New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-11-30


He has habit when building sbers'- ana III '"'o
that he b not making semc improvements "e'"s GOV"
stant,v IN and about among the workncn ""'c"'"s
detail, with an eagle eye but seldom fnt"rie'ns ID ~.
work It's probably because he watches so closely '""'
he finds so very little to change
Mss Juliet Corson. who was onc OF the hrs' 20 n"se
,r snoo, In the city successful has been for some
time mast disabled by o serious disease winch "'s
threatened her me
Miss Maria Parioa is now probably the most succeSs'"
M the CITY teachers of the noble art OF co"RinS '
schoo, in connection with large lodging bohse wnc"
Abe keeps in East seventeenth-st. fashionape ''o'
make ND classes from their own set ann go III ", "
Mis- ParIoa's residence for instruction MANY H"'
take their servants to the school Tor ehncauo" III SUI
particular branch OF cooking Pupils are requifeo W
nav for the materials they use as well az the
they receive and they are allowed 10 '"hc n'n'o ,
article, which they have personally prepared h'c"nY
n gentleman applied to Miss Parioa Ior 'o"'P' w.
making buck wheat cakes. He explaued 'nat nv ~
about 10 omen n restaurant In Havana, and ir"poS" "
make hit on the luxury OF bnckwheai eak's' ~ni'"
. ,.snovr in Cn,,, Mss Paroa agreed to teach nn
eysona,lv Int rcuured him doh his coat. put ON an
apron and 60 through the work OF mixing the oaer anu
BAKING his own cakes. Miss Parloa Maintains 'h' r'o
with all pupils. and soTe CT her classes OF o'"""y
and fashionab dressed ladies In ~hie ap'""s ar"
cans arc pleasing as we'll novel sigts.-pfohpied'
"A a rule TO irreverend ribads OF tho baser sex
7 met Mr. j. T. Watson, who claims to have written
Reanti,n Snow" few evenings since The prevailing
cold spap had caught him unawares In thn snit am
minus top coat: AMI he looked "a " he wiShe" no ~
never known any inspiration for MS aiiege" oc''"
p,em NJ B.-Ths aIlusion Is not to be taken py ah,
lody az An for reopenng the discuSSi'h - " ~
alleged authorship OF the supposed poem
Mr. Stevens OF Albany. tells me that IN his yon'n
Daniel Manning was compostor IN tne orr y, w
ne wsJ aper.of which he Ia now editor "h' lihe'l" Nv
rr,etor Moreover that lie never WORKED a"ay III a"s
other newspaper Office, and tnat his connco''on WIN
IN. Aua.v Argus has been without interim ssion o. any
colt The building at Beavcr-st and broadway III
which The Argus Ia printed IL the same as III na"ns
earlier days have the impression. recc'ed "o"
know how that Mr. Manning was IN The Argus once rs
com ositor at the time Cornelius WENDELL fellow com
o,or left The Hrgs and started The Atlas hut a. TINS
waa about 1872 aud to mention IL might make newly
made Bencdck and political dictator appear oer tn
he would like to acknowledge, Will not insist Oh inc
point
Twas asking Mr. Jackson, tho ticket aler OF the star
Theatre "a TO IL of the panic which was re
ported in Of the papers to have occurred ~ '
place on "Wednesday night last when one Oh INC 'o'o
bearers set the mi mic curtain on bre lheS NAV
tiers very often grossly exaggerated 10 tue injury "
the places of Affected lie said To me- ono
of the Union sq,aro who happened 10 DC 'hsoe
our house cainu ouckly and said to me. JACKSON
there's little excitement In there open your gates
prepared do and as some people ran o'' 'ho"
them wide Open Out OF about twenty people VINO ran
hurrie ily out only ladies' The rest were ps
hunks of men They didn't STOP :or return checks tell
you After a moment. all was quiet again. AMI closed
the gates, aud let all who had gone out come III as"
was afterward devish sorry let the linen come BACK
| at all"
Democrat OF some local importance and In position
TO know the secrets local politics was telling me re-
cent?, the programme OF the politicians WIN resa'u
to the suecessorship TO IIuoert o. Thompson WHICH
may be suddenly frustrated. howevor. He has son
| IN the Derartment OF Public Works. and Is otherwise
situated 80 that he wishes. learn OF the secret
o the Commissioner and his friends. He says
that no appointment by Mayor Edson of successor 10
Thompson be confirmed. Knowing that Mayor Ea-
son will not send IN Thompsons name the frenis OF
Thompson have fixed five of the Aldermen to defeat
any nomination. AMI especially that OF General riz Joh
Porter. These Aldermen are to have their reward as
ss,n as the present Board adourns sine die with Mr.
Thompson still In position as Commissioner Oh Pnbhc
Works. Tho question was raised as TO what inc nVe
wouli do In John Kelly was nominated 1t was snS
seste that his confirmation colli not be prevented MI
Thompsons friends replied that they bought and pa ior
delay until Mayor Grace came ill.,
.But- continued the gentleman have alluded to-
there is no certainty that Mr. Grace Will nominate MI
Thump-on who isn't certain OF MS n'tiohahty or
isn't coeksare Of anythin, Now that he Ia III
Mr. Grace Is rs likely not to forget Thompson anu MS
obligations to hun 1t is well known that Mayor Grace
strongly favors Street Commissioner Coleman Coleman
was an appontee or Grace when Mayor previously lie
h,s done uneonnonly well In ohce lie is not depend
ent on Office lie would not consent to be run by poll
ticans as Commissioner OF Public Works any more than
he has been "a Street Com missioner Ills nomination
wonld be generally approved by the newspapers, and
hat Grnr Is
mans chances than rnompsons II Grace is to appoint
There seems 10 be an uncommon anxiety ana undue
haste 10 give out contracts the Department OF Public
| Works before the tenth OF December comes around