Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08
George Gould's Trip to Europs,
and the Blonde "Stock
That Took Him There.
A Louisville Composer and Soei-
ETY. Young Man Who Has
Fallen From Grace,
With Grief as the Main Calss---A
Pitiful Tale of a Sweet
Song Writer.
A Crisp Seaside Case of MOosd
and Won --How a Prominent
Doctor Was Caught.
Correspondence Of me Register.

Correspondence Of the Register.
NEw NORK, July This is the heat
week. As l write am sitting on ice.
have an atmosphere cooler in my room and
occasionally imagine that il is December,
but the vision is brief For something like
a dozen weeks this year the populace OF
New York cursed the backward season.
They referred to summer as dear depart
ed friend, and seemed afraid that he would
never get around. But now that the ther-
mometer says 90 in the shade, their curses
Of the cold are changed to imprecations
against the rays Of o.3 Sol. Every person
who can get out of town has either gone or
is getting ready 10 go, and the only indi-
viduals who are not in the country or by
the side of the sea are tramps and news
paPer men. The comparison Isl consoling
one to say the least. The customary
Gist ofSummer Scandals,
are coming to the surface. A dozen have
popped up within the pas. ten days, and as
many more are almost in sight. Without
straining pOiut can say that scandals
here are so numerous that they are only
taken up by the newspapers when there is
dearth OF news. Just now the most i'm
por,ant recall is that of young Gould, the
son OF King Jay, who mysteriously disap'
peared a few weeks ago. His departure
was unannounced even in circles where he
was best known. By and by it was said
that young George had sailed for London
with great block Of Western Union stock
- Nhn Pit oh rlnf
Another story was that be had gone west
in the interests of his moneyed pa. There
were several more stories, many of them
utterly improbable and all very tishy, but
the one which finds most favor in aristo-
cratic circles is to the effect that the young
man has
Sailed Away TO Europe
in the meshes OF an English blonde, who
last winter made some stir with her voice
in operatic districts in New York. As
Gould, Jr., has all the money he cares TO
use, his whim, il whim it proves to be, can
not seriously injure any person. Here, OF
late, however, il has become all the rage
with the young blOOdS TO take an actress
and go away for couple Of months, across
the water or to the south. Such course
makes talk, and popularity IS what the
souls of such young men long and yearn
for.
One evening this week, while out with a
couple of political friends, | dropped into
the Brighton, George Daugherty's concert
garden, in Great Jones street. The Brigh-
ton is more respectable than Harry Hills
or The. Aliens Mobile, but still il is not
IlaCe where one would &c during the hours
Of day ylight if he wished to catch minis
ter or deacon.
The Cusionly Crowd
was in attendance, and the orchestra and
singers wee kept about as busy as the
waters. Presently there came lull and
then the instruments were all silent except
the piano. Strange to say the performer
at the piano played an air which is wholly
western, and which | had never before
heard east of Louisville. In a moment
was all attention. There was something
very familiar about the air also. IL did not
SQUAD as though the sweet notes were
drawn out by q strange hand. The face Of
the performer ! was unable TO see until he
turned to leave the piano, and then | rec
CEriZsd in him young Hirschheld, OF
louisville, who some years ago wrote "A
! lower from Mothers Graye@ and several
orher songs which became popular. was
surprised and a little panied to realize that
q your g fellow Of so much promise should
finally come down TO playing piano in q
concert gsfdsn. ! sent for him, he camel
recognized me, and gradually | learned
his story, which is almost
Too Painful TO Put I'm Type.
When knew young Hircshfeld in Ken.
tucky, he moved in the first strata of soCi
ETY.. He vas only a boy, but he could
write music as easily, yes much easier, than
/ now write this paragraph, and was be-
heyed 10 be a sweeter writer than Will ).
Hays, the Louisville laureate. His father
was the recognized physician OF the Ohio
Valley, and his mother was great hearted
woman, who aided in almost every charita-
bic work set on foot by Southern ladies'
The lad was sent away to Paris, Rome, or
sUmeW here abroad to study music. Sud
denly Mrs. HIrSCteid was taken i'll and
passed away. over 100 carriages followed
her coffin to the cemetery. Dr Hirschheld
was Crazed by grief Fox a few days he was
closely guarded by irieGdS Then his mind
came back slowly and he seemed to realize
that the world expected him to go on in
his former paths of duty. His grief, how.
ever, was greater than he could bear. One
afternoon he went out To the cemetery sat
down at the foot OF his wifes grave and
sent bullet through his brain.
Drifting From Friends.
The sudden demise of Mrs. Hirschtield,
followed by the tragic death of her hus-
band killed what musical ambition the
young fellow had enjoyed. He came home
and then drIfted away from his old aSsoci-
ates ard surroundings into ways strange
and not so strict as they might be. He has
taken the name Of Fox, now, and occasion
ally fills brief engagement with some va
riety company, playing small ami unim.
poriant parts, but he never plays in Louis
yllIe, and ne prefers to remain around the
night side of New York life. He never
writes anything nowadays, and probably
never will again. His downfall was as COM
plste as il was sudden, and elimination
of unforeseen circumstances blighted his en-
tire life.
The Case OF Young Hirsehheld
recalls the case of another popular young
song writer who has dropped out of sight
in this city within the last couple OF years
refer to Charles VI. Couolly, who wrote
Walt With Me" Band in the PARK"
and score of other catching songs. He
was ruined by woman. He married a
young lady and was getting along nicely
until she acquired passion flr the stage.
He enGeayOred to dissuade her from taking
such step, but she was drm OF purpose.
She had q pleasing voice and she believed
that q fortune certainly awaited her nl-
sical efforts. Realizing that his vile was
determined to become q public singer,
Corolly prepared her some fresh music
and bid Der Godspeed. She went To hell rs
fast as ever did woman before her. Her
stsge name was George kaine, and she
quickly became disSipated and a wreck.
She may be alive yet and singing in some
low ysriety dive. but at any rate her con
duct desdened snd crushed the music IN
Charlie Conollv's soul.
where the Freezes Blow
Not TO say any thing disparaginG about the
9. sside resorts, yet cannot refrain from
noting some "mashes" Asbury Park
comes to the frCrt with story of young
doctor and his bride. IL is not very fresh,
but il is one OF those stories that will bear
yeptilatipg az almost any Gime. beauti-
fnl young widow from Columbia, South |
Caroline, came here very early in tie sea |
SOD. She was = bewitching sweeS little
b; rette. Il sCers that she fell IN lave !