New-York tribune., 1884-02-03

nut cross sleeper are the only timber propose in
the supeTstrucure at the rate Of cepcrs 10 egh-
feet Tie price Of iron rails delivered in NewYO rk
Is S75 per Tpropose TO rail weighing seventy
pounds per yard The average price OF farms along the
line not far from $50 acre" The engineer lays
down the entire cost Of the railroad from ChamOersst
New-York. to Greenbusb, opposite Albany. at $4,000.
600. This programme laid ont for competition
with steamboats, which charged 80 cents for passage to
Albany 80 for BERTH 80 cents for supper, and
l22 cents to take OF baggage making the cost 10
Albany ~ 81. The chairman OF the great meeting to
build the Hudson River Railroad the late Mayor
Havemeyer
In the book OF pamphlets baye referred to above
Is description OF the American Electro Magnetic Tele
graph now in operation Hs45 between the cities Of
Washington and Baltimore, by Alfred Vail" 1t is
strange this little pamphlet and think of the
Western Union Telegraph Company with its enormous
connections In this advertising pamphlet the teegrapho
alphabet and language giv"n and pictures are put
I'm OF all the instruments
recently asked the electrician Of the Western Union
Telegraph, French gentleman and graduate Of the
school OF ST. Cyr If there aPy company In the world
10 compare with the Western Union. With good deal
NJ the pride Of his country MY friend said: No,
the Western Union Telegraph only the greatest
corporation I'm electricity the globe, but It produces
the greatest results II pUt message IN six minutes
from the hand the sender IN NewYork into the hand
OF his factor In Chicago and that includes the delivery
OF the message well.
am glad to BARLEY Campbell ana Celia Logan and
Mary Anderson all thriving by their compositions or act
ing. Actors make great deal Of studying anew part
When the Dramatic Festival WAS given at Cincinnati
with Of the big actors OF the country II Il, s
ge=tod that they ought produce play Of shake
speare never seen IN this country Percles"
theatrical manager said 10 Do yOu suppose these
actors will study a new part They would think st
as tremendous for yOu to write book Of i've
hundred pages"
Celia Logan Is q sister of Eliza and Olive Logan and Ike
all OF that family warrn-hearted skful, impulsive
woman She the wife OF the artist Kellogg and is
now the wife OF genial Irishman on the press Like
Olive, she works hard and without complaint
and is never hard cruel upon her contemporaries.
Barley Campbell has shown endeay0r and tenaety. and
none envy his and progress who have good
human instincts. Some people never entirely hate
man till he has accomplished something for the benefit Of
his species observed in rather important paper ia
this country time ago that Mr. Campbell was not
named when his piece announced, II it would be,
or the whole too much OF concession 10 print The
OF gentleman who had done something good enough 10
be accepted by theatre. Ibeleye the time Is at hand
when meanness Of this character viii 50 e1ectnay iuJe
ts uterer that the meanest VIII not dare to
put himself upon parade.
the npassIoucd exercise OF the artistic spirit We all he
hold bow Old religious forms running out, not from
want Of faith hut because faith has been transferred from
nothing TO something from traditions IN realities. In
this decay 10gnas the brain and heart must spring
together toward other form Of achievement This
lrust he literature composition and creation n all their
branches. These rich and Senators who tell you
that they do not know anything about work Of art
count for OF the moral evils Of our time To den
tify thing of beauty and OF taste Is Christian test.
Criticism must cease treading down asprants in the
paths Of creation aud must take back seat and let mcn
who do something be heard Tie ssus OF tie times
encouraging
1t Is well 70 have had the controversy between Law
renee Barrett and Mr. Boxer The actor must learn 20
nay some Difference 10 the author, and not 10 suppose
that because has discovered popular elements IN an old
play that he therefore IL the author OF it, Mr. Barrett
is entitled to consideration for his enterprise in reading
these fine old pieces which lie mbeded in the literary
ruins OF thirty OF forty years ago, when our country
with far less luxury had altogether more Of the creative
spirit 10 IT, and Poe poor aud afflicted rs he WAS sought
the pure realms OF melody and melancholy, and Iaw
thorn turned inside out the genius OF New England and
sat in inquest upon it. The time ought "a be In the
United States II is in France whom after the ex-
hauson OF the physical forces aud Of political ambition
the splendid artisue genius Of the people flashes o all
the world their manifold productions and NewYOr rich
man pays $4,000 for little painting By Nilct and
Mapon Lescaut" an old piece Of the seventeenth
tury perhaps rekndled by the composer and orcnes
trion, makes the round Of the globe
Mary Anderson whom IL took years 10 do Justice to
from some little prejudice formed which kept IN
duleng without any knowledge OF her growth and
progress has shown the possession OF talent hardly
recognized among cOuntrymen and that is hard
rork How else could she have rapidly absorbed IN
England new part and played IL to the admiration Of
that nation 7
Itis we'll that TO full understanding OF the
British people artistic relation with them While
lust nation after they be made TO see anything they
do possess from their insuar position hostility 10
foreigners which they consider almost their preseTvaye
life Mr. W O. Taylor. whose history OF Ireland has |
ben I'm print by the Harpers for at least generation
marks on this Esubeet that ali the evils OF Ireland have
arisen from their fOndness for foreigners instead OF %
tating the English who nked any Foreigners No
doubt there Discrimination In England TO seeing
Americans entering their theatres and their Journals yet
there Is unquestionaby American party In England
though IL hardly considers itself Men who undertake
10 storm the English theatres from this side encounter
the chief opposition But the British are unabe 10
resist beauty combined with talent II may DC one VI
opr ,i.fortnes that Miss Anderson will oe 90 thor
oughy attached on the other side OF the water hs she
will become but a transient visitor with us.
NJ rdvard Covles OF Cleveland sailed for Europe |
last Thursday morning to visit her daughter Mrs. |
Pomeroy the wife OF Consul Genera to EgyI IL
very IN in Florence. Edward Cowies raised Alfred |
colrs his brother publisher Of fhe Chicago Tsrb
uas The brothers were married TO TWO sisters dehght
IN IadIes from about Cfon New York Mrs- Po~eroy
n hoy th, or four years old She IL unable 70 live
1n rgypt on account Of the climate.
vas told by frlepd recently that when Mr and Mrs
Mckee Rankin played one night. only two or three