Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-21
WOES OF A RICH NAN.
the MERCHANT PRINCE NOT ONE
USUALLY TO BE ENvIEp.
He couidn't Rest While He Lived Nor
AFTER He Dled--Biiton ana the
Helrs-w. ID. Hcweli's Return.
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some mysterious way never sufficiently ex-
a rude oil-painting about eight
inches By twelve in size was conveyed 20
Detectiys Fuller's Office. Near the middle
az the canvas a space had been left blank,
and in the middle Of IL was written. "A
4. Stewards body is buried here"
INQUIRY developed the fact that the spot
represented in the painting was IN Cypress
Hills cemetery. and men were set to work
at once digging for the dead meIcna 1
missing body. of course they didn't mo
IL. but the hoax was nlne.days WohueI,
and the newspapers puohshed coiuninS
am reminded of all this. and of the
pleasant DAYS then spent lying on my
back on a grassy bank in the cemetery
watching the men dig and idly waiting TOT
somethine 70 turn up worth writing ABOUT
hv recent events showing how the curse
has followed that mans millions. Judgs
Hilton. who has somehow gained posses
sion of the most of them. has recently
given $500. 900 TO the Garden CITY Catne,;
oral to quiet his conscience, some say, ana
Is bringing suit against come OF the otner
heirs in one of those interininaoie ac a.,Sr
which will never end till the day OF 1udg-
ment.
Even in his life the merchant-prince
was scarcely happy man. one OF my
most vivid recollections is OF the stoIy
toId NV a friend in the wholesale business
who had occasion one day TO call upon
Mr.. Stewart in his private ONCE. MY
friend was young and impressionaoie.
:" An, how happy that man must oe, ne
thought as he saw the splendor OF tne es-
Enlistment and noted with wnat awe Cns
employees spoke their masters naih ~
What would mot do to be as r'cn as ne
isl" 800, .Loa
into a room with big desk piled with pa
pers and sitting behind 1t wlthered, pale,
and tremulous man. prematurely ola,
crushed by the weight of affairs. He was
scoIdinp one of his clerks IN querulous
tone about some trifiing matter when
seemed anything but trifiing 70 the CLERK lI az
brouoht in on tray--it was about 10
with ravenous haste he de-
youred few morsels.
Almost Immediately be was taken with
violent ct of retching and-wel, have you
ever been seasick? Then no matter.
"Take II awayl Take 1t awayl" whis-
pered Mr.. Stewart weakly. when the par
oxysm was over, waving back the tray with
his thin hand.
81 NV Cod - said my friend afterward in
telling me of the incident, !" wouldn't
change places with that man for twice MS
wealth"
NEW VICTORY FOR TAMMANY.
New Workers are having great fun Just
now at the expense OF ex-fresiuent hoWen
of the BROOKLYN bridge. That structure
has always been managed, or mismanaged,
nv a Board of Trustees-half from New
York and half from Brooklyn. A Brook
lvn man has always been president. At
the last meeting the New York men came
over in n body: three Brooklyn trustees
were absent, and q New York man. Colo
mel Wagstaff, was chosen president. Mr..
Howell was fairly dazed. He accepted the
Office of vice-president, but next morning
refused to surrender the presidency 70
Wagstaff. And great has been the hght
The President of the bridge can be very
useful to his friends. The quarrelis mere
ly Tammany against Mclaughlin and is
only an incident of long-standing. leal--
ousy. It helps to complete the political
min of Mayor Chaplin. of Brooklyn, for he
was not on hand at the meeting to vote for
the BROOKLYN man. Once before McLaugh--
lin had TO 90 to Mayor Chapln's ONCE ana
order him to 90 to Howel's support. This
time both were caught mapping, so sud
denly did Mayor Grant spring his little
plot upon them.
grieye with Mr.. Howell, as the mlsmanage-
ment of the bridge, for which he is mainly
has been so scandalous. Little
instances illustrate this as well as big ones.
When the floor of the New York approach
was laid the engineer IN charge permitted 1t
TO slope toward the middle. When ii rains
a big puddle collects. This has never been
changed. but lot of gratings were made to
be thrown down in wet weather. The over
crowding of the railroad is an acknow-
lodged danger to life and hmb at rush
hours, but for about tour years absolutely
nothing has been done to remedy 1t. In
summer most of the trustees go to Europe
and there is no quorum. Truly Americans
are patient people,
Perhaps things will go better under the
Tammany rule. and perhaps they won't.
They can't go worse.
THE WAR OF TYPES.
I suppose ought to apologize for men
tioning newspaper matters so often, but
really they are the most interesting de-
in New York at present. The
fight is bitter and remorseless. Joseph
Pulitzer, called by cable from cruise on
his Yacht in the Mediterranean has come
fiying home like an old lion ready for the
fray. Colonel Cockerill, who gets great
credit.for making the World, put on his hat
one afternoon, melted thereto, it is said,
by cablegram ordering him back to st.
Louis, went over to the Astor House TO-
tunda, and in three hours raised the capt.
tai TO back his new venture. Some state
the amount at $3, 900 900, and say that part
of 1t will be used TO put up the finest
newspaper office in the country. Colonel
Cockerill had not intended TO begin opera
tions until fall, but o chance to buy the
Continent and Advertiser and merge them
under the latter title was too tempting to
miss.
Mr.. Turner, the former business mana
ger of the World. is also out and has taken
hold of the Recorder, putting in not only
money, of which there was plenty before,
but rare executive ability, which was
quite as much needed. Colonel Taylor,
Of the Boston Globe, one OF the 6rainest
men In the business, Is also said to have an
interest under the new deal with Mr.. Tur-
ner and Mr.. Duke. If so, colonies Will be
thick on Park Row. Meanwhile good news
paper-men familiar with New York condl-
lions ere making lots of money.
There is really no reason why all the pres
ent papers shouldn't do we'll. The number
is not excessive and the ewspaper-reading
habit is becoming constantly more fixed.
As for myself don't believe lisa good plan
to read newspapers too much. Be brief
cut it down-no long-winded STORIES"
that's the recipe for the journalism of the
future, and the man who tries it first will
make money.
ENAMEL FLOWER PRESENTS.
Numbers of yellow garters with golden
clasps, which are supposed to insure the
maiden wearer speedy marriage, and
iewelled garters Of other colors, presuma-
bly for those who don't want 20 get mar
ried, are displayed in jewellers windows
nowadays. How any modest young man
could dispose of 'em or any modest young
woman could ask to buy them of clerk
of the other sex Is more than l can-but,
there, il is none of my business.
The jewellers are making enamel flowers
of almost every kind that grows-conyol-
vulus, pansies, peoples, clover leaves.
Always q diamond dewdrop must lie at
the heart. Many a young man wishes,
when he is selecting present for his best
girl, that the dewfall had not been quite so
heavy on the particular flowers she liked.
CheckerIboard sleeye-buttons are the
ugliest of recent devices for displaying
ones wealth. These are nearly an inch
square and divided mp in genuine checker
board style, the black squares in jet, the
white each a tiny diamond.
After all there is not much comfort in
buying gems of high price when Bowery
salesman at $12 q week can wear Rhine
stones or paste that looks exactly like them
at a dollar 10 five dollars each according to