New-York tribune., 1885-02-08
BROADWAY NOTEBOOK.
MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY HOUND

MEN AND THINGS. THE COUNTRY BOUND.
THE PERSONAL NOTES AND NOTIONS OF BROAD
WAY LOUNGER.
see Gardiner Hubbard, Of Boston. coming down tne
street, the survivor and OF tho nest His great
compettofs and opponents retired buried WILL
lam orton Is Dead his flexible yet athletic system having
succumoed 10 the vast tange Of wires OF legislative
Ds ana OF litigation. Hubbard. when frat knew him,
was giving instruction to Congressman and Senators IN
a'or OF the National telegraph line which Postmaster
General Cresswell recommended The experiments and
Ms connection with Mr. Bell proved that there was
"ora ciscwhere The telephone now covers the whole
country IKE the pos-oince system You hardly fnd
ato"h DIG enough tv appear tho map which does not
contribute Its hundred dollars per In royalties.
10 commercial drammrrs and all travelling folks the
'eephone Is Joy because they tell when train is
pehind ana how much and put In the time selling
sos or courtng or playing billiards instead Of hanging
around tile cold railroad stations and sleeping with their
heads on carpetbag. Mr. Hubbard is quite gray. was
always thn wears specaces and he is OF the great
benencares OF the telephone system. Some device il
wah'cd 10 prevent telephone from being un-
derstood by everybody In the vicinity. A has
occasion 10 sends delicate message for example about
an increase OF family and he has the pleasure or the
chasrn OF having to tell ali tue people tho telephone
station before the doctor himself Is Informed.
Sometimes we Broadway interesting men from
The ncisnboring viointes. Here Robert Waters,
wcIl-known school teacher OF Hudson City, n. j. on
the heights above Hobokcn. He has recently issued
most entertaining Life of William Cobbett" Of whom he
has been from childhood ardent al nlrer. and has
appended to 1t that admirable grammar OF CObbetts.
perhaps tue most original work English grammar ever
conceived or eXI PRESSED. Mr.. Waters for time
taught English in the Hoboken academy for the training
OF young Germans. but Is the chief OF the public
school OF West Hoboken. He Ia OF about forty
years OF age Some OF his excerpts about CObet have
value to us In the city, For instance, he describes
how Cobbet came to dig up the bones Of Tom Paine at
Now-Rochelle
| Suburban clubs are growing around New-York. In
Jersey City and Hudson City there the Palma and
the Orion. and perhaps others. We may not be aware
in NewYork that regular elevated railroad Is being
built from Hoboken 10 Jersey City Heights; It viii be
finished Ia the spring and will deliver people from the
New-York ferries in very few minutes to the highest
| submits OF the Passde plateau.
The question has been raised what reserved rights the
owners Of private las and apartments will have under
foreclosure In tho large buildings which have been built
this island within few years Many Of these has
like the Chatham Apartments In were
paid for before they constructed by Subscribers
Some OF these fats, however alter they were finished
had general mortgage put upon them How does the
general mortgage aeot the private dwelers ndepen-
dent home 1t true that the mortgage can be made
Independent OF these reserved portions Yet the whole
tuding IL governed by more Or less OF single economy
1t remains to be whether the private teuan even
If never dspossessed. can lind genera. management
always TO his liking.
While New-York City has great variety OF private
mansions. the high price OF building lots the island
probably will deprive ,f streets aud avenues Of mod
crate priced villas In the Western cities
In Ike icld and Pro.pcct-syo la Ceve
land Our fine boulevards uptown are Just adapted
for homes q considerable distance back from the
street with gardens lawns In front Of them. Yet
the high price OF lots in these bOuevars Will compel
shrinkaye Of buildings and tho destiny OF tho whole
island be contain houses not over one hun
dre6 feet In depth and with Mother front back
| dcns. Yet tue sEs oi Se@-YOrk city blocks and the
| building restrictions always compel the middle OF
| squares bc opon To the sunlisnt, and there Is
hardly block In the city from the rear windows OF
which ca not studied very general neghoory econ
though IL Is seldom that the neghsors front and
rear ever reeoguks other The matter OF hanging
clothes dry In these snail back yards leads to
singular courvabces; in blocks there sta lds
high pole. high telegraph pole higher with pulley
attachments 10 II and ropes leading into the Windows
the different floors and the denzens OF the principal
stories attach their clothing these and pull them
10 the poles dry without descending to the
yard: OF these poeys different heights
the role and picturesque view Is afforded Of the
entire washing OF tall house every Monday afternoon
and tuesday morning.
Tho female crank every and then comes into tho
public sight time ago she shot herself dead
elevated railway platform ami very badly wounded the
man unfortunate enough to possess her admiration; on
inquiry 1t found that the crank had made the slight
mistake In early youth OF marrying u prison convict
while the person she MANNED and nearly killed
quiet Instructor IN priv school. Now have the
international crank who. excited at seeing ODonovan
Rossa axe up space In the papers finds her
little pistol takes Rossas paper to bring herself TO the
pitch OF ekoitemsnt and lays plan TO shoot her
self into notice and him out OF It. The tendency OF
| mo iern civilization s TO bring woman more and moro
into plane an with her intense temperament
and incapacty to hold moro than one thing we'll Ia
mind she produces astonishing sensations was talk
Ing not long OF railroad presidents about
the relative influence OF In the casualties and
troubles OF men and families. and he said: have
invariably found that denections from regular
habits. not attributable 70 whskey are to be charged
| to scrapes."
This man o'Donovan. who calls himself Rossa aprar
entity delighted with hs popularity in small quarters
| and his nfamy In big ones may have overlooked the
little coincidence that great many OF our citizens do
| not much difference between him and Jack kehoo.
Jack Kehoe the chief conceivor OF the Molly
Mcguire organization in the mining regions. and he had
political aspirations DO sheriff Of his county. and In
fact put county at large into the hands OF ring
which should be elected by the miners. The Idea was
to acquire power through secret socetes and TO make
this power terrible by assassinations The device was
copied from the old Irish Molly Maguire organization.
sending assassius from distant county into that one
where the crime be done: consequently tho men
appeared to be strangers and not often identified
Then made reciprocal and the benehcaries
in the county visited went over to the county OF
the visitors and killed somebody there The number OF
these mysterious murders finally convinced Mr. Gowen.
Presdsn OF the Reading Railroad that they were the
work OF secret organization. He sent detectives
/ 81 uhn Raa m sh
Catholic took the oaths drank the bad whskey doed
ont by the tavern keepes in the Organization to their