New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-18
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEE AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY BOUND.
THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS or BROAD
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gress from Tifn, Ohio, who said 20 me the day MI
seneys bank closed: suppose George has given away
30 100000 for philanthropy He has not given anything
that know Of 10 his kin. His rsther was the hethodst
preacher Of Brooklyn church when first knew him ana
George about setting ont to be bank clerk had
supposed he worth many, nc least several
millions Ttis action OF his hank looks strange To me-
Where did the scney family originate r. In Mary
land, the Eastern Shore. Our great grandfather
named Seney member OF the Continental Congress
from Maryland. The family is very small and the name
Is almost entirely confined Long Island our one
Ohio family excepted. There two sons OF our
grandfather. one of whom became a lawyer and ono a
preacher The latter transferred to the New York
Conference and the banker is his Oar grandmother
Miss Nicholson Of naval family OF that name in
Baltimore. Her sister became the second wife o! the
Hon Albert Galan Secretary OF the Treasury and sue
Of Aeyan der Hamilton. Gallan made my father
his clerk ana took him from Washington tn his aunt- new
home OF Geneva. near Uniontovn, Penn. There the
young man met my mother and married to her ana
removed to Ohio"
few years ago. say about 1879, went with few
gentlemen upon railroad excursion TO St. Louis.
James D. Fish and John Emo were two The latter
seemed plain. clear headed Of the world. Not
three weeks Of his relations told me that his
father Of the two $4,000 year 10 attend
10 his real estate business. The bank under the Fifth
Avenue Hotel regarded the most substantial con
fashionable shoppers OF men who do not 60 down
town. when consider What the Fifth Avenue Hotel
block rents for year may &c first feel that II is
prncely income yet when reflect that million lost In
speculation will four six years rent and two
millions Will third more OF the whole rent OF
the block since its construction wonder that
every babe and sucking fixes his eye nothing less
than million. That word million has slain It's tens
of thousands
Mr. Horace White observed OF the specllations OF Mr.
John Emo: That did SURPRISE me- for was the
urer of the Civil Service Reform Association"
says x-senator John p Stockton: "The friends OF a
public man must be prudent In ASSEMBLING Others Mr.
George f. Edmunds never had any charge made again
him until his Friends assaulted Blaine. Ever since Nj.
Edmunds has been on the defensive That, TO say the
l. a,t, is a change"
It may be pleasant for General Grant to reflect
that long he recei ;ed Mr. Blaine very cordially
in the presence of other persons and present says he
would have supposed they had been close friends for
years. General Grant called his son &" Buck" aud
Buckley" he having been born In Ohio and therefore
" Buckeye boy He and all the family regarded
Buck" otherwise Ulysses, a financial prodigy As
TO Ferdinand Ward, it matter of narrative in the
Grant circle how his Old father, for whom lie had pro
yidod home and Income used to say; Have |
like that Can 1t be true that lie has made me this
rest :! mere was an hymn Nhlch -ad: Inert l.
for the people OF God" but it be here.
an tell y0u." SAID Ex-Governor Curtin In a whisper
last Wednesday night, the cause of 1t all; orer-pro-
duetioH."
New Jersey. informed by ono Of her Democratic
dele large, is possibly for Tden, rather
tment candidly she leans toward Bayard. whose
kinfolk are from New Brunswick and Prince
Tobokcn. She would he grathed to Mcpherson
made her Vice Residential candidate
O'Conor and Judah p Benjamin. the from the most
western stock in Europe the other from the cradle OF
races. Cclt and Semitic ded together Ike in soul
that the magnet hardly separate their metallic dust
in the next world Both poor originally both OF the dis
dnful misunderstanding from mental pride each arguing
against the conditions. which upbOre him. each much
Pharscc that he seemed nearly Sadducee. thoy ran
careers which illustrate nothing. made the Law seem
body'- chariot who could drive it, and the hved
under no hotter light than all his cold life and
other worshippeI brazen sun no bigger than sheke
Our old Controller John Jay Knox had just taken his
presidents chair. when the dcluge in the door
aud said: " After yo't, please ~
What TO be the future Of railroads provided stop
building them
Mr. Morrison remarked on Wednesday night: n We
were mean we might SAY the defeat OF Fill did this.
lust az il would have been sadif had passed It: I0u
did it.
l was speaking to a friend Of Mrs Abel 'R. Corbn
during the wcek she the sister Of General Grant.
and after he became famous married Mr. Corbin. who
wdower He lived in st.iLOuis for some years and
then brought Washington and made clerk Of the
Court OF Claims. In Colonel BcntOns troubles with the
Calhoun Democracy Mr. C0rbin rather abandoned him
and hence Benton cut his acquaintance Mr. Corbin he
real estate in aud about great city must
appreciate. So he bought lots all Jersey City
Heights ard excluded OF his operations far a.
Elizabeth He anticipated rise aud probably only par
italy paid for much Of this property The panic OF 1873
he considered la finished him. though he retained
enough money to live on comfortably, but he died with
Out a fortune. He had child by his second wife
which did live, and that further discouraged him. a
be de-irc have heir tO his After his death
his widow hal means enough 10 be comfortable upon
though not 70 1--we uxuriousy These means said she
deposited with nephews business, and is poor
again after an experience of sixteen years wife aud
widow.
Judge Lous Dent General Grants brother law.
died DOOR, and for time his widow and children were
In prccarious circumstances, until former partner Of
Mr. Dent realized on some claims considerable amount
Of money and in regard for the Grant family he volun
ary gave the widow enough money TO make her happy.
she took a house Garden City and mas been living
here for some years. II Is feared that portion Of her
funds were involved Mrs. Grants money which Is said
10 have been used by General Grant to purchase his in
,reased interest the house OF Grant Ward. Grant
or some time only seventh partner that house
,r until he raised subscription 800 900 which lie
II is said. In Mrs Grants check and this gave him
1ne fourth interest.
General Grant entered this firm Immediately after the |
nomination OF Garfield, when he said that II time for
him TO find thing to do There Is probably little |
loubt but that the General has been pursued |
BY Interested people with the suggestion that /
&c would receive tho Presidential nomination /
again 1876. time the Penn lvanis
LEGATION and tho New-Y0rk delegation though !
lomlnaly for Hartrantt and for Conkling he'd In