Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-05-02

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other 10 Mrs. Bergman, oil women Of
society, wealth. position, and excel
lence. OF the flirtatious We hesitate to
speak.
or the immaculate there is not q more
beautiful example than Mrs. Lloyd As
pinwall, tho elder, De Wolf and q
splendid beauty, Of whom no one ever
heard an evil word, and Mrs. Coleman
praytop, Mrs. Frederic Bronson, Mrs.
Van Rensselaer,, Mrs. Ward, Mrs. Col
gate, Mrs. Prince, Mrs. Fulton Cutting,
and many others-women who know
how to be fashionable and OF good re-
pute at the same time.
It has been as hard to whip up an
interest in the 0rtbropedic ball, which
will come off next Thursday, as it was
TO get up the Ladies' Club last summer.
The ladies having it in charge have tried
the same impossibility. They wished
to make it at once exclusive and yet
paying. When the Ladies' Club had
black balled everybody whom everybody
hated, they found themselves, like Kill
kenny cats, grinping at each other, and
wondering who should spring at the
next neck. That was not pleasant, and
so they concluded to separate and let
the Club drop.
JAY GoULD's LITTLE PLAN.
An interesting little railroad episode
IA shortly expected in Wall street. Jay
Gould, who has Of late been shielding
himself behind Vice-President Hoxie,
Of the Missouri Pacific, and his son,
George Gould, and caused it to be re-
ported that he is anxious to retire from
active railroad business as well as from
wall.street speculation, is probably as
deep in mischief as he ever was before.
The Philadelphia Reorganization Com.
mittee Of the Texas and Pacific appear
really to represent but one interest out
of the five involved, and is absolutely
controlled by Gould. This interest is
that OF the Eastern division Of the road
alone, the other four being the Rio
Grande division. the New Orleans
and Pacific division, the income
bonds, and the stock. Gould's plan,
brought forward by the Philadelphia
committee, is to scale all the bonds in
favor Of the Eastern Division and to
force the stockholders to give up three
shares Of the old stock for one share of
the stock Of the recognized company.
BY that means the present holders of
both bonds and stock would be most
successfully frozen out. Gould and his
associates first bought the Texas and
Pacific from Tom Scott. 1t consisted
then Of the Eastern Division solely.
Gould began at once to build the other
branches through construction COM
paDies organized and managed by him.
self. Stocks and bonds were issued on
these branches to the greatest possible
extent. and after having marketed these
securities and pocketed therefrom euor-
nous profits, Gould declared the lines
utterly valueless, and tries now to
squeeze out the securities, for the issue
of which he and his associates are
alone responsible. The stock of the re-
organized company, which will be Sc
cured if this squeezing process is sue
cessful, is in all probability intended
ultimately to find its way into the
Missouri Pacific treasury, which of
course means Gould's pocket. The
road is the most important feeder of the
Missouri Pacific, in which all the
southwestern interests OF Gould are
concentrated. The security.holders,
however, intend making hard fight for
their rights, and they seem to be likely
to receive the assistance of Mr.. Russell
Sage. Old Sage has large interest
both in the Missouri and in the Texas
Pacific, but it does not seem to fit his
books to have one Of his tin boxes
cleaned out with the distant prospect Of
something being added to the contents
of another. The fight bids fair to be
lively one, and if the average WALL
street broker does not gain anything by
it, he will at least have some fun.
DANGEROUS o1OOhSs
Since the beginning of this year Wall
street affairs were only dull, but they
begin now to be dangerous. Wild fiuc-
tuations are created for the securities
of very uncertain concerns. Woerl-
shoffer is pushing the st. Louis and
Texas bonds and stocks almost as vigor-
ously as he pushed Denver and Rio
Grande to ala share, and the lambs
who bought saw it subsequently below
$40 a share. The Consolidated Gas
stock fell in three days from ITO to 80,
and had only q partial recovery.
In the Richmond Terminal and
Richmond and Danville stocks a
good deal of monkeying is also
noticeable. A sulky old speculator,
who is constantly hanging over the tape
of his brokers' Office, saw the other
day the Richmond and West Point
Terminal stock drop SEINE 3 per cent.
in less than three hours, and cynically
remarked: "Do the Richmond and d.
and Richmond and 7. people want
another suicide in handling their stock
this way?" Upon green member of
the speculative fraternity asking him
what he meant by another suicide, his
answer was "This valuable security
gave the first whack to poor old Will
cox, who shot himself the other day."
A SCANDAL.
Society scandals are alarmingly on
the increase, and the most efficient way
to reduce them is to make their publicity
certain. Here is. for instance, q new
little affair about which most people
are considerably at sea. At recent
reception in Washington senator mot
from wicked New York; was escorting
lady, the wife Of well-known navy
officer. The beauty Of the woman or
the champagne proving too much for
him, he followed his fair companion
down stairs so slowly that she had
already entered her carriage, which
stood at the door. The Senator had
to hasten his footsteps, and with
out noticing that there were two
carriages bounced into the near
est ono. The coachman ut once drove
off, but soon pulled up, as hideous
shrieks Of Fire!" were issuing from
the vehicle. 1t seems that the Senator
had entered the wrong carriage and ha a