New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-29
A WINTRY SATURDAY WALK.
SOME PEOPLE WHOM A STROLLER NET.
HOW THEY LOOKED AND WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY
CHATS OK YARIouS srpJECTs.


oVercoats and firs we're predominant In sa.ur
days throng OF pedestrians. A stif Northwest chill
WAS In the air. II entered the marrow OF many a
poor fellow who had Overcoat, and 1t was shock
lhgT impote to many poor working CARL WIN
scarf Clothing. But the wei fed, warmly dressed
people who swept up and down the great popular
horoughfares at the fashionable hours for promenad
ing had as little for the northwest blast as It
had for less pampered humanity.
Wei known dealer in mems furnishing goods
was met, and he said: "Unless you are Initiated
you would lie surprised at the contrvances for com
iort 'hat are now put on the market You sec that
wel-dressed man therel Yesl Well, he is Gus
toner Of mine. He has on at this moment hope 1t
won't shock your readers il you try 70 tell H. SILK
uhdergarments, then SUIT OF camers hair, then
chest protector. All this is before he gets TO MS
tailoring. His beaver overcoat a suit OF Eng
lsh dress goods, through which the wind could no
more penetrate than through stone wall He can
deiy tho cold, except at the pavement That Is the
weak spot OF fashion. Both men and women insist
on making their feet look small "a possible lhey
have shoes fun size too small for them, ana wear
the thinnest silk hosiery in winter when they should
have lambs wool nerno. The men make up Tor
their carelessness somewhat by wearing shoes with
cork soes, but the fashionable New York woman
is constantly In danger Of pneumonia and lung dis
ease caught from the cold pavements through her
thin fo6t-gearn
In Fifth ave discover Colonel Ingersoll, starting
downtown to his law Office with as much vlgor a.
If the wild newspaper cores pondents had not killed
him OF several times week for two months Be
yond the fact that the pain of recent surgical opera
tons his throat have sObered the Colonel from MS
once Jolly expression of countenance, there Is no
change In him, and it causes one Of his old smiles
TO come when any asks him II he has been III
danger. By strange coincidence, not far away
General George A. sheridan is met. 1t IL coin
cidence because ! had heard on the same day that
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Colonel, and that he is preparing lecture which l.
soon 70 be delivered entitled, whats the Matter
With Bobl" By the way. the General has daugh-
ter who is with Richard Mansheids company In
Chicago, where they playing "Prnce Kari" Miss
sheridan has been i'll. her father thinks she VIII
be obi ged to give up her stage work for short time
Grim and srizzed John d Lawson. better known
in politics as Sitting BmI" Lawson, whose fierce
appearance is entirely contradictory to his genial
nature on the sidewalk with his arm In sling
A window fell his right hand over a year ago
crushing The fingers IN the effort 70 save I ld
from ampdtatiOn a prolonged treatment has been
necessary, but they may have to come on after an
Mr. LAWSON is member Of the Republican National
Committee for this state.
"sunset" Cox recently Minister Plenpotentary
and ro-eate embalmer literature of the praises
Of Turkey and the Orient, but now happy in a re
election to Congress at a time when nearly all the
other relormers of his party are sheved or
defeated, Il out for walk with two ladies'. The
the o-ity and enjoyment OF woman. lie says
that IL Is Like being IL Paradise to get BACK 70
America.
A commanding presence is that Of Colonel T. A.
Atchi.On, one Of the new accesslOns 10 the bar Of
New-YOrk He comes IRON Nashville Tenn, and has
already made place here through his knowledge OF
Southern laws with reference 70 COAL iron, mining
and railroad properties. He is big man, above six
eet IN height, with head large that II II Is full
Of brains the Old lawyers viii need TO look 70 their
laures, and a face Of the round and bOyish, but
masculine type. In talking with me about Ienres-
politics, he says, with a smile that there are
candidates enough for the United states senate lnere
10 make a sized body of that kind
Joseph Cook. Of Boston, with bis burly figure and
pugnacious head and face, is He has the gen
era appearance Of having been called for In hurry
sent for and couldn't get there" is the Western
slang phrase that typifes his looks. Nathaniel Nc
Kay. the shipbuder and contractor, whose large
figure, smiling face and blond mustache give him
air of genalIty. stops long enough TO remark with
considerable that the men who secure con
tracts for Government cruisers not by any means
to 10 congratulated. He declares that 1t Is three
easier to get Government contract than to get a
settlement Of one.
1 SEQ two who have borne intimate relations
with two dead Presidents One is James c. Reed,
who was for some time the private secretary OF
General Arthur, and always Of late years his conf
Dental business agent in New York. lie Is a slen
der man with full black beard and keen black
eve y. +. Dawson, the other man mentioned was
the confidential stenOgrapher Of General Grant. He
Is angular and tall, with an enormous full beard OF
light brown color and silken texture.