New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-08
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS, THE COUNTRY ROUND.
CHE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF A BROAD
WAY LOUNGER.

MEN AND THlNUS, lhE COONIhA hOCNO'
CHE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD
WAY LoUNGER.
The gap is almost pathetic left in social remnis-
by adeath Peter Coopers whenhe was bornin
1871 the total population all the incorporated cities in
America was only OOO the present population of
Jersey City of Newark The population of the United
States was millions, or the number New-York State
had before the Rebellion When Mr.. Cooper was fifty
years old the urban population had grown 1000 per
cont when he ninety old 1t had grown almost
1000 per cent In short the American cities alone
between his birth and death had advanced from 10000
to nearly 100000 souls The population OF Brooklyn
at Mr. Cooptrs birth not 600 souls and its few
houses relieved against woods upon the Heights
The population Of New York City when he was born was
under 10000 and the place stopped at Chambers-st,
and that year the best parts Of sold
TO speculators by the Governor for shilling an acre
Washington City had existence whatever There we're
only fourteen States in the Union Vermont came In the
year Cooper did, Ohio not till he eleven Louisiana
not till he q voter. California when he wa' In DIS
sixteth year. He eight years old at Wahingtons
death and lived under every President Napoleon Bona
parties name was not whispered when Peter Cooper was
born. He old enough to have been city editor
when Fulton started the first steamboat AS he was the
first citizen of York In date, when he died he was
probably first In general respect known as favorab In
the streets the of Central Park and In the high
nt-houscs Of Kip's Bay as in the hotels ana
banks No man will steal his body nor challenge his
philosophy of e Yet, being dead, the baby born yes
terday outweigbs him.
Let II. not be too selfrighteous. Internal machines
such as Irish using and the internal use OF the
ton were deyeloped out OF the universities and schools
of science in America during the Rebellion The yellow
fever end has honored for his work In spite OF his
having a burnt and backened name. An ex-professor
of chemistry In Princeton College while In the rebel ser
vice began the preparation Of explosives, and Confed
ndplf lie
who Endorsed the application: Please see and learn
what plan he has for overcoming the difficulty Lieu
tenant Aston wrote to the Confederate President: Il
wish proceed rid country OF some OF her dead
hest enemies by striking at their very hearts blood;
consider nothing dshonorabe having such tendency,
and this was allowed to filed Official paper under
the Endorsement OF Burton N. Harrison private secre
tary." Aston shot dead in the Capitol OF Georgia
The first dynamite end Europe ever knew was Cana
dian blockade runner Keith alias Thomassen. England
assisted breed the cockarces which are under her
walls by her sympathes in the war.
General Barnes who died last Thursday, gave me an
account Of the dying Of Edwin NJ Stanton while
his eyes yet worn with the watching and wet Win
tho grief of great mans lossthe Earl Of Chatham
of America It in his plain office next to Riggs
bank in Washington. Yet there Ignorant and assas
sn-minded who have told me learnedly since that
Stanton his throat Others Fnow that Martin Luther
was fricasseed by a devil and Oliver Cromwell was
dreadfuly afraid of picture OF Charles l. IDe father
of Nemesis is generally Wish.
Canton, the suburb OF Baltimore which Peter Cooper
bought for 100000 in 1928 and sold for $4,000
partly paid stock at 45whch he sold in time for 9
lis TO Baltimore like South Brooklyn to New-York Ia
1885 John O,Dvnne arrived in Baltimore direct from
Canton China, with full cargo of Chinese goods; he
gave the name of Canton to the fields for mile east of
the city more than two miles along the river ODonne
and other BaltimOreans brought III number OF New
Workers. among others Gideon Lee. Francis Price, Ely
Moore and James Ramsay, and a charter was obtained
the Canton Company As recently as 1866 foity-sx
acres OF sold for almshouse for only
$3.50 an The Canton Compsnys skies were quoted
last week ITO. Had Mr. Cooper bought at that time
in any direction from NewYork equally near the city,
similar property here would have made him immensely
rich Jersey City was sold in limp in 1904 to three
men who divided into 1000 shares two of these men,
yarick and Radclif, in the army with Peter
Coopers father At the time Stevens was creating
Hoboken late 1888 his heirs conveyed all their
unsod lots to company like the Canton Company
Baltimore ipyeiged Mr. Cooper because its railroad TO
the West partly built before locomotives were Known
frightened every seaboard city, especially Pha
dephia NewYork. which put all their reliance upon
the canals estern trade Yet both cities reached
the valley of the West as soon as Baltimore and New
York by two railways. Hew-York never slackened her
speed; Philadelphia recaptured from Baltimore her de-
Tendencies and by canal with the Chesapeake drew her
commerce away. Peter Cooper found home good
enough.
Miss Edith Fish, whose agementis announcedoa son
Of Sir Stafford Northcoe is in appearance and manners
ma I'm descent one the bestblended women Of the Re-
public. The Fish element is good Yankee and Dutch,
commercial types BOTH with military spirit: the burgher
ouardsman's love Of peace and resolve to maintain 1t
with O cutlass, If necessary-peace for the sake
Of domestic love and thrifty increase. On
the other side Miss Fish is Kean, in which,
ipk ia Livingston,
many respects the best Livingston, poet as well as mag
strate carried away by personal ambition or re-
sentiment has been whispered OF both Robert and Ed
ward and he was the Republican founder Of New
Jersey. His biographer and, believe, descendant
Theodore sedgwck jr, refreshngy says of the death
of Governor Lvingston's mother Little Is known OF
her save that she remarkable for her high temper
and for those simple and thrifty habits TO which her
Dutch pedigree entitled her" have supposed that the
Livingston element in the Kean family from the
latter living in the overnors old mansion at Elizabeth
where Hamilton Fish, he joyfully puts It, got my
wife" John Kean, the founder OF the Northern family
of his name, was a South Carolina Congressman, Fed
eralist and business man. who was appointed cashier
of the first Bank OF the United States in 1901. His
grandson or grandson, is the members elect 10
Congress rom the Elizabeth district The NorthcOte
family is several centuries old of relative connections
no better at any than the Fishes and of public ser
vices inferior to Miss Fish's progenitors.
fEighty banfs other than savings banks in NewYork
and Brooklyn sevcnty-one insurance companies, eleven
trust companies fifteen companies: these figures
make an impression One bank has Its stock quoted at
2105or 600 per cent premium, because IL yielded
70 Gny panic; another has been as high 500 during
tn, wear and a third $50. A few quoted and
sope are almost unknown, but In addition TO the
number given The bank far in the scale OF prices
has small capital One bank with five millions capital
is:quoted as high as l5O.
:, In IN old country shad would come in with
fe day. The world has not their equal for fncness, In
acscrbabe freshness like awater and decacy yet
with satisfying potency. One shad Is tie measure OF the
representative family The fathers partiay Is 81 own