Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-13
NEW LUNCH COUNTER
HILL GOssETTE ExPATIATES ON
HIS CONCOCTED SCHEME.
Difference between Anticipation
and Retaliation in Political MAT
tcrs-rhe unique Club Has It's fi""'
Meeting.
Meeting.

a.,
ten US asking how soon stock viii be put
on the market. as they are anxious 10
invest The scheme Is without DOUBT
the most novel ever presented to the gui-
lible public. and there Is no doubt
that Charlie and | will soon be rich'
We were very anxious, indeed. to get the
arrangements completed by the time 'he
big fair opened last week. but we were
delayed In the matter by the Jefferson
managers, who in turn were delayed ny
the non-arrival Of lot OF goods from
several houses who were unable 10 HI
their orders on account of a strike among
their employees, because they wanted to
run their own business. Among the
communications received relative to THIS
celebrated Decent Jefersonian-Arohla
lunch counter was one from MI. koDer'
PitzoId OF Manchester. Bob vs. pang-
up. all round good fellow. lie wanted
10 know If "a pipe could net be run from
the Jefferson TO his pace ana establish
4 branch Ashburner-Gossett lunch-coun-
er there. He ~ confident that il
will pay, and makes the statement that
there is not lunch establishment in the
city. lie tells rather good thing III
this connection. \ few days ago a gen
tieman who runs farm in PoWha an
came TO Richmond and sold load OF
wheat. On his return he failed 10 get
ms dinner before leaving the city, think
ING that he could get a lunch in Man
chester when the farmer arrived IN
lhat city and began looking around LOT
an eatng-house, and could find no sign
Of one, and he began TO realize the lone
somenesS OF his morning meal, ms angry
Jdssions filed UP the vacuum. he calIeu
at BoD's place and got Bill Gossette
Perfecto cigar, but even this sootnlhg
lose did not quiet him. Pulling ms coat
of, he exclaimed, IN voice thdt shoOh
The chandeliers; Il will not honor your
town by wearing my coat, and viii walk
ID your old streets in my shirt-sleeFes
You are no. as near up 10 date as Pow
satan Courthouse. Talk about being an
.,exed to Richmond! Better get youIseH
oined onto a restaurant OF some kind
md. boxing his pants in his boots. ana
with coat on his arm, he ambied up nun
: rect 1t Is very likely We VIII establish
the branch place over there. Tor, II TINS
be true, it surely ought to pay
Politics is a mighty singular thing!
Al first blush that don't sound Ike goou
grammar but 1t is. Politics is noun
singular number, and usually IN the pos
sessive case-that is, fel!o" VINO soes
INTO politics usually comes out oil II WIN
ONT ANYTHING left but a sad experience.
I.eostwiso. hat WAS my experience
though 1 confess / wasn't quite so
much into politics as the politicians were
mic me- But, as TO experience,
am heap!ng up and running over JUS.
,efore the convention was held' several
of my warmest supporters called 10 zee
me. and stated that the outlook was ho'
% encouraging as it was before con
scented to the use OF my name ior SEM
or from the Sixteenth District. lh'sV
warm friends" knew that my cash W.
sbout all gone. ana tnat Only ~
more Bin Gossette Porfcctos remained
O., the box. was advised 10 remain
way from the convention, and that III!
-iends would stir up turmoil win the
Icl.gatcs pledged TO the other candidates.
nd | would be run IN as a HdtH
morse The turmoil was s'lrrcd up Du'
rom what | afterwards heard IL was III
NV friends. and not the delegates. FROM
ne rcports that came TO me, tufIIioh was
cot the only thing stirred up Inc ora
-or VINO Was to present my name 10
he convention was too fun Tor utter
tnce. and there were actually people AZ
hat meeting who didn't know ! was hv-
no Colonel William W. Baker my
.,ronafzn adviser, got mixed up in some
vav with some one he calls Tom, ana
vas not a. the head OF my forces. Inns
n q large measure Is accountable lOI
nv defeat. William says Tom would not
| a; him 20 out at night and, as dark
leeds love darkness. it Is impossiole 70
| york politics successfully during sunlight
| ANY way. have had my experience ana
know lot, and in future | VIII devote
ny time to the restaurant business
|
attended the meeting OF the Unique
..I,b held last week. and had the mortih-
zion of seeing the organization disor-
.,niza A little sober thought ana pa
,once and a great deal Of temper ana
.magining smartness, and the average
,noting Of club members is summed up.
| 4 few members VINO know little DIX
nd n large number who regard them-
..lyes as walking encyclopedias ana YOU
ave tn. roster o. the orGanizauoh. Inc
| Tn.que Club was no exception. anu NV
ma ~ Eensd!cts have disbanded, while
.fstorv r,pcats itsef, and Oh fAther
time rrirds the calenders out and in.
II happc-ci thusy: Mr.. John Wellington
n ex-uen,ber, dropped in on the meeting.
;avaral row names were proposed LOT
! membership, among them Rev. Il. II.
Winrree and Mr. J. Z. watkins. The
oroposal OF these two names quickly
brought Mr.. John Watlington to MS fee'
though he had no r,gnt TO speak,, with
few red-hot remarks TO the tnect nat II
these gentlemen were allowed 10 JON tne
.hh. he. too, was eligible to member
hin IL will be remembered that MI.
| Warrington was a former pr -sident or the
club. but was recently compelled to resign
m account OF one Of the rules OF the organi-
zation. Nearly every member OF the clun
ook n7rt in the discussion, and Sc eIal
dsticufrs were narrowly averted. Dlch
| Carrlngton had to get in between Bill
webb and Clinton Broaddus. and In DONG
"a lost the sleeve of his seeTsucker coat.
He remarked afterwards that hed as
leave have 1t that way as any other. as
The summer was over. but that he hated
N see a suckin' in such condition. lie
was fired SO and made to sing six verses
from the song. My Little Boys Pants
Need Patching" for making use OF the
,emark. President ID. Il. Wintree broke
several planks in the table rappng fol
order. which he failed 10 obtain. aud the
meeting and cub broke up in great dis
order. DR.. Wood had a splendid paper on
Train UP a boy in the way he should
90. and when he is old he Will mol
Dlay on accordions or mouth-harps,
but he was not given an opportunity to
read IT, BILL GOSShl l L.
Church Cars on siberian Railway