Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-21
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Correspondence Of tue Richmond Di,psseh.l

few months ago was tho hey. Father
Edward Mc0lynn. His name was in the
newspapers constantly. A score OF re-
porters watched every movement that he
made Every sentence that dropped
from his lips was eagerly grabbed mp and
printed in the newspapers. Tie was o
hero in his way, because he had dehed
the Church Of Rome, crossed swords
with Leo, and the battle, to say
the least of IL, was q drawn one.
"A Was not very dinieult then for
him 70 crowd Cooper Institute with
four or five thousand eager and bowling
men and women who believed in the sill
Yer toncued orator, and who seemed to
thnk him a new Crusader. He was on
the top wave Of popularity, and al New
Work. which includes the rest OF the
world. from this standpoint, seemed to
Ice al his feet. Suddenly, however, he
awoke one day and found, TO use the
33gfois of the Bowery, that he was I'm
The SOUP" and to-day his name Is not
even mentioned in any OF the great
daily newspapers. a handful OF men
and women sill believe IN him and At
tend has lectures but there is no crush
nov, and no jostling and pushing for
seats. lie has simply dropped out OF
life 80 far rs New York is concerned,
and viii romain so until he gets tired Of
d. and creates new sensation. saw
Father McGlynn on the street TO day,
broad of shoulder, deep ii chest, a
Hercules in build, with face beamiDg
with good nature. and eyes that danced
like an Irish girls in love, but nobody
knew him. lie had simply been pushed
aside IN the great rush and hurly-burly,
because he has hsd his say and his day,
end has not stood the test oil novelty
that New Workers demand.
CYRUS W. FIELD.
Right behind him followed another
man equally as well known, whose name
j. household world. whose contribu-
lions 70 mankind have made them many
times his debtor hut who elbowed his
wav through the crowd Of men and boys
without attracting the slightest atten-
ton. just wear ego his name was in
all the newspapers. He was then
II the head aud front Of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company. lie
more than any other man had given
aNfh OK lLn lbhru 1oiAAA
Transit system. He was bull in Wall
street when 1t paid to be bullish, and IA
bear when the lambs were fat and Juicy.
10 was nothing unusual 10 see crowd
Of ten or twenty brokers at his heels as
he hurried from one private room to
another in his Office, while oil the time
the stOck-tcker kept mp It's merry little
melody of tick, tick, tick, as he raked
tho dollars in. But, like the traditional
pitcher, lie went TO the we'll once too
often. AMI IN twinkling his Inagnih-
cent fortune was lost, aud bo was re-
duced to the dircst extremes. This is
the reason that this man who gave the
best dinners that wero given IN town,
who speonlated always wildly but surely,
who owned a miiliOn-dOllar country resi-
dence, whose yacht ploughed the North
river and took the wave from no OppO-
nent. came TO his greatness, and by the
same test he fell lie now walks through
Wall street without follower. The
bsnquet-hAlls that once knew him so
we'll are now deserted. The jolly little
brokerno longer follows at his heels. The
steam Yacht has been sold. The million
dollar country residence is mortgaged
for al it is worth. In the pdt0is OF the
Bowery. he is lin the soup"
His name ? Oh, yes Cyrus W. Field d!
TOM JAMES.
II Won happen 10 be in the ncighbor-
hood Of the Forty-second-street depot
shout ! o'clock of an afternoon and cast
YOUR eyes up to the big plate-glaSs win
dOWs of the Safe-DepOsit Company
wherein is stored the Vanderbilt bonds
and jewels Won will see sitting Mt desk
"a well-bult, round-shouldered, gray
haired man who few years ago was the
idol Of the Republican politicians, and
the ideal postmaster OF tins city. 1t
is Tom james, no who sat in Gar
fields Cabinet as Postmaster-Gene-
raj You can tell from his dress and
from the placid look on his face that he
lives well ami is at peace with all the
world. But the life he is leading now as
the president of the Safe-Deposit Com
plnv Is not the one which he Graves, and
which suited him admirably during
the stormy days before Grover Cleve-
lands rotund form rose upon the
HORIZON of our national politics.
in the patOis Of the Bowory he is
in the soup" He is no longer con-
suited by politicians. In fact they
ray no attention to him. lie has hard
lv enough influence to get police
mon On the force or a brakeman on the
Now York Central railroad system. Five
years ago he could have placed an army
of dependents IN power, and his word
was law from Lake Erie to Montau6
Point. New men and new measures
have crowded him oil the track. His
bank account is better than 1t was five
wears ago, but he is not happy. Floun- /
derng "in tine soup IS not conducive /
& happiness in either man OF woman.
..rr Il TURN TIE KALEIDOSCOPE AGAIN. !
In the crowd of loiterers who passed I
No and down Broadway last Saturday !
afternoon was short. thlck-sot red /
faced man Of sixty years OF ace. lie /
zee nel TO be out Of place among the /
gavly-dressed women, with Their new /
spring clothes, the odor OF yiOlets, and /
the Beau Brummels OF our later day. /
Yet in his time he was king, If not IN I
name. at least in power. II WAS Tom 4
Murphy, ex-collector of the port OF New
York. He was one Of Grants cronles, a
splendid machine politician, Il man who /
grew fat on the public service, who never
drank anything but champagne-uot that
he liked Il, bat because it was expensive,
and il was his boast for years that he
spent 800 a day every day Of his life
for wine for himself and bis friends
From his appearance now | incline 10
the belief that he has changed from wine
to ISeer. at any rate. although he made
and unmade scores of men, be Is to-day
practically without a friend In the
pato,s OF the Bowery he is '"in the
soup" 1t WAS Murphy who brought
General Grant to Long Branch. and he
gave that summer resort lis first great
boom. lie was the master there as
wall as In thu cnsinrn. hnneA and cverY |