New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-14
the st. Louis bar and knocks his man down every v.s
or two to show that he knows how to nut uu h,s hsnd

or two to chow that lac knows how to nut uu h,s hsnd
Lot Moirifs death recalls the remarkable length a.
public service Of Hannibal Hamlin of Mspe Ve az
Morrill, both out OF the Democratic nartv s..s
almost uniformly carried Maine IN the arst hal, =, -
century, and Hamlin. who was once n Democrats. a.
ator set up Morrill, for Governor and has been IN con
nnuous public service under the Republican parv !.
Senator Vice-Presdent Collector Of Boston and foreign
Minister. The Impeachment trial led tn such .,rao
feeling in Maine against Morrill, his omen svns,h
with Fessendens course that Mr. HamlIn came IN ths
Senate, and Mr.. washburn, who anatiye Of Maine
told me at the time that Morrill, had failed to be returned
because Of the Impeachment passion.
Imeta gentleman named Calvert citizen OF N.v
YORK. recently and he told that he was one OF the
descendants OF the founder of Maryland and said he
nsa singular fact that all the Calverts ever knew
Win TWO exceptions, OF whom am one were Protes
tants, and have recently become convert IN tho o,h
oho church." Well" said I, there is nothing remark
able about that the sons Of William Penn fell awav
nom bis faith and never returned TO It. and even Robert
Ingersoll is the son OF minister This Mr. Calvert
whom mention has son the publisher Of an enterprise
ing social magazine in Brooklyn.
When tall monuments risen sufficiently above tho
ground they somehow disarm criticism OF is prono,
tons. When the Washington Monument was only 10
feet high 1t was denounced sham by nearly all tho
architects chiefly because was column and not
thing else, like sarcophaus a mausoleum but now
that It has got to DO more than 300 feet high nearly
everybody wonders why IL stopped ,ong and. WHY
such praiseworthy performance was not carried ont
spontaneously The shafts raised in the early portion
OF our century, like that at Bunker HILL and another at
Baltimore, preserve the general respect very well,
though both Of these specimens fiat limitations the
flrstnamed obelisk and the second nearly a copy
Of the Column Of Traan Another monumental shaft in
nfrvi a. tba of
which recently examined where 1t stands in the outer
parts Of the town. and the little mans statue planted on
the summit seems TO be quite digned but OF the
sstuary around the base does improve close ex
animation. Henry Clay, too, has tall shaft in the
cemetery at Lexington, and Mr. Lincoln is buried under
bulky Obclisk For the finest specimens OF mortuary
monuments has TO to the works of Canova and his
cOmpeers. where symbolic of the grave Il deco
rated outwaTdIy with pictorial stauary preaching more
or less apparent alegory OF grief power and mortality.
The Barge Office the Battery, for which Cons
gresham Nicholas Muller native OF Luxembourg Ho-
land, labOred effectively, is pretty thing There SCENE
TO be doubt that it will serve its original
intention, which to receive the foreign passengers
and particularly the cabin passengers they arrived az
this port and introduce them to America in style
instead OF letting them be tumhed the pier of
ship and investigated by customs officers where there is
not place TO st down nor any civilized convenienees.
The steamship companies do not desire to have their
passengers taken TO the Barge Office retards them
coming into their docks and generally the case In
this country, eyerybodys business being nObodys bus
ness, the Government will adapt itself 10 the wishes OF
the steamship companies, and the steerage passengers
will reve in the superior comforts Of the Barge Office
Ihear that the Catholic Cathedral in Fifh-aye. ito
be completed speedily, and that some arrangement to
that end has been made, whether through subserip-
ton by money advanced for the purpose Is not re-
ated II is barely possible that large special gifts
have been promised by neghbors to bring the towers out
their foundations and let them climb into the heights
where Imagination has long them. The block in
which the Catholic Orphan Asylum stands, north OF tho
Cathedral has been stated by persons who have talked
to Mr. Vanderbilt within his idea OF the proper site
for gallery This block, and one In the rear,
were leased many years ago by the city at rental OF
something like dollar year for the benevolent pur-
poses they fulfill but it is said that II arrangements
made with the city and with the nsttuton,a very
remarkable gift is to be made to NewYork In connection
with property This is the only city in the Chris
tan world of anything like its wealth and population
which merely infantle public art treasures. London
has least three magnificent national museums; at
Kensngton, at Trafalgar Square and another the
British Museum besides the Tower collection Hampton
Court Gallery, and the Crystal Palace. Many Of tho
smaller cities of Europe which have 100000 people and
the public treasures to be revealed
in New-YOrk.
Twas asking the gentleman who has been prominent
In raising money for the pedestal to NJ Bartholdis
statue OF Liberty IL it inevitably to he put out In he
bay two three miles from the nearest point OF this city
He said he thought there was chance of its going
anywhere else since the Government had been
quete give the site for the purpose although he adj
United that such figure lose much Of its identity
with New-York by not being on this island so that
human beings could assemble around the base of it,
think" sad he that traditions OF antiquity have
influenced tile artist in putting his statue on small
island instead OF place like the Battery. There was
one famous Colossus Rhodes, which cost $4,000
and weighed 10000 pounds, and Fhdas who took tho
palm from ancient seupors put up several coOss one
OF them sixty feet high The biggest statue In Europe
now is Of Just that height and represents St. Carlo Bor-
romeo The statue Of Bavaria Is sixty-hye feet high
and ninety-ve feet with its pedestal After the stat
ne is put up in the bay" said friend think IL viii
serve 10 make the bay visited, and no doubt many
the viii run In close to II ana some others
will make regular trips to ii. When we consider whao
an amphitheatre of houses and people will ultimately
surround this bay. the Pharos in the centre will be
great thing and its burning torch will be- 50 to speak,
the eye OF the bay"
The question is often asked, Who made Greenwood
Cemeteryl IL was Major David Bates Doug OF Pomp-
ton. n j., II graduate OF Yale College and or Wese
Point and fine engineer He married the daughter OF
Major Andrew EllicOtt, who surveyed the boundaries
Of nearly all the old States lie also constructed the
inclined planes on the Morris Canal one OF which was
more than one thousand feet long and OF seventy feet
height He was of the authors OF the Croton Aqne-
duet and he began to lay out Greenwood Cemetery In
1897 having observed its beauty and availability whiie
surveying the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad several
wears before There had been received in this cemetery
by sale of lots more than S5oOo000 about ten years
ago Major Douglasss body lies in the Metropolis near
the cemetery gate. He died at Geneva, n " the homo
of secretary Foger and for three he was the pres
iden Of Kenyon College, Ohio
asked Nj CrosstOwn Carey whether any more srees
railroads to be put down In Ne"-iork oiS north
~ Thirty fourth ST. He said: No; not until general
railroad law ia passed The last constitutional conyen-
ton to save the city from its thieying Common Council