Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-07

road tram IN tho pleasant company OK one
OF the managers, and was surprised TO pear
the conductor say in all seriousness that
the locomotive fireman on The very engine
mat drew US was no less ps5sp,n ,n DAD
count 9rabowsks, q stalwart Pole VINO
was. IL anything, sensitive shout puoncity
regarding his title. or had. at least. grown
so heartily to despise Is es 70 prefer 70 20
known "a plain Grabowski, fIrbman, ~
y.otr service. On inquiry ! learned that
the man was an excellent workman. put
on no frills, did his turn with the rest, and
saved his wages What an example was
that for our imported counts. 30 many Q,
whom insist upon feeding upon pie anu
trIed chicken three OF four times any IN
the intervals of their dining-room duties
IN summer hottest
The Count Grottkoaski is a merchant IN
business in this city, and IN good standing.
He is q dealer in hides. and does business
under the plain but not Insignificant name
OF Grottkodski. But he -, am iniorineu'
genuine count. Count Valcourt de YER
mont was for a long t-pea writer on inc
Courier des Flats Us, and mas had ms
name published as an author on SEVERN
title-pages. Count william Won Bernsdorn
was the title given some evenings ago as
belonging 10 an intelligent and energetic
writer now in this city doing daily tasks IN
journalism. In one OF the great riding
schools near Central Park Count slensdorh
has been popular instructor, and - muen
admired for the frmness OF MS seat anu
the snavity Of bis manner.
The last time went from Milwaukee 20
Chicago the parlor-car conductor. IN strict
confidence, called my attention TO the fact
that one OF the WATERS IN the dinlng-car
was genuine dyed-in-the-wool Kusslen
nobleman. The pompadour appearance Oh
his wool" when my eye nrst hghtea on
this distinguished foreigner, seemed 70
give ocular demonstration of ais patent 70
nobility. The whole country appears 20
be spotted, or, / might say, glorlhel by
counts, who for the time permit them
selves to be counted, as 1t were, among
us. Count Percy n. Duboeay. OF Ialulan
Falls, y. d.. is q professional gentle
man whose name is now and then lnen-
toned in the newspaper dispatches from
those parts az standing in high repute
among the Dakotans. think he IS doc
tor. and the third count doctor who mas
come TO my knowledge lately IS Count
OlazagO, medical practitioner IN Newark.
The Count Won Ballerstrom has long filled
a high position among bootblacks OF San
Francisco, where, believe, his title has
been duly investigated and authenticated.
Count Koenig conducted the second violin
In an orchestra at Atlantic CITY last season
with much ectdi, and not so verv long. ago
Count Won Sy6ert was an applicant Tor
position on the police force. OF Phila-
delphia. Among the army OF the I'M
employed in New York city Count George
Orschutz. OF Austria, was named at the
same time. l seize this opportunity OF
paying my respects 10 these gentlemen and
of assuring them that the cursory men,
ton | have made here of their names -
not intended as any reflection on their
titles. Some of our mobiles III business
hereabouts have shown themselves exceed
ingly sensitive on this score. Witness the
Baron Blanc. in his litofuge factory; tho
Marquis LAMA, in his health restorative
company. on south Fifth avenue, and the
Baron Lindemann. waiter III q Philadel-
phia hotel
PHASE OF JOURNALISM.
There was sad illustration hero the
other day of the Moloch character OF the
big daily newspapers. man named
Michael Hennessy one of the editors OF
the Times. died after a short illness. Few
people outside of the Times Office knew
Mr.. Hennessy, and, strange to say, only
small number on the inside; lie had Tor
years cd ted the commercial department
of the paper. His WORK did not require
him TO be about the Office o great deal,
and az the new people came and the
old people went Mr.. Hennessy found HIM
self almost stranger IN tho establish
ment HIS work went on with ceaseles5
regularity. For fOrty-one years he was a
member of the editorial staff of the Times.
Indeed, he assisted Mr.. Raymond IN the OF
ganization of the Times, and was on his
payroll a month before the paper was
issued. He was, in fact, tho doyen OF the
staff. His funeral called for unusual re-
spect from his associates. just five mem-
bers OF the Times force attended his rune
raj. One of these was Gilbert Jones hlm-
self, be 1t SAID to his credit, and
another oOunting-room clerk VINO
had known Mr. Hennessy intimately I;
compositOr, and two editors. One OF
these, a twenty-three-year member or
the staff. told me this story with tears IN
his eyes. lie was shocked TO think that go
old a seryitOr of the Times could fall by
the wayside and have no more respect paid
10 his memory. But this IL journalism.
Mr. Hennessy mad outliyed the friends of
his early DAYS and the exactlons OF his
daily drudgery had prevented the forma-
ton of new protesslona. ties. ana so
when he died he found himself almost for
gotten by the very newspaper Wmcn ne
had helped to create, and which had Tor
forty-one years enjoyed and absorbed MS
richest faculties.
NEW STEAMSHIP LINE.
An interesting news note reaches me
which directly concerns every American
citizen who expects 10 travel TO the far
East. 1t IS to the effect that the Message
ries Maritlmes, whose procession OF mag
nificent steamships now runs from Franco
to Egypt, India, China, and Japan, pro-
| pose to extend their lines 10 America.
should this arrangement be carried out It
would be possible to sail on these splendid
vessels without change from Marsellles,
France, TO San Diego, CAL, almost circllng
the globe in the ship.
AprESiAN-NEIl IN RICHMOND.