Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 227, 4 September 1915 — Page 10

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PAG3 TZSN THE IUCHlKra) PALLADIUII AKT SUN-TELEGRAII. SATURDAY, SEPT. 4, 1915 Bachelor Tells Why He'sSingle Old Woman's Scandal-Laden . ' Talk Reaches Ears of Jeal- ! i bus i Girl Who Ends - Romance. Think-'of the: result'b that mav work ;iin piness career of the fniiiit whom you are tsttkm ohe of many sad cases ;inKwhv'the of life has been turnetf

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Wealthy Man Without Wife to Share Success Recalls Bitter Days of Youthful Career.

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Gossip ruined his life; blasted the romance which bad filled hi soul with hope for a neat of bis own. . He la a bachelor now. ' Although he alU today in his fine bachelor quarters with comfortable and elegant furnishings , be baa been robbed of the Joy of living which once caused him - to - greet each newborn day with a thrill, of hope and an eagerness to grasp its opportunities and a longing to grapple with its problems. Success baa been hts, ' although he is still, comparatively young. The struggle of bis earlier years and the blast log of his dream of a home and bride have ' left their .traces upon ; bis., face and his stooped shoulders. As be -sits smoking; ' reminlscently he appears prematurely aged. Bitterly be recalls the day which marked the destruction of his hopes of life and a pretty wife to cheer him on to success. He bad strolled home from the office with her one late autumn afternoon. The morning had been cool and she bad worn her coat to work but she carried It under her' arm on the way back. He had lounged along be side ber resting hla neck far down inside the roll of his Jersey and with both bands thrust into' bis trousers pockets, college boy fashion. They approached her home. Three of the neighbor women stood against the tenements, which were edged close to ibe sidewalk. The boxes and make shift toys with which the children of the neighborhood amused ' themselves were strewn, over the walk. . The women, gossips they were, put their heads' close together as they taw the young couple coming slowly down the street walking close to each other and engaged in eager conversation.. The gossiping hushed as the lovers passed the little group and then was resumed as they passed on. the conversation was taken up too soon. One of the gossips whose voice was high and unpleasantly shrill even when "he thought she was speaking in an undertone, continued ber story. - She was , narrating incidents in a former love , affair which the young man had had. She had been telling how he had been Jilted by his first love and how he had often tried to return to her. Then this new, girl, the one he was now with had come to the neighborhood and he bad taken up with ber, to make him forget the oth

er who had married. The - Gossip declared thatthe ' young . man's aunt bad told a friend of hers "that her nephew only went with the new girl because the other : would have nothing 'to ; do with him. ' 1 : , 'Her words: It's a fact he only goes with her 'cause the .other -one would not have him," carried to the ' ears of the girl. " ( ' ' She gazed at. ttie downcast; face of her lover who had also overheard the remark. She took the expression as an' admission "that the statement was true. Her pride was hurt. She quietly asked if what she had heard were true. . He "denied that' it was. But she listened to a. tormenting - inner . doubt instead of to his sincere-words of denial.' . ; ', . "-. For a time, they' had walked on : in silence. .Conjectures of all.kinds .flooded her mind. She wondered if he had been telling around among the friendsthat he did not care for her but since

- he could not-get the other girl, whomgossip said he loved," he had taken up with her. : The sting was too ' much. , Perhaps she was Just a little-bit jealous and Just a 'little bit unfair but the .suggestion that he was making. a fool of her had taken , root. . At the gate she . dismissed , him, refusing to, say when, he could .. come again. Dejectedly he walked away, his chin concealed, in the folds of his sweater. Gossip read the indications of a quarrel and flooded the neighborhood with the story. The shrill " tohgued vampire ventured -the guess that' the new, girl had heard of the other and bad. heard what the young man's aunt; was reported to have said. This' version was accepted and dispatched about the vicinity, over back fences and on door 6teps as authentic. ... '.' . The girt believed what she had heard. She VefUsed "to see' him "again, thinking " it better to choke" her own

