Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31
HARVEY KENNEDY, OF NEW YORK.

His weakness Was Fonlncss for Young
y.,.;cs-His Novel Method for Getting
Their society.
80 G@NOUBTLEss you
,MASSs have read a line or
xIesgf1 I 1.-TWO announcing the
" ~ /death of Harvey
lgFhr - Kennedy. and telling
ES,BE YOU that he was a
NAGttE M very rich old Wall
ka#ES ~ street broker. But
%nRsM HI-e~n nothing has been
a-=NM$R,IM \ printed as to the
II UNHW[\AM / -. Friday night sight
H iII III IW|A|eR which his demise
n III|A VA N|AI will take away from
HN Un6N Ih|\|IN the Metropolitan
N l)WMNlnINH 1 Opera House. Mr..
N||Wl|||I VIM. kennedy was wild
All nv NINihN over He showed no
w ||ill Win inclination to remar-
lW ll|NW|W ny, yet he was very
QV I(lgJD .,z.s fond of young ladies,
R4~ and his method OF
getting their society without paying partic-
nlar attention to any single one was ingen-
ions and genial. He had q carriage built
to hold eight persons. 1t was cross be-
tween fine private coupe and big pub
lie stage Two big prancing horses Grew
it, and a liyoried coachman sat high on
the front seat. Tho other portion of Mr..
Kennedy's outfit was a box for one night
a week at the opera He hired 1t from
Cyrus w. Field at s;175 q night, and was
sub-tenant at that price all through last
winter and during the present season I'M
til his sudden death. For each Friday
night he invited six young ladies to go
with him to tho opera. His guests we're
chosen from among all his acquaintance,
and not often was the same girl enter
tanned twice. For each party he also
secured matron as a chaperone, and he
himself made the eighth person in the
party. 10 every lady he sent huge bou-
quet of the costliest roses, tied with q
very long and wide satin ribbon ex-
actly matching her dress, OF at
least harmonizing with it in col
or. To be moro exact about this
he usually obtained scrap Of the chief
material in each instance. and these sam
Piles We're delivered to the florist, who OBJ
tanned ribbons for the eight bouquets to
suit. Every Friday night the Kennedy
barouche would start out from his own
quarters-.h had lately lodged in the
Union League Club--with the host alone
within it. His first call would be at the
house OF the chaperone, and thence they
would go the round of six honored domi-
Giles, finally bring up at the Metropolitan
with the always enYied load. Mr.. Ken
nedy was q handsome old man, large of
snowy white hair. 1t was an odd spectacle
to see him in his box surrounded bya bevy
of vivacious girls, handsomely costumed
and profusely decked with the roses of
his providing. After the opera was over,
he always took the party to one OF another
of the most fashionable restaurants,
where he treated them to a magnificent
supper. The cost of this weekly enter
tainment could not have been less than
five hundred dollars. MI. kennedy died of
heart disease. Now, how many of my
readers will fail to remark that of course
no old widower's heart could stand such
complex strain as that?
When IL mans afraid,
beautiful maid
Is q cheering sight to see.
That is what you heard the maiden sing
in "The Mikado." She was telling about
capital punishment which she had wit
messed. and her declaration that the
doomed man, Just before losing his head,
ga2ed upon her pretty face for courage,
was always taken as Gilbert phantasy
But the idea is actually put into practical
use in the largest Of New York establish
ments where teeth are extracted under
laughing gas. I have been there two or
three times, ard have watched this fea-
ture of the business with amused inter-
est. Now. as you already know, laugh
ing-gas renders the patient oblivious but
not insensible. He feels all that is done
to him. and often makes lot Of fuss
about it, but upon awakening he can re-
call nothing that had happened. It is
when the mans afraid" that the beau
tiful maid is placed before him as "a
cheering sight to see. In other words,
while the strong armed dentist stands
at one side OF the victims
chair, with the gas bag ready for him
to breathe out of, a girl with an amiably
pretty face takes q position close to the
opposite arm. She gazes sympathetically
yet smilingly into his face. She isn't
coquettish about it. 1t may be described
as a sort of cousinly smile-that is,
somewhere midway between sisterly
grin and an ogle with no tie of consan-
guinity in it. AS the man breathes in
the gas. aud loses his senses, the last
fading vision is that of the girls encour-
aging face. Tie practical value of this
device lies in the fact--and I have this
on the authority of the boss of the place
that goodly proportion of the patients
would beconso obstreperous and violent
while under the Influence Of The gas but
ior the effect of the girls presence.
That may seem like nonsense but in
practice it proves to be good sense.
When the man awakes he finds that his
guardian angel is still there, and departs
feeling, suppose, that she has taken a
deep and poignant interest iii his particu-
lar case.-.Ne'r YORK; letter 10 Chicugo
Lcdyer.
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