New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-01

Of the sub,ect AM the sculptor IL very refreshing In
our commercial and realistic times 20 ace the marDe
relcfs this monument representing IN ola Roman
dress Minerva setting the young Republic on his way to
have Constitution and 10 live by The effect Of the
statue Is TO dsabuse the streets OF Washington OF SO
many military people. Our military record though we
may think important not 70 our civil record anu
IN warrior Generals do not shine Ike other countries
Wellington Marlborough, Butcher, suwarrow ana many
persisted -names with moral significance fought ana
marched and received statues To that old judge SIT
ting oun front OF Capitol he owned the building
Inspires respect for moral herosm. The Capitol IS to lose
all ts grass and the little stairway Is To be taken
tout and only side starways allowed and under ne Ne"
marble gacs TO be committee and other rooms al
In accordance with the design OF our townsman' MI
Olmstead whose general work Washington is praised
after Il IL finished.
lady remarked to me that she thought the best stau
airy In Central Park was that animals put on the rocks
and cminences TO surprise visitors There are three Oh
least; the FacOner In the act OF sehuS
up his bird the Tigress or Loness Drihe'hs
a meal TO her cubs. and the Panther warts
indian Hunter and Dog 20 in this list The statue
of Martin Luther in Washington was modelled Dy
| a sculptor In Dresden copies OF whose works are
| collected aud shown there in n special museum
while his satues the terrace over the Eoe no uop'
OF these days statue OF John hughes the ArcH-
bishop OF New-Y Ork,wll be erected in Washington OF
| New-York By his political friends 1t Is worthy OF pc
mark that his old antagonist Erastus Brooks. is stu
alive the Democratic constituency WHICH ne
80 long de1ed
Among the institutions which will feel the financial
strin.ency are the hotels. For two or three
years past they have been lquldating The stockton
Hotel at Cape May the largest structure ever put up IN
New-Jer-ey Perhaps unable tO.brng $4,000 at
public sale not long ago The prices charged at these
summer houses been absurd Mrs Coke SAID 10 me
last year nc the stockton House that the only way to
make It pay was ito put the rates at 50 so day, hich
was enough people to pay before the war anu moro
tn they could afford to pay now TIE Coney ls'anu
hotels ran brief charging people - for hSht
lodging For past the most profitable hotels ID
our country have been among the cheapest In New
York the Westminster the Continental the ~ Denis
have done the real business winter and summer great
portion OF added expenses or family In recent years
has board Instead OF going ont OF town 10
rest and save people have gone out Of town to dress
more to and to pay more money IMAM mousse
keeping costs seven dollars day has been he price at
some OF the Saratoga hotels Every night when they
have music they endeavor to drive Of their porches the
people the village who are paying - week Inc
seven-dolars-a-week people come home with all the ad-
vantage Of the and tho climate and the seven
doars-aday people return grouty purse and stomach
Iasked New-York friend in Chicago II the new Board
Of Trade was thing the old Chamber OF Com
nerce on, no" said he; the Board OF Trade is the
speculative body which inhabited the building Of the
Chamber Of Commerce. Come IN here" said he, taking
! me 10 n place under bg,hOte and Will show You
bucket shop" went into long room which was es-
sentiay part Of thehoel and down thenidde OF e1
tended q narrow ncOsure with windows and row or
cerk. sitting al desks man would put his head into
the window aud lone clerk would call out his bet which
the other would record in regular ledger or Journal as
big as dog-hOusc Here" said my friend, they will
take one per cent for margin. That Jnan Is probably
buying thousand bushels OF wheat at say dollar "a
hushel equal thousand dollars. He may put up
| bt,,1r ad doll aOnt
cent they sell 10 nominaly and take his money f'G
goes mp per he calls and gets one hundre dol
lars minus eighth per cent shave, or twelve dollars
and n halt Now" continued my friend, thislouse has
probably cents worth Of actual transactions ana
II has several branches In this town" While VIC we're
-peatug men on tall ladders (which with slight pro
pul on were going up and down before enormous BLACK
boards carefully putting ali the quotations on one nun
dred to two hundred loarers were IN the room spending
the whole day Watching Interpretations. The New
York stock prices put there for every call SAID
10 nv friend - Does anything do more harm than this.
except the variety shows ~ No." said hs AMI think
these bucket shops make loaters for life than the
! variety shows"
Az Chicago took notice Of the new Hall Of Trade,
granite building in that Renaissance style which was
long called Pullman architecture 1t LOFTY
pile opposite Pacific Hotel and near the Rock Island
station and at distance It is imposing but coming near
It seems to he an homogeneous military mass which tho
PhTncians or Mormons barely classified nation
had hcapcd up The New-York Produce Exchange
which the other pole OF IT, does explain s own mean
| inx. Both are monuments OF our gambling era when
brcah.tu and meats become like tulips Of Old the foot
halls NJ spcculators Perhaps into these buildings
have been put five or six millions OF dollars The corner
ing OF the crop the crop and all the hogs III
the nation could only been done by the aid or banks
which were ready throw their great line or deposits III
that direction in the emergencies Of life ten thou
sand dollars rallied given point will generally carry
| or fvyO r.
check il awhile The name OF the most powerful trn In
this business the that Of The poor scotch girl
! whom Robert Burns deceived, and then married and
finally male miserable. Jean Armour When Burns was
living with this wife the last farm he ever tried to u
he sat Que day and queer-loOKnS thing across he
wafer near v II was the first steamboat IL never was
pushed to any practical result and was absorbed IN Full
toms more busiuc-ske venture some years 4ater But
from that day when they thinking on tho steamboat
10 the present day when the steamers carry the crops Oh
America to the La Plata and india and these try 10 forcc
each other out the markets Of Europe what an epoch
has been made TIL II seems impossible hat there shall
ever again be other than government by trade upon ms
world.
Isad at Chicago 20 Mr. Gregsten. proprietor OF the
Windsor Hotel who will be nominated at the Conven-
ton - Why. Blaine" said he. This Western ana
Norbcstcrn country hates Wall street Dir. Arthur VIII
come here with Wall street behind him ana you VIII near
a boot and then a shout when Blaines name l. mem
TONED that Will satisfy your nerves" said |: hat do
YOU think about business in Chicago " For Two years.
sad he liquid alton has been going on. Only few
cora ogo when wanted money could get $4,000 on
nv personal notes from bank There vas sueh III
aaon that they begged their customers to come ana take
money Now the same bank would give me $2'oOO ana
no more Don't you know SAID the host tha1 WHeh
YOU cannot GET money your habits CONFORM 10 tna' Ioc'
All The institutions been letting people nave money
On all Linda of securities and their living has advanced
according to their credit. Now these stocks nave
shrunken 10 that point where they will not command any
considerable loans" said /: Your produce gambling
here began In local operations ." No. replied my
,, Il uos not until Wall Street took hold OF produce