Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-15
A Veil of Romance Thrown Over
the Owner Of All This Be-
wi!dsring Beauty.
The Absence of Feminine Beauty
Among the 6othamites Crs-
atss a Vacant Stare
From the Stranger As He Wsnds His
Way Through ths Mighty
Ihoroushfares.
Specie, Letter from a SaS Correspondent.

While the city clubman or tradesman NAV
not notice the fact, from the lack OF a basis
of comparison, it is strikingly apparent to
astranger. In Knickerbocker circles this
absence Of loveliness in woman is the more
conspicuous, where culture and refine
ment should furnish forth the important
requirements. But beauty is
searcer On the Avenue
than elsewhere, perhaps in conformity
with the law of compensation. An occa-
sional handsome shop girl is seen and how
occasional they are may be shown in the
fact that dudes drop their languor and for
set their elbow curves to gaze after one,
when the rara Gris passes along. But for
large girls-regular mountains OF flesh,
Jumbos of huge femininity-they are as
plentiful as the lack roses" cried on the
thoroughfares. So profuse are they that q
demand has arisen for large seated chairs
ct the beach resorts and at.ssyeral, cane
settles are superseding the old arm chair.
But what | wished TO say was, that if beauty
is not a strong point of the giddy girls OF
C. than, they have one which is very strong
E.d predominant.
Snalh Nalk HI nerve.
Contact with the sharp corners OF metro.
Iv.ilau city life works out many results
slu one is 10 endow the ladies with q vast
,mOunt OF cool, collected assurance that
carries them safely through many singular
s..aits. And so marked is the trait that
was surprised tohear a bold belle remark,
:. sue emerged from the Madison Square
IA,atIe ana looked with wistful eyes across
;lt street.
ia -. ,;ra o,ytb;,1 for a c,OJ Loot
around in there
In there" meant the gorgeous room
sten Gimly through the colored glass across
Twenty. fourth street. Any New York
ssmin could tell you it was
Ed. stokes Famous Bar.room
il the Hoffman House. And many q woman
las looked lOngingly through those same
windows and bewailed the cOnyentionaiity
that excluded them from q place that is the
tax of the entire city. They had heard
erd read of the magnificent hangings, the
gorgeous paintings and the rare sculp-
lures that were stored in such rich
profusion about the room and
The forbidden fruit Of a peep seemed 50
sweet. And then there was the glamour
and romance about the owner and proprie'
tor. I'd. Stokes, of whose career they
knew so we'll: the Curled darling Of many
an avenue circle, ana the hero OF so many
summer rOmances; so naughty; vet SC
handsome and debOnair. They knew the
barroOm was not stones throw from the
scene of that tragedy evoked by the Circe
Iuder whose away Stokes had been and
From Whose Eyes and Lips
came the intoxication that drove him tc
the crime Of murder, and they knew his
hair and flowing mustache had been silver
ed by a long residence at q national board
INC house up the Hudson; but they were
New York women and all this knowledge
hut threw a veil of romance over him and
invested him with q glamour perfect
" irresistible. No wonder they went
TO the Madison Square and glanced
fuy:ously at the men who disappeared
within those portals, leaving them, signing
Ike Peris, without the gates OF Paradise
One woman, with the nerve l have men
toned, borrowed her cousins dude cos
tune and in this maSculiue-well, certain
" not feminine-dreSS passed safely
through the portals and into the talry ianc
&! her dreams. Ten thousand New 1OFS
grs euyIed that woman, when at last some
1ntsrpri<rng reporter got hold OF it and in
formed them,
But twas not always thus, as l will show
So.- There wss a time when the hand
Temple of Bacchus
vs. Town open for inspection by the
ladies and they took advantage oL II. hou
see. since Ed. Stokes returned from bis
exile M near Poughkeepsie, the msSic cir,
Gle of Kuickerbockerdom was closed
upon him. The associate OF Josie
Nsn'fsiJ conId not be the
associate Of Gretchen Won StuyTesant, al
Ter all was known. And as I'D. was accuS
toned to be lionized, he could not give II
I'D. So be rai>ed unto himself TINS monu
ment, this elegant AuaCreontlc haunt, the
sr.room of the Hoffman House, and spent
Thousands of dollars in fitting it up. The
3ooms of the East delivered up thelI
choicest work for him and art accepted his
dedication and made his saloon her TEN,
ple. Before this domain of the Muses. had
been desecrated by heations to Bacchus'
he threw it open 10 the ladies ana an
nounced
Grand Inspection and Reception.
You need not ask who accepted the invita-
tion. The lam CT women on Twenty
fourth street, that evening showed that hls
call had touched a responsive chord In the
breasts of thousands. The crush was i'm.
mense and the crowd Heterogeneous
didn't know these women, one from an
other, but il was said the belle OF Lee ave
nue. pushed side by side with the MeSsa.lns
OF Greene street and l know no pet
ter. They crushed and crowded
and pushed, bat no one had the
courage to enter. Finally the Gordlar
knot was cut and woman walked IN
NJ history has preserved her name | have
forgotten il, but once q break was msde, III
swarmed the multitude and feasted thei .
eyes to their hearts content. Nnst uII
these women see? Stokes has Just RENTED
The room. but the salient features as l saw
them TODAY were the same as then ana
give you at least an idea n.
The Mace is filled with works OF art But
art in itself requires culture for Its proper
apprecjation- taste, sense OF the
beautiful and so on-and would not II
itself suffice, consequently II was ali
Directed 10 One Channel.
You will get your bearings of that chan
mel, IS we proceed, for will only give the
salient features. Entering by way Oh tne
Office Of the Hoffman House, so as not 70
attract attention on Twenty-fourth street
We ret into the saloon through
small snte room. ELSEWHERE i.s
little rom would be curiosity, Win tSs
beautiful bic a-brac and bronzes. but Win
the saloon in perspective, il IS almost Iosl
sight Of Under a curtained arch We pass
and are in the famous oar-room. IaIse
room, fifty feet square. where the soT yeeus
bsngings first attract attention. heaS
piled vslyets from the Genoese Looms' ElcI
silks Of the most gorgeous oyes aau SH
brilliant drapery whose AraDesque oe'
Signs show their Oriental origin are
seen everywhere. These are arasu
aside at intervals TO display the palnunSs
while the marble statuary CLEANS anu Ius
brCr z-s shine upon its rich oack RIounu,
Directly upon the right, rich, soft and and
Slowing, IS E,ieune's famous Pslntins
Cleopatra and CHAIRMAN" The Egypt,aa
queen, sbap6oped and heartbroken; na n
Just spplied the asp TO her bosom ana tn'
attendant has followed the royal precs
dent In the ROYAL apartment the tSt
Ntm.n n are alone and
The Asp Are Their OsiJ Cefe
Theo comes FaIero's renowned creation
Tie Vision of Faust" Seated upon tne
Ilow or q promontory, his head recu. re, IN,
eo e tsI9, is E-ust while peain1 lA-