Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-01-06
NEW YORK LETTER.
GREAT MgMoRTEs-PEgsoHs WHO
NEVER FORGET A FACE Oh FACT.
Prominent Nsn and Their Msmoriss-carry-
ing All Theft Esslness ia Their Hsads--
Great "studiss" Among Theatrical
Psople-Electrieal Feat
rconespoudeuce Of tho Richmond pisp.rhl


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tcorespOpdsnce OF tho Richmond Dispssch-l
NEw York, January 8, 1889.
Il don't remember !"
There are few ordinations more
often made by ordinary persons than
this one.
The business Of calculating and train
ing the memory IS now being carried on
in Sew York 10y large number of per-
sons who arc positively coming money
from their profession. There are seye-
ral professors IN New York who are over
run With pupils, who wish 10 improve
detective memories and who are willing
80 pay the person who will supply the
method. Bach Of these professors has
g. systom OF his own, and each of them
tayageiy insists that his is the only sure
system.
Phil. Armour, the great Chicago pork
packer, is said TO have remarked that a
good memory IS necessary 70 ono who
wishes TO succeed. This is perhaps n
tr.ic strong, and yet there is no lack Of
evidence to support the statement
Armour himself is an example Of what a
good memory can do.
ArMovB's MEMORY.
Hc is ms wonderful IN ms time as
Cardinal Hezzoiant' was IN his. lie IL
raid to carry thc s"a.i"tt detall OF hrs
imucnae business in tbs head He can
remember the date az well as Of small
bus.uc. transactions. lie knows the
namcs of pretty nearly al of his army
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rctentirer..4 ia natural pift. Ho re-.
members everything that be wants TO re-
member. hut says frankly that mo- dOcsu' {
know how bee does it, lie also possesses
tlc nft OF not remembering things no
docs not wish to remember. But then
that gilt Is not rare.
Jouy srRTsoS.
r., o,o,l,.~ lin, NJ businoss ia Jobn
c4-+.l.. ti.,. f,r,l.,,s +bootr,coI MANAGER
,io,r t,,,,' .tories orc tol3 o. tbo ev.
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L;s ,,.no. and tLcro ia ma ono who can
rr,cler ttIj a GOOD tbinG whom me seca II
~. ,,ol-o bottcr NEE of n tban Iobn Stet-
son N is said that if he we're 10 burn
ha books he could carry on ms business
without them. Inns ls too much TO be-
hcve, oil course, hut 10 certainly is True
that pretty nearly every de'au OF ms
BUSINESS IFS carried III MS memory, ana
that ne is Hile 10 80 carry il Is soineViinoS
OF vast assistance TO hiin'
NEW YORK MEN.
Most % New Yorks successful men
have Cooi memories There are good
many men who wish that of Jay Gould
was not 30 good. Cyrus w. Field, Rus
sol sage, Stephen -. White, Frank b.
Thurber. the big grocer q. II. Whit
pcv. the great iron-man Thomas @. Ac-
ton. ex-Treasurcr Of the United States
and president of tho New Amsterdam
Bank !. NJ. Hill and Henry Is. Abbey.
the theatrical MANAGERS; Commissioner
Sherman ex-Mayor vii
liam H. Grace Richard q. Croker, the
poss Oh AN l,euy V ia'' W., 49, ga Nv ~
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49, So0 C''l',,, oioot;on d;str;cts Inc.
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sluo' y 'l'9' =, ou''o. . "-'N -0""f'
men, "uo u0n ! 'o"n''
EA3EsAsD FACES.
In the matter OF remembering names
and faces. Clerk Wall. Of the Hoffman
House. is smd 10 beat any one in the
country. not excepting James q. Blaine,
who il an expert in that line Ex-Mayor
Abrgm =. Hewitt stands out in relief to
these as beiDO ono of the most promi-
mont menin New York and as having the
worsl memory.
Tho professional memory men say that
among public men and speakers for
GOOD. sn around retentiveness James q.
Blsine leads all the rest for he cannot
only remember dates, figures. and au-
tiroritios when debating. but in addition
be has q fHculty for remembering names
~, 40 &c 80 IL - TIA -
i've sTnloits in tina limo.
FOR flaohRs'
In the domain of figures Samuel >.
Randall when well, stood almost pre-
eminent His long service on those
committees in Congress that controlled
the finances of the nation gave him an
immense knowledge Of such matters,
which no retained without an effort 1t
was no uncommon thing for him to
mako long speeches without using notes
lie iuggled figures, running at one time
into millions of dollars and then into