New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-03

OF Wilmington Is said TO have the matter IN chaFge
The Dupont family has much better origin ID fI'ncc.
than many more Wanted American fauihes " iDieis
saws I'm the first chapter Of his History or the Frch
Revolution The opposition secretly directed ~
Dupont young man gifted with "a capacl0hs MN" al"
po.sessd Of great rmness and perseverance, who alone
uerhaps amidst the present troubles hada i"'ue ia
view and designed 10 lead his class the C0nr' ana TUG
Nation to an end very different from parliamentary
nristocmcy This just before the Gaining ol W"
National Assembly. As the Revolution progressed me
SONS Of this Dupont became alarmed and started to tDe
United states to engage IN the manufacture of gun
powder, IN which they had much skill
Tncv bought tract ~ land between the brudy'vine
Creek and the Delaware River IN the vicinity oi the
rising town 81 Wilmington, and when they were well
established their father ont and lived with peh
some years or from 1873 to 1902 when he returned 70
France and took q position in the Government, but
finding that Napoleon had again landed In the kingdom
he resolved to live in h. native country again
and came over Delaware and there died about l-l1
M the age OF seveny-nne This Dupont wss called Dc
Ne,,ors 10 distinguish him from Dupont Dc Feure he
was an assistant Of Tureot the great conservative genius
OF France IN state,mansLip, and SC Is said drew the
draft Of treaty by which England recognized the IN
dependence OF America.
TIE Duponts. generally maintaining superior social
selfestcem their plain Quaker manufacturer neigh
bors have yet made marriages among The respectable
people OF Delaware and have and then contributed
scion 20 the Army and Navy. They hnye generally
been Wings Republicans. amt after John NJ Clayton
the Cabinet he wrote to his successor crtieden
a warm appeal TO put Dupont in foreign position
Wilmington attracted through this family many dstin-
e1ished French exiles such Marshal Groucby; and
Wolfe Tone who held French military commission also
lived there. During the yellow fever In Philadelphia az
the close Of the last century, Wilmington was full Of
Government officials. and real mobiles Of the cd
regime had engage I'm school teaching III tha hesh-
borhood and suffered the greatest pri'ations
sam " wnkeson whose brief publisher
has been revived by MA suit against Mr. Bcccher + said
to have author OF the phrase: national deot
Il national blessing" printed when he was IN jay
Cookies employ about 1872. He and the present sec
Rotary Chandler the two agents 10 obtain the ad-
grants and general concessions for he Northern Pacihc
Railroad and have them many time with their
heads together In the restaurant ~ Congress or some
friendly committee room as, at different Stages oi tue
legislation they required. obstacle or enemy inter-
yened and dashed their hopes. The passing ~ the pl
finally was the greatest political event IN the history OF
Mime sota and established M Window IN the political
and social hold he has retained but Il brought
down the hospitabe fortune Of Mr. Cooke forced MN
10 SCI his mansion and the tombs Of his parents whom
be- had removed and yet did not break his heart since
he has made another respectable fortune and think
has recovered the family seat
Jay Cooke now has a considerable railroad and iron
interest ia the Cumberland Valley His brother Henry
d. Cooke VINO was the factor to bring jay Cooke and
Secretary Chase together never recovered us Ah'II
status however and died nc Georgetown IN sight 81 the
foundations OF a plendid home he had aiL which was
never finished and tie materials ~ which have since
been sold The last time Pitt Cooke. another OF
the brothers, he was back in -andusky where they all
originated striving again by various minor enter
prsc. and think he also Ucd before his Visions were
| realized.
! Inv Cooke never nanrl,hcd vindctivcne-s. notwh-
standing many haunting things that were said OF him,
and tEc havoc that was made with lis vrnc'iy fortune.
Tie coutnu,e Doe hopeful am.ab.e, with steady habits
and exercising the kind moral influence and generosity
which were often imposed upon but never cTiclfed I'D
! him.
Andy was recently telling that ore Of our w'I-
known bankers who created and sold to great advantage
railroad in tie West became 80 Der'ous before the Lo
was achieved that he could not sleep at nights Another
! persou engaged in the same enterprise remarked;
Whom made the sale OF that road drew long breath
as il had pulled needle out OF my neck which was
percng To the spinal marrow" Mr. Gould remarked %
one Of these gentlemen hear when they nSed costly
figure on the road Well shall be able to huy "a
good deal lower that after awhile He would nave
been correct in this surmse but for the peculiar rela-
tiou that tho road stood in contemplated and advanc
u coincident schemes which Il was necessary Tor Ger
tain old vested interests TO discourage and therefore
they took the link Of the middle ~ an army having
passed oyera bridge lifts up the pans and stops pur-
| suit from the other side.
was riding 10 phia long when passing
a little junction village called Metuchen, gentleman
! said: Mr. Alden. the managing editor OF HdrP@S
! Eouthh, lives in this little town inquired Where
Mr. Day, now lived the rapid and useful artist NJ Iar-
-rf,., c.g1- lInf g.
M Pathway and was told that he now owned IA cottage
and large studio ASbury Park. whore he works the
! wear round NJ Curtis has had his home Tor many
years on staten Island. with an alternate residence IN
New England for the summer MI Conant' me ""iA-
lnc OR on HdpeS Wee Ely has always lived IN BROOK
lr Tom Mast stIl holds his old residence 90 Nor
r,town y j. aud one o. his friends made this criticism
unon him: lie victim to the social tendrs thrown
| around hin during Grants Administration ~ ihe
| 300 faction and TO the corresponding ambition 20 De
consistent Therefore he has repOsed his reputation
ON matters Of the past instead OF the moral issues OF the
r, which he might Illustrate with all his old vim
he had any sympathy with them. but It now looks as II
| he would not advance beyond the track he made be-
| tween lsGs and l912'
! spco,in, OF Illustrated papers. a gossip remarked
,bout the profitable publication. PUck that seemed %
be "A failure 10 projectors until after the death ot
| Nadam' Resteu, cartoon appeared III II, STRIKING
| the risibltes OF the local population 81 New
| York, which gave It impetus that encouraged
the publ her. and working on that side OF events
and dropping con,eryatisms OF any kind. 1t b'came tho
first important success among our American humorous
| serials.
hotel keeper whose house bears n royal namo. lately
said to me: admit the justice OF the criticism That our
American hotels borrow their names from foreign ars-
tocrto families but it Is difficult in this country To
strke any patriotic which has not been n|ed oy
| some small minor concern" well sald l. u"'' n"'
tbt pr,ve that pariotsm IS strongest among the plain
classes and that they are not apHg these London and
Paris sound.i" We'll said the hotel proprietor give