The Osceola times., 1882-09-23
Y. Y. sunday Mercury .

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dodgers had been infringed upon by the
impetuous Englishman.
When complaint was made to the pro-
prietor of the hotel he pacified his guests
by telling them that they might sit on
the piazza, take in all that Oscar said,
and would not be called on to contribute
single cent for admission.
This arrangement suited some of the
boarders, who were really determined to
hear Mr.. Wilde, but would not give any
thing toward the expenses of the enter
tainment, as there were no expenses
Others, however, who insisted upon max
ing use of the public parlor as usual, and
did not care a cent to hear Oscar Wilde,
objected positively to being excluded
from the great public parlor, where they
were wont to dance, romp, and have fun
generally. At about 8 O'Clock the latter
class made themselves heard in unmis-
taxable terms by cat calls and so forth,
all from the piazza, until the
NOISE BECAME so CLEARLY PERCEPTIBLE
that the lecturer stopped short, and asked
the hotel proprietor if he could not keep
order in his hotel Hemade this remark
so determinedly and audibly, notwith-
standing the absence Of the proprietor,
that it reached the balcony, where were
seated two lawyers and three merchants
all guests of the Long Beach Hotel. He
was instantly told, through the open win
dow, by a stentorian voice:
eyes; order will be kept the moment
you shut up"
Oscar grew pale with excitement and
stopped short, looking at Mr.. William
Henry Hurlburt, editor of the World,
who sat behind him, and who said to
him:
"Never mind it. Go on with your
speech"
OSCAR RESUMED,
trembling with rage, and once more the
noise on the piazza increased.
"Get out of that parlor and talk to the
waves along the beach" greeted him next
through the open window
The eighty or hundred people present
got scared by this time, and thought
there would be tremendous row. Some
of them, considering discretion the better
part of valor, quietly departed from the
parlor; but, thanks to Mr.. Hurlburt's ex-
cellent management of Oscar, no further
trouble occurred, except an occasional
cat call, and Oscar apparently finished
every line of his harangue to his own
satisfaction, and without further inter-
ruption.
THAT fellow ought to be frowned
down." said smart looking business man
from Broadway and Nineteenth street,
when the Mercury reporter appeared at
the hotel the next evening to inquire in
to the rumpus. The reporter begged to
differ with his informant and told him
that very likely he, as guest of the no.
tel, felt aggrieved, with many others, be-
cause they could not enjoy the privileges
of the public parlor during single eve
ming.
"Oh, | do not mind that. / tell you
that Oscar Wilde should be taken at his
own merits by our people, and we should
not be permitted to be
HuMBuGGED BY HIM ANY LONGER"
"What do you really mean?' asked the
reporter.
II mean to say this, and do not care
how much publicity you give to the fact,
that Oscar Wilde is no fool ANY man
who takes him for a fool is one himself
He is doing a remarkably fine work here
for the benefit of the Society of London
Fresco Painters He charges nominally
for his lectures, but his apparent receipts
do not cover one half of his expenses
He is sent out here to fight great battle
against the wall paper manufacturers,
| who have wonderfully progressed during
the past five years. and who are about to
send some of their excellent productions
to the old country, the genius of our
workingmen having succeeded in estab-
fishing quite reputation for American
wallpaper abroad"
"You do not mean TO say, then, that
his mission is distinctive one in that
direction?" asked the reporter Il mean
exactly what / say. His aesthetic ideas
are crude, and, aside of all this, too pom-
pous and showy, the very worst feature
of estheticism but these so-called ideas
have oiyeD him a repIItatiop NOT nm +bn
other side, but here, by judicious adver-
tising, that
HELPS HIM AMAZINGLY AMONG THE NoU-
vEAUx RICHES,
of which the Vanderbilts, the Goulds and
their friends and admirers have not been
slow to take advantage"
81 do not understand you. Please ex-
plain"
"Well, you know Mr.. Vanderbilt, at an
expense of Sl45,000, imported a number
Of foreign fresco painters-'artists' some
call them--to paint and decorate his
parlors and since he has gone this length
to the utter disgust of our Wallpaper
manufacturers, the society of London
painters above mentioned have had all
sorts of agents in this country to get or
ders something similar to the above, but
in vain, owing to the enorm us cost of
execution. They then succeeded in
forming an alliance with several German
and French fresco painters and decom-
tors residents of New York, promising
to send them over from time to time
good skilled workmen, with the under
standing that the war against the wall
paper makers should be kept up unspar-