Show GOT GOSSIP downfall journal 1st ast lc careers pawn brokerage system charity calico nail ball from our correspondent EDITOR HERALD poor henry villard his fall from the pinnacle of success was even more rapid than his ascent A few mouths months ago the head of the powerful northern pacific confederacy fe he has now sunk so bolow low that none will do him honor WITH RUINED HEALTH a mind jaded from overwork and in tense strain his reflections on I 1 new years day as he gazed at the murky atmosphere a t mos s here outside must have been anything anything but cheerful there is now no doubt that villard brought on his collapse himself like all parmenus parvenus par venus ventis who have risen from insignificance by their own efforts his confidence in himself grew overcrowding over crowning and unintentionally he made enemies that I 1 ho should antagonize the dould interests was natural nat uial two such dynasties cannot eliat without clashing but he made inside RIGHT AND LEFT and particularly people as be did not knowland kno wand to whom he did not give a thought when he found it a matter of life and death to have friends he saw none but opponents who flocked about him like bo many banquot ghosts the question is ii a common one in wall street at present will villard t get on his legs again and I 1 asked one of the nestora of the street what he thought of it 1 I think Vil dillards Villar lards dB sun aunis is e beet he replied true he behas has intense I 1 determination and energy and he possesses in an eminent de degree gree that german virtue of Der perseverance severance but you must nave noticed that germans as a rule title lick pick the recuperative which is a distinctively american characteristic you take anat a native iveno no matter what knocks he may receive how often he may fail lie never gives up he lie may have been thrown from the topmost pinnacle of success cess th the e moment he recovers his breath and gets over the dazed feeling his fall has given him he be sets to work to climb up again now the german is dolfl erent he ile sticks to his work like grim grin death but bouce he lie a slips lips and rolls downhill he lie loses I 1 heart for this reason I 1 believe that dillards Vil larda lards daya days aa as a financial magnate even were his health perfect ate over and yet as a rule newspaper men once they leave the treadmill of DAILY JOURIN ALISH for other avocations as a rule are sues cess ful theall the allaround all around school of ufa through which they have to pass the contact with people of the most divergent characters dispositions occupation occupations cupat cu ions aspirations rubs off the an of character which persons of lesi es coamo cosmopolitan training never loose mr villard villard IK avent ent through a dozen years 0 of newspaper ne shaper life fee and although Z he may ayne never have read the primer rimer of police courts and station house ouse work ho lie has in tho higher walks of the profession seen a great deal and met ruet a great many people from whom he lie learned much some odthe of the most successful men in town graduated from the newspaper er otrice wall street is full efthem of them f in I 1 n mercantile walks the profession is well represented and in other professions the scribes ribes are also not scarce cherey the key dr brooks an earnest learned and eloquent divine twenty years ago was CITY EDITOR ofa of a metropolitan afternoon pap erand had on ii a 0 the time ex gov arnor AILL mccurmack armack who waa was at the head bead of the american Cotil commission mission at the he last worlds fair as well as augustin t daly the well known theatrical manager ex postmaster general james also started in life as a news paper aper man wan and I 1 could enumerate dozens of others who took their preliminary canter for the race of life lire within the broad confines of active josim aiom uncle miltis hatch and a CO couple uple clother wall are now fast inducing into the money market young newspapermen newspaper men they come in as secretaries and in a few years enter the building of the stock on their own account it is the fashion fasli ion now among leading ial houses to issue circulars for the benefit of their pAtro patrons jim showing the state of the country and the pros lecta of the MOSEY MONEY MARX now to get them up in telling practical and concise sape r requires eguires i considerable sid erable skill with the pen and who can be more ready at such work than man to whom the pen has become as familiar an instrument foil in the h ands bands odthe of the fencing master of the old french school we areat last to have a rational pawn brokerage system where the af pf poor or will not be deliberately robbed 0 of the value of the if little atle things they wish to I 1 lay AY up till better days dayis make their advent rev dr heber new ton mr and a it few other gentlemen of sensible aud practical charity arc are hard at work organizing a system or rather an establishment after alter the manner odthe of the famous MOST MONT DK DE dmn in paris and a similar institution in boston Pawn Pawnbroker brokers a do not think that it will ever amount to much for said ono one of them to me rae have not eo so many poor in this city as thero are in london and paris where semipublic semi genii public institutions lik like e the tl mont do piete arc are a necessity but bt the boston establishment has been a success and if the scheme did not fail fall there jt it certainly ought not to fail here where where tho the poor and rich cumber number hundreds whore boston counts tens of thousands A genuine work of charity was be pun tin last wednesday A number of benevolent tene benevolent ladled lind and gentlemen who do not wish their names made mad public have baca I 1 B ED ENOUGH MONET to distri distributor buto one hundred dollars worth of peat peas coffee beana beans bread broad and flour among the poor every wednesday and saturday afternoon between the hours of or 4 and 6 5 p m the distribution is made from the steps of t the lie C city I 1 t hall and judging judging fr from 0 the kind of people bene benefited fite on theli the first distribution day I 1 am convinced that this is a charity which goes to the right spot the first of the great balls of the se season monand and the most fashion fashionable able of the lot the charity B ball all took place A at t the metropolitan opera houst last evening the baliwas ball was ori originally anally organized gani zed in 1854 as a CALICO BALL SALL and haa has been held annu annually alIr ever since for the benefit of he the nursery and childs hos hospital pital up t to the time of the organization of the patriarchs Patri archa and the family circle dancing class at Delmo Delnio nicos in 1872 it was the only ultra select affair here apts were brought out and hero here foreign visitors of distinction were in trod produced but al although the charity has thus lost its exclusiveness it maintains its glory and splendor the scene at the metropolitan opera house was brilliant in the extreme the gorgeousness of the toilets the splendor of the diamonds diamonds the wealth odthe of the flowers all combined furnished ft a picture of attractiveness the wealth of the decorations of tb the e metropolitan 1 well with the seen below vii opra house is far superior for ent entertainments of this kenil thao than itie the ol om oli I academy 0 of f music with its dirty white hitland and faded gold decorations SEO jan 7 |