Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-06-15

NOTABLE PEOPLE SEEN UNDER uN-
EXPECTED CIRCUMSTANCES.
Ons Of the Famous Six uundred-A Ro-
nance OF Crime-The Finest and
Fattcst--Slow Banks
rcorrc.pondcnee o, the Richmond DisDatch.l

tcorrcspondenee OF the Richmond Dispatchl
NV York, June Il. 1890. =.
A very ordinary-loOking gentleman stoou
| on the steps Of tho BrevoOrt House not
| long ago. started n the sight OF MN,
even this harmless. refined. almost weas-
willed sort of person. Why? Because ne
was not person but n personality. q per-
sonage, if you prefer the word. had seen
/ him before. few thousand miles away;
when he had come from the hot SANDS OF
/ Africa. brOnzed as q statue and crowned
with glory. On the battlefield TINS
plain. refined gentleman is quite another
sort of creature. lie rcd his Queens
troops with the dashing leadership
/ that fill tho soldiers with tery al
miration AZ the time and afectionate pride
ever after. He it was who received the
sword Of the conquered Arab, Egypts
vould-be deliverer. That was about eight
/ years ago, and Colonel Deury Lowe tthet rs
/ his name) looked a youngish man then. 80
he did on the steps Of tho Brevoort House;
| vet a few days ago he was serving on the
committee in London who are providing
/ for tho veterans who survived the famous
! charge at BalGclava thirty-six years ago,
and Colonel Deury Lowe was one OF tho
three officers remaining who took part III
| that fatal but brilliant charge. SO much
| for unpretentious appearance.
SALVATION ARMY MISSION.
Tho Salvation Army have great work
| before them in New York, where they are
! kicking up a bobborv this week. You
! guess ! mean in stripping sin Of its veil of
! self-righteousness? Not bit of it. Thei-
game is 10 veil our nude statues with the
pocket-handkerchiefs OF army holiness.
Fact. Look what they did in London
the other day. The army arranged for
! field-day in the Crystal Palace end
grounds. as the Odd-Fellows and similar
stipulated that they should DO allowed
to cover up such of the statues as they
directed to 40 as TO turn them into a con-
dition of "decency." Perhaps tho generals
| on this side ero not 80 terribly suspicious
of the weak morality of their American
/ rank and file. Sad to think that the sight
/ of the Venus de Medici will demoralize all
| the holy warriors from colonies to corpo-
rails. True, they don't see much physical
! beauty IN their camp, but that cold
marble should play the deuce with the
enthusiasm for the decalosue and the
tam BOURNE is shocking. Yet there is a
! great mission for them here in Gotham.
! We have hundred statues standing
exposed in the public thorouehfarcs
which bring the mantling bushes on the
| cheek of tho pure art lover. From orr
|
| Broadway their cruelty pillOrlzed ghosts
cry aloud and shout for tigleayes that
| shall hide them from chin TO toe. Ihey
nre so ashamed of the nakedness OF the
sham that makes-believe they are the true
children Of art. Strange stories could the
seats in Central Park tell if their tongues
were Ioosed. Ought it TO no gateless the
lone nIGbt through Ought tho trustful
maidens TO be beguiled into lovers walks
by moonlight and no officers 10 forbid
| their entrance, even in the hours when no
good can come Of strOlllng.
ATYP1cAL NEw YORK STORY.
A free country hos many problems. But
| tho story | was thinking of was not Of that
| kind. had taken q seat TO watch the pro-
cession of gay carriages roll along the drive
| in the afternoon sunshine. Can you
ohlige ne with Light" As I handed ii |
was surprised to recognize in the speaker a
man bad last seen in very different set
| of circumstances. He was the central
| figure in az sensational drama of New
York life as ever furnished the public with
q nine-days' wonder. IL was all IN the
papers. so | merely sketch tho story as
| this pleasant spoken person told II that
| memo rable dav in the witness-chair in one
| of the New York courts. He told It as
cheerfully ss if 1t did not concern him IN
! the least. He was q bank cashier, got
I
! life. was persuaded by n lawyer. his bro
ther-in-law, to break the bank rather than
steal small sums. lie took, think it was
! $50, 600, perhaps n larger sum, lntrusted
| the bulk of it TO his relative TO invest, and
went to Europe with the balance. Fast
| life there soon squandered It. he
| drew on his friend, but only small
sums came. Then came the announcement
! that the money was lost in stock-exchange
| speculations. Then starvation in Europe,
| with prospects of prison. Then the resolve
| TO confess all. mako a bargain with tho
| bank not to be hard on the thief IN con-
! sderation Of the thiof's promise 70 help
! tho bank in squeezing the alleged lost mo-
| nev out OF tho brOthcr-in-law. Then the
arrest of the latter. the evidence of tho
| thief (Which iswhat | heard, the imprlson-
ment of the brOther-in-law for number or
wears, and my involuntary temporary COM
panionship with the hero Of the play, en-
! loving his luxurious liberty in our glorious
park.
| BLOCKED BY THE FINEST.
Ours are ":.the finest So they call them
selves. and if our policemen don't know
| all about il. who on earth does? That set
| ties it. / watched them on their grand
| show-day march, the day after Decoration
| day. It was Saturday morning-the busiest
| dav in the week-now the half-holidav
| has begun. Broadway was badly crowded
without them, yet our finest" had tho
nerve TO put the whole traffic TO a stand
still, throw the whole business part Of the
| CITY into confusion, waste everybody 5
precious time. and all this simply TO make
an exhibition of themselves. the most
prominent feature being paunch, az seen
! in profile. They certainly have the
finest nerve to do this. and the coarsest
| waists TO carry. Why do we employ 40
many If a couple of thousand can be spared
to leave the city unprotected and to IN
crease its inconvenience simply to gratliy
their vanity! Why don't they play circus
in some field outside the CITY? Those are
some of the riddles no fellow but Lord Dun
dreary ever could understand.
REFORM NEEDED.
While the police were blocking the prin-
cipal street of the principal city at the
busiest hour of the busiest day | and
thirty-three other nero x-paying citizens
were standing in line in awell-known bank
YEARLY waiting our turn with the solitary
paying-teller. Half an hour of dismallest
dragging, with patience tying knots IN its
tailin sheer despair. One wouldlike to know
whether il is poverty. impending bank
ruptcy, or lofty contempt for the American
people that prompts popular bank to pro-
vide only one teller on the weekly payday.
They manage these things much better IN
eTste Europe. There would be riot first
and prompt withdrawal of custom next
- INV EurOnean bank treated its customers