New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-22
tenance and trottng his foot sing to the tune OF COCO
Methodist hymn:
If they didn't go way
They couldn't come back
If they didn't go way
They couldn't come baost

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feet high You put the dome or the American Up
al RIGHT H. and the head Of the Goddess Oh
Liberty cannot KISS its ba-neystone The WashhgVo"
Monument, which is c75 fee; high, bear VIII iio'
rise to its roadbed by whole story the niagara BUS
pension Bridge Is fifty feet lower to the water pehe1
and its spun IS 1927 feet shorter than this prius'
which measures 2O52 feet, yet weighs only three million
md half pounds not counting the ties Gnd wooden
rails Yet It cost only s275. 0O0 about cents pr
round mean the Kinzua viGduct bridge on the Brau-
ford and Pr sburg branch OF the Erie Railroad span
ming gorge in the Allegheny Mountains where IonS
deour and heavy grades would be the alternative Inc
Kinzua Creek rises snail mountain village
called Alton aud soon becomes q deep. broad
gorge In whose opening the autumn woods slowed iOr
the space OF miles like basket OF golden io"ers
and deep green leaves. The bridge s Of Hight IRON
towers Ike the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad
above the Park, each made OF four slender props ana
the highest these ten times russed or gr
derod and forty such supports on each sde OF
twenty pairs twenty thus rising Ike lace OF
cobwcb against the zenith itself and the central towers
have spread Of One-thrd Of the height or IO3 leet
tread at the little creek below They Just aS light
and nearly four times high as the elevated railway
spars at observation-disclosures 'eventh-st
The Kinzua Creek, named above flows into the Ale
gheny River twenty miles westward. The reputation oil
this bridge which regular train has yet been
run is as great through Western New-YCrk as Niagara
been run it, while q coal company owning tract OF
poor coal land along railroad has been charging 90
toll for carriages through skirt OF beech
woods to the bridge and that exGcuOn PAID my
self The concern IL said to demand
near a thousand dollars IN acre for land commanding
view OF bridge. cs somebody might want 10 eFect
hotel there. The gorge very abrupt falling at an an
gle Of near forty live degrees into small, clear r, ana
great lodges Of limestone strew the slope The aout-
snts Of the bridge 0: solid blocks OF stone. near
twenty thick the structure leaps oil Ike iad
VEIL OF delicate yellow color, blowing from mullen
stalk 70 stalk. till tie eye dizzy seeing those poor
slim stalks sprout upon each other Ike Jacks bean
stalk and reach each other slender airy arms
and venture onward ike the tendrils OF BABEL
which were said TO watered by angels tears dropped
in compassion from the CLOUDS. These skeleton arms
rising ont Of the gulf Of VICE. touch with their pohy
finger tips the Jacobs ladder that lacks perspective IN
its almost perpendicular senblance and when wildcat
engine dart upon trcs and hOver over looks US
if crow dazzied ry the autumna foliage, had become
enamored of some rlnbows architecture and trembled
to ascend it.
Seeing the melancholy face Of Hamlet Dane
Hiscock at the Fifth Avenue Hotel during the week. me
thought he and George Bliss ongIt to wre5te With
each other for the honor OF having oyerrued the reo
ganization the Republican party in this city year
ago-a failure which has been followed by the lnDecl-
ity which always attends civilization by loot. The little
City can find Mayor fit to be who VIII recognize
them.
Lord Conkling carrying hist own grp-sack, sailed
down Twenty-ihrdst Friday, as il TO announce to
the world that Arthur Johnson Of Utica, was out OF
job.
Senator Cameron says that Civil Service reform VIII
put only the sons the rich in the cerEshiFs but Cap
tain watmough OF Cleveland. tells that the English
tI,aJ anita NJ
and put in the SOILS OF cosermOngers and mechanics
Its right funny says my ST. Louis acquaintance. to
see the bar association there denouncns the use OF
tantalizing matorin the press when 1t was lawyers
card about another lawyer which impelled sayback to
go and whip not the other lawyer. but the snDedtor
The bold confederate always for somebody he can
safely whip, but sometimes is mistaken"
Speaking to a Republican merchant yesterday, he
sad: AIN so Disguised with the State ticket that
shall not vote at all, but | am In
censed that the citizens movement mas
zzled out because there such interests at stake III
this city above all party considerations that wonder
why men having the least responsibility could allow this
Democratic ticket go through. Admitting that Ed
son is a oieraJly good what is to be said OF any
body else Oh tae ticket low rumsel!er is to become
the County Clerk sherifs officer who has had charge
OF this brutal system OF secret arrests Is to become the
Sheriff. and we are To make two Judges Tor fourteen
wears at $4,000 a year, giving them the citadel
Of last resort in private and property rights
when neither man has adequate respect where
he jekuown. O'GOnnan, several years ago, was
elected to an important leading office, and he
went over Tweed and smiled on the dcbauchery otha
time As for that fellow IngTaham. tits public opinion
H. re that when Barnard and ca doz) were dumped PACK
into the ditch h- father ought TO have gone with them
Go into that Board OF Aldermen" said the merchant
90 land tel me
set Of mugs 10 represent city OF these
promotions Strangers here and sheer at u.s. ana
they get their ideas OF American Government largely
from New York city. 1 suspect the reason why the
citizens movement failed was that there
were some fellows in 1t like Mayor
Grace. trying TO gind their private 1t was the
easiest thing in the world to have elected man Ike
Allan Campbell Mayor, because al the better class OF
Democrats would have voted for hun; above inc
downtown wards this regular ticket would have re-
ccived no Democratic votes az all 10 speak or AT
trbnte hall our mseres in the Republican party to the
fix President Arthur has left il in in this city with LOT
OF Irish boys Of Twccds pattern to run It, who
have no interest in seeing men too lofty for them IN
these iportant places" "And whom are they going to
rive us for congressman" continued the gentleman
Why ND in Astors district they are asking Enstein
TO run, and over in McCook's district,
man they could easily have reelected-they are
10 put in nomination unknown character by the name
OF John Watts Russell, and when his name Is mentoneu
to any Republican up here, they say John Whatshis-
name and begin to look blue around the gills. AL
concluded my friend "n we had somebody
here like Mayor Low. in Brooklyn! Why
don't see how it possible under the organlLa-
ton they in Brooklyn. which stands to us arms al
the year round for any Owmnded local governmental
get in there again; but OF these judges and semi
legal officers they are making in NewYO-k will 20 out at
the end Of a vigilance committee, perhaps"
John r. Mclean, OF Cincinnati, the most driving
editor in the West said last week: "There Is no donD
Blaine the fayOrite Of the Republican voters III
the West looks very If he going to have