Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-10-11

!, .-;.h ths noison. prepared dough pills
Witch were showered down from the hotel
w;ndows. SO it went on for months. Inc
Old man was able as well ~ wiling, the
onastar supply was inexhaustible. fresn
roosters and fresh poison were furnisned
syerv NIGHT. nor did the war close TIL the
did man died and his heirs sold the noine'
stead to the hotel.
DONE DETrER ABROAD.
Gothamites are the most patient people
IN the world. Even tho immediate suffer-
ers from loss Of business by the upneavlhg
~ broadway. excepting here and there
man who means to sue the city for dam
noes. take the matter easily because tney
don't see how they help themseives,
People from out of town see tins out
ionged' with amusement. There 10
ma use 10 say how such WORK as
.hia wotlld have been carried on IN Iaris,
porI;n. or Vienna in London 1t would not
Love been permitted at all. But an aston
,sbed Japanese said to o friend OF mine,
"Why. IL this work was going on IN 1oho-
hama. Toxic, or Kioto, the corporation
wouId be permitted to disturb one oiocA
only at once. and when the, WORK was
6nlshed and the street restored to us nor
mol condition then another block, aud 80
n ','' Tha disturbance would hardly be no.
t;ceable.n But we are a long way behind
the Japsuese that is, in some things.
DIR. DErsw's PICTURE.
One of our most modest. unobtrusive
yet most meritorious artists IL WiiIlaih
Idgar Marshall. famous TOR painting pof-
traifs of eminent Americans. and even
moro celebrated for engraving ms OWL WI
,vorks As a steel engTaver he has the
reuntation Of being not more!y FIRST IN
AMERICA. but superior to any artist III
london or Paris. This is his fame abroad
AZ home he Is everywhere known by his
engrayIpg from Stuart's Washington.
WIich he did when he was TWENTY-FIVE
Years old. and later by bis superb pictures
Gf Lincoln, Grant. Longteilow, and
MANY more OF the most marked
Americans. He has Just hnlsnei
life-size engraved portrait OF the
mos,-talked-of American-or, at least,
lie divides that distinction with Citizeu
Train and Colonel Boo lngersol. Chauncoy
NJ. Depew consented to sit u dozen times -
the wonder is how hc finds time to sit any
where. excepting his snug office ana NJ
countless public and private dinner t"pieS.
Eut lust before he took his annual outing
abroad this summer Marshall capturei
him several timos aud succeeded III paint
I'M what necessarily would be of the ora
tDr4tli -
Tins he has superbly engraved. whether
this fine print is produced on the chances OF
Chauncey ~ dark-ho.se presidential can
didafe or 10 meet tho demand OF Depews
thousands Of personal friends the artist
only hnows.
FRENCH AMERICAN
Away back in the early sixties Marshall
wa painting in Paris. living near his studio
in the Latin Quarter n q quaint old hotel;
s,id then TO be SIX hundred years Old. And
in that old house be roomed with then
almost unknown medical student, who,
when Marshall returned to tins town III
1855. soon followed HIM and took up his
abode IN tins country for about three
wears Ne vas only tYenty-tOur years old
when he came. and Was member OF ana
n great fayOrlte with the celebrated DO
hc,nian cOteT!e that made Pans restAl-
rant famous. And what red, rel. fairly
crimson Rad" he WAS indeed, Ills TOO
exuberant expression Of them sentl-
men:sr had made his departure from Far 3
desirable. lie lyel for a lcng while IN
Twelfth street, then went up INTO Con
pecticut aud taught French. Then he
went back - France. 4 year siterWard
he returned and married a charming Con-
necticut girl in Stamford. He Is now fifty
yeas old, and Is known as George BenIa-
min Clemenceau. People pretty much
everywhere have heard OF him. and Will
hear more OF him. He u Thorough
American il feeling as well % French
man.