New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-01
CHANCES HERE And THERE.


NNsw-York people, said an outoftown man the
etner Day, arc always In such feversh haste that
tney eften impede their own progress. There must
% something in the ar which stimulates men to
hAs'e. know that whenever como to Eew-York
ieoi ftated BY tho constant pushing and hurryng
All SIDES, and Jet before have been here twenty tour
n"urs md mysei keeping up with the general bre.k
neck pace and scrambling with the st OF tho people
What has struck me moro forciby about the hurryng
however, Is the mad way IN which plunge ahead.
ihey have only one thing In mind and that Ia to get
along. In their esgerness TO get along, they rush
blincly at everything You will dive right
Into crowd struggle and elbow his way In 10 and
nnaiy wnggie out and dart away again He would
save tine almost always by going around the crowd,
but Eew-York men won't circle; they drive right
straight ahead. Just watch an elevated train whom
pulls mp at the City Hall station. II you arc on
The car you viii notice that when the train leaves
Chatham Square every begins to get restless.
Long before the station is reached those in tho
jump TO their feet and start for the front door.
when the train stops the door is choked up and people
cant GET out without a struggle a discreet man
could get by way Of the door and beat 20
cent OF tho others out OF the of the platform.
9uI he~-York men will go ahead. No one could In
uu0e hcm to 90 backward"
An Old-tln, resident Of NowYork whose earlier life
was spent in the days when steamboats, were few, rail-
roads fewer, and tho common electrical appliances Of
tooay entirely unknown, Immediately went OF on
TRADE at the end of this mans words lie insisted
that 10 bis younger days life worth living, for the
reason that mon had tmo to enjoy Of tho bene-
dts which they then had, while now they were always
In too much Of q hurry to stop Tor anything He gos
so warmed up over his subject that he ended by say
Ing WY, what With your NUMEROUS railroads. your
new-fAngied bridges, your ten-story buildings ana
eccfNc currents and under and on all sides OF
y Jour life Isn't worth penny at any time or any
Where. 1t you walk In the middle Of the street the
pavement Just likely as not TO shoot up into the
air and blow you out Of sight Talk about coastde-
fences and harbor defences, what we want Is sede-
fence haven't spent resful day In Hft2"n years
Just because man has to get into tho current whether
he wants 10 or not, and once ho is IN there getting
again. He must 10 swept along with the rest OF
the people, and the old man brought bis Stuck down
heavily ard aney started out the door oihy W rush
nady aftor q car which had just passed him
Said . v.,lbrorr bngpos, man the other day:
"Much has been said about the tyranny OF janitors
in apartment houses But great their tyranny Is
ordinarily, It Is much greater in cases where the
jsntor Is related TO the ,-ndlori or agent Then
you have no redress speak fcelngly on this mater
because the ianitor OF the apartment house IN which
I i've Is q near relative OF my landlord Not only
does he presume on this relationship to annoy and
even insult tenants whom be doesn't Ire. but he "
upheld by tho landlord when any OF us make n COM
plant against him. I am going to get out when my
lcase expires and shall take care not IN 60 TO any
house In whoh the janor Is related In any way TO The
Landlord. Even II do have 20 acknowledge The
rule Of some jnnit"r a. WI probably oe mo oSe'
! want 10 have In the landlord court Oh Appears
however imperfect 1t may be-
A prominent Episcopal clergyman Of this city, who
knows whereof he speaks. says that tho organic
character OF tho Episcopal Church IN this country
wil be radically modified during the next few years.
1t Will he says drop It's present tue, ard assume me
name OF the American Cbupch." Its general con
vention will become a general synod, aud VIII meet
once In ten years instead OF trienniaNy. For hr
PURPOSES OF legislation the whole church Will bo
divided up into q number OF provinces. each Win
an archbishop and with provincial synod which will
meet annually. The Archbishop OF NcwYork Will
10 the Primato holding the Eams relation 10 the
Church the Archbishop Of Canterbury holds to the
Anglican Church. In fact the Anglican theory OF
church govemmont will DO closely copied. Cahe-
dras viii spring up having deans. subdeans. canons
and prebendaries; aud afchdeaeons VIII BE- placed
In charge Of diocesan districts act AZ the eye OF
the bishop Even to-day. no says, Bishop Potter Is
practically the prmate of the Episcopal Church. and
by virtue bis personal character and official position
WIo;ds an all powerful influence throughout the Church
Ard when Ncw.York srects It's splendid cSthedr-l
The Inaurnee Of the metropolitan bishop will be
tremendously incrcased Whether this clerGmAn's
lnfrrrnces all correct not the present tendency
of the Episcopal Church certainly seems 20 be In thN
dire he has Indicated. AND BIHhOp nuhtlnetons
protest against consolidating the doceses OF this state
into province Will probably bc inefteetUh.
4 triIn looking young Canadian woman may be
secn almost every day walking down broadway from
thirty tourthst sho has had a remarkable expe-
rence and, although Ghc Is now DR.. Elizabeth John
son. her reputation as among the leading SUI
eeons OF this city will long DO remembered by practi-
TONERS who hsyo depended upon her skil during
some Of The most critical and delicate operations re-
corded In surgical annals Dr. johnson IS now an
established practitioner, and IS regarded OF tho
rising women physicians Of the metropolis She was
for some time the superintendent OF nurses At the
Buffalo General Hospital
Life insurance and beer sometimes mix. The In
vsson OF England by American beauties has been
followed by n now incurslon into America OF English
Investors Guides tc Investment ventures are always
wanted, and Philip Cross who Is one OF the general
agents Of the Equitable Lio Assurance Society,
srcrcd' Luke Bishop to the Democratic SECRETARY
Of stae, Mr. Cook aud The salc OF the Rochester
hrevcrics TO tho English synd cato followed. Mr.
Cross is m Fnglishman by birth, but his patriotism
IS indicated BY Rs Republcsnlsm and his membership
IN twelve clubs IN this era ot club development
AID FOR THE COSFEDKR4TB SOLDiERS HOME
Tho Citizens Committee OF htty, which IL raising
money for tbs establishment OF National Confederate
Soldiers Home at Austin, Tex, received lette-
yesterday from Major General J. NJ. Schoheh ex'
pressing hearty sympathy with the plan General