New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-14
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND.
THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF A BROAD


The dispersion Of az thing OF census IA worth
note From the seven sons OF the first Dutch Living
son there could be- In succeeding generations the sons
were as many tens Of thousands Of yngstons To- dav
and it would appear fron the social ne wa that there
must be many Take any OF the early Norman noble,
OF England 700 years ago, when names as Arundel
tRandall Stanley, Howard, Townsend aud We're began
and the regular increase of younger would almost
make nations In 700 years there 100 generations;
seven in the second generation would make 49, In
the third 343 in the fourth 2401 in the seventh H.
649 While there is also DEATH the increase independ
ent fit OF the divides nearly in half, yet
even the half increase finally becomes incompatible.
That may be why many prenOms given to aristo
cratic elder like Henry weysford Charles Pantag
enet Rawdon Hastings real name and the last OF
! extinct peerage when the world was young II was
Halo, HamT How are you, 'shemw "Dogon you,
JaphetW But now the census absorbs distinctions
that 1t has to be OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Roma-Roger
Norman-Ronulph Montague Plantagenet Vaux,-also o
real name.
Much is said about how the pulpit the press the Pres
dent and other institutions ought to respect the pro-
pretes of life, but lawyers seem to go they please.
Here criminal lawyer only yesterday denouncing
unfortunate girl who had trusted apparently
! spectacle "a cyprian and another cyprian's
daughter and yet in ten minutes the full jury stamps
this frightnlly acerated victim Of the lawyer lady
stainless mother except in the seduceIs cheat and gives
What chvay what truth what low reward even JUST
| fed such inhumanty and lying I'm the name OF law
towards who do this sort of thing OF course lose their
cases. and finally all their wOn practice, and have to
find countries and colonies to start afresh In, but
even that hardly washes out the cruelty rufan
nAct upon poor child whose greatest crime has been to
suffer the pains OF mOherhood for q rich scamp.
On the matter Of lawyers brutality will tell a new
anecdote few years past John r. Mclean. the youth
full publisher OF The Cincinnati Enquirer was made
witness in a suit and George X Hoadley examined him
with what the witness thought undue advantage and
severity. You old scamp" said Mclean in whisper
nj the door, will he at your Office rs soon
rs Won get there Arrived at Hoadley's Office, Mclean
closed The door cooy, and began: You had me In
place that gave you your way, didn't youi saw you
enjoyed H. Now you old rcprObate and coward" Here
Edgar Johnson generally called Egg because lie Is
under Hoadeys yolk being his partner, interposed
Edgar" said Mclean. "if hear anything from you
will hoist that window and drop you down the area
Then turning to HOadley he gave what the lawyers
lcarnedy call the exordlum. The first sentence took
Hoadeys selfrespect in the front and flank the second
made him dance, at the third he said he wouldn't stand
f. wont youl" said Mclean; what you going to
do about III had take yours where You had me foul
Now. you old villain you don't enjoy st." Mr.. Hoadley
never was satisfied after that days homeopathy till he
went into the Wild wide business OF starting news
paper.
Mr. A. T.. Conger. OF Akron and Canton Ohio ana
Syracuse " " whose manufacturing firm is the largest
consumer of crcble steel In America said TO me
last week about the Tariff Commissioners report: We
make the steel parts OF farmers reaping machinery
The change OF classification in crcibe steel and the ap
parent reductions expcrtly DONE but with no
other intent than to make agricultural machine makers
pay nearly half cent per pound more for the steel
than now or exactly 81. O55 ca per hundred tons
duty than at present The increase has been made by
Ptsburg threatens the worst consequences in Ohio
where agricultural machine shops have created many OF
the largest towns IL must have given the man who set
II M on us so a great deal OF time and headache to
change the classes figures TO show apparent
reduction and yet conceal from the delcacy OF his
little game 1t H. in fact, struggle TO mark up raw
material and mark down machinery and implements. 1t
shaves our profits clean out and adds them to his"
| A retiring member OF Congress remarked recently
The manners OF Congress have greatly improved since
the war and between parties there is cordial personal
mngng The last relic OF the intruder and egotist Of
the old Southern style like Pryor and IIndman Is Black
burn OF Kentucky, nuisance TO both parties though
his impenerable check perhaps does not perceive It,
He has az much chance to be Speaker Frank James
though II is barely possible that the Kentucky Legis-
ature might get low enough to elect him to the Senate
Congress might well disband under such Speaker
ship "a Il would not have enough moral influence LETT TO
protect Il from insult The respect paid In the Repub-
icnn press to Mr. Carlisle Ia Blackbnrns anxious point
now; he broods upon 1t aggressively' he denounces
It,"
A mechanic OF this city has working model OF fire
escape which folds up in fhuer like the oxand-geese
game or erryboat guards. and lets down sixty feet
from storage of only five feet Fire escapes
might be made pretty architectural features OF hotels
and factories those In use IN NewIork inspire by
their ugness ceaseless memories of fire and constant
doubts OF their availability.
Barley Campbell the playwright says: I do not
think civil service reform will succeed here There
WAS "A postmaster knew in Pennsylvania, to
whom said: Andy Johnson's the boy for renomina-
ton! Amt you for himP No Don't you like his
pr1nciplcsr Yes, but he's got party behind him. :
PshawP said 7. what does the miserable patronage
mattcrP Do you that empty mail bagf said the
westminster Amt 1t good bagi Why don't II stand up
emptyl My son, don't you ever lean up against that
goodbag empty, till 1t is filled with post-onces mar
shashps, ctcetera. "
Dwight Lawrence having calmly surveyed the situation
on behalf OF Governor Cornell, says Grover Cleveland Is
going TO be failure and Is already uncomfortable Del
egatc McGinns OF Montana, Democrat says the Presi
dental nomination in that party is all barren waste
The late Lot Morrill, once delivered address the
death OF his colleague Fessenden which seems to ne
graceful and with understanding. III contained this
sentence: In him the intensely practical so asserted
its prcponderance the ideal in action ms to present
10 superficial observance the lack Of the finer sensbies
He did nothing from impulse, and on the most exciting
occasons could be cool and free from an irrepressibe
restlessness IL calm, high resolve persistent
and tenacious in its triumph over passion and sentiment
He was not theorist the visions OF abstract specua-
tion did not inspire him with confidence He saw pass
ing events rs were In retrospect No public man ever
more herocay followed the leadership of his reason and
Judgment and with loftier disdain of inferior guild
ance" This was delivered in 1869. Many years AFTER
ward I went to the Treasury Department and Tor the
first time in my life shook hands with secretary Moir
there He said" Do you mbcr the speech delivered
on Mr. Frsscuden's deathi have always been thank
full TO you for spirit in which you Interpreted IT,