The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-23

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Protection Of Animals.
If the dogs, cats, horses ard other do.
tnestlc animals OF New York could read
tho news, II Is probable that they would
during the past weeko for John =.
IIaines, for many years, president "
tho Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
to Animals, has at last resigned. Tho
trouble with Mr.. I1nlnes was that tho
society Under him apparently never dill
anything. The Instance Is related OF q
dog found In the street by a woman
home where sllc teleplloned for the
ambulance OF the society 1t took Just
Six days for the ambulance to get there.
Numerous similar Instances are given TO
tdohionstrntc the incapaclty Of the man
ngotnfnt. ,G0lonel Alfred Wagstaff IL
rnMdnctingt ns temporary president OF
the socletyihnd the presidency has bcen
offered to Northumberland Adna r.
Chaffce. who retired recently as Chief \
Of tho General Staff OF the United States
Army. It Ia believed that General
Chnffec can devise a system whereby
an ambulance can be got to a sick dog In
loss than SIX days.
Tho old-fhshioned assembly at the old
Aston House THIS week. ut which local
Efashlonables danced tho mnzourkas and
minutes OF aixty-odd years ago. clothed
In the knce-breeches and hoop-skirta Of
their granddaddes and grnndmothers, re-
called the days when old New York was
young. The plain old gray-stonc hot.,l
on lower Broadway was the palntial hos
telry Of the metropolis and tho center
OF social life OF tho town. Democratic
Presidents up to the time OF Buchanan
had rooms there. But this centre has
now moved over three miles up Broad-
way and 1,ongacre Square usurps the
honors Of Postoillce Square. The old Aston
blouse looks very small and shabby now
in comparison with such palace as the
new 100000 Hotel Aator uptown. and
Its antiquity Is nccentuated by the tow
erlng Office building that have grown up
around II. Al the assembly on Wednes-
day night the dancers refreshed them.
selves with Governor Clinton Punch"
made after famous recipe handed down
through several generations. There were
present one or two Yeternns-of the old
time. who. drinking. recalled sadly that
the ancient wine list OF the hotel contain
ed champagne at 81 a quart, old re-
serve Madeira, TAO; old port. 81. Tho
spirit OF the forties may be revived for
night In New York, but the old prices
will never come again. @a
Locating Ancestors.
Gotham's sturdy Democratic Americana
ism dearly loves a pedigree and undoubted-
ly there is much local qualification over
the fact that some metropolitan milio-
narics, after vigorous probing at the
roots Of their family trees, have dis
covered that they date back several cen. Is
turtles. Mrs. George J. Gould, nee King
don. after much delying, finds that the
Kingdom family dates back 10 the twelfth
century when they vera lords OF the
manor In the parish OF Quethiock, Corn
wall England Mrs. Gould is so pleased
that she is having n book printed about
1t for distribution among her frend'.
Also John D. Rockefeller has unenrthed
adequate ancestors According TO cur
rent reports, he i hns found that he is
descended on one side, from 'the famous
De Rocquefeles, OF. France" and on ans
other, from sturdy but poor Quaker.
.'sIx feet two in his stockings, who
came over from England with William
Penn. New York Is pleased, but at the
same time fervcntly hopes that these
things Will not send uo the price OF
oil.
East Side Parade
Though the Easter parade on Fifth
Avenue was greatly IIlfti GU W ~
rain could not wlther nor custom stale h
the great Eastslde parade which annually
bourgeons along Grand Street. .osey. the
lawyer, president OF the Essex Market
Bar Association, conspicuous In flowing
old rose tie and carrying the black
thorn cane presented TO him BY his irish
clients. led the procession. followed ~
Stitch Mccarthy, tho only Irish push
cart peddler on the Eastslde, and tho
b,,xom wife Mccarthy recently married.
Joe Levy, the Duke OF Essex Street. was
attired in an orange and black sweater
over white duck trousers. and green
cap the gift Of Hon. Dlnny sullivan OF
the great sullivan clan Other Eastside
notables, were out In force, with their
wives marvellousy nrrayed and elitter-
ing with diamonds. The parade was re-
viewed by number OF Tammany poll
ticians. 1,,,