The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-03-06
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Tho Hammer Club Mrs. Lathrop and Ter
Work-Athlctic DR.. Rainsford.
Billy 1Siorence'o Widow.
Especial Corrcspoudcncc.l

| Especial Correspondence.
| The Hammer club is one of the latest
| of up to date metropolitan organiza-
tions. 1t is composed of well known
cartoonists, like Mccarthy, Luke and
McDougall, and its object is from start
to finish to hammer away ut each other.
These chaps lie awake nights devising
mean things to say to each other.
| Nothing is too dcriding or too abusive,
and every one must take it checrfully
and in good humor. Never" said n
| guest ut one of their recent dinners,
never i'll my life have heard men say
such outrageous things to each other
and without the slightest warmth OH
either side" Imagine hammer club
composed of womcnl Thinl, of the torn
hair and general wreck there would be
after the first mccting
McDouGall and tho Beggar
Apropos of NcDougall, the star car
toonist of Tho World and of the Amer
lean Press Association, here is IL very
| good anecdote, which sees light now for
the first time. He lives i'll Jersey and
goes home very late ut night usually.
One night he WAS on his way to the
ferry When he was accostcd by Il boggar
who asked for Il nickel Now, it Glanced
that Mac hadn't Il cent i'll his pock-
cts. by George, said he, that's !,
| queer shake! / was Just going 20 ask
You for one" The bcggar ut once re-
| spondod by handing him nickel ;nd
voucisafing the information that he
wished he could make it Il quarter. Said
Mac, you meet ne here tomorrow,
night, and I'll pay this back :" '.All
right, " said the begcar. The next night
the cartoonist and the tramp met rs
agreed, and the latter was treated to Il
| good supper by the former, much to the
bcggar's surprise who supposed he was
assisting an unfortunate like himself
Mrs. Lathrop's Work.
Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the
daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne and
sister CT Julian Hawthorne, is the lady
who, after becoming II convert to the
Roman Catholic faith, set out to cstah-
lish 6 cancer hospital for the poor of
New York. She has established very
modest headquarters on the east side i'll
Scammcll street. where she may be seen
each day from until 5, quite contrary
to the stories published about her in
metropolitan newspapers, which repre-.
sent her TO be living there Mrs. Latlrop
is Il buXom looking woman with Il mass
of reddish hair, thickly sprinklcd with
gray blue eyes and preoccupicd man
her. The littlc room i'll which she re-
ceives people is scrupulously neat,
though poorly furnished An altar has
been improvised and is adorned with
images of saints and martyrs, the Virgin
and the Child, the tinsel and artificial
flower accessories.
DR.. William S. Rainsford, the ath-
letic parson who pitched into the Brad
ley Martin jamborec which was held at
the Waldorf OH such scale rs to cause
BelshaZ2ar, Sardanapalus, Cleopatra and
Lucullus to turn uncasily in thcir
tombs is Il Familiar figure about town.
He is tail and broad shouldcred and
walks with II swing and swagger en-
We'd by all the sports of the town. In
his surpllce he is an imposing figure.
Dr. Rainsford has set the town agOg by
his remarkable protest against the Civ
ing of ostentatiOus entertainments. The
Bradley Martins are prominent socially
| Mrs Bradley Martin cntcrtains lavishlv.
Her last great function previous to tie
grand ball was 4 dinner to 250 people at
Delmonicos The bills were about $40,
600. This entertainment WAS Il mere
drop i'll the bucket 10 the superb costume
ball given on Feb. 10 at the Waldorf
and which, it WAS estimated, cost over
| 5000, 600.
Wealthy Wonlan's Trick.
Mrs. Stanton is reported as saying that
oman must he watched, as he is stronger
and cunningcr than woman" No doubt
he is stronger, but on the,phase of cum
ming l should be tempted to disagree
with the famous agitator. Mans cum
ming, as rule, Is no match to woman 5
clcvcrncss or duplicity or whatever ono
chooses to term it. What man would
ever think out such u cunning cheat as
this! a woman i'll town, IL wealthy
| wOman-that is, not immensely so but
still quite rich enough TO be above any
necessity for this sort of thing-goes to
fashionable Fifth avenue milliners, Sc
lects hats for herself and her little girls
and has them sent to her house on APP
proyal. Then she sends for clever lit
tie millincr who lives III decidedly
shabby part OF town. The little milliner
looks these creations carefully over and
notes shape, color and ornament. The
bonnetS are returned to the swell Fifth
avenue millincr as mot quite satisfac-
tory, " and the Eighth avenue millincr
sets to work and reproduccs them ut
about one-quartcr Of the expense Now,
what man would ever concoct such IL
dainty cheat as that?