Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-09-19

ness il carried 10 excess In this
country; books are not resd oy inc
average businessman; brute money is
the sovereign brute power, ana wnen
men are not fighting one another In
more or less brutal speculations. and
laughing or sneering ct one another 8
ruin, they in some cases put on the
gloves. and, with instructive love Of the
brutal. punch one another's heads until
the services Of tho artist and optician
are necessary.
GOSSIP OF THE CLUBs-RosCoEC oNk-
LING's CLUB LIFE.
Although his professional duties pre-
vented Senator Roscoe Conkliog from
accepting the presidency Of the Carlton,
he passes ell his leisure time therein
when not in court or out driving the
speedy bay mare that Ed. Stokes pre-
sented him in his exuberant delight
over bis speech on Jay Gould's rapacity
in the recent great telegraph suit.
There is table in the dining. room that
is known as Mr.. Conkling's. and 1t is
always reserved for him. Though not
practicirg Bunting, he is very moderate
in his selections. His favorlte
dish, both for breakfast and
dinner, is English mutton-chops
slightly underdone and baked pota-
toes very well done. He never drinks
anything stronger than russell cider.
He occasionally smokes mild cigar.
There is a capacious armchair in the
readirg.room which he always appro-
PIRATES, and which not even such an
audacious iconoclast as the Hon.
Thomas Porterhouse 0chiltree would
think of invading when there was the
slightest possibility of his being
around. According to club routine
Mr.. Conkling is very domestic man.
lie is always ready to join in the gen
eral conversation, but will never dis
cuss politics except with intimate per-
sonal friends. AS it is evident he is
so partial to the Club it is rather sur
prising that he did not accept the presi-
dency.
THE NELSON DIVORCE CASE.
OF course the window coterie Of the
Union Club find much to talk about in
the Nelson divorce case. Frederick
Nelson was until this affair con-
spicuous and familiar object in the
windows Of the Club, attired in the
latest English styles, and priding him
self on his wonderful resemblance to
the Prince of Wales. lie is a brother
in.law of Freddy Gebhardt, who, by
the way, sulks on the Continent like a
spoiled boy since the Lily no logger
smiles on HIM or his decimated income.
Scandal and other troubles have caused
many vacancies in the window cOfcrte
the past few years; but there are al
ways ambitious candidates lounglng near
awaiting the vacancies like vultures
over carrion and each year seems to
have its victims.
That man is the reflex Of the boy is
evident from the fact that the adult can
become as gleesome over novelty as
the adolescent about the newest toy {;
and no better illustration can be afford
ed than the grave and dignifed House
Committee of the Lotos Club, Of which
the grave and digniGed Dean Of the
University Medical College is chairman,
in its ecstasy over new $500 dinner
set and a Observation-Disclosures dinner.
blending their voices in Incidental song
until q late hour. In truth, the new
service is very beautiful, delicate
tracery Of seaweed and fora covering
some plates and game birds Of various
tints adjoining others. Wilson Barrett
will be dined by the Club on the 9th
proximo.
THE TRUTH ABOUT HENRY IR-
WINGS SUMMER CRUIsE-YACHT-
ING GOSSIP.
While tossing about on the ocean in
the fog at the yacht-raciDg fasco the
other day, aboard Of one Of the finest
of the steam yachts in the fleet, and
killing the time by gosSipping over a
decanter of as good Kentucky whiskey
as can be found Ito keep off the chilli,
some curious statements were made,
which I afterwards verified by inqui-
ring. and which have not yet found their
way into perpetuating type.
1t was laughsble enough that Henry
Irving should make cruise of the
Sound in towed yacht instead of at
once securing fer the purpose steam
yacht. Yachting thus was, forsooth, as
much catching as sitting astride a bycicle
on a platform car across the continent
would be by cicle journey. More laugh.
able the fact that Irving gave this treat
to himself, having hired aud paid for the
yacht Brooklyn himself! He gave his
own dinner, but it was not known that
the Yachting cruise was his own treat
also This is certainly very funny. OF
course it is generally understood the
boating and heralded visit, dinner, and
cruise with Miss Ellen Terry to meet
and greet him at each port was one OF
the numerous entertaining schemes
adopted by the managers Of the actor
to keep him before the public on this
side Of the ocean, from which he will
DO absent professionally until next year.
Irving is accomplished and interesting,
and if he had gone about it IN the right
way he could have gone in very good
society here, and, not being by any
means a Bohemian, ! am surprised he
has not lived his course etter-pardon
the nautical lingo, but am just ashore.
The dinner was remarkable by reason
of the absence of some of his nearest
friends.
THE OWNER OF THE GALATEA.
The other revelation is that Lieuten'
ant Hem is true blue after all, and, not
wilhstandipg his decidedly "plebeian "
bearing and manners, he is a cousin
Of gallant Lieutenant Charley BereS-
ford, and served with him before his
marriage on the man-'o-war Gala
tea. Early in life he was aboard a
merchantmen. 1t is generally under
stood that the venture Of bringing over
the cutter Galatea manned after his cid
service ship to try to wrest the
cup from the centreboard sloops
built here is that Of the builder, j,