Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-08


likes publicity. keeps in retirement as
much as possible, and there are reporters
on his own paper who have never seen
him.
Warner Miller, who is likely 10 be the
nominee for Governor OF
New York this fall, is O hard man TO in
terview. He is reticent, meditating,
seems to 10 dreaming while the reporter
talks TO him, and answers in non-com.
INITIAL manner in low voice.
Tom Plat, the shrewd New York lead
or, will not talk on important topics to
strange reporters. With those be knows
he converses freely.
Senator Hiscock, the Adonis OF New
York politics, is very polite and reason
ably communicative.
William Walter Phelps talks well and
freely in very friendly way, and if the
report is consideratc and intelligent he
generally sends the writer q letter OF
thanks.
JAY GOULD
will talk freely to reporter whom he
knows to be intelligent and trustworthy.
Tim reporter must understand thorough
~ what he wants to know. He viii get
no helpif he does not understand the
subject about which he seeks informa-
ton. After an off-hand conversation
the reporter will, perhaps, if the inter
view is an important matter, SIT down IN
the fnancier's library and write 1t out
IL is then submitted to Mr.. Gould, who
may suggest erasures or alterations IN
the phraseology. He talks freely,
at times almost eloquenuy, but
has rural habit of dropping the final
g's in participates. Thus he says goln',
eanin', &c. He is surrounded by flow
ers winter and summer, whether IN his
home on Fifth avenue or at his mansion
at Irving on-the- Hudson. He walks up
and down his library in mid-winter in
haling the perfume of rose perhaps as
rare and costly as the flower in Zenobias
hair. His head is bent meditatively az
he PAGES to and fro and discusses themes
of weighty financial import. He ex-
presses himself concisely in correct Eng
lish.
FRANK BELLEw, THE ARTIST.
The death of Frank Bellew, whose
real name was Francis II. Temple Bel
lew, recalls a curious circumstance IN
connection with certain criminal proceed
ines in tho Tombs in which Bellew was
an important witness. Bellew was tho
son of an Irish country gentleman, and
a true Bohemian in the best sense Of the
word. He was disinherited on account
of marrying against bis fathers wish.
Before coming to this country he worked
for the London Punch, and WAS init
matcly acquainted with all the great
lights Of that periodical, such as Leech,
Doyle, Mark Lemon, Shirley Brooks,
Tenniel Kenny, Meadows, and Charles
Keene. In this country he was a habitue
in the old days of the Pfahf saloon. where
used to congregate men like William
Winter, Charles Gaylor, Fitzjames
O'Brien, and many others.
Bellew at that time was drawing for
HaTper's publications, and his signature
"B" or Bellew" enclosed in TRAN
guar has been familiar to the American
public for the past thirty five years, as
there was scarcely an illustrated weekly
or monthly to which he had not con-
tributed both as a writer and an artist.
A Turk, Oscanyan Ehendi, sold about
two years ago short story purPorting
to be written by himself to a well-known
newspaper syndicate. It was afterwards
discovered that the story was by the late
Fitzjames O'Brien. and had appeared in
Harper's monthly over thirty years ago.
The syndicate Immediately had Oscsn-
yon arrested for larceny, and the case was
heard ut the Tombs before Judge Scion
b. Smith. The accused stoutly denied
the charge, and when confronted with
the evidence of his guilt boldly said that
Fitziames O'Brien had stolen the manu-
script from him.
Bellew was then called as a witness
and created startling sensation by testi-
flying that ho was rooming with OBrien
when the latter wrote the story, who had
also discussed the plot with him. Under
severe cross examination many interest
ing facts came out Ill connection with
the peculiar character of O'Brien. The
case was sent to the grand jury, who
found an indictment against Oscanyon,
but it never came to trial, and the pro-
ceedings were afterwards withdrawn.
UNDER SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE.
In this iconoclastic and agnostic age it
is remarkable that such large measure
of superstition should still prevail among
cultivated and intelligent persons. Spir-
itualism has by no means been relegated
TO the limbo OF popular delusions.
adams Express Company " is name
that is known perhaps as widely as any
other in the United States. The business
that began with wagon or two and an
energetic driver, who not only drove his
horses, but his business as we'll, is now
second only TO the post-offce, perhaps
not even to that in the bulk and value of
the goods and money it transports. How
many people know that "Old Adams"
as he came to be called before he quit
the business and his life together, was a
firm and ardent believer in spiritualism ?
How many know that he transacted his
business from the very beginning under
the influence OF spiritual medium ?
DRs. KENNY AND CRowELL.
DR.. Crowell, OF Clinton avenue,
Brooklyn, is even a more remarkable in
stance of person allowing himself to be
guided by so-called spintualistic agen-
cies. A physician of great ability he
went to California in the days of the gold
excitement and there realized a large
fortune. He became a convert to
spritualism, and for many years
has kept professional medium,
Or. Kenny, to advise him as to In
vestments and financial enterprises. He
claims that ON one occasion he received
advices from the spirit world in regard to
the mining market which enabled hin to
clear 100000, where if he had followed
theopinions of so called experts he would
have lost an amount larger than the
figures given. DR.. Kenny is a
trance medium of the finest type,
according to the authorities in
and has wholesome
contempt for observation-disclosures. rap
ping and table-tipping experts, and
professional mind-readers and clair
voyants. The two doctors usually in
dulge in one seance per dicm, and COM
NIT to writing the many communications
which are given by the mediumlstic