New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-02
BRIEF CHAT HERE AND THERE
THINGS OF INTEREST TALKED OF BY TOUR
lists AND OTHERS


John Chamberlain the Washington clubhouse man.
who Immediately aftcrwafd was Joined By " Adonls'
Dixcy. Tho comedian had Just returned from aoro'"
where he has had rich experience. He THINKS 'ha'
America IS ahead Of the old world as the ABODE
OF saints Is above the place presided over by satan
His there does not detract from his oph-
ion Europe In general a" have travelled all
through Italy," he said. with Count De Marie, anu
I say that was received in wonderfully
hospitabe manner But a single visit 10 the Ola
World IS enough 10 send anybody back to this country
cXcalmng, Thank God I'm an American VIC
spend moro in charity I'm hour than Is spent IN inc
Old World in year. And the prejudice over there
against anything in tho way Of ar, from this side oil
the water Is simply stupcndous. don't pretend TO
be anything myself in the Of artist. but never
did Or said anything on tho stage that wouldn't
do say before my own mother heard and saw
comedians in England, and in Paris in their cafe
chantants and must say they The scum Of the
earth. ! bought a stall and went in with the crowd
to Richari anslcd play 'Dr. Jckyn and MI
Hyde I'm London lie was losing all the money over
there that he had made al the Madison Square Theatre
and this country. but ! take of my hat TO
Richard Mans field a gentleman and American
for the good he IS doing American art on the other SIDE
OF the water. They don't want TO admit that he Is
doing anything or can do anything and have not
encouraged him by good audiences They say his
Mr. Hyde Is great but his Or. Jckyll is no good.
Little by little he IS forcing them into the acknowl-
cdgment of his ability. They don't want TO do IT.
but he Is forcing thcm7
Dixcy had an experience with some Of the prize
fighters wien IN London, which hear Of through
othcr sources. Kllran, Smith and Mitchell came into
the hotel wherc he stopping. lie was In evening
dress, and had two or three friends with him, DEt
went to speak to the boys because he had known
them before Smith began to boast about how hr
had don NJ SulIf VIII WI
I'm his voice. said " You do mp sullivan! You
didn't do up sullivan Why. suv an can take you
three fellows and lick you and thrash you all around
the world, and you know it, Mitchell suggested to
DXey that that not the way 10 talk 10 him, whom
the comedian, who IS stockily built replied that he
something Of wrestler himself, and that no
didn't think that Mitchell could get away With him.
Mitchell took hold Of linn, and DiXey braced his fec.
when the prize fighter found that no could not move
the actor single pos. Il can't wrestlc you down,
and won't pretend to- said DiAcy, but neither
could you down me-. and for you licking sullivan,
;hat's all rot. You might well talk about some
amateur sculptor cxccllnc the great Michael Angelo,
who not only sculptor. but painter, scholar,
an author and a statesman
Dixcy thinks that Kllrain could whip Sullivan in
the lattcr's present condition. It was interesting
after he had expressed this opinion to hear what
John Chamberlain had to say. Chamberlain has
for quarter Of a century, having come in contact
With them at his club house. the same a. he has with
public men. sad he: Il have talked with all the
old OF the prize ring. and all the younger fellows
too. ! find nut one opinion any Whc'c anloh- Nrui'
and II IS my opinion also II I, that John l. euili.
van IS a greater man than any of his type this world
eyer saw. lie Is a better man than lIeenan or
savers was. TIE only thn- that can't down
him is the stun that comes out OF a bottle.'
hear tax that movement IS on foot TO make
81 tIn
Goth Regiment when Colonel Cavanagh rctlrcs, As it
is minated he intends 10 do some Of these days.
Colonel Knox has the presence and ability 10 make
fine commanding officer. lie is ono OF thirteen sur
viyins members q NowYork battery which went
up for over a year.
The msuflclcncy Of postal arrangements for the
delivery o, local drop letters IS commented upon
frequently by business mon. As example
gentleman stopping al the Fifth Avenue Hotel told
me yesterday that letter posted for him on Fifth
ave. at the corner 81 ~ixtccnhst.. had been twenty
eight hours in reaching him AT The hotel seven blocks
away. II might have come from Washington or
Boston In that period.
The people Of Oregon could we'll afford to pay Judge
L. +. Reese, o. Portland good round salary TO stay
In New York and talk about The clorcs Of that far of
state lie is an old Ohioan, an attorney mining
prospector, and prospective granger, for he VOWS
tile valley Of the willamette though he is suspected
by his democratic friends Of having eye on the
United States scnatorship. T. the Democrats by any
possibility overcome that famous six thousand Repub
lcan majority Of June last Tho judge has been guest
the II. James Hotel where. in a group Of friends,
he said Yesterday There arc few mon who have
knocked around over the country more than / Eut
the Garden o. Eden 10 mc IS Oregon. and the VIII
annette Valley IS is location. Think Of section Of
country $50 miles long by seventy vdc whore
work their shirt sleeves I'm January. within fun view
Of the capped pcaA, Of Mounts Hood Tacoma and
Helena. where the snow all the year round IS three
or four hundred feet deep Thu soil Of tnis valley Is as
black a. yOur SIX hat and deep that you cannot
athOm il. Nothing tnai grows can refuse 10 take ROOT
there. The Whca averages forty tAr'r bushels to the
acre. Ocean Ships ru up the river 10 bank landing,
with 10 feet OF water dclth. We don't know what
ihunder storm is. y h-Hmnc nod man would -tarvc
death there The fun Of sofia. and battle
ia hot springs OF nature. The tree, big that
man standing be- nc amen I'dH' q me ihcst l'I'
cyclones blizzard, earthquakes. and halt people
don't know that Ncw-logk CITY Is more than dot on
the map
Speaking Of Of the various features Of physical
geography on the Northwest coast judge Reese said
There are valleys In Oregon where the fog comes
great banks that keep the grass perfectly green for
miles and miles, yer outside OF given boundary there
Is fros and suow while wnln'ihi, charmed there
is neither. Alons the border Of British Columbia
whore Senator stanford has fine estate. there IS
strip OF and MI" and nan o. two miles IN width
runnlnc from the ocean clear over TO Dakota. in
which there is perpetual boomng OF flowers. vet half
mile from Is wclldchncd boundaries the frost does
IL work the SANE ~ ciseNhcir. Ihl, comes rom
warm current % air from thc ocean sweeping over the
land In a narrow channel
Joseph Pool, who wa prominent in the recent 70
ceptlon Of Mr. Blaine, chairman Of the committee
Il arrangements, wa in the Government service AZ
Washington during the He was connected with
branch OF the War department I'm an important post
ton that brought him iu frequent communication With
President Lincoln. ON the afternoon before Mr.. Lin
coin va, sh0' az I0fd's Theatre Mr. Pool met the
President sylvaua-aNc.. where he made char
acfcrI~fic remark: I'm COINS 10 Brady's 10 get my
l.c. taken said bee. Brady was The crat Washington
rlofulIavler o. shat Gay. MI Pool went with Mr.
Lincoln and aficrwal received one Of the photographs
much bclatcd Old dominion Line steamship
brought on 10 West-st at the foot Of Franklin and
leach, midnight a few days ago The North
River front f. curious study 10 stranger al such
an hour The docks and wharvcs present strange