New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-18

making money. hear that during the week ground was
bought for yet another theatre Eighth
ave. about Thirtyfourthst The BOu Theatre viii pro-
duee Judge Gedneys comic opera, hear.
The actor In the midst Of shakesperean revival was
saying: Nor poppy mandragoranor all the drOwsy
syrups Of the world" when the old advertising agent
aWoke from his deep and general nap and exclaimed
charge 80 cents line!"
Hearing Gerster sing Martha over the great au
dence and thought How democratic is art II s for
ever STOPPING from the social heights to reveal the unlver
salty Of love and the Of all people Here are two
farmers at the fair finding queens companions and max
ing them unhappy OF their station In F the powers
OF hell and the austenty OF learning iname before the
simple beauty Of peasant girl. In HOratOre faith lies
among the gypsys We least Of people, perhaps per-
ceve that the higher in money fashion may 20, the
nearer admonitions OF democracy, like the most
earthly birds the lark and the vulture, which are the
| highest when we go up in balloons.
aman could write play in the United States he would
be OF great disadvantage In theatre the order H.
Produce nothing American; cannot try any exper
imens" Some call this the leading American theatre
because 1t never Is American any than Major Andre
was when he adapted the Mischianza In Philadelphia,
and became the first patriotic manager Toward the end
Andre had one hOmey Western ringdOwn." Above six
or eight characters grudgcd native playwright;
IN SardOus piece are twenty-five He is allowed 10 give
the whole interior life of Russian police offce four
ffths OF his characters conclusive necessary
ones he takes OF the scrupes of managers; the
artist he creates for and his mind and the world the
three untes he We suffering for the sins OF
our forefathers; are condemned to be fed on the
husks Of Europe and looking the mirror Of the stage
see not ourselves because cheated the brains Of
| mankind
Mckee Rankin friend tells me, is named Mckee, and
was gentleman's in Canada. He will receive $500
! week for about forty weeks from the Union Square
Theatre and his pretty theatre Thrdave IA said
to be drawing IL 900 night gross. few years ago it
sOlcmny proclaimed around the Union Square
that because he had taken play belonging to the
high mghtneses there and starred the country with IL
he could never play in New-YOrk again" But nobody
keeps the key OF New-YOrk Talent viii return like
Coriolanus TO Rome either in necessity rage, and
caltins will meet il at the gate and fall at its feet
Colonel III Pcton says that Nblo's old Garden
the site of the Metropolitan Hotel the villa Of Charles
Henry Hall, racing man, whose stables Of shngle and
glass stretched whole square along Crosbyst while his
residence doublebrck mansion with gable roof and
great dOrmers On the Prncest. side lived in humber
villa Bishop Hobart Bishop Dubois and ex-President
James Monroe. Broadway ramblers further out
into the country than this spot NblO the proprietor Of
coffee house in Pnes, leased the place during yellow
fever and il became the Mount ST. Vincent
tauran Of that day. NibO sent up balloons with
nau imported by his neghbor. Citizen Genet. Nblo sub
sequeny erected large pavions there and established
an omnibus line TO his Garden.
Mr.. Charles IT. Shelley tells that the Mr. Conway
who played with Forrest In 1926 and whom Macready
desired succeed In America, not F. D. Conway
the father Of Minnie Conway, but English actor who
committed suicide when returning TO his native country
F. b. Conway came this country about ls9 and spent
the rest Of his life here. He good actor and could
play Macbeth and the best tragic parts and his only fail
ing was cOnviyiay.
I saw John Owens the street yesterday, merry
eyed man In private intercourse. He lives at TowsOn-
town. a suburb OF Baltimore, and his wife was from the
eastern shore Of Maryland Some think he has lost pot
lions OF the largest fortune in America by
bad Investments but his smile does not reveal it, He was
| a druggists clerk In Philadelphia originally.
As looked at General Fremont last Wednesday after
noon marriage reception Of his youngest son and OF
Mr. John D. Townsends daughter. reflected that youth
is better than outfit Nearly forty three years ago he
ran away with BentOn's daughter, very poor second
lieutenant with neither arstOcracy nor inheritance The
bride was sixteen year younger than his mother
had been when she made her first unhappy marriage
with Majah" Pryor. The" MIah" afterwards married
his housckeeper His poor French gen
tleman an enthusiast Shout the American Indians, W no
had subsisted himself by teaching school at Norfolk,
and so Fremont was born with enthusiasm poverty,
and mother. Yet which OF BentOns children married
80 well rs abe who married nohinGi Fremont il Of the
schOolteacher class, like the Adamses Seward and Gar
field He carried chain forty six years ago on railroad
in Carolina and Georgia Three greatdstinctons
are his: ConqueTor OF California 10 the Republic first
Senator from California first candidate Of the Republican
party for President party now quarter OF century
I'm continuous control OF the greatest Caucasian nation on
the globe.
General Fremont ia really poor. He lives on Staten
,1tHa - hta ptaY,ls
have been kind TO him These think that Congress
ought 10 give him the pay he receiving when by
Frank Bair's political influence he was removed for
taking the very step toward negroes that the Govern
mcnt aftcrwari took Of using them against the pubic
enemy scnator-cect Randall Gibson, Of Louisiana, Ia n
relative OF Mrs Fremont are the Prestons. He and
General Preston. of Kentucky, were both at the wedding
az Francis Preston Fremont The young grooms
brother Is In the navy and has sister The brides fam
iy are OF the Oyster Bay Townsends originally Massa
chusets people driven to Long Island for their Quaker
sympahcs. The Pennsylvania family OF the same name
came later and also Quakcrs The virginia Town
sends came earliest Of ALL yet were driven ont Of Viz
gnia FOR Quakerism into Maryland. The irish TOWN.
sends were of Cromwells officers and Roger who sue
ceeded Wolfe after the lacrs death on the Heights OF
Abraham was probably OF this stock Mrs. Fremont
has a sister in philadelphia Mrs Jones.
General Grant, Mayor Edison, President H. J. Jcwett
and lanes c. Fish, whom some talk OF the coming
Democratic candidate for Mayor went 10 Rochester and
Buffalo last Thursday in Mr. Jewetts car, TO be gone
tl Monday Secretary Foger has been Mr.. Fshs guest
during the week.
Judge Fitch long Register in Bankruptcy here lays
down the proposition that either party which dominates
a Ncw-York man will be defeated In the Presidential
election. He says the factions In New-York VIII pun
State candidate to pieces that tens of thousands OF
men who voted against Foger itching for the chance
N vote against Arthur and that the young leaders OF
tho old Arthur machine here are all against him for
slirhts and conceits except De Witt c. Wheeler The
latter will all work manfuly he says for an outside man