Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-27
1.-THE INTERVIEWER"
A uumorous Picture of This Wonderful
American Newspaper-Man.
For the Dispatch.l

People are prone in the present age to
odiust the interviewer to that groove OF
expression whereupon Truth never so
much ma casts the shadow OF her immacu-
late train. This is a mistake. The inter
yiewer is welded TO Truth. and 1t is be-
cause of this relationship that he cannot
abide to see her going about. without any
clothes TO her back. he Is humanitarian:
Just az he would gather IN q naked
founding and acquaint 1T with q guise
more in Keeping with the customs OF mod,
ern civilization. so he taxes the NAKED
Truth wherever found and adorns it with
that chaste apparelling which enhances Its
effect and heightens its influence. Hence
il is that those accustomed TO look upou
truth in the normal state, or IN decollette
costume. so to speak, do not recognize her
when she beamsupon the world irradiatcd
bv the artistic resources of that matches
costumer the modern interviewer.
The Suburban Gusher. published at Avoir-
dupos-a town whose growth WITHIN the
last thirty years has been phenomenal
employs an interviewer OF this nineteenth
century uprightness. He was recently
sent ont 10 tap a few old settlers OF such
prehistoric facts as had become imbedded
in their recollection5. His ante-mortem
dissection Of Judge Mossbunker's memory
appeared thus in his notebook:
do I ricolleck this town thirty year
aco? Well. | reckon. Why, it war Mt
more'n a frog-pond. Yer could shuck
snakes out of City Hall Park AS fast as yer
kin dream gossip from cnu'ch sewn
suckle. Down Wonder, whGr CHESS Block
STAINS, wuz a Injin buryin-groun', an from
the pint whar what you calls the co.loS-
sv1Im looks over agin' the public 'cademy,
yer could strain yer eyes for ten mile an
see notbin' but musketers an cGt-tails.
Whar the street-cars IL runnin' now we
could 90 out with SCOOP an pick upyoung
alligaters bv tine peck an on the very spot
whar the city fountain sizZles nm spurts
wuz a briar-patch so thick drat me ef ye
could see thro' it with dou oie-linked MI
kevscOpe. Jim Tasker. him 'at dominies
the Baptis's Westinghouse, WIZ then q
leetle fTeckled cuss rs ulster ten HOSES
over in the Turnpike Tavern, an Sam
Finch. which is the identicul pusson that
persides this very minute IN Yer Town
Conil. was lob-sided. carrot-haired four
year-old shoat az ulster orkerpy his daddy 3
corn-field ever day as fus-class ginooine
scarecrOw."
Here follows the interviewer's report In
the Suburban Gissher:
Our esteemed old resident. Judge
MossDunkcr, has been giving some remi-
niscences to our Man About Town Our
readers Will be more than interested in the
glowing contrast be draws between times
pas. and present:
What exclaimed the Judge. 'remem-
Der Bulger in its primeval era? An, sir !,
Memory were indeed mockery If | did
not. Thirty wears ago Bulger was. | may
saw, dank and gruesome pen. tue Mecca,
sir. OF reptiles and entrachians. Where
now. sir. our majestic municipal temple
rears its Inosque-like dome TO the blue con-
cave the sinuous serpent basked in myriad
numbers. Where Giles's Block presents
its Doric facade to the lavish kisses
of the vernal sun aforetime the
copperhued Iriquois went over the mounds
of his forefathers. From that point
where the splendid prototype OF Rome's
wondrous Coliseum stands in Juxtaposi-
ton TO our modern Hall of Academus, the
eve, feasting itself on a boundess periphery
of vision, contemplated naught but meal
culable swaTms of insectiyOra and the up
roaring crests of those stately herbs
known to the student of botany az the
t,ph0 LqfifOlid. Where now the wheels OF
the s.reet-car revolve TO the rhythm OF in
yentiye progress the giant saurian yswned
and blinked in the miasmatlc air, and on
the very site where our colossal tOun-
tain blends its iridescence with the glow
of day, the tamarack. the buckthorn.
and the hazel intertwined a laby-
rinth impenetrable as the veil of futurity.
Al. yes. SIR. and TO illustrate by human
analogy. the Rev. James Taskerr, now so
assiduous in his care of the lambs of the
Baptist fold, was in the time OF Bulger's
incipience bronzed. bucolic youth in
charge of the eQuerry at the turnpike
hostel, while the Hon. Samuel Finch. to-
day the presiding genius of our thriving
municipality. was then a wayward specl-
men of adolescent eccentricity. whom a
stern parent assigned to the diurnal task
of admonishing the predatory crow against
all intrusion upon the luxuriant fields of
waving maize" WADE WHIPPLZ.