Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-12-12

,umult they would have stared in
am szsmspt 1t these nsw.fsnslsd ideas
and queer "goipgs on" jackson $.
schultz. the leather millionaire, At
lacked tbe evil he is seventy, but Wig.
orous and aggressive, and be succeeded
IN having the nuisance at least partly
absted. MIR. Schultz, by tne way, Is
ore of the leading members OF the
chamber of Commerce, and he is also
nromipent in the Union League. He
came TO New York in 1910 after having
learned the trado Of tanner. lie soon
took a prominent part in local affairs.
In Is42 no butcher was allowed to sell
meat except in the various public mar
kets. But for the local convenience
several persons not bred as butchers
opened shops in densely populated
ous,ters in defiance of the law. The
market butchers, who claimed mo-
popoly Of the business, attempted to
shut up the shops Of the independent
uieldeis of the cleayer, and would have
succeeded in their design had 1t not
b.en for jackson s. Schultz, who re-
tanned good counsel and fought the
matter in the courts, securing deci-
sion that the city ordinance on the dis
pu.ed question was unconstitutional
ard therefore void. Since that day
meat has been sold every where through
out the city. lie was the first to sug-
eest The building Of abattoirs. At this
time cattle were driven through the
city in large droves at great risk to hu.
man life, and they were slaughtered
wherever it suited the owners conve-
nience. He carried through this pro-
iect in the teeth Of storm OF opposi-
lion. He is chairman of the Chamber
Of Commerce committee appointed to
consider differentiation abuses, and Is
vigorous in his opposition of certain In
fe,pretations of custom laws. lilo u
worth several million dollars made in
tie Swamp, and may well echo the old
saving: "There is nothing like lea
ther."
THE LADIES CLUB.
There is again some talk about an
effort to revive the Ladies' Club, or, to
speak more correctly, reanimate the
scheme to organize one. Ii was pro-
posed to organize club OF ladies OF
good social position to take a floor
somewhere in the great shopping dis
trict bounded by Seventh avenue.
Third avenue, Twenty. third street, aud
Fourteenth street, where the members
could meet during tho hours Of the day
for social intercourse and recreation
from the cares of the day, read the pa
reIs and magazines, write letters, or
obtain lunch. never could get
glimpse Of the list Of the promoters,
but a fair informant assured me thai
she knew Mrs. John Sherwood, the
Marouise de Lamar, Mrs. John Bige-
low. Mrs. Jennie June Croly, and 9th
ers equally prominent we're Interested
in the movement. They were never
able, however, TO agree sufficiently to
formulate the organization. | should
think the ladies' would find such q club
very desirable. In Brooklyn, IN Phlla-
delphis, in st, Louis. and other cities
Il ere are clubs that admit ladies du-
ring the hours of the day to the res
tauTant on the presentation of the card
Of a member. hit none OF the clubs
here have so far advanced towards the
woman's rights movement any further
than entertaining them at stated Pc
RODS. lhe Hamilton Club, Of Brook
lyn, admits the ladies by separate
entrance and Offers them tbs privileges
Of the diuing-room, paTlcr, and writing
room during the morning ana noon
hours. The proposition has been dis
cussed in The mstropolitsn clubs, bat
hps never taken any definite shape. L
is doubtful, though, whether any Of
the regular clubs would permit tho III
royaticp, as The growing tendency Of
the clubs is to become moro conserve
tive or orthodox. IL seems 20 be the
opinion that the admission of ladies
mo the clubs On equal footing you'd
create e. much trouble therein ~ By
ro0 declared she always caused aboard
a Yacht. where there was peace aud
harmony until she arrived, or the scan
dsls she is alleged by Leigh Hunt to
have occasioned when she appeared N
The theatre in place of the smooth
faced youths who had always per-
sousted the female parts. EqpoSsdat,
always ready 10 CALAMITY defend the
sex, | may remark that this has not
been the experience in Brooklyn and
the other cities where the ladies' have
been admitted TO the privileges OF the
club during the hours Of tho day wheo
lhe gentlemen are not likely 20 Be
shout. But the proper way to start
ladies' club Of the scope proposed
would be for the Sor6sis, which only
meets monthly, to take tie initiative
Mrs. John Sherwood, in he7 paper
on the future Of the Progressive Nine
tcenth Century GLIB, recently read e
them. claimed a position Tor women II
&c Gibbs history and future, and sh,
would te Interested 10 the new clu5
under the auspices Of the Sorosis.
NOTABLE SOCIETY EVENTS
Orc Of the fashionable fads Of NeS
| York society just nov is the parl)r
lecture Of Mrs. Sherwood. This
whilom leader Of the metropolis is WIS.,
in her generation. and realizes that no
ye'ty is sine qua non with the lick''
public of Gotham. Parlor lectures Las
season. were in themselves unique no
yclty. This year, realizing that tn
idea was no lorger new, this brlllian
reDhca of the English Queen CatherIn
secured through potent influence an es
pecislly gorgeous setting to her pictur,
by securirg the magnificent residenc,
Of Mrs. Robert Hoe, Jr., for her opeo
irg entertainments. The house is fame'
throughout the city for its superb
equipments, its novel arrangement o
rooms, its directions, it, pictures, ant
lis furniture. The Mrs. Grundyt
promptly voted it the proper thing Il
90 to hear Mrs. Sherwood at Mrs
Hoes en- moSse, and presto ! when tn,
openipg.day came 400 tickets at Slt