Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18
ENVOI.
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

JAY GOULD has aged considerably in appear
ance since last year. His beard, which was
formerly black and glossy, is now quite gray.
DoNN PIATr. who is nothing If not eccentric
says the ordinary member of Congress cares
nothing for books-that he never had book
if he he had he would not be a member; there
fore, when any bill to assist what a prominent
Senator called them literary fellows is
brought before Congress it is promptly voted
down.
WILLIAM D. HowKLLs believes with An.
thony Trollope that a novelist should no more
wait for inspiration in his work than q shoemak-
er or tallow chandler. They both act upon the
principle that writing novels is purely mechani-
cal work, like writing lawyers briefs, for in
stance or bookkeeping.
THE bronze monument of Robert E. Lee at
Richmond. Va, will be unveiled in November
next. The pedestal is being built of New Eng
land granite, to the disgust of General Jubal
Early and numerous other "lost cause" irrecon-
cilables, who think it pollution to bring any
Yankee thing upon the sacred soil of the Old
Dominion.
The largest price offered for a Newport
cottage" was made by Mr.. Letter, Of Washing
ton. who will give $4,000 for the Gardner
Brewer place on Bellevue Avenue. The estate
contains l3 acres, and has fine water
front, but the cottage" is an old one, and
very modest one compared to those more re-
Gently built in Newport.
ALPHoN DAUDET had determined TO re-
main a bachelor. because he was afraid should
he make a wrong step in matrimony he might
dull his imagination; but meeting Mademoiselle
Julie Allard, who was a charming writer as
well as lovely woman, all his fears were re-
moved. His marriage has been very happy
one. His wife has been the light of his hearth,
the regulator of his work, and the discreet
counselor of his inspiration. There is not a
page that she has not revised, retouched and
enliveend.
JOHN n. B. LATRoBE is the oldest lawyer in
the United States practicing his profession.
He Is S6 years old; graduated at West
Point in 1922 at the head of his class; soon r e.
tired from the army and studied law; was ad.
mitted to the bar 65 years ago, and has
been in active practice every since. He is one
of the few survivors of the band of gentlemen
who took part in the splendid military and
civic display in Baltimore in honor of La Fay
cite in 1924 This summer Mr.. Latrobe has
gone on his annual trip to West Point. He is
the father of Ferdinand q. Latrobe, the present
Mayor of Baltimore, who has been six times
Mayor of that city.
MRS. MAcKAY was a young, pretty, dashing
widow when she attracted the attention of j.
W. Mackay, who was at the tIme miner work.
ing for "a q day. She married him, and when
Flood. O'Brien and Mackay struck the Bonanza
mine and became millionaires ten times over.
Mrs Mackay went to Paris and soon began to
flourish as the most brilliant and most extraya-
CANT American woman that has ever bloomed
in the gay capital of Republican France. Her
costumes were SO rich and expensive that even
Paris was dazzled and astonished. Diamonds
that an Empress might have envied were worn
in profusion by this splendid American. and