Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-15
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Odds and Ends Of Life Gathered in
the Form Of Interviews.
GOV, SAN HAUSER'S POKER STORY.
Theodore Thomas Says American Opera
Must Have an Endowment.
TRUNKS AT HOTELS AND ON TRAINS

TRUNKS AT HOTELS AND ON TRAINS
rcoRRrsPoyDKNcE OF THE ~p1sPArcB.1
NEW YORK, Feb. IA have picked up
the following short interviews in my walks
about town this week:
Ex-Governor Sam Hauser,, Of Mon
lanai am almost cured of travelling in a
special palace car with q number of gentle
men or what is known as q party. Several
years ago several Congressman and I started
together for q trip through the Far West to
California. We got together at Chicago and
began our journey in a happy frame of
mind. Some New York reporters, while 1
was In the city. got wind of our going, and
sent q. dispatch West to the effect that I and
q poker party OF congressman were aboard a
special car bound for California. In every
Western city we entered reporters came in to
ask rs, not about the object of our visit to
California. but how the poker game stood.
As we were not INDUCING in cards at
all we became wearied Of the joke. No
sooner had we arrived at San Francisco than
q persistent reporter tackled me about the
alleged poker game. He did not say alleged
because he really thought we had been
playing. It was too much. I told him it
was a base, foul, malignant, travelling, cor
rupting, allaround, bay-windowed. gable
rooted lie. He did not believe me, and
earnestly asked me to tell him how much
was lost and won and who were the lucky
ones. I never heard the last Of the alleged
poker game. The papers were filled with
illusions to it. Some time after this I and
several who were in the other party made ar
rangements to take another railroad trip. The
enterprising New York reporter telegiaphed
a date. It broke up the party. Inever go any
where with q party these days One would
imagine that I could play poker.
What People Read.
william T. Peoples. librarian of the Mercan-
tile Library-We have been established 20
years, and our library now numbers 22s,2 vol
umes. The following is q classification in vol
umes of the books circulated last year: Theol-
ogy, 2S34; mental and moral science. 2O6S; poll
tical science, 1851; literature. 20,982; history,
geography and travels, l5,6OO; biography, a.O6I;
mathematics. l64; natural science, l,sS5; medi-
cal science, ZIG; arts. S.l40; fiction, in English,
78, 800; in French, 1881; in German, S.546; in
other language, 81: total, 40, 0U2 Popular taste
evidently runs to fiction, you see. OF novels
most in vogue We sometimes have ten dupli-
cate copieA
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A Test of Honesty.
Colonel George W. Parrott President
of the Capitol City Bank, Atlanta, Ga.-Some
queer feelings come over q man when he ex-
poets to be awakened at night and asked to run
away with q lot Of gold. After the fall of
Richmond, Ex-Governor Rufus B. Bullock, of
Georgia, had $40. 900 in gold belonging to the
Contederacy which he was conveying to Au-
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wagons. We started from Blackstone, s. c.,
and were three days and nights en- route to Au-
gusta. The Ex-Governor knew as well as ] that
the Confederaoy was doomed, and nat in .
short time General Lee would have to sur
render. Every night I rather expected the ex-
Governor to como to me and say something
about not delivering the gold to a designated
bank in Augusta. But he was as honest as any
man can be. He never even limited by innuendo
that the plan of dividing the gold would not be
bad. ! often laugh and tell the Ex-Governor
make q propositions to divide the gold. II is in
trying circumstances that men prove their
mettls and what they are made OF Since that
time I have never doubted the integrity and
incorruptible honesty Of Ex-Governor Bullock.
One of SANKEY'S Black Boys,
Henry M. Stanley, late Of Africa-I have
have had any number Of bright African
boys attached to my stan. only to lose them by
some carelessness on their part. One boy, taken
from the interior Of Africa, was particularly
hr;oh+ T took him IN Eurona with ma and sant
80 e. .chcoI for q wear and a half Thar he
had a longing to 90 back with me and / con-
sssa I'D ooa dav bs and nine others wars
davnsd Tbs natives are RECKLESS and do NOT
represeuted in q picture of myself at the New
York Fress Ciun Many questions nave Deen
aSAeo - nic,nrad IL Isnt -. -ao
# most youne African.
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The Curse of Bossism.
Er.ccnoressman Henry G.. Burleioh- Of
No. York-The curse of any p~oltiical nartv
o. hossi.m Iet one man imagine he can hos. a
n.rtv 4, a stats and his eporism becomes 40
800 he ooes around wearing it as a kind of
s-..Iha,e N. Lii h.vo = anear in avarvtbine
Io'A.Ns
tnas ID uons, III efery Lesisiae'o ac1' anu very
soon nothing can be done unless 1t has a politi-
D.. fan from imnsriaI b.ssism. and anv marty
80 a. e., :. ,.rn ~ 49,
tnat attemPes anur 81
will fan to pieces bosslsm Is against the spirit
of American institutions. 1 am o Republican
In notifies. but I am against anything, even In
nan has a rioht 70 stand un and arnress
~ cniniar and acs az 4 fres man hut mapy AZ
~, ~ ~ hacanss thew are afraid of beino idis.
.sr,insd,, hv aome distfiet or CITY boss Tba
Sritisb tried TO boss rs many years AGO. bnr
s s,ats il sn ! bie nluw for a boss to maninnIats
politically. but after several years the yoke be-
comes 700 gsinng anu LUG ReDp,1 ~ up, IRE
sPsosi ,.,bsr he 4 coal shoyeler in sbsoi thsns
t,uckisr and iickspittle for q political Don.
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