Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-11-14

ie member Of the Lotos, butts always
on the card list at the Union whenever
be Ia in town.
A Lotos Saturday night" means
10 the initiated 81 mposlum' and there
is consequently always q crowded At
tendance Of members ard guests. There
is a formal entertainment Of songs and
rectations in the psrlor early in the
evening by profss sional volunteer talent,
,be s, mposium, waited for, is the free
and.easy gathering in the cafe below
stairs after midnight pro bono supper,
ard here the piano is kept going and
there is singing and Rotations until
he "wee sma' hours" Of the morning
bat are ushered in by the church bells.
often the groups st these gathering are
notable. The tall form OF Whitelaw
Reid looms up in group also COM
pTlsing General Horace Porter, still
u siptsining a military bearing; tho
, outhiul but entertaining Mr.. Buell.,
ihe associate editor Of the Century a;
tie burly form of Colonel Knox, the
sutbor. traveller; the lean and lsnk Lieut..
Thompson, the sculptor (who has at
length completed bis colossal equestrian
statue of General Burnside for Rhode
lsland); and the dissenting and grazing
editor and firancier, Mr.. ID. G. Croly.
There's the comedian, Lionel Brough,
rough and burly, telling a story t.
group, comprising the Dean Of the l nj
versity College, DIR. Pardee, the author
actor, George Fawcett Rowe, Howard
Paul, and the clorical.looking A. NJ.
Palmer, manager of the Msdison-Square
Theatre; Bartholdi, looking sad but
dreamy. conyerses with the artists
Story, Tate. and Boards; Bran Stoker,
a tall, youthful blonde, looking more
like the college boy he tells so many
good stories of, foreshsdows Mr..
Irving's return next season to the poet
critic, William Winter, who dishevels
his hair more than ever.
A gentleman perhaps familiar to
every one who visits this city from the
fact that be is always attired in dress
coat and white vest, with the old-time
fob, Judge Fitch, is q member of the
Manhattan, but is always invited to
club entertainments from the fact that
BIO knows every one and is always
ready for such occasions. His adhe-
renee to the old style of attire and his
gallantry to the ladies in the psrlors Of
the Fifth-Avenue Hotel, which he has
made bis winter home for ever so many
years, the same as at the Continental
Hotel at Long Branch, bis summer re-
sort, has made him for years one of the
best.known characters in the city.
Thousands all over the country proba-
bly, know him by sight from seeing him
at the two resorts known, but many
will learn his name for the frat time,
although his circle is almost as extern
siye as the Presidents.
STAGE NOTES.
Nelse Waldron is a stage machinist.
He made the lifting apparatus that
worked Mackaye's double stage at the
Madison-SQuare Garden. lie has sued
the Rev. DR.. Manager Mallory of that
theatre for $l00, 900 damages, resulting
from infringement Of patent. The suit
came on Monday, and the first witness
produced by the prosecution was Steele
Mackaye. His testimony ought to
have produced q sensation, but 1t
didn't. The papers were afraid Of it,
or were too busy trying to mako up
with Henry George to pay much atten-
ton to it. Mr.. Mackaye's evidence
was to the effect that the Rev. DR.. Man
sger Mallory was trying to run theatre
and q religious paper at the same time,
and he didn't want his left hand to
know what his right hand was doing.
He said on the stand that DR.. Mallory
was double-dyed hypocrite.
All this is interesting because there
is . good deal of unwritten history
connected with the Madison-Square
Theatre. People never understood
why Mackaye, who conceived the idea
of the house, invented the double
stage. wrote Hazel Kirke, " rehearsed
the company, and created the character
of the house, which afterwards made q
million of money, suddenly got out Of
the whole thing and left the play, tho
double stage, and the house in the
hands of the Rev. DR.. Manager Mai
Tory.
The only explanation of all this that
have seen is the public statement
made under oath by Mr.. Mackaye that
DIR. Mallory is q double-dyed hypo-
critic.
1t is the universal opinion here now
that rebuutting opinions from DR.. NAL
lory are in order.
What we all want to get at ls the
Doctors religious experience in run
ming q theatre and bis moral triumphs
in overcoming Msckaye.
have watched the papers for five
years with the expectation that this
whole story would crop out some time
but Just as it threatened to divulge 1t
self some kind Of unseen influence
sQuelches the whole matter and things
60 on as before.
The sudden departure Of Mrs. Brown
: Potter for Europe has made socia
hiatus. The outcamping fashionable
at Tuxedo have come to the conclusion
. that the seasons later fruits are al
chestnuts, and down they all came Il
the opening Of the Metropolitan Opera
House. But even that social even
lacked something without Mrs. Bfowi
Potter.
Lsrgtry had week Of exhibition
} before she went TO Boston. She had {
mount every day at the hOrse-show
: aud permitted the jockeys 70 kiss he
hand TO tumultuOus applause, in whicl
even St. Cecilia Thurber joined, an
then she let ali the babies kiss her a
the chrysanthemum show.
TWAS Langtiy week. The bigs.ore
on Fourteenth street sent coaches 70
: her and placed their stock at her dis
y posal if she would only appear Their
: aud walk around, ana finally the Mex
. can village offered to give benefit
. any charity she would name il sh
II would come and sell her own photo
% graphs. But sll at once she winge
10 away. because Boston was getting res