New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-04
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND.
TIE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF 4 BROAD
WAY LOUNGER

Driving up the Riverside Parkway last Sunday -"
that carryalls running on 1t, taking people '
round trip Tor % cents 10 the cape overlooking Mih1
anyo. Most of the blasting is done and he overlapping
borders OF the drive begin 10 show walks and -od ANA
other adorumcnts This is 81 cudid place or siainaiy
and might hc made q great open gallery ~ American
WORTHLESS gazing down tho Hudson River; and AMONG
others Hudson himself should De placed there " i ho'
generally known that IN the House OF Represent ~
Washington picture Of Hudson discovering tue 'I'r'
which bears his About half way mp tue h'c'Io
Drive gentleman IL bdildng an elegant house Of pde
limestone with tasteful turrct bay ll in stone III t"'
corner Il viii not bc long before the Norung-idc Dive
which runs along the rocky ledge between Manhattan
VILE and the Central Park is also assabe and couece"
with the Riverside Park. Then the drive v1 DC con
nuons from Fifth ave and Fifty-ninh-st. To Nanha-
tauyc or rather 30 Caremont, where restaurant ana
pavilion will he needed The drive comes By inc
Dakota Hotel.
The Third Avenue Railroad Company has eVcayated
whole square Tenth OPT osite YucTrinr~ Drew"
ery 70 pn III their arshcds rcpairhops and Nv
and driving engines operate the cable railroad 10
High Bridge No blasting required on THIS efolu
the soil being successive layers OF gravel ana sah
There f, considerable ascent which could hardy nave
been by horses to the plateau several squares
10 The north. ANA up this the cable viii operate trains o
crs and thus High Bridge instead OF being separated by
% considerable gap from direct communication as Is inc
case with tie elevated railroad viii he easy ride ana
teTLd Avenue line VIII then extend from the Post once
20 U0rlcm and Harlem to Manhaanvile' thence
to High Bridge AMI along the banks OF the Harlem RIVER
to Harlem again.
The beer season is at hand. Yuenglmgs brewery
are $1,000 barrels OF beer aud this quantity Is eNcee
by few other brewers. Nearly all the brewers become
rich it i. related that Ehret is worth twelve millions OF
dollars and is sometimes loss to know what to 40
with his money. Claussen Is also very rich Ruppet
has one OF the splendid houses on new Fifth-ave
opposite Central Park. Yuensling has connected his
stables brewery with solid brick masonry put III
Russian bath private use, and has 200 employees
These brewers 20 Pennsylvania 10 buy their SpiS
horses they say that it is no afecaton when re-
quircs them to heavy teams as they take enormous
loads Lager beer worth about - barrel; hops are III
about % pound and those from New-lork ota'
are considered than hops from the West ana the
American hop said to he the best adapted for export IN
the world British beer Is IN great part made Of
Nev-Yorl hops. Ice has been dispensed with in most
blvcrics of the class, which freeze the storage
vaults by chemicals and pressure. At one OF the brew
cries mentioned the three engines which make the cola
cost about $50 OOO they four or five years
their value in ice Increasing quantities OF ale are
brewed in NewYork. and ale does not cost as much ar
lager beer.
Being in a French bookstore last week gentleman
came in with large French book TO sell, and as he
passed ont the merchant ad roial That is the second
member Of the Legion Of Honor has been in here to-
day. Did you see his ribbon and star T.
Wall Street il always an interesting picture TO person
who can get Information. Newst which runs from Wall
through IN Of the stock Exchange Is the cmeI
place 10 zee the sights especially now IN bright weather
In one place you viii find wagon dispensing boxes 81
Jspauc,e tea sets at - case and the oilers around
there aye Just the 20 buy such unnecessary presents
to take home. All the queer new publications are
hawkcd IN New. There stard the curbStones the
l-csers from al parts Of the world watching The petro-
lel indicator which every and then changes as oil
is marked ,p or down IL oil as well wheat pork and
cotton, The yeries besgsr gambes. heard two clerks
c1cLsu gng points upon he times; said one 10 the other
have rot sold any goods 70. two mouths bat have
made abont $50 OIL" His goods consisted OF rub
her band, etatouers The Oh he dealt in was at the
bucket shop and Il had happened TO Zip his way.
Indeed since gambling in staple products replaced
porate speculation the grouud-h0or OF gambling has be
come democratic as nevsDOys cellar and everybody
understands H. II You want 20 buy dog 20 into
Newt, the dog may have been stolen but he has been
whipped the proper trsctabilty ard Will hex Your
hand IS il he would give you point II he secs
any sign being pu hased from the brute Who carries
him A. these star-Wor-bippcrs stand along the Gurus
woi,iu. for rrovdenth instruction o. an invitation -
drink TIC runners from the brokers Offices move mp ana
down IKE the pages on t.t Goor Of Congress the tec'
claph wire, overhead maze an enormous piano
in the SKY and the great poles with 80 wire- och Sidnd
M Ike banners and the low OF bowling In the stock
Exchange j. Ike the .lrf OF the OCEAN,
Mr. Hewitt wa described 70 lne by one Of his col
leagues as d man of surprising Imagination, WIN re-
lnarkaDe information such warm head tAa 1t now
and then the wrons Glow and 80 kept lis OBJ
server, in mingled delight and doubt. the Information
being 50 move! and qUcev arranged that the listener
kept thinking 20 himself Can ti, DE true y lncons7t-
eucy Is sometimes only the Iapilty 81 consistences
4fb ~ /
NJ. Hewitt while fIy0riDs the emancipation Of al raw
materials in manufacture, bringing sr against manu-
featuring corporation IN the West for not paying INN
royalty for year back European process OF
making steel.
Gamblers in telephone stocks are fast inquisitive
about the against the Bell Telephone Company FOR
priority the telephone discovery asked perhaps the
abest patent lawyer America few days ago to sera-
rate the elements this case for me He is not en-
loved on either side lie replied The suit heretofore
la, been the vehicle FOR stock obbng II II should be
decided in favor of the contestant does not give hh
any property but merely dpossesses an Older form
Of property the agitation would seeu to me 10
be a speculation in the main.'
Mr. Bates the wealthy advertising agent, told me
during the notwithstanding the dissemination
of teuceut reprints OF novels, Hurd HOughtOn 1t was
reported SAID that their sales OF bound books last year
were among the largest they had made and that re-
spectabe book-buycrs increasing and treasurng
theiI books 20 make their Libraries.
Ihave been told merely a by bookseller tina
the net result Of Henry c. Murphys library sale only
about $50 900 10 his family II IL said that the Brooklyn
Historical Society offered $4,000 for the whole
library "a It stood ana raised the offer 10 $4,000. but
the family of Nj. Murphy considered that the library
was worth 100000, out OF the reach or nope OF
the Historical Society TO While the books rs am
informed brought about $50 600 there some not
taken away while others were returned on the excuse
that some OF the maps, plates etc, in them were Jdo
smiles and not fret Impressions. II seems that book
buyers become quite aud handle their wares