The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-22
OUR NEW YORK LETTER
WHAT A GEETLEKAN STROLL R
SEES on TIE STREET.
Ideas Of the Day on Passing Events, and
Thoughts for Our Richmond People.
Tho Gay Metropolis and Its Varied
Pictures.

Thoughts for Our Richmond People.
Tho Gay Metropolis and Its Varied
Pictures.
New YORK. January 20-The soul
proprietor" of daily paper, (such IS.
P.,s" as "Jeemes" Gordon Bennett Of the
New York Hero}d, Colonel Page Nc
Carty of the Richmond DAILY TINES,
splendid "Old Uncle Childs" ofthe Phila-
delpbia Ledger, and lots more OF you
through the country, say the soul pro-
prietor" as above mentioned, has really
nothing 10 do. That's a fact-Gbso'u'dy
nothing. Occasionally you all' drap down
from your country seats in summer, or
brown stone fronts in winter, or cable
from London or Paris. shake EN- up,
shake 'em up,") to see how your brain
slaves are getting on. If. by chance, one
Of the latter "P. D's' misspells word,
way goes half OF his weeks salary, or a
ffis dogqr bill at least is deducted as a
finc Now we re all liable 20 make mis-
takes in this world of ours.
never knew, intimately, ont one
fellow in all my life who never did make
q mistake Modesty fOrbids me from
telling your $4,000 readers Who that
youth is but to you. Mr Editor of the
DAILY TIMES, I will impagt the 3amc.
It is Fadof. it IS. Don't tell any one
especially your wife or your sweetheart
bless their darling hearts Women keep
secrets very muCa better though than We
fellows can. tha.'s "as sure =; eggs Is
eggs" ! neyeE knew an "old gai' yet
who wouldn't swear By all that was
good and holy that the false head-ralls
she bad in her mouth were her own
natural number two mOlars, or that she
had ever used the Imperial Hair Regcn.
orator (to be found at all respocta lie
druggists warranted 10 restore 20 the
oldest young giddy thing alive the color
Of her hairas il was when sweet sixteen.
Tell me after that that woman caut
keep secret. PsAaw | know better.
Idigrtssci. meant to have gotten 90
once % "the main point rs nothing
more nor less than this TO write weakly
(beg pardon; | didn't mean 60 DE- funny,
Tut can't help IT, say the mental strain
upon The brain worker lhars one that
- the modern Wash. Irving 90" Charlie
Dickens OF the present day Is appalling,
rs irightful 70 contemplate Most Of Gus
c'u-' is good are overW0rkcd. undcrpaid,
and We don't Ike IT, tell you are don't,
and Sc won't stand H. We propose TO
strife.
"This court means to pick out q very
delicate opponent, though when be
strikes-yOu can bet high on that-l
fellow whose legs are automatically
.haky Think Of "an author Of my kala-
BASH working assiduously for three and
half whole mental hours week for a
paltry huudred-dollar blu The very
thought of 10 sickens me All my friends
say to me, especially those who want to
borrow from twenty-five cents 20
half-they all know never carry
much more than that amounl
" FaloG, dear boy, you're immense,
you are; we always knew YOU had talent.
Why in the world didn't y0u do this
seventy or eighty years ago Then you
would have reaped llurels lneyCr saw
laurel in all my life, and wouldn't know
70 from potato vine if did see one)
Yes, old boy, reaped laurels by the bushcl,
and coined ducats by the CARLOAD
Then, too, what an actor you would
have made Too bad. too bad that the
stage has lost in YOU modern Talma, or
a Frederick la Maitre. and that your
wonderful literary talents, alas, were SO
long kept dormant Naturally modest
A. am, you've no idea how al this de-
lights me I'm almost tich.ed 90 death.
though pretend not TO be Well these
dear kind souls are thee Invited 10
smile fifteen or sixteen times, and
Fadolf feels so sorry forp0or Joe Howard,
Olive Harper, Bill Nye, and tLe rest OF
EN-" that his sympathetic aca-. almost
bust,
am tree TO confess 'ha, .he DAILY
TINES IS q progressive journal Fadofi
not 10 Che confectionery trade. and !
he were he'd not present 10 with either
"tlly," broken candy ' or gum drops
In its Issue Of December 30ih The TINES
had IN large type, WE WANT 4 no
rEL' etc., etc. You 80 want % hOll,
and you want II just as soon as possible,
too. You. The InrEs man, know thc i'm
portance of what you suggest Continue
i0 impress upon me nina, VI your PEG
pie, very rich fellows as well as che
moderately welloG ones, .Li. first
class hotel IN Richmond, capable OF hold
Ing say BOO people. means in dollars %
va all several hundred thousand per
annum
Il means that thousands of wealthy
people, who now pass through (bn. never
larry la your beautiful city because you
nave no really first-class h0tei there}
would be only too glad 10 make Rich
mond resting place. Your dry-goods
men would soon find additional dollars
in theiS pockets; your farmers home con
sumption would be largely increased (;
Che Golfers OF your butchers would be
illed, and your real estate men would
have reason to bless the day when your
new hotel was finished Keep 10 up,
Abrawang," as the man in the play says,
" Keep it up" Wdke up tt6 sleeper5i A
few such energetic men as Major Ginier
Of You can lind 'em) ought % star, the
bali FadOf himself promises that ne