love . which - she 1 felt growing beyond her control than to ' let , it grow and then -have it crushed should he only be trifling with her. It: required all the will power she had to deny him when she saw that be was suffering but she suspected that, it was as gossip (intimated and that be was worrying over the loss of the other girl. So she killed., her love . and spoiled his life just for a little gossip without foundation of truth. ' She had moved with her family to a distant city. He had turned all his energies to- the. automobile business. He had . advanced ' through the factory, been head ' of the testers,' worked into the office and was now president of the company."-But what did he care. He asked ' himself whether 'after all success was worth while "if there was no one to share it with him. Just a few weeks ago on the day that the directors " had "elected him president of the company he had no-

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ticed in the newspaper a story of her and bookcases but without the tender -bird: on the arm -of his chair "talking death as she walked through a public touch of a woman's hand -in evidence gaily- to ' him The thought hurt and park to get-away from the excessive anywhere. He .pictured vhow dif- ,eft hoiiowness: ' ' V summer, heat. . . . ferent it would have been had she Slowly he surveyed the den with its s been there, "even' then she' would prob-""" He-smoked -on,- in "dejection. -and open gate, beautiful electric fixtures, ably have been perched like a little mentally damned gossip.

Where Early Travelers Stopped in Richmond 1 1 How Many Veterans Recall Clem?

BY EDGAR ILIFF. Scott, in his finest novel, "Kenllworth," says it is the privilege of taletellers to open their stories in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travelers, where the humor of. each displays itself without ceremony or restraint. "I'am an inkeeper and I know my grounds, and I study them brain o'man, I study them! I must have jovial guests." So runs an old poem of the days when the fire-place blazed high with logs, and men talked of rugged work and venturesome deeds. When John Smith, the original proprietor of Richmond,' mentioned to Jeremiah Cox away back in 1814 that they needed a tavern in the settlement Cox replied that he ."would rather see a buck's tail any day than a tavern sign." Tavern Is Built. But Smith's commercial and social instincts were keen and he was right. The tavern soon bloomed forth to fill the needs of the times. The first tavern in Richmond was located on Lot No. 6 South Pearl street (now Fifth street) and was presided over by Philip Harter. This was in 1816. It was a big log house with an outside chimney and a mammoth fireplace. The next tavern was opened by Ephriam Lacey on the southwest corner of Main and Front street (now Fourth street.) It was a two story white frame house and stood on what is now the court-house yard. It was supplanted by Mason's furniture store, residence and factory. Ha iter's Corner. Then Jonathan Bayles started a tavern1 on the northeast corner of Main and Pearl street (now Fifth street) and called it the "Sign of the Green Tree." This was torn down in later years and the corner occupied hy the "Citlxen'a Bank" of the firm or Jtorrisuon. Blanchard and Co. Harter ltd also kept tavern there and it was allied for many years "Harter'p CorSoon after Abraham Jeffries opened a tavern on Gilbert's corner, Main and Marion, (now Sixth street), and used the open space on Meek's corner, across the street, for his coaches, wagons, horses and sheds. From here departed the six-horse coaches for Cincinnati, fare 50 cents. When nearKg the town the coach drivers were required to blow their horns to anounce their arrival. Richard Cheeseian. an early settler, kept a tavern on .South Front street, (now Fourth ' street.) John Baldwin, an ' original Carolinian, ' also kept tavern on- the Coffin's bank corned. He went west as in Indiana trader and was scalped alive but aurvived and returned to Rich-

