Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-13
NEW YORK LETTER.
Tue LATEST PERSONAL GOSSIP or
THE GREAT METROPOLIS.
.ar,.s TN su,t Their Tsstes--Hussell Har.
rison and the Art Of stcnoEraphy-
Recent TrIumpirs Of Surgery.
correspondence Of tho Richmond Dispn,ch.I


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,r.orrasnondencc Of tho Richmond DispnichI
Ngw YORK, April 70. 1890.
Everybody has heard OF inc enterprlsing
ur, Jowenstein who had ms name Changed
10 Livingstone and biosson,issni ~ sOcsety a.
,,a,nber OF one of the oldest families Of
Wv York. hut few people, not lawyers.
- ,nv idea of the number Of names
.,,b;cb arc annually changed by tho Iegis-
49, or the courts. I'm the year 1889.
r,b;ch is a fair sample, considerably over
loo names were changed III New York alone.
family of Clausmltzgers became by de-
cree Adams. no less than Twelve Cohens
became Ciarks. and hye oainolisSys are
~ BERNHARD. A case Of similar import
ia thai az the Dzialynskis who certainly
,nofe an i,nnroyement when they adopted
T|,,-;o COR convenience. Frederick Her
NAM Uunacus gained doubtful advan-
taq,o bv seeking iegal authorization of tho
chenes of his last name 10 HUngus. but
Helv0r Rucued became first pronounce
able TO Yank es o. Henry hudh.
TOOK TEE NAME or SMITH.
Henry Charles Ebbcke waited r. do ~
other folks do and be Is now called Smith.
sven Svenson took the same name. The
Smiths would be booming indeed, but Ann
q. Smith had dropped Smith ana taken the
nopio OF Carr instead. The SablOduwsky
farn,Iv arr hereafter to be known rs Sobel
Tor short. and Herman Koch and William
Koupfcrscsmidt are angiiciscd rs Cook and
Conners1nitb. One cannot but think
tbst william Turner HaTvard's uncle had
conc back Oh him aud that William Edison
Howard. which is the new name of the
same gentleman. has hopes OF another.
Nessrs. Elinkowstein, hadausky. and Pin
/ HUSKY have made II oGslcf Tor their cor
! resuondenta. who hereafter VIII only write
to then as 9ling. kadano, and Pinilus, and
Sidncr Wittowsky conforms 90 phonetlcs
as Sidney White. John Baptiste 'leadOc
/ Bernard Toudury shakes of more than
I half his bead and emerges "a Bernard
/ Teador. The change from Heydt 10 Hoyt
and Schulmeyer to Sherman shows now
orr German clement IS becoming ab-
/ sorbed.
REAeoNs TOR CHANGING NAMEs.
Most of the names ore changed for busi-
ness reasons, or for convenience, or are
merely angiicizcd or translated, but few
OF he mctamorphoses suggest suspicion
that the owners of plebelln names thrsted
for something which sounded better and
asked the courts TO help them. This may
/ be doing an Injustice 20 Miss or Na1lme
phclan, now known as de ia Mcn;
/ 20 the MCssrs. Alerphy. now Domi-
nick; TO Mr. Finkels.ein, now Nam
rcVO: to Fir. hllshc=kg, now Sher-
wood; to Senator Ernesto Agra
monte Y. Simoni, vino has added ignncio
/ 10 ms former ti;lc. end 30 Madame hatzan-
/ back. who. "a Ms Gusts. nigh; now be
taken for O relative of Martha Washington.
/ On the other hand, George We're hobart
f Phiipot has cut OF couple Of links Of
bis long meme and IS known a plain 10
/ bart In general the courts by accediug
/ TO The requests of those who want their
names changed such requests are always
! granted -haye promoted economy IN time,
ink, and paper.
RUSSELL HiRRIsoN's sTENooRArBrR.
| The necessity for stenographers and
/ tvDewrite r. has grown to such nm extent
| within The past fow years that { has OPEN
! cd I'D new field of labor for both men
/ and women. and vet there are more sucom-
uotcnt gtcnOrraphers ard typewriter IA
New York to-day than would DE needed 70
defend the CITY from an army OF INVASION.
