The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-22

MONDAY. JANUARY %, 1872.
Eli Perkins Represents inc i!Pe-'s''
sers nj pcInonfco' Sta
Suc--Thc Big $40 Dinner.
~, ,,o r,5,,or Of The .Neac York Commercial:
FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL, January IS.
Yesterday was o great day for the printers,
type.setters, and editors OF New YORK: Inc
i:ea,,,ifnl bronze statue Of Benjamin Frank
lin, presented by Captain De Groot, was 'm-
vei.od in prnting-House Square.
Al IL O'Clock all the printers 'cho ,rcre
,corktsp, by The piece were permitted to as,
semblc at a convenient distance from, ana
within sight of. MIR. Morse, Mr.. Greeley, ana
Peter Cooper, and the statue OF b. ranklih
ofnrrs,id. The practical printers take deep
irterest in Mr.. Franklin, but the police KEPT
them al a proper distance, While Inc rlcn Gu
TORS who didn't care much about hiin were
permitted TO cone very near. Peter Cooper,
we'll known Is TN old printer ana Epc-set'c''
stood inst in front Of the statue. -
RsCnrp the exercises commenced Inc piiI!t-
ers began TO crowd nearer TO the st'tue, ioi
tI,.y loved Benjamin Franklin, ana man! OF
them were anxious 10 get slght at liis eiii5!,
hit al,g, Il WAS all in vain. What right hla
these miserable working printers near the
.i,iDc Of Franklin: So they were ali driven
hg"E. Il was M affecting sight thus to see
the n,!ice clubbing back the type-SctterS and
practical printers Wbo came up TO do reyer-
encc 10 the great American printer, their
friend. thcir founder, and their co-laborer.
could she'd tears of gratitude to those SELL
sacrificing policemen.
could.
THE EXERCISES.
After PRAYER by the Rev. DR.. Deems, who
wus made Doctor of Divinity on account
Of lis being such good printer, spcccncs
were made by DR.. Prime, DIR. Greeley, Or.
Morse, and Dr.. Savage. Then the police
clubbed back the printers again, who retired
in some fright TO a ten-ccnt lunch al tEc
yorDart.il." Some Of them, they say, were
t,t;eo 10 the Tomts for crowdin@ too near
the static and for cheering i'll dlorucIly
rn!nncr when it was unveiled. Alter urm,
OF thirty minutes the typo-,ctlcls ana PRINT
ers all returned 70 their daily toll, WINE tue
editor, judges, doctors Of divinity, ana mer-
chant, repaired 10 Dc!monico's to eat big
Ginncr il honor OF tho founder OF Arleficah
I.sltinG. ,
TIE DELMoN1co $40 DINNER.
ncrorn Going No 10 Dcmonico'5 l received
this no:c from the tvpe-scttcrs and practical
printers, asking me to represent Them al
Lc.u9aico's, 10. they were too poor to 50
TycogRarncAL UNION, January II.
It~' Iii:
We hrr tl,at nr. Prime, Mr.. Bcccher,
u. tAapio, Mayor IE,ll, Peter Cooper, aud
Dr. Courtney, tic great Practical printers Of
the city, are t. rat big so dinner Tonight
:.t pciinouico's, 10 the honor OF our fricnd
and patron y. Franklin, who was also
practical priatrr.
Now, a. we do not feel able to spend ten
dollar, on this dinner, will You lie kind
enough to Ho up to Dclmonico'>, cat the
G,.Yr, for IL, and tell us in yo,T plain, short
WAY il:L What these great American type
scttor7 Ike Peter Cooper and d. Chaptn say
anil DO:
VIC think vc deserved TO lie dubbed back
By the police to-day, but We Go love Dcn)a-
lnn Franklin, who was our co-laborer, ana
we wanted 10 see him when lIr was un'enea
for the first time in Printing-Elolsc square.
Yours, iIatcrnally, joins Mason,
and 100 practical printers.
sol purchased ticket OF NIr. England, who |
scts typc and print, the Sun newspaper.
When got in found about one hundred
md thirty printers, like Peter Cooper, Harry |
Palmer, August DAILY, Samuel &. Courtney. |
U,. Chaplin, and DR.. Beechcr, assembled.
our jlatcs were all labelled, and each |
printer had his seat. Before Us were the |
bills Of fare and specimen No. Of the |
Pennsylvania Gazette, us printed by Is.
FrAnN.in. This paper claimed to contain the |
'frcShcst -idrIces, Foreign and UCm"Sticf.'
I.i..e advertising coltimns CT the Gazette
I saw Ills advertisement:
"TO BE SOLD,
4 LIKELY Servant Man. by Trade Bar.
- bor has Five Years TO fcrvc: tlfo, Z Servant
Maid, 1T for Country or City bulineis, and has Three
Years 10 lcryc. LhlulFc ol b. fhaNALlN' uic
rriuicr hereof"
We commenced eating TO the glory "i
Frulalin at lml,-paSt &, and ate steady till ~
O'Clock. No Franklin gloritier stopped to
sly word. / remembered that represent
ed the typc-scitels who were very hard nj
work at this hour down in PrintinS-House
Eanarc, and ate the bill straight through.
didn't miss single thing.
Between all these dishes we drank Sood
deal of wine. noticed that Mr.. Beecher ultht
drink. but he smiled when Mayor Hall drank
to linn. It wasn't a good healthy smile, bui
il was smile After we had all illleu our
selves up with champagne und OLD sur
candy, TO the glory Of Franklin, the printers
bean to make speeches.
First came Dr. Prime, Of the Observer.
lie cordially Endorsed Benjamin Franklin and
Debora Reed, his wife. He said Benjamin,
when small boy, bought three rolls Of bread
for cent roll, and when he found hc
couldn't cat but one roll, he gave the OTHER
two TO friend to eat for him, just us eat
the dinner tonight for the printers. He said
Franklin was Il modest hoy. He didn't write
an interview" and come audaciously to the
managing editors and say, US he tlourshed
his copy,
"What will you GIN me for that"
"But franklin modcstly put his copy I'M
der the dool-sill, and the editors had to look
several days before they ever found 1t. This
may have been silly performance OH the
part of Benjamin, but he didn't think So
Ben didn't"
Mr.. England now came around with a
substitution paper to raise 900 10 buy Il
statue for DR.. Horace Greeley. Mayor Hall
had subscribed well, so had Mr.. Dana, Mr..
Howard, Douglass Taylor, and Mr.. Beecher.
England expected every man to do his duty,
so told him to put Hugh j. Ilastings's name
Hastings is EIl's employer, and hates Gree
iey.-Lt.paich.l down for 500. Said /, Hugh
loves Greeley, and no man will go further to
decorate his grave, or put up statue to his
memory, rlen he is dead, than Mr.. Has
1lugs. So, said /, put Mr.. Hastings down,
and il he don't ply it l will. So he signed
through me 500 toward Horace Greelcy's
statue.
Douglass Taylor now asked 10 Howard
who the venerable old hummer was sitting At
the right OF Mayor Hall?
10 said it pas has father, and went OH eat
ing lEoscor,te Gur fratSeS, or some other