New-York tribune., 1884-11-16
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND
I'll. PERSONAL Norns AND NOTIONS oF BROAD
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I'll. PERSONAL NorEs AND NOTIONS oF phoAp-
WAY LuuNuFR.
How tesolut ~ few shabby old stores anh plies He'p
thalr pnce llha heegnrs on rOadwny. Not Tar belu"
Mn sun Square ars two the popular ahe. shabby nm
rented their hollow wnduws nllei With show bis or
old hats mud palnt n stranger TO them Steadily the
wholesale trade nuves on 10 Madison suunte nnd In
tpuched nj the riuss streets with the sursns nnuiae-
tufes Of New-SUth The fetali trade IA advancing ~
tlfh ATE ani uethrtiua ai the btuwnstrnes inhlef' q
enjn and Mis slewaiis mansion may unn iar hptra
ts halni ~ pHt huNsp aai thfit fhth st he ahnhnt
fuen-st bWadwaf iafnai eahhe he~ tetite the
tain 10 Nh W raf hinahwati hNt " wenl assst W
hnoh that siruai whan u hpeamea uil W wholesalers
t,aehs, 80 thaiph 81, Ia hlaphpi now
Iwakad recently thlOugh tho huge IiaanY mansion nn
Madison ava. back of tho lenos Library u eonslslH ~
iva payiions hetweeu whoh great oonoei- -afe "'oh
support. rooe,-ed centre The ronf Is apparently "s
high tho walls above them and tho whole makes lh'
highest private dwelling IN New York II Is stained or
oharrei to give It appearance ot fixed age strange
that We alone Of things created To appear older thah
we arc aud that the adeswho forgive generous
guess at their ages help surround themselves Win to
aged OF tho In a kindly, repairing mood var
nshcd her aged spinning wheel after 1t had been got aun
lost Immediately Poltcness here Is ieermined To
lie old and mellow aud therefore girls In their teens are
not only bleaching hut whitening their hairs and heads OF
robbers scissors.
The Tiffany house has cpncicrges room groined Ike
Norman chapel the staircase IL angular and conseIe'
and horses might ascend It. as they have been
known ascend the tiled stairs in France and eat rom
the fowerpots on the roof little dark up- stairs
seemed to me TO he a confessional. The depth of the
elihce notablc 1t old hosterie or hoslce
at the foot OF the Alps The chimney stacks are Ike
Gatlng guns drain tiles People generally thnkt
Maison dcs viellards which is very different thing from
the Maison de Willard.
Robert Garrett who IA probably better known In New
York than any resident railroad presidents Is OF
the fourth generation Of Americans of his name MS
grandparents Garrett having emie rated to old
mother Cumberl, md" Pennsylvania, when lis grand
father was eight. Patrick Dn-nore first employed Rob
cr Garrett the grandfather in his store. For eight years
the latter lived In the county of Mr. Baine's BIRTH ana
In 1896 started house in Baltimore He reached
Immediately Western trade being one OF the earliest
70 know and apprecate the West aud his grandson has
prompt the density and activity of the North
crn people and extend his telegraph system among then
Hence. with its trains temporarily cut OF from New"
York. the telegraph Offices Of this company are seen on
all our ronne corners The origin of the three presi-
dents Of Baltimore and Ohio. Pennsylvania and Eric
railroads In nearly adjacent counties. Mr. JeWetts
grandfather from Massachusetts, Mr. John King Is
Robert CARROTS The Baltimore and ONO Rail
road needs to build Tor the sumner OF WASH
ngton City business people hotel the South Noun
tain like the Western Maryands Blue Mountain House.
Such summit he easily reached by the Washington
County branch which along the west slope OF the
south Mountain climbing the plateau and at Claegetts
Is only gentle me from the summit overlook
Ing both the Caoctn and Pleasant valleys from Cramp-
toms Gan. where South Mountain battle was fought
This is only eight miles from Washington and about
eighty five from baltimore: the Blue Mountain House Is
seyeny-two miles Baltimore and Is 10 from Wash
ington hy the Washington County branch. The view
from Champions Gap l. fine both sides and sinai
tancous and the excursions already made and more pic
turcsque Anileam battlefield Is only five miles away.
John Browns farm hardly Our Frederick city but twelve
About fifteen years ago the fathe.-in-aw Of Mark
Twain told him n he meant TO he newspaper man Ia gO
AMI buy newspaper. credit n necessary. He ir-
licved Thomas \. kcnuett Of The Bdio Express, and
sold hi4 part soon after NJ $1,000 This week while
TWAIN Il back the lecture platform. which he left
when he became sn editor. Kennstt starts The iron-
ongc, special paper tr the iron trade where Their,
already such organs, me Iron Age and Inc Meta
Worker.
Wa intn unt per nunnm. In furniture. si97ono oon.
mt lumber Yards uurht not tu be allowed ~ hns-
mesa and solid resident hlurhs
M,,ur Ilson nrsht have saved John Kelly, he was
Trusted lie ept tp tho Tuirr Upnni atnn
spioola io hu=a and wuueiea mal have raised tbrit
hnh
saw Ia faneasfer ronn aai thnfs,laY tho buchanan
democracy eniahTtto the revival ~ huuhananian hi
iarohilsu rloees-i,n lnn atal buchanan lasl Ia
his grave and hla Nheatlanda sold to stranger jeIn
ilaoh had eo nndtr his eitaph, clancy Jones vas al
"a halalion. William u Reed pediird manuscripls no
mare. The living members of huehanan'a Cabinet aro
Joseph Holt aud Jacob Thompson, enemies, and iiorsilo
tI ..I. ~. a.
lectye Philip T. Thomas may yet he alive, but ii so oh
seure.
The multiplication of summer residences on the line OF
the Railroad west of Philadelphia for forty
miles j. remarkable They often beautiful and
even majestic in architecture. running generally into
Gothic FORMS sometimes into Roman and Romanesqne,
and Great Britain has their match in consecutiveness
or spirit We returning to country life as we always
do after the sub,deuce OF Hush tines AMI the seaside
hotel has ceased be the visit OF season but is an
cessory to an inland summer home.
Mobbnc the letter carrier the reasonable expression
OF them who hidden from the light and .mas :hese
twenty -four years and went out OF notice riotins
Cleveland would not 90 far wrong II he made his ac-
ouaintance General MacMalon Collector of this port
A. treason was at work years Fort sumter TO be
tray the Union its nearest Northern personality ha-
earned the inscription Of" Cataline Rex" Toombs once
said he would ike hetter inscription upon his grave
than Here lies the who destroyed the Union He
was quite as respectable in that mean motive a. they
whose destructive egos chucklcd to stab the party OF
Il e era which has set free the world.
Looking over Bcnn Pmans trials for treason IN IN
diana during the war md among the persons named
there as connected with the societies generally
called the Knights OF the Golden Circle the OF Cat
ling the in enOr OF the Gatling note in the book
says: The OF the gun with revolving ride bar