Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-08-19

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Tfidens
In the New York Times Halston said |
day or so ago;
many, and funny incidents have been
told Of some of the wealthiest OF the
wealthy finding themselves suddenly
RAISING moment. An instance of this
few days ago. Edward s. Stokes, one Of
the proprietors of the Hoffman House
ex Senator Roscoe Conkling and Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoll entered we'll. known
cafe and Mr.. Stokes invited ex-senator
Oonkling and Colonel Ingersoll TO Join
him in sociable drink. Three soda cock
tails were ordered, and Mr.. Stokes was
handed check for the cost of the drinks.
When he stepped up TO the cashiers
desk he thrust his hand into
a pocket where he usually keeps
his loose change. The pocket was
empty. Then he made q dive for his
pocket-book and IL was missing. He
turned pale by degrees as he searched
each pocket and discovered that he was
penniless. Then he whispered 10 ex.
Senator Oonkling, and the statesmen ex-
hlniuch cittn VI HIS ptDhetbt ne hihD
was pale and penniless. Mr.. Stokes
turned TO Colonel Ingersoll, who investi-
gated six pockets in his coat, waistooat,
and trousers before he found two and a
/ one dollar bank note tucked away. He
was trembling like man with the ague
when he handed the two-dollar bank note
to Mr.. Stokes. The principal proprietor
of the Hoffman House paid the bill, and
Il 4 4.
drawn his check and had il honored for
thousands of dollars, departed from the
cafe and gazed at each other in alarm
They did not recover from the shock
until they met in the Hoffman House cafe
that evening and sampled few bottles of
| champagne.
An English friend said to mo yesterday:
~ sec the Times make notes of MIR. I'll
denis genealogical stndies, and of his de-
sire that the younger members of the
family should know that they were de-
scended from a sturdy, honorable, aud
industrious ancestry. The truth Ia, Mr..
1ilden's English stock was an unusually
good one, 80 that his pride in it was every
way UNSUITABLE. The Tildens have been
socially prominent in my native county OF
Kent from time immemorial, though per
| hhpbh ue Ahle bblnOcthtic leitueT was tine uIht
of the name toattract worldwide attention.
After his defeat in 1876 Mr.. Tilden
went for change and rest to England,
and one of the pleasantest episodes Of
his visit there was q pilgrimage
thAt he made to Tenterden, pretty LITTLE
place in Kent. In that region the Tildet
name has been in high repute at least 40t
years. lie WINS well received by the
family, and INDUCED his antiquarian
tastes to the fullest extent in old churches
and graveyards where 'Tylden' and Til
dem are deeply cut on many crumblinJ
stone. | believe Mr.. T;lden wa
greatly pleased ut his reception, and tina
it was not the smallest of his oonsola
tons Mt the time. Inotioe that the nam,
John still runs in the family on boil
sides of the Atlantic. Mr.. 1ilden'
grandfather bore it, and to-day John Til
den is one of the largest gentleman
farmers in his part of Kent-not Til
Tenterden that his American cousil
visited, but within a short distance O
Dickens place at Gad's Hill. l am no
quite certain, but think the Tildens owl
the church living at Tenterden now, an
that one of them is, or was until recently
its incumbent