New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-10
AN OLD FIGHT RENEWED.
THE PRICE-SCHNIITTBERGER QUARREL BE
GIN AGAIN.
MI. VALKENEUHG TAKES Up THE LEGACY LEFT
TO HIM, AND CAPTAIN PRICE STILL

MI. vALKENGUEG TAKES Up THE LEGACY LEFT
TO HIM. AND CAPTAIN PRICE STILL
HAS THAT CORNER LOT.
When remembers with what kindly emphasis
Her Royal IIighncss the nantn Eulnle put down h"r
foot ard said "NO" learning that the beautiful
Central Park was to be Ovcrrun by the thousands
who would surely have fockcd there TO witness tho
parade OF the 9Th Regiment In her honor one begins
TO feel what pity II that the salwart Alexander
:. Williams the courtly and polished Horace
Porter never thought Of cnllstng her services
pcaccmaker IN that quarrel which Is agitating the
minds of Captain Max schmittberger and Captain
James X. Price. and their families and their men
servants and their mnidscryunts. She will now 80
back her gorgeous palace by the Tagns. aud prob
ably never know OF the conflicting emotions which
ragged within the breasts Of these two brave officers
OF the New York police force they marched by the
reviewing stand which graced by her pres
cncc during their annual parade non long ago.
Captain Schmittberger does not speak TO Captain
Price, and Captain Price has earnestly determined
that Bclas comet will bc Obliged once more TO show
It's fiery tail to n wondering world before it ever can
be said that Wams's right-haDd man" was caught
exchanging compliments with the big policeman whose
will Is law In the Forty seycnth-st. slation-house.
Captain Price and Captain >chmitbcigcr used to
lie next door neighbOrs, but they dwell now many
miles apart Sven years ag) Captain Pice b0ugh,
-
MoIi~avc. Then Captain SChnit:brg'r blusht TWO
Of these lots from him. and according to the Story
which comes from hi. side Of the house, was To be
perrittcd 70 choose which two ne would tahc. zap
tain Price, however, cherished more exalted no'iohN
OF his prcrogavc in the promises as well rs on inc
premises, and said simply, Those are yours III
take these"
These" included corner lot, whereas " 'hcse
did not
schmIttbcrgcr wanted the corner lot, ana con-
tinucd to want IT. They each built Il house, nice
house too Tut the conner lot re NAMED vacant Gap
tain Price still holds that.
enc night CAPTAIN schmittberger was awakened
by laundering sound. With jump he was Oh
his feet. and slipping hastily into his clothes he
raised the window ard looked ou lie looked ont
again. There big, long, high dark object De
fore him. n huge partition that ncal Inch 81 dis
pulcd soil, which marked the boundary lnc between
the two houses. lie felt Of II. and sni that IL was
bad. 1t wits wood. Then he closed the window and
went to bed. lie prepared now for anything;
and 80 Il few days later, when Captain Price handed
him the bill, and said In most oh-lani way
You'll pay this, old man, Of coursc! Captain
chmltlbcrg,r glanced lcsdrel; over IT, ana responded
in the same good-lu,turcd way "Of course not.
old man.
This was sumter. Since then the war has wased
with ever varying fortune. Now it WAS Bull Run, and
then again IT was vichsburg but never, far H. any
war spondrnt could observe. Appomat,ox. AS
the war proceeded. both commanders received the
honor, of knIehth00d. At the beginning Price was
sergeant. This the rank which the gallant
rchmlttbcrgrr bore lLevi,e Now rice ana schm!t,-
berger are both captains Weary at length OF this
irving cnmpaign aud In the midst Of one OF the warm
81 summer, mat i;d the mcle oil brave man
-chmltibcrger struck his flag and In the month 81
July last ailcd out Of his fortress with the honos OF
Mr vnkcnburg bought 1t aud the appuricranccs
the cunto hcloneing ne'er for moment sophhE ~
such "A lite thing wooden f nee what >chnlt'.
berg Regarded l. cyrsore \alkenburg conce yea
% be- thing Of beauty" 80 Price took IT. down.
Then Vnlkcnburg lui up 'e twice HIGH ana trans
formed 1t with coat OF paint into Il color dark ~
Er bus.
IN, war has now been renewed with red0ubled
vigOr, and the end Of II hO man can foreser.