New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-22
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.

laid to me ast week. taking his pour bore IKE the owner
of q Tslly-Ho stage.
Iucs Tuttle general ticket agent OF the Eastern KALI
road, who sends thousands OF passengers 10 m"un'
Desert tho White Mountains, Montreal etc. says
This year the boarding doing the business
the hotels are behind. attribute it to bad year IN
Wall Street and State Street The brokers are the best
money spenders in the land Their funess or emptiness
is the key the prosperity of the best hotels.
Senator Eugene Hale in the practice of law has made
little fortune for himself OF fifty thousand to hundred
thousand dollars. His wife is said to have twelve
hundred thousand, and with her mothers interest
million and half.
The Rev. E. p Roe the novelist. has been spending
some days at Coney Island writing his new story for
which he has large cash Offer or his royalty. III
dyidual books Of ais sold 100000 copies He Is
straight fne-looking OF perhaps forty-seven WIN
dark eyes and full lark beard manly features and
shakespeareau forehead and impresses one with MS
sincerity and conscentousness He Is one OF the hst
amateur gardeners small fruit rasers in the country
living at Cornwal-on-the Hudson. He built ana sui
teaches the church West Point. His brother VINO
had a summer hotel at Cornwall and for whom he in
dorsed became victim Of the West Shore Railroad, Tor
which he had extended hopefully. but its swarms
of Italian abOrers ruined and In the sequel
the Mr. Roe heavily involved To the LABOR Oh
having of this debt ho has addressed himself with
Christian courage. His first book. Barriers Burheu
Away" was projected in the ruins OF the Chicago nre,
looking up at Robert Colyer hollow church walls ana
The Fran hst gave about 5000 for It, leaving him the
une xpectedy large copyrights The fourth book pub
Usher It is said offered 1900 for the manuscript MI
Roe pushing forward in the line of moral and social
fiction and il often sitting up by the judge In the
police courts pioneered by the police TO the opium
dens. His purpose Is missionary rs well Us literary
Ifel in near Long Beach last week with tall Exon
federae the region OF Great Falls on tue Potomac
River Virginia, who said he was born In New-Hamp-
shire and went South when child. He was shot
through the arm ut Pines riding In on Federal
picket lie told me that his youth he lived near Ps-
Getaway Maryland and was In that country when sur
RAFT the father OF John Surrat and the husband OF MIS-
surratt came in there Said he "Surratt was an al
yenturer as we considered; he had swarthy face ana
beard like spanard, and think nobody knew just
where he came from. He was Catholic, however, ana
met his wife at Piscataway Catholic church She was
much younger than he was and 1t was considered quite
descent for her to marry him She Miss Jenk-
ms lie kept small CROSSROADS store and traded WIN
negroes and bought grain and tobacco and SLOWLY
worked his way up until after he attained moderate
success the opposition to him relaxed" had never
heard this description given Of the elder surra ana DO
not mention it from having had personal conhrma-
ton of the story The same informant IN response 10
question OF mine whether there was not at one
time considerable settlement OF New-fork Farmers
around Fairfax Court House. replied: Yes. but they
NewYork State who had been driven ont Of the manor
countes and two OF them we're reputed among us TO
have been concerned in the murder OF sherln az Dei
Mr. Washington Mclean was telling me last week OF
an account Henry A. Wise gave him after the war OF
going TO the relief OF william Slade OF New-anpshire,
who was Congress forty years ago. He had expressed
some abolition views there. aud huge Georgia Ouiy IN
Congress thought II woud be popular thing at nome 10
insult him publicly SO he walked up to Mr. slade and
snit
Wise had been struck with the beautiful womanly face
OF sade. lie went mp to the bully and said: You
cowardly dog spit mo now! I'll cut you INTO DOG
mea, What I" exclaimed the unwashed fellow.
slade who had quietly wiped the sptte oh looked up
surprsed he knew Wises face though Wise had never
spokeu 10 him. Mr.. Wise" he said don't get into
dineuty with this man on my account" lie a man !!
said Wise; I'll get into difficulty with him. He
knows his man this time, too. slade become Governor
OF Vermont in 1914
T, poston recently met son of the founder OF the
Adams Express COMPANY who ga some interesting
ponts His father began the express business Win III
orally nothing and his own carrier and distributor
An had so few that he could attend 10 them
rersonay delivering parcels whether OF money or ner-
chapdlse their The further ne proct eed INTO
the business the darker grew the path and his wife was
unable nc one time to 20 church make visits. be-
cause she had bonnet or gown that would co her
husband credit Yet Mr. Adams was sure that he haa
great thing though he also had to face rival Harm
denis Express Company. which was somewhat earlier In
date In this emergency Mr.. Adams found man with
peana Mr. DinsmOre. who is now at the head OF the or
.riyation and who Is said 70 be worth anywhere from
three or four millions twenty millions of dollars He
nut his shoulder the wheel brought Mr. Adams out
triumphanty, and the Harnden Company for want OF
similar methodicsl sponsor. lapsed into poverty while
the Adam. EI press msgnates lend money by millions TO
the railroad companies
ohserve that contractor ut Bradford. in the oil re-
gons has the Job OF preparing the road bed from Bs
more TO Philadelphia for the Baltimore and Ohio extern
sion The sum involved Is put down at Sl0OO.OOo
IL is an easy country to build railroad through the
chief work being ping OF the wide streams and
br,dre across the Susquehanna. The Reading Railroad
extends to Chester sixteen miles below Philadelphia, on
the very track the Philadelphia and Baltimore Company
abandoned after the close OF the war; when TO get out OF
the tidal district they built cutoff through the hills to
the Schuylku River The extension or the Baltimore
and Ohio line New York is clear admission that all
railroads to get business enough must come to this port
While tho Baltimore Company IL making Baltimore
mere side station their line, capital here and In Bal-
more is embarking In through line OF steamers which
will have effect of rival line to the West and SOUTH
via Baltimore, the Western Maryland Railroad now
constituting not only trunk line down the great valley
but an accessory line to the new South Pennsylvania
Railroad to Ptsburg. The Western "aryland like the
Erie Railroad was projected merely to accommodate
certain local districts which the State had not already
provided with rail. Mr. John ". Garrett often said
that IL was money thrown away but the road turning
out to be general nstrumentality.
The late Mr. Duff OF Boston, who built the Hannibal
and Ct Joseph Railroad was connoisseur In paintings
and had opportunity not long ago TO look at some
of them IN the residence Of his attorney on PARE
q: lie was the OF one OF Vbert's masterpieces
representing two priests cardinals who had quar-
RELIED the picture has been engraved and familiar to
the public. was much struck with Russian painting
by Russian artist, delineating troop OF exiles for
siberia going through the forest with their covered
arnna and suddenly arrested to the Greek prayers