Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-02-27
new YORK GOSSIP.
AN INTERESTING LETTER FOR
COUNTRY READERS.
Death Among Prominent Mem-HUw the
High Tariff on Lead Is Evadcd-A
Good Actor GOne-A Notorious Young
kOue-ExDOsure Of Jury List Frauds.


Death has been active the past
week among the ranks of distinguished
persons. Yesterday the late William
r. Dodge was buried. The funeral
was simple and yet SO impressive.
There was gathering OF all that was
distinguished in the metropolis. Mer-
chant princes brushed against clergy
men, and famous scientists and artists
sat side by side with statesmen and
lawyers. Such collection of fine old
faces, chastened and refined by the
polishing hand Of time, can seldom be
found together, and painter with
memory for facial traits here found ma
terial in abundance. A touching fact
codnected with the funeral was the alb
scence Of the wife of the youngest son
Of Mr.. Dodge, who is daughter oflate
Ex-Governor Marshall Jewell. Mr..
Dodge died on Friday. In the midst
of the grief into which the family was
plunged by the sudden death of the
venerable merchant, a telegram sum-
moned her to Hartford, where her
father was dying. She arrived barely
in time to close his eyes.
Leaving the church | walked few
blocks with man who was in his
time one Of the most active political
men in Washington from this State,
but who is now closely identified with
mercantile pursuits. He at once,
and as | thought a little oddly, began
to talk Of the tariff discussion now in
progress in Congress. Being an ar
dent free trader he denounced the
shilly- shallying policy practced there.
"Do you know" said he, "protcction
is the most harmful thing that has
ever been invented for mankind? 1t
makes men evadc the laws who would
sooner lose all than rob their fellow
man of penny. Even as sat in
that church, could not help thinking
of years ago, when there was no duty
on statuary, that the house Of Phelps,
Dodge X Co, in connection with
other leading metal houses, had the
lead which they imported cast into
rough statues Of Napoleon !, and
other noted men, aud thus got it in
duty free.
Charles r. Thornc, the actor who
died on Saturday of govt of the stom-
ach, was not by any means the great
dramatic artist certain fluffy newspa-
pers in their obituary notices tried to
make him out, but as a leading man
in the modern French melodrama and
English society comedy his equal
could not be found. In private life
a great many people said that he was
disagreeable and swa@gerer, but on
the stage he was such a manly man
as to make every female, from the sim
pering boarding school miss, to the
venerable dowager, gaze with admi-
ration on his parsonage, his subducd,
deeply virlc manner, and sit as it
were enthralled beneath the magnili-
cent influence of his cold, blue eye,
which could beam with such strange
brilliancy in the tender passages. He
was not Anticipating Apollo, like
Montague. There was something
Mars-like in his manner and method
which impressed while it charmed. |
shall never forget the sensation hc
caused the first time he played
Armand in 'Camille." VIXEN he
came rushing into the reception scene
and flung the gold at poor Marguerite
SdulIiltI lctt, Will ali t!t lIlul0Ild-
ton, the contempt, the loathing for
himself that man can feel upon
realizing that he has received money
from such as Camille, the house was
literally breathless. There was no
applause, but women sobbed and men
turned pale, and the stiffness was
almost painful. There is not man
on the stage now who can play
Armand or any Of his other fovorlte
characters as Thorne played them,
and for that reason his death leaves a
void. The Union Square Theater
which has gained world wide repu-
tation and made the cold, cynical,
snobbing Palmer wealthy, would
never have been what it was without