The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-02
THE ACTING MAYORS LOT.
SOME WOULD SAY IT is NOT A
HAPPY ONE.

Various Needs aud Denands-Ihc Lazy
who wanted to Dispose of Her Three
Children.
at takes all sorts of people TO make up
a world"
"yes.r
And one.half Of the world never knows
what the other half is doing,'
"NO."
"And the mayor Of a city Is thrown into
contact with some Of tie most impccunious,
peculiar and interesting specimens OF The
human race
81 reckon he is"
The above declarations cmanated from
acting Mayor Dickerson rs be toycd WIN
the dangling stirrups of handsome saddle
i'm his harness shop on lower Franklin
street His sole and exclusive audience
and questi0ncr was a reporter, seated IN
comfortable lcather-bottOmed CHAIR near
him. .
..You see all this business IS new T. me-
continued Mr.. DickcrsOn. mayor hllyson
has only been away two or three weeks.
and. rs President Of the Board Of Aldermen
of this city, the duties OF the ONCE iali upon
me.
at is really remarkable the number OF
nersons who auply 20 my Office and the
strange variety Of needs and demands they
have. request came the other day from
Greensboro. \. c., FOR a copy Of the ordi-
nances Of Richmond in regard to ihc dispo-
sitiOn OF crowds upon the street II seems
they've had some trouble OF the sort there
lately and they don't know how TO get free
oft. Somebody in Alexandria wrote yes
I fnN IN SfT IL
ways. somebody else IN North Carolina
wanted TO know how we manage about our
dog tax
NOVEL GOVERNMENT.
.sThey look upon Richmond as very
model government, II seems.
81 should say so, but all the letters are
not confined TO such municipal matters.
communication from Brooklyn asked If we
| had any society here for the encouragement
of arboricuturc. \ lady in Lynchburg even
desired me 10 get her white servant rom
! New York. She said she saw in the paper
some time ago where the Mayor OF Ken
mOnd was In correspondence with some m
ltelligencc office in the metropolis, ana she
! had become tired of the inefficient colored
! help. and wanted q white girl
DO YOU have many applications Tor recu-
MARY add
/ fFNlA LINNllt~-. VS. al'At AtittN '.f'iA 80
,be pcr-Ons who call come for money or for
assistance i'm getting out Of town. \
woman who came 10 see me the other day.
wanted Sl.J3. She looked like a lady. and
was. no doubt. She had very pressing
need f0rSf.50she SAID. and had no one else 10
applv 10. ~ she came ~ me. one fellow
dropped in the other day and said be want
cd $500 he had gotten stranded here, lac
declared. and somebody mad promiSed MN
railroad transportation 90 Roanoke, ana nc
wanted the $3.50 10 get his clothes. wo-
man came 10 me Yesterday for railroad
ticket 10 Philadelphia whore, she said, her
| husband had been taken III. / could cite
| hundreds of these sorts of cases
THEIR DISPOSITION.
"What do YOU do with them"
"WeH. we usually arrange 10 somehow so
| that they wll.be gotten away II they are
non-residents. We argue the question TINS
way: If man j. a yaerant it7 better 10
send him out oi town at "A cost OF "a lew DOL
lars than % put him in the almshou>e.
They very frankly say. I'm stuck mere.
without money aud without WORK,
and if YOU don't get me away
IN De arrested and run i'm hy the police
TIA man comes here who has been sent out
IF some other city we make the railroad
company that brought him here convey MN
back. 4 case like that occurred the othcr
dav. 4 fellow came here from Baltim4ke
and applied 10 me for a pass To E'an'Ne'
| While we were talking happened to get
him OF his guard by asking him If be had
not been sent out Of Baltimore 10y the mar
shall. He said yc-. Next day the railroad
company took him back. We have enough
of that sort here now, YOU know, without
taking i'm the refuse Of other cities.
AQrEEE CASE.
zone Of the querest cases that has come
under my notice was few days amer
| Nnvor Enyson lett for Europe. \ lady
with three children came % the Office. She
was fairly good looking woman, and the
Oldest child WAS boy about ten years al
age She told me that her home was in
| Henry county. Va. but that she had lu,t
come from OREGON. where her husband died.
and she said that Mayor EllysOn had prom
| i.ed 10 yet somebody 20 adopt her children.
I told her that | could DO nothing Tor her;
/ that the matter was personal NOT an OIL
ciaI one: that IL Mayor Ellyson had prom
i.ed to secure adoption for her children be
had doubtless had somebody mNleW VINO he
believed would undertake the task. Dui -
| Mayor EllysOn was absent ] could do moth
..She tried 10 get her children i'm some Of
| thp orpbau asylim-. but. being q nOn-rcei-
| dent. She couldn't succeed. Then she came
back Ia me- and advised her 10 20 BACK io
| Henry county. No. she didn't want % go
there: she wanted 10 90 To New ORR. ms
rather surprised me, and became NIUE
suspici0u-. and ! asked her, My dear
madam. if Richmond seems so larec and
! hewidcrine tO YOU. what. surely. would YOU
do i'm New York; She didn't reply to this.
| but could see that she felt she had made a
misstep.
sNARE-QU F>TloNING.
|. "Then commenced MISUNDERSTANDING.
told her she looked like lady, and must
have had money once. She admitted that
she had been IN good circumstances. ANA
| told me Of well-to-d0 relatives IN ienr!
county. Then | vcnturcd the question that
broke the mystery: why don't YOU use the
money they sent YOU 10 come homeE 9he
| looked mp rather startled nj me, ana theh
! looked down and began picking al the ends
other glove ! could see ! had touched ten
| der point. When a woman begins picking
al the end of her gloves and won't answer a
question. you may Doe sure she's cmbar-
/ rasscd
AFTER "a few moments silence she raised
up. and. rs if prOmutcd Dos the impulse Of
| The moment. Sine reached her hand i'm the
breast of her dress, and producing letter.
said: Here, suppose I'll have To tell YOU.
| Read this The letter was from some
cousin IN Henry county. and said something
| like this: Place the children in good homes
| if YOU can: ia yOu can't come back with
them. and we'll be- married at once DO
YOU see her drift; she wanted To- oct the
children well provided for, and then get
married and 20 20 New York. told her
she had better 20 home and think she took
my advice, and maybe she's married now
BONES FOUND AT MARATHON.
Questions that the Discovery Raise.-Per-
haps the Memorial Pillars May BE
Found.
"a most interesting discovery was lately
made at Marathon" writes the Athens cor
respondent Of the London Athenaum. "N0u
/ 81. "a. a.