St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-21
The Chapel Built by Long Branch's Great
Gambler, Where His Wife
Will go to Church.
difficulty Experienced by the Prince OF
the GORGEOUS Gambling He'll in
Finding a Priest.
aould and FIELDS Libel Suit Agalns'
the Editor of the Wall
Street Daily News.
yociety People Going to the Sea Shore'
Up the Hudson and Else
where--Personal.


moved into the villa which he has added TO
his belongings. His neighbOrS have 1or
years been accustomed to the Openness anu
splendors of his business, and some OF tileiil
had watched the erection of the residence,
but the embodiment of chapel in the
premises is a revelation which excited them
considerably.
The house is much bigger than the aver
age of the seaside dwellings, and its arcnl-
lecture is ornate in the extreme. Eccentric
gables, irrelevant pieces of roof and otner
devices break the lines in all parts, and at
one corner rises a round turret somewhat
like the spire of a church. A solid wall OF
brick. with an ornamental iron fence anu
gate surround the plot. The exterior sur
face of the house is polished and stained
hard wood, in a Semblance OF tiles. Al
each side of the front door is panel OF
carved wood, leading the observer to sup
pose at
THE FIRST GLIMPSE
that thereon he would find the name OF
some public institution. But one is lettered
''Tootsey' and the other Maggie
names of Days two children. The interior
is decorated in most costly and snowy
style. Handsome natural woods, exquisite
fresco. art tiles and elaborated wall paper
make the room quite respondent. The cost
of the house. aside from the beautiful fur
niture put into it. is said to have been Sl0O,-
900.
The apartment, which is more curious to
Long BrancherS than was the blue chamber
to Bluebeard'S wives, is chapel; but no
magic key has locked its door against in
truders, and during the week visitors have
been numerous. The furnishers were fin
ishing their work, and a man had been
deputized to explain the place of worship to
all inauirers. The chapel in miniature is
twelve feet square. The floor is polished
wood with an Oriental rug on it. The walls
are frescoed in an imitation of dark drapery,
the patterns being copied from the hang
ings in the pOpe's private chapel at Rome.
The ceiling is painted like a sky, in shading
blue and gray, and at the center is white
dove on the wing, bearing an olive branch.
The one window is piece OF expensive
work in stained glass,
CATHEDRAL FASHION.
The altar is structure fashioned like
those in Roman Catholic churches, but
smaller, being about six feet long and eight
high. 1t is made Of carved and finely dec
Grated wood, the prevailing cOlOrs being
maroon and gilt. Two heads Of angels are
embellishing features. The draperies are
specimens of fine embroidery. The reredOs,
or back piece, is ornamented with carvings
and hung with cloths. A solid gold cross,
said to have cost 81, 900, is kept in a safe at
night, but by day is to stand on the altar.
The receptacle for the host is provided as in
a regular church altar.
The story goes that Daily hopes to atone
for his professional sins as a gambler by
70 rali rrf0r1 hut rl1
know him well declare that he has built the
chapel in Difference to the wishes of his
wife, who is a notably piouS woman. There
is likely to be some difficulty in the project
so far as the services are concerned. DAILY
wishes to engage the Rev. Father Mccoy,
pastor of the Star of the Sea church, di-
rectly across the street, to celebrate mass
in the Daily chapel every morning through
out the season. The priest is willing to ac-
cept the offer, which cOntemplateS separate
salary of $500 per year; but his application
to his bishop for permission has not yet been
acted on, and the impression is that it will
meet with a refusal, On account of Days
connection with gambling. If so, the re-
quest will be renewed by Mrs. Daily. In
any case, the chapel will be used.
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Wall street watches with good deal of
interest the trial of Editor Keep, of the
Wall Street Daily News in police court,
for alleged libel. Jay Gould and Cyrus w.
Field are the prosecutors. as well as Norvin
Green of the Western Union company. In
fact, the three big corporations, the Mis-
souri, Pacific company, the Manhattan COM
pany and the Western Union company are
making common cause to crush Mr.. Keep
and his paper. He has written altogether
too freely about them and they want to put
him out of the way. But even if they sue
coed in doing so, it would still be generally
believed that the charges of fraud and
plundering he makes against them were
true Whatever judge or a jury might do,
the public at large would not believe any
statement made even under oath by the man
ipulators of the stocks of these three con-
Germs. Gould and Field for instance.
might go on the stand and swear away ev-
cry charge made against them, and the mass
of their fellOw-townsmen would still hold
them guilty. They would still be discred-
tied. There.are men in Wall street whose
mere word would be taken any time. and
whose general integrity is of the highest
order, but these are not the men who manip-
ulate the market. In fact they have moth
ing to do with it except to buy or sell. as
their customers may order. Most of these
men and most of their customers. too. are
emphatically on Mr.. Keeps side in his con-
test with the big companies now trying to
crush him. They believe he has told the
truth, and they do not believe the denials of
Gould, Field, Sage and the rest.
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There is a sudden outbreak of girls and
dogs on Fifth avenue. The craze for the
bull pup has spread abroad and he appears
to the number of hundreds, chained to a
more or less attractive young girl, on Fifth
avenue every afternoon. 1t really seems as
though the sole mission on earth of the
fashionable young woman is to be led around
by the fashionable young pup. l wonder
what has become Of all the red Irish settlers
who rendered the avenue picturesque five
or six months ago? 1t cannot be that they
ere all dead, for they are long-lived breed
of dog, and OF course they are well cared
for, But all have been forsaken for the
bow-legged, broad-chested British pup.
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Already the social ranks show decided
thinning out, and there will be good deal
more of it, with rush, if an alarm about
pestilence is raised. Many of the Murray
Hill houses have their windows closed. and
all through the fashionable residence mart
of the city the notes of preparation for 60
ing away for the summer are sounding day
and night. Cholera or no cholera. the exO-
duS will be at least as great as it has been
any season for several years past. The
hotels and the better sort of boarding.
houses are daily losing guests, who are 90
ing off to country places, intending to stay
away till the fall. All the indications are
that, the summer will be an unusually quiet
one in the city.
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The summer residences of many of our
noted society people are at Newport. along
the banks of the Hudson, the shores of the