New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-23
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND.
TIE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD


| WAY LOUEGER.
| recent decision in England where a company
that audacousy padded its telegraph dispatches and soo
them and then sued comic paper for drawing attention
TO the padding brought out from the judge the decision
that quarres between newspaper writer's had no stand
ing any Justice and he would not even let the
up. During the past week Judge Lawrence III
one OF own courts, decided In Chambers, where
newspaper publisher before him with suit against
journalist for words used In debate and then dodged
trying the and aas when brought to bay wanteu
! TO amend the complaint that 1t might be amended by
paying all the up the date OF amendment ana no
longer pOsponng tue ISSUE which had merely been used
to absorb the valuable time of the defendant
The State Department at Washington has been sending
to the American Consuls for imitation the manner OF
work and the results accomplished by Captain Frank H.
Mason our Consul at Base who has not only been the
commercial agent of the country but It's attorney ana mas
produced some remarkable results In detecting system
attic frauds and perjures General Garfield had arranged
10 make him Consul at Paris, but assassination turned
| the purpose aside.
Some time ago Mrs. Fremont remarked ito lady that
| she remembered the time probably in 1885, when her
husband the General walked five hours on Nantucket
Beach considering which Presidential nomination TO ac-
| cep overtures coming to him from the Democratic
party which had anticipated the strength OF Fremont In
the pending Republican Convention. Mrs. Fremont said
that the Democratic nomination meant success while the
| Republican nomination undoubtedly meant defeat but
with the principles General Fremont sustained he de-
| cided TO take the Republican nomination
| I talking during the week with member Of the
Congressional Committee which has pending satu-
AIRY for the capital in its control He sad The statue
OF General Garfield az Washn gton will cost 100000 and
tn, Government viii probably present pedestal M Is It's
custom when statue Is given to the public thorough
fares there Twentythree thousand dollars have been
| ed for n
among the OF the Army Of the Cumberland and
their civil friends The committee 20 select site for the
statue Of the opinion that the artist himself Mr.
ward ought know better than they where the statue
would appear best and It will probably be left to him.
suggested TO this gentleman that good place Tor the
statue would on NJ the south end OF
the Treasury Building. IN the axis OF Pcnnsylvanaaye
Ho said about the statue Of ChefJustce Marshall; At
the suggestion OF eX-Jusuce Davis OF Illinois, Congress
voted for that statue very respectable sum- about
$4,000 Mr. story. who bred in the atmosphere of
the judicial science have three years to design and
| execute the work at Rome" Said my informant:
washlnrton IA bccominga very interesting art rentre.
The portrait iotnary there Is not only very representa-
tive Of American and character but the tendency
Is distribute II among our artists and have them All
represented and give them all more hbcraty than I'm old
times when the politician with some little taste Of art
| kept utudIug his views"
| Being in Washington recently stepped into the su-
prcc Court aud Judge Batchorl sitting nj the end
OF the bench the left Of the CuofJutcc and next to
sanlc, Matthews At the opposite end was the Boston
representative prd giou-y big man. who seemed to be
all up and down. ana h. head TO rise mp like that OF Sir
Walter scott which seemed 10 DE the model Of the pres
| ent apartment houses that run up from eight to ten
stories high Judge Batchford seemed 10 have kecn
enjoying pair of eyes, most Of the Judges looked 10 be III
good preservation. but it must be- after all, sort OF
prison confinement for men oi that positive character
and wide experience st there In silence many hours
every day long terms never hearing flash OF evil
dcnce or incident but only dry points OF law. STANLEY
Matthews have heard went on the bench 10 please his
family leaving behind him IN it, prime magnificent law
practice Yet there nothing prohibit justice from
leaving the bench and practising before IT, was the
precedent nf the late Benjamin Curtis who took the po-
son In The latter half Of the century that william Pink
! ney hAd il the first half Of I'm greatest lawyer at that
! Bar.
| Mr. Yiarl's retirement last week led me n confer
with an old war correspondent who knew him WELL and
! who said: Willard WAS a very active army writer and
both with his pen and his horse did rapid work
Sometimes the ragauuins In the profession would play
trick on him. such getting telegraph wire and hold
ing II n mere hugshnos. but he almost Away got CIV
with such once he put In his bill at newspaper Office,
and II was contested by another correspondent who met
with him on the Northern Pacific Railroad I'm m'dcarccr
when they had both forgotten the little matters OF ther
youth. Willard knocked his censor down for dlsputhg
HIS bill 10 became apparent 10 hlli ~ INC Nd '"l'
d-banded that something substantial was required
than fugitive newspaper writing, he apprchcnded the
financial changes IN the Ways and Means Committee and
bought great quantity OF Nhskry on time ana II gave
him his start IN lifc.'
The above reminds OF little talk once had with
Horace Greeley whom | met In the ferryboa going 10
Jersey City aud moved his side. Said hc am going
out TO pay visit to Bayar Taylor, I'm Chester County
Pennsylvania, and TO get little rest there" In Few
minutes Sam wilkesons came up and Greeley said:
said 10 sam: sam, you are bohemian 9dIh
did not much like description and rather protested
said /: sam. don't get mad. Bohemian Is one VINO
would rather have thousand dollars now and then than
nny dollars week." In those days often saw "llAe-
son and william l.. Chandler arranging proceedings 10
help the Northern Pacific Railroad onwnrd In congress-
How few remember the origin OF that railroad, the I'd
July 1864, when Congress charterelt ana gave
IL AZ 600 600 acres OF andl The of the checks the
road rcccycdthe first nine years after the charter ana
the second ten years afterward-was that IL had mere
land grant without any money grant The money Ia
hand made the Central and Union Pacific kalr"au people
rich from the start because Congress OHcrctnateu the
difficulties OF road building and paid them high. The
land grant on the Northern Pacific Railroad Is altogether
the best that has been given, with the exception OF tue
extreme eastern portion of the Union Pacific grant III Ne
braska but the enormous stretch OF railroad 10 DC com
plctcd credit without any cash in hand from tue "o'
eminent before much traffic come over H. broke III
the first place the leading nanccr Of his day and has
since almost worn out OF the finest ply steal cohSiltu
ons In the land Nevertheless the railroad Ia complete
and ultimately both It's victims will receive honor.
II has occurred TO me that the Northern Pacific Rail
| road could have been completed without any mshap
might have arisen among the people some ndsha
ton against land grant and the gift But IN TINS ca
tastrophc which but momentay the people see thaV 10
work out the problem Of these railroads. even VIII" I"
great endowment is no matter OF JOY or great recon-
| pense. II we could take the individual suherihgs
and cares Of the who have buded this railroad anu
stretch them like ties the continent we Shouio
| probaby find that majestic property to be Dnlt on