Blue-grass blade., 1890-09-20

HAPPY OVER THE APPOINTMENT
OF ANOTHER SALOON MAN.
The following is from the Lex
ington TRANSCRIPT of September 6,
to which ! invite a dispassionatc
reading by the public, before read
ing my comments:
The New Coal OIL INSPECTOR.
Judge p. p. Johnston Yesterday ap-
pointed Mr.. Chas. b. Gilman, coal oil
inspector Of Fayette County, to succeed
MIR. w. l.. Yellman, whose time expires
on the 18th inst.
Mr.. Gilman has lived in Lexington for
many years, and is thoroughly identified
with the city. lie is an enterprising
business man, and his record as gem
tleman and as Democrat goes without
question. He has large number of
friends in all parts of the city and coun-
ty, and his appointment will give general
satisfaction. In fact no better man could
have been selected for the place. The
appointment comes in the nature of a
very great compliment, considering the
number of estimable gentlemen who
Judge Johnston has happy mack of
making appointments that are accepta.
BILE to the people, and i'm this case he
has fairly outdone himself. Mr.. Gilman
will make faithful officer, and the com.
munity will applaud the action of Judge
Johnston in recognizing him.
Mr.. Gilman, the happy subject
of the foregoing eulogy, is sa-
loOn-keeper on the corner of Mill
and Water Streets. His business
house is adjacent to that umbra-
geous contiguity, the moral atmos-
phere of which is such that Alder
men Trcacy and Simrall have
lately proposed to clean it out.
l do not remember that | ever
met Colonel Gilman, to know him,
in my life. In this, from the
transcripts account of him, |
seem to have been unfortunate.
AS newspaper man | have fire.
quently had occasion to meet peo-
pie in their private houses and also
at public gatherings, in very hand
some surroundings, as the parlors
of the Phoenix Hotel, for instance,
who were met for the purpose of
getting up the charity institutions
of our city, or to arrange about
lectures, or music, or schools, or
art galleries, or libraries, or
things Of this kind. suppose,
however, that they were generally
a kind of second-class society, with
which Colonel Gilman, for those
little reasons that high-toned peo-
pie have a right to keep to them
selves, did not care to mingle, else
| might have had the honor of the
Colonels acquaintance.
These people that ] allude to
were such folk as Mrs. Judge
Woodward, Mrs. Dan Saflarans,
Mrs. S. A. Charles, Mrs. Charlie
Voorhies, the bankers wife, Mrs.
Ballard, and Miss Peter; and then
such men as the Rev. DIR. Bartlett,
and Edmunson, and Estin Keller,
and Andy Campbell, and Will
Sayre, and others of that kind
all very clever people in their
"proper spear," as the lamented
Artemus Ward used to call it, but
then after all that is said about
mems being born "equal," we have
to admit the fact, if not the neces-
sity, of social castes; and in men,
as in oysters, there will always be
Selects" who, like Col. Gilman,
an eagle among buzzards, will |
"soar above the carrion crew and |
go to bathe his plumage in the
SUM-"
Col. Gilman is alluded to as a
Cuisines man" of the first water
if SO mild a fluid may he mention
ed in connection with a Lexington
saloon-keeper. My experience was
that his methods in that line were
perhaps little peculiar. j was
collector for the Transcript, and
Colonel Gilman DIVIDED the Tran
script $3.50. / called at his
saloon for it. Somebody, that
suppose was his confidential clerk,
that the Colonel was at
Saratoga at the races. | bowed
myself out and called again. The
next time he was in Boston, and
the next in New York, then St.
Louis, Chicago, Louisville, Mil
Philadelphia, Detroit, Bir-
New Orleans, San Fran
cisco, Portland, St. Paul, Nash
vile, Mexico, &c. 1t was always
represented that the Colonel had
been there since l had called be-
fore, but had just gone the day be-
Iore i called. Il
One day / alluded to this fact as ,
| remarkable coincidence, and a {
great big fellow that weighed
about two hundred and fifty, mis-
.aking my innocent suggestion as
, reflection on his "truth and YER
,city," said that l had better get ,
'ut Of there p, d. q. I
l am naturally fast walker, and
IS / was in something Of a hurry /
anyway, he did not have occasion
o repeat it. OF course | did not go S
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