Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-28

EPIsoDRS or My SECOND Lire The American snd
English Experiences Of antonio Gallensa IL.
Marlottil. Vol, sVo., o.OA, Si.50. Philadelphia:
J. Il. liPPinoOsI s Co. Wheeling: Stanton &
Davenport
In Episodes of Ny Second Life" Anto-
MO iallenga summaries the experiences
and observations Of nearly fifty years St
wanderings over the earth, his travels eI-
tending from Nashville, Tennessee, to tR
Golden Horn, and from St. Petersburg %
Rio de Janeiro. AT first going frohpiAse
to place in search OF employment as q tutol
CT delivering lectures and in later year.
trayersing the continents aud crossing The
seas as a journalist, Signor Gallensa saw
lite in all It's various phases III the most en-
hghtensd countries on the globe, and hat
the friendship OF May of the most distin
guiShe men Of the multitude who have
achieved tame in war, politics or iteratur'
during the past five decades. Returning
home in loS&, wearied with his joarneyingl
Siguor Glllenga, at the age of 20, set hin
self down in his Italian home to pass til
remainder Of his life in repoSe, broken onl
by the pleasant task OF committing TO pape
from his vast store of experience and Of
servstion Mat proves to be a most interest
ing story.
Born in the Province Of Parma, in 1911
when ltay. in common w..S me rest 8
Europe, was in the midst of the Napoleonit
wars, Signor Gsllengs had barely reached
his twentieth year when the tidinys of the
French revolution of 1880 caused him Il
j3in the Italian insurrectionists, and fol
months he led a wild career as conspirator
prisoner, combatant and fugitive, being
compelled to PISS the ensuing five years in
exile. After travelling under the assumed
name of Louigi Marriott in France, Pro
vence, Burgundy Corsica, Switzerland.
Malta and Morocco, he sailed, in 1886, from
Gibraltar for New York, touching en- route
at the Canary lslands, Madeira and the
Azores. lie arrived in New York October
!, 1896.
SignOr Gallena made the New York
Hotel his headquarters, where he says: Il
was informed by sblack waiter that feeding
time was one O'Clock in the afternoon"
OF the metropolis lie says:
New York at thai time might be described
as q town with one street. Broadway was
the only real thoroRhfare, with the Bowery
as an appendsge. had seen nothing like
it, unless it might bethe Toledo at Naples
"a street which migat boast ten times the
noise but not half the actual movement of
this transatlantic Babylon. walked twice
or three times from cad to end, gazing at
that long row of big hotels, at the muster of
staring shop windows, 8 the odd medley Of
Grecian colonnades ad Dutch gables in
front of the many baking or meeting
houses, and listening Vassntly to the inces-
SAINT ocean-hke roll Of tmnibases, hackney
coaches, and heaYily-kfen vans Of that
busiest of human snt-hilh."
On returning to his hohl he found dinner
ready, and OF this meal be says:
Il re-entered the hotel With a firm step,
and walked into the bar, trough which was
the way 10 the dining hal. 1t wanted q
quarter to one o'clock, and it was only a
minute or two before the aour struck that
the business men of WaA street and the
Stock Exchange began TO troop in, and
nuddled together at the still closed doors,
waiting for the rush by which Americans OF
hat class used at that tune to take their
public dining tables by storn. In went
With the rest, and took my Pkee in q cor
ner near the door, whence could survey
what was to me novel scene
Before me all over the Ion, table were
huge Joints Of meat and dishes of smoking
hashes and steWs, with all tn usual pro-
fusion of vegetables, potst, cabbage.
SQUASH, hominy, apple and cranberry tart,
and other dainties for which America is
noted, and with which every plas was piled |
10 before it was handed over b the con-
sumner. The walters (they were III negroes
At that hotel) wentsround to each,uest, who |
pointed out BY words and signs he various
items of the fare TO which he whhed 10 be !
helped. for they saw their dinner One OF
,hese blackies came to me and utteed some |
words which might have been tafire or |
Ashsntee for aught I could nuke out;
another followed, and third with he same |
sffect. At last they held brief ensalta-
ion among themselves and laid beArs mea |
plateful Of their own choice, an. pnnism |
gGtAeruns with which / had Gttlsreason,
and, hungry a. I was. no inclinatioato End |
fault.
"Some momepts elapsed before / tzok my !
eyes off my plate. But rayenously = vas |
eating myself, perceived that / coue keep
20 pace with my neighbors, who bold the !
contents Of their plates in About |
ten minutes. when most Of them 4. up,
always 10 the same hot haste. and le4 The
room. These, j supposed. were ners /
clerks and the small fry Of she Stock Ex-
ehaoge. Bat s0Ene Of thsis elders ed BET