New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-10
BROADWAY NOTE BOOK.
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sx,v pvxsox.I NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD
WAY LoUNGER.
HaverIy's failure is a warning to theatrical
..,r,stora The drama has its unities OF management
A. we'll a. Of composition, and the vulgar cohuiec'
vb,oh would monopozs all the humors ana ndividua'
,ty on the stage s worse than the Russian censorship
mich would prune them He who wished the woric
h.s bu one head so he could cut 1t on named Nero
what shall he be naued who wishes the world to nave
but ono laugh and he to farm 1t out
Colonel Thomas w. Knox, who has been going TO Eu
rome every for year, that on the whoe nc
enjoys life on this side the bsst living and society nav
ing developed ageeably His pocket guido 10 Europe
win be supplemented soon by guide around the world
,h frat careful study for the needs OF the enargns
number of cosmopolitan travellers who have long ago
exhausted Europe and turn 10 JAPAN China and the
South Seas for study and recreation. was speaking
yesterday to gentleman who has lived IN the west in
dies several seasons about tho facilities Tor tourists
there especially In the winter He says that nie is
ceedingly dull not only In the islands, Havana except
ed, but ON the Spanish main, and that an American
traveller would soon feel that he had
sacrifced himself he lay over TUG
long time between steamers at even such centres OF
creole life as Martinique Guadelonpe he say 'aa
Nassau is the best place winter and derives "
from the Americans congregated there.
,ok compspies suggests that many such persons exist
An New-York some OF them never brought INTO court
Who have yet extracted large OF money at dnereh
times from connding fellow-operators Inc same dsh
onstion TO prosecute exists In these chance matters IS
I'm games OF cards where may feel certain tnat ne
has been robbed, yet may not Know NO"
70 prove it, or may shrink from informing
mon himself The motto of this kind Of
sharper is invariably: go for your friends and enlarge
your acquaintance and, you extend It, take others
In" For some time these schemes, whether mining
or grazing Spanish grants, were hoated through the
small country banks whose officers or directors Knew
from the deposits what had idle money and were
waiting for profitable openings In time the losses In
the rura joooery there
and next trading began right In this where there are
always found numbers OF willing TO invest at the
present low rates OF interest and fortunate at making
turn These beug cheated in some worthless stock De-
rome desperate 10 put 1t on on their inenas
ana thus the radius Of victims enarges and RESPONSE
bity goes beyond the original seducer who can hardly
be found In the Of fraud more than the org
nal "neede Patent rights, of which there are many
Of great mert also been profitable that there
are bogus operators that field. The OF the
telephone and OF the earliest electric light companies,
And OF competing telegraph lines and the ors OF large
made by few persons who took stock on the
ground floor" us 1t 10 called enhanced the efforts OF
sogues to come In with companies where there was
our railway system and the employment of improved
brakes wheels springs, platforms signals etc, brought
in numbers OF operators, who nothing about the
subject in hand. 80 1t is tempting one
frequently fraudulent stock is sold on
what called guarantee with the promise to take 1t
back If returned within reasonable time. 1t Is some
times taken back where the investor has worldly forces
and might make an example OF the offenders. These
sch mes however, whose industrial relation makes them
seem respectable are confined to NewYork but in
London and Berlin have long exploited; indeed, over
since beginning of the railroad age. The free habits
Of people give free into speculative society Of
plausible and baseless scamps some OF
whom have already made considerable money and pos
sess the means to defend themselves legally II pros
ecuted, or even to prosecute in turn Tho law
itself Is fruitful resort Of certain kinds
Of jobbers who solicit opportunities TO
harass people with suits, taking the chances OF com
promise and perhsps employing some brace Of attorneys
by the year, who divide possible damages with them.
Mr. r. T. Merrick who has been making fierce speech
IN the Star for the Government belongs
family old counties of Maryland In which
least two brothers have become distinguished at the
bar MerTick went TO Chicago In the time Of Douglas
and became Northern Illinois of rival Of John
A. Logan as Douglas oratorical lieutenant When the
sectional rupture occurred, however, he orswore his
Northern alliances and returned to the District of Coum
ba where lie married the daughteriof J. c. MCGUIRE,
wealthy retired bookbinder and auctioneer, who had
been q patron Of many artists and had a house filed
with artistic things Mr. MCGUIRE thought much OF
his son-n-aw and took country scat on the Patapsco
with the idea that his might be sent to the Senate
Mr. Merrick has perhaps the largest practice in Wash
Ipgton City individually. He il quite out of poll
tics and has been considered as possible Attorney
General II the Democracy should come 10 power He
has large family of children and preserves his agile,
Gin tilant. singing temperament very well Iii sal
that desired counsel for Mrs surratt but
prevented by his fathern-iaw. though he afterward
ven, to the defence Of her son. Heis Roman Catho
lio
The posseSsors large cattle ranches the Govern
ment domain have boon stampeded within the last
fortnight by the that the Secretary OF the Interior
means to have the Attorney General prosecute all who
By false evidence Of other people have concentrated
large trac Of grazing lands under ownership the
Injury Of the public under the general homestead and
laws In Texas where the public domain be.
longs to the State Government these do not
apply but they most Of the country besides except
they Mexican grants, and these in many
believed to be fraudulent In the Indian Terri
tory also the Secretary Of the Interior has moved
herds Of cattle by private contracts
with the Indian nations who not allowed 10 deal In
that way with American citizens except with the ap
prevail Of the Department There are two classes OF
rogues figuring in these instances the first being the
rogue VINO has made the respass the public property
aud the other being the rogue who seeing to
have good thing, proposes to after him with the
Of the Government TO make him divide to
retain the second rogue to get out Of the trouble Nat
uray this city Is the headquarters OF all Glasses of
ranchsroe and most OF the successful keep accounts
In our banks
asking Edward NJ McCook recently
there were any good mines this country,
my question being based on the knowledge that
most Of the mines that had been pedded In stock here
had brought their buyers to grief He told me that
there were numbers of good mines privately held and
mentioned the Tombstone group In Arizona and another
series Of mines In that Territory which were giving out
several hundred thousand dollars per month He
said that toward Mexico the mines reliable
aan further north aud that sharp practice In mining
stocks could only arise from mining successes Tn