The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-02-10
NEW YORK LETTER

Chauncey NJ. Depuy IS world famous
for his Jokes, and his reputation rs !:
serious thinker often suffers from nj,
almost continuous performance rs
Wit. 1t is not often, however, that the
members of the press are victims OF
his WileS; but in the case OF his r.
ported engagement they seem to have
been mislcd by their own desire for ;
story
w hen the announcement WAS made |
that Miss collins was engaged to Re |
child hey, aud was really moi 10 marry |
Mr.. Dcpuy the latter laid hacl, in hi. |
chair ut breakfast and laughed a long
mellow laugh. That's the best Joke
We had on the boys of the press since
l declined 10 accept Il nomination fut
President" he solloquIZed Over
eighty columns of assertion and dcnia
i'll the New York papers alone! told
every one Of en- it wasn't true hui
they refused to believe me"
Miss Collins, ON her mothers side. is
relation Of the Nnndcrhihs. Her
grandmother was Mrs. Horace Clark
Il daughcr Of Commodore Cornelius
Vanderbilt Her mother WAS Miss
Lulu Clark, who became Mrs. Clarence
Lyman Collins. Mr.. and Mrs. Collins
were divorced, and the wife married
an EnglIshmnn named Milford aud
upon his death, II Frcnchmau called
Souycrvillc. l'pou her death. which
occurred Two years ago. her fortune de
seconded 10 the daughter. Miss Edith
Collins. Mr.. Collins also married Il
second time, his present wife being
formerly Miss Rose Rcechcr. an NJ.
treSS
Thirty five men with pointed boards
sat down TO dinner in Il restaurant in
Fifth avenue not long age. They were
members Of the social organization
formed hy men who are addicted IL
the Nnndye variety of whskers Every
member of the society has 10 subscribe
10 the following oath of allegiance
Il do solemnly swear by my beard
that so long as | shall remain II mem
Der of the Society of Pointed Boards |
will support and defend the boards OF
my fellow members, MS well ~ my
own, against all BARRIERS. foreign ana
domestic; that will bear true faith
aud allegiance 10 the shmc: that |
take this obligation freely, and viii
allow no man to pluck me by the
heard and throw II In my face
The invitations We're printed Oh
crimson paper, and bore N their head
II representation Of he.goat rampant
bearing in outstrctched paws huge
tankard of II fluid resembling hccr
The walters wore false Nandyke
whiskcrs, as the society would not tal
erntc smooth-faccd men about II In any
capacity.
\ Washington man who came 10
New York for visit and probably
didn't have enough money to pay his
hotel bill, tells Star reporter what
impressed him most in the metropolis
Il think | WAS most struck" he said
"by n dachshund that | saw trudging
| calmly MP the street nj the busiest
time of day, You know The animal He
looks rs If nature had started in to
make n lizard, and finding that he WAS
growing too big, had turned him into
Il dog. His body doesn't stand more
| than five or six inches from the
! ground, ana his paws look like nippcrs
on seal. Hos the most cxtraorii.
| nary anatomical specimen know Of
"l'ut YOU surely don't mean 10 say
you hadn't seen Il dnchshund before"
"Oh, I've seen the animal many y
time. II WINS the environment that
made him interesting. He Was the
only creature ] met there who looked
as II he hadn't been having his leg
pulled.
Some years ago 1t was discovered
that dead walls and roofs in this city
had u value that the tax asscssors
didn't take into consideration, and the
discovery developed n set of men who
mndc it their business to secure op.
lions on all desirable spots and hold
them for rise in the mnrkct The
dead walls and roofs were In demand
for photographic advertisements rang
Ing from Dr. Curcall's pills TO the lai-
est melodrama. There nre scores of
brokers now who denl exclusively In
dead walls and advertising spnccs and
some of them have grown wealthy in
the business. They keep sharp look
out for NIL improvements in old build
ingS or plnns OF u new building that
give promise of n dead will or Of
temporary wooden fence on whicn
Autographs may be displayed. The bill
poster buys the advertising rights on
these places, AMI then he rents them
out again at from 200 to 800 per cent.
profit TO the theatrical agents or pat
ent medicine men, ns the ease may be
For instance, n manager OF n theatre
not long ago paid Il bill poster Sl2l II
month for the right to advertise on II
board fence around big building thu
was being constructed in the Tender
loln district. \ bill poster who has
grown old In the business said not long
ago that there wasn't an available
dead wall in New York that wasn't
controlled by bill posters. Some of
these energetic advertisers send agents
all over the city at intervals to deco.
rate every ash barrel with little dode
ers that are known "a asnlpes." When
dead wall advertising was less com
mon than II Is now, the theatrical man
ayers valued it more highly Their
autographs could be read M Il glance,
and they were not surrounded by
Autographs Of rival managers The
displays on the bin boards and dead
walls are now 80 numerous that they
are confusing, and the managers and
the bill posters have very nearly come
to an open rupture. Cyrus THohr.
Time of Content.
Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes once said
that when he was young lac liked his