New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-27
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS, THE COUNTRY ROUND.
xur PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD
WAY LOUNGEB.


suoy would Alexander Ramsey OF Minnesota DO 1or
r,r.sdents He never touched anything but good luck
,o He Is sixty-eght years Old hale az brick, is
NJ the Scotch Irish crossed with the pennsylvania Dutch
stock can speak the German paois OF PennsyVama rs
well ma English has been In public life tince the me tine
publc schools opened In Pennsylvania IN Andrew
Jaeksons Administration and in Congress from that
s,ate forty years ago and managed the State campaign
there for Zachary Taylor This President made him the
first Governor of the Territory OF Minnesota, ~ when
State ne stands like George Clinton TO New-lork, Cen
era Harrison TO Indiana and Lewis Cass to Mchgan'
the creator Its metropolitan county is named for him.
and that dual-headed metropolis has 10000 urban
peope He the most distinguished citizen Minnesota
has ever had of the weathest and his stomach
as hard as his brains
Mr.. Bradley Hard tells that the manufacture of
fine paper such fine note paper now carried on IN
this country TO degree of excellence surpassed no
where. The only writing paper we import to any
amount the socalled Irish linen paper, which costs
about cents pound, duty paid and only brought
through slowly retiring fashion Similar linen paper
made here costs about 90 cents n pound the linen
trimmings from the shirt factories are worked into H.
The last agony American papers Is the photographic
paper which an imitation of very ancient ana ume-
spent sheet of paper made by an italian from an actual
sheet and then transferred TO the hhograpnc STONE
Mr. Hard says that photography has takR such nound
through the artistic tendency OF the people, especially III
advertising that is 1rst-cass autograph es
Establishment In which has not got all the work it
can do and makes it almost favor to obtain supplies
from It.
Retng in what is called cent store some time ago,
Iasked MI. Hard how package OF envelopes could be
acid for cents Said he: You can by plenty OF en-
welcomes for dollar and half thousand and at cents
n pack they will bring 81 thousand, making profit OF
IS per cent" Said Where is all the fine note paper
made Z" In New England, and some is made around
Eew-York, as at Paterson and Newburg The New
England excel in the business and are wonderfully
keen On any improvements made across the ocean we
export abundance of writing paper not only TO Mex
and South America but to England The largest mill
In the country is that Of William Whiting at Holyoke;
he makes ten tons day OF fine paper worth about $500
ton and like the other HoyOke MILE rams tNenty-onr
hours without stopping The West can make news paper,
and some the paper little cheaper than the
East The cheapest OF all paper is the ordinary grcces
wrapping which is made OF both straw and wood pulp
and is sold at pig cents pound The finest drawing
papers arc made by Crane x Co., at Dalton, Massa-
chusets hugu business is done in Christmas and
other cards of the chrome sort These cards are gen
orally prepared year ahead and the cards for next
Christmas are ready. Some OF these card makers
like Prang in Boston, export plentifully TO England
Abusness friend said TO Inc yesterday 81 must he mis-
informed hut have been told that Tiffany Co. get
larger income from their storage business than from the
sale of ewery." Said I: allow can you make that
ont :, As il has been told me-" said my friend, their
vaults contain the larger portion of the costly Jewels
which are at weddings and balls For instance
there marriage in wealthy society. and the gorgeous
presents are shown twice and then they return
to the vaults and locked up from the light of day.
their blooms suppressed unt sneh time an extrav-
agaut occasion calls for them to be displayed again.
The last sharp ruse shopping which also proves that
people study 5cent piece before they spend IT, Is the
running of free omnbuses prominent store the
ffla rho
made The omnibus line turning of in that region has
display card upon IT, No charge TO be set down at
Haherdashers" This little device is said &c take very
we'll and the omnibuses 60 filed and they start in gen
eral from the vicinity OF rival and similar stores
An old associate Of Henry Willard described him TO
me as large man, somewhat overworked, with the
finest set of teeth TO be seen In period Mr..
Willard my friend says, was born in Germany mani
tested liberal and manly tendencies and quarreed with
his father who protested against such innovations He
came to this country upon his resources and ac-
0ured the English language well that there Is hardly
perceptible of German accent. Attracted
to the character OF William Lloyd Garrison and to the
person of his daughter he married the latter and has
cultivated wife, and his delight is to sh Ow to his friends
his beautiful children Mr. Willard is said to be of fine
worldly yet highly prncpled nature. and does not lose
his faith In when he hears OF human slip here and
there
An eminent lawyer told me that Carl schurz's re-
cent reply to his arraignment by George w. Julian,
OF Indiana, for making land decisions while
Secretary OF the Interior favorable TO the NORTH
crn Pacific Company was the best piece OF work
sch1rs had since be in the Senatea good legal
argument well fine argument al ho1aieDi, ana he
was especially happy where lie showed that MI Julian,
when he Congress- applied to the different railroads
to be attorney. and not outstanding his long serv
ices ut the head Of the Land Office he not accepted
This opens the question Of Government officers iinue
diateiy after their resignation taking positions in cOrpo
interested in that department OF which
the lawyer had obtained full knowledge. Yet man is
entitled live according to his devotion and the Gov
must expect than to do justice even II
sts own pupils point the way.
The day of female lobbyists is almost hut have
heard OF one highly bred woman from Southern State
who considered that she had right to make money
through her social influence, and addressed Senators
and Representatives from the sunny South the street
or nj the reception asking them to vote for measure
which promised to give her funds to go abroad and shun
the Yankees This class Of fine high lobbying hardly
gets the newspapers because the agent is hid
den tospeak in that upper crust OF society," and takes
care t. keep of Congress unless in the most approved
company Some years ago there lived in Washing
ton a widow and her daughter. the latter very accom-
pshed In music and they first occupied part OF house
and then whole house. and II wac not clear what their
game was because the young was entirely too
practical TO look after matrmony. seer by her
cutting all the young dudes and handles and going
only among Senators and chiefs of the Navy and the
Army suddenly they disappeared from Washington,
and then the story told That the young had
all unasssted taken the contract to pass large claim
and had done it, and received 100000 for the work
The French population of this y is large in numbers
and supports least two daily papers and is almost
in sariably Republican where it votes Yet few French
men abandon the idea OF returning to tRlr own
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vncal citizen Europe and the Italian is perhaps only
less provincial The Italians do nearly all the business
the La Plata River but 1t is said that they take up
their fortuoe when made and go back to Italy to
enjoy Ii. French mechanics good deal en- |
pioyed in NewYork ia the finer ella ses of artistic work