The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-29
Wall Street Not the Mirror
It Is Cracked UP to Be.
C COZ, THE #; CONDUCTOR II,
Fortune 10 Be Spent In Production Z.
ParsifaI at Metropolitan Opera
House silver Dollars in Nav a
York-Trtbune Academy.
BY JOHN MARTHOL.


travel through the United States to I'M
dcrstand Alright the true conditions ~
industry and commerce. The Wall Stree.
man Ia prone to believe the Exchange.
the mirror on which Is reflected the out.
put OF the mine: the product OF loom
and forge. OF mill and factory; the state
OF the labor market and the conditions
which regulate the volume OF transport.
tation. Recent financial disturbances
have abundanuy demonstrated that low
prices for bonds and stocks may prevail
when the business dono by the corpora
lions Issuing such securities Is profitable;
Indeed, market values have been lower
than when the same corporations hava
made less profitable showing. CAUSES,
simple as the laws OF nature. have pro
duced these conditions. yet there are
many who refuse to recognize them.
They prefer to ascrIbe complex and ur-
natural reasons for the depression or
profess to see In It the schemng hand
OF shrewd lnanclers. When entirely at
loss for a solution they say; Rock efe fell
Many years ago there sat behind an
olt-fashioned loom In an Alsatian VII
lage Weaver's apprentice, learning the
trade that was to win him bread for a
little while and dreaming dreams that
have ut last been realized. That liz the
first glimpse which is given us OF Helm !.
ITCH ICOIlTlcu,lE lHc hllOCldI cpciLSiS
music In this city at the present time.
the SUCCESSOR OF the great Grau and a long
line OF predecessors equally illustrious
Far easier OF achievement the baton Of
highest military command from the
ranks than the baton OF the director and
manager in tho Metropolitan Opera
House from such beginning Great
season. and from the announcements
thus far made there is likely to be no
disappointment. Nearly all the great
European singers will appear In the best
productions OF the Italian. French and
German schools. "Parsfal" will be the
great event, but it Is long way off
next December. The enormous sum Of
ton.
went to one OF the European steamer
wharyes a few days ago to meet re-
turning friend, and 80 saw walking down
the gang-pank Mrs. Langtry the "Jer-
sey Lily Of years ago who CHANGED to
be on the same boat. She had lost the
lilly" outlines that distinguished her
in the days when the friend of prince
who Is now king and an emperor, we
first made her acquaintance; but In all
other respects time seems to- have made
little .or no Impression, although she Is
a grandmother, or ought TO be. How
does she preserve that marvelously fresh
complexion and youthful appearance
her bauty. In fact, for the beauty IS stu
there in full evidence? walking. = is her
own answer for the purposes OF publica-
ton, so that will let 1t go at that.
I rea lly knew. should be inclined to go
ahead and make million out OF the
prescription.
At a restaura mt the other evening three
big silver dollars were dumped among
the change OF the one Of the party VINO
had been stuck for the supper. he
weighed them In his hand for some sec.
onds and started for the cashJ,r. why.
said he, '.did you send me this load Do
YOU think I am a truck driver and have
my team outsider" Beg your pardon
replied the cashier, but ! really cannot
help It. have to take in hundreds OF
them every day and must get rid or some
OF them In some way" Further investiga-
ton developed the fact that the city Is
flied with Western people, and that in
stead OF bills they hand out the shining
cart wheels The silver dollar was very
nearly a curiosity among US until this
summer. New Workers won't have II
and toss 1t back to the man who offers
II. The dry goods houses, I am told
send them by the ten thousand every daS
to the sub-treasury for redemption II
paper.
"A company is being organized here with
the object OF inducing rich irlsh-Amefl-
cans to purchase cottage sites on the
Irish coast and to start fhs s ones
naYe re aqeady promised d
the idea may eventuate In success. Land
is cheap, building inexpensive and the ar
and scenery deightihu :, Th ne s ns@ ana a
policy. Croker thought at one time Of
Buying the Lakes Of Killarney property
and putting up Tammany club house
tRsre S"t t tha1o Mas in he
| ceptlon.
rho English Of the old Tribune was
closely scrutInscd from day to day and
every blunder pointed out to the man who n
had made It, This was the work Of The
literary editor, George Ripley, who, win
Charles A. Dana, edited App'etons E oSthor
rradua te Of the Tribune Academy. He
icft it to become Assistant Secretary Of
| War under Stanton, and at the close OF
tho struggle BOUGHT the 1 SIm, Ms' moa aha
and also isaac a II, Enrlaad, the Trbunes
civ civ editor. George W, sn,alley, the
present American e4rTe hs raning aftel
i no, vnr Yale in the Tribune school, Joh,r
j Russell Young learned the profession y
Philadelphia, but took post-graauate
4 course Under HORACE eiree'ey'
Not in at least decade and a. N more y IA:
baseball been SO POPULAR N N Srna 1 elt
i ne II is at the present time me dallS
aitendnnce at the games runs up 70 m
uurnIprecedented figures OF 1900 which. 9
course Leaves Rr hsn d the c %sss IF IT,
p1uu',tn,,,, ,v,,l certainly be the heaviest win
reT' in in the long history Of the game,
Mr., George J, Gould's country place y
Jersey is Very nearly equal III extent L
That Of Mr. Rockefeller, and nue., NOR
things, it is a home, s2lendld N ever!
wnW and eSempllfvinG the very highes
good ansi taste, The Rockefeller estapIish
grqSnq7 seaf Is n rawa It w w tax
ar SO that il Will fit into the liudso1l
That al. Is the o qhgF as Ct b g
ginnIng to get at It.. Many o. the O!
So,thern mansions possessed y N an emil
nent degree but that Is another story
some ssshm1an, said 10 Or make %E9'e nanta
: ,"a,n ~ \ thrae hundred to make lawn