In common with all other literary workers
Ire writer hes found that - per cent. Of
/ the men and women who reply 60 adyer-
/ tiscmcnts Tor stonoeraphels and type
writers know nothing of current events,
! hardy know now 10 spell. emit are tni-
! c;ent in qrammer end general know ledge.
/ A LADY, at ,hc head OF one ~ th" largest
! schools and 'vpeWrltlng esiaDiis hmrnts n
! New York city, au exceedingly bright w.
man, by the way, sad the otner CAV TINT
/ the U0-ibilt,c- for women IN tMs
| new field are practically unlimited.
! Then she went on 60 add that there was
work onougA for all who Were compc-
| tent 10 do good work, but there was 10
! ulacc for either men or women who were
! not experts. and what is more ~ the point,
/ She added. there was an abundance 1T re-
/ Enumeration for such talent. 1t = sad,
/ however, that the strain put upon the beet
! operators breaks them down IN about two
/ years.
Naverthalcss. there is plenty Of talent,
| ench as il is. rs % reference to the advcr-
tl.ing columns OF the daily papers viii
show. Here d. one that attracted some at
/ tention:
HOW THY JOKED HARRISON.
YOrsG LADY SrESOGRAPHER AND TYPE
/ WRITER: absolutely pert four years; formerly
stonographer to Russell Il. Harrison.
This created some amusement among
Russell Harrisou's friends, fOr while no
one doubts lhat he is clever enough
Young follow. IL rather puzzled them TO
know how he could possibly get 80 worth
of typewriting done m week unless be
used mos OF mis- time IN writing letters 10
his father. advising how be should run
the Government. Young Mr.. Harrison 8
davOtng h.s time 10 work. lie - MOI q
literary man in any sense. nor IS be a. much
of a hustler as WheD be came 10 New orr q
wear acc Ine cluE-men and others who
know i'm never ire of Joking him about his
dinner NJ Windsor Castle last summer, enC
as he is extremely sensitive II has prove
/ auite arnOving TO hun. One Of his Tiends
. who saw the advertisement above quoted
though, IL would be Il good Joke 20 have "A
couple of hundred letters written, asking
him all about the young lady. how cue
worked, why she left him. and what sine
found 90 occupg her time. Then twenty
R i've or thirty Of them called ~ various
tmcs during the day 10 mGkc inquiries
about her. and by nightfall the young
H0oslcr came 20 the conclusion that ms
Friends We're euyng him. and he paid tof
the VINE.
But to return TO tho subject: there j.
. some talk Of organizing big tNpeWritne
school whore young women VIII be tno-
roughly trained and gwen diplomas when
they have become experts. IL may interest
some 10 know that tho pey FOR male eX
pert is from SO to 5S5 per week and from
81 20 325 for women.
TIE ESIgT IS a LlTr-sAvEB.
4 brother 81 great prima donna is the
+ most skiiUl surgeon IN Now ORR. lie re-
Gently did some very delicate cutting Of
IT.
small COMPANY Of physicians and surgeons
"The dav has Gomez SAID be- in talkins
with me yesterday. when every phy aielal
must be thoroughly skilled III surgerylt he
isup 10 the times. Why? Well, we nav,
come 20 rely moro and more upon tht
knife to- perform the Office Of medicine, o.
land down in lac books.
Assesses in the lungs ere no Longer
left 20 the physician; they are now tapped
aud drained by the surgeon. In all sucl
operations. and. indeed, IN eyery case
where surgical science is 2yailcd Of, tn.
utmost care IS necessary. The tempera
ture Of the room. the treatment of the Pr
ticut before. during. and after The opera
ton. are lll ma ters of vital importance e
the success of tho surgeon. Nothing !.
regarded as trivial.
4 .,ICE OPERATION.
IAN operation which Is now frequently
performed j. the treatment of the appendl,
veriniformis. "a the jUncture of the uppel
and lower intestine. This small intestine
frequently acts ~ q sac. winch. falling f
be discharged. becomes inhamed and rot
ten in consequence, md peritonitis de.
velops In former times the custom WA
~ wait until the ninth or tenth day befoI'
operating. and many died IN conse