New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-16
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS, THE COUNTRY ROUND.
THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF A BROAD
WAY LoUNGER.

terpretipg each Other A man OF ambition and
with q just mind, Think recently said to
me that he could forgive the late President
Garfield for everything but one, and that was
saying he did what the Golden Club was when
the manufacturers in his district upbraided him with
belonging 20 it, Said I: you are a club man; you
think that this world is more or less comprehended IN
clubs Garfield belonged to that majority OF men now
hardly understood the significance OF ciuD lhat
some learned BODY in distant part OF the world shoulc
think well enough OF him to elect him member was
matter Of congatulation with him. but that did not
relieve him from the suspicion OF his neighDors, who es
timated every man according himself and not py ns
club" "Clubs," said to my distinguished
friend "are methods of Disgusting ,ndiyduaity. 1t
might have pleased Garfield that he had foreign recog
milton, but the moment his neghbors twited MN WIN
his connection with Golden Club he said do not
know anything about It, like badge bestowed on me
because I am your representative Why should you
Judge Inc by decoration your enemies and mine may
have hung my neck r. Observing that my friend
hesitaed said to him Q" Garfeids neghbors we're cor
rect All honest Americans ought to look with suspicion
on a decoration of any kind bestowed oy foreign So
ciety upon their congressman"
Inaye noticed in Mrs. Stewards downtown building
how the addition OF two floors has improved that
ediace Yet 1t seemed high enough twenty years ago.
But since the expansion Of structures In New-YOrk up
ward and sideward both the Stewart stores have CON-
paratiyely sunk They painted the uptown store green
which made 1t about one-half Its former Size In
raising the downtown store there has been slight de-
Walton from the old stiff classical style OF Mr. Stewart,
more in harmony with MIR. Eidz's Irrelevant addition
to tile courthouse opposite Eidliz said that he would
have nothing to do with Tweeds courthouse that could
compile MIN into IT, There is little Renaissance Gohi
Ching OF the Stewart addition too as II the new man did
not want to belong to the old Grm.
asked at Delmonico's. uptown. yesterday where
Charles was The waiter with shrug said he was sick,
but further did not Money is not often an advant-
age to healthy man; the want or IL Keeps nun awe
the redundancy OF It takes away his stimulus ana in the
case OF who conduct large hosptlbe establishments
gives them safety and care ana false friends Charles
Delmonico seemed to to have sweet nature; yet
there was somethng In his eyes Of and weight II
he had been reaina man. fond OF books or intellectual
search coud have gone into another world when the
great restaurant annoyed him But he went out OF that
purely physical another physical life, ana there
no relief
Isaw two Cincinnati men, both Democrats, think, In
town last week; Mr.. Arnold the sonin-law OF rho mas
Jones' OF Covngton who nearly received the last Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor OF Kentucky ana Myron
Banning n Cincinnati business man. | asked these
gentlemen VINO would be elected Governor OF ONO.
They hesitated. Said L: Come! Give me the truth
"wen." said Arnold "nI were a Republican would
say that Foraker would be elected" Banning smiled
aud they rushed away.
Iyas talking during the week with friend OF Senas
tor Sherman who holds official place ut washington,
and he said: hear from Ohio that the liquor Inter
est divided by the Scott law certain percentage OF
the saloonkeepers had that they can do better under
the Scott law Than II bars thrown down. hgura
tvev spealtng That il to say Investment Of few
hundred dollars Is guarantee to careful saoonkeepers
OF the best trade told that the Scott law, In
stead OF consolidating the liquor interest against the
Republican party, has divided H." This led me TO say
to my friend. "Have you ever observed
tuat the barkeepers get their politics
from the men on the other side OF the BARI You take
hot 81 freauented by Republicans, and the man benin
the bar waite becomes Republican, because ne
likes the people waits and gets t. understand
why they wish keep their particular views But IL
Won take a low dive where the rum is bad,
and the society is bad. the barkeeper In.
auences the man on the side of the counter and
they are all Democrats in common" My acquaintance
smiled. said T. 81 know plenty OF Irish Catholic BAR
Keepers who are Republicans. know Catholic priests
who are Republicans TIE association really makes the
man"
John CockereIl has finally moved here from ST. Louis
aud become the Managing Editor of The World news
! paper In ST. LOUIS. although he mad to Kill an OBJ
streperous Rebel he was "a highly regarded man. Pos
sessng AN abundant nervous organization, he suffer
and love strongly. Being bdcneor. he has given much
OF his the oOmpensatiOns OF bachelors ana Is one
OF the founder Order Of Eks, and goes long dis
|
war he was drummer.bOy from OHIO, and think that
his father was the colonel OF regiment. Although
Democrat mis- experience has not led him to put the
deepest fat h In mere rebels he Union boy and Is
| IA Union man.
You would not suppose that General Sheridan had
enemies but It Is the fate OF successful men to be en-.
We'd heard General say during the week that ohert
dams promotions unjustifed and that ne dd not
belong 10 tne great scale of officers like Sherman Grant
/ thar ntn IN atpry
found that my friend had not been promoted like sher-
dan although at one time held higher grade In the
Army 30 felt further curiosity III the matter. My
muression is that citizens at large admire the elevation
ofsneridan the Generalcy He possesses
| one quality worth recognition His parents
| ma understand were poor Irish
people and had been long in TINS country when he
was born 10 them Yet his instincts, Notwithstanding
he Is Catholic have all been In favor OF DOM enl-
pre aud seuse three ideas deeply repugnant TO
the chiefs of the Rebellion can also say OF sheridan
that ne was his treatment OF the newspaper press In
tue war; gentle spirit. Instead Of thinking that men
who were seat to the to write were necessarily
marauders aud ntruders, took the phosophic view
that they had no choice In the matter and therefore,
when some poor needy naffed boy came 10 his side and
| SAID, GeneIa al, may ask you question: Sheridan
with the genial spirit of an fellow who had once
| been needy himself replied Yes my son. Keep
| faith with mo aud 1 will tell you all know
1 remember sitting 1T his side OF the greatest
occasions of my life when said to him: General, you
have won "a great victory. know II by the number OF
prisoners have the road. II you VIII give me
| something worth going to New-York for will start
from this place tonight and describe this battle" With
out much apparent interest in what was going TO do
but chiefly OF kind spirit, Sheridan took his map
showed me where was and what had happened Said
[, "How many men did tho Fifth Corps have when 1t
ed TO you T. For the only time III the narrative he
nesjtated and said: You not to print the number
| of men, because may have great deal OF war; yet
20 20 through. But Will tell you for your Information
| privately; the Fifth Corps had 10000 men,"
Ircport Presidential probabilities without the