business. and the
chances are that on getting his store you find 1t
locked up; and woman across the way, feeding
chickens, with a broom in her hand and white
handkerchief tied round her head, will inform you
that he Is gone home to dinner
Ii was the fondest ambition of my heart to meet
Emerson-not on the lecture platform, whereit costs
dollar to stand ND on a back seat and you can only
hear half he says and not understand that; not IN
the gilded halls of fashion where his mind Is given
to the fryoliies of the hour the gay dissipation OF
the moment, but in the solitude of his study. sur
rounded by books of reference and files OF lHE
TRIBUNE, where could ask him in sacred confidence
If he considered 1t consistent with the duty Whlch
one man owes 10 his fellow irrespective OF any selfish
considerations of personal interest. for man to beg
when holding king for high four for low, and ten
spot for game TO say nothing of the chance OF catch
ing the dealers Jacob at the first swing 1t has been
SAID. and with some show of authority, that MI
Emerson knows nothing of the beauties OF Cup
but it is useless for any to attempt to persuade
me that he who wrote
Not from a scant or shallow pack
Young Phdlas turned MS aWtul JACK
Is ignorant of the ntricacies of that majestic game
Unfortunately did not see the Philosopher, but
"a
whiled away an hour OF two in pleasant discourse.
II was while returning from the burnt district
and my mind was filled with what had seem
Boston is building up quite lively remarked.
"Yes, SIR she replied, when the human mind
pauses for moment in It's wild but vain pursuit OF
the Indefinite and Inscrutabe, aud contemplates
the abruptness of the catastrophe which betell the
world. turning then to the rapid redintegration-"
Pardon Madam / do MT speak French | ex-
planned right here. / called her Madam, you will
observe in compliment to her learning.
Il thought You were of Cambridge she replied,
looking at me with plying eve, q" but now see
by your boots that Won come from Princeton And
how Is Dr. McCosh -
When | confessed that ! only graduated al
Gowanus and then my way to HyannIs,
having only stopped over train in Boston 10 sip
of the honey OF Hymettus and improve my mind "A
little, glad CLEAN shOne in her blue spectacles-
mean in her blue eyes-and she said:
=" Oh. I'm so glad. Ii is nice 10 talk with common
people once aud awhile. How are things down your
way :"
Pretty well thank you,' made answer as
POLITELY as possible-for had rather die any time
than have it supposed that | do not know what
good manners are when away from Homeland then
the conversation became general In the course OF
it, this bonnie Boston lass tapped the toe of her
number ten cOquettshly with the point OF her
green bingham umbrella and asked me what folks
said in my parts of the suit brought by James II.
Banker, plaintiff, agt The Lake Shore and Mich
igan Southern Railway Company, George b. Grin
nell George Bird Grinnell, and Joseph {. Williams.
Augustus Schell, and Maria L. Clark as executrix,
and Augustus Sche as executor of Horace +. Clark,
deceased, defendants
Tony utter humiliation ! was obliged TO confess
that had not even heard of IT,
"Oh.1 said she, you don't read the supplements
of THE TRIBUNE them Theyprnt all the best read
ing of the day in the supplements now. That's
what supplements are for no wants to be both
cred carrying eight pages of news and editorials
around and this gives them chance To just throw
away the body of tine paper and then sit down all by
themselves and have a good time over the supple
ment."
This was comforting to me. for have remarked
that my contributions the periodical literature Of
the day generally occupy a prominent place III the
half-sheets. And, finding that this young lady
knew more about most things than did, | besought
her to 20 on and tell ME what she thought of the
suit brought by James II. Banker, plaintiff agt.
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
Company George b. GrInnell, George Bird Grinnell,
and Joseph C. Williams, Augustus Schell, and Maria
l.. Clark executrix and Augustus Schell as exec
utOr OF Horace i. Clark, deceased, de1ehuiDIs.
8" ! will tell YOU" she said, in IA few words as
possible what think Of the suit brought by James
II Banker, plaintiff, against the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railway Company, George b.
Grnnell, George Bird Grinnell, and Joseph {. Will
liam, Augustus Schel and Maria L. Clark az execu-
trix and Augustus Schell as EXECUTOR of Horace +.
Clark, deceased. Defendants
Then we both sat down on a stone for moment,
to take breath.
III tell you. she again began, "ust what tsinK
about the suit brought by James ii. Banker, plain
tiff, against The ~