Personal reminiscences of James AScrymser, in times of peace and war . rlong fight was in vain if the French Company could land on thecoast of New Jersey and the Telegraph Companies foresaw thatthe French Cable Company might build its own landJines to NewYork City and so save all the landline tolls between Duxburyand New York. To me, it was as good as a comic play to beholdthe disappointment of the lawyers and lobbyists when they foundthat they had been outflanked, and the fact that they wereeventually obliged to aid, rather than oppose, the cable landingof the French cable on the coast of Mas
Personal reminiscences of James AScrymser, in times of peace and war . rlong fight was in vain if the French Company could land on thecoast of New Jersey and the Telegraph Companies foresaw thatthe French Cable Company might build its own landJines to NewYork City and so save all the landline tolls between Duxburyand New York. To me, it was as good as a comic play to beholdthe disappointment of the lawyers and lobbyists when they foundthat they had been outflanked, and the fact that they wereeventually obliged to aid, rather than oppose, the cable landingof the French cable on the coast of Massachusetts did not addto their joy. The Bill, granting permission to land the cable on New Jer-sey soil, was most effective and, finally, the French Cable Com-pany received the permission to land at Duxbury, Mass., with-out the slightest opposition. It is interesting to note, also, that within a month the Atlanticcable tariff was reduced from one doUar a word to about twenty-five cents and the reduction proved highly beneficial to our Cubaand West India traffic. io8. Xest Wic jforget The Parkhurst Campaign OVER twenty years have elapsed since the Rev. Dr. CharlesH. Parkhurst, almost alone, achieved his marvelous victoryover Tammany Hall, in strenuous opposition to the police and theentire oflScialdom of New York City. At this later day it is both interesting and instructive to lookback at the fight, then waged, and to contemplate the immeasur-able influence which Dr. irkhtursts victory has had upon thepolitical affairs of this city. Dr. Parkhiust has been so persistently denounced and mis-represented by the press and city officials ever since his memorablecampaign, that we find that the present generation has inheritedthe cynicism, opposition and vindictiveness toward him, whichprevailed from the beginning of his fight against Tammany HaU,in 1892. Since that fight, over twenty years ago, the people havewon some notable victories—^the elections of Mayor Strong andMayor Low, th
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