Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-25
NEW YORK LETTER.
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fcorrespcnd ence OF the Richmond Dispatch
New YORK, April %, 1886.
TIE fansral Of Mr.. George L. Loril-
1,sd. who died two months since 81
N;ee. France, and WAS buried here q
NV days sgo, has given rise TO lot Of
scandal and talk. All New York two
years ego vas electrified one morning
q the announcement that Mr.. Lorillard
4 had married Mrs. Wight at st. Angus.
tine, Fla. He vas in the habit OF spend.
ing the winters in the oldest city ia
America on account Of his health,
which had been for years very
wfssthed. Mrs. Wight had just
before been divorced from Ned y
Whit, . well-known New Yorker.
and rumor had coupled the names Of
other members Of the Lorillard family
with her. At all events, Jake "
Iosillard, who was . large stakeholder
Il the Iron Pier at Coney Island, pro.
cured Mr.. Wight the position Of secre-
tsry to that company. Mr.. George
Loiillsrd and bis pretty wife were APP
parently very happy together, and when
be died his will left her legstee Of his
large fortune. 1t is said that he had
an interest Of sl,00o, 900 in q trust
iund, and that he bequesthed only one
ffth Of that particular money to his
wife. Since then It has been said that
she has resigned all right and title to it,
a. there was q proviso in the will that
she should forfeit it in case she married
again. At all events, the money affairs
lea 10 unpleasant family complications,
and when the question Of the funeral
cane I'D Mrs. Lorillard refused to allow
her husband to be buried in the Loril-
lard vault unless the family agreed to
allow her to be also buried there when
her time came. This request the Loril-
lards refused. it is said, in very strong
terms, and the body Of Mr.. George
Lorillard was buried in the La Fargo
vault, that being Mrs. Lorillard's family
tomb.
Mr.. Lorillard's horses, Of course, lost
their engagements through his death,
and Mrs. Lorillard had some Of them
sold off last week. But at the time Of
her husbands death she telegraphed
over that she would run some Of them
this season, and if all reports are true
she has, II not much knowledge of the
turf and its devious ways, great ad-
mirstion for the noble animal. 1t
seems hat on one occasion last
year she was at the Monmouth
Park races when her husbands horse
St. Augustine had been scratched in
race. and, finding that he was not among
the horses, she sent for Allc0ck, who
then trained them, and ordered him to
start the horse whether he had been
scratched or not. This, Of course,
could not be done, and Mrs. Lorillard's
grief over the non-sppearance Of the
horse bearing the name Of the place
where she was married was very great.
As she sold only portion Of the stable,
it is still supposed that she will keep
the old LoIillard colors on the track.
The aristocratic airs which some New
Workers are apt to assume is amusingly
illustrated in the case Of the marriage
Of Miss Chapman to Mr.. Richard Morti-
mer. Miss Chspman's mother was
Miss Jay, but Mr. Mortimer's grand
father was only q tailor. Tailoring,
however, seems to have paid well even
in those days, and his grandsons,
Stanley and Dick, are great favor
ties among the dudes, ride steeple.
ehases, own hunters, and are
quite English" But only two years
ago Mrs. Chapman tnte JAY happened
to be one of the lady directors Of a ball
at Delmopico's, and when the name of
Mortimer was submitted to her for in-
vitation, it is said that she turned up
Der sristocratic face with somewhat
bitter expression and asked" Who are
the Mortimers?" To-day her own
daughter becomes one Of the same un-
known Mortimers.
THE RIOT.
The Knights Of Labor had entire pos
session Of this city for forty-eight hours.
They stopped all surface travel by
horss-railrosd, and if you stop to think
. moment how utterly dependent this
longitudinal metropolis is on horse-car
travel you can imagine the effect Of this
on every branch Of business. Broad
way and Fifth avenue and other Of the
great tributary streets like Fourteenth
and Twenty-third wore aSunday aspect.
The grand crowds Of women and chill
drsn that are usually seen around the
big bazasrs in Fourteenth street had
disappeared.
All commerce, all the retail trades,
artisans. merchants, skilled labor of
every kind suffered, because the least
skilled Of all labor had got its grip on
the means Of transit. | came down
Broadway. l stopped in at half score
Of the big shops. They were deserted
at what il usually the busiest hour. |
talked with the merchants. They had
but one opinion. They were suffering,
but one and all hoped the railroads
would hold ont and settle this question
Of trade tyranny and law and order once
and for all. ] do not remember ever
having seen so complete revulsion Of
public opinion as these strikers have
brought about within week. At first
public sympathy was heartily with
them in what it believed was q fight
against heartless corporations, but now
they have succeeded in placing the
railroads on the side of law and order,
aud with one voice the intelligent COM
munity is backing the corporations,
simply because the corporations do not
insist upon interfering with the rights
Of everybody else and in making threats
Of violence.
saw the fight on Third avenue yes
terday. II was . small riot. In it
we're al the deadly elements Of the
Commune all the incipient flame aud
fury Of the worst Partisan days. Moth
ipe saved that great thoroughfare from
massacre but the promptitude with which
shs police fell upon the mob and drove
4 back. When the first brick was
aimed 1t the poor conductor that was
tyyipg to take the car through there
went up . wild howl from thousands Of