Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-11
NEW YORK LETTER.
How chsuuosy u. pepsw Dispesss Of Much
Busiress-Ths Busy Importation
Tea-Reunion Of Giants.

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you're we'll
eyes thanks; and you9 Going
abroad, oh ?"
The frst speaker was Phil. Armour,
the ten.iimes millionaire pork-pecker
OF the bounding West. Ho hal Just
scrawled bis name on the register of the
Fifth-Avenuo Hotel, and the man he
greetea so warmly was Detective Pryor,
who has nothing to Go but to dress
well and see thas crooks of all kinds
keep awav from the hotel and Its
quests. Pryor is SIX feet two, and N
some respects his physique suggests John
I. Sullivan. lie dresses in the latest
fashion, and is fond OF understanding
rose for the button.hole OF his coat
Everybody Knows him, end he has a
pleasant word for every body. The
wealthy pork packer with ms hands be-
hind his back spent half hour walking
up and down the hotelcorridor with him,
talking on all sorts OF subjects When
they separated a bystander said to
Pryor:
STEP An BYE on THEM.
"In bet the old man is afraid Of his
life. Honest. now. didn't he ask you 90
keep an eye on him and sec no one did
him harm
Pryor shook bis head in a negative
fashion bat did not speak, which left the
speaker in considerable doubt about the
matter. Armour s'liie has been threat
enod several times, but he is said not TO
be afraid. However that may be, there
are other people from distant cities who
come to New York and stop at the big
hotels who are timid. One OF the first
things they do after registering Is to de-
post their valusbles ia the hotel safe
and then seek the house detective Rnd
ask that an eye be kept on suspicious
characters so that they moy do them no
harm.
DETECTIVES EVERYWHERE.
Detectives are being used more and
more every day. Not only arc they en-
ployed regularly in halls, restaurants, III
banks and IN big Offices. but they are
also engaged by clubs, theatres, stores,
and for private houses. For years, night
and day, n detective has paced mp and
down in front of Stewards marble palace
on Fifth avenue, and at least n score Of
other private families employ them. One
man is on guard daring the day ana an
other at night At all big dinners, re-
ceptions, and balls detectives are en-
gagged 10 keep an eye on visitors, and
wedding presents ere never exhibited
now excep: In the presence Of detec-
tive. These men are furnished by pri-
vate detective agencies or by the police
department. They appear - full owe
ming dress and mingle freely with the
guests. They are paid literally for their
services.
Ladies' that wear expensive jewelry,
like Mrs. Hicks-Lord, Mrs Coleman
Drayton, Mrs. Louise Hammersley, the
Vanderbilts, and others, employ private
detectives TO accompany them to and
from places OF amusement. dinners, and
receptions, and also to watch them while
they are in public.
GUARDED AND NOT GUARDED.
4 few New York men also employ de-
tectives to guard them during business
hours, bnt these are usually the same
detectives ENGAGED bv ,he force to keep
an eye on suspicious looking characters
during Office hours. 1t has been SAID
that Jay Gould Is constantly Swallowed
by a detective, but this is not true. Mir.
Gould is not q very big man. but he IS
gene, and a Good runner.
Joseph Chamberlain, VI. p, the
fisheries commissioner, who Is now near
ing his English home, has been guarded
by detective from the moment lac left
London. This mans duty was TO keep
Chamberlain constantly III view, and if
any suspicious character approached
him to automatically intervene and
separate the two lie was paid So per
day and expenses 1t would have beeu
impossible Tor any one to have harmed
Cham berlain. The Engishman was not
ont OF the detectives sight one moment
while appearing IN public, aud when he
retired to rest the detective slept with
one eye open in an adjoining room.
SEEING THE TOWN.
If You should happen into the slums
Of the city over night in TIE week YOU
wonld End more than one party OF vlsl-
tors headed bV detective exploring tie
Chinese quarter, the Italian rendezvous
the Big Flat, the bend, and the
streets in which sin is gilGed. Detective
Pryor, mentioned above, has monopoly
of the business. lie has a party, on an
average, three nights a week.
"Nhat sort OF people 90 with me "
He repeated my question. then smiled
and added: "a II ministers, seua-
tors. actors, arti,ts. aud foreigners Of al
grades Of society. DO we soc much +?
You bet. Fun? There is more fnn
than you could grasp in q month. Cost?
From ten dollars to million if YOU want
70 fpend it, for each person. l have a
party from Boston to night We start
at 10 O'Clock, and will set back at 6
o'clock tomorrow morning Thore'l be
a heap of fun. Boston men like 10 come
10 New York once IN awhile. 1t wakes
'em up"
pEPEw AND HIS CORRESPONDENCE.
l had the pleasure Of spending few
minutes in the Office Of the Hon. Chaun-
cey Vi. Depew one day this week. 1
had never had really fair chance 10
look at him before, and Was on that sc-
COUNT the more impressed by the urbani-
/ty and high intelligence which his iea-
lures express. They are very different
from those Of the picture with which
TINS city and a considerable part
OF the country has recently been
infested / refer to the drawing by De
Grim, which was published in The
CuriO. 1t represented Mr. Depew
clothed N tn impossibly bad suit OF
clothes, and apparently posing himself
with difficulty on the side If a steep
roof, OF possibly the Grst pitcn OF to-
boggan-slide. Nothing else could ac-
count Tor his extraordinary attitude. Ia
real life the honorable gentleman is never
found IN such position, and on the day
when saw him he Was wearing very
nice SUIT Of clothes. his face contained
no suggestion Of the picture.
a SENSIBLE CONDENSER.
II was the day when a general strike
OF railroad engineers was first VIOLENTLY
talked OF IN New York. and though Mr..
Depew profeBsed 10 regard the MEASURE
rs beyond the bounds Of possibility. the
necessity Of finding out all about il had