New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-09
THE PASSING THRoNG.

In the nrst half Of the century" said T. r
hltchins OF Pttsburg, yesterday. at the Hotel I'M
periai, travelling was on a very
LII = ON different basis from what It Is to-
IHE day. BY water, where the water
NAlIoNAL ways allowed canals had been
fiNH' built, was popular method OF
transportation and, where water
was not, by road, IN coach private conveyance
BY locking, the canal crossed the AileKhenvs and
you VIII find vivid description of n ana what
travelling by 1t was like in Dickens's American
Notes
AS long as the weather held good travelling by
feaa was agreeable and as rapid as the length of
your purse would permit. But when it rained
bH a SCI IN or spring came. the country roads of
pended The rapid growth Of the tT wf all but sns;
end 1 the great to PrSds for better roads
engineering it might RSeFhsPs as go9d piece Of
that the engineer who built sighted from hiiItop
u5tthont se ana me road was built accordingly
stacles BE that may the roadbed iteeif was %9
a SondepIui piece OF constructye work and lasts
ton q il from to q Wasn GyeF T ss
II Is only wide enough now for two teams to BASS
cient w9t pnt IN Its palmy days 1t of suf
e eSeI!e the aT sa Is to Through se
young to re1emb SEeTgrG Sn4 r OF
1 Tho PASSED his boyheod one Of the villages
ma e % talking about Il and Of the going
the of the day Of the resulsT fre,Sb ws
Seis "I0 s sturdy horses carried sweet jangling
as to cause continuous music throughout day and
h t 81 the private carriages that passed through
EYES gave him impression Of luxury and mag.
after life could compare WITH or OF eyep IN
1t wa. In his town that Henry Clays coach was
, whether or not he had been injured he replied
could mix with the s a mud Of < 6t
ai,dito Ga9sgn Clay spoke there, and among his
country lad, who drank his words eagerly. ana.
purpor impressed for ali timepo sngfT fb b
the wonderful voice and face Of the orator. What,
miraton for Clay with him through life. and when
writings and e Of tse rea aa so1 STUDY OF the
souri, Compromise. - ''e ME
of the times lived its da aio ~ safn was product
railroads. - - p''S'e'9 anu '"e
Watkins Grant OF Boston I'm talking Of the late
General Benjamin F. Butler the Hotel Imperial
yesterday said: General Butler
GENERAL was of much aplornb and
D11LEh AND great readiness IN repartee / re-
The BIG member at time his arising In
SFoON the House OF Representatives and
making a speech that was so sane
timonious In fits nature that had you not known the
man you would probably have thought him the
superintendent OF Sunday school AS soon as he
had finished one OF his opponents arose and put
MS uE pr ans haads t9gethe5 SAID MT Speaker let
p6oIased the Genera thereby turning the laugh that
. But in spite Of this readiness a time came in
General Buffers political when he had 70
retreat before the enemy. It during his fight
tor the SoYernorshtp. which by all odds the
neroest nght he ever made. and Butler was ma king
me closest and most energetic sort of canvass In
MASSACHUSETTS,; He was speaking In some place /
thlhk IT was Waltham. one evening In hall OF the
eia Iashioned kind No rise to the floor detached
DenchesI all on the level. that SORT ~
hing over the centre of the audience was large
ransom and through this, about the middle of
General Buffers speech, some one let down on the
END OF a rope an enormous wooden spoon, covered
with tinfoil SO unostentatiously was it done that
II must have been there for some moments before
the audience discovered It, for Ii had entirely cea
swaying, but when they did they announced the
Iact by murmured remarks and suppressed gigRIes
That grew steadily In volume. For Ave hitter min
utes the General struggled bravely against that
accusing spoon. hanging there S silent and re-
morSeless fate itself, but finally he had to viaId
and leave the field and honors of the day TO his
silent conqueFor. - ''S