Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-09
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
MARY KYLE DALLAS TELLS ABOUT
WRITERS, ACTORS AND ARTISTS.

MARY KYLE DALLAS TELLS ABOUT
WRITERS, ACTORS AND ARTISTS.
New YorA Il Now the Literary and Artis-
ito Center Of the Continent, and Boston
Afternoon Stroll
Especial Correspondence
NEW YoRK, June At does not need the
aid Of Asmodeus TO see professional New
York upon any Saturday afternoon.
In fact, that satirical demon might take his
way over the roofs and peep in at studio sky
lights without result, for he would find
scarcely anybody at home. Let US go abroad
and look.
Twenty-third street is great place for
meeting people
Sometimes one sees Ella Wheeler Wilcox
there. Her bright, eager face and striking
costume are sure to attract attention.
Lately she has wept over the dead face of Q
little baby, who came near taking its mother
away with 1t, and now she has young
poetess under her wing-a girl named Edith
Thomas, who must have been enterprising,
for In her teens she constituted herself au-
thor, publisher, book binder and news COM
pany, and issued little artistic edition of
her own poems, which sold in Chicago As
yet, however, Miss Thomas has not learned
that even great poets draw q line" when
they take In the passionate style, and that
merely to overstep that line does not atone
for want Of merit in the verses.
How the papers, magazines, pamphlets and
periodicals Of all sorts heap themselves up on
the newsstands.
Last year one might have fancied there
was greater supply than there could be q
demand for, but the cry Is, still they come.
There is, believe, one literary paper pub
lished in Washington 1t is clever paper
too, but know some one who tried In vain
to get copy in its birthplace, and coming to
New York found one on the first news stand.
New York IS, today, the great American
market for all things literary and artistic;
Boston merely holds the place Of queen dow
ager Saucy, triumphant New York is on
the throne, and the reason Is plain She Is
a city Of merchant princes and men Of many
millions They make It the most expensive
city In the world, but at the same time they
patronize the professional folk They buy
anything they want at any price. That
tickets for an entertainment are $40 or s2oa
seat only fills house to overfowing In New
York, as many foreign star knows well; as
WaIlacks testimonial proved, the higher
the prices the greater the jam.
1t Is this knowledge that draws literary
people, actors and artists here and keeps
them here, despite their lamentations over
cultured Boston" well born Philadel
phia" and high toned baltimore"
En- passant, what q number OF editresses
there are here. Miss Mary L Booth, Of
harper's Bazar; Mrs Dodge, one OF the few
pretty women In literature, who edits st.
Nlchoias; Miss Van Tyne, not long ago OF
Our Young People," Mrs. David Croly
Jennie June), who, after thirty years OF lit
erary klbor and the editorship Of Demorest's
Monthly, has a petite figure OF sixteen and
energy.
here dweiis also Nine Demorest, handsome
and tall, one OF the first women to go into the
publishing business, and Mrs Frank Leslie,
who Is said, after much experience In the
ways OF TINS wicked world, TO average four
offers OF marriage a day and reject them by
ninng up a printed form, as an editor de-
chnes unsuitable MSS AND how many
authoressesf Marion Harland comes over
from brookiyn she Is Mis- Iernune, and
just the charming, lady IKE southern matron
one might fancy her from her work
1 am not sure that Marietta holly Is at
mat notei IN Lafayette place where she usu-
aily stays "hen here, but should she come
this wey you would hardly believe that you
saw Josiah Aliens wife and Samanthy who