New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-27
Walks And TALKS IN THE CITY.

ST., he said, you Will INA street STANDS where you Van
buy fine fruit any fruiterers in the Fifthave'
region In the of Gne tropical fruits the baskets
for stands OF the finest that the
market affords. The successful broker Is good Gus
toner and taxes basket home to let his folks Know how
jolly he feels stroke of business you 60
away from Walls and the avenues leading to the near
teeyHed stations the quality Of the fruits not so good
but st much above the common rum The bankers clerks
and the messengers like pretty fair quality ana
from seeing their employers buy the best fruit come 10
demand fair quality themselves. Three blocks away
toward the river front make you wonder II the fruit
was bought in tho same market Along Broadway IL 10
pretty fair II you go toward Chatham Square and
Five Points, up along the Bowery you Will lind runty
apples specked pears and other decay ed fruit Inc
Italians with their wagons great HANDS TO pick up
frt that is ust on the border OF decay but still looks
fresh and to peddo IL out to the tbrongs OF boys ana
girls who 60 through Franklin Square. Chatham Square,
and along Broadway their way homo after their day
work is DONE"
Ex-senator William H. Barnum, chairman OF the Dem
ocratic National Committee, Is here, having recently
come from Washington. am told that while there no
went TO Secretary Manning to Inquire about the
patronage OF the committee OF which he Is the head he
asked for a number OF appointments and has boon
dissatisfied with the failure to recognize his requests
He told Mr. Manning much. The books sent for
and brought In for examination did not hear as 70
that point but presume that the immortal higgins
brought in the records. Mr. Barnum found that
Senator German. OF Maryland. who was chairman for
his Executive Committee, had secured moro appoint,
than other man Ia tho whole country ana tnht
rood share OF them were credited on tho account OF
the National Committee No ntnated taat wave ne
peced to be consulted himself "a TO appointments 10
behalf OF committee. What satisfaction he got Is not
stated but there likely TO DO trouble for German III
tho Senate this winter.
Baron DO LOrmc. who is here to form an American
company to build railroads In China told mo TINT in the
next ten years that country Will construct less than
fTart Da1 afnn
said to the English that China oyster, which
saould bo opened Railroads the knife with which
oyster shall be opened Tho English have been look
ing this knife for half century They got twelve
miles OF road but and the popuacc turned against It,
The government obliged to buy the road ana
demolish it. Since then they have had COM
plications with ncghborng governments. which have
made them DESTROYS OF having railroad system Dy
which they mass men and war supplies at their
frontiers In the quickest possible Tine Iho result mas
been complete rnyulslon OF fccng IN favor OF rail-
roads among all classes OF their people Tho Baron
says he has conf etet the formation OF the American
company for winch he came here and will only stay
loAg enough to arrange minor details He Will return
TO emma by way o: san FrauciscO In q few days.
Judge Stevenson Burke, OF Cleveland who IS hero
watching Hooking Valley Interests tells good story OF
his election bet NewlorK His wIfo and lady who
is with them had suggested that they bet pair OF
gloves the election. when they came 20 compare
notes they all wanted to bet Davenport. The
Judge CALAMITY waived his political bias and Of
ucular to specify that tnoy wanted to have
siybuton gloves In they won. ~ they expected
do When It fouad that I'M had boon elected the
Judge was In qunuddry whether 10 fur"i,h his vie
Win the money To Get him palr Of gloves or TO nud
the ladies' an excgsc Tor not paying their bet lie
drcded that al bets were OIL because the QIakcrs
didn't vote"
II was reported here recently that Secretary Baya-d
has determined 20 present the Tehuantepec Canal
scheme to Congrcs, the basis o; IA foreign policy which
Al IA mt
wide Au American company at work there Tor
time up % lat year on railroad the progress of
winch stopped by tue forfeiture of their Land grants
to the Mexican Government The president ~ this com
pany wa Edward Learned. OF Massachusetts. met
him al Fft Avenue Hotel the othor day and inquired
about the canal project. lie said: II Is entirely
feasblc canal across tho GsthuIus. 10
nuld require stretch OF eight or ten miles Of solid
ma-nary the summit into which T. would Do necessary
To- pump water to make up Tor evaporation which IL
this day OF Crpton a1ucduct, that Il mcfr true Wat
mis- country ought 10 have T. treaty night over step
~ Territory there SAY nfty miles wide We -h0Id nso
have fortress, aud naval station al Cape 'o'hc on the
defence 81 the Gulf ~ Mexico AZ the Dry Tortagt, with
d fort Al cape Clioche the Guf would IL l.ui-ockei
ana ia tunniaric. from any for~.n invasion. with
ship canal at ich1auicpec IS" could project 'ai'"ini"
an oregon nnl become hh-"itcy uhH--dl t'r H,-lct
the cana would brue us u the trade ~ England that
10 tho Last around the Cape Of Good Hope or
by the -uck Canal
For some time past there has been talk tho forma-
ton here Of an ohio II had it origin In
The fact that Western state has largo representa-
ton In this city IN all branches and walks
" activity and llio ohio. There has
been FOR thirty years highly successful or
ganilation known rs the NcwEngtnd Society Of Now-
York after which 1t proposed 20 pattern TIL, one.
4 meeting wa, held at tho ohco Of General Ewing rc-
c,ntly nj which tho committees were appointed
10 lake preliminary steps. Tho association will
have no political business hearing. but be- purely So
cial There viii be arrangements Tor associate mchers.
who viii be residents of ONO. who como frequently TO
New York on bn,ne' or pG,,e IT j, esyn In con
Gallon uptown. second meeting to perfect the Orgtni
cation Will be hold In = fcw days.
Senator Eugene Hale OF Maine, was here few days
40 on his way to WAshn lie -ays that 0ppos
tioa will be madc President Covcands appointments
he IA concerned except such as has direct
bearing on the fitness % the appOnitcc.
1t whispered around IN Democratic circles that the
old man" busy with President Clcycauds message to
Congress-. "1hc old man" Is samuel j. llldrn MI Ran
dan slipped him at Greystone night the
past week Randall had just come from two hours
conference with the President at the White House Con-
resmnn scott Erie, says that tho message will be
sound on the tarh question which IN Nj Scotts view
IS protection. Scott viii be one ot RAndiFs strongest
si,tenans this winter. HIS great wealth and the posi-
ton has held IN tho prty connsels for twenty years
VIII mako him formidable factor In any contests that
Rand al may have with his own party
Senator Spooner, Of Wisconsin, who here during
tho week. was discussing with me tho coming session OF
Congress- when he sad: 1t would not surprise INC II
sD,ue Democrat tho first Law OF the session should
Introduce bill to repeal the Clv Service Act There
yyould not be a dozen In either branch who would
dare vote for H. but II they conld destroy II nChl1H
would give the Democrats so much pleasure The
Presidents claim great virtue foi having enforced inc
CyI service law Is the mpst monumental frdud o the
Administration lie swOrc In his oath OF Office 10 enforce
ALI the laws When he singles out this law ana says ne
go lid have credit for it, enforcement. he says III ccct
tat he credit because under the circumstance
he did not commit perjury That II ~ much a. to say
hat 80 might have been cal cccd 10 commit perjury
What 10 jlishuc,S"
The betting men about town have found new game In
the Bell Telephone affair at Washington The specnla-
tive ycnses AT uptown pool rooms are Offering three
70 ono that Secretary Lamar Will open mp the questions
OF the validity OF tho Boil patents The way they rras9n
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