Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-04-24
OHIO TO THE FRONT.
NOTES ABOUT THE RECENT DINNER
GIVEN TO WhlTELAW REID.
Horrors of movins-Day in New York
Langtrys Expensive Bouse-A GALAXY
of Editorial Talent
oror,o.nonaoncco Q, the Richmond Dispa,ch.l

rCorrcspondoncco the Richmond Dispatch.I
Nrw YoRK. April 2s.--The dinner given
by the Ohio Society to Mr.. Whitclaw heio'
our late Minister to France, was charm,
ing affair. It brought together some OF
tho brightest and most alert minds 10 thc
Mr.. Reid certainly had reason 10
to feel highly complimented, a. the di1pe.
was in every sense marked event Inc
Ohio Society, which. by the way !" Do-
coming q social power in TINS CITY, was
never better represented than at TINS , ON.
per. We have all heard.a grea, oesi aouus
the potentially Of OHIO sna tno w"y
IN which it has impressed itseh uppn
public affairs sirfce the beginning y.
This dinner the other night that not only
10 the President Of the United states an
Ohio man. but four members OF his oaDi,
net~Messrs. Foster, Elkins,, Noble ana
Rusk-had the honor 20 be born III III I'm
,sdiant and assertive State. Mr.. hat
stead- commenting upon this dinner. saw
that he was much struck oy the Pi.asa a,s
intercourse which took place 0et"ee11
Mr.. George w. Childs. OF Phnadeiphlsa, anu Nv,
Mr.. Charles A. Dana. IDey SAT siuo vy
s,de at the table. and their geniaiity
J;n;n,' hail The fact that MIR. Dana had
for many wears t" guyed" and poked fun AZ
the noble hearted editor of the Ledger seelil-
cd in the estimation of the company pre-
ont 10 call for a little GOODNESS. Wheh .n vi
was not manifested an impression preshn-
ed that the editorial millennium mao ar-
rived Asa matter of fact MI. Dana ~ Vne
Of the most GENIAL men at the dlnner-'apie
/ ever met. Although % years Oh on On o nd
mind is as acute as that OF q ooy Oh ~, ~
he has a way OF saying pleasant tn'nS
which suggests sweetness VI 80, 60
almost feminine. He does not seem "
- mai,ce AGAINST those who have revived
him and he does not allow any OF the aIi suo
tics Of the dining-room 10 lnteIIeIe
MIN his nastime of flaylng people VINO
ha,,,,on 10 cross his orbit. In other worus'
~ d;nner cenIality seems 10 be as eVahes,
cont 40 the champagne. Anew years ago
co, he his side at q dinner gwen IN boston
10 Colonel Taylor. of the G,ote. ,NotWitn-
standipe the hostility which had Dee Il. en-
oendered between the Sun ana .ne nTeu'
Mr.. Dana was almost fatheriy IN ni sod L.
,oes "a mo that evening. He chatteu pea,
ssrtlv about pretty much everything ana
everybody. The impression ieit upon ny
mid was that Mr.. Dana was one OF the
s,yeetest and least-understood men IN the
;orrroiistio profession. Ever regarding
I'm nc nitrate. shifted around before
tbe ovenino was over to point wneie
could almost contemplate MN as my
Uncle Toby. We parted the Ioyellest ol
friends. a few days Giterwaru ne "iote
and published in the sun most nlaIiG ho.,s
and unproyoked attack upon me- hnEo
boop watching the sun every day SINCE the
Rod dinner TO see how completely the
venerable ogre will lay out Mr.. Childs with
his editorial bludgeon, just by way OF eni-
pbasizing his independence.
TIE DAY OF CHAOS.
