New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-22
r0WN TALR-ABOUI PERSONS And THINGS.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


A GOVERNMENT ISyEsTIGATIoN.-The accounts OF tho
several Duucaus father and sons who the shipping
Commissioners Office in this city to be investigated.
and the Duncans to regard the announcement 40
something akin q knel that summons them to give up
good thing TO fly to others that they know not Of This
is rather bad mixture of shakspearean quotation. but
apparently not more mixed than the accounts Of the
Duncans IL all other accounts be true They
seem to have affairs on flexible,
elastic, go-asyou-plesse keep-all-you-can, system
OF bookkeeping and nnanciering and the par
tculsr mystery about t. OF which the court proposes
take coguzance and seek explanation is the singular
uniformity with which the number Duncans employed
and their salaries aud expenses annually increase in
such proportion to the fees of the Office as to abb
sorb WHOLE leaving nothing for the Government out
Of the Governments business. The Shipping Comms-
sioners bill, under which the Duncan family acts.
made necessary twelve years by the excessive
charges and the responsibility OF the "shippns.mas-
tiers IN this port aud at San Francisco These ship
pingnasters" were yeritable "landsharks." They
boarded the sailor when in port and the diet which they
chiefly supplied him with was calculated TO make him
fit sit star Route jury. They kept him long as
bis held out aud when they finally allowed him to
ship again they put him on board shpina penness half
clothed and wholly drunken condition. Matters arc
much improved now, thanks IN part to the Shipping
Commissioners bill. But there is evidently room still
for Improvement, the general rejoicing among ship
owners that the Duncans to have overhaulng 10
any indication OF the condition OF the Office. The elder
Duncan is the genius who got up the Pilgrimage to the
Holy Land. with himself as the bright Exampar acting
az Captain Cook, Head Waiter and Bottle Washer, and
Mark Twain the Awful Example and Comic Historian
He used to Plymouth Sunday school with Theodore
Tlton aide; but he long ago seeded from that
church.
PALATABLE FIcrIoNs.-The saw-dusted floors and
other peculiar features Of the famous oyster houses Of
Dorlon sAafier and A. & p Doron in Fulton Market
to have disappeared with the rebuilding OF the
market The two firms now possess gorgeolsly fitted
saloons in hardwood and tiled floors and then prices
have accordingly. Changing the and eharac
ter OF an established restaurant is about dangerous
experiment changing those OF successful newspaper
play. One or two things remain unchanged, how
ever, In these two restaurants. The pleasing fiction
OF SADDLE Rock oysters" Is main aimed the bills Of
fare although there have been no SADDLE Rocks" IN
the for years The largest oysters OF every sort
Rockaways Shrewsbury aud Blue Ponts-are served as
SADDLE Rocks" and extra price charged for them
Even saddle Rock Clans" are offered, when there
never was such clam known. In fact, the has no
meaning other than applied to the large oysters
clans, and is fiction which decevcs for IL Is well
known that the sma and medium sized oysters are The
best mystery OF this market is the difference In the
prices In these restaurants which almost side by
side and OF equal cost and rental In one of them Gus
pays 35 cents for stew which only charged at
25 in the other and bottle OF Bass costs cents
in than in ths other. IN the fiction
Saddle Rock Stew is quoted the Justification forthe
overcharge for the OYSTERS but there is such thing
Saddle Rock" Bass
The PoTTERs INTEREsT.-The Hon. ]. II. Brewer,
Congressman. secretary Of the Point Pleasant Land
Company and vicepresdent Of the American Real Es-
Exchange said yesterday that the Trenton potters
still In fear that the dominating Influence IN the
Treasury Department of the china and earthenwareim
porters would further leopard their interests. Tue
increased projections which would naturally come from
advance In the duty of 10 per cent is in danger OK
being lost through undervaluatons. The painted,
printed and otherwise decorated liable to be I'M
dervaued Mr. Brewer says, because 1t is often orna-
mented after very costly designs. As the representa-
in Congress OF the largest manufacturing district in
New.Jersey Mr. Brewer is naturally anxious that his
constituents should all legal rights and benefits
Their business has suffered hitherto from Unfair inter
pretations law; and unless a reasonable amount oil
justice s shown, Congressman Brewer promises some
Interesting disclosures at the next session, in when
certain presentgving customs brokers and two WELL
known Treasury officials will appear In decidedly
disad yantageous light The meeting OF the National
Putters' Association which to have been held az
Long Branch July has been postponed because ola
failure 10 secure proper accommodations.