Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-10

valiant deeds and organizing rows even IN
times OF peace. 1t is interesting to the pub.
lie and gratifying to his friends to observe
that he really only needs the proper sphere
In which TO display his abilities.
In the realm of fair women, as the fashion
article has it, the announcement Is made
that daughter of Smith NJ. Weed has
started with some friends around the world.
The number of women IN New York and
in the West who have calmly undertaken
that trip very recently is calculated to
startle Christopher Columbus and make
everyone reflect on the changes that have
taken place since he felt his way across the
poor wretched little Atlantic
1t may also be announced, as interesting
and suggestive of London, that young
woman who finds herself obliged to get rid
of her brutal husband, and who knows
everyone in New York society, proposes to
open a millinery shop on Fifth avenue and
make her own fortune quite independent OF
alimonv There is no doubt that she will
receive the most enthusiastic support if her
courage holds out.
Death of the Dough-Cake's Father.
New York mourns at present the death of
Mr., Oliver Hitchcock, and many stories are
told of his fine traits, all true. But the
most important thing he ever did was to in
vent the present system of cheap eating in
New York. He is the creator of the
atrocious dough cakes and other monstrous
concoctions which thousands of young
clerks and working women devour instea d
of the healthy food which they might buy
at the same cost. New York is city of
dyspeptics and of young men of stunted
growth and pallid faces. Mr.. Hitchcock's s
eating system is largely responsible for 1t.
1t would be considerably worse than ridlcu-
lous to enact laws hostile to hot cakes but
there is not much doubt that hot-cake shops
rival in their evil effects the harm done by
rum.
One member of the Astor family has built
on Fifth avenue a fine hotel which over
shadows the private residence of a second
member of the Astor family, and to some
extent makes that residence undesirable. 1t
is announced that the Astor whose resi-
dence is dwarfed by the hotel intends to
change his residence into shops, and this is
hailed as a continuation of the so-called
Astor war, which has furnished such very
fine material to those who deal in little So
ciety writings.
Transformation of Fifth Avenue.
As matter of fact the destruction of the
numerous old residences on Fifth avenue
and the building of hotels and shops means
that before long Fifth avenue must cease to
be spoken of as the fashionable street of
New York In many cases old residents
have recognized the inevitable tendency Of
events, and have fixed in their minds and
discussed with their friends the prices at
which their homes should become shops.
Even the cost of the houses erected in the
upper part of the street will not prevent
Fifth avenue from becoming row of retail
shops to the Central Park. Then will come
a gigantic real estate boom. Strangers will
be told of Fifth avenue as they are now told
of Fourteenth street, that it was once a
street of dwellings. The man who can guess
where Fifth avenue will go to can come to
New York and make little Astor of him.
self without trouble.
A certain number of very clever men
spend their days looking for new things to
write novels or short stories about. There
is a fine subject in the sale Of cab that re-
Gently took place in this city. 1t was not
worn out, butt was not new. 1t had car
ried loads of all sorts at all hours of the day
and night, and now, if we may believe the
story which a rival school tells, it is in the
back ward of a fashionable girls boarding
school, and at certain intervals the daugh-
ters of proud and wealthy parents from the
far West walk out to the cab in a line and
take lessons in the art of getting in and out
of carriage properly. The girls are most
beautiful, of course, also most graceful and
young. 1t is fine and quiet old age which
that cab enjoys. ARTHUR BRISBANE