New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-04
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND
ruE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD
WAY LOUNGER.

MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY hoCND'
THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD
WAY LoUNGER.
The mansion occupied by General liar
rison and built by him, at NincehneS' in"'
while tho Territorial Governor for hiteen years,
and in the grove OF which he heiu Vo'H."
with Tecumseh and was nearly murdered 10y
him and particularly called har,-Whch worn Is 'no
familiar harry of the under dogI last week. haf
mile out of town. the unimpressve but tawhy wa
bash TO which garden extends ana on tue oahRS e
old sycamore trees while the teIraced 'front.' !"iu mas
some oedars. The house is of brick painted gray TWO
stories high with a barge roof, in the END of which
only is dormer while four tall ohimneys rise from near
the caves height of The ridge. The shape OF the
house reminded OF that at arrsons Landing James
River where the General born, but 1t is smaller
say feet by 40with Office or architectural kc
the and shallow colOnnade or piazza between
Porches inclose the Doors the garden gable is rounded
or bayed Some natural timber is close by perhaps the
very trees Tccumsehs bullying warriors sat beneath on
benches day after day. the one-eycd prophet among
them like the seer among the wild Hghlanders Ana
Tecumsfh ia great warrior, rs the seer predicted
but IL Tecumseh Sherman and lac subducd the present
race Of the HaTIsons.
From what hear the Brighton Beach property next
gear Liable to be kept by Mr.. Breslin again The ex-
tensye additions and improvements designed by the
owners of that property cannot be finished next spring
and hence it will not be In condition to find lessee
who will buy Mr. Bresins furniture and he must thcre-
fore keep the hotel until the work is developed aud par
ties willing to lease just what they are gong TO
get. The improvements contemplate new IRON pier
where present wooden pier stands near the Brighton
property the removal of the depot in the rear OF the
hotel to the spot where small hotel stands little 10
the west.
Mr. Wilson Waddingham went ont of the city after
brief return He said that cattle raising I'm the
WcSf n1 nj interest the demand Tor
beef increasing with bcef-eatng like ours and the
demand from abroad never ceasng. His own company
called United States Raising Corporation, in
San Miguel County 100000 acres of ground. has
10000 head OF CATTLE selling for SIS apiece on the hoof
and pays 10 per cent on capital of S2.5Ooooo Only
Che four earold beef steers sold or the annual
profits would be greater
sign OF the times the considerable lumber Of girls
of moderately prosperous families leaving the public
schools to attend NewNork pay schools The improved
nature If the latter. their growing numbers ana not Ia
creasng of tuition and the crowded state of the
public schools partly account for the reaction u also
marks the thinning out Of the strictly middle cass OF
fainea IN this expensive city and the dawn of time
but yesterday predicted when the metropolis VIII bc III
habited only by the Independent and the poor The sem
marie, this city obtain the db Of girls from every
part Of the country and Chicago furnishes large CON
tngent.
The stouc used for the houses Of Cornelius and Will
lam X Vanderbilt. Fiftl-aye Ia!c gray, is guar
ied ia distant part Of Indiana
General Lewis Wallace our Minister t. Turkey Is
said to he the most successful writer of fiction
among Americans, his novels. The Fair God
and Ben Hur," having circulated 10000 10 $4,000
COPIES He is the son OF Governor Of Indiana West
Pointer and married sister of the wife of the Hon.
Henry 5. Lane. the first Republican Governor and SEN
ator OF Indiana Lane and others Of the family subbcd
bin till lie went out in the and rapidly advanced
when they glad to consider him. Ia each country
90 which he has been he has reared graceful mon
ument to his scholarship and imagination. dealing in
fiction sitl great national legends His FIST novel he
took the president Of college in his native state and
read part of it. asking for opinion upon bis probable
in that field the Old president listened sra'cy'
took of his sptUt~es and laid down the Opninn fr'y
ret oftly that Mr. Wallace had best abandon that field
at once. author did and only discoycr in
later period that his own ntuOns had been wiser than
a dull if venerable aud fhtherly critics. General
Wallace has received 10000 from OF his stories
Old men give too much advice for II all To bc sound.
Washington 1t is SAID dee ded that the Enc Cnnl
was not practicable Sam Houston thought Onc-ha tho
money Congress voted Morse to build the first tele
graph line ought 10 be devoted TO encourage Me>mesn
Cave Johnson Postmaster enera declined to bu? the
telegraph patents Government for 100000 on the
ground that 1t could not earn expenses. Ezra Cornell
spent thirds OF Mcrses appropriations laying the
first poor starveing telegraph underground instead Of
stretching it ike cothes- line. Timothy Howe sure
a 5O-cent tax whskey could not collectas much
81 tax. Seward thought 10000 men would put down
The Rebellion. The Old Baltimore merchant to whom
Poes poems were submitted Endorsed them Here Is a
man lit for nothing whatever" Franklin rather
thought the Stamp act smart recommendation. Com
,nodorc Vanderbilt told his to buy railroads ont
side Of York state. Old age is for counsel hut it
ought to como from the Amen" benches. All the
wisdom in Spain and Portugal discouraged Columbus
)lt a pretty woman said the sailor:
AS well to die and go,
As die and stay"