New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-30
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Wealth and fashion. intellect and genius were rep
resented in tho strolling throng In Brosdwsv and
Fifth Avenue Saturday afternoon, and Tho
Tribune Stroller found II difloult TO tell which
predominant. Russell Sage, with his mmobilo face
and its fringe Of black whskers, strobe gravcy up
town beside Julian Hawthorne, the writer, without
being conscious OF the writer's Identity, who might
possibly have been studying the OF puts and calls
from a novel writer's point OF view The Rev. DR..
John Hall, towering above everybody around him.
walked up the street, his fine Scotch face wreathed
with the smiles that come from the heart. Over
against the same buildings caught glimpse Of the
blonde whiskers and 1.-THE figure Of Henry Monet the
shrewd and active general passenger agent Of the New
York Central Railroad The Stroller selected him
his first victim. "Wo are getting ready for heavy
business at the time OF the National coBventions,S
said Mr. Monet. ave shall send several hundred
Democrats out to ST. Louis in special trains. The
Ncw-York Republicans are little slow In arranging
for Chicago. / should think they would want to 60
out all together IN great trains that would make
an impression Chicago and tho country. No ono,
however, IS willing to undertake the management Of
the matter yeti
The Stroller runs next across James W. Halves the
lawyer, whose peculiar habit OF carrying hts head
ono side is marked, and whose sandy whskers, parted
in tho ccntre, give him, with his blonde complexion,
the appearance of a German Of good lineage Mr..
Halves has been reading The Nineteenth Century
contributed TO II by Minister Phelps to crclso that
gentlemans knowledge of American history. "Mr.
Phelps says that Vice President was
elected remarks Mr. Halves. this Is not correct.
Four Vice Presidents enjoyed that honor. They
John Adams, who served with Washington, George
Clinton, Daniel d. Tompkns and John c. Calhoun.
The resignation Of Calhoun handed in before he
completed his second torn, but he was twice elected
to the oflce. Another serious error made by Mr..
Phelps IS his statement that Presidential electors in
South Carolina have always been selected by the Lsg
laure This true up TO tho time of the war, but
not since reconstruction Possibly Mr. Phelps thinks
the country has had no history since tho war;
General George A. Sheridan, rotund and Jolly, is
discovered in conversation with Colonel Robert c.
Ingersol, who is fat and equally jelly. The fact that
the General WILL to night at the Forty third Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, proceed to tear the
Colonel pieces in lecture The Modern Pagan
seemed to make difference In their relations
Ono of the has beens" who comes into view rs cx-
Mayor Smith Ely He seems to grow thinner every
year. but his olose-cut WHISPERS have only slight
sprinkling of gray among the black, and his eyes
twinkle brightly behind his gold bowed glasses. Be
hind him Is exaAssstant Postmaster-G Hazen
who enjoyed the unenviable reputation OF being the
last bureau officer of Republican procvitcs to be dis
placed by Democrat. He hung on so long that his
friends began think that he would remain in through
out the entire four years of Democratic rule as the
one awful example just as he began to talk nicely
about the Administration he was turned out and Is
now practising law in Washington