Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-25
MATTERS OF MOMENT.
A Budget of Short Talks with All Sorts Of
People on All Sorts of Topics Gathered
by The Dispatchis Staff Correspondent In
New York City.

People on All Sorts of Topics Gathered
by The Dispatch's Staff Correspondent In
New York City.
rFRoM STAFF coRREsPoNDENT.l
DWIGHT LAWRENCE, Librarian State Sen
ate-The war correspondents at the seat Of the
indian difficulties have been doing good work.
The greatest war correspondents this country
ever saw in my opinion. were Richardson. Vii
lard and Redpath. They saw more battles than
anybody else during the war of the Rebellion,
not excepting army officers.
BILLY DEUTsCH. insurance agent and man.
about-town-The best book on poker is by
John w. Keller, President of the Tenderloin
Club. The notes which General Schenck
wrote and printed for the benefit Of lady in
London are now almost obsolete. The game
has progressed in 20 years. I tell you the big
gest sum / ever won was at baccarat-100,0 600
francs. at Monte Carlo-bur I lost it again.
There's nothing in gambling-nothing but fun.
ADAM ENGEL, chophouse keeper-As New
Workers are getting more and more Anglo
maniac the number of chophouses Is on the in
crease. We have now ten well-known chop
houses in town. I've been established II years.
have small place and only one waiter, but
do big business. l use a hogshead of ale
every six or seven days. and during the past six
months l used 1880 pounds of cheese for rare
bits. My waiter makes $3.50 month on tips. SO
you can calculate how popular tipping IS
among our clubmen.
BRENTANo, the stationer-Fancy stationery
is made more and more elaborate. Monograms
are on the decline. but odd symbolic figures are
In vogue. Ladies visiting cards are still larger
than mems. Colored inks are in almost COM
plete disuse. Red and purple inks are now con-
hnsd to the plebeians of the East and West
Sloe Sealing wax is favored by the elite, but
not universally. Grey and dried rose are favor
lite tints for sealing wax. Most people would
still shock Lord Chesterfield by sending him
envelopes sealed with saliva.
BUCK TAYLOR recently with Buffalo Bill
The Indian war didn't come to a close until
Cody got there. 1t is very amusing, isn't it? 1t
Is especially amusing to those who know Cody
pretty well. He is afraid of the tame Indians
he has with the show. Cody? Why, he is
afraid Of an Indian in front of cigar store.
However, l am glad that he has settled the
for him now, If only to let him have all the
big Sioux chiefs for exhibition, perhaps, during
the coming season.
THoRLEY, the forist-Fifteen years ago
most of the New York florists lived on the
Eastside, and you sometimes had to scramble
up rocks to get at them. Now florists are to be
found on every block. Saturday is our best
day. Tuesdays and Thursdays are good days
for bouquets. We have bachelors to whom we
send boutonniere bouquets every morning. and
they pay by the MONTH Matinee girls are good
customers. Different tints are fashionable at
diHerens dn nth, times; NOW pale lavender seems to
Long Island and Jersey.
Ex-SURRoGATE:RoLLI main requi.
site Of AT after-dinner speaker is terse and
appropriate humor. That's why Depew is such
success. An anecdote always goes well.
Brevlty is a necessity. When / was toast
master at a Dartmouth College dinner some
time ago. rose and gave the speakers some
good advice: "Gentemen, your speeches will
doubtless be very fine. bur, for the good of all,
they must be brief. 1t took Gibbon 20 years to
write the Rise and Fall of the Roman EN-
pire." we are told. intend to make a rule
here tonight. and that Is, that every speaker
must rise and fall in exactly five minutes"
WILLIAM MULDooN, trainer-The reason
most men about town and women of fashion
get fat is because they eat late at night Just
before going to bed. The system asslmilates
food rapidly during sleep and adipose gathers.
wouldn't touch malt liquor after supper or
just before gong to bed. The proof of the cor
rectness of my theory that eating and drinking
late at night is I'M furious to symmetry of form
lies In the fact that most Germans are fat and
fabby, and, as you know, they are inveterate
drinkers OF beer and eaters of rye bread and
heavy cheese after theaters, operas and con-
concerts.
MARIE JANSEN. the actress-Whenever we
play in Philadelphia take run over to New
York for few hours. Most actresses do-iust
to keep their hand in as it were, and make a few
purchases. The tendency Of dress is toward
simplicity among actresses. The day has gone
by when actresses successfully advertised their
profession by their clothes. The only players
who still cling to the prononce are soubrettes.
her attire was SO loud had to put cotton in my
earsl Joking aside, agree with Madame de
Girardin. who said somewhere that the way for
lady TO wear dress is to forget it.
1. HoFF, barber on Union Souare-The sham
poo1ng machine has gone out in metropolitan
shops. We also rarely use hot water for the
faces of the shaved, not half as much as they
do in other cities Of this country. Our barber
shops are much superior to foreign barber shops
in furniture, comfort and elegance We now
have cane summer chairs and velvet winter
chairs. Less hair washes and dyes are used
than formerly. The average err salary OF @ barber
makes at least $40 on tips. Men about town
often have cups in three different barber Shops
ready for any emergency. There Is great
rivalry between Italian. French and German
BARRIERS. Colored BARRIERS are out OF fashion in
New York.
HORACE MCVICKER, theatrical manager
Eve been settled in New York some four
months now. and I must say like it better
than do Chicago. Plays I think there will
be steadily increasing demand for plays by
Americans authors. The old English melo-
drama seems to have come to the end of its
tether. Melodramas are now costly things to
mount. Twenty.ti five thousand dollars at a lick
is what some of them cost. Managers moro
than ever demand that authors shall put start
lingly realistic effects into their plays. 1t used
to be joke to say of playwright that he had
built play around a patent thunder storm.
It's joke no longer. It's soberly accepted
and necessary fact.
GENERAL CHARLES E. FURLoNG, formerly
on the staff of General A. ]. Smith, walk 20
miles regularly every day. It is more often "a
miles than it is less than 90 These walks are
confined to the pavements of New York. Why
do do it? Because have nothing else to do
and it is healthful and agreeable exercise.
have plenty of money and do not care to go
down into Wall street to be plucked by the
sharpers. My life is getting along toward the
close and don't care to go into any business.
Ihave travelled all over the world, having been
around 1t completely three times, and there is
no novelty in foreign travel for me. Day by
day as walk about the streets OF New York
see more IN one day to interest me than most
men see in fortnight
ALFRED DE CoRDovA, stock broker-Almost
all the men on the Stock Exchange have some
hobby. Some like yachts some actresses, some
horses. They take little time for lunch, most
of them. in winter. but in summer you'll find
them at the fishing clubs, at Curtyhunk. Basque
Island and Squipnocket. Downtown clubs by
the way, have proved failures. Busy men
won't take the time to loiter in them. That
may do in Paris, where man starts for de-
jeuner at IL and comes back at 2 but it won't
do in this hustling town. can't get away from
business, even when am at my country place,
Chetoah n. j., three miles from Wall street.
My office boy sends me stock quotations per
carrier pigeon every hour. The message is at
tached under the birds wing and arrives all
right. {.
BENJAMIN. dealer in autographs-There is
little demand for the heroes of the Revolution
more for the soldiers of the Rebellion. Co.
temnnraries bring next to nothing Dickens,