Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-04
NEW YORK LETTER.
PEEPS AT THE MEN, MANNERS, AND
MOVEMENTS OF THE HOUR.
Ex-prc.ident cleveland as Listener
Evangelist Moody at "ork-The Henry
irving OF the New York Pulpit. &c.
oorre.nondsnce OF tho Richmond Dlspatch.l

.,,naid stocer knows that the sights Of
-. ~ 10 go are those that don't meet the
srn 10 tnow your man as he really is pop
IN -, him when be ~ not prepared 10 re-
cei,,a couuanv. See HIM IN ms working
apron. catch him when ne IS not looking II
Won want a true portIait, betWlxt the
y1>r.ro;, IN war-pa;nt aud the naked realism
~ ~ 80 panI PRIV school of interviewer there
orc hundred possible portrayals Of us all.
'Tl,oao derict the sights" OF daily rou-
t;,os burrvoraDhs of men and women do
mo tho daily round Of duty. all unsuspect-
i've of nc the peeping Toms and Tables.
,,ro oil The same are going to pop IN upon
tho1,, in true surprise-visit fashion. One
tb;re, IL sure we shall get nearer TO the
reai nersonality by catching it when not
noSinc 10 be photographer. When man
noses for effect ten to one he is imposing at
the same time.
now THY SIT FOR A PICTURE.
Joot ~ the smart fellows whose phizzes
annaar in the papers because they have
won some prize or other for guessing the
number Of pips in melon, or tor angelic
bNoutv ~ maybe they are celebrated be-
censei thew took the PIE in clam-swallowing
match Oueer thing how every man-iack
of thom tries to look as near as possible
Ike sherman when taking his last stride of
tha Georgian march. | guess they would
,,refe- 10 he mistaken for so many NapO-
Ions crossing the Alps. Moral: Always
roee os a nOtential cOnduerOr when you sit
for vour portrait. Never mind if your
conntenance is trifie vacuous, young
man. YOU can always 90 West and get your
cheek expanded.
Talking of this there is another side 70
tbe question. A man who has proven MN,
or something above the common herd
owes II not only TO himself but 10 those
who believe in HIM that he should keep up
the DIGNITY Of his reputation by his de-
meanor. Some don't.
CLEVELAND As A LISTENER.
Strollinc. or rather sliding, along Fifth
avenue one Of the slipperiest days of the
scrag-eud of winter allotted tOus Gotham
ites 7 elyated into certain hall in the
afternoon TO look at and listen to a group
of celebrities who were to advocate the
co,,se Of free Libraries. One of the first to
clirlb Iaboriously the platform was eX-
President Cleveland. \ certain daily pa
uer had on its bulletin n dav or two ago
This legend: Cleveland Alarmed. He
Cams TWENTY-FIVE Pounds Weight Every
Month"; That he Is man OF weight and
solidtv nobody will deny. and great
man. Greatness increaseth with the years.
az witness that miniature mammoth OF
wit Marshal p. Wilder. But the ez-presi-
dent disdains to pose for the pen-and-ink
photographer.
There he sat or spIawled at ease but
scarcelv easily, ana he permitted "a veil If
lassltude. q sort of an air of weGrlsOmenes5
If the flesh. 30 mask the manllness OF lis
face. In reposc his expression had the dug
nitv Of mas.iyenes and IN action, a. whrn
he was 81 eakinc. there was the dignity Of
free III up al intervals with a fash Of vi
a.. ~. do I- IA or oil "A
little io'tc 1t drew tears OF sympathy into
the ewes that saw the painfully slow efforts
of the ex-presidontial tace 10 thaw into the
beginning Of sunny smile. but the FROST
bitten iokplets perhaps accounted Tor 1t.
Even without this provocation ] have ere
now seen other great statesmen look as
moody es a hypochondriacal parson at a
burying
MOODY IT WORK.
