| Show ED EDITORIAL editorials ito R I 1 A L 8 i U lokman loeman aud AND OTHER BEAUS wo tile old notorieties es of wash DC has recently aone gone the la ii edith earth beau neau biek bier naif d dr bourt L hickman or tor bior bai bal ag many an old ac taivo lyall term torm him 1413 he r 6 it and 2nd nd of paralysis Ls f sill 8 ington hospital eile elie Is 15 J believed to ilae liae have come conic of a family in king Willi william aln alu county counts va two of his his sisters it ift is said sald were married to gen E eaton aton atou oarn C abeau D gri gyi was Always a gay boy and anto pr tilo tito deshof af pf his father fattier is hald haid taken his patrimony in cabb cas 10 or more and ailo to have of the came within A iea yea ear Myr myrmous by riotous living bhe ohe first appeared in washington or 1834 being then 23 22 or 23 years old oid and evidently having c erable crable maney he wasat was dressed ss elp ele pg ca gantly antly gold watch cang pane faultless velver belver and all the fri regardless 11 ap a a sporting manin elegant aire afre 61 talked ked ho horae arse with posit positive lyp ise confidence patronized the races ayad 4 d liias was observed of all ill uli uil observer phou Thou gil gli lo 10 never betted he would suj divulge the name pf af the vinning winning na nag for ten dollars bor for ar ten teji oi or fifteen years ho manager p fi to parti faultless attire chiefly at the expense of the tho tailor who usually ahad to walt wait walt wait until beau 1 l some of tho tile many tilo thrusa u sa n nd d dollars s which he had just lent f to 0 president 3 jackson ael wel son 1 13 sy 13 or some other ird ild d d good fellow beau evidently bel bei believing bellavin levin ievin g in the Siak sink esperian motto ll 11 13 babe bage aw is the a aa avie vc that paysy pays when the teut lent tent teut lent tent escusa would not work beau dean would argue arg tro fro tio tile the point with the tailor and to verbally advertise him ta all ilis liis Be beaus auls fr friends lendi which would he be better to the tailor than the tha mady mads money for the suit beau was seldom intoxicated and latterly professed not to drink he clib d uie vie best rooms at it hotels but until sometimes requested to bestow his patronage elsewhere which lie he good natured lyan lyanda dp politely i would do once at the tile first hotel in new york 1000 bill and onn off orner er edt 61 dipay the diatel ahai oh alges aiges but the clerk could abt change the bill an and d offered to wait walt he is waiting p tim the prospect of walt wait ing in Z l indefinitely beau raised ed the wind by C chap P cr visitors to houses of gambling and ail all fame fam he never played but accepted chips which lie ho auh banker to cash he told abec d otes oes and stories for which he also demanded chips of value according with the character of the story ortho ot tho financial status of the listener eri beaul beau always despised a liar P was moderately educated a go good 0 a conversationalist always of an equable tai temper and abd never pu pugnacious gna eithen eliher either verbally or physically dibut ab out tp dpn ai years ag oa 01 he c corn om ceped aged grade of life rap mp 1 idly became seedy shabby gen t tem teu bl ival walked ked slowly and with a hitch hi afa s a he ile said sald saida being covered with corns and bunions ions the result of wearing tight boots the fach fact that my feet are would say lows lovs shows ido hie tb tabe W aj a blood no gommon common common man el coad 6 I 1 a have ava sueh such suell eeb feet as s I 1 have got 11 11 Ht faco faeo tace face looked like parchment his MR eyesore ey eyes were red and inflamed and he became an object of pity an old oid acquaintance of beaus benus believed life was never right in I 1 his 11 i s head heau with a favorite velvet I 1 sult suit uit covered with minute b bils balls ils lis he arnld enfer enter an hotel shake his blo b ells eils 1 and ay iam lam a bell team learn W M stamping ground of ofa ialo lalo years was in front of the national and metropolitan hotels where he would listlessly watch the passersby passers by and bewail the good old times before the war helas he was itally miserly never treated anybody regular iii in his habits latterly paid ier for lils his board which was invariably temperate and had money in t the he bank which fact once aved saved him hint flom magisterial aprial punishment as a va gran gnan of late years lie received monthly stipends from several wealthy gentlemen ho he was never married but i lived with a colored woman an only one acquaintance called on him at the hospital and that one earing hearing that lieras lie lle was dead 3 hurried away the undertakers 0 only fil L y attended his funeral at tile the alms aims aliouse burial g ground round neau beau nash or richard nash was r C VV 3 S born in swansea wales oct ath othi 1674 and died in bath nath yeb ad 1761 ho was educated at oxford where lie he led a elis clis sipa tife life he c was placed with a commission in fil the army when seventeen years yearb old to save him fro froman afi an imprudent sarri Zarri marriage age wearying of barrack ife fe lie he dommen commenced ced cheshi the study dy of law in tile the 1 but buu hi eife M hb malel mainly devoted to pleasure and he 6 soon became a n leader br olt fashionable society sustaining himself therein by tile the gaming table tabie he edair conducted the pa pageantry of a middle idle temple entertainment to william Wil wll liani III ili if with so much tact that the king offered to ti knight him iut but lut nash having visible means of support 1 declined jhc thc honor 1 about that time bath was vm cahil corns ing in into note as d a watering place but buc b t dr for some somo insult ln uit ulu had put plit the tho pince place under ban ball and threatened to write down the thel waters at this juncture in lii nash nasli made his advent there flidr t here wai wag was appointed master mafer of the ceremonies I 1 and he soon secured for the town a fair reputation as h a resort fornale 1 and ai nd pleasure t seekers 1 decency of dres dress and Citi civility lity fi manners were enforced in public resorts an attractive assembly asem bIT roam was erected streets street and alid buildings buil bull dinki were improved and the dull duli country town wo was transformed hit into A lland handsome dmn dmd city nash nan shared in ther 1 general prosperity wielded much influence was looked upon with much deference by citizens and visitors and WAs styled ning ring of bath nath ll 11 r ho hb still sup ported himself by the them gaffie gaming wili wila table where lie played fiill skill I 1 ind and iud lud fairness ahe abe JHO he lived in great pomp travelled in i n ji a coach and six with outsiders outriders odrid out riders anayas annyas a p J lyas profusely charitable notwithstanding his hia gambling lie he like many other sinners set in their ways to took ok pains to warn ille the young and thought thoughtless lOs ios against tho mhd practice in ius lus his ids latter latten days lii MA glory waned waded A daw jaw against gam gani i bling deprived blinoff him jot his hib hi principal means of support and he fell into comparative indigence affef his death lie he was honored with anub ilo lie funeral and a marble statue he was as ungainly I 1 in person coarse and ugly in faatu features rea res and tawdrily mag ent in dress but hie was born bonn for a certain position hud and he filled it with spirit and success but the prince of beaus was count dorsay the companion of liady lady blessington and aud at one time the ornament of the literary lite mry artistic and london as ins liis refined taste el elegant ayt dyt equipage and fault faultless lek lem attire ti tonce its it s envy and admiration admi ration he died in 1852 but nut space forbids a more detailed all baston to the count as this article is fa already sufficiently lengthy |
