Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-19

SIGHT may be- Witnessed every afternoon.
Two Great sound stoamers OF r1vei Int
lie side bv side near the foot Of War
ron street waiting for passengerst to Boston.
Competition for business has oecome
pretty sharp between the two lines,
and every afternoon one feature Of thac
competition 10 the playing OF tneir
bands on the after decks when IL II
pleasant. The bands can be heard TAR up
the street, not always agreeing pertectiy.
While the leader OF one IS asserting tuae
Annie Rooney il his sweetheart the otner
may be greeting the announcement n Vii
Down. As sfsrting-time draws near the
music becomes livelier. Then the street
urchins from blocks around gather apous
tho wharves and dance rigadocns ana
pigeon wings to the merry strains. ana
the passengers sit oft and take win with
great satisfaction.
TIE poKT, OF THE srERnAs.
Joaouiu Miller is well remembered a.
Eastorl. Pa, where he lived for some time
and where his son lies buried. All the
Eastonians regard his name and memory 10
kindly if rather plying fashion. 10 tne,r
Judgment the poet of the Sierras - crank,
who used to waste his time and White paper
writing poetry when be might have oeen
QOlUR kOuittllllS UlOtC ki1NNiNe's
There 10 q considerable practical streak
IN Mr.. Miller. however. When the late Z.
Il. Barnum offered $500 prize for the pest
poem on the white elephant. MT. Miller
was one of the three who divided the
plize. Mr.. Miller used. the Eastoniannss
saw. to affect SLOUGH hats and mystery: W
late years New York and the ends OF the
earth have known him better.
TIE SAFE OLD sERvIA.
The repairs on the Servia are progress
ing rapidly. but there is one thing which
can never be quite restored-her reputa-
ton for safety and reliability. There nave
been great many people who nave STUCK
to the Seryia in spite of the building on
newer and faster boats because OF her
steadiness. Andrew Carnegie has crossed
in her dozens Of times up to as late as last
fall. have myself made three passages
on her in all weathers and have been told
by her officers that lots Of people bad a
superstitious belief in her safe qualities:
In time one comes to have feeiing OK
personal affection for steamship ana II
seems like personal bad news to hear OF
her breaking down at sea. AZ.
double engine would be. The City or
Paris or Majestic, or Furst Bismarck would
get along verv nicely with an engine dis.
abled. But the Servia is magnificent
Improvement on the first of the name and
carries as much freight for three cents As
the old Servia did for thirty-fve.
KEEPING THE TIME OF poATs.
know a keeper of pleasure boats who
has devised most ingenious scneme 10
keep accounts of the amounts due by those
who hire them. Each boat is numbered,
and upon an upright screen back OF the
wharf are as many rude clock diais as there
are boats, and similarly numbered. ABOVE
them all is real clock. As each boat goes
out the owner notes the time ana sets INC
hands on the dial bearing the correspond
ing number to that hour. When the boat
returns a glance at the dial and ut the
clock above is enough to tell just how long
II has been out. !,
Some such continuance as this is almost
necessary To handle the crowds at boating
resorts. The old method of book keeping
was slow and cumbrous in comparison.
SAM BowLEs's REPLY.
Sam Bowles H.. king of the Springfield
Republican. has q rather dry humor. Not
long ago n townsman came into his once
to complain about o reporter VINO mad puo-
lshed a legitimate item about his busi-
ness. =.
Haven't any redress?" he bawled in
| a passion finally.
well, what then?"
"Sue the paper or lick tho reporter
said the editor, turning away to his desk
LITERARY "oLD HUTCH"
"Old Hutch.," as the eccentric grain
speculator of Chicago is Familiarity known
is no ignoramus but man of o rather keen
| literary as we'll as business judgment. he
adlnires Emerson, and can quote him by
| the hour. but thinks Hawthorne the
greatest American author. Alr. Hutchin
son believes Talmage to be Beecher's sue
cessor as the greatest American preacher
! and can talk about the future as well a.
futures"
SUCH IS FAME.
A year ago Ward McAllister's name was
in everybody's mouth. He WAS the topic
of the hour. The other day New York
| Journalist. editor-ln-chief of great paper
| turned TO his assistant and said: What
that society chaps name-tbe man who
wrote the book"
"McAllister," ventured the assistant
| after a moments hesitation.
"Yes, that's the man," said the editor.
"Do you know how he spells it !? "
Such is fame !