Now. the reverend Evangelist Moody
he's as matter-Of-fact, comfortable trl-
umpEant an air rs you would find IN any
Bismarck or Parnel of the day. | called
in upon him the other morning at one or
the three Fifth-Aycuue PRESBYTERIAN
churches where he has been supersedlng
tho salaried pastors in their own depart
mert o. duty. Nr. Moody looks every inch
Of his goodly rotunditva safe man; What's
the matter with Moody? q, he's All right,
end he pr pers fishing Us out of our nd
versity. present or 10 come. And yet there
are no collections. Nr. Sankey and he
have lately been out. SO they say, and any
way the sweet singer, in strength II not
swoetn IS. during the present run has been
q NJ. Stebbine. However, old friend SAN
KEY came up smiling soon after / took my
seat. and Mr.. Moody gracously announced
that his eminent friend would sing asong
not in the books The book in use was q
late edition Of tho fifth song and tune
book GOTTEN mp by Messrs. Sankev; Stcb-
bins, and another. Thus was heralded the
advent Of Volume VI. for the delcctatlon
OF hungering world.
LEAN AID HUNGRY DIXON"
Would YOU skin from the Falstaffian 70
the Cassiu- type of preacher? so, the lean
and hungry Dixon. IT., the burning, black
and-tanned pulpiteer, whose text ought to
he that verse, 'The zeal Of Thy house hath
bissinp his words like molten lead from the
seething caldron Of his ardent soul; made
Of the stuff that apostles and martyrs were
mode of in the grim DAYS Of Old successor
of vour Peter the Hermits and Luthers and
Waslovs: Diapt in sOui-measure; a Henry
Irving in what physique there IS OF him.
Yos. here is the one desperately earnest
narson in New York. b. and by he will
become q sort % SUNDAY freqk-shOw to tho
ehsilow curio ity-monger, which, gentle
reader. YOU Will never, never. never de-
generate into, for If you do-well, let's
change the subject.
POPULAR PREACHER.
The Sunday church-going tramp is sup
posed to br good for nothing hut TO help
ill the plate. Yet they talk. yes, and
don't they gush at church gatherings over
the wonderful stretch Of Christian charity
when the hard-shell Somethingarian ex--
changes pulpits with the soft-sh,el Il
DO rejoice over this De ice for re-
preaching stale sermons why don't
the preachers urge their pew folk
10 change pulpits by gong in turn to
al the neichboring churches? The same
Good end would be gained in a simpler
war. The church tramp is sci lon credited
with the full amount Of pulpit culture he
bae laid IN. and which makes variety and
wide range q necessity 70 his intellectual
vitality. Anyway. tramp once, Just once,
TO Young Thomas DiXOn's rostrum. his
reople have out crown their church. and for
the present they meet in Christian A7so-
citation Hall. Twentv-third street, which
ia always crowded. The preacher tackles
the live topics of the day without gloves.
His text the Other morning was Iammany
Hall: next time il may be clam-chowder,
lilelv as not. All is fish that comes to net.
With this understanding he is anything
but disciple Of the tall-talk. clap-trappst
school. Simple. honest, earnest, had he
but had the luck to have been schooled IN
one of the great seats of learning and
reared in larger pastures, Dixon the Bap-
fist might easily have made the welkln
ring as the gowned orator of an Episcopal
church or the preaching friar of some ia
nous monastery.
THE JAPANESE INVASION
seems TO have touched high-water mark.
Have YOU not been stricken with the blues.
artistic china blues, as you have walked
along the interminable line of japanese
stores that stretches along Broadway from
south to north, and since last fall has been
zir-zaeging east and west? Warehouses at
first then a few SNOWY uptown stores,
then a sprinkling of single-window shops.
and then a Noachian food of easements,
OVERLOOKING all over the areas right onto
the sidewalks. Some hitch tea-package
trade on the back of the china Shouldn't
we say japa? At Christmas the dealers
broke out with n regular measles of colored
crockerv. Whenever potware gets over
crowded there is bound to DO smash. and
now n has come. Half these places are
closing out. selling off by auction. almost