New-York tribune., 1883-06-03
YORK DAILY TRIBUNE SUNDAY 1ssa- TWELVE PA0Fs


| said to be an elegant museum OF engrsvings mr.
| Law Could has recently become q book-buyer, and
has agents freouenting the auctions and specia ses
| He is making some mark in his collection OF Amer
cana of typographical literature and OF rare mscoi
neous books As yet his mind has not taken any spocai
bias Mr. Vanderbilt also buys books as he buys pant
pgs through suggestions from accomplished friends ana
almost invariably by agents who are on the lookout ior
| him Mr. W. I. Andrews has fine library OF both
| Americana and French books OF the eghteeh'h
century and is folio wing Robert Hoe In similar ie'
| Mr. A. Duprat Of No 10 West One-hundred-aho
twenty-third-st., who is said to he HoDanuer VI "a
Dutch stock and is auditor OF Of the Western rail-
roads has fine library, strong In Original euIon
the English masters like Dickens, Scott rope, pyu'
| Milton etc He collects French BOOKS "ncn NC mus
tra:es with modern etchings, has growing cooe.
eighteenth century hooks and has a noleu eoiiev - "
| ivory sculptures Mr.. V. A. BLACK oi No o
| Thrtv-tbrd-st. collects fine books AID lnda paper
| ,,., ona nroofs Of Durer and Rembrandt He
sa,a 90 beautiful copy of Les Baisers" Dius-
| trated by Dorat In lo'o
| ooa boot-coector here Is II. Pean Du Bois who Is
an insurance lie is said to be oil Hugueno.
,ion and is the New-York contributor to lie Ltpe OIL
par. He has an Immense library in Brooklyn strong
in tbe French classics in the fine editions and IN OLD
othic books, and particularly books OF lne Schoo "
| Louis XIV. prepared by Nauteu, Drevet anu Euei-
vuck He owns a copy OF the autograph album oy tne
Alfred De Sfusset and Others, which is worth $i,ooo'
| other book collectors in New-York are Judge DAILY,
Rravton Ives g. i. NJ Barlow, Mr.. kalDheisch'
Mr. sellgman and Mr.. II. F. sewel. OF biook-
lyn q shipping merchant Mr.. seweI is strong In
Durer and Rembrandt and In old back-letter poohs'
Mr. Du Bois it ia said, can tell Durer by merely ieee
the paper and he owns copy Of the g Roman de 10
Rose which cost 5000 Another collector OF books In
New-Yor well known among amateurs is Dr. Weinar'
ply sician second-ave., who has one Oh inc hnoS'
| galleries of eDgravngs in this country Mr' Joly
Bol allot a buyer in Lvingston-place mas spien"u
collection of French original editions of Hugo musset
| etc.
At This moment it is believed, large hotel enter
prise is being launched in the United States unless
| may be at Denver, Col. Hugh Smiths maghihceht
hotel ON Park-ave Is still unopened and probably uh-
leased This hotel is of the most eminent oDects IN
the nrofle of upper New-YOrk. The tightening times
assist the Notwithstanding hotels. ana the Ola ooe
man House. called the Leland is one of the bright
est objects in Broadway flushed with light upon It's red
wood wanscots and its bars capeted in San Francisco
| style.
friend tells me that corner" prominent in which
are English capitalists, have bought the largest remain
ing tracts of black walnut lumber and expect to drive
the rates high In woods the prices are very low
Al the dedication of the big Bridge was impressed
with what of the speakers said about the loss oi lie
among the workmen falling from great heights o' rig
| gers masons, painters, wire wrappers, etc ABOUT
twenty If I remember correctly had been killed ana
forgotten In creating the work The thought occurred
TO me: May not those obscure dead assess some toI
upon the multitude for which they built way shail
the million 90 thOughtessy over and give no heed 10
| those crushed human careers. whose sinews were
painfuy drawn into the wire and their blood moriced
In the stones Skin for skin, and all that man hath
will he give for life The Valkyrcs were even then ID
the air indicating the sacrifices TO be made and the next
holiday choked the footpath with the dying
Large and handsome hotel been built at Newport
News by Mr. untngtons associates and 1t Is said hat
coffee steamships from Brazil direct are to land there
and not 90 up 10 Baltimore. sending their cargoes
straight to the west city is still predicted on the hgh
blugs there Baltimore relatively 10 Hampton Reads
"a Albany is to New York City The mouth Of the bay
and confluence OF Its channels ought to create very
large place. Yet liverpool far out OF the convenient
lines OF commerce. draws trade from Bristol which Is In
the eve OF the Channel. The trade of New-f oy
steamship the Capes of the Chesapeake Is one OF our
| greatest feeders Norfolk. Old Point. Newport News
and Portsmouth ought twenty years TO contain pop
uation OF 100000 at least III the aggregate The sum
mer heats Oh the James River can now Oe escapeu ny
rapid trains to the mountain SUBMITS and Mr. shoelus'
who keeps the great winter hotel AT Fortress Monroe,
keens the Greenbrier White sulphur sprng resort also
now distant 800 miles thirteen hours Leaving FOR
tress at o'clock NJ the Springs are reached
somewhat after midnight The same train leaves wash
ington City in the afternoon. and the Huntington
| road now uses the Pullman coaches. The Chesapeake
| and Ohio sy stem Newport News and wash
iuetou and ON Memphis and Caro.and has no parallel TO
| the South until Chattanooga Is reached. As Mr. A.
Pore recently told this road was at first engineered
merely to carry old Virginia planters 10 tue Springs
IL now makes time from Washington to Cincin-
| natl that the Baltimore and Ohio does.
"A woman saw another being dragged, as she sup
posed by poiccman,-tbe latter being really assisted
by one,--and the first woman screamed and made the
manic" scream has been from early thought the
correct thing 10 do whenever there was OCCASION ior H.
large little. scream. however, can be AS tragicai aS
the rebel yell the Indian whoop and nothing Is
more reprehensiDe than the silly resort to nervous
shrek whenever anything exciting and but half compre
| bended is taken in. Our gTandmothcrs baked their
slapacks incessant sound Df bcsieging Indians
| while the modern screams Tor a croton bug
roach "a mouse
VIII can forete the fate of States railway systems
The Reading Railroad for years restricted Its books ana
nlace Of stock transfers 10 prevent the New-YOrk
stock Exchange "jumping on it IL wa'des<neh t"keeP
coal from coming New York and was to be Philade
pbia's one stable friend Now, behold. 1t has become
New York property parcel Of the new Vanderbilt and
Ptslurg system and It's docks are at Jersey CITY by
absorbing the Jersey Central Railroad the Read
ing reazcs Commodore Vande bts first advent ure, 10
control the Central and build 1t West lie was not able
| TO master the strong will OF Mr. john Taylor Johnston
and retired into the Harlem property where he eng-
necred the only completely successful corner" IN our
annals The Reading Railroad was one OF The schemes
Of Stephen Grar and after his death II was opened 70
the conl field in lSi2,-fortyone years ago. GiIard
failed In his attempt unite the SchuylK and susque
| hanna valleys by "A coal railroad. English capital built
the work years later the North Pennsylvania
Railroad was opened. and hdeons accident To sun
| day-school marked the event soon afterward The
absorption OF this latter railroad by the Reading was
nearly concideut with the opening OF the Boun Brook
ate YORK aud cnllanse OF both Kendng and