Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-06-17
NEW YORK LETTER.
wYx cRrSKLE ON TIE BASDAvA AND
POLITICAL fApa
urovds in Gotham--The Man with the
Glass Eye-Boss Shepherd and Row
Ee Made His Money.

Glass Eys-Boss Shepherd and Row
he Made His Money.
Correspondence Of tho Richmond Dspa,cht
NEw YORK, June 16, 1888.
Perhaps yon do not believe in political
fads. Don't let us try TO explain them.
Let us recognize them. The bandana
fad is here. II is enough TO know that
Mr.. Thurman. the Democratic nominee
for Vice President. usesa ,bandana hand
kerchief. and TO remark that New York
has famed out with red silk. The fur
nishing stores literally blaze with them.
The bazaars on Twenty-third street oil
have signs up, "Bandanss The men
ut the Manhattan and the Hoffman
House carry them IN their side-pockets.
The caper is to pub them out and flourish
them at the slightest provocation; TO
walk down Broadway with the red flag
in the right hand fauntingly, and then
make a chow of wipng the face with it
at intervals. Later in the campaign We
shall see professions on the same street
every man wearing a pockethandker-
CHIEF.
THE LOVE OF ODDITIES.
How these tricks Of homely local life
roll back on the metropolis Years ago
when General Harrison was the popular
fAvorite they had log Cabin on Broad
way, and the political beaux Of that day
took to drinking hard cider. Whatever
brings to this cosmopolitan and hetero-
geneous town the inbred and dis
tinctive color and character Of
locality is seized upon, because we
have no local color or character
ourselves There WAS old Josh Whit
comb came down from Swanzsy, in the
New Hampshire bills, bringing with him
The homespun and granite of that hard,
bomely, and indOmitRble race Of giants,
aud New York fell desperately in love
with him, honored from the opera, the |
circus, the ballet. and rushed en- mdSsc
night after night TO see this old New |
England type. There's Buffalo Bill, an
idol through all the summer, making |
Eras!ina a fashionable resort with his
nnsophisticated Wild West.
MUST GIT n THE CROWD.
The tendency Of the whole OF social
America IS 10 get 10 New York and into !
the swim. Fifth avenue is lined |
with bonanza kings who were chieftains
on their native heatbS, but who have |
been lost sight Of here. Broadway at 3 |
O'Clock is panorama OF bellies from |
every school district in the Union. and |
who were never quite satisfied till |
they reached the metropolis and were
lost in the Roman mob We digest |
them all, reduce them to the uniform |
complexion of ladies and gentlemen, and |
Kill every bit of distinctive local charac-
ter they had. IL We want some one who
is unique. Independent, unconventional,
with lot Of tie sand Of conviction
and stub and twist Of personality, where
do We 60 for him To the Hoffman
House To the Union League Club
To the Seventh regiment DO we look
into the uniform glitter and polish of the
pageant on Fifth avenue, or dive into the
shallow sea Of selhshncss on Wall street
or search among the peas in the pod Of
fashionable church Nonsense We
look along the Wabash and up among
the giant trunks Of Maine, or part the
blue - IS IN Kentucky. or follow the
iiail maize by some boy who went bare
foot t. the village school and studied his
Bancroft and his Virgil on his stomach
o nights before the blazing pine-knotsin
lis fathers chimney.
LONELINESS AND HONESTY.
There is a genuine loyal admiration in
the American heart for its Scion Shin
Eles, its Joshua Whltcombs. its Walt
Whitmans, its Ihurmans, and its Cleve-
lands, and all its hardy types of charac-
fer. who, nursed and hammered outside
OF the Vanity Fair. have preserved as a
SrUrCHir OF our Golden Age something
OF the inhexible LONELINESS and honesty
OF our fathers.
Mr.. Rosenqucst, of the Fourteenth
Street Theatre, told me the other day
that he intended to open his season in
tcptember with a new American play
cnlied "Blue Jeans Great Scott
what a lot of significance that name will
lnye for millions of successful men
whose fathers and grandfathers along
the Ohio, tho Wabash, the 5usquehanna,
the MuskinRum, aud the Cumberland,
dug and drudged and fought and prayed
and left their fibre and their faith be-
hind. They were the salt of the earth.
They wore hOmespun. Their hands
were horny, but their hearts were
stout Put that type Of man on the
metropolitan boards, and the giddy
ephemera OF our town pauses in admira-
ton of a staunchness and distinctness
that are not engendered in Vanity Fair.
THE MAN WITH TIE GLASS EYE.
at is all wrong to say bully boy
with q glass eye, said Maiden.lane
manufacturer and importer who is some
thing of wag.
"Why is it all wrong?"
"Well, there may be bully boys, but
there is no such thing as a glass eye"
What would you call this ?" we
asked, at the same time holding up an
artificial human eye.
81 would call that crystal eye, be-
cause it is made out of crystal and not
out Of glass
lis there any difference ?"
"Of course there il. As understand
it, crystal eyes cannot be moulded into
shape. Just how they are colored and
made TO initiate the natural eye have
no idea. You see the method OF making
artificial human eyes out of crystal is one
VI AhV oNtAtt aitcs AitNO iACN W DtO
whether there is not something in the
books, but the writers maintain deep
silence on the subject"
"Wbere are most Of the artificial |
eyes made ?"
I" We import most Of our eyes from
France. The manufacture of artificial (
human eyes is in the hands of few
French workmen. who keep the process
secret. the same as the workers on c
GObelin tapestry keep their art a secret a
There are two or three in this country b
engaged in the manufacture of artificial O
eyes, but their product lacks often the
close finish aud the nataralness of the S
French. Yet We can make good eye to S
order." il
AN BYE TO ORDER. l
=" How much would an eye to order
cost -
Not over fifteen dollars. We keep
large assortment in stock, and if we