The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-08

S,,pppsc Il ticsl,er OF our Old Market,
inter n long, deep Rip Van Wrinkle sleep.
should awake In this year of our llora
1s0s. and ,po, rubbing the dust from
4 i,is rves. lool, upon the old houses. the
old places, tho old people who Know nun
no ,no,e-migllt he tot quite natnralls
indulge Ii, such reflections rs snake
sncare PUTS into the mouth or Justlce
Shallow: "Oh! the mad days that nave
IA spent: and TO sec how many OF mlne
s8 old acquaintance arc dead!
silence: We shall all follow, cousin
"Shallow: Certain. It's certain very
sire, very sure; death. as the Psalralst
saith. Is certain to all-all shall die.
How a good yoke of bullocks at Stam-
ford fair.
there.
"shal,ow: Death Is certain. Is old
Double. Of your town, living yet?
"Silence: Dead. sir.
Shallow: Dead! See. see! he drew q
good bow-nnd dead! lie shot II fine
~ shoot. John Of Gaunt loved him we'll,
aud bettcd much money on his head.
Dead!-hc would have clapped \ the clont
OF twelvescore: and carried you Il fore
hand shaft n fourteen and fourteen and
a half, that 1t would have done a mans
heart good to sec. How q score OF owes
now?
'SIlence: Thereafter as they be; a
score Of good ewes may be worth ten
pounds.
shallow: And is old Double dead?'
Arc we not in tho presence Of Justice
Shallow and his cousin Silence, and do
We mot overhear THEIR conversation?
Isn't the characterization inlmitablc?
All the Doubles of our Old Market are
dead long since, and all their patrons too.
Who talks now of the TTulclers, the Now
Inns, the Browns, the Lindsays. the Hcch-
d lers? Yet were these Observation-Disclosures
they were not, though so-called-as well
known by the town then, as now are DICK
TAYLOR and Carlton Mccarthy. 1t would
not be so much a task as a pleasure TO
me to present them to the reader IN 'nro-
pria PERSONA but l forbear: so many.
others. their contemporaries, require no
tice, however scalt 1t be.
The vicinage of the Old Market, Its old
residents. its antique houses will be rap
idly skotched in this paper from such re-
collections as may readily occur to ME. a
compilation Of names and places will par
take somewhat of the character of n city
directory; but mine is designed to De
selcctive. and entirely regardless OF
chronological sequence.
Old Market Vicinity.
There were several avenues open to the
Market, q half dozen or more east of
* Shockoc Creek, and but two west Of It..
THE residents OF Shockoe Hill wendell
their way Of summer mornings
,,nder the shade Of various trees
that had been planted in rows
on the sidewalks. Without any SEEM
ing ostentation, nr .,ffccta,'nn o. demo
~cratical simplicity. judy Marshall lad st
the pace to the Market. His example was
followed by many Of our best people. He
might have been seen on his way home,
H8 rs -. - =. rto It> In, vi ~ n rJ
weighted down with provisions for the
days subsistence.
Ss Other examples of good citizenship are
well known of this illustrious character.
] shall mention only one. Early In the
last he was an active member of
q fire company. some OF whose antique
relies in the shape of lcathern buckets
and duck sacks, are still retained IN
Il cabinets by our local antiquaries.
Lower Main Street above and below
the creek-as far below as Rockets and
as far above as Ninth Strect-had been
paved with cobblestones drawn from the
river. The sidewalks between Fourteenth
and Seventeenth Street We're tagged with
large slabs Of slate. which had been
brought In ballast by incoming ships.
There was an air of tidiness about the
scene OF this once busy vicinagc, which
may be readily understood by wholnso-
ever will bear in mind that it was visited
daily by fashionable folk in quest of bar
gains stored on the shelves or displayed
on the counters Of our early dry goods
merchants. What Broad Street now is
to throngs OF people. who patronize Its
splendid establishments, the Main Street
below Lisle's Corner then was to a past
generation.
Having mentioned this once noted cor
ncr. it may be we'll to make a note Of it.
~ Trha building was situate at the inter-
section of Main and Fourteenth Streets.
southeast side, and ran its full length
AS far back as Lombard Alley. a row of
tall Lombardy poplars gave a scanty
shade to the cross street below and to
The jewellers in the rooms above. Busy
house martins made Judgment in the cor
ners and crannics of the long house.
This hucst Of summer,
The tcmplc-haunttng r%nartlct, does aI-
BY his loved manxionry. that the