Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-12-15
OAKEY HALLS BUDGET.
The Gentle Reader and Stroll Around
New York.
And See Notable Citizens Known
to the Whole Union-Their Per-
sonal Characteristics Described
as We Pass.
From our Regular Correspondent

(From our Regular Correspondent
New York. December 12.-Julian
Ralph. with whose name all read
ers of Harper's Magazine have
become familiar, has recently publish
ed q volume entitled People Whom We
Pass" signifying as his subject a class
whom like the Pharisee, all men pass
by neglectfully and which only the
good Samaritan succors. Beatrice
Harridan's famous book is entitled
"Sbips that Pass in the Night" title
suggestive of things which elapse I'M
seen. But I propose now TO refer to
some Of the notable people Of New
York. whom a stranger may pass by,
ignorant of their identity, but of whom
he has abundantly heard. For in
stance. the gentle reader phrase be-
loved of Charles Lamb and may,
about Q o'clock of a hazy and sunny
early winter morning, have turned out
of TWenty-third street under shadow
Of the Seward statue for a walk up
broadway. AS we cross to the entrance
Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel we encount-
81, coming out and about to enter the
small coupe awaiting him, a well-fed
and unobtrusiveiy dressed gentleman
of about sixty years old, wearing as
cunning a face as was that OF Aaron
Burr. A little group OF gentlemen Is
size with him, and two or three others
come from under the portico intending
m intercept him. But he suavely waves
Them all aside, and with a courteous
how that practically means glad TO
get rid of YOU as nuisances, steps INTO
his coupe with policy declines to slam
lis door. and is driven off. That IS
State Republican Boss Thomas I.
pla+t an babitue OF the hotel, who has
inst breakfasted and read, with unc-
tion especially, the newspapers that
abuse him: and IS now en- route to the
ofice of the United States Express
Company. whose untiring president ne
is. He sits back in his vehicle, as Il
anxious to escape observation, and pro-
bablv as he is driven downtown, IN
dulges in his amusement or pollucai
reverie and debates within his breast
whether TO remain presidentially true
IN Levi p. Morton. whom he made Gov
srnor or TO throw his influences Tor
Speaker Reed.
Leaving him to his platitudes OF
+bought we continue our walk. On the
block above. coming out of his Holman
HOuse we encounter the host familiar
lv called Ned Stokes, arm in arm with
Comodore Elbridge T. Gerry. who as
constructing an enlargement OF the no
tel on property owned by MIN. Iney
step over to the Worth Monument ana
are evidently examining the DeautHul
architectural front now finishing: when
they are saluted by a wiry gentleman
| clad in a light Overcoat, fastening
across into Madison Square, his pockets
full of bonbons which he will present.
" dispense to children as he sits dem
ocraticallv on one Of the benches which
the bronzed Roscoe Conkl.ng, day and
night. gazes upon from his granite
pedestal. This is the erratic George
Francis Train, who originated horse
RAILWAYS in London and aided in de-
Welcoming our Pacific railroads. Look
ING backward now, we notice the rosy.
unruffied face Of Stokes, and we wonder
IT, like the ghost of Banquo to Mac
beth the ghost of James FISK ever
shakes his CORY locks at him. Gerry
is seemingly absorbed in viewing the
antioues-as Custom House officers
know. He IS neatly but unassumingly
dressed. and above his frosted whlskers
wears a characteristic fur toque, Rus
sian fashion. He is a man OF AFFAIRS,
is both in his own family and through
his wife a multi-millionaire, but proud
or Of his genealogy than his wealth OF
his official connection with the society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to chill
dren: because his grandfather was once
Governor OF Massachusetts, and MS
great-grandfather a signer of the De
c,aration Of Independence, and he the
third of the illustriOus name. Leaving
them to settle building details, we soon
mass an addressed. slouchy gentleman
wearing "a shocking bad hat bun
whose face is alert with intellectually,
and even genius. 1t is Augustin the is
particular about the TIM DAILY, on ms
way TO superintend the rehearsal OF a
new play. As he passed the door oil ms
old Fifth avenue theatre, which he builJ,
and once managed, he exchanges a
nerfunctory nod with a brusque look
ing and hard-faced gentleman whom L
recognized as manager OF the tneatre'
Henry c. Miner, who, having recently
taken his seat as Congressman, and
there been informed it was to be con-
tested bv Tim Campbell, long Con-
gressional joker, Gin this the successor
tn Sunset Cox. has returned TO town to
look after a new play, which he cares
more for than his low backed chair un-
dor Tom Reeds eagle eye. Presently,
we excessively stumble upon three
more managers, A. NJ. Palmer, at the
door of his theatre, where a Shop Girl
treads the boards; Henry Abbey, and T.
Henry French-for upper Broadway
is now a street Of theatres and opera
houses. and a RialtO for stage toik. IN
like DAILY, each is dressed IN the helgnt
of swelldom modes. Palmer IS the
most Distinguished looking, and Is
double of the celebrated Sir Henry
lanes. once Attorney General in Lon
don He is also the most intellectual
oP the three, and just now is very hap
nv over the success Of "Trilby." AS
we mass Abbey. who, as manager, is to
IN London. we detect in his manner
New York what Sir Augustus Harris rs
and step the embodiment of the Amer
lean hustler, restless withal, being
chimerical, and executive from scalp to
toes. Frendh's appearance is deceptive.
with his rosy face, his languid air, and
ouiazical eyeglasses, gentle readers
would take him off hand to be a gentle
man of elegant leisure and a social
butterfly. But with two theatres and
two travelling companies, and a huge
dramatic publishing house on his hands
and a branch Of it in London, he has
little leisure.
Entering New Hearald Square, upon
which the long, low Bennett building
fronts. we pass by George Rowland,
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