Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26
MURRAY'S MUSINGS.
No Dinner Like the Country Dinner-Moy-
ing Gold and Silver Bricks-General
Sherman at the Show-Pittsburger at


New York Hotels.
rFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT
"A FTER all there Is nothing like sitting down
TO an old-fashioned country dinner" said
a well-fed. portly Washingtonian who has been
spending week or two in New York. He had
just been dined at the Manhattan Club in the
magnificent Stewart mansion. "Give me some
nice country spare ribs or fried chicken, country
style, with vegetables from the garden accord
ing to the season." he continued. ''and you may
have your club dinner, with its unknowable
delicacies. prepared heaven knows how, its
choice wines and its interminabe eordials and
cigars and gossip. Let me look out upon the
quiet fields of waving grain, upon tine natural
forests, the rocks, the shimmering stream. the
meadows-anything rather than upon brick and
stone reverberating with the roar of cabs and
carriages and cars Perhaps Pm trife old
fashioned in my tastes. Call it so. l am at
least sincere.
This New York life is too fast for me. New
Workers follow pleasure with the same spirit
they follow business. They do it with a rush.
They never seem to let up I've been meet
ing men in Wall street during the day who are
energetically pushing their business, and. the
same men 1 have met ut the clubs at night
pushing pleasure with the same snap and vim.
Their business is the most exciting kind, too,
and one would naturally think the wear and
tear of it could be removed or reduced only by
rest. How men can live long in such a constant
whirl Is beyond me. They don't? Well. see
most of them are premarurely gray. And yet
and drinkers, and are altogether men of steady
nerve. But such 4 life would kill me within q
year. Too fast! Too fast!
Fads of the Footlights.
THE fads of actresses and actors form a curl
GUS study Nearly every person on the
stage any length of time betrays leaning to
some particular thing outside of her or his pro-
fession, conspicuous weakness. The lovely
Sadie Martinot, whose imported dresses excite
the woman world, has q weakness for her pretty
self. She uses paper with an etching of herself
in one corner. George Cayvan has a collec-
tion of thirty scrap books. Emma Carson and
Marie Jansen like cats. Rose Coghlan spends
q great deal of time on ! couple of big dogs
given her by Lester Wallack. Herbert Kelcey,
who divides time with Bob Hiliard as Stage
beauty, never wears an oyercoat. Lille Allis-
ton has rare bric-a-brac picked up in the
Orient. Minnie Palmer goes in for etchinEs.
Stewart Robson is said to love old books.
Francis Wilson is crazy on the subject of
Napoleon. He has big bronze bust of the
Emperor. given him by some Columbia College
students whom he coached in amateur theatrc-
ais. Wilton Lackaye has unique collection
Of fencing foils. Langtry has many fine pho
tographs with autographs. Mollie Thompson
is proud OF her four banios. Harry EdwardeS
goes in for bugs He is an authority on ento-
mology. Mines Levick is in love with pipes.
Quite popular fad with the varieties is rum.
IL also AFFECTS quite number of the legitimate.
Wealth in Bricks.
WHEN an express wagon stops at the Safe
Deposit Company's vaults, in the Equit
able building, little crowd gathers about it.
For in few minutes small truck load of sill
yer or gold bars, or rather bricks, comes up the
grating and is trundled around the corner to
the wagon. The latter is htted with a heavy
steel wire cage from end to end. and high
enough for meE to stand upright within. The
silver bricks are ingots. weighing about %
pounds each, and look like so much tin. The
little truck is guarded by bank official or two
and an extra expressman, who make up with
laborers half a dozen men. Add from 1O to 20
messenger and telegraph boys, and men and
women of the passing crowd, and you will have
the necessary number of persons it takes to
transfer these precious Jumps of metal from
the vaults to the wagon.
These bricks are not pretty, but they have a
wonderful attraction for a crowd. And such a
the expressmen were removing a dead body.
When the bricks are gold you can tell it with
out getting close enough to see the material,
for the public mouth is little wider open and
public voice is little more hushed, than
usual.
General Sherman's Youthfulness.
rs proscenium box at the Casino the other
evening sat General Sherman. That griz-
z!ed old veteran was as chIpper as boy of 20.
He was surrounded by ladies. as is usually the
case whenever he appears in public. Perhaps
he felt younger than usual on this particular
occasion, because the last scene in the poor
potpouri opera Of "Poor Jonathan is laid at
West Point, and some 40 pretty young women
in full cadet regimentals went through a series
of military evolutions. The scene is from the
water battery, looking up the romantic Hud-
son, and is certainly beautiful as well as
a faithful one.
No wonder the gallant old General sat the
play out, and no wonder he applauded the
lovely and well drilled cadets For it must
have reminded him of his own youthful career
of study and drill ana lOvemaking upon that
same spot. though his companions in arms
probably had not the same attractions as these
companions in arms. If it didn't make him
think of the long and brilliant military career,
of the many trying scenes OF camp and field.
the bold campaigns of strategy and blood, that
have intervened since then. there were those in
that crowded house who thought of it. There
isn't another old man in New York. by the way,
who enjoys life equal to old General Sherman.
Women at the Hotels.
A NEW YORK paper sent a male and
female reporter around to the first
class hotels, the latter in the guise of lady
without baggage seeking admission as guest,
and ascertaIned that none of these hostelries
would receive a woman unaccompanied by
gentleman. That is, unless they knew who she
was. 1t demonstrated, first, that a woman
alone at a public resort is regarded with sus-
picion; second, that an honest, respectable
woman alone in New York il likely to en-