The evening world., 1889-01-31
BUZZ OF THE BOULEVARD.

1Or the ufSt Time since hODeft uhITeIlb COll-
fnement on ex-Mayor Hewitts estate at Ring
wood, N. j., there is a credible suggestion that
he is not suffering from paresls, a form Of men,
tai alienation which is incurable. but from a
more common phase Of cerebral affection
which IL not only within the durable reach of
medical science but which in his case has been
practically conquered. The material reasons
given for this belief are letters which have lately
been received from the deposed railroad king by
friends OF his in this city. These are all dated
frankly from lingwood; are all models of tcrse
sense and conference; are all written, without the
slightest alteration, in the peculiar chirography
of Mr.. Garrett, and in nil there is merely an in
cidcntal but still a plain though sad refe cncc to
his affection. The strongest of these missivcs IL
addressed to q gentleman who IN noted for his
love and knowledge of hunting dogs, and who
has been selected AZ one of the judges
in the forthcoming Boston Bench Show.
In the course of a beautifully written letter. Of
four, pages. dated from Ringwood and bearing
mark of Jan. 23, Mr.. Garrett congratulate the
canine, expert upon his appointment, speaks, OF
enjoyable hunting excursions OF the past, makes
the field, and after II brief but plniptive rciCI-
ence to the present monotony of his life, speaks
hopefully of being sufficiently recovered to nm
dertake a European VOYAGE n the, SPRING. MIR.
CARROTS friends contend that his mind was
simply oyertopped, by, a succession and excess of
troubles. II ~ only four years since his aged
mother, while driving from the country seat,
Montobello, into Baltimore. was thrown from
her carriage and killed; fonr months later his
father died from n broken, heart; next followed
Jay Gould,s deception, whereby, while Garrett
was in mid-occan, the Baltimore aud Ohio Tel
egraph Company was gobblCd up for ~. 0OO,-
600 less than IL would have brought in the Lon
don market, and finally, when the young mill
ionaire was recovering from. these blows, his
brother Harrison was drowned from his yacht
in the waters of the Chesapeake.
Two handsomely attircd women OF marked
beauty of absolutely opposite types, with a
little girl toddling between them, walked along
Broadway yesterday afternoon. As they passed.
men and women whispered to one another and
turned to take another look. But the two charm-
ing promenaders were apparently Obvious to
the attention they attracted, and had eyes only
for the little long-ulstCred child whose footsteps
they directed. The taller of the two, who was
enveloped from neck to toes in sealskin, had
bright blue eyes, q lovely complexion. and .
great mass of Colleen hair; whose CLINT evil
IDENTIFY was not duG, to any bleaching process.
heavy coils Of her hair were dark. The blonde
was Lillian Russell, the soprano. The brunette
was once a %favorite of the stage. Then she was
Kate Ethel, the comtralto, and n valuable mem
Der OF Coi. McSanlps company. Nov she is in
architect, who when he won her, was Col. Nc
Csull's business. man. The tot the two lovely
women were guiding, is Lillian Russells BARN,
cherished none the less because the falthlcss
Teddy Solomon IL her father.
Every weekday morning, as the bell in Trinity
stceple tolls nine times, II man, evidently aged,
but with his q feet and 3 inches of framework
held erect, his fuce without n wrinkle and his
gray hair and mustache of vigorous growth,
walks briskly into the Western Union building
OH lower Broadway. There he remaIns until tie
afternoon is well advanced. At 4. 80 O'Clock to
the minute he is in the Aston House. where the
dispenser of liquids, without any instructions,
prepares for him a rye toddy. lie walks to the
corner of Barclay street and Broadway, only a
step away, where an old public hickman opens
the door of his waiting vehicle and. without IL
word being exchanged, drives his passenger to
u handsome residence III East IWeu:y-thiTd
street. That il part of the daily routine of DIR.
Norvin Green, President of the Western, Union
Telegraph Company. He onfesses TO only sixty
years of age and his looks give crcdcnce to his
words, but his intimate friends say he is nearly
seventy-tiye years old, and they make the state
ment with pride. Dr., Green still holds the
active MANAGEMENT of the great corporation he
presides over, but he lives well, never allowing
the hinges OF his humanity TO become rusted.
When he was a practising physician in ken
named james G.. Blaine. lie travelled on horse
then and in that state that he obtained an own
| crship in the old House Telegraph Company,
which eventually led TO his being the chief man
in the telegraph system of the country.
DR.. Green claims that he gave Thomas A.. Edi-
WA 'HS A'Nh '''Nh we va
of his successful career, to which, az is well
known, the Western Union Company has largely
contributed. Edison had been bothering the
officers of the Company with telagraplir
devices they had no need OF. He came
into the = Office one day when it was
impossible to obtain communication be-
tween New York and Albany and the seat of the
difficulty could not be located. He was banter
ingly invited to remedy the trouble. He said he
could do 50 in two hours. lie was laughed at
and given two days for the task. His process
was very simple. He telcgraphed to the best
operator in Pittsburga and instructed him to tclc-
graph to the best operator in Albany. The latter
telegraphed down his New York line NJ far as ne
could, feeling his way from point TO point and
sending the results to the Pittsburg man, who
forwarded them to Edison. In less than one
hour Edison said to the anxious officials: The
break is two miles beyond Poughkeepsie." That
simple device insured his status with the West
ern Union people and won tor him a hearing i'll
all his schemes.
MISS WILCOX A MINNEAPOLIS RIFLE