New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-24
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
fMEN AND THINGS, THE COUNTRY ROUND.
xuy PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD
WAY LOUNGRR


WAY LoUNGRR.
Mr.. John Bradley, the livery-staole Keeper
.ocenty said to me- "Ryerson Brown have the lead
snah stable I'm Nev-York My firm has the next IN
snor,ance keep about one hundred and twenty
horses The other firm keep FIVE hundred lher uiIiS
for the month of January were over @oo'VoO' ihe'
have their piyate wires In three hundred resi-
dencss carriage is ordered from them just as you
would order District Telegraph boy. MT brauiey'
we hayelow fares cabs in Paris and Lon
don't ,"Just read this letter. said Mr. Bradley ana IL
answers your question completely" The letter was
from Brewsters of Broomest stating that they couiu
furnish him broughams for eleven hundred dollars
ap,ece thirty dollars extra for double pole The letter
was very explicit and described just what MS proue
uus he confined to TO come within the eleven hundred
Niece Said What is broughamf " us "na1
Won ordinarily call coupe. 1t holds but TWO persons
fhough sometimes there is little leather front seat has
win hold one more" Did you ever import any car
rIares Mr. Bradley" ayes, some time ago, brought
An an invoice from Paris from the best builders mere
Million Guet & Co. In my judgment they buiid the
finest carriages in the world Next to them, thnA'
come our Brewsters My Paris carriages cos'
me about ten hundred and hfty-hVe ooi-
lars apiece, duty paid. but had not the last Narn
coat put on them anticipated that the steam
h, might let steam in and II the steam should
ever strike them would have to take not irons ana IT,
move every piece of varnsh that had previously peeh
put on. When added the additional cost OF Varhsn ~
New-YOrk the price was brought ABOUT up W """' 'o
Brewsters charge There lie a duty OF 80 per cent on
mpored carriages That duty is what gives their large
proft to our New York carriage builders"
saidI: "Mr Bradley, you say the French carriages
are slightly superior to those made in New-forK DY he
best firms" "They are superior at least III INC
steel springs. The Americans have TOO much
facility in their patent contrvanees to make such mat
fers as springs instance the American springs are
passed through certain process quickly ana very
handsome spring is the result but 1t is not careny
made and In the severe winters we have mere lheSe
epngs frequently fracture and give us trouble rght IN
the midst of our business The French springs are MADE
by hand as you might say and they yield to pressure
and sprng back when the pressure removed and keep
n long time. The expense OF the American CAP Keeps
low carriage fares far in the future Avery remarKaDe
organization with closely reduced wages mlght put
New-York in the list of cheap carriage cities do not
expect to see it, however. But you must remember that
we have great number OF conrivances TO convey peo-
ME cheaply such as they do not have in Paris Our
conaguration" said Mr. Bradley, "as a city, is much
against cheapness and choice; you build city on an
island like lance where you have neither breadth nor
excrescence and OF course the methods ana prices OF
living are circumscrbed like the form Of your estate
Eew-Haven turns out cheaper cabs than Paris.
Twas told recently about two notable builders in New
York Peter OBrien and Mr.. DaTagh Some say that
OBren learned his trade in Ireland before he came here
others say lie learned it IN New-YOrk In those truly
artistic and independent days when the American boys
instead OF becoming clerks limbs of the law, custom
house officers ETC., loved to be mechanics OBren Is
approaching sixty years of age When Cornehns van
derblt IT,. put up his house at Fty-seyenth-st ana
Fth-aye he first had the cellars opened and eemened
md asked oBrien to make his estimates. OBren re-
plied: "Mr. Vanderbilt, will not raise superstruc-
fure there unless l can take out that cement My
reputaton Is involved in the walls shall put up If
not prepare the bed do not want to build the walls
II is said that he would not build them and gave up that
expensive contract. Mr.. Darragh, n New-1ork man,
has put up of the finest new buildings on TINS
island, such as the United Bank Building, the
Boreel Building the masonry part of Temple Court and
the two new houses for VanderOilt's sons-in-aw.
OBrien nut up the front Of The TRIBUNE Building;
Darragh the later additions. There are said TO be
about ten builders OF almost equal strength and
enterprise In this city. and the application OF arch-
lecture to carpentery and construction is unquesonaoy
affecting the pride of young who trying TO re-
tnrn 70 mechanical pursuits but somewhat blocked
by tie very foreigners whom they nave allowed 10
eupeisede them. From what hear. more than three
quarters of all the mechanics in this city are oil foreign
birth. 1t is shameful reflection on the genius OF
country which fifty years ago mad the boast that its
mechanics were all natives.
was speaking little while past with clergyman
who had once been a carpenter he said 10 me: Il
lived IN portion Of the country where my mind
came religious person and took up moras for study
In little while found my mind drifting toward divinity
instead OF carpentry. was a good builder ana my
work was wei spoken OF. But thought that to become
a portion OF a moral fundamentally would reflect more
credit on my young children then todding about my
feet thar TO continue 10 build dive ings and barns. so
entered the Church. received my commission to preach
was perfectly honest in my belief that had call to
preach and IN course OF time dIted TO large city
There found that had wholly mistaken my pursuit l
had not the education TO interest the rising ana powerful
generation brought up IN schools high schools,
and colleges. knew nothing abont music nor any OF
the lighter which illustrate preaching Yet could
not change Of late in life and continued 10 preach
until my hair turned gray and my children grew to he
men aud women, and then suddenly discovered that
had abandoned the great business OF the carpenter
for the empty profession of the preacher could not
preach as well large percentage of my congregation
Had continued to build and moved to large place
IA then resided n could have put up miles of blocks
OF houses. In the meantime had educated my children
TO be professional persons discovered too late that
had brought them up any own apprentices In the ear
penters shop would have made them all rich. would
now be rich myself and all my sons rich, II | had ad-
bered to my compass and rule aud lathe and plane"
Said 10 NV friend: "Were you deceived when you
laid down "a secular for an inspired pursuit" do not
know how to answer that question:" he replied "The
call 70 preach used 70 term IT, had more sincerity
IN the simple da,s of the first quarter OF this century
than IL Men who the plough pulled the bel
lows country FORGE or drove nails into new barn,
in those days amented the difference between their fate
and their imagination. The Church the public life of
the town But after interval OF fifty more years
there are other preaching than preachers; every
body has lis call preach il way The man who
mere talks morals and nterprets the Old and New
Testaments is at disadvantage. We art In a losing
occupation unless we ability than congre
cations. And that is pretty hard test nowadays OF
preacher The simple fact is that preachers know
more than we originally did and while faith is not
less power unquesUnaby less because not