New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-19
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND.
rHE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD
WAY LnIrNGER.

would have been reduced. ana the President had pre-
pared paper revising the tariff systematically and said
that The greatest danger his Administration would en-
counter was the Indifference Of Congress to give financial
relief The President looSel upon the finances as the
backbone OF statecT and the close Of the war 10
the close Of his life made them his study The weakness
OF Garfield, his friend thinks was politician and poor
judge OF character
II that is Henry Wizards house in the Of tho Fifth
Aycnde Cathedral,-the stone cdicc which stands up
like lyceum atheneuIn. square and irn,-the be
holder conceiycs that the to leave 1t to
the city for library other purposes TO present 1t to
Columbia College which lies right By.
Mr. A. J. White has sold his residence in sixty
sevrnthst AMI while he IS building one at sixty
sxth-st and the Park will spend year in Europe with
his accomplished wife.
The Dakota family hotel on Eghth-ave. overlooking
the Park. built By the late Edward Clark, throw
ing mp It's lofty roofs and gables. white Ike its walls and
is the one effective object along the Park side This
building is the chief visible monument OF both Clark
and Singer. Mr. William Ward the banker told me that
he could once have bought half Of Singers patent for
$500 at the time the inventors family in starving
condition on Fourth-ayc near Twenty e!ghths st.
The Aston Library has remarkably improved in facill-
ties and attention since the extension the north and
IaHSrhl nueN o. latc DOCKS, on tic ciIu pIn' -
sweet boom Yet, with all the wealth Of New-Gork. how
few sights 1t has. Many night citizen looks the
stale theatre st AMI wonders where he IS - Some
OF best institutions are wul in restraints and
hours like the Leuox Library and the Historical Society
others like the Metropolitan Museum, are far ont Of the
way. The most cosmopolitan yet American amusement
ever provided here was the circus races at Gilmores
Garden with ten Thousand spectators.
The Brooklyn Bridge is looking much like completion
Costly has BEEN bat conceive the expense 81
condemned property dense commercial quarter to he
not Justly chargeable to the construction account TIE
like OF this bridge the world has probably mover seen IN
bodncss, difficulties and beauty Ii has cost e3' than
the railroad to Chattanooga built 10y and from tie city
Of Cincinnati. AMI it connects million people with
million ana half in perpetual relations day and night
and Il 1t will have the luck OF Rocbllngs other bridges
shoulI be in Embarrassed utility far into TIE coming
century.
Docs anybody ever go to visit the dead in tbs most
Mundane townl where are the dead DO we know
acting this game Of lie bEsiiyl Think OF city when
has q river wider than the Styx. stornner than The
Hclcspont between IL ana Us burial grounds! In old
years the cemeteries were places Of resort, not TN
plcasurahly since they had many n worldly tale and
ass0 .i1sn tell upon t1er hcaa,t0ne7 md scGtErcd
forms and people walked backward into earlier life rs
IN" memory Weakened to IeNyn- names Greenwood Is Il
Westminster Abbey TO those who revere tie civil EcFoes
Of this mart. How many know that DE Witt Clinton the
author OF the rc Canal that yesterday made free
lies there under a st1tucl There also rest oar old
Mayors our once bellies noble OH race G! chant
importers. There is Tweed too
Tweed told re the one Only time ever talked with
him that civil service reform was the only salvation
for american politics, and especially for this city IL
was in Ludlow Street Jail 10. long before he died
think he never talked the pab.c bG that once after
the Government brought hin Eon" from Spain. lie
said: We were - extended through tho hosts OF
Larcs had tn carry on oar salary lit, that 1t was
only % question OF time when sholld be wound ap or
ill., city bamkruptad" he said that Judge George Bar
uIr was fool enough believe that il he PM an mi unc-
ton On thu ling Controller IL woaM make him GOV
ernor. There is way" -aid Tweed 20 prevent my
tcnpta:on AID fate being that ~ successors but to
take hs patronage out Of poiitics.' The very "eVll
seemed 20 have arisen TO prove the GospeAs'
Nv coal dealer came in yesterday AM said: Well is
coal upi" Il is sir; that which yon bought ia Srp'cn-
Der for - 30 aud - - t1n l. now - 20 and mp
ward" Why Is thatlr Monopoly. | expect SIR.
Indeed there is why. with the present !"ci
ties and competition We should hot have coal UNIFORM at
- the ton IN nu weathorse and I suppose that j;
costs much more TO those who buy IN small quaint
tiea!" Yes it costs - a ton eol IN the bag 81 t2Ety
uoualsO- say % cents bag; AMI those who bay II IL
the very small pay $40 ton; hat j., they pay 80 cents
,)-cal.d busl,l which is really but two peckS- Too
often buying il 80 Is sheer laziness to 60 INTO the
cclnr"
Meeting the Hon. T. p Flower on the Avenue Thurs
day be said The stalwarts here arc saying mat th'y
don't Ike sundd ,'-Schou politics. We'll s'o' many
Of their voters DO Up in my old county e. - Lawrence
1000 Republicans stayed ~ home Oceans" tH'f' WIS"
,,,r.,i -r,i.,,-.c,o p,'ii;.s in their party 20 sgt
them Tn Republican party has pleuy OF sentiment N
It and maintains its high notions 20 the last I'.
Flower said he hal Suggested TO raise T'o"oooo %"
wEi,lcy for the purpose OF paying pu>I0s and j." ne
rest OF tie internal revenue ystcm 20
discover rs 20 up anil down Tie world that thrre
are ist ti,rcc hopeful clusters OF Democrats wooin@ Ac
ic,c. the Cleveland .c the Hayaril set and Pen