New-York tribune., 1883-06-03
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MIN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND.
,ur PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD
wAy IOUyGER.

s, s-, - ,rat The ast Days of Pompe hard read
s.v % sTo be frank did 1t Is verbose ana heaVy W
,sd twice and it took all my patience on the steans
canning across to finish It, find other much Vaunteu
books hard to read like Wilhelm Meister Dy 1oe'he
n sweat of years and piece of solemn duty to read
shs, idol of the Germans and alter reading it felt
bored to recur to It,"
Editor Smith of The Flushing Journal who is Scotch
man seventeen years in the country SAID 10 me last
Sunday Notwithstanding there is good reason Tor rear
that our fish and she-sh supplies are passing away
can sac that with little Long Island waters alone
could supply all the United States In Flushing Bay
where we have cnly six feet OF water hundred famnes
live on its productions. Hampstead Bay MAINTAINS q
largo feet The clans IN Little Neck Bay are pentIui
s ever because dig them requires time ana LABOR anu
a man working all day with difficulty dig two push-
els hence the high price. This year the fish are Dung
strong again in Jamaica Bay" Said l. Why does Long
Island improve 80 slowly 7" "Partly because inc Ola
setters are too slow and nvidous to welcome snse'
without reservation. They express suspicious VI ~
take motives and the who como here VIII capita,
sften lose regard and go away. The foppehuu' "
Co,lege Point MIR - of Whitest0ne, and MI otrailoi'
of Bayside, were cases In point ihey n'"n' w" ~"
were interpreted III, and left u.s.
Ol,ver fhsrlcks estate is said to own HI Out t"o
shares Of the now valuable Hunters POINT felry. 1o
the same estate belongs "Tony Mhers hoscl III
Long Island City, opposite the Ferry Inc queens
County Court House, standing out all alone near tn'S
ahrvo city te something excavated from the as-heaps
of yesuvs the most neglected thing oil all IN
that latent municipal child of two Celtic sres brooklyn
and New-York: justice isolated from development
Mr. + r Bonayenture sailed to Europe last Wednes-
day week on the Normandie taking his orphan iamy vi
three children in the front rank OF
BUYERS in this country. and many of the richest men
~ tbaip
ober restriction than to his own Judgment He Is
of nearly pure French from Alsace. and strong
anti-German. Educated at the school OF french Ell
cneers at ChaloLs he to this country about 1871
and married a well-to do Frenchman's daughter put
before be could master the business situation OF the
country and the language the panic OF 1873 came
and swept away both his own means and his WIGS
dover and compelled him to put up for sale his library
and prints. worth about 100000 which he had been
collecting since childhood. This accident drew him into
the book business, and he now spends half the year III
Europe ransackng private collections IN behaf OF new
York connoisserrs. His wife recently died OF pneu-
monia and he told me that he liked everything In
America but the climate. Everybody here. said he
seems 10 have something the matter with his health
Az to the social civilization, like it much better than
the European because is free and open and one does
not have to be sycophant courtier to make his
way"
Colonel John Hay, who went through New-Iork to
Cleveland week. the son OF retired phy scian
In Illinois who also large land-holder and man OF
culture and AFFAIRS whose public spirit In his son fouud
more palpable career The Colonel studied law with his
uncle then and still one of eeading of Illinois
and there Lincoln found him.
The topography OF NewYork and its vicinity makes its
people somewhat heather and hence perhaps, they are
the only people never know their next-door neigh
bors On knoll overhangng the nl-smellng New
town Creek is an old settlement called Maspeh, in sight
of the great city, and De Witt Cnons country seat
IL overlooked by all Could he have thought that New
town Creek below him was to be one day drcdged hy
Congress and made large inland harbor where great
foreign ships could ride and fill their holds with Oil
drawn from the rocks and mountain sides like spring
waterf
Ioln McKeop the District Attorney who is now men
aced with family law suits old and slowly fomented
troubles the dean OF city politicians ana as long ago
as 1885 was In Congress He aud Fernando WOOD were
rivals and defeated each other and Woods friends voted
for Hamilton Fish, then young Of thirty-four and
elected him in Democratic district. thus giving him
the Impetus for the Governorshp after that term
So in the sauabDes two city wrepulers the ge-
Mus which sh puld settle the Alabama claims Mr. Fish
Is retired and OF the connections OF personal career
MoKeon hanging on beyond his day. finds old age with
nettles In his bed
] asked Bonaventure before he went away If a good
deal Of the art in Europe not finding its way
TO this country "Yes" said he; have orders for all
can get only necessary to find books to have the
purchaser ready on the spot"
I went on Decoration Day sailing about Jamaica Bay.
that larger sheet OF than NewY Bay and no
farther from the city than the Narows is yet how few
will identify Thence, they say como the Rockaway
pelago and Coney Island and Far Rockaway being its
fankers or bastions, and both III sight The Marine
Pavilion Mt Rockaway WAS erected In 1888 ana was
then the largest seaside house In this country 200 feet
long with wings of 120 feet making 800 feet OF
inn front. Here uness mistake. BenDcrhassett and
his wife spent their first In America But the
mighty ruin on Rockaway Beach, which seems like
Noas ark stranded there is the great Rockaway Hotel
quarter OF mile long. story on story high tower on
tower elepbanne, fair like the white elephant II Is
about co all the Coney Island hotels put together
II ever filed with guests and servants 1t W buld hold
throng one fourth the size OF the present American
Army Its pine body hewn outof forests in Florida
The brdgeway to reach 1t from this side the bay Is
almost five miles long, grove OF giant pines driven into
the marsh and made bend their necks to the locomo
five Yet to this hotel found IL barred and
faded piazzas fenced in its glory already shattered
like Armada of King Philip seized with panic in the
narrow
Z" In xanadu did Kuba Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree"
It failed from great expectations and should have been
deferred till the settled judgment OF the public could
have been toward ts pioneer ncighb6r Of Coney
Island. its projectors rushed like the who
built Babel and before they had half way there
fell confusion OF tongues upon them II is too great
tempt O seasons sport Who will manage II win they
take 1t down. Yet In the setting sun 1t takes the
golden light OF great epic like the vedas or the
Nibenpgen Lay. and recsdes from 1t toward the
city Xbeckons him backward like the poet being urcd
again his majestic art and hungry hearthstone-to The
palace that is haunted by eternal light and eternal sghs
Few people probably aware Of the remarkable col
iections being privately made by rich New-Yorkers IN
the way Of books prints and rtoso. The book buyers
say that Robert Hoc jr. who Is about forty years Of
age the best eonnosseur IN the United States IIs