New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-02
GLANCES HERE AND THERE.

Surveyor Reattie's sefmportant assertion that the
Idea Of new Custom House and Appraisers Store
originated with ex-Colcctor Hodden ard himself has
already b,en rfdicnIed In The Tribune, which stated
that The idea had been the subject of official cor
respondcnec for ten years. In confirmation of The
Trbunes statement there raIcd out Of the dusty
achlves of he Custom House few days ago a letter
written BY former official of that institution SIX
teen years ago to the then Secretary of the Treasury
IN relation to Bowling Green as suitable site for
Custom House. The letter contained tie sug
gcstion that II a lev Custom House and Appraiser
Stores were built there. II would be well to convert
all tho street car lines into freight routes to facilitate
tho TRANSPORTATION OF goods between the new Ap
pralser's stores and the stores Of the merchants.
In view Of the double track surface road that has
been built In Broadway since the letter mentioned
above was writc the suggestion OF the writer seems
more than ever valtabc. His idea was to move freight
vans drawn by foa horses steam. over The surface
tracks between the hours OF p. M, and a. m, when
the streets arc comparatively deserted The author
Of the suggestion THINKS that by using tho Broad
way tracks all the accumulated merchandise OF day
appraisement could be run out at night IN frcight
vans and placed in dcpots along broadway, whence
they could be easily hauled 10 their destination In inc
warehouses OF the Owners. This, he thinks. would
proven. tho xexa;ious tangles Of trucks ard drays
which often obsruct traffic for hours near the present
Appraisers Stores.
Arorc ,bc reroinisccnc.s sent TO The Independent
IN IT, fortjetb anniversary was which gave an In
tercstlng glimpse Of Ncw-York life before the war.
When the Fugitive Slave Law passed. some twenty
fugitive slaves among the writer's paifshiohers
According to the law their nearest relatives cou" HUI
help them, bu, were bound 10 assist IN hndhg 'ho"
and returning them to their masters. When the queS
tion was presented to the New-York and Brooklyn
Associations whether not slaves should be returned
to ther former masters, Dr. Lansing. VINO was Moucf-
ator rose before the motion Wa. put and saiu
man should como 10 nut shaclSles on l would shoot
him as quick as l would mad d's or a mad man, or
devnP Dr. H. s. storrs said: If they come to
BROOKLYN with their shacles they will be put into the
Fast River together with their sh8akles Ard II they
should come to my house for slave they would get
him when they walked my dead body Beecher
said in his pulpit the next sabbath: he man VINO up
holds that law be he father, or brother shall never
take my hand in hldcous friendship breast his swarthy
shadow across my threshold
The Federal Club, the rising young Republican Or
ganizaon of the XXIst Assembly District has grown
so rapidly that It Is seeking another ana more
commodlous home than its present quarters Fifty
nlnth-st and AIadison-avc The club WINS started TWO
years ago. II grow out OF meetings winch thirteen
young men used to hold at the Murray Hill HOTEL
There IS luck In odd numbers in the case Of the FED
eral Club for the original thirteen members have been
multiplied eleven times, thus making the t@ al ncn-
bersh.p about $50 On January IA the club Nin have
meeting and the new clubhouse will be dis clissed
The new home will probably be in Madison-ase e. be-
tween Fifiieth and Fifty-ninth SIS.
/. NJ shultr, the alleged dynamter, sem at
Washington Market recently, shaking hands With
the butchers and laughing the joke they la yed
on him three years ago on the occasion of his Visit
TO his old home in Austria. The dynamite CIaMo
was then its height and all Europe was on guai
committee Of intimate friends struggled into shultz )
trunk on the day Of his departure from this pof.'
three big cocoanuts and timing his arrival az tho
Austrian frontier to nicely, caDed 10 tho plppcV
authontic there solemn warning against the approach
Of dynamiter with Informal machines concealed IN
his luggage shulz walked straight into the clutches
OF the wary officials and languished I'm prison While
his explosives underwent rigid examination. Those
innocent cOcoanuts soaked In water for three
DAYS and nights before The examiners ventuIed 10
Inspect them at close range At length they were
bored into and chemical analysis of their milk
was made. Their white meat and their shells werc
eIbieccd TO the same ndignity, but even then 1t
realized a great deal OF expert testimony to con
vince the officials that they had not stunlpled upon
bree deadly bombs Shultz was reluctantly released,
NewY York and heard how funny 1t was.
That famous three corncred Fanwood wcstled-
plainfed fight I'm Union County, NewJerscy Is about
To break out afresh The old cannon thae player
so prominent part in countless skrmishes has oeeh
missing for many months, peace relgnng the wmie'
but one of the warlike Hctfclds. who has been on
the scent for long time, whispered in my ear yes
terlay that he had found It and was now organizing
a raid to effect It's capture. It's buried under
haystackp said he, and could lay my mana OH
II the blacklist night that ever squated over grave
I'm, got
an,t bccn snellln' round Fanwood these six months
for nothin' I've done got my grip on the rope the
bows used to haul 1t about with. 'Iain't more'n
foot long, ms bout thick through IS y arm. Com,
10 lay il away for hare-loom. Keep your eyes
Amt none o. my family ever knowed what IL was wa,
10 give up fight yit" When Fanw00d Nestned
and Plalnield meet again let all De therc 10 Sec'