The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-06-13


Tho Town Topics Is a weekly journal
nublished In New York and Is devoted
70 ro-sonal and social gossip, such as Is
current among the -four hundred and
ouonc the seven or eight hundred other
aociaty people who aspire to final mem
h.rship in that select set. 1t pretends
"a much in the way OF esthe;icism and
knowIedre of good form. and IS much
given to rid!cullns the toI5les Of promI-
non, peopIe. For some reason 1t seems
10 have particularly set its face against
the young gentleman whose name heads
this article.
We do not need to tell our readers who
this young gentleman Is. Everybody
hereabouts who reads current literature
Il pware OF the fact that he Is only one
degree removed from being Wheeling
man. His mother was Wheeling
woman and here she set out on her dis
tinEuIshed literary career. Here she
FIRST wrote life in the Iron Mills" and
afterwards Margaret How;h." and We
know not how many other sketches that
are now in permanent form on the
shelves OF many private and public IL
braries. Here she married prominent
Philadelphia journalist and carried
away from Wheeling to that city the
prestige OF her rising reputation asa re-
marKabIe woman.
To the career OF this remarkable
woman. as well as tn her literary ability,
her son has succeeded. and no writer OF
his age in this country has achieved
greater popularity with the reading pub
lie. He Is known as the author Of many
brilliant sketches Incident 10 his travels
in this country and In Europe. Recently
he wrote a very graphic account N the
coronation scenes at Moscow. and 1t was
cablcd next morning TO one OF the New
York papers He was one Of two or
three correspondents vino were priyi-
leged TO witness the crownIng Of the car
in the historic chapel Of the KrcmlIn.
and his sketch, as cablcd to New York.
rivals that Of Sir Edwin Arnold as FUR
nishci to the London Telegraph.
And yet this performance Of Mr.. Davis
Ig made a special ;arFa, Tor the ridiculc
ofTown Topics In i.a last issue. And all
b-caugn, az I, would seem. Mr.. Davis is
such n young man. such a forward sort
~ person. and 50 sclf-c0uacious and 50
pa,rnniztrg tn his way, TheFsf9Te h"
must be disciplined by the "gj5d form"
critic Of the Topics and doubt mus; be
thrown on the question whether he
really witnessed what he pretcnls tn
describe.
This Is shabby treatment oa the part
Of the prctcutluuH JocIety Journal OF
New York A man N SIR. Davis here
dity and education and association docs
not nerd To be- old to be- 4 mature as well
a. a remarkable writer. There were
two Chatham1 and two DisraelIs and
two Dumas by virtue Of this law here
/. dlty and many other irEtlncsa ~ ths
same sort. Aud us respects psr'9nal
pcculilritlcs. Objectionable 10 some poo
pie. such at Town Topic r. always hint
ing at in Sr Davis. people ~ genius, IN
common with people without gnniut
frequently have them, and who knowa.
"a one Of the latter, that Tho writer NJ
Town T0pIca .iocE not catch it at III"
clubs" every once ln awhile.
SIR. PIT bad occasion moro than once
60 turn upoa thas, who delighted "a ra-
mind him that h. was youag and fresh.
and 50 had D!sra0II, and perhaps some
of thee days IN the near future. whom
ho has m more important won. .U hand,
We may snc extraordinarily good
thing from Sir. Davis pen 10 the way ~
rpma comments On Town Topics ana iE
ycHomous parawarnirt