Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-01
MANHATTANISMS.
THE EFFECT OF DOMESTIC TROUBLES
ON MASCULINE RAIMENT.
The Frank Leslie Will Reminiscent.
cies of Charles Fechter-An Old
chop-House- Church Going.
NEW YoRK Anril %. 1850.


pairing most extensively for warm weather
visitors from all parts of the Republic. An
immense new hotel has, as you know, been
built at Manhattan Beach; Far Rockaway
has been improved, laid out in handsome
grounds, commodious inns have been
erected; fine new house, Queen Anne
style, is to be put up and made exclusive
at Long Beach fresh attractions are to be
added to Long Branch, the Palisades, the
Catskills, Saratoga, and
THE NUMBERLEss RESORTS
In New Jersey, up the Hudson, on
the Sound, and all through this
peighborhood The passenger lists of many
of the European steamers are already full,
and it is thought that between June LIST
and the close of September Americans will
be swarming over the Old World. Lit is
predicted that the transatlantic travel will
be fully equal to what it was during the
last Paris exposition, and every indication
thus far gives color to the prediction. Inn
keepers here look for busy summer-such
a summer as they have not had since the
financial reaction of 1873. So do theater
managers and other caterers for public
amusement They believe that the con-
slant coming and going to and from the ad-
jacent watering places, to and from Eu-
rope, with the general allurements OF the
metropolis, will insure them such degree
of patronage as they have not been accus-
toned to of late years. A rare summer
for activity is anticipated, and If the antic-
ipations be not realized the disappointment
L L = doc |
remember when inn-keepers in and out of
town have had expectations so liberal
THE WILL OF FRANK LESLIE,
Now contested in Court, is the best evil
dence of his attachment and appreciation
of his (second) wife, to whom he left all
his property, entirely cutting off his two
sons, Harry and Alfred by a previous
marriage. The deceased journalist had
manifestly taken great pains in the prepa-
ration of his will had, it is said, consulted
the best lawyers ON the subject and felt
absolutely confident that its extraordinary
provisions could and would be carried out.
1t is not very likely that they will be, how
ever, for Leslie's sons would be of differ
ent composition from most mortals If they
had acouiesced in their disinheritance.
As has often been said, no will can be
made which cunning attorneys cannot rid
die, and attorneys were readily found to
attempt to undo what the well-known pub
Usher had so carefully done.
Although Leslie's property has been for
some time IN the hands of an assignee, it
is thought, when certain conditions shall
have been carried ont, and it shall be re-
leased, that it will be very valuable and
this is another reason why the
VALIDITY OF THE DOCUMENT
Is sharply contested. Itwouldbe strange,
indeed, were it otherwise, since Leslie's
early marital life had been most unfortu-
nately complicated. His union with his |
first wife had, it is represented, been any
thing but harmonious from incompatibility |
of temperament his sons and he did not |
get on smoothly, one of them having been |
involved in law suits with his father on
account of using his name. Very naturally, |
under the circumstances, Leslie would !
| have small sympathy with the associations
or product of his original connublal expert
ment. In his second venture he was re-
puted to have been much luckier to have
been, in fact, exceptionally happy, as may
De llI6FTeu IFOul bIG CudidClCl Vi Ills VIII.
The present Mrs Leslie, formerly the wife
of Ephraim G. Squier, the arch@ologist,
had really been for years kind of CON-
mercial partner of her husband, and has
doubtless contributed largely to his ma
terial prosperity He has probably done
her but simple Justice in his last testament,
though it can hardly be expected that his
sons should take his view of the matter.
CHARLES TIGHTER.
The remains of the late Charles Teehter
are now, it is said, to be removed hither.
No actor of his time received more from
nature-he had comeliness, grace, genius,
power to attract, sagacity to make friends
or began his career under more favorable
auspices. But he never acquired and
never manifested any disposition to ac-
quire, the least degree of self-discipline,
and to this lack his universities, and they
were many and continuous, are directly
traceable. He had all the defects of an
artistic temperament vanity, egotism, irri
liability, self-will, ver-confidence, arbi-
trariness-with very few Of its correspond
ing virtues. Through those defects, with
all absence of their correctives, he was in
cessantly involved in quarrels, particularly
with those DESTROYS to befriend him.
Hardly any man since Jean Jacques time
has had more personal acrimonies and
arrangements, in each and all of which
his rampant egotism assured him that he
was justified. He had lived in the three
great capitals of the world, and had liter
ally wrangled himself out of them. He
went from Paris to London, from London
to New York, and carried from each of
those cities a conviction that he had been
foully wronged. In fact, this was his
permanent condition of mind, and his i'm
aginary injuries
RANKLED IN HIS BREAST,
Rendering him cynical and deepening his
multifarious imperfections. His singularly
unbalanced constitution may have been
owing to his mixed and contradictory
lineage. He was sort of mongrel, having
German, Flemish, Italian and English
blood, instincts and influences to contend
against, enough surely to wreck a stronger
nature than his. His unfortunate consti-
tuition was backed by unfortunate habits,
and he died, needlessly, at 81, involved in
all manner of troubles. 1t is understood
that ne was poor, which may seem strange
when it is remembered that he had genius
and reputation, and could, when he was
able and willing TO play, command $500
night. But nothing should seem strange
in connection with SO peculiar an organiza-
ton as Fechters. He was incapable Of
self-government he demanded everything,
giving very little in return, and at last all
that destiny and fortune granted him were
financial embarrassment, bitterness and
death. Why his remains should be re-
moved hither, do not know but such is
the report. He often said that he de-
tested New York because he had had so
much trouble here But he had trouble
everywhere.
Since the nude Pole amazed and shocked
Union Square by appearing
IN NATURES GARB