New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-02
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS, THE COUNTRY ROUND.
THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF A BROAD

TRAN washington, an heroic Washington. heroic statues
OF FRANKLIN, Webster and Seward, Lincoln Lafayette
FmraguI Shakespeare, nearly colossal Burns and Sill
walter scott Fitz-Greene Halleck, Alexander Hamilton
Morse Commodore Vanderbilt and large door busti
OF Mazzini Bryant Humboldt Goethe Schiller and Tom
moore There Is monument TO the volunteer soldiers
and ancfu statuary Of the Faconer the Angel the
dlah hunter, Insurance, etc. Brooklyn has Lincoln
Fulton busts OF Irving and Moore and much cemetery
sfauary Proper subjects for other statues in NewYOrS
would De Columbus Hudson DE Witt Clinton, and Crom-
well. The New-England element has already agitated
Tor ,he latter subject There exists I'm England only
one statue OF Cromwell and that is the gift of lady to
the CITY OF Manchester magnificent monument TO
washington Is soon to be erected In Philadelphia costly
monument to Garfield in Cincinnati statue OF Garfield
in Washington and of General Reynolds in Philadelphia
The BarthOd statue of Freedom Bedoes Island will
be matched by few monuments In the world. by the
Arch OF the Star in Paris and the Prince Albert m0nu
ment In London. American portrait sculpture is not
surpassed In grace and expression by any Northern
ton.
General Graham, the Surveyor and Navy officer is a
son Of David Graham, who was a New-York lawyer from
the North Of Ireland and had four sons all men OF prom
nencc: David. who wrote q law code before he was
twenty one years old; John. the criminal lawyer who
defended sicklcs,' Eckcls and Netherlands Dewitt and
the General The latter was in the Mexican war az Il
mldshipman
The banner district of the Republican party in the late
election was the XIIth General Arson McCOok prom
inently contributed TO the election OF Mr. Gibbs
State Senate and the satisfaction the former gave when
In Congress IS again a subject of discussion.
The recent election of directors in the Erie Railroad
substituted James ID. Fish for the late Governor Morgan
Mr. Fshs bank ia the depository and cashier OF the Erie
Railroad and his private partner, Mr. Ferdinand Ward
Is the broker and fiscal negotiaor of Erie securities
Lire "a am informed at the Gnscy stand, sells
nearly mp 10 Puck and retains quiet style OF waggery
nearly like refinement Mr. Thomas Mast is but little
heard from in these days.
The Mann boudoir cars the first OF which came ont Of
the Troy shops last week. TO be particularly offered to
travelling theatrical companies. Ipaid $ls TO 20 in
from Dresden to Vienna, which is merely "A nights Jour
ney, but there the absurd classification Of travellers di
rccy operates against sleeping they held to
be better than the hrstclass carriages and therefore
must charge nifty per cont above 1rst-class fare.
The street rumOr is that the Pennsylvania Railroad as
we'll n the Grand Trunk ia looking toward the lease OF
the West shore Railroad The Pennsylvania has Justlca
ton In taking this road since It's territory has been
entered by the Vanderblt-GOwen combination It IS
extending ia Belydcro line from EastOn 10 the Lacka
wanna road and TO Cornwall on the Hudson and parallel
ing the Reading Railroad up the schuylkil Valley 10
Reading and tine coal regions The low fixed charges on
the West Shore Railroad make the property tempting
20 organization which for precision and enghten
menthas rival in this country unesst be in OF the
great roads NJ the We-t like the Burlington and Pacific
Possessing. however, it, line TO Buffalo via Will
Transport. the chief induccmcnt 10 enter the Hudson
River really would De vengeance.
am told that the Atlantic and Pncfc Railroad, other
wise the ~ Louis and Francisco Is not acquired by
the Huntington system, nut is free 10 make its
rccr.
Come time ago rimors existed that General Grant had
lost money In the Louisville and Nashville Railroad The
facts that General Grant bought 900 shares par
on the advice Of Mr.. Victor Newcombc. The stock de
cucd Ia s. involving loss of, say sea- 900. Mr. New
sent word the stock o.hIm and he gave
his check FOR the full amount of the investment
Louisiana gentleman, creole by several generations.
said to nc during the week: Among the old French
families Mr. Cables stories and novels are not regarded
- successfully portraying the inner motive and char
actcr ~ our people He them externally only, sub
stutos gaudy pencil for the scalpel Is Puritan in his
motives and docs not penetrate to the core Of our life
We affect him like a race OF monkeys in some gtterng
tropical forest That not the life OF men like Audi
bon. Morphy and Bcauregard II you read Manon Les
can't which 4, story partly laid In louisiana and ia
French classic. by the Abbc Provost. You will find
serenity aud peace altogether different from the
chatter and stunning vivacy Of the Puritan gentleman
who has 80 recently discovered us"
The Hon. Stewart L. Woodford. with Judge ArnouN
and other partner. and assistants make busy colony
NJ lawyers In the stevens building Waist, which ia
the property Of Mrs. Frederick stevens, who re
Gently sold her Belgian Ike villa near the
park gate General wuudforI WIS prisoner of I'm
The Libby Jail and highly spoken Of by his associates
there for temper and thoughtful poteness His
oratorical faculty i sometimes grdsingy
spoken o In this quarter bnt 1t has accomplished more
han any public speaking snG the In the campaign
u 1879 In Ohio when the Republicans, still suffering
rom panic aud stagnatiUn were at loss for IDEAS or
policy Mr. Woodforl began "a discuss the currency and
he money basis. ITewas the first person after Garfield
o take 1t up. Mr. Sherman had not uniformly advanced
he topic 10 the front. WoodforI's meetings were the
,cs attended the state the campaign turned on that
dca Hayc. elected. and II gave him the Presidential
Judge IToadly spoke to during the week very |
highly Of Justice Harlan Of the Supreme Court especially
or his opinion the Virginia bond case. He referred
nj very respectful terms 10 Robert Lincoln hat cN-
re s-Cd TIE view tha, he would not get the opportunity
De nominated for President, would any person on
he Supreme Bench any more than the late judge Me
can whose friends worked for years In that direction.
IT, IIoally said that hi4 election was due 10 the
liquor question, especially 10 the mcnaclnS vote for
Prohibition. which ISSUE no said would not tmnpuillnc
= Il In the brains OF large Republican contingent
nd the Prohibition candidate had once received
O. 600 votes lie said that tho Republican party was
oxcrful organization and recupcratve but that the
uran and the worldly wings OF 1t could no more agree
han the Prcsbytcrlans and Indepc ndcnt, under the
.ong Parliament
Tho two miles Of railroad from the Bergen cut TO
Hack Tom Island were leased from the National storage
onpany by the Pennsylvania Railroad last week. Mr..
harcs Sterling Of this company, IS building residence
I Orange, y. j.
Why Is the difference in financial resources so great
rtween 1873 ana 1881 In the former year we could
NJ take the bonds OF almost the only important enter