New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-16

might keep twenty per cent Of those no to TIA
present moment. That would give him majority az
forty thousand in the State Of NewYork But the in
slant that he becomes Presidential quantity men vii,
proceed to revise their estimate of him. He will thee
have stepped OF the modest 6le from which be "a
cended the Goyernorsp into the rank Of ambitions
men, and will be estimated according to the popular
conception of this great Office There soyeulv
qualities about him He is a Bohemian; he Is the Dam
ocratic Arthur. ALI night is only half night for him
when he feels like 1t.
1 find that there Is difference among New.YorS
matters about English hats Mr. Kuox under the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, goes to Europe every summer ana
the husband Of pshed concert singer Florence
Rice says that the British beat the American hs
he attributes it to tue absence of traies-unions Eur,
land whereby the best work obtained from mcenauic
He says the British labor both the lowcrowned hats
and the hgh-crowncd hats whether made Of silk or Of
WOOL systematic and careful aud that these hats win
from year to year. Mr. Meals says the British s
obsolete, heavy not ut for this climate for suy
good climate, aud that about all the British haters
know adapted to the present day is derived from tho
United States
The chair Mt. Mackaye has invented for theatresh
original than his doublefoored stage II consists
OF iron standard Of conca shape, hollow In front
which occupies perhaps three f0urnches at the base
each holds swivel seats when unoccupied
easels when required for they parallel to each
other and the seat drops and has brass or iron piece
under which makes the front support but the moment
the seat is pushed up this piece folds beneath It. Under
the seat is arrangement to put your hat In whichi
therefore, underneath you, crown DOWNWARD Behind
the seat lie wire arrangement in which the person sit
ting behind puts bis oyercoat At the corner Of the
standard is place for and umbrella. When the
people come into the theatre these seats oil folded
up and hence the parterre floor almost open "a
II there was nothing there at ALL aud 1t consists Of
series of aisles running In both directions with two
seats like saddIe-bags hung together at intervals.
Mr. Mackayes theatre.sea revoiutionzes sttinrs A.
completely as his stage revolutionized waiting for the
to be set He created stage where one
being set while the other was being played He has
created seat which, the moment an individual rses
FROM it, folds up into rack and affords through the
theatre engthwise and crosswse, broad open ases 20
that the people get out in case Of lire or riot
| panic almost easily they could
| ESCAPE through O corn-feld with the Indian
corn growing equidistanty dagonaly and tansvsrsey.
The seats normally folded up; when you need them
you take hold of the seat and SIT in it, and the back
| adjustable to any movement you make; you want to
have your knees far out aud the back accommodate
you; you put your feet up and there apaee
under the before you for that purpose you want to
sit straight up your feet under your seat and that
| Is also easy II you waiting and some late chap
arrives the theatre with his lady you stand up and
your seat springs vertically and gives broad aisleI
when intruder has passed you sit down, and every
| body is happy.
Some time ago was talking with Western orchestra
leader, modest with passion for music, and he
told ME that the rebel song Maryland, my Maryland"
had no tune of its own but had stolen very old Ger
man belonging to very dignied words he SAID
that Hail Columbia and 1.-THE Star spanged Banner"
| xere hot old and worn
AT Frederick City, Nd, Of the few towns in the
world when stand at the centre of fertile and
popuous country and yet not large. public GEM
e,ery on the turnpike to Washington cityi this cemetery
ia on the top OF hill and from It can be SEEM looking
toward Washington, the Sugar Loaf Mountain and Ito
accompanying range Toward the west can DO seen the
Catoctn Mountain, which rises nearly two thousand
feet In visible tue Linganore Hiip about
which O lady teaching q seminary at FREDERICK hM
written a poem much praised at Frederick Inc FRED
er1ck cemetery makes small pretensons out mas good
shade good paths and pleasant grass. II a man knew
that the author OF "The Star spanged Banner" was
buried there he would probably spend half day LOOKING
for his tomb. The tomb itself is mere slab two or three
feet high, inscribed:
Francis Scott Key.
| Born August 9. 1880.
| Died January IL. ls43.
Right beside this graYestone Is another simple Ike
Itself and probably worth at the present rate OF saen
graveones about 500 the lettering at so much etser
This second stone says
Mary Taylor Key
Il Born May 10Th, 1884
| Died May 18th 1859.
II therefore appears that Mr.. Key was about thirty
four years he wrote The star spangled bau
ner" His wife survived him sixteen years. ana oeo
five or SIX months before John Brown struck harper'
Ferry in the neighborRood OF her home
little I'm the rear of the tombs OF the elder Key anu
his wife is another small marble stone hardly taree ies'
high, carrying the inscription:
Francis Scott Key;
Boru October z. 1906.
| Died April 4, 1856.
This hear was the son Of the author OF "The st1
Spangled Banner"
Not far from the graves Of the Keys the coniedera"
Monument in marble, representing aperson OF non
descript character, bearded like the Confederate
who Is said in Frederick TO represent GeaeraiA 'e
| though others say 1t represents Generai 'aoA'0A
walked around il and could not determine tna' II op
scented an body except conventional wronsso"s A-
who chose uniform in poor taste, as MS principe'
in noorer taste This proyinclaooking person was cum
ousv noted beneath by some coat-of -arms anu LAIN
motto which suppose person about trcaericA Coz
understand unless he is priest OF the convent '"''
got cut of the buggy aud walked around ths
and all that could which touched my tas'e' A''
| TO say my sensiblities, was the following hnes'
| Their praises will he sung
| In some yet uumouded tongue,
| Far on In summers tlat We shall not see -.
Thought this was pretty good but tue great 'roaoN
in our day is to reconcile the sacrifices OF the
ate soldiers with anything that 10 In harmony VIZ .,
moderu sober train Of thought and common'eAss ..s
this world Men wno went to war because thsy nA'S.
n,ecers. and then endeavored TO elevate ther wa.
into constitutional struggle, and finally setteu wv.
70 make il sentimental struggle. may put w me-
ments but they will be perfectly unmeanihg' ike
stames of Irish overnors-General In ph@nA
The multitude will go by and ask; "Dd suon 49,,
ever rule Ireland Where Is his inhuencs ~ na,,ea
and nature of this peopei" The Rebellion in Ameiies
has no influence whatever except in the memory u as
fact that its sons were brave and the same eau W
| AZ rho pvasions of the Goths and the Huns.