Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-06-03
NEW YORK LETTER.
prooRArIor-DAy. rHE END OF SPRING.
AND THE RUNAWAY MANIA.
The Duke Of Marlborough After Wealthy
widows -Blsnhsie Palace Ken
OF Wall Street. Eto,


Decoration-day in New York chops of
tuddenly the wet end Of the indoor sea-
son. ID is not a far.fetched statement TO
say that society and art are standing on
the docks with their csrpet-bags in their
hands waiting for the fog to rise so they
can run away from their country.
Europe is becoming the objective point
of politics, polemics and fashion. III a
man wants to get the nomination for
President no prctends to hide away IN
Berlin, where only the foreign CORE
spondeRts can find him. II a manager
wants to produce splay he goes to Lon
don, where be can work his country
through the cable. II a belle wants to
make a match she hires pension close
10 Paris. II Mr.. Ingersoll wants to keep
himself before the public he addresses
his letters 70 the Right Hon. w. u.
Gladstone, NJ. Z.
In no profession or walk OF life is the
runaway mania so prevalent as among
thestric folk. Some OF our best known
actresses have been going over every
season for ten and fifteen years. They
wait till decoration-dsy, throw few
flowers on their cOuntrys graves, and
then, lao for Piccadilly.
IL you were to ask me what is going
on IN New York ct this moment ! should
say, packing.
The few managers and artists who will
remain over are amusing themselves
suing each other for breach Of contract.
DO Won wonder so many Of them run
awayY 1t is 70 escape litigation and di-
yorce proceedings.
When the season closes up and the OK
element il over Pauline yawns and
throws herself back in her cushioned
char. "Whot are you going to do
now 2" asks her manager. Heaven
only knows" che replies. Il think I'll
apply for a separation.
DECoRATIoS-DAY
here begins with the Star Spangled Ban
ner and ends with Bob Ingersol The
town is full Of Methodists and Quakers
attending the General Conference and
the annual meeting. They saw the
Seventh regiment in the morning and
heard the modern Pagan IN the evening.
Flowers OF the field in the forenoon and
flowers Of rhetoric at night They went
to the Metropolitan Opera House with
their umbrellas and satisfied their curl
Oslty.
Nir. Ingcrsoll is filing considerably
more space than usual in the public eye
Ills literary manager, Mr.. Thorndyke
lice, advertises him now as the man
who has "crossed swords with Glad
stone"
/ always knew what a long bow the
Colonel drew, but his sword is three
thousand miles long. He has an In
ftinctive repugnsnce to using o weapon
that will reach some Of his antagonists
st home.
This reminds me that the World, in
pursuance Of its star policy, has en-
caoed Mr. lngersoll for one occasion as
police-court reporter.
The group OF Star reporters includes
the Rev. De Witt Talmage, Henry George,
and The Modern Pagan.
The only curious part OF this exhibit
j. that each one Of these specialists
fctches his specially into the courtroom
and talks round 1t. Thus Mr.. Talmage
measured the police justice with his or
tuodoxy, Mr.. George measured 1t with
his land system, and Mr.. Ingersoll will
probably adjust it to the massive intel
let which could write better book than
the Bible.
STAR REPORTING.
Now if the World should add Felix
Adler to its staff he would show that
what our police system needs is improved
tenement-houses, and if Anthony Com
stock is asked to join the corps he would
show that the defects of popular justice
are owing to the influence of high art on
email boys, and if DIR. McGlynn got In
later YOU would find that the police court
system could never be made perfect until
tue ecclesiasticism Of the Church was
kept out of politics.
Thus tho Star reporting system makes
every man see the thing he reports
through the glasses of his own hobby,
and the one advantage that tho regular
trained reporters of the World have over
these casuals is that they have no hob
bles
As l write this Cappa's and Gilmore's
bands are making the streets ring The
citizen soldiers are out. There is a
strong odor OF Glacs pervading the town.
The windows Of Broadway are white
with huttering handkerchiefs. So the
summer comes in with hey-day crash.
Tomorrow the train Of life will be on a
side-track aud the preparations for the
vacation will begin. But the police
mills viii grind on just the same. sup
pose.
Charles will have on his lawn-tennis
shoes and woollen shirt, and Pauline will
DE in cheese cloth. But people will go
on getting killed by the electric wires,
and Bob Ingersoll will 90 on writing that
fame article, and Mr.. Blaine will still be
In the field. and servant girls will pour
kerosene On lighted Goals, and the Build
ing Department will see by the light OF
the burning tenements that there are no
fre-escapes. And the busy world will
Jog pretty much the same, for men must
work and women must sweep.
THE DUKE AND THE WIDOWS.
There is no peace for the Duke OF
Marlborough. The gossips won't let him
alone. They persist in it that he is con-
templating matrimony, and private adj
wees from London tend to confirm the
suspicion. Since the Duke has been in
America no word has escaped his lips
about his plans, but it is known that
Blenheim Palace, the Dukes home, is
being swept and cleaned and put in con-
dition for the coming of some one of i'm
portance. All the world loves a duke,
even il he is a very, very bad duke.
as Marlborough is, but when the
duke is lover rs well, he be-
comes doubly interesting. Those who
are ou tait in matters concerning the
heart say that the Duke has actually
asked rich widow to become his wife.
Mrs. Louis Hammersley, blonde, and
beautiful, with $1,000, 900 in her own
right, is said 10 be the woman. Mrs.
Marshall ID. Roberts, trihe mature, but
worth 500. 900, 600, aud the possessor of
rare jewels and an enyied social position,
is said to be the woman. Mrs. Susan
Stevens. worth a good many times her
weight in gold, still charming although
grandmother, is said TO be the lucky
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