New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-06
CHANCES HERE AND THERE

course every one who loves them gets for Easter
Sunday. generally enough to last two or three days
afterward This starts him on his career Of dlsslpar
ton In flowers and he keeps IL up untl ne begins TO
regard his favorite commonplace, or until his
pocketbook calls halt. i am always glad 20 see
Easier come. not much f0r Easter ltSel us lor uic
demand which follows it,
As for flowers, cubman gave a bachelor dinner
the other evening at his club, and the flowers on the
table remarkable for their beauty lie conesses
to pardonable weakness for beautiful flowers and
spends no little money in this delightful luxury.
But TO come back to the dinner after was over ana
the party had left the dnngOOm one OF the servants
came hurrylng after the host asking him where lie
wished the flowers sent. Then came the expana-
flowers he sald by sending those which have OH my
dinner table to some one who isn't able TO gy movers o
world so that every one in 1t might nave all me
flowers he wanted" pardonable extravaganza his
seemed
The first warm days of spring are met with much
rejoicing by those men, and perhaps women, VINO
vain of their good looks or good figures. They
hasten 10 throw of their great coats, and in we'll
fitting light coats, or when the weather becomes less
treacherOus in only their usual coats. promenade
broadway and Fifth-ave. for the admra-
ton OF their friends. If you do not be-
lleve that there is deal of vanity of this
mentioned and see how often you meet goodloohins
men who to have nothing to do but to put them
less. being content simply to strut In their hnc
feathers.
"What amazes me- said a NewEngland man, is
the remarkable view which you people around New
York take OF officials. You to think that If a
man is serving ~ the law he may be lawless as his
fancy dictates. Here you have a neghbOrinG Mayor
who when things do not to please hum takes of his
coat tears down fences, rips up railway tracks, de-
stroying other peoples property, and when he gets
really excited tries TO destroy the usefulness OF men
u
particular Mayor You seem to take II as matter Of
npon it in mildly indifferent way. Sow such n
Mayor as that in New-Engand town would last
Just about ten seconds
"There is an artist over there said man in a
restaurant who was ruined by getting money.
knew of him years ago when lie was studying in
Paris. He was tremendous worker lived in little
box Of up in the Skies and ate in restaurants
only special occasions He began to do good work,
got 10 making fair living with his BRUSH was talked
abort little q coming man. when he fell into
some mOney-a good DEAL believe He put his brush
down TO take rest, TO travel, and to enjoy some Of
the pleasures OF life to which it had been his lot that
he should be up to this time stranger He has never
ms b ms G Of genius in his T csse q put out by
draft-hats an old joke. by the way, about the draft
al hear great many suggestions and see
many in the newspapers said the
man who lives far uptown and hates him
self for living there - about the elevated roads
and how to overcome the many tOrments of the sys
tenn. what's the use Why don't we stick to our
trains, the way to stop delays the way 70 avoid being
kept standing on platform while three or four
system We want Rapid Transit and until We get it
there is no use, t. my thinning OF expecting freedom
from lesser evils than the lack Of IT,
O. am not ilre-eater," said naval officer, but
1t makes weep to hear all this talk of Italy dane
Ing over here with colors flying to wipe us from the
face Of Cur country. Whether not Italy could sail
feet into NewYorS Harbor that could blow us to
pieces and I'm not that she could, the fact
remains that it would be only question of time, not
so very long either, when there would be no Malta
! and Italy. 1iay Is second rate power and we
coult not hope to stand up against Us, and it isn't
wonld mean Inevitable doom to her If she should be
so fooli,l-well. so much the worse Tor poor, Oh
misguided ltay."
The Injuries sustained by young woman on the
elevated railroad the other day ought to be warning
to the people handling the trains to be more careful
This young woman is not the first person by any
who has been hurt by tho stopping of the train
too suddenly. The only difference is that in this case
the Young woman so badly injured that she had
to be taken TO hospital while the other people have
oeen able to go home. There is really excuse for
accidents of this sort If the engineers would stop the
trains gradually there would be danger, but they
sometimes neglect to do this. They rush into station
at full speed. and then apply tho vacuum brake with
full force bringing the train TO such abrupt stop
that the passengers almost thrown head first in the
cars of the engineers on the elevated road are
competent To run the limited express trains tho
rraat trunk lines Others wouid DO more AT home or
q drill7 engine switching around yard than on the
elevated roads trying to break peoples nechs.
The "apple Gend,' who enllghens readers Of Tho
Tribune from time TO time the subject Of his
favori c fruit was met again day or two ago and
was found TO be not in altogether amiable frame
of mind. lie had not long before bought another
barrel of apples paying 81 50 therefor and thinking
that on the whole. he lad not made bad bargain.
opened at the top the grcenings-looked fair
and smooth and tempting, but after having cvelled In
perfect fruit for few days. lie disguised to find
as he approached the middle Of the barrel that there
was markcd deterioration In the quality Of th1
apples. Going to work then res0lutey and over
hauling the entire contents, he found that the do
terora ion continued all the way to the bottom. which
it NAV he said moreis really the top. being the
mart II the barrel last filed. on the whole our
apple fend found that he had about had barrel
Of good apples and great guam ny OF - specked
ones some indeed, being half rotten. whether IL
viii be his last barrel this season not he la' not
vet fully decided. Ten dollars was he limit which lac
sci Tor himself ms summer when linz prospect o. n
small apple crop becoming q certainty; but he
says he meant that he might pay as much as that io[
sound fruit. having found that II j. poor investments
to buy rotten apples at any price
Many years ago-so long ago. indeed. that not
many people now living remember 1.-THE Battery Park
was profuscly set out with Lombardy poplars. This
was about the, beginning OF the century.
Chancellor Livingston, afIer' soOurn in Italy,
is said 20 have had part in intro
ducng this tree in America, and it became
widely popular. The elder Mchaux, under the direc
ton OF the French King had been sent to this country
from gle Jardin des Plantes. Paris, and had brought
with him gardener nurseryman, Paul Saunier by
name who shortly afterward established nursery In
New-Jersey. whence young Lombardy pOplars. being
considered exotic Of almost priceless value, were
cont broadcast over MANY Of the states to the cN
clusion OF clolcer and really desirable indigenous
| trees But the LOmbardy poplar has had its DAY
n has not vet altogether ceased to he but compare
lively few remain now, being chiefly noticeable iol
their rugged pcturesqueness thcir semi moFibund
and dllapidated condition The peat majority have
| bean DESTROYED root and branch. When Young q
rn,in ~ these frces forms q pretty feature In land