Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-17
NEW YORK LETTER.
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FINANCIAL MoNARcHs.
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Correspondence OF the Richmond D;spatch
NEW YoRK, October 10, 1886.
A small, slightly built, sandy.complcx
toned man wss munch,Dg at frce-luncl
counter IN Cedar street the other day. Tn
fsct was OF no importance, only II happene,
20 be "Hanks Smith, the former Wall
street millionaire. lie failed for q million
or mere las, year, and he's never got on hi
feet again. lie Pulled down William
Heath. the broker, who found prematur
grave. Henry n. Smith was almost a. I'm
popular In Wall street IS j. Pierpont Nor
gan, ara was without The ,aitcr's skin a.
iipsncicr. lie was simply Light.IIors
Harry 81 speculation, but he made and los
two enormous fortunes. iiewas formerly II
the financial field as a lieutenant OF ia,
Gould. and helped TO engineer the terrible
Black Friday gold rauic in 1869. Mr.. G0ult
neyerforYave smith for showing the books q
The tine of The famous Erie suits. and he 'e
william Heath a. Co., Smiths brokers, &c
20 the wall, knowing they would DRAG
down the bear Spectator with them. II. n
Smith was persistent bear, and saw th'
market so twenty points against him. In
bis best days he lived In fine style. and had
quite q high position among those who
esteem successful speculations for the
wealth they have won. He was always
exceedingly scrupulous In regard 10 his
personal appearance, aud, like ma1y an
other gallant IN New York, wore corsets.
Owing to the peculiar angle assumed by his
ccat.tails, be was once called upon TO Off.
cialiy, so 10 speak, deny that he wore hustle.
lie did so with lady.like pout. He was
purse proud and superciious, and as there
was never much to him hut his money, he
found few friends in his overthrow. lie
had none Of the generous characteristics.
for example, Of James II. keenc, who made
some enemies by taking too independent
course IN his daring speculative campaigns.
but who has a soul above money for mere
moneys sake, and whose nature Is graced
with The chiyalrous instincts OF a knight OF
the Round Table. lie Is one of the
wounded lions Of Wall street, but may yet
again shake Wall street by his roaring.
Their there was Daniel Drew, an ignorant
man, who boosted that he read netting, not
even the newspapers. When he no longer had
the Erie treasury at his back he WIS caught
In the Niagara swirl OF blind speculation
and swept TO his utter ruin. As he walked
slowly along Wall street IN the heyday OF
his wealth, pondering apparently on The
drift of the market, he looked like an old
farmer In =. store clothes" on visit to the
city 10 see the sights. He had small cum
ming. which could not save him in the
financial tempests that whistled through
Wall street. Jacob Little had his day still
earlier. He looked as swarthy as Cuban,
and old stagers in Wall street tell how he
embarked In enormous operations IN stocks,
particularly Fort Wayne, and how he
iainted and had 10 be carried out OF the
old williamrstreet hoard room when
a bull leader OF the day ran the
market up on him with lightning
rapidity one morning in 1864, II re-
member rightly, and Jacob Little, whose
sombre face i now seen on the walls OF one
of the rooms in the Stock Exchange as one
OF the former speculative giants. collapsed
physically and financially. II was knock
down blow In the brutal ring Of specula-
ton. and the victim never responded to the
call OF ..time.' | have heard OF man who
once borrowed half million easily who
became so reduced as 10 solicit lean OF
fifty cents from the same house OF which he
had formerly borrowed hundreds OF thou
sands.
GOSSIP OF TUE STAGE.
II Is conceded here on ali hands that VIII
son Barretps dfbut was n disappointment.
lie is not great artist, but Is most ad
mirable man, and the most extraordinary
social influences were brought to bear to in
fluence public opinion to his favor. He
came better equipped with letters than any.
body we have had from the other side, and
the L0tOs Club, which aims to do In small
way with foreign artists what the Jockey
Club Of Paris once did, gave him dinner
and went in a body to his performance. SO
anxious were they to applaud him that they
went off half.cocked and fired n salvo ut
super by mistake. All the papers hedged
the next morning-except the Herald.
In spite Of all this the public was disap-
pointed.
Mr.. Barrett ranks rs an actor with John
Mccullough or Mr.. Frederick Warde, aud
the play Of "Claudian " is notably without
human interest.
The next English experiment will be
Miss Fortescue at the Lyceum on Monday
night.
So pronounced has been the effect OF the
personal advertising done in behalf OF Miss
Violet Cameron by her Earl. and so strong
the rejection, that Miss Fcrtescue has Kept
herself in her room and given orders 20
arrest every reporter who tried to inter-
view her. Before the Cameron affair got so
fragrant she was IN the habit Of driving
round Union Square in the mornings, but
now she has become recluse.
Mr.. Frohman, her manager, Is too shrewd
person TO overdo anything. And IL Is
understood that he informed her that undue
publicity before the opening night was
PLAYED out. shouldn't wonder II an
ascetic spasm followed this Cameron bust
ness, and some OF our actresses who have
been in the habit Of exhibiting their limbs
or all the coal-yard fences took to wearing
black wells.
MRS. POTTER.
The best.adyerised women in New Iorl
now Is Mrs. Brown Potter. Every tlm'
she puts her hair up In papers she Is bul
letined. Lorillard couldn't have WORKED
the Tuxedo Park il he hadn't borrowed
her prestige. / believe every paper II
town paragrapbed the important fact tha
Mrs. Brown Potter was at the Barrett open
ing. and one OF them had q cut OF IN
event. Why this private lady should be s
great an object Of interest To the newspl
pers beats me. And there Is DO possibl
doubt that she likes II, or Vt would taper Of
somev here.
On the night that Wilson Barrett Opener
n society herald discovered that lady In
box. and be rushed out into the foyer {
announce il with his eyes sticking out q
hi head. The news was heard with astof
isbment and delight, aud the whole brigad
OF gossipers rushed TO the tele graph.oilic'
A cable dispatch was sent over 10 the JUNO
Gafrick. "Mrs. Brown Potter IN box"
1 don't know that the dispatch was an
swered. but II IL was Ii came from h
Royal Nighness, and I'll bet II breathed til
mineral satisfaction In these words :: " Thu
settles II. Never mind about Barrett"
Among the new arrivals is the Ange
Opera Company. They are a bearded 10
and wander round the clearinghouse
Fourteenth street trying their top notes.
promise YOU some fun before that compln
gets through. Wait.
Twas going through Eighth street d
other night and found the once-emlnel
Lotta playing In an out.of.the-way pla'
called Poole's. l don't believe New Vol
suspects that she is alive. Such Is fame wht
yor get past forly-fve.
Personal GOSSIP.
Plump as partridge in the season, az
rs pretty a. her pictures, Fay Templet'
has sailed away 10 Europe with Hove
Osborne" a. bis wife, all his fricn
say, and there seems 10 be no doubt in |,
minds OF any. Osborne has always be
matrimonlaily inclined. Some years a
he married Miss Meryille, then playing
the standard Theatre; but his father M
\ her TO consent TO private divorce and !
\ turn home TO England. Subsequent
Howell sought the hand OF Miss Jarbeau, b
she declined the honor. lie and Miss Te
pleson have been keeping company for sol
time. aud be would probably have marFi
her before this il II had mol been for
fathers objections. IL Is said that Geor