New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-29
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS, THE COUNTRY ROUND.
TIE PERSONAL MOTIFS AND NOTIONS OF A BROAD
WAY LoUNGER.

Poor Jack Waller! Yachting on angry bill
lows 80 many years to be killed by falling out OF niue
wagOn / him only yesterday, it seems, on BROAD
way and felt his surcharged smile running over MS race
| like good measure OF barley. He was inherently
merry moved to joy by passing occurrences, looking
back among the young for his pleasures time-fnder
peasu this city where pleasure Ia submerged In
fierce Mammon and yet shrewd and holding his own IN
business hut aughngly He told me last month that ne
was tired OF sailing, having been at II twenty years.
and now It that when we are sureited Win our
| lifelong amusement the tragic hour Is near MIS-
Waller was the daughter OF James Nye, the first Gov
and Senator Of Nevada, and had his fine appear
ancc large bovine eyes, creamy skin and good stature
She and Jack Waller had beer playmates He left no
children. At his parents cOuntry-hOuse senator Nye
his last days alive and there sighed away the most
nelodous buge that blew from the stump III this
State in the revolt of the Free Soil Barnburners.
Brief is the prize-fghters day. Sullivan has been
going to the Russian baths when in NewYork to wash
the rum out OF him." the gossip there said; now he
falls, not the gladiator from xterior wounds but bed
from within, where the lungs exclaim against his inhu
manity to himself No prize fighter came to any
thing Morrlssey left nothing and was saturated with
disease Heenan knocked himself ont OF time In early
manhood. Elliott thief and convict and died In
his boots while arrogating to himself the empty cham
plOnship OF America" In the Rebellion prize-fghters
proved have neither endurance ordinary preserv
| alive Ranken. the bully giant OF Philadelphia
was always I'm disgrace at the head Of his company.
Bradley who beat him, never rose above low sailors
| GROCERY. Tom IIyer went around consumptive and
superluous all his closing years. But the tavern and
dance house keepers who the hackers OF these prize
fighters and pet them forward fro puppydom to brute
DOM often live well and have their countryplaces and
bowers and stand IN good credit with radesmen These
the men who ought TO be sent to prison When Joe
CobLn came out OF Auburn jail he rcpentantly said:
Liquor has been my misery I'll never drink 1t again:
| I'll keep saloon"
Mr.. T. r. Crawford has purchased beautiful estate on
| the Sound mile from stamford, Conn lie was In the
| Mexican War and was wounded az Monterey. His
grandfather, Judge In Westcheser County, was ex-
ecued by the British In the Revolutionary War For
many years he built ships at Williamsburg, some of
| which are yet ahoat.
Charles Blacke who died at Toms River. " j., dur
ing the week. was typical young politician under the
Machine and possessed all the good traits Of those I'M
pulslye II forward young Generous to fault Civ
ing his time and labor and money to olcegetting for
Others doing much good Ioor and deserving people,
with n fairly large income, probably leaving moth
ing he illustrated the good and the evil side OF the city
politicians career His his but in the sys
Of things became necessary In order to discharge
his nnumerabe obligations that his State Senator Con-
gresham and all whom he nominated should accept his
selection ~ pasemen In time they refused TO do
the OF Republican defeat He gricved over this but
was poWercss 10 chasen himself He though; his sac
rdces aud activity entitled him TO control and that I'M
grateful motives animated his creations lie continued
hind people to the last discouraged and
sick he was In very early life he had been sporting
man, butcher and a sucr. These beginnings, well "a
he compensated for them, told against him in theman
aci1ent Of educated lie purchased hooks and tried
10 catch MP to the day: e too late. He died re-
GREETED and almost without enemies lie told Inc in the
midst Of the sawar rebellion that he never had acted
on that side from any love Of COnking but from real
| affection for Arthur
II would be interesting society reading il another in
truson into private e to the names OF the pupils at
New-York City seminarcs. | observe here daughter
OF Mayor Means, OF Cincinnati daughter OF Alfred
Cowlcs OF Chicago the daughters OF Governor a. r.
shepherd who have from far beyond chihuahua,
Mexico n happen walk along Fifth ave OF an after
! uaou The educational Interest OF Ncw-York has be
come very strong business feature also, and some Of
| the older seminary keepers have become rich.
friend tells me that the hale Ex-Governor OF Massa-
chnsetts Alexander Rice, who must be sAty-two or
sxty-throc years old. hns become not only husband
hut father again. Ills former me- s-room colleague In
Congress- Henry h. Anthony Is for the second time pros
trnied with something apop.ectc Ben; Perey POorc
Anthony, committee clerk long has just gone out OF
Washington correspondence ms Anthonys head fails
The cop de 1race that Anthony gave sprague like
the same service that Colonel NewcOmc rendered 10 his
kinsman at Parliamentary election: he beat the rascal
nj the pol but smashed his fortune doing aadwent 10
ia, Charter House to await the day he should say
AdsaD" II is the last quail on toast that does the
bnsiacrs.
senator Penllcton dI OF take part in the late cleo
tiun Ia the city OF Cincinnati spend any money
therein hes his customary subscription His friends
tell me says politics Is not worth his attention on
the scrambe-and- purchase principle.
few Minutes conversation had last week with Mr..
John H. Duff OF Boston, the last OF the great new
coap,es in Wall street. revealed campaign that was
tragedy almost Of the PROF ortons Of the Gunpowder
Plot Deriving business instincts from his father, who
Hannibal aud ST. Joseph Railroad years
before the Rebellou-that father who also saved the
Union Pacific Railroad by his personal strength and
credit in the collapse OF ls73,-the son. educated mild
refined quietly resolved 10 make great fortune Tor MIN
self Behind him Ave millions OF dollars the ac-
QUESTIONS Of unusually prosperous family. lie dd
not enter without entertainments and iu III
formation and sagacty that still iluminates with Its
"reminiscences the gulf he has passed over one thing
e left behind him. as Christian left his roll In the Phi
prm's Progress suspicion. Ills dealings were 80 large
that, unknown a. he was the masters OF the street
thought they detected each other In the dark Ten to
thirty thousand shares day he fed TO or took from the
market His broker stranger previously to him, nc
quircd potential name in the Exchange for the magni-
tude Of his trades Yet Napoeons strategy In vain II
Ncy Is selling him on every battlefield. Tho splendid
fortune disappeared like the Second Empire at sedani
another operator with Mr.. Duff, Mr. Chaplin comimtted
suicide the broker rcstored threequarters or million
but has three millions In his establishment ana family
yet aud now begins the suit at law for full restitution
As the house went up 50 It shall come down.
Mr.. william Turnbull, well informed on the SUBJECT
remarked to last week. Z" The country seats ana
eotlcs M the English gentry and nobility nearly all
destitute of modern plumbing and sewerage cOnVeh-
ences and Americans would not occupy premises thus
exposed 10 lors aud evers" Said |: why 10 their
rivers give ont malaria like ours = Because the
country has been titled many centuries that the rivers