Woodstown register. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 187?-1892, 1883-06-19
Our New York Letter.
NEW YORK, JUNE I4th, 1888.

A party OF gentlemen were sitting to-
gelher at Delmonico's the other evening.
and among ether things they discussed the
victory of Jimes r. Keene's colt Blue
| Grass at the Ascot races that morning.
Il wonder what possesses Keene to 60
into racing or sport in general. He Ger
tainly takes no interest in it. What cattle
he has running on domestic race courses
is certainly not much, and besides be
never or seldom goes to the trouble even
| of looking at them. Then the idea Of
sending over a lot of high priced yearlings
| every season to be prepared for the turf,
| after three or four experiences have shown
| him that their tempers are invariably spoil
ed by a sea voyage. suppose that his
yearly expenditures for this costly luxury
must be little short of 500. 600. Now
for this he gets absolutely nothing. Lor-
lizards bill may be just as high, but for
him racing is at least an advertisement, as
he can float the world with his tobacco.
1 once lived in the same apartment house
with Keene. l did not know him al first, |
but when l finally got acquainted with the
little man Of thoughtful brow who was
always in 4 hurry, l asked him something
one morning about his horses. He look.
ed up for a moment in a kind of abstract |
ed manner and finally replied disparas-
,ngly, "Oh! l don't know anything about
| such matters. My trainer i"oks out Tor
them don't think Kee-e has any Lu :
horses. He is naturally and constitutions
| ally a bar whenever financial specu.a-
bookmaker On a race track and bet ag ,iust
every horse. He wouil 500 GIT all Il e
money usually left behind by hackers.
By the way" added the gentleman /; edo
you know that he cleared nearly a million
in oil this week Thus. though he was
very hard up for weeks and for a time
looked dangerously like capsizing with
all sail set, he is all right again."
The oil excitement while it lasted was
very intense. Everybody dabbled In it.
Merchants, clerks. professional men, even
office boys "took a flyer" at it. The wise
ones retired after making a small profit.
But the new lambs saw the possibilities
before them and were determined to get
rich in one stroke. Quite naturally they
did buy until the market had reached its
highest point. Then they filled up. The
insiders then began to quietly unload, and
the unsophisticated amateur bulls found
their clover turn into ashes. In other words
where they expected to get dividends they
had to make up deficiencies and in some
cases lose their entire investments.
The sudden departure OF Lillian Russell
has caused quite a lutter In theatrical Gig
cles and in the clubs. Everybody is
agreed that this pretty doll has taken the
right step to kill her prospects on the
boards and that she will live to regret the
day when she left her professional and
personal reputation behind her to the ten
der mercies of her manager. About her
intimacy with little Solomon, the author
of Billee Taylor and several other less
successful operas, the opinions of people
are divided. Seine says that she is dead
in love with the little English Jew, while
others assert that the friendship is merely
a matter of dollars and cents. That is to
say, Lillian is in hopes of becoming a
great star and very wealthy through SOL
omon's notes, while the composer thinks
he has found in the much advertised"dude
}, beauty a heroine who yill make his
works famous and bank account heavy.
They are both likely To be mistaken for
Russelps voice is light and thin and she
has no dramatic ability. Her only stock
In trade is a girllsh figure, a pretty wax
doll face and a few ingenious ways which
momentarily dazzle very young. very old
or very unsopbisticated men. Solomon is
out" in Billee Taylor. None of his other
works could compare with it, and that a
best was but a flower which grew in the
light reflected from Gilbert and Sullivan.
Pinafore.
What men about tqwn laughed at most
however, was the conquest Lillian made
of a young Haytlan muIatto. son of an ex-
President of that turbulent Republic, and
who in view of the fact that he has S25o,
600 ip bis own right thinks himself a kind
OF Monte Cnristo. IT Seems to have
grown fashionable for actresses TO have al
least one son of Ham in their train OIL
captive SWANS. King Kalakaua wa.
smilten witb Albani's profuse charms
Minnie Hauk was adored by a Zanzibar
noble and Lillian Russell therefore though
It proper to do likewise. This "Black
Prince" as they call him, was very much
attached to the dede beauty. He saw her
for but two weeks. yet during that time
he spent over tive hundred dollars for
flowers, also nearly $4,000 for other delica.
cies dear to the female palate. And yet
he was never introduced to her and saw
her only on the stage from a box. He
went to Paris the day before Russell de-
camped. and the belief isthat the pair will
meet in the gay capital on the Seine.
The people at the BRUNSWICK Hotel
were much exercised oyer the, "Black
PRINCES" arrival. He came to this city
accompanied by lbs tntor, a white gentle
man. it must be r~emeREberea that "The
PRINCE is but twesty-two years Of age.
They at once proceeded to the dudes
elysium, yelspt the Brunswick. Count de
Delva rushed up to the desk and taking up
the pen was about 10 register his name.
The clerk who was q very grand person.
age grew indignant over this act of "a
niger" "Stop that" he exclaimed.
''Yon cant get a room here" "Why
not7" "Beeause yloH CAN'T" The young
man looked up somewhat amazed. Then
with a shrug he took up his umbrella and
satchsl and walked out, followed by his
tutor. There is no objection to your
staying here, bgt yop Hmqst admit that the
conduct of your valet was a little too free"
"My valet" exclaimed the tutor. "why