Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-07-04


ana radsh for all time to come.
The mans knowledge Of things and
people is extraordinary. and his memory
phenomenal
Remenyi said: when first came TO
New York-it was In ISL was An exile
At that time the people OF tbs country
knew such enthusiasm for Kossuth and
the Hungarian cause as you OF to-day
can never know for anything-not even
for yourselves. On, the memory Of those
times makes the heart beat II makes the
heart warm. Citizens Of the town came
down TO the ships &c welcome the exiles
and TO provide for them. They were
taken into the New York families when
they landed 1t 50 happened that j be-
came the guest Of John keeze Bailey.
Knickerbocker In that family Washing
ton was spoken OF as Familiarity by the
mother and older members as we at
this table would speak OF each other.
BOY OF SEVENTEEN.
81 was young boy OF Il. The name
OF Washington by as at home was wor-
shipped. What then did 1t mean to me
to be a member OF a household where his
past visits were spoken Of, his words
quoted tTivially. as would be the express
sions OF any intimate friend, An. IL
seems that could almost touch the hem
OF the garment Of the hero worshipped
Of Hungary, That was in the days when
the Baileys lived at . sixteenth street.
Union Square. They had come there
from their former home. in Wall street.
next the Treasury building. where they
had kept two cows. and used TO rejoice
when the season came for them 20 mi
CRATE 10 their country-scat-at twenty
seventh street. John Keeze Bailey's
father had given Union Square 10 the
city in order 20 enhance the value Of
his property in Sixteenth street, which
was hOpelcssly far from town. Ii was
along about then that the City Hall was
built and finished up behind with stone,
because II was 50 far up town
that nobody would ever build far enough
, up to get view of the back. Such hos
ptality as this city gave to the Hun
garians then was never known before.
"Wen l remember an early appear
ance in America. Wilhelmj was here
too There was a monster charity CON
cert given for the Hungarian sufferers
from a terrible nundation. There was
500 realized through that concert by
collections and all. Henry Ward Boecher
opened the concert with "A prayer and
speech. Wilhelm and l played duet.
Afterward some enthusiastic Hungarian
rushed IN TO me. threw his arms about
me. and kissed my cheek. Beecher WIS
with me. ] wiped my cheek. and Mr..
Beecher said: You wipe away that kiss?
All, ! remember a kiss from a Hungarian
that stu burns on my cheek tonight.
kiss OF Louis Kossuth"
zone night in 49, banquet was given
70 Louis Kossuth at the Aston House.
William Cullen Bryant presided. II had
been arranged that Henry j. Raymond,
founder and editor Of the New York
a, fritz nf
suth. should respond TO the toast Of The
Press Watson Webb. Of the Courier
and Inquirer. bitterly antagonistic TO Kos
suth, wanted to speak TO the toast, ana
VIII Raymond arose in response 10 the
call of the chairman webb also arose
and tried TO talk him down. Raymond.
supported by the chairman. with all his
great dignity ana impr5ssiveness, sue
ceeded in making his speech but SUBJ
jec. TO continual interruption from
Webb"
TEL US Of the great people you have
known" This from some one at the ia
bic.
1T ras been my good fortune to know
many great men: great men Of whom
/ learned with intense delight how to feel
proud Of genuine humbeness. One must
feel this If he knows the ways of great
men. Whom shall ] talk Of? | have loved
nearly all Of them that | knew most in
timately.
The great standard-bearer. Wagner?
| Will tell you Of his first audience that
listened TO The Meistersinger.' He end
/ were together in PinZing in 1854, when
he composed that. one morning. just as
the day broke, Wagner burst into my
room. l was awakened from sound
sleep. He was in a frenzy. He shouted.
Come, Come" In my night-ciothes ]
ran after him to the MUSHROOM, ana
there just at day-daWn, In the most
abominable voice that ever was heard,
to the most abominable accompaniment
that ever was played. Wagner sang Tor
the first time, 10 a solitary man, In his
night-gown, his just-fnished Hans
Sachss Schusterliei' from The Meister-
singer wonderful song fearfuly and
wonderfully sung. Bu:, then, Shake
speare was "A bad actor!'
Go on, 20 on
Then. there was Lisztl All! TO appre-
cate that mans greatness, greatness IT.
self is needed
Go on, and tell us about it,"
MARVELLOUS TALENT
Just a little. Just little. I'll tell
you little thing OF his marvellous talent.
when List was Z years old he already
played like a groWn-up master Bdch's
prcludcs and fugues. one day his father,
Adam IisZt who was a good. all-rOund
musician. came home Unexpectedly, and
heard little List playing one of Bach's
four-pari fugues, but the fugue was writ
ten I'm another key than the one in which
little List was then playing. The father
vas appalled,. He knew too well that his
son had no intention whatever 10 trans
pose the intensely polyphonic four-part
fugue. lie knew that it was being done
uncOnsciOusly He asked the boy why
he did not play it in the right key. The
little fellow was asioniShed, and asked
If the fugue wasn't written in the key
he was playing il in. No; ii was written
in r. Hat. ana not in q. The musician
knows well what ii means to transpose
a complicated piece TO another key: but
for 7-year-old boy TO transpose four
part fugue of Bach to a key third be-
low-Oh heaven. Oh. heaven!
Then, there was Hugo. great in an
/ other way Hugo dwelt always on Olym.
pus. and while he didn't object to the
gods. he was always Jupiter one day
/ saw him walking up Hautevllle street,
I i'm Guernsey, with a wastcoat on his
arm. He was going to battle in the sea
/ IL was a scorChng hot day. | caught up
with him, and asked him what he was
| carrying that waistcoat for He stopped
/ and looked at ii. That waistcoat? Why.
| it's too hot TO wear 1t, and | don't want
| the inhabitants of Guernsey 10 think
| haven't got waistcoat As we walked
on we fell to talking Of personal matters,
and finally | said: Why is it that Charles
(his SOM. who Is so wonderfully en-
| dowed with an artistic nature. can't seem
| to show any results"