Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-28
rt1p RICHMOND DIsPATCH-SUNDAY. JUNE 20, 1891
no was puttino mn BROOKLYN buildings BY

no was putting mp brooklyn Duiiuings ~
the block. Where he ever got the capital
don't know-probably started In a very
small way and worked up by degrees to the
possession of many thousands. and better
clothes than used 10 cover mis- thin Inquire,
now thin no longer.
know another lawyer OF more pros
porous kind, sol far as the law ~ concerned.
who invests his spare capital In lands ana
buildings. He told me the other day OF
selling a couple Of very modest frame tene-
ments at q net profit of S2,60O, gained IN
about three months. In fact. the city on
the other side of the bridge has been for
some years an III Dorado to the builders
and real-estats men, who are making for
tunes out Of the old farms and cabbage
gardens. All the wonders OF rapid growth
that are told Of Minneapolis. st. Paul,
Kansas CITY. and Chicago have been re-
peated in Brooklyn within the last five
years, or since the completion OF the Gle
vated railroads. The certainty OF anneXa-
ton with New York and the rapid growth
of both cities promises here city larger
than London before many years.
RE SAVED THE PAPERS.
It's getting TO be quite the thing now to
look for thieves at fires in New York. Often
the thieves set fires to get oppOrtunl-
ties for plumber. And still they are not
hung.
know an office-boy who distinguished
himself not many DAYS agO when fire
broke out near the rooms where he sat, at
an hour when al the members of the frm
were out. Ii was law office iilloi vita
valuable papers. not to speak OF money
and securities. Directly came running ny
the stairs q lot Of men whom the boy had
never seen before, all willing TO help carry
things out.
But don't want any help ~ the boy re-
piled, and to the more persistent he re-
peated You must get right out now. If
YOU have any business here come again
when Mr.. --- or Mr.. --- Is in. tn the
intervals Of repellng boarderV. the young
custodian hustled the more important
books and papers into one OF the safes. BY
and by the lawyers came IN; but the fire
didn't. And th n the boy was highly COM
plimented On his conduct 10y his employ
ers. who had fully expected to lose good
many of their valuabes when they saw the
flame so close.
Under the stress of business necessity
Youngsters develop pretty good Judgment
sometimes; and sometimes they don't.
TROUBLES OF A MAGAZINE.
II has been matter of curiosity for
some time why Nicoay and Hays Llfe OF
Lincoln" with all ITS invaluable material,
should have been 80 nearly worthless a. a
literary work. The most cynical theory vi
it is one advanced by pretty-vel-known
writer. who has himself done something
IN history. " The writers OF the Llfe.
said he. went about their task like a
newspaper reporter on a fat assignment.
They were practically unlimited as TO
space, and the more they wrote the more
money they made. both on the magazine
articles and on the bOOkreprlnt. According
". instead of writing 4 great book rs con
cisely n their material would let them tor
the instruction of busy age, they padded
il at every point and filed it with often
sIye adulatl0n of their subject, VINO
doesn't need IT, The result X n huge
multiplication OF words which no one VIII
read.N
The Century has been rather unfortunate
in its special features. Tho Lincoln BIZ
orraphy was a disappointment, the genu-
lneness Of the Ialleyrand memoirs has
been doubted, the beat article ever pub
lshed in the war series was afterwards
acknowledged 90 he pure fake, aud the
Siberian articles remain unfinished pc
cause Mr.. George KEENAN,, who owes his
reputation to tine Cenf,1y now holds MS
obligations 10 1t second 10 his more remu-
neratiye lecture engagements.
ITS NEW INHABITANTs.
II j. n strange yicssltude of fate which
has Overtakcu New Rochelle. As Its name
would Indicate, the town was founFd by
RELIGIOUS refugees from France -Huguenot5
driven out after the revocation OF the edicl
of Nantes. Even yet the descendants OF
the Frenchmen and NalloonS VINO came
there for ronsrirnce's sake ching 10 the ola
town and TO their fnith in Calvin.
But the Hugueuot blood isn't what shows
ON the surface. For some occult reason,
perhaps the mysterious attraction OF oppo-
sites New Rochelle has been pitched upon
by the artists and actors for their summer
homes. when the theatres close, or when
the weathor's fine, whether the theatres
are closed or not the town Is full OF gay
soubrettes and thn-faced come opera
clowns, and stars in the Legitimate hold
ing somewhat alooi. FRANCIS "hsoh
home at Pelham. with it, third-story thea
tre. is ONLY little way of. Frederic
Remington heads little colony Of artists
who live there, and. Mrs jennie June
Croly. of the H0ms Mater, expects 10 build
a home there for present and future occu-
pancy.
OVERHEARD on THE BRIDGE.
The Brooklyn bridge has o strange fasci-
nation for cranks. You meet them there
AT all hours, men who claim an intimate
relationship with the planets, men who
want to lump of and don't do 1t, men with
theories about electricity and music and
other things They gather about and stare
and the policemen prod them with their
clubs.
| overheard such man-old, stopped.
long bearded, the very image of cracked
brAin-muttering to himself as he ga1ed
M M the mighty towers. "Yos, it's big
bridge. a grand one. but there's one thing
that's wrong about 1t. You can't raise
strawberries on 1t. They ought 10 have
built it SO that you could raise strawber-
rics on it"