New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-13

and by II rises the opposite side Of scven.h-ave
another huge unfinished apartment house.
II "a often said that living in NewYork Il very en-
pensye bu this statement will be- qualified upon in
vestgaton To live prominently exclusively IN this
city as upon very prominent street. and avoid all
personal attention 10 purchasing ones own supplies "a
dear live similarly In Paris or London; but
II compares the place where he resided I'D those cap
als at moderate rate. with relative situation In New
York he will find the here probably less As was
coming down Eighth-ave last week clcanly cook
shops similar to the choph0uses Of London with signs
Two fried eggs for ten cents Fish cakes for ten
cents Il ia hard in any part OF London to get picce.
meat under tenponce a shilling. Board IN New-fork
with full meals be had FOR about dollar day per
head and with room so that two persons nhabiting
| large live here for about guinea week
apiece. and I'm dwelling respectable a. those OF Lon
don, where guinea IL the price OF a room and very
moderate breakfast alone. The disadvantage Of New
York It's want Of respectable residence streets such a.
cover miles OF London, looking very much Ike
another 10 character. Tue nature Of this island will
probably always prevent it becoming In appearance
congenla home for poor .miIes Brooklyn however l.
a. comfortable ~ London and as cheap.
Trial by jury has been brought into the realm Of in
| yestgat0n by the Cincim All riots. Governor Hoadly
says the riots caused by good citizens avoiding
their duty and not rvng the ire' lie might have
gone further and asked why good citizens avoid Nueh
daty Is it such duty good citizens with respect 10
their general Obligations IN the present century
afford not avoid our people are not wont 10 neglect
obligations and the very llNity with which Jury
duty IS enforced upon the good men that are drawn
shows how both the law ana the citizen IN measure
cOncede that the jury system is growing edete It's
especially be challenged in great city like New-fork
where is immense floating population large portion
Of which habaly seeks employment on the iureS and
it is feared that there is jury clement looking To more
than legal compensation for such employment, and 700
often receiving unworthy members OF the Grim
! inal bar.
| Two men have quarrel or a difference Of Some kind.
and twelve men have to drafted FROM their homes for
| a week to settle the matter Your good citizen
| whose methods are crisp and prompt, and who gets
through in day than almost any other type
| " man in a week. finds himself compelled 10 areuda
court and sit around like loafcr until some ca'e arises
accepted. and then his patience is tired. II he
is an Intelligent man, by Hndnp the trial prolonged BY
qubbes and eyasions the hours in which the courts at
sufficient to dispatch anything and his associates Ia
the jury often contemplate in intelligence, in cel-
| ness and IN antccedcnts Why this waste of twelve
mems time 0hlicc scamp whose profession, per
maps. is 10 modest people by the awf II y0u walk on
Broadway from Il Battery 20 the new OIera House, AMI
inquire of the reputable merchants what they think Of
the jury SYSTEM you will find IN almost every ease where
the man a thinking and observing being that he pre-
nOunces IL out of date.
and taste. the public staruary Of Washington
The outofdoor there consists Of equestrian
statues Of jackson. Washington. Scott. Mcpherson,
Greene and George H. Thomas, six in ALL o which are
to be added standing figure al Garfield ami copy
| tho Luther from Worms. There are besides
Greenoughs sitting figure Washington, Balls La
coin and slave Professor Henry, aud some few
others. II the judgment Of all IN the carriage that
the two statues by IL. X Brown, OF Newburg we're the
hest in city. In particular his statue or General
Greene was highly Thought Of This stanls In remote
situation though in place where it will one day be dis
tinglished that say, the highest point OF Msa
chuso where that great stTe a~cends the Capt
tO plateau. this Brown departed from the
heroic treatment and given plain road horse on
trot carrying master who Is pointing out spot to he
| reinforced or attacked When | first this statue
some years ago seemed that the trot not a-
parent but second visit 1t Is seen to be genuine
realistic almost every morse prefers TO take
The tendency of statary is toward realism and away
from c1citlblity Our first equestrian statue by Mills
represented General Jackson horse leapng into the
air. HIS next CtOrt represented horse like goose,
with his head thrown back and the wind blowing his
name and tail Wild Then came Crawford with his Rich-
uond statue Of Washington, which struck by light
ning in the act ~ becoming a Pegasus Next came
| Brown with the statue OF Washington in New York,
which sccns . good heavy road-nOIse that might have
been put to wagon, carrying gentleman who Il quiet
ing rather exciting things and the attitude and head
| q
anywhere. Mr.. Brown next made General Scott on
horse that barely walking, and the pOnderous and
boated form of the rider had been capable OF graceful
treatment would have been the best nOnume on
this continent and the horse is universally praised Mr.
Browns horseback, General Greene, III
troduced action but only the dag trot and TIE man ON
the horse further reduced TO plain blacksmith hero
who knew the ART but not tho art of millinery
! Mr.. Ward then in vita his equestrian Thomas,
which admired for sort of pervadns impreNsivcness
but in OF time receives criticism for the strained
attitnic Of the h0rse-thc tOrccgs planted rock,
whereby the TANKS and attonuated Ike lions or
a. some think like - dogs, and therefore at distance
this horse seems to be shaggy dog carrying man Oh
his shoulders The statue Of Bolivar which IL TO 20 IN
Central Park, j. return 10 the style Of Mr. Mills and
| shows an excited figure leaning forward. his horse
sprngug wildly, and the rider pnnsng sword into
the air he in the language of Str Boyle Roche" had
smlclt a mouse and seen him IN TIE air"
| McCauu whose acting and singing companies occupy
the Casino and theatres II spoken az bY folks OF
business IA a OF both purity Of rOtive and com
mrrcal force It's said that he was native OF SCOTLAND
who came ont tn this country young and settling in the
South ADOPTED her in the and was good ccer
and he was also a lawyer who had fancy Tor more de-
cblel executive lite AMI Thought he ga an opportunity
in the drama When Casino had been put up OTIS
contributors expected have the OF tho ta-e, and
| McCaul when he brought a company there. notified
| them: Gentlemen yOu mistake my occupation. pro-
tect the character my employees could not expect
their behavior protect mine" Il Is said that the
| Casino cost about 100000 The bondhOldeTs have
| done fairly well with It,
Opposite tho CaslnO 1t tine OF Thirty ninth ST.,
and also opposite the Opera House, Is the Hotel
Elite kept by Mr. Plcwc. FOR thirteen years the chief
| man the GIscy House AMI by Mr. Wynnc jones' who
was a cotton goods manufacturer IN Philadelphia. This
house opened little than week ago, was entirely
furnished from Cleveland ONO and the charactcrO the
furniture Is one the remarkable indications OF the
drifting Of manufacturing system to the Far West
Numbers OF the Western Ia ONO. Michigan aud In