Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-08
'BYG0NE DAYS" RECALLED
At THE HOME STEW CLUB
"reminiscences of Earlier
Richmond Begin After Ar
gumcnl on ''Old Age"
coFEn TALKS or JACK ENGLISH
Declares He WINS Here When In
fh!cttc Mnde Triurnphnt March
From tockctts to Twelfth street
mud Bnde Visitor welcome
IIy iiarr, ruckc,

AT the New Years meeting of the
Home Stew Club. January 3. Dick
Lacy. ono of the younger members.
started an argument on "oid age"
Brother NARROW could not under
stand why such question should
have been brought up, inasmuch rs II
had been conceded by most folks that
achievement rather than,agc had all
to do with anything
"As matter of fact" asserted
NARROW. the older :. man is the
more he knows about things for,
while Imagination liz something, e1-
pcrIencc ~ something else" Then
he fondly rubbed the struggling hairs
on his otherwise bald head
What want TO say" continued
Lacy. is that with ali their old age
and things. some OF these elderly
gentlemen. who have been recalling
looked a lot of real matters Of I'm
rortancc. For Jack English"
"Oidest Man on Main Street"
Now" Henry Cofcr injected, now
you are talking. Jack English IL
known as the oldest man on Main
street lie WAS there when Lafayette
made his triumphai march from
Rockets to Twelfth Street and waa
one Of the party that badc him well
come. He recalls the office OF the
Literary Messenger at Fifteenth and
when the leading citizens used to
sit around The tables in the Old Saint
Charles Hotel and swap lies"
II remember when Charlie Donati
vscd to keep at Eighteenth and
Franklin Streets" declared Johnnie
Crcnshaw. John Sattcrficld used to
keep store across the street. and
George Bannistcr afterward erected
his caravansary in that vicinity.
Them Amt so many years agone."
"Cmph who" agreed Jctcr Jones.
the Randolph Lodge and in between
times chase around TO Anthony Crit
hth's and get back in time TO hear
Major Howard toll everybody good
night
That was before they tore down
the Seabrook warehouse to make way
for a playground" remembered
Charlie Norman. But. maybe Jack
English might recall when Levy
Brothers used TO keep where l keep.
and they had all the swell soirees
floor OF the big building. 10 Lane
was during the Cameron regime.
when the social set of the capital
had trouble In locating good place
To pull of n regular dance. Then n
little later the Richmond Blues took
possession OF the building back OF
US aud started an armory."
Williams "I<id, In Fathers Once.
And you all may remember"
chimcd in Billy Carncal. that John
SHELTON Williams was a kid in his
fathers Office at Eleventh and Main.
across the street from George Ives
buffet on Eleventh street, and Judge
Minnie Lamb. and Judge Cardwell.
and old man Morse used to have their
shingles hanging out from the upper
windows OF the old building at
Eleventh and Bank Streets. where the
Southern Churchman office used to be,
with DIR. Sprigg the editor"
old man Tom Evans had AN Office
there. too said Stanley Tyler. over
on the other corner was old man
lest corner in town, and next door
was woodhouse and Parham. book
dealers, where Jack English learned
his trade. Member Mr.. Parham's
funny whiskcrs? Everybody used to
buy limeades from George Schocn.
when Henry Harwood was one Of his
clerks. before he struck oil. Down
ut Twelfth Street, where Sam Rosen-
uorf now lives, used to be the big
stationery store OF Randolph and
English-some relation of Jacks. his
nephew or something. The American
Hotel stood where the Lexington now
stands. and the StJames Hotel was
)ust where Edgar Andrews is located.
Don't overlook Uncle Chris Even
SEN" said Jack English. Ills bruins
Wick stew was worth going miles TO
see. Used to meet them old birds
along Main Street In there every day
at o'clock. Billy. Ellis Jones
used to run printshop on Twelfth
Street, below Main. and Adams the
baker held forth where the Virginia