Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-29

souls mistAking " lot apAiauai Bin''n"'
and seeking entrance TO pstronize the
bar. It Is now proposed TO give .
series of balls or dances In the private
theatre this winter. which may satisfy
for the time the younger element; but
sooner or later the Club will get back
10 the avenue, where eventually all the
clubs will be located excepting the
Raquette and Athletic.
A good story is told Of q gentlcmsn's
appearing In the bath at the Athletic
where the swimming tank is sixty feet
lopp) in the most fantastic, silk gar
ments. such as are worn by the ladies'
at the seaside. The fact being COM
mented on, be stated that the garments
were his wife's, and he was testing
them before she doomed them on tho
| sands nj Long Branch and Newport.
One of Delmonico's noble walters
hired ut the Knickerbocker, and one OF
the dudes seeing him there in his dress
suit officiating at private dinner
thought be had met him before, sup
posed he was a guest, and engaged in
conversation with him. His friends en-
joyed the joke until drinks were pro-
posed. and then the mistake was ex-
blamed, much to the discontinue OF
The member as we'll possibly as the
waiter, who is said to be an Italian
baron.
SPORTING GOSSIP.
With the closing Of tho races at Mon
mouth Park the season at Long Branch
came practically to an end; but Sara
toga, although her racing season has also
seen its last, is still crowded by the in
flux of families from the seashore. The
racing at Saratoga lost all its former
popularity, for it has been recently con-
Quoted in a manner which aroused a
great many suspicious on the part OF
the votaries of the betting ring. The
great American SPA seems altogether to
have had q crowded but rather impecu-
NOUS season. Guests at the hotels spent
much less money than usual, betting
on races was very tame, while the club
house and its gambling-tables were most
Of the time completely deserted. Thus
the sensational element was almost en-
tirely eliminated, and only an accident
which happened to that well-known
figure of New York society, Mr..
- Bob Z" Cutting, created little flutter
of anxiety. Mr.. Cutting was rubbing
himself with alcohol after having taken
a bath, and used the liquid so freely
that, by his striking match to light a
cigarette, he set fire to his person, and
was so seriously burned that he is still
under medical care.
The opening of the fall meeting Of
the Coney-lsland Jockey Club at
Sheepshead Bay will this year be more
interesting than usual, on account of
the competition which new associa-
ton, called the Brooklyn Jockey Club,
is inauguratiDg. The Brooklyn Jockey
Club started its track within a stones
throw Of that Of the Coney Island Club,
and has so far exerted its best efforts
to make it a successful concern. The
Club has been started by the Brothers
Dryer, two Brooklyn butcher boys,
who have been during the past two
or three years so eminently sue
cessful in their purchases and running
Of Tace-horses. In their new club under
taking, however, they will have to look
for help from some other sources than
the stable or the butcher-shop. So far
they seem to have secured the assistance
Of only one gentleman spOrtsmau-Mr.
Haggin, of California but, as they
propose to run on alternate days to
those Of the Coney-Island Jockey Club,
and thus not compete with it, it is not
unlikely that they will soon haYo some
additional help from their neighbor as
ISOLATION. The only question is, How
are all these multiplying tracks and
stables to exist if the legislative and
police authorities remain as sternly op-
posed to betting as they seem to be
now?
A PLEASING PROSPECT FOR THE
LAWYERS.
Samuel j. Tilden, with ell his acute
ness as a lawyer, has been wrecked on
the rock on which many staunch legal
craft has gone to pieces. He drew up
will in 6,925 words so carefully that
he fancied it was without flaw. Yet
its most important provision Is held by
the best Of lawyers to be drawn IN de-
fiance Of law. 1t will not hold water.
1t now looks as though the bulk OF the
great fortune may be distributed among
the legal fraternity in the way of fees.
AS matters stand Mr.. Tilden's accumu-
lations may be eaten up in litigation.
Lawyers, like black bass, frequently
fatten on their kind.
Under repeated rulings Of the New
York Court of Appeals testators must
make their donations definite. They
cannot delegate this duty to their ex-
scutors, thus virtually making them
testators. The donations must be def.
nitely made, in explicit terms, for a
specified object, or the will will not
hold water. No man ought to have
known this better than Mr.. Tilden, bat
the truth is that he was not accustomed
to drawing up wills. THERE'S no ques-
tion as to his error in the light OF re-
peated aDecedents. In the excess Of
his caution before going to his eternal
sleep he left his night-latch up, and any
sharp lawyer is at liberty to enter and
rifle his room at his leisure.
A FATAL WEAKNESS.
The fatal weakness in the will is in
the thirty-ffth clause. Mr.. Tilden
there requests his executors to use his
money ''to establish free library and
to promote such scientific and educa-
tional objects as they may particularly
specify" lie should have specified
the objects and the sums Of money to
be devoted to them himself.
Again Mr.. Tilden donates money to
an institution provided sit shall DO in-
corporated in form aud manner salts
factory to my executors" 1t looks as
though any smart lawyer might get
good footing for contest on this clause
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