New-York tribune., 1883-03-18
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND.
THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD
WAY LoUNGER


sha odontad citizen who furnishes most Of the passage
money to bring his brother lover or friend across l
this latter be true 1t partly reetS te iuc" 'n"' "0
soming citizen is full Of money.
An Albany statesman who disdains to reoccupy his
seat on the floor being much more respected IN 'he
,ohrv saws 70 me shrewdly "The Legislatures nova
davs Laye no business, unless Is to backmaii some
bodv: the Governor can now veto part OF DILL anu
te State Constitution has replaced the larger functions
of our Legislatures. They would have only Dlennlai
s.ssions If not good many corporations to
plague and skin
Twenty millions more it is said We must soon spend
for increase water. yet almost submerged III IT, just
fifty years ago David Bates Douglass engineer reported
the Croton Aqueduct forty-two and hai miles long u
the Fifthsve reservoir The political commissioners
recarded the engineers department entirely super
auous; A Job OF plain masonry" they said 1t was
and wot's the OF the dam literary fellers T. In
three years they forced Douglass out DE VIII ChhOn
"a the real parent the CrOtOn water works. and every
glass we sip should be TO his health July H. 1917
when the great had been fOt rteen years IN his
tomb the new reservoir was filed at Eighty-sl1th-sI
Three months later procession seven miles long us
tened in the park the fountains burst forth All a'
IA now visible OF the great alueduct OF tha' oa ~ o
old reservoir Murray Hill that the surrounding ot
holders want to cOnscate 1t took sixty eght years oi
agitation starting in 1774, to bring water into New
york and the great fire of 1885, wiping out S20ooo
OOO hsstened the performance. The aqueduct oos'
100000 and brought 35,OO0OOo gallons per oieln,
and was built panic times when credit was hign anu
materials and labor were low. When the aqueduct was
commenced the city had 100000 people; when tne
aoueduct was finished the population was 100000
Tinted States Senator Miller has been here some time,
and observed him at the opera with bis wife last week
and Senator and Mrs. Hale and the General ana Jonn
Sherman Miller is young afable. considerate man.
old hirtan veal
,redecessor Senator Miller has been neighOor
TO the whole State yet dignifed one, learning
listening bringing sweetness out OF resentment ana ne
has begun the race like who knew Its length ana
would need his speed and bottom for coming years Iho
State has no enemies now account Of its leading
Benator.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad has now fully en-
tered into its greater functions social influence;
persons leaving Washington City the afternoon are on
the Ohio River at breakfast and In Lexington Ken
tucky for dnner and in Cincinnati or Louisville Tor
early supper The watering places on this line run
winter and summer; at Fortress Monroe in February,
and at the Sulphur Springs summer and autumn
Marriage is a fine tonc" said the Tar Heel statesman
+o me os he contemplated the pretty eyes on Broadway
There IA sprague again in the holy bonds and the first
thing you hyur he's nominated for Governor MY opih-
ion is that shot gun elect him. Thars Don Caeroh'
he gifts married gifts nerve for surgical operation
pentance hope Now Dsyy Davy gifts wife down OF
FAYETTEVILLE an he starts right away for Cauforney
Another great citizen bound fur Caforney exclaimed
the old man refectively jess think of man at sixty
eight having a bran new honeymoon It's UP 10 inc
genius Of insttootons Ii shows hat aier all you
can depend upon the people.
Said to the Tar Heel statesman: What made MIN 80
and do it" Him Z Davy Davy I" asked the old man
ionesomely; "Why, to form more perecK Wioh u
insure Justlce,-he was Justice you kno"'-an W
nronlote the domestic tranquility. He bad the Consu-
sut,on for his be-lum every time has got the geni
alitv OF Linkum. Il exercise powerful union seht
ment down way. II thars any more VacAhcles on
the Supreme Bench. give 'en to the women Ihey anus
let nv cones be by-gones Thatsthe Uee OF Mrs. Davy
navy Number Two" How came he to go there y
SRIess your soul! she went an found him at Bloomn-
ton ulinoy Davy Dayy rried Massachusetts, iady'
she was true blue but she died. Davy Davy says out
of his widower misery: Is thar any par OF eyes par
tckler recoeck as sympathizin with my state OF mind
sYes, he answers right peart thaTs a young lauy
from North Carlny | once at Boominton' lIhnoy
Same stock as my ole wife, too Whars fayettevlief
He reached the map, and thur he fouhu MIS- Day
pavy as he knowed by WARM place on the map that
kind O. burned He felt he was on the nght
- track and busted"
stuyyesant Park was the gift OF Peter T. suyvesant
IN 1880; Gramercy Park created by Samuel b.
Rugges In 1881 to draw house buyers down that way
August Belmont in his recent lawsuit with an Irish
editor only initiated the example Of his father-in-law
Commodore Matthew Perry, who was presented In the
1Iouse of Representatives in 1889 by John Quincy
Adams for assisting to bring on duel between Dahei
OConne the Irish liberator and Andrew Stevenson oi
Virginia the American Minister to England Perry was
In some way married into the Buffers ana othcr pah
tion families which conscated the wages OF abor and
he therefore although a Northern man. tool not IN
terest In Us remarks on slavery helng III Eng
land he indorsed StevensOns attempt TO collect canS
for slaves set free by reaching British soil OCOnneu
launched into fierce invective against American slave
holders Stevenson attempted to bully him. assisted by
Perry both knowing since he had killed DEsterre
OConnen had vowed never 10 fight duel again. lie
showed such willingness TO accOnmod ate these Amer
fcan gentry however, that they received the laugh
OConnel afterward moved in Parliament TO buy Brit
fsh Free State on the Mexican border OF Louisiana,
TO be coonized with runaway blacks from the United
states He would not take any subscriptions raised
by slavemasters for Ireland His attitude on the
subject shows what slayish prejudice is now trading on
his name in the United States
blanche Roosevelt who is Virginia Tucker on he 7
fathers side Roosevelt OF Philadelphia on her moth
er's a native OF Ohio and by marriage Mlanese, Is
probably the author her friends tell me- OF the mover
Marked In Haste just issued here, and the dedication
to the memory OF the kind friend and phlanthrOpst
who early aided me is supposed 10 indicate him who
rave the bent to musical life abroad which to some
extent autobiographIcay told here. While not New
Yorker she rare type OF what Is genery lnter
preted to be the stylish New-YOrk girl and stI the
steel tnts and brads and expressive facial con
tour less dolke than hereabout, reveal the western
sown
sIf Mrs Stowe had stopped when she wrote Vncle
Tom" said a complacent Broadway prnt-seller oner
ing me her portraits for dollar apiece one by Hon from
Richmond's English drawng,-a sace that mignt nave
been anybody's except woman OF bold lncls'e
humor- kmdling char acer. and the other py iouht
from an American portrait showing the Yankee teacher
and wife with Mr. Beechers mouth and chin an aqui-
line scenting in fine proportions and lines eyes al
once inqustive heroic and cool and plain rather low
forehead all tempted with wild vines Of bray curls held
by string the face of woman that might peep into
the Holy OF Holes equal was her curiosity to her