New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-08
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS THE COUNTRY ROUND.
THE PERSONAL MOTIFS AND NOTIONS OF BROAD
w1y IOrrNGER

The Battery T. the place to muse on fallen goIIcS'
Yonder Jacob Mllborne married. neal by the wealthy
Jacob Lookernans lived; from that point the Du",u
sodery Tecapturcd the fort; at the next tree Captain
Kidd took yaw here stood the gbbet; there Bayafu
was 10 have been drawn and quartercd; Washington
went down nj this landing; Lord Cornbury in woman
clothes Up that; Arnold walked in this gardehi
Kahn ate oysters by this bench; Washington irving
library kept at this window; Taeyrand took iodg
ings at yon tItercd window Brissots coffee house was
next door: Nick Muller lives just here's Trie'cll
bought the same property Tweed- signs are In tha'
leafy sping of the he looked upon from his close
carriage saying: is the peniteut thief stretched
upon his cross but where He pardon me by whose
side am naedr
Harlem, with a long history and its land titles wei
searched back the time OF John De Witt and spnosa
who was the schoomate OF some Of its early settlers
has already developed the institutions OF separate city
theatre safe deposits. fats. hotels; but great CRIMES
seldom disturb Ncw-YOrk Island thence one cross
railroad at that point has the peopled houses
the island for after all, but the drop
pings Of corporations financial military and
some ecclesiastical. whether they be the monksh
founders Francisco the turnpike children Of Utica
the canal-strcwn seed Of Buffalo, New-York itself
by the West India Company The corporation en-
lists a coward and makes Balboa Of him. finds Give
robbcr and ends him lord sends Hudson to give bis
rivers and makes tradition out Of amote and
palpable Keely out Of a motor.
Rivington IS perhaps the only street IN New-Nork
named for newspaper man, and he the Tory editor
in the Revolution who made his peace with Washington
toward the end by furnishing him with Information lie
could not make the sodieTy understand it, and
they closed his publication out else it might be the dean
of the press here.
Religion is often a subject OF worldly pride and
contention than Of dying consistency recent death OF
the Roman Catholic faith in an Italian city
a in point: prominent American had incurred
the hostility of eccesastcs and they took ad-
7anage OF his daughters passing melancholy to surround
her on voyage 70 Europe and secretly convert her
The Pope himself had hand in the mighty conquest of
child from her household. After rejoicing and conteil-
ton and malicious delight, TO the subject Of them
real trouble and pain the dying convert seemed on the
bed Of guish to forget the whole subject in dispute ana
the Oyerze0us ministers waited in vain TO celebrate tic
sacrament and the victory.
Justice Miller of the Supreme Court, shonld be the
patron saint Of tourists he rendered the decision three
months that all wearing apparel was duty free II in
tended be by the importer whether it was worn
already Or not
Mr. Wlloughby, OF Chicago. told during last week,
that 1000 clothing in that city. He said
Brokaw Brothers, of New York made profits Of 500
600 year. aud they worth several millions apiece
This gentleman and others have Just bought in Georgia
5000 land covered with deposit of marble as
fine grain. they say, Carrara marble; it is near
Marietta.
mine owner from Lake Superior told me last week
that with direct transportation copper could be- put into
the Western cities at six cents pound. About two
thousand copper aday shipped from IIue
va the neghbor OF the port Of Palos whence Columbus
sailed by the English Rio TatO Company, which has built
no Hueva In full sight OF Palos, the Hotel Columbus
Colon said have cost hundreds OF thousands OF
dollars Mr.. y. Paige, who returned here last week
stayed at this hotel In February paying two dollars
day full board and wine. In 1892 the departure Of
Columbus will he celebrated at this hotel and town By
Europe and America.
We have a cousin We are harsh tO-the rat. He
crossed the ocean with and il almost popu-
lous as we in the pipes and sewers and base
ments beneath homes. If he should invade the
mousse with his hundred thousands we might scream.
but il he should leave his hermitage and Us for good
we might die. He is the unpaid scavengcr OF man,
bold and modest merry. but undsturbinE, and his
brother the squirrel in cage FED on sweet almonds
bv the children is lust as fierce The pretty too
one would believe IT, His rodent species is a. versatile
a. man. and several Of states named for him: the
Wolverine the Gopher the Prairie Dog He will 90 with
rs mariner and pioneer for he Il the son OF the grain
field and camp follower Of the reaper. Mills that he
shu lose their mstoues by floods ships he deserts the
sailors Will not ship with.
bust. statue. or public memorial Of Thomas Klnsela
Is seriously preached Brooklyn. His agency there IN
breaking up a municipal ring composed In great part OF
people Of his nativity or extraction was morally
bold and AZ the peril of his Mes work and independence.
He persisted IN it, and his triumph proved that his talents
we're feared in any field Had he carried.Ou his pur
pose another powerful local paper would have been esab
lshed He believed in the breakup OF the Democratic
party after it National victory. l. for one'
he said TO me- will not support It. But 1t can maintain
itself intact rs long the Republicans victorious in
the Nation" lie befriended Mr.. Bcecher when every
prejudice h- could have inherited pointed the other way
For seth Low he had a kind appreciation, and wanted
such young men 70 forward. His errors were in
training, early mistakes. and warm temperament; his
strength rugged proud aud public impulse, the only
quality ofmany wel-approved statesmen even Chatham
and swift He had burning love for America and the
Americans.
Aman might suppose that cheap museum was all 20
defraud bit this would DC TO gencraze too harshly II
somebody had collected where would be Peter Forces
tracts and Pepyss ibraryl museum man lately Intro
duced me Professor Worth as the owner OF sngu-
lar collection or American relics. Professor of Thatf
said l. OF contemporary antiquities said the agent
Seeing me smile he added: Well he Is q One-idca
man. VINO has been thirty years at work saving for pos
tery the suggestive things Of his day. The Cincinnati
riot was hardly the other day when he had the iron
bar of the a that was forced Here the first daguer-
reotvpe Abraham Lincoln had taken given to the
Professor By Mr. Hawks Lncolns tutor who is sti iy-
ing The professor wanted tobuy It, No, isaid the old
man wouldn't sell precious thing but IN recogn-
ton of your Iabors give It TO you" The singular thing
il that this story perfectly By the aid of similar
professors the Dukes OF Saxony gathered together the
Dresden galleries
The cable railroad 70 be placed on upper Tenth-aye Is
one of the devices ingenious enough though Old ~ me
CHANCES 10 save cost and get power and facilities to
move many people but it is another Of the many modern
devices increase the nervousness OF man ana horses
and therefore 10 put another convenience upon our
trembling nervou, systems chiefly sake Of making