The approach Of the lst OF Nav means
ms much seriousness for the CITY OF new
York as the proposed uprising OF the An
srcbists In the chief cities OF Europe. ~
,s our moyinc-dav. For some reason alto
gethcr inscrutable, il seems to me, land
fords aud kouse-owners of this city insist
ON terminating all leases on the last dav OF
April. Ii rs impossible at any time or the
veor 70 rent an apartment or mousse
Tor n ppriod bevcnd the following lst OF
NAV This starts everybody 10 moving on
Tho came dav. and chaos Is the result. Not
only This. the demand for trucks and
moving vans is 50 great that prices are hxed
IN suit the owners of the same. A truck
man who has been an obsequlous anu IN
tellipent canvasser for business curing
eleven months OF the year becomes an IN
solent aud independent creature as the day
Of HIS exaltatiOn approaches. for at leas'
FIVE DAYS IN the year he - pretty much
monarch OF all he can survey. And wagon
and horse. worth as a total 500, pay the
hest interest on investment OF anything IN
the eo1utrv--not even excepting the
Stan3ard-On trust. To avoid eXtortlop
ard tho rush incident to the lst OF May
most of tho well-conditionod people who
have moving 20 do begin about the 18TH.
Tho sircets now are blossomlng with
moving vans and trucks bearing house
hold goods. which look The worse Tor sun
LIGHT exposure. IL Is natural IN this con-
nection to recall the story that Bill Nye
need to tell about his att mpt 20 move Ia
this civ on Mav-day. He loaded all ms
movaules into one large wagon. surmount-
cd the same with his children. and drove
down to lis new apartment. Mhen ne
Got there he found that, the wife OF tie
tepan. beng seriously III. 1t had been
thought wise not to move that day, ana
conseouently there was no vacancy Tor
him. He drove his effects back to his
former establishment, but the new lessee
had moved in with all of his traps and the
Nve family was lett on the outside be.
tween the devil ana the deep sea" as II
were. With the natural resources or the
western man, MIR. Nye solved the problem
by going down to Union Square and camp
inc for the night. The story of his pitch
ing his tepee near the fountain and making
a Dot of coffee over an aboriginal camp
fire was certainly very amusing, II not en-
tirelv yeraclous. Ii at least depicted III {
general and jocund way some OF the nor
rors of moving day in New York city.
AIM DE Steele FUNCTION.
One Of the most interesting develop
ments is the public function called din
ner. II Lieutenant IOtten's prediction
should hit the mark, of which there is no
more than one chance IN half million
since every mothers son Of us isa prophe
and the son of prophet, the end OF thi
century will be the end OF the world an
fin de steele. Civilization Is. indeed, tn
very acme of everything sublunary. Their
is no feature of social life at the clos'
of the nineteenth century, the most nota
bic by far in the record OF clviliza
ton, so marked as the use OF the Dime
as a means of transacting puon
and private. If Dlckens's Society Tor th
Purpose of Purveying Red-flannel Waist
coats for the Hottentots--or words to tina
elfect-were to spring into existence now II
New York its overt act would be-, IN al
probability. reunion around the damasl
and roses, with some one of our score o
trained after. dinner orators 70 speak whel
clears came in. The latest example OF II
I believe. is the organization OF the Git
Climb. for the purpose of reforming NeN
York and making il q place bette
worth living in" which has Just me
and dined, in squads this time, on &C
oount of numbers and then reconvened il
dinner conventions at Sherry's. Truly IRE
form is ilS the air." and people who ar
compelled to dine on air must think 1t
GOOD deal of farce. The 500 Clty-Clu
men who assembled might easily have gon
without their dinners, and the $500, at
low estimate, thus saved for the cause O
reform, would have purchased ample foo
At the cheap coffee-stands for no less tina,
5000 starving New Yorkors Are Their
that many in need Of food and unable t
get any at dinner-time of an averag
evening? Well, the estimate Is meagr
to a degree. But there IS, unfortunately
no reason in the existing condition O
affairs to believe that hunger and povert,
will ever be abolished. Henry Georg
himself, the very apostle of the movement
for tho abolition of poverty, only receive
$500 or 500 out of a 5000 bequest LEI
him by New jersey admirer not lon
since for the express purpose OF aiding u
the abolition OF poverty, and so ineffec
tual are our poor human instruments
that nearly all of the legacy was abolishe
In transit before it reached Mr.. George
hands.
MULDooN TRAINING BLAINE.