Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-12-05
ruE RICHMOND DIspATCH--SUNDAY DECEMBER g. 1856.

OlSIDkuiouoo IA WI e"~ ." H~s'ssSo Ss>s
with hosts Of friends, but with the
memory Of tragedy that had made men
thudder - they pressed bis hand. The
mimic stage that night had no situation
half so strange.
PERSONAL AND CLUB GOSSIP.
There is no truth in the report that .
consolidation is contemplated Of the
Lotos and New York Clubs, with .
view TO taking the brownstone mansion
Of The Union Club in the event of that
organizations taking the Stewart mar.
BILE mansion, on Fifth avenue, which is
soon to be sold.
The reports in the daily papers did
not give an account Of scene at the
Stanley dinner last saturday evening AZ
The Lotos Club between the president,
Mr. Whitelsw Reid, and one of tho
orators of the evening, Colonel Richard
Latbers, who is well known throughout
the country as a prominent free-trids
advocate. Colonel Lsthers. after
speaking OF SANKEY'S work, animal
verted to free trade and denounced its
opponents; whereupon Mr.. Reid
charged the Democrat, Postm aster-
General, Mr.. Villas, with the obstruc-
tions complained Of by bis not obey wing
The laws passed by Congress. There
was prospect Of lively discussion,
which would have pleased the boys,
but. Colonel -Lsthers did not respond.
In ante.beIium days an explanation
would have been demanded.
Kyle Bellew, who wears his hair in
curls and affects to be juvenile Irving,
has become the pet of the lambs,
which was originally founded as mu-
tual- admiration society by the late Ii.
j. Montague. AS the leading man of
Wallack's Bellew has become as great
a favorite with the ladies as any of his
predecessors. lie promenades in a
lsckadsisical way that suggests that
Gilbert might have had him in his eye
when he drew one OF the three young
men in Patience"
General Sherman makes the Union
League his headquarters when in town.
The veteran, wrinkled and knotty, is
animated in his conversation and en-
ergetic in bis movements, and had
rather talk on any subject than about
the war, which is the one generally
proposed to him. lie is always to be
seen in the avenue windows watching
the promenade of youth and beauty on
pleasant afternoons.
All club.men are wondering who the
New York club-man can be who is re-
ported to have been detected in the
Savage, in London, at cheating at cards.
Since the introduction Of poker in the
London clubs last year by the American
guests the game has become quite fayO-
rite there. Several Americans are report
ed TO have won large sums from the
English students Of the game so popu-
lar in this country.
Bronson Howard, the dramatist, is r
frequenter OF the LOtos and Authors
Clubs. He is q quiet, modest, s.udions
little man, baldish, with short graying
hair on the sides OF a well-formed head,
with face indicating thought and ge-
uiality, gold.rimmed eyeglasses con-
stantly worn giving him decidedly
literary appearance. Always stndious-
Is keeping in the background, his pre-
sence is not at all familiar, though his
meme leads the American dramatic list.
The Thirteen Club claim that there
has never been n death within the first
year Of the sitting Of the thirteen to
dinner, and that the late President Ar
thur vas the first death in their ranks,
now numbering 500.
THE POTTER BUILDING.
Let us enter the Potter building. 1t
cost over $1,000, 600. 1t is erected on
tho ruins Of the edifce once known as
Marton Marbles World. Twelve sto-
ries make it fully the height of tfe
Brooklyn bridge. On entering the
elevator We are ghisked to the eleventh
floor so rapidly that seasick feeling
is felt. We 60 to lawyers office in
the no1thW est angle Of the massive
pile, a Ieception.room in this anglo
ccmmands a magnificent view. We
are SO high that the rumbling of wheels,
the tinkliug Of car bells, and the shouts
that inCicate a vigorous pLlsat!on OF
the arteries Of commerce are deadened
ard muilIed. Park VOW, Beekman
street, the City Hall Park, and Broad
way are below us, busting and active.
They are so far beneath that tho tide
Of humanity flowing to and flo looks
Ike an army Of pigmies. From the
corner windows We look through the
Nsrrows straight out to sea. The
great Bartholdi statue greets rs with
uplifted hand in the sunlight that
covers Bedloe's Island. The marble
monuments Of Greenwood Cemetery
can be seen on the left, and Jersey
City, Newark, Elizabeth, Orange, and
Hoboken stretch away to the west.
Castle Point, crowned with the Ste
yens mansion, juts into the Hudson
above Ioboken. You can fairly see
the waves dashing on the rocks where
the body Of Mary Rogers was found
fifty years ago. Further north stands
TIE tail white brewery built on The
cliff ct Gutenberg. The turrets OF
the Passionist monastery pierce the
sky net far away, and Fort Lee and
Font Washington are plainly Visible,
with the long line of the Palisades
running towards West Point. This is
the eyIie Of BOurko Cochran, the ole
member Of the New York delegation
to the Fi'tieth Congress who is sure to
achieve a national reputation as an
orator.
JamesE. of Scotland.
John skeltOn.l