Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-11
NEW YORK In JULY.
4 rIAy.rAcroRrrs As SHOWN UP
BY "HYM cRrSRLE"
ious and Canning Old Politician :
srary and other Ladies Who are
IAroaa-oossip Of the Clubs, Etc.

&bfOad-toSSlr OF tho~'s"N' w.
a, correspondence OF the plsratch.l
NEW YORK, July 10, 1886.
- that the boycotters and Anarch-
: being rapidly sent out of town,
re chilling frosts Of June have de.
We who knew how delightful
heaire is in this city during the
"a term begin to enjoy ourselves.
. enjoy ourselves because there ia
hestre to 20 TO. The dead color Of
amusement world lying in the July
like tepid pool is rippled slightly
bpe corner by Roland Reed, who is
Of the few men whe can be funny
ID the Thermometer at o.. "A few
tter spiders continue to skim over the
s urface Of the pond up town in the shape
cf comic opera. There is q great omi'
nous lull Of preparation.
Il Wherever there IS cool balcony
oveflooking the sea, there the managers
i ~ the stars are hidden away and the
mermur Of their voices mingles with the
drone Of the sea IS they read their new
plays. The song Of Gaylor breaks in
with the crickets. Steele Mscksye will
n heard with the katydids six weeks
hofore frost. And when the late Au-
<6st frogs play their bsssoons there will
4 - chorus Of playwrights heard.
NEW PLAYS.
Steele Macknye has completed q
RAJ play on Anarchy" IL deals
nth the labor question and the social
psoblem. Ny young newspaper friend,
Keller, has written great play on the
marriage laws, and he assures me that
Mantell is going to play it. Tom
Marlborough has written or bought a
Rreat play which hinges on the mind
cure. Joe Arthur has great play on
~ japanese.
Cazauran has got = play on the i'm
16Ddipg struggle Of democracy and
nperialism. Even Ben Maginley is
1fegnant with manuscript.
/ was at Long Branch the other day
and went TO the region Of cottages. |
heard that soft rustic of the summer air
that sweeps rich with sea-spray through
the corn. Joe Brooks laughed at my
e<ntiment, and told inc it was the sound
made by turning leaves Of manuscript.
{ Maddened, | rushed to the Adirondack
woods, and fell into the arms of Mars
den, the playwright, who has crested
eenedy- factory in the heart OF the
Wilderness.
Lillian Russell is writing comic
opera with Hoyt, the young Boston
nan, who scratched 1.-THE Psrlor
Natch." Mr.. Solomon, the husband,
beats time for them.
"TIIE WILD WEST"
vhich has been exhibiting for a week
e Staten Island, has made bucking
HORSES and Texan steers quite the
fashion. The proper caper nov for our
polo-players is TO ride a brOncho IN the
PARK. Clara Morris, they tell me, has
Dot up tepee on her grounds al RIVER
dale and practices daily on the bound
ing COW. Some of the fast girls who
10 10 Purcell's for their doughuuts
carIy Mexican riding whips, and Wright
Sandford astonished the fellows az the
s Jpion Club the other day by letting his
back hair down aud dying his marble
s brow with walnut juice, There is
Refreshing DIR Of cowboy blowing
Through tie genteel circles, aud bs-
lieye tnat Buffalo Bill could make q
fortune II lie you'd oGly open a ~iia
west school on Fifth avenue.
THEATRICAL NEWS sWELTERs.
I can take ian and tell it all in
puh OF two. Casino, "Iltke," Lit
4 de Tycoon." That is, nude, lewd, AMI
rude IN drowsy gradation Of badness.
& do you wonder that mon and women
with immortal souls are ileeing from
+ ibe city, that we arc given up u rhra!
cousins who have got their hay in, AMI
western merchants who pretend TO have
business in the metropolis, when ali
%proper people shake oil lis dust AMI
abandon %?
understand that Anthony ComSto;k
wanted to resign his position when he
went to see "Zltka played.
a. can stop people from circulating
9Th through the mails, said he; "bu,
Oh, heavens, how am going to stop
people from preaching 1t through the
Females:
lie can't.
a NUw POWER IN POLITICS.
Nearly two months ago some one
picked up this dispatch in the street.
ALBANY, May IL.
p To WEifela,o Reid, Editor Of tie Tri.
june, NOc York:
The excise bill will probably pass the
Assembly tomorrow mornlus. Three
commissioners will be appointed unde'
it-one Republican. The bill Will
materially help the Republican patty,
!. giving Republican salooa.keepers IN thu
S city he protection TO which they are ep-
81 t,led, and sill prevent the use Of tac
8 Dehartment against US politically.
SHERIDAN SHoOE.
81 The man who found the dispatch vas
81 evidently a mugwump, for instead 0
a sending 1t to It's owner lie pa, !! N
& stamped envelope and sent It t. :. l..
q &c kin. Of the Ereaing Post. Iha.
apostle Of mugwumpery PFinted It with
3 out consulting Mr. Reid, aud ever since
q that time the anti Blaine journals have
been ringing the changes on 1t. Their
e comments have given Shad Shook, as his
friends call him, national fame. Nar-
Z 1cr's Weekly has printed his picture
And classed him with Nike Ccesan,
Jake Hess, Barney B,glin, John j.
O'BrieD, and others OF the boys who
run the Republican machine. The
classification Is not quite correct. He Is
Superior 10 any OF them, although not
quite so conspicuous. Shook applies
business methods 10 politics. lie re-
mains under cover sometimes for years,
watching the situation like Wall
Street peculator. When he does come
a 10 the front he usually wins. lie backs
u his Judgment With his money, and has
won large sums in election wagers. lie
always keeps bis head. No tidal wave
Of enthusiasm ever carries hun from hts
feet. lie rarely opens hiS.mouth, and
when he does open II opens It only to
s,t.d I'D Intimate S,tsplr lie has