New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-14
TORN TAXA.


.rRsoEAL AND PRACTICAL
LAWYERS AxBrIos. David Dudley Field ID often
called an intensely selfish He has, however, srons
domestic incinations and habits. and is Of . hos.
pitable disposition His modest little home In Paraye
Ia picture of comfort ard literary e.Jsyaat. 10 OF
the bookcases in the small recepton-room which Mr.
Field uses 40 "study" Ia haif-aIed with various ed
tons Of the different codes OF which he has been tue
chief compiler under the authority Of the Legislature OF
this State Some of them he has had the qualification Of
seeing become law substantially ss he constructed them
But the one which he considers the greatest OF ALL the
one on which he expects his reputation chiefly rest
the Civil Codels left hangngi the air by each sucees
i've Legsatnre or M has twice happened is dropped
out of sight by the Governors veto If he could that
enacted into law he would be content to Lay aside
Iabors He never tires OF talking to any appreciavs
listener upon the subject He knows that the Ables
maturest and most influential lawyers OF the State
opposed to this scheme of OF the come
law and so he turns the younger generation Of law
vera where his chief strength now iieA But the c1vi
Code grown In favor faster In the future tnan has
during the last ten years, Mr. Field VIII nave 70 hvea
generation longer and pass his hundredfh year before
be sees the udlment of his ambition; or else no VIII
have the enactment OF the the race
Of the opposition OF the legal profession
Too BIG A SCHEME FOR SUCCESS. Joseph Broeka OF
Brooks Dickson returned from Europe on sunday,
Of friends the wonderful attractions which he had
for the Standard Theatre for next season. These
were 30 many and SO marvellous that 1t Ia imprudent
state them In Mr. Brooks's enthusiastic terms ON Mr.
Brooks's unsupported authority. Mr. BROOKS Is recos
nzed generally by the profession Is one OF the most
superbly built as far physique 10 concerned and one
of the most refined elegant In expression OF all our
but few sceptieal persons in the profession
refuse to credit all he says about his own enterprises
But they accept without question anything he saysh
of other peoples enterprises In which he
is not interested He telling Edward H. Gilmore,
of Nblos Garden. about the ballet spectacle o Excel
sIor' which he had seen at the Eden Theatre, Paris
Three hundred dancers" he said. on the stage vt
time on raised PLATFORMS reaching from the footghs
To the ton of the stage at the backs four premier dan
senses twenty changes of scenery five hundred people
I'm the piece including OF the cast all ballet
might saw but too big thing for this country would
have brought 1t but really it's too Dig Tor THIS
country Why's" Gilmore asked. Oh. the Standard
isn't big enough to produce it." "And the Standards
your idea OF big theatre r. said Gilmore. Why Tn.
advertising 1t for Nblos for August next with the
Eden premIers and sixty other dancers" Mr. Brooks
was equal the oeeason he grows greater as obstacles
ipterpose But it can't be In this city, no
said, at Is an iapossibility." Why T. demanded
Gilmore when we've got the people and scenery
and effects Why Because you haven't got 1t for Your
theatre ~ "Oh! no. replied the impertLrbable Brooke
Then why F'thuudered fillmore. Because you haven't
got the bald head said Brooks retrestins for safety
EccyyrnycrrfEs OF REAL ESTATE OwSEaa- Architect
Wright who 10 something OF real estate agent in an h
regular of way. tells OF curious experience win
a real estate VINO has no property other than
some unim town ON which mortgages
have order to taxes and assessments
uptl IL is doubtful the has any equity remaining
He has mad repeated offers OF his own price for the lots
but he no sooner received one than he concluded that
4 fhn acHcr NJ WAr
| more to rim, and would raise his valuation IL has
been published that houses Nos 627 aud $40 Broadway
owned by seabury Brewster. have remained unrented
for twenty years because OF diosyncrasy OF the
owner Yet ft ia said that they could be rented for
| $50 600 year There must be mystery or legal
hiudrance at the bottom of such eccentricty.
| From DANCER TO sNGRR-Mlia. vanoni who has
suddenly developed considerable ability as singer and
who Is an opera boue OF the Aimee order was
formerly one Of the Zanfrctta sisters OF dancera sho
did not suspect vocal until about two years
ago. and began the study of music She conceais hef
identity nnder q name aud her forty-odi years
under skifu .makeups" which present her as quite
| young girl
| AyIxcyxrous ARGUMRST.-The details OF q covhiding
affair in which a young girl an old man and MS wife
| figured unpleasantly at Manhattan beaen
! formed the tonic Of conversation OF group
| or lacles ana gentieineh On ""'' ~"
ings since There was but one demurrer 10 tne
accented conclusion Of all who had read the account
without parties to the the young
woman was mo better than she ought to be- snd hat
she was served exactly right" conservative sort Oh
person held that the indicated that the young wo
man who was punished possibly the only innocens
one OF the three actors His argument was novel; tns
facts show" he said. e"that she was young cheerful
| behaving in q proper manner not concealng herse'f
from observation as abe feared publicity and that sas
exclaimed when struck: Il did not know he was mar
red The in any event was scamp; 10 nsa
deceived either the young woman or eold one or pon
and had probably imposed himself as sutor on tn'
! young woman The woman who did the whipping msS
have been the mans wife, but It Is clear sae was ho'
lady Aud the probability Is that she was not the man
wife for wives usually seek other means than pao'
ones to reclaim husbands who 20 astray" It was eh
planned when the group separated that this artia
logcian was a lawyer whose business 10 was 10 make