New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-29
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

curious thing about the Brooklyn Bridge Is the
difference in the receipts from the two ends. great
many more people walk from New-York to Brooklyn
than from Brooklyn TO New-York but IN riding tho
balance OF traffic is the other way both on tho rail-
road and by carriage.
In the lobby Of the St. James Hotel one night last
week, tall, thin man, tail. thick man and a man
below the medium size were pointed out the Big
Three in turf matters. They were Smiling John
Kelly, Handsome Bills Barnes and "Philo Dwyer
Kelly would rather bet other mems horses than
stable Of his own. Barnes is going to race on a
bigger scale in the East this than before
Dwyer will hold HIS own, usual, whether on tho
track or in the betting ring An effort was made
TO pull him into the Krain-sulIivan fight as stake
holder but nothing has come of it yet lie believes
the match win be fought and would go far as
Patagonia to see It, "Phll' Dryer never misses
prize fight
Colonel Thomas p. ochiltree's philosophy Of hEe
confines itself to the present and lets the future
slide. His latest appeal to his admirers Isl Give
more tafy while l an with you and less epItaphy
whom am gone"
Once every year-on the day before christmas-a
Brooklyn woman walks across the big Bridge and
places in the hand Of each policeman So note She
expects to continue this UP to the last year Of her
life
Jacob Kilrafn calls John l. Sullivan baby; John
l. Sullivan calls Jacob Kilrain monkey: Charles
Mitchell calls Jack Dempsey rat; jack Dempsey calls
Charles Mitchell duffer Charles Mitchell calls John
L. Sullivan a oafer. AS these fellows very wen
acquainted, each is probably right in his estimate Of
the other. The public entirely satisfied with the
classification.
Not many years ago Union Adams conducted the
largest mems Quitting business in the United States
His establishment, in Broadway below Bleeeker-st.
was without a rival, far as the completeness OF
its equipment was concerned, and the extent OF its
retail trade enormous, On the next DOCK
above Bleecker-st, in a small fourth-story room,
l. A. Newell was carrying on at tho same time an
unpretentious trade IN custom-made shirts, collars
and cuffs. Nobody had heard Of Newell, but Adams
was known throughout the length and breadth of the
land In an evil time the big outftter added TO his
establishment wholesale department, and attempted
to monopolze the mems furnishing business. He
continued for time TO be one Of the leading mer-
chants in the city, holding numerous commercial
Offices Of prominence, among them the presidency
Of the Eighth National Bank But luck went against
him. down no went not like an exhausted rocket,
but gradually, for he made stubborn fight against
failure Newell, On the other hand, prospered, and
built UP considerable trade, which he now conducts
employing more than dozen clerks His
chief salesman IS Union Adams. Though
in his slxty-eghth year, Mr. Adams looks like man
Of forty, prematrrely gray. Ho has the forehead
Of Napoleon, the nose Of Wellington, and the
mouth and chin Of John Adams, with whose
descendants he is connected by ties Of blood Reverses
have not soured him nor dlmrned his sparkling eye.
He Is one Of tho cheerfuIlest men In town.
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