The Red Cloud chief., 1889-12-20

lights 20 tell lU-ked along the Battery
TN hours = day. or tore the reeking scalp
from -he mead OF his bosom friend or law
partner on Bowling Green. He was
proud OF Ms great wealth, much Of which
IL had inherited and much of which he
had made II Wall street.: proud OF his
record - Z bus mess man; proud of his
grand Fifth venue home: proud OF every
thing connected with John X. DolIinger.
He was also. as ! remarked. cold and
naughty. and during his whole life in
the metropolis he was never known to
stop on Broadway. between Fulton and
Ann streets. and buy q pair Of suspend
e-s OF the red-taced man who is in that
business there. Promptly at three
o'clock every afternoon his coachman
might have been seen waiting in front
OF his Office in Wall street with the tops
o: his boots turned down and a very stiff
spinal column. Exactly 1T 3:l5 o'clock
Mr.. DolIinrer appeared and without
shaking hands with the coachman. or
otherwise greeting him. stepped into the
carriage. which the man with the weep
ing willow boots drove rapidly to the
Fifth avenue mansion. with the assist
ance OF q pair ot beautiful chestnut
horses from which he tails had been
carefully removed before starting.
Old DoIlincer had a wife-Mrs. Dol
lincer. b was also cold. proud and
naughty. a. became the daughter Of a
Kill Won Hull and wife OF q Dollinger- In
fact there was nothing very aHabie
about either one OF them. A maiden
aunt. poor II both purse and spirit. once
came in from Stiuchetyhatchet. \. j..
and made them . six-weeks visit in De
cenbe- and January. and she used 10 say
when She got home that sometimes after
4 meal with the Dollincers, al which
She had asked for soup twice and drank
q little quietly ont OF her fnger-bow-.
that il was very pleasant and a great re-
lief 10 her 20 60 out on the stoop and as
sociate awhile with the cast-iron grif-
fms. She said she had never supposed
tina. c-itins could be SO sociable and
pleasant She mad always had an idea
from the way a griffin held back its
head and carried n jaw up n wore
is tail al half-mast hat IL was far from
warm in its affections or cordial IN its
but she said that after she had
eaten pie with her knife ten or fifteen
minutes a. her nephews table 1t was
surprising how pleasant and sociable
those iron --itfins could be.
There was another member of the Dol
linrer family daughter-an only
child. She was not As We're her parents.
Reared IN The frosty. gray atmosphere
OF the DolIinge- brcwn-stone front cold
storage warehouse. she was like a being
from another wo-ld-like b soft cloud
like basque flower among the snows-a
violet amid The April chill. Proud she
was. 10 be sure. but proud Of something
better thar wealth: and she was not cold
nor naughty. Her name was Amelia.
Her mother wanted her TO write IT with
the upper par. Of AZ exclamation point
roos-inr on the Sc but she refused.
She said that If she should ever write q
thin r~ed-covered book she would put the
w~eathe-cock on the e but that while
she STAYED in her right mind she could
never think OF il. She demonstrated
with her mother when she wrote her
name Mrs. Louise Kill Won kul Dollin-
ger-DoIlinge-, but Il didn't do any good
Arthur Graves was a poor artist he
had a studio in East Fourteenth street.
where he painted large. soulful pictures
and rot behind them and b-eathed low
when the landlord pounded on the door
for the rent That's about the only good
the pictures ever did him. because he
couldn't sell many and when he did sell
one he usually let the man get away
withou: paying him II Arthur Graves
could have paid his debts be wc.id have