Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-04-03
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OFFICE HOURS. ~ TO l."
LLOYD s. Bryce. the present owner and
editor, really works there four or Eve
hours a day, and that is getting 10 DO the
average of the oilice-hOurs Of your success
| iul New Workers. Not that such "A one
| does not work with his brain and at his
profession or business many more hours
than flve in the twenty-four. He simply
varies the scene and surroundings and
method Of his work 10y gong elsewhere.
! Meeting people is now a well-recog-
nized part OF n lawyers business. for eX-
ample. He must mix" But TO return
for moment 10 General Bryce, who
York editors. He looks like a fnnicky
chef of fashion, with more clothes
than ideas. He is actually one of those
New Workers enrolled by Butler McAllister
in that apOtheOsIs of social Idiocy, 1.-The
One Hundred and Fifty" But, as mat
ter of fact Editor Bryce is nothing OF the
kind. He is q bTalny man, and an admlrer
Of brains In others. His wife IS one of the
handsOmest ornaments of the Metropoli-
tan Opera House boxes. The other day
General Bryce, who Is nothing if not po-
lite-escorted a young cOutrlbutor-young
mon really do have chance at the Re
Cjstc-tO the grating IN front OF the cash
Ter and directed that sedate functionary
20 make out to the young contributor
order a check for a gTatifyingly large
amount. Now the young contributor mad
not felt at all certain az To this particular
article, whether he was going to hear from
the cashier at al or not. His surprise and
delight at being escorted TO that desirable
individuals presence 10y no less person
age than the oGitor-in-cbiet may be well
imagined. General Bryce didn't want to
wait however, IN front OK the railing untll
check for 50 many figures could be
made out and handed over. And yet he
didn't want his young contributor 10
fail of being bowed out Of the office. so
he eXcogitated brilliant excuse for doing
what tue average editor wouldn't have
done al all, because lie wouldn't have gone
10 the cashiers with any contributor
whomsoever. q n,ral Bryce said: You
Will really excuse me now, won't you, as 1
have a particular engagement inside 10
read MIS-" The average editor hasn
time for so mUcn courtesy. The average
proprietor knows the contributors but to
ignore them. The average edltor-in. chief
does not read MSS. He probably. has a
man with small judgment to read them
Tor him.
THEATRICAL CURIOs.
EVERYBODY hopes that the history and
literature OF the American stage may be
shown IN their true merit at the big dra-
matte exposition TO be held in Vienna this
summer. But It remains fact that col
lectOTs Of theatrical curiOS are moro Jea-
lous If their treasures, perhaps, than are
any other delivers in the quaint. Some OF
these private collections are the result Oh
the life Is bOrs of several generations. They
constitute property OF considerable actual
and enormous sentimental value. My old
So 4 4 4.
now of Broadway, thinks as much
OF his rare prints and photographs as
if they were children Of his IONS. The
entire law-otiice of Thomas q. McDermott
would hold barely half of his collection of
books ON the history of the drama. Peter
Gllsoy's cases of silver aud copper tokens,
by winch playgoers were passed in and
out Of the London theatres before door
checks" and coupons had ever been
heard OF. have high and intrinsic
and artistic value there are, IN
deed no duplicates in existence OF
MANY of MIR. Gllsey's silver medals
that's what they look like to q non-nu-
mnsmatic mind. At the Davidge residence,
in Pacific street, Brooklyn, there Is q
collection of programmes and theatrical
records of that sort OF which William ana
Maggie Harold Davidse are the second
generation of curators and collectors.
4
the shores of Germany will have more H.
surance than the regular North German
Liovd policy of reserve fund. now that
the EiGer has become total loss the fund
which the Oelrlchs's company MAINTAINS by
n system of practical self-insurance Will be
drawn on heavily TO build her successor.
| made IN these letters last August the
first announcement OF the formidable pro
prietors of the new Cunarders, already
\. 1 Il lao lal a.
breakers. ! think IL quite probable that
nv friend Herman OelrIchs Will surprise
the world when his new North German
LLOYD boat makes her DEBUT. But he will have
to scan the map of the katherlGnd pretty
closely to find a huyial name for her. It's a
little curious that Mr.. Oelrichs. who mar
RED a Miss Flood, should have to be look
Ing up new rivers all the time TO name ms
crack steamers by.
ANEW MAN TO THE FRONT.
The Legislature Of New York may now
be SAID 10 have reached the portrait
period. Anybody who can tell what has
become of all the oil paintings or William
NJ. Tweed, which OF a certain time Ill hls
senatorial career must have been executed
low the score, wall probably have no diff
Guilty in forecasting the fate OF the beauti-
ful canyases now being done IN OILS
up at the state Capital. Far be
1t from me, however, to predict
or even suggest anything OF an
ignominious fate for the. portrait OF
Speaker T.. Bush. winch ] learn from
Fl. end, Mr.. Cuyler Ten Eyck has just been
commissioned. by committee OF the
Assembly TO do in oil. Mr.. Ten Eyck did
the excellent portrait of Roscoe Conk-
ling which has for months hung near the
main entrance Of the Hoffman House. Mrs:
W. G.. Oakman. Mr.. Conkling's married
daughter, was, am told, delighted with
MIR. Ion Eycks work. Mr.. Oakman. by
the way, used 10 be spoken OF as " Mr..
Conkling's son-in-law.n His tather-in-
law had very little 20 do with him. The
reason for this dislike was said To be the
fact that when he married the great New
Workers. daughter Mr. Oakman was only
division superintendent on the Delaware
and Lackawanna railroad. But Oakman
was a silent, perseyering man. II seems, as
sturdy as his name might indicate. Ana
now II Is announced tnat he is the new
president of the great Richmond Terminal
railroad system.
The LOGIC OF OUR SITUATION.