New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-13
Johnny BOUQUETS WALKS.

pfArH IN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES % Tnn NAV
pIssvRd INBRo0LIo-rHE Ex-LKApxke On IhH
rraIcs OF TEE CAsz-PxNNsYLvASiAs foA11''
CAL DRIFT.
briaht but inpracticsble idea struck me last
~raak a. saw sheet of liquid OoSe. rich and p'ten-
like. flowing on Fulton-sk. that IL could ieaso IL
for flower bed and plant 1t with roses. one blocks
,..sth of IL would keep me whole year. What
,veslth n In Q city's refuse, though all exciaim
sssnst i'll Some day We shall want TO pump out our
havs and rivers and live on the bottoms OF them for
.sssuauoe az the Dutch live In their polders or ex-
hsnsted lakes winch the windmils have pumped
6rv. have great respect for Dutchman. because
Ia NEW tie 6rst tulips and began the CULTURE
of flowers When 20 into Wallet. about the time
of the last call OF stocks, with parcel OF dinner
bouuueta feel a. IL had right there. because
the frat great speculation in the world was not In
shares but in flowers. The tulip was brought from
Smyrna to Holland in 1900; nine years afterward
the bank of Amsterdam was created. the hrst norm
Of the Alps In Europe; and soon afterwaro sne
tulipomania broke out. and taught Europe now 20
sueculate. Said yesterday TO o broker-his nsme'
/ think. was Roosevelt" Boss. you ought 10 pun
thin IN the ornamentation Of the new Stock Ex-
change"
1.-TWO WHAT" said he.
.Don,t cat mad about it," said l." tulips dare
aay you've often gone 'em two betterl III IL nadh
been for the tulips you couldn't sell your seat In the
Exchange to day for $4,000. You wouldn't nave
had any seat may be- not to your pantaloons. You're
nothing but flower. anyway"
He looked ut me as If l was lunato.
"Now." said ], "Mr. Roosevelt. your family
raised flowers for men in my business. Yes. SIT;
johnny Bouquet was merchant when you was
gardener. Your name means Rose-bed-rose held |;
for the reldt of the Dutch the field. and in the
the bed.
rose garden again. Mr. Blauvet. your neighbor,
was the buc-fieId he kept violet patch. In those
days, III, growing flowers and selling them to the
world, aud specializing in them, was the passion OF
princes and the glory of the Dutch"
Johnny" said he, why don't you hire hall
III take this here big rooster OF bouquet however,
end hear little more of it. Now, you don't mean
to tell me that the flower market preceded the stock
marketi"
"Yes Sir, beg an it, too. 1t wasn't till they got
Dutchman King of England that the Bank OF Eng
land was chartered. New-Amsterdam was twenty
five years Dutch settlement doing we'll in the fur
business when the tulip-o mania broke out In old
Amsterdam on account of the wealth of the country
tho luxury of the people, and their taste and passion
for flowers, which their merchant sailors had COL
locted in every quarter of the world from Persia 20
Brazil They were grown on the decks of the canal
boats, planted In Prince Maurice's palace windows,
sended by Grotius IN his Punishment, and watered
by Zachary Jansen while he was inventing the tel
tacope to sweep the rose fields of heaven. Tho
tulip exceled every flower in Holland In bloom
bod dye; it was the flower OF men-bold for
ward and erect rising tall aud independent upon It's
stem Ike race-horse in its stall or game chicken
which Command fancy prices to this day. and why
not game flower too. that can outbloom the no.
best or tell lady. when sent to her the bold hopes
Of its possessors
This last passion in rich mems souls to gamble
IN things of Salue broke out in Amsterdam in the
year 1887 and ragged for years. over tulips, Of which
there were terty species-a good long stock list 70
call over every day Ten millions of gudars repre-
ssnted the SPECULATION, or nearly $4,000 OO tossed
dsily up aad down. tulip rose to the price of
1000. orsx times the value Of the greatest shar
On the stock list now and the mere "cats and dogs
II tulips brought $50 piece. Women and the clergy
-snd gnAat Admiras like Pet Heya-who
bad taken the Spanish treasure fleet with
6,0A60O0 silver dollars board-aud great ladies
like the Archduchess Isabella and foreigners like
Rchelieu aud Gustavus Adolpbus, sent their orders
fer tulips and the brokers skipped lively you bet
He was the richest man whose tulips were numbered
by the thousand and he tue poorest whose posses
esons were barren of bright flowers for all rich
Aaral inroductions shared in the generous emotion
~-hyaclntns, CarnatiVus uanidS, iosoo. n einRio
bulb once bulled' up to 10000 forms. was bought
by partnership. and stocked like mine or rail-
road and contracts to deliver tulips never yet pro-
<uced or SEEM were sold like calls and puts. while
the aggregate daily dealings often Outran all the
bulbs in Holland 1t was the rising of civil
iEstiOn aud the appreciation Of beauty IN free
hearted people with generous instinct for competi-
ton. No superstitous Spanish Netberiander shared
1t IN the neighbOrng subjected provinces. and
though it ruined some and wasted Others it bespoke
the amusement of q brave. ideal, wealthy race,
whose children inhabit the shores Of the Hudson,
and have made the Western wilderness to bloom.
Yes, MIR. Roosevelt, we get our sentiment from our
Dutch tulip progenitors."
Get hisp
, "Obi he has got it, though it was suppressed in
tho family hundred years or 80. Vanderbilt means
tAs-man on the-bildt. the knol-the sandhill-a
capital place to raise roses"
IL thought it meant blk" said Mr. Roosevelt.
Who had been bearing telegraph stock and felt sOur
"but o. he has bought houseful Of pictures. mil
Non or So suppose he might like tulips and posies.
But am opposed, Johnny. to putting tulips In tho
architecture Of she Stock Exchange. 1t will en-
courage women coming down hero TO speculate, and
bouauet men to come In during business hours.
md" ~
took the hint and saw had made the mistake
again Of oonsortng Intelligence with poverty. which
everybody rssents.
81. JOHNS GUILD BALI.
Ny time Of day. a. Patrick has said. is night. and
especially Q ball night went to the Martha Wash
sugtOn reception last Wednesday with basket Of
Aower and leaving my assistants to sell them. took
seat 10 the circle and saw the ladies entcr for two
hours or from to II, when tho ball opened. Never
hsve been 20 struck with the tendency to paIu-
dressing and simple tasteful jewelry. The STYLE OF
republican France. when Josephine was still young
and Hortense o little Miss. appeared to be revived
In the gowns. worn generally without oorsets and
vrsnned across the bust in two smooth folds and