New-York tribune., 1884-03-23
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS, THE COUNTRY ROUND.
THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD
WAY LoUNGER.
All the stores in the building on the Sue OF booh
Theatre have been advance of the completion OF
the building

WAY LoUNGER.
All the stores in the new building on the site Of Booths
been rented in advance OF the completion oi
the building.
Talking 70 an ORIGINAL business man last week. he said
People ought get alarmed AZ the depreciation oI
some railroad sockswhen they consider that there
are thousand millions OF dollars invested IN rii-
roads I'm ana about United States. Fortunately Tor
us a large portion of the money is not our own We
must recoect that about 1876 Lake shore down In
the Afes and New-York Central down in the eighties.
apprehcnd that matter what fluctuations take place IN
the Central It will down to par sooner or later
NV friend remarked further: In all computations ABOUT
increase or decrease YOU remember that between
1876 and had very large and Europe was
very short OF crops our trade jumped in those years be-
yond all Just expectation. and the present IL ONLY aa
ing on from extraordinary years. but Is not DC
cline in the strais sht ratio Of increase"
7 was talking TO an agricultural implement builder
during the week has been, in the midst Of the appar
ent decline Of things extending his works said /; On
what principle do you expand your business = Opoh
the increase I'm the hay crop said he. Hay IS worth
on the average probably $40 ton and we make say
so 600 600 tons or hay per annum." Heavens" sald
that amounts to $500 600 900" OF course II does,
said the builder you must rccoect that hay proo
ably the second crop OF importance in ths country
I suppose. being the first You can always GET ru o.
vour hay because you can feed into beef and the beef
be exported II the wheat cduhOl NY lltNii'Ag A'
only cuts the hay and keeps iturnng after it Is cut so
that it can speedily dry but it stacks 1t at the rate Of
ton every few minutes the gathering machines carrying
the hay 10 platform apparatus up which II is carried
and put in the stack In some portions OF this country
hay commands only 80 ton, but think II VIII average
$40 ton all around AMI there is none too much OF It,
leads in the hay crop ard Penns lVania
comes next"
The same gentleman remarked to me: ." man has to
tf,f- 1,f.vv vvyhaf roiu
you know why celery has been cheap during the past
wner said had observed that you could buy celery
al two heads for quarter In the markets. VIII tell
you why il " said he; they have found region up In
Michigan somewhere about Niles where they have gone
into the celery cultivation extraordinary scale
They found that celery hrved there especially and
was of quality kept after it had ,matured It Is
that celery which been shipped to New-York ana TO
all the large cities and has brought down the price OF
the local gardeners. Now said my friend, there Is no
question but you raise in New-York and tea
I'm Washington but on the whole, you had better raise
them in Florida and in China" Said /: How do you
count for lettuce being Boston instead Of South
in the early spring q" Because Boston probably has
either the moist atmosphere the hothouse facilities
for doing it, and probably cheap class OF labor to con
tend with the small results OF fine gardening ont OF
When the whole country has burst into lettuce
1t would hardly pay Boston to keep at the business
7 see splendid new granite bank on Wall Street. and
nearly breaking my study the top OF II, per
ceved carved in the stone the expected American
ship, under full sail
friend sends me an interesting book privately pub
shed in Pennsylvania, oalled History of the Under
ground Railroad by K. c. smedey" 1t seems that at
place called Brd-in- Hand in Lancaster County, there
s an official Quaker paper published and from its office
this interesting book has been Issued, narrans the his
tories of those quiet who for than half CEN
ury assisted escaping slaves. Chester County tho home
Of Bayard Taylor. particularly identified with TINS
romance Getysburg the site Of the subsequent battle
was the station in another part OF Pennsy vana ana
Thaddeas Stevens and Hamilton Everett and the German
college professors we're among Good samarans. The
next station to the north Of Gettysburg York Springs
in Adams County where william Wright did the work;
the Wright family lived near the slope OF the south
Mountain. The next station 70 the north was WrShts
VILE and the next Columbia. This town OF Colun-
bia was laid out by Samuel Wright In l7s4 aiter the
Quakels lad settled it almost sixty years
Robert Purvis, whose was as familiar in the
NEWSPAPERS twenty years that OF Mt Beecher
now and who i, still living north Of Philadelphia at tho
age OF seventy four il the OF an Enslshnan ana 0t
free coored woman the latter descended from Morocco
Moor who was brought to America IN 1866 after being
dnapped This woman after being setrec married Ger
man OF the Jewish faith. Mr. Puryiss father esahshcIa
school In phia and the son became the hfst pTc'
aent Of the Underground Railroad in 1s3-; he says the
efficient hclprf5 on tiLl1 llhc Mt4N wv A4'-ANN
women one white the other colored. living near Bait
more They a number OF genuine certificates OF ree-
DOM or passports which they lent TO escaping slaves ana
these certificates returned ana used over and over
again one agent the Underground Railroad lived at
Ncyvbern, North Carolina.
A. Horny g. Nurply's sale at Leayitt's, had num-
her OF bids for very costly books Some booksellers
intinatcd 10 me that It bad policy To Lid liked
limit as the auctioneer would seldom stop short Of that
limit: received thirty cent Of the books bid for
nevertheless often at less prices than bid and knew no
soul in the place
Mr. ArKen who has purchased The Eeenbg journal at
Albany and become its publisher Is very young man
for such an ayocaon but an unusually yivacous anu
,brewd one His father has made respectable fortune
ny manufacturing paper bags or imitation barrels OF
raner IN mack flour in Flour formerly put into
wooden barrels which hooped and headed; the
senior Arke saw that more convenient package IOr
four and "A one, thick paper He turned out
an enormous number barrels and they were filed
in the Mohawk Valley and through New-fork state.
The sou met with accident in carly life by which he
,ras almost burned 10 DEATH and lie nearly "a badly
Scared as Attorney General Brewster lie mas huhlor
and repatee notably and disposition 10 strike out for
himself in business affairs He observed mat saratoga
a deficient in excursion places, and that about ten
miles distant was high mountain overlooking the
upper valley OF the Huds?n and giving views Of the dis
tant battlefield OF Saratoga and OF Glens Falls which Is
the seat Of a portion COopers most popular novel
Young Arken bought the right Of way bought most OF
the mountain top, and put down railroad which In the
first season earned money and next year he viii have
llrge hotel called the Mount McGrcgOr House. His
newspaper enterprise at Albany is not so far distant but
that he can manage both properties
sncaldng Of burned men leads to Autoney-General
Rrew.ters name; IS OF the most sctive-minded
and cheerful persons have survived rather nder-
ent counteuance since the time Of John Wilkes OF whom
famous author said that he hated hi but could not s
dvvn hcsile him five minutes without being charmed and
,o 20 heliave that wilkes was an Adons. Mr.. Brews-
rrhL u d q aharn fnnrme