Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-04-29

THE CENTENNIAL ffYER-Airo THE CHn.Is-THR
UNION LEAGUE CLUB AND THE JEROME PALACE
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ABT-MoRE BROOK
LYN scANDAIs.
| Special Corresl0n iehce VI the Commercial
| New YORK, April 27.
Centennial days have come ut last to the
American republic, and are bound to keep coming
they say, for seven eight years, from the Gem
tennial OF Lexington and Concord to that OF
Yorktown and the surrender of Corvallis
Every historic spot in the Old Thirteen will have
it's celebration, with sires aud SONS, poet and
orator, from far aud near. American patriotism
ia to have such rousing and shaking up as
| never before
| THE NEXT 0HAND CENTENNIAL
date is that of Bunker Hill June nth The
| Ne,o EHgtdnier ia already on hand with his
| torical review of that wonderful battle, not less
| thrilling than critical, and one OF the best con-
tributlons OF fuel to the revolutionary fervor that
| | have seen yet As a Connecticut quarterly, the
Ne'o Eh9fnnter very properly and successfully
but temperatey, uphods the claims Of Gen. Is-
rael Putnam to the honor of having originated
and directed that brave deed. Happy the COM
ing generation who are boys and girls now, to
drink into their young blood and spring OF lfe
the heroic Inspiration OF these centennial years.
The second century of American Independence
ought to be better, for this fresh baptism, than
the first.
suppose / may put down among the centen-
NAL feryors, though by accident, the
BURNING OF THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB HOUSE,
as rather grim celebration, for u patriotic in
stitution. Tho elegant palace Of marble as 1t is
hardly too much to call it, built by Mr.. Jerome
for his private residence, on the corner Of Madi-
son Square and Twenty-syth street Composite
the southwest corner of what il now the Hippo
drome) was one of the most noticeable private
structures in the city, No one could pass it
without wishing to know, if he did not, what it
.IarpmaA "a vi nnanu nm, f,,rfl
on the water, on Wall street, and generally ON
whatever money could be spent or risked on,
brought him up sharply at last, while his beauti
ful and extensive mansion was yet hardly finish
ed, and 30 ii came to be the Union League club
house instead of the residence Of Leonard w. |
Jerome. The club leased it for ten years at |
SlS,O0O a year besides paying the taxes and in
snrance with privilege of purchasing at $780, |
0OO Such figures indicate what q
FAST WALL STREET MANS IDEA
of shanty is. Lucky for the builder that he |
got such an elephant Of e1travagant living off |
his hands before the hard times of late years. |
What club of first-class s'sold men, is. and |
how expensive an institution may be guessed |
from the fact that the income of ''dues'' has |
not only paid the enormous rent, and other |
enormous current expenses, but has given |
S15O0O0 to beautifying and furnishing the land |
lords property, and accumulated another $780, |
600 for building fund; But the time has now
passed for buying Mr.. Jerome out at $500, 900.
he gets the molasses end OF the stick, every
time. When the lease expires, in two years
more. probably he will be able to live there
himself if he likes. Meanwhile Madison Square
has gone away down town and il fast getting to
be business quarter. IL ia not suitable for a
private residence, 30 another lease to the club
will probably settle the matter
THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB,
as l remarked, is eminently the solid men Il club
Ii WAS organized, as it's name implies, to give
the support OF what ID known us Society" in
its best sense, to patriotic loyalty in city where
at the time, there was not little social support
giysn to indifierentism and even secessonism.
But OF course the club has had general politi-
cal complexion in accordance with its origin
But political objects have latterly given way in
great measure to others.
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
is an offspring to which the Club may point with
growing pride, and which will be it's monument
long after it shall have finally dissolved. 1t is
but half dozen years since the establishment
Of this institution was first suggested by the Art
Committee of the Union League Club, and a
public meeting was held under its auspices to
inaugurate the enterprise. In 1871, valuable
collection OF paintings having fallen into the
hands OF the museum (then newly Incorporated
by legislative acta) the exhibition was COM
menced at No. 681 Broadway, and two years ago
was removed to the Douglas mansion in 18th.
street. The permanent building in Central
Park, now being erected at cost OF 300, 900
by the Park Commissioners, will ere long re.
ceive the treasures of art which are rapidly ac-
in the temporary quarters OF the
Museum.
BRookLYS
has been, for a few days, relieving its heavier
business i'll the scandal line with few minor
episodes. One of them, the German case OF
of guardianship OF an heiress, with
prolonged imprisonment and licentous abuse
too horrible to relate, reads more like an old tale
lf baronial awlessness in pagan or mediHval
times, than like anything that could be transact
I'D to-day, in Il "City OF churches" The girl at
1t the age Of twenty, ID at last restored, in her
lishonored condition, by order OF court, to her
mother.
rooR MRS FERGUSON
he Young and brilliant star OF amateur theatre
,al and musical circles in Brooklyn, gave too
much Of her time to the fascinating stage and
@ the company of gentleman who shared in
he same passion for the mimic scene The
natural result was an angry husband she says
brutal and abusive one from whom she fed
With their little only daughter, and to whom she
vas ignominiousy brought back, all the way
rom Nlaine few days ago. Having, by her
,wn story, added to her other indiscretions at
east, that of allowing the object of her hus-
Dands jealousy to assist and take part in her
light she is in about as unfortunate scrape as
she knew how to make of it. Her child is taken
rom her, and she returns to her mother, pro-
esting her innocence The incupated gentle-
mans wife, however, stands by him, and gives
lei word that there was nothing wrong. SO the
friends on both sides hope to patch up recon
citation.