New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-01
WALKS AND TALKS IN TIE CITY.

Tn talking with tho moving spirits in the different
schemes Broadway railroads. one hears some interest
ing views presented For instance. a broadway mer-
chant said to- ne other day that 1t was an advantage
to Ia, tho franchise 90 for $4,000 year, when they
might have sold 1t outright for half million dollars
sugges;ed this to James Richmond when met MIN ana
he said Mercy sakesi $4,000 year just represents
per cent interest the half million ODer Besiues
which, must pay per cent on our gross receipts IL
Is an experiment. and risky one, whethhr OF not Tue
road will nav ANYTHING under such an expense" Mr.
Richmond added The cable road not practicable Tor
one great All the strain ON the horses on street
car is in starting The strain in cable road Is eqi
both In stopping and starting. Now just imagine car
ON cable road, starting and stopping, startng ana
stopping, from the Battery on up through the busy
thronc OF vehicles Broadway up TO Forteth-st How
many times would be obliged to start and stopf Any
one may see from mere thought that the cable wonld
be strained beyond its endurance IL Ism ke the pronu
streets of Chicago where the cable ROAD has full swing
But even there their cable troke four times IN Que
winter" On the other ham, tue cable railroad snvo
experience shows that vehicles Keep oas o. .e
road of cable cars where's drivers woo %
OF passengers.
Predictions assert that the Legislature VIII DO In
session till the middle OF May.
Ex-senator Wallace OF Pennsylvania whom met just
before he started on his Southern trip said to me:
POSITIVELY have not been an applicant for any once
under President Cleveland; have been offered one
am so busy with my private affairs that could moi
consider such an otter II 1t to me. have been
kept at work three summer aud winter
without any vacation. and am just starting on small
trim for nv health. My relations with Mr. Randall are
wholly friendly In spite o. tno newspaper '"A w w
contrary"
former member OF the United States Senate SAID yes
tay zone OF the curious things that happened to me at
Washington the other day was to have a Firginan,
Colonel, come mp 10 at the Riggs House ana oegm
talking with all familiarity OF au old friend lie tod
me his name and Office he wanted. Then he launched
ont into discussion OF his family affairs. He had Chsis
blood in his veins married to descendant OF
George Washington The Custis family ne said was
bluebloDded and honored the washin ,ton family by
alliance with The washngtons were only poor white
trash sab IL struck me that the ColpLei would DO
good man for Bayard 10 send abroad as foreign
ambassador. since he wants none Dnt gentlemen OF Boou
lineage for that service"
c. H. Lcete traveller in the dry goods line. tells me
that trade picking up but from what he gathers on the
road no other branch of business is improving as IL
should.
w g. Andrews, OF New-York, who is brought TO the
front as a liate for the SUPPLEMENTARY or the
Bureau of Engraving Printing at Washington is an
old Tillen agent He originated what is known among
the political workers the newspaper racket In 1878
and 1876 when he had an Office in Lberty-st and
peed the newspapers OF the country with compliment
AIRY notices Tilien Where 1t was impossible TO
secure the OF those cpp TO the columns OF
newspapers In any other way they were paid
for at so much per line local notices" pulls One
influential Western democratic :paper is said to have
been paid $4,000 for the publication OF series OF
notices A sturdy Democratic country editor ut Mount
Vernon Ohio published the paid notices in one column
and another column editorial den0nncing Iltlen
and explaining the paid character Of the extracts winch
" the whole scheme Mr.. Andiews hao
charge OF the publication department OF the Democratic
National Committee In 1876. 1880 and 1854