New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-31
JOHN PAUES VACATION
BANKERS AND CHILDREN.


ER's NOsE-THE CHLDREN's HOP.
,FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNEl
SARATOGA, July 22.-Saratoga is trimming over
with bankers and brokers, who have come to attend
the Bankers and Brokers' Convention which con-
yened on the Goth. That you may not buck against
them without knowing whom You encounter, they
wear blue badges. Every delegate displays one
because they given out gratis. A charge oil a
penny apiece would have given the manufactures a
profit and made buttonhoes less blossoming with
blue, perhaps For who wonld have INDUCED in an
extravaganza so uselessf Surely man could remem-
Der he was banker without wearing a seton of
ribbon to remind him of it.
"What have you come together for" Inquired of
proud millionaire.
"Well, to have a good time for one thing" he
replied.
Unfortunately two things interfercd with their
having good time. First, they bad no money; see
ondly they too mean to have spent 1t had they
had any. When the Convention promised to last TOO
long and il became evident that neither pleasure nor
business was meant, % cashier who had pleasant
cottage at Monmouth Beach and wanted TO get back
to il, proposed contribution of ten dollars apiece
for incidental expenses and passed round the hat
II was like firing doube-barreled gun into lot of
crows cawing i'll a cornfeld. The Convention broke
up in wild confusion, amid cries Of Put him out"
Mash his hat" proposition TO finish with a
dinner this evening carried family few voting
fewer still subscribing for it. And it did ridcu
Ions, the proposition 10 waste money on chOwder,
cabbage, pork and beans, and OtEcr sweetmcats
when Chinese puzzle and three cents worth OF
slippery elm will entertain roomIu for Whole
evening
Capital and never could agree. Labor and it have
been antagolistic ever. Money was long ago pro-
nounced the root of all evil and don't like to see
it sprout near me. Judge of my horror, then, when
a broad-brimmed banker from Arkansas got up and
said his name was Roots and insisted on spelling it
out in full for the benefit of the Convention. What
turn up was there MY brethren Were such roots
played on capitalists before And what hft! But,
as was remarked in the beginning of this paragraph.
capital and labor are very unlike Thus aboIer is
worth nothing if he be dssipated; capital Is OF no
good to anybody till it is
The Frenclnan who said that the Lord showed
what he thought of money by the kind OF people he
gave it TO. was not far ont of the way.
Fishermen are my friends. Call You fishing an ig-
noble profession OF whom were the Apostles
chosen Eleven fishermen, If l recollect rightly.
and only one banker and broker among Them No
need that recall the business that fellow made OF
it, the commercial Transaction i'll which he nduleed,
the sorry way in Which he discounted his own soul
for 80 pieces OF silver. Ina these days OF ihfatioh
and cheap paper money the net profit of the trsnsac-
ton may seem small, but in that primitive era, be-
fore banking had assumed its present gigantic pro-
horizons 30 pieces of silver were not to he succeed
at and Judas probably got the credit OF beng
srewd driver OF bargain AID had "a good maine on
DO Won wonder that I indulge in this venom !?
Consider the circumstances. came here 10 borrow
little money of these congregated capitalists. None
had any TO lend. On the contrary, several wanted
TO borrow of me. One OF them rakeo up an oid IN
debted1ess against Inc, an indebtednrsS nag LOT
gotten and which he ought to have. " hen bank
balance is against one, he may surely be pardoned
for losing his equilibrium. -,
But must confess to an ardent admiration for the
perspicacty of the really great banker personally
announcement II often proves. lie gets az you III
moment, knows if You are to be trusted ny looking
at yon, measures yon mentally ana nota'y ny ne
doIser the piece of paper which y2n present
puts he it to his eye, No, to his nose. Fact 1T is
recorded of n late eminent bank PRESIDENT tilat
bit of paper was once offered him for discount
bearing the name of successful dry-goods man,
against whose credit never word had been spoken;
them on the table; then he smeiled OF the
paper, and shook his head: Too much horse"
he remarked quietly, and laid 1t down. further
of that piece of paper. The drawer OF IL kept ~
horses. In less than month he went all to pieces
No need, You see, OF IA banker having goou heao )
all that's necessary Is nose.
Notwithstanding that the charming GOODNESS ortae
weather would seem to favor it, they do not dance
here with the vim of former days. few languid
fossils go the floor and keep step to the music 81
the Union, and at Congress Hall and the United
States little tame hopping is hazarded but there Is
not the swing to it at all of fifteen years ago.
The children had hop OH Wednesday evening,
and this would have been enjoyable for the prett-
ness of the scene had it not been for the reflection
that the little dears hours before. had better have
horned into bed Jonathan Edwards is but five
months old and at present leads the French-his
nurse from Bayonne-considerabe of q dance But
even when he attans to the full dignity OF five years.
much doubt whether he will be permitted to lead
the German. Regarding the future OF Jona-bat you
know not all this while who and what Jonathan Id
wards is. plainly SEQ that shall have to explain
this at some future time for he is uppernost In my
mind and mention of him crops out when least
mean it. 80, ,..
until near mon the small hours, is chiidrefs lawn
party, and this. Prof. Manuel informs me, ~ down
for one of the entertainments OF August. A earte
blanche has been given him, and the grOnis OF lIe
Grand Union are 10 be decorated with all the re-
sources of art. The sight will he worth coming 10
see. White dresses and PINK sashes' ana Ied cleeks,
and happy eyes, and little feet toddling over the
green grass, with proud papas anu inagnihceht
mammals looking on, while Susan, Oninipresent III Der
A perfect woman, nOby planned,
To comfort, counsel and command,
wheels the baby barouche or clucks her particular
charge around her; much better TINS, SHOULD say
let them be grasshOppcrs. Immediate them not to
the Moloch of fashion, beneath the glare OF gas
burners and in an atmosphere made sitting by OFT
repeated breathings, upon hot aud waNen noor,
but bring them out upon the turf, garland their
pretty necks with flowers, and then do what you
will with them, if they make too much NOISE
JoHH PAUL.
THE TEXAS CATTLE DRIVE OF 1875.