Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-11-22
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
G0THAk FACTS AND GOSSIP.

s'sae-Miusic and the Drsma-A FarcieaI
Juiiet, ke.
Especial telegram 10 the Dispatch.1
NEW YORK, November 2l.-New
York has been talking all the week
about the affairs Of Giovanni Morosini
and his family. Morosini was once
sailor before the mast, soldier fight
ing with Garibaldi for Italian liberty,
and candle-maker with Garibaldi on
Staten Island, for the red-shirted hosts
bad failed in their mission. Now Mo-
rosini is Jay Gould's secretary and
partner with Gould's son George in the
firm of William f. Connor & Co., who
execute Mr.. Gould's gigantic orders on
the Stock Exchange. He is reputed to
be worth four or five millions, drip
pings, as it were, from the Gould trea-
sury. The public took a renewed in-
terest in the Morosini family affairs
on Sunday, when it was announced
that the son-in-law and ex-coach-
man, Ernest Hulskamp, had dOnned
the cap and fsre-indicator Of a con-
ductor on the Sixth-avenue horse-cars.
This announcement preceded by just
one day the appearance of Victoria
Morosini-Hulskamp, Ernest's wife, on
the stage Of the Casino in Czibulka's
dainty little operetta ''Amorita."
Three days later Papa Morosini threw
big Bankrupt Banker Heath into the
famous Ludlow-Street Jail, in a suit
for over half a million Of dollars,
which had been deposited with Heath
& Co. just before they failed. 1t does
not fall to the lot of many families to
contain within their bosoms a car-con-
ductor, a chorus-singer and fiye-fOld
millionaire, and to furnish three dis
tinct sensations to the public within
one week, and that is why all New
York is discussing the Morosini family
affairs.
VICTORIA on THE STAGE.
Vic, as the boys Familiarity call her,
has done more towards filling the
roomy Casino than either the canary
bird music of Czibulka or the gorgeous
setting of " Amorita." She is sup
posed to appear in the second act as a
slave in the suite Of an ambassador
from Morocco, but failed to recognize
her among the six statuesque beauties
clad in the scantiest Of black gauze
drapery over flesh-colOred tights. The
public, however, thought she was
among them, and every man in the
audience Immediately became the friend
OF the man at his either side, and ex-
changed or corrected his Identification
Of Vic, and very audibly criticised the
undraped beauties.
Really she does not appear until the
third act. and then in moonlight scene
before beautiful illuminated pavilion
of stained glass, which shelters at that
moment the newly-married Amorta
and her husband, Angelo Melanotti.
A sERENADING ARTIST.
She is one Of a band of serenading
artist students. She wears a tight
fitting white bodice, a plated white
skirt that ends six inches above the
knee, and blue and-white striped tights.
Neither in voice, figure, or facial beauty
does she differ from her companions in
the chorus. but the fame of her esca-
pade with her fathers coaehman is roll
ing the shekels into the Casinos strong
box. Morosini pore says he will never
take her 20 his arms again, and he is
to have told Cyrus Field that
even if Banker Heath were to restore
his half million on the condition that
Vic. be taken back be would not con.
sent.
MIXED THE CUTS.
Another topic constantly in the pub
lie talk is the World. All its contem-
pOraries, illustrated and otherwise. have
been pitching into it lately for curious
pictorial blunder. When Stead, of the
PalI-AaH Gazette, was sentenced cuts
we're ordered to be made of the culprit
and two Of his female accomplices.
When the cuts came from the engra-
Ger's the portrait of a New Jersey
lssemblyman was proved on slip with |
he two women. The editor in charge
ent them to the composing-room, and |
n due time they were seen IN proof by !
III the staff. Next day the mistake |
vas discovered by the editor Of the New |
Jersey edition, who forthwith pro- |
eeded to use the cut which had already /
lone duty as Stead, with a sketch Of |
he man whose likeness it really was.
his shortsightedness gave away the |
lunder to all the world, and now the
eadly paragraph column is making the
eople responsible for the error very
red.
Speaking Of the World reminds me
nat the career Of Congressman Joseph
ullitzer, its owner, Uncle Joe, as the
oys on the staff call him. is really
ithout parallel except among the bo-
ANA kings. The latter are mere acct
entS, but Joe Pulitzer has carved out
most a million unaided by any mines
stock-jobbing or political wire-pull-
g.
MUsIC-MAD.
We are going to have a great muSi-
Il treat this winter. The boys and
rls have gone music-mad. 1t is not |
yer Italian opera, either. Everybody
disguised with that, and is looking
r the advent of Mrs. Thurber's
merican Opera Company. Meantime
ere are Theodore Thomas's Tuesday
ening concerts and his concerts for
Iildren on Thursday afternoons, which
e called the Thursday "pops," after
similar venture in London. Then,
c Metropolitan 0pers-House opens
onday night with "Lohenegrin, :" and
Jung Walter Damrosch in his la
ented fathers chair as leader. Musi-
circles, you know, are divided into
lomas and Damrosch cliques, and
ither sees much good in the other.
THE THEATRES. Il
There is frequently expressed regret :
loDg old theatre-goers over the }
cadence Of Wallack's. The charm | !
ms to have broken with the transfer
the palace on Broadway and Thir-
tn street. There has not been a
'cessful new piece put on its boards
ce it opened. Everything has fallen 4
t, and Mr.. Wallack has gone back to z