New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-21
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND.
THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF A BROAD
WAY LOUNGER

WAY LOUNGER.
Benjamin H. Bristow," SAYS Colonel Wbar. |
ton, his old friend. has built up fine law praetce
in NewYork OF the largest In the country ORGAN
lied. like modern law partnerships with about ffte en-
clerks He large practice with corporations, and |
in the late Ohio beat Mr. Yanderblts lawyers on
entirely propositions. Bristow has certain ball
headedness but he has noble mind and honest head
and does not tolerate thieves. He has left enemies
behind him. but no whisxey ring Mcdonald, the steal
ing collector attacked Grant in pamphlet and sent it
to Brstow to ask If the statements not true
Bristow wrote on the book and returned it: 1t is
enough for to know that you q convicted thief
and no Witness"
overheard this bit of conversation at Delmonicos:
whats Freddy Gebhard following tho Lily fori"
Pshaw, don't DO afoo. IfNew York can't produce
of the gaantry to devote himself to the pref
test woman out of England. what coming tol
Are natonp mo- said the other m0umfuly, |
hardly a nation with pig N. Maybe Freddy is a
patriot"
Richard Mansfield, who has bounded at the age OF
twenty from obscury the side OF Soddard for
character acting, is said be OF MADAME Ruders
dorf musician of Boston. and to have at once the
genius of Theodore Hook and the tangent character of
old Booth. He can recite improvise. speak bits OF sew
eral languages. play instruments and throw M engage
nents like the perfect of Bohemia. In rchearsing
the piece from Feuet just produced, 1t is told that
Manager Palmer observed Mansfield to be dying apo
plcctically when he should died from heart dis
Mr. Mansfield, II you will look at your book,
sir you VIII that the Baron does not die Of apo
plexy." "Id do" said Mansfield. Heart disease ia the
directions sir" I" ! die Of apopexy." Mr. Parsele, |
rehearse the piece according TO the book! The piece
came on with well-asceramed idea how Mansfield |
was to die lie had meantime been studying apoplexy
with doctors. He died of It, and awOke to celebrity
Genius In dsobcdience is often true to art The same
ade ne hurQO
the French opera.
Rumor SAYS that Captain william Conner, of John
McCuough's management, has suit in wait against
the spoords for breach OF contract to lease him the ST.
James Hotel, for which also Divine and Matthews,
clerks at 81. James and Albemarle are bidders as
well ~ Mr. Walton the sturtevants backing the former
This hotel with 100 rooms, is expected TO earn $1,000
a week rent.
United states Senator Plumb said to last Tuesday
There will be railroad panic, think because there
will he no large general defacaons OF interest as hap
pcned in 1879 bringing about that panic. Then the
railroads Oneers, made In advance OF population
and production and could not in the early years earn
their interest while nearly all railroad building Is
the extension OF lines well established whose trunk
tens project and take of the pioneer branches
meeting interest easily and raising capital on their
bonds Only the Nickel Plate road has been ndepcn-
IDENTIFY built"
Mr. Vanderbilt recently said that the consolidation
of any great systems like the Reading and Jersey Cen
trail with his own would tempt parallel road to be
built like lightning" remarked GROWER to me. |
Now" he continued ." there two geographical |
terms to fear: the parallels and the merdians Some
properties fun meridian already others are being
paralleled."
Calvin 8. Brice OF this city, though legal citizen OF
Ohio, IS being spoken Of as candidate for Governor
there against the PendletOn-Hoady combination,
which OF Pendeton for the Senate, Ioady for
Governor, and afterward struggle between Iioady
and Pcndleton for the Presidency aud in the event OF
others success Allan G. Thurman for Secretary OF
state Judge Payne and the young element OF Ohio Is
left ont OF this combination General Brce has laid the
Ohio Central Railroad from Toledo to Charleston West
Virginia and his townsma, the Hon. Charles LamIson,
has built bridge the Ohio at Pol mt Pleasant
costing $3.50, 900, IN tho unexampled time OF five |
months The coal about Charleston Ia Of higher quality
than in the Hooking Valley the railroad Ia being
extended 10 Lake Michigan and connected with Mil |
waukee and may connect with the Richmond and Ale
gheny line. MI Brice has a family or young children,
an elegant home here and in Lima and the Roman
esque nose In the Christian world. lie conceived and
surveyed the Nickel Plate.
In short railroad construction has not ceased The |
seney syndicate has agent ia Washington to obtain
the right Of way through the Indian Territory aud de-
Charleston line thus making the Norfolk and Western
and the shenandoah Valley Railroads part of Pacific
and Mexican railroad system. The Vanderbilt road |
through Southern Pennsylvania already partly con- |
structed will take up nearly the line OF the old stage
turnpike from Chambersburg TO Bedford Springs and
Pittsburg and run into Baltimore over the Western |
Mary land road Lines are being surveyed east and west
from Washington City and up the Big Sandy River to
the North Carolina coal and iron fields, and 10 Cherry
stone opposite Norfolk and even TO Boston from New
York Jay Cooke r and Others are canalng the inets
of Florida new roads creeping across Arkansas and
Southern Missouri and Western Florida and to New |
Orleans.
A fe1ow-senator related TO the OF Mr. Win
dom's Senatorial troubles in Minnesota. He saw Mr..
Dunnell, n Mane-born man. who moved to Minnesota |
after the war in which Dunnel had been colonel OF
the line seeking TO be "a Senatorial candidate for his
seat Window therefore beat Dunnells denomination
for Congress- where he had been six continuous terms
A Bar,lwe sote remarks, even the dodo can arise
and sting" and attrbuting recent investigation OF the
whIskey bill to Mr. Windows tactics in order to cast
stigma at home upon Dunnel who had charge OF it, the
Nev-Eneland element in Minnesota has and
Window hovers between the Presidential bee and the
humble bee that stays at home
The circle OF state histories is nearly complete with
the labors OF tho venerable j. T. H. Claiborne to bring
out his history Of Mississippi In three large volumes at
the office of The Clarion newspaper Mr.. Jackson, OF
that paper recently remarked to me that volume second
was in full MS, and volume third nearly ready, while
the first volume, coming down to 1890 Is published In
excellent style for a country newspaper Office Clai-
borne Is the author of the Life of General Quitman
and descendant OF the first Governor OF Louisiana.
Arkansas has no published State history; Maine, |
think has no comprehensive one OHIO has no civil HIS
tory of the past forty years State histories are among
the most valuable collections TO be had; Angw, OF
Washington recently offered $40 apiece for two small
histories of towns in Maine. originally issued at
dollor Alexander IIamiltons works OF the issue of
1851 bring $70 or $40 volume.
The Hon Jerome b. Chafee, late Senator from Colo
rado and whose only child f. the wife of u s. Grant,
ir remarked 10 me on Friday: think General Grant