The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-06-16
Our New York Letter.
Regular correspondence of ADVOCATE.
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Regular correspondence OF ADVOCATE.
New YORK, June IL, 1883.
A party of gentlemen were sitting to-
gether at Delmonico's the other evening,
and among other things they discussed
the victory of Mr.. James r. Keene's colt
Blue Grass at the Ascot races that morn
ing. II wonder what possesses Keene
to go into racing or sport in general.
He certainly takes no interest in it.
What cattle he has running on domestic
race courses is certainly not much, and
besides he never or seldom goes to the
trouble even of looking at them. Then
the idea of sending over lot of high
priced ycarlings every season to be pre-
pared for the turf, after three or four ex-
periences have shown him that their
tempers are invariably spoiled by sea
voyage. l suppose that his yearly ex-
pendi!ures for this costly luxury must
be little short OF 500, 600. Now for this
he gets absolutely nothing. Lorillard's
bill may be just as high, but for him
racing is at least an advertisement, as he
eau float the world with his tobacco. I
once lived in the same apartment house
with Keene. / did not know him at FIRST,
but when fnally got acquainted with
the little man of the thoughtful brow
who was always in hurry, / asked him
something one morning about his horses
He looked up for a moment iu kind OF
distracted manner and finally replied
disparagingly. "Ob! l don't know any
thing about such matters. My trainer
looks out for them" / don't tbiuk
Keene has any business to be either an
owner or hacker of horses. He is natur-
ally and constitutionally bear whenever
financial speculations are concerned
He ought to be bookmaker on a race
track and bet against every horse. H.
would soon get all the money usually
left behind by hackers By the way,
added the gentleman; edo you know
that he cleared nearly million in oil
this week? Thus, though he was very
hard up for weeks and for time looked
dangerously like eapslzing with all sal
set, he is all right again"
The oil excitement while it lasted wa'
very intense, Everybody dabbled in it
Merchants, clerks, professional men
| ocG n
The wise ones retired after making
small profit. But the new lambs snv
the possibilities before them and wer
determined to get rich in one stroke
Quite naturally they did not buy unit
the market had reached its highest point
Then they filled up. The insiders the
began to quietly unload, and the unso
phisticated amateur bulls found thei
clover Into ashes. In other words wher
they expected to get dividends they ha
to make up deficiencies and in som
cases lose their entire investments.
The sudden departure of Lillian Rus
sell has caused quite futter in theatr
cal circles and in the clubs. Everybod
is agreed that this pretty doll has take
the right step to kill her prospects o
the boards and that she will live to +,
gret the day when she LETT her profe
siopal and personal reputation benin
her to the tender merciss of her manage
a About her intimacy with little Solomon
the author of Billee Taylor and sever
: other less successful operas the opinion
. of people are divided. Some say thi
=, she is dead in love with the little En-
lish jew, while others assert that Il
friendship is merely matter of dolla
-. and cents, That is to say, Lillian is
: hopes of becoming q great star and We
, wealthy through Solomon's notes, whi
the composer thinks he has found in Il
much advertised "dude beauty" her
inc who will make his works famous al
bank account heavy. Tbey are DO
: likely to be mistaken for Russell's vol
40 is light and thin and she has no d.anl
lie ic ability. Her only stock in trade is
girlish figure, pretty wax-doll face al
y, ie few NGENUE ways which momentari
at dazzle very young, very old or very u
r. sophisticated men. Solomon is m
Ds of one work. He "wrote himself out"
o. o. Billee Taylor. None of his other wor
he could compare with it, aud that at b'
er was but flower which grew in the lig
III reflected from Gilbert and Sulliya
% Pinafore.
rs, What men about town laughed
ne most, however was the conquest Li!li
MT made of a young Haytian mulatto, a s
nd of an ex-President of that turbulent
ler public, ard who in view Of the fact Il
ne be has $3.50 900 in his own right thir
or himself u kind of Monte Christie.
ful seems to have grown fashionable for
ed tresses TO have Rt least one son of HI
n' in their train of captive swains. Ki
his Kalakaua was smitten with Albani's p
iut fuse charms, Minnie Hank was ado
me by Zanzibar noble and Lillian Russ
No Un therefore thought 1t proper to do Ii
en- wise. This BLACK Prince" as Il
Ten called him, was very much attached
he the dude beauty. He saw her for
III two weeks, yet during that time he sp
tly over five hundred dollars for hows
en- nearly $1,000 for jewelrY and seye
rs hundred dollars for bon bons, and OF
%, ' delicacies dear to the female pals
II Aud yet he was peveT introduced 10