Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-06-05
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
Events of the Week in the Great
Metropolis.
Decoration 0ay-An lnfdeI and an English
man Delivering eulogies-Andres'
Monument President-An
lncident-Chiness Show.
VANDERBILT IS HIS NAME.

never has the observance been more
general or more successful, in this city and
vicinity. The perfect weather, the brilliancy
of the military and civic parade, the un-
usual excellence Of the orations, and the
presence of the President, each contributed
its share 10 produces the eminently satis-
factory result. For another class of citizens
the holiday was made eqnally enjoyable by
the races at Jerome Park, where the gay
toilets, the freshly painted drags, the speed
of the horses, and the size of the crowd and
the general animation Of the spectacle
produced veritable Derby day; while the
exhilarating dress parades down the bay of
several crack yachting clubs, the closely
contested ball games, and a variety of
other out-of-door sports furnished the
variety of amusements demanded by the
metropolitan million bent on enjoyment
The severe criticisms Of Bob Ingersoll in
general, and of his engagement TO deliver
the principal Grafton Of the day in particu-
lar, did not interfere with the flow or
ferver of his eloquence. Whatever one
may think OF his theology-or lack of it
none can dispute the quality and strength
of his patriotism after listening to him in
the Academy of Music last Tuesday
night. While the good taste Of inviting
Ipgersoll to speak was very radically dis
cussed in the religious journals, no one
called in question the propTiety OF engag..
ing an Englishman to eulogize the dead
soldiers in Greenwood Cenetery. The Rev.
Robert Collyer, while an Englishman by
birth, however, is as hearty and whole
souled an American citizen as any man
among u.s. When the war broke out on
the very first Sunday, and in single SER
mon, he preached every able. bodied young
man out of his congregation and into thN
army. Now he claims and rightly, that
the grandeur of the victory OF the Northern
arms is due to the fact that, as he expresses
it, "the foe they met were not low-down
fellows, but every inch as good men and as
brave as themselves .-.-..
Popped Over at Last.
Enemies of the Andre monument should
be satisfied now that at last after repeated
efforts to destroy it, ii lies prone on the
ground in mute obeisance to the vandalism
whose exhibitions are becoming alarmingly
pregnant. / went up to Tappan yesterday
to look at it, but there is nothing specially
exciting in the spectacle Of polished
shaft OF granite, four feet square at the
base and not much longer from base to
apex, lying on the ground as though that
was its normal coudition. l suppose it will
be there indefinitely, although the sugges-
ton has been made that the shaft itself be
exploded with nitro-glycerine on the com,
ing Fourth. The people OF Tappan and
the Sleepy Hollow, sort of village itself,
which is now blooming like garden, are
far more entertaining that Mr.. Fields dis
mantled block of stone. Washington s
Headquarters, every regulated village in
this immediate vicinity has its
Washington's ii Headquarters.
YOU know, a quaint stone structure dating
back to the early part of the last century,
| is now lost in tangle of trees and shrub
| berry: the old stone building in which
Andre was confined before his execution,
now in a tumble-down and rickety cOndi-
| tion, is still as closely locked and as strong
| ly barred and impregnably bolted as though
| this architectural skeleton was trying. still
| TO hold the unfortunate Andres ghost
| even as its stanchcr self once had held his
| BODY: while the faded and weathcr-worn
| medallion head of Washington on the sign
| that swings before Gregory's village inn,
| creeks as ominous,y as though when Gem
| eral Washington sentenced Andre to the
| pallows, his own head fell to swinging in
| perpetual sympathy. The view from the
| hill where the execution took place is lar
reaching and beautiful in the extreme.
| While was enjoying it and thinking how
| fortunate one must be TO have his last
| glimpse of this world from such stand
point, the inevitable small boy put in his
appearance; who tipped this monument
overY' severely demanded. Oh, she blew
over herself" was the satisfactory response
given in the expressive yernaculer OF the
Tappanese.
Presence OF the President.
President Arthur has been in town some
days and his movements have been watched
with keenest interest by the hungry poll
ticians and would-be office-holders. Per
haps he has not been kept under such close
surveillance as during the days and nights
inT;.diately succeeding his taking the oath
Of office. but the public has been pretty
we'll informed of what he has done and oi
the people he has met. With bis usual
tact he has had two reception rooms at the
Fifth avenue, one for his Stalwart and the
other for his Half Breed callers. Speaking
of the way in which the reporters dog the
Presidents movements, | recall story
told of him two or three nights after he be
came President. He couldn't move out OF
doors, and no one could enter his residence
without its being in all the papers next
day. Reporters roasted on his front stoop,
leaned against his fence. held up the trees
and lemp.posts in front of the house,
formed socfable knots at the four nearest
street corners, button-holed every unfor'
tunate who come in or went out, and gen
orally mounted guard on the premises. He
stood il as long as he could, but even the
patience of so amiable gentleman as MI.
Arthur las its limits, and one night,
shortly after midnight, he suddenly. ap'
peared like a very able-bodied apparltion
10 A group of startled reporters. Very
kindly, but in q manner that could not be
misunderstood, he told them that he OBJ
iected to being kept under any espionage
of the kind, and he moreover begged them
not TO say in their respective papers next
morning that they had seen him. Fol
obyious reason not one of them disregard
ed the request.
A Chinese "show.'
'see that We love one another" was the
motto in flowers extending across the plat
| form of the Peoples Church, in West Fifty
.h,- ~treet, the other night, at the firs'
Iii. sn,.r."inment ever given in thi:
r;tv bv the members Of Chinese Sunday
scIooI The platform was covered WIFE
sc-aens and a5vefs, and Chinese paintings
.na tea store inscriptions on the blue slii
h.i5Srs which we're said 10 be the Lord
pgaln'a,s,S gan tbe Zen Commandments, ant
tte!ysC ,bsfttntion Of the Y. N. c. A.; I'M
uni,;i rnG or ! tf the church ressmeied IN M it
P,IPn5er PJ,.P,55 er ~ fight ,colers and quaint de
nrn sn " or;sr. al bazaar. When the schol
rsc;isS az ness.o % II Scripture, they ger'
as awkward and aba ~.p .1.s,ter !. de ~ growtb O,
day school children I, s1tsaiy Ses's bn
the momentuous occasio. .1 " .L ;n.,pn
when they got at their l. ,,..cb a. tba
ments they were at home-so ,v-. tbere
the audience wished themse. .s,,'.n;sl
Whatever there was that was he :, ,hei
and barbaric not to say barbarious Ia err
| music. no trace OF Psganism was discoN :
Bile in another Part of the ceremonies; e.
| orthodox alacrity with which the contri-
| button boxes we're passed, proved how
rapidly and effectually they had been civ
| ilized and christianized. A lady speaker
| who takes personal and practical interest
| in the Chinese, said she wished that all our
| Congressman could be present
Prince Vanderbilt.
You have been accustomed, know, to
speak OF William Henry Vanderbilt as q
"Railroad King" In his own realm We
must all acknowledge his sutocratic power.
Now, / propose to tell you secret: You
did not know, did you, that he is in point
of fsct and by right OF genuine title
"Prince Vanderbilt" 1t was only few
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