New-York tribune., 1885-01-18
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY ROUND.
THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD


THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF A BROAD
WAY LoUNGER.
General Grants friends who have called upon MN oi
late say he Is both sick and sad and prooaoV may nv
rally 10 the concerns OF human initiative again. SOUS"
of being fortunes fayorite and Of acconpi'shc" ~
dence and financial repute was ridely follower Wy ."
awakening to collapse and modification. inc DuD
which had been rich with roscate tnts ana
sunshine sank away like bird Of paradise sno' " %
Eight, with feathers dropped and head huhs "o"" A..
tim OF an artifce which had It's seed IN the nature
day. the ex-rIler who had presumed tl,' ho t "''9
summons than that Of the Archangel wonid o'ei 'e
arouse him. found all his family, as when tne' W.
little children. helpless around his knees. Inc
being used and Knocked, and wounded 10 the quo,
tratod his armor Yet in the first shock OF tha' iuio
thc iron soldier was affected chiefly TO sleep lc ~
who have fought their way to shore ai.er ~ ho
He lies down" said Mrs. Grant to caller. "Icn h'
comes to place he is helpless in, and he Is asleep
Ci.cos failure is probably attributable to staying 700
long in one kind OF business There Is "a ii'' " '
health of particular enterprises. az to men, teS ~
their sprces and their evers their congcsve cum
their dissoluons. The Texas railway system oroho i
finest working constitution In the United Stacs' ~
Thomas A. Scott It's first promoter, General ronoA'
never has rallied from the ruin. and his wlie oio''
in-la w. Of France, actually suffered Imprisonment %
the msfortunes OF this railroad and his wle uou ","
he was in the Mazas jail Marshall D. hooe,a' oloa
while worried over the Texas railroad. Colonei iho,'
Allen. OF st. Louis, barely survived his ACTIVITY " ~
system Mr.. Huntn gton has just linked MS ieN"' "
his Chesapeake systems by a long line between -'."
Orleans md Memphis in which he has controInhs ih
terest ana he has rolled his earnings and cret' on So
and iron bands the Pacific Ocean to the A'Anu'
continuing the work Of construction the last III o
Steel aud iron burst OF themselves when expahuo' wv
much and the great Louisville system, winch ueNo"'a
nearly everything in the shape Of railroad that eNScu
between the Ohio River ana the Gulf stream ana Gun
has hecn the n ausoleum OF soue fortunes ana 'he
fonener of xuected competitions. Three other sIe'
systems have arisen parallel to IT, probably uncaea io
exccpt by the speculative success oil the older s!se
socinc in Ohio last week q brand-new line ieaPn'S
across rivers and woods, asked what II might po'
po,tinore and Oho's new line from Columbus to Cin-
cinnatI said the conductor, to be opened In tue cary
spring" The corporation Is building ABOUT n'"',
mile. of road between Baltimore ani Chester fehh' anu
is running OF its Chicago passenger trains e. .V
burg and designs to run them finally r'a ii'tc ""es
ton where IT is tunnclling through moundy iool-hi'
which would have dinayed Hamilton and LIS eiephals'
Isaw Harry Oliver a native Of Ireland hgurihs NJ
Harrisburg TO he elected United States Senator eA "
was on the Tarn Commission reschedulng pot s'o'i'
Next il was stated that he Lad MADE d i'ho
fortune spcculane in Of the securities which aect
tho ae,nuts to build a new Pennsylvania railroad Isho'
FINALLY bis firm suspoas and the cruci5le proves 10 DC
also the crucial test
Persons returned from the New-orlcans Exhibition
s,v proves that the business and social force" III INC
South are not yet harmoniEcd nor fully cviiAeo tna'
gambling and killing aud sporuIstlng on strangers aie
too aparcnt and that individual spirit both r""''s
and fcrocIous Is and reifchensibie Pu"'
opinon HAT not mob Ia the need In the south "'h
all strangers ana half soc. but both must De
silent Meantime II aus distant stranger III the m'eths
Of mercy nothing loss voices this verdict ne 's SCI
down A. covert enemy and restirerous fellow. The
un so is near the head Of the mechanical temples IN
thc South and 1t mighty fortress to keep strangers
ul.
Professor shacr, OF Harvard mot Yale University. hh'
written "A look coniuendahle TO all good huf" '"hi''
uron the stnte OF Keniucy where lie was naive ana
Gcologis 1t Is likely the somewhat elegant FORM
with which he ntroInccs such rclcilphary po''hcH
ism. as this: Alvin Dava hal Ia 10 pdbc way ihui
c,i.d my symathy with the rebellion brt he was not
regarded a strong Union u the matter had beoh
left TO the people likely that he would have been
defeated M the oils" There be doubt that the
people kenacky endured far more outrage from inc
acts o. e Federal provost nafshAls than they dI ""
all The acts a. legitimate put tFeihef ihiH IN 'e
recollection OF Sue Monday ana Quantrell aud Frank
Ia.u,. Who continued the war uu a lev months past
,.,i,. The ,1ort at conscrpon stang the pride oi
tho Kentucky people who coul not .bear the Idea thai
A. should 60 into history that In war inc Peore o INC
Commonwealth were driven - the ilues IN oA''c ip'
same WIG said about lstJ IN seoohi-a''-' NeN t'H
TIE low price Of United state. bonds shows thAt th'
,d u,eut that the Union hads1ne 10 pieces. "meh was
the basis oi the Kentucky effort for neutrality "a ho
ou oi the bu snrss world" As !! there Vas no d"eT
enoc between IatriO:ism aud note SHAVING WIN -.
Cou,e IcrIc line OF battle on the one" "no can SAY 'n'
the North wou.d have g. Here Is faith " IL j. no'
IN bc denied that t.crc good deal o ordinary hom
eide IN KENTUCKY" What IL ordinary honiciic Does
:, tsse, tbe ,aus OF death aad orphnnage shooting
a Il the last Of the EALAheihan splIlts III
the South" Rather say the M"dician rer!oi' i"','
1. something nndisuincd In the battle Tor tue newly
l,udsl nlin Grant. Castle Garden aud the soctA'h
o uualggn,s Ia Europe which Is carried on by some oI
t;ic Northwestern States" fu:ther quotation IMAM ths
l. unnecessary; we can see why KENTUCKY uoc' "o'
change and why Harvard College doe.
During the lat two weeks have been making round
o the west an stray bits Of Information remain OH
ry mind The ilr.t thing notices Is the reduction h
the numbers % the travelling public On pro'hc"s
railroad took the through train from Chicago ~hch
akes few stops aud found not woman 10 DO upon
H. though rode nearly 500 mcs. The nen we're ios'
than a dozen In number. or about three To eaoh 'ons
passenger coach aud counting la the baggage ana
car hardly passengers 10 car ON tue o'her hA'
the way travel Is still pretty good showing that ue
people move about within their own neighDorhood anu
radius but hive no to travel 20 great dis
tnnccs Very few drummcrs are on the roai FROM oho
OF these with whom had some conversation Iearhed
that there reaction against pattern made goos "'
acquaintance was travelling 10 take orders Tor custo"
clothing made only ofthe very best stun. much oil IL i
ported lie said that the present stagnaon was In part
q reaction against stun OF all sorts; tha the
American people rapidly growing .nto desire ior
original designs and uBdupncsicd articles.
Ncw-YorE Is the only important American city when
has no public library. The Mercantile Library IL rather
cheap vet many who wants 10 read has not the 70
to spend The Young Mems Christian Association mas
library and good but price Is also charger
there. The Cooper Institute has newspoI er readhS
ronn OF great antage 10 peope especlay thoso