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mond and died here in 1869. William of 1825 which offers "at low prices' "Sloan House." Lewis Burk was" an H. Vaughan also kept tavern on this such goods as "Peach brandy, French old-fashioned self-made man. He was bank corner. Patrick Justice also had brandy, rum, wine, gin, cherry bounce, a blacksmith, a stone-mason, a stagea tavern on north-Front street. A tav- Monongahala whiskey, country ., wbis- driver, an owner; of a' stage route, a ern was also -kept on Meek's corner key, oysters, biscuits, groceries, lunch - dealer in horses, a landlord, a mem where the Hoosier store, is now. Abra- andhay." ' - : - ' ber of both brknehes of the Indiana ham Jeffries and Joseph Andrews al-. County Buys Whiskey. legislature, and finally a banker. He so kept tavern at the. Gilbert corner, r The county' commissioners allowed . had worked for $8.00 a month as a Main and Sixth streets. George Hunt, county clerk, $20 for blacksmith, 50 cents a day as a stoneLegal Pr.icea For Meals. tjie.purchase of whiskey to be used mason and -37 cents a day in the Taverns were regulated, by the ter- at. the public sale of town lots in Sal- harvest field. Surely he ought to be ritorial and .county ,: commissioners., isbury. - an inspiration to the modern whiner The legal prices were: .Meals 25 cents; - The Meredith House, whose picture and calamity howler, lodging 64 cents'; whiskey 12 cents appears , in this issue of The Palla- Huntington House. pint; feeding horse 12 cents; dium, was built -by Charles. W. Starr Oran Huntington came here from brandy, rum and wine(50 . cents . in 1838 and kept by him from 1846 to Massachusetts in 1831 and after varipint. In 1822 meals had fallen to 18-1854. under the name of "Starr House." ous business ventures bought of Bencents; whiskey, tp 6 cents pint; .hut . From 1838 to 1846 it. was managed by . Jamin Fulghum his brick dwelling on lodging arose to 12 cents. - ; Maria Hurbut. Afterward it was con- the corner of Main and Franklin Considering the low prices for food- ducted under the' name . of Meredith streets (now Seventh street) and fitstuffs there was a good profit in meals , Hoyse by tS. Babcock. Its name came ted it up as a hotel under the name at 25 cents' unless the boarders were, from a Mr. Meredith who once man-', of the Huntington House. It has been heavy, feeders. Butter -was 4 cents a. aged it and then moved to Cambridge supplanted by the Colonial Building, lb.; bacon was 2 cents lb.; beef 1 City where ; he had the Junction. -Who can tell about the old "Casseli cents lb.; chickens 50 cents doz.; eggs ; House. The name Meredith House House" where the Grand Hotel is

vnis wi.; !wooa ai cenis cora; ,w cnangea . 10 tne rremont House now? . And what about' the "Gait

veai cents id.; nour iz-per iuu under tne management or John "EIlbe.; corn 16 cents bushel. But as. call- Hot. - - co ws $1.00 a yard the : people com-. . Lewis Burk, who . owned , "Burk's plained jt ; the .."high i.eost of : living.'! : Bank" in 1852, 4 sUnding : where the We are never satisfied. Food was First National Bank, is now. built a cheap then but men ' worked : f6r, less tavern in 1831 where GrothausV fura day than .-they , now ; get for . -. one niture store . is . now,", and ran it for hour's work. . - , '' '. '.'. . . ; .several years, finally selling-it to Dan-

. Announcement of the retirement of Col. "Johnny" Clem, "Drummer Boy of Shiloh," from the regular army, published in the newspapers 'all over the country on August 16, with account's - of Clem's remarkable career in the army from the time he enlisted, at . the age of ten years, during the early days of the Civil war, was of more than passing interest to. Dr. W. W. Wild, retired, who lives oh a farm near Williamsburg. Dr. Wild knew the extremely youthful, diminuative and . lion-hearted drummer boy when he was serving as a regularly enlisted member of the Twenty-second Michigan infantry and he tells with huge, delight and many chuckles of his first meeting with Johnny Clem. Their First Meeting. "The federal forces had ' been repulsed before Chattanooga -' and - we were in general retreat the day I met Clem," Dr. Wild said the other day. "I was the captain of Company K, Tenth Indiana infantry, and as our lines retired I was riding along a road on - the horse of Col. Carroll, . commander of our regiment, . who had been killed in action. ... "Finally I was astonished to see a mere child in ragged blue regimentals walking along the road, whistling 'cheerfully as if nothing had happened and lugging his dilapidated drum and a musket about twice his size. ' i " . "When I asked him who he was he raised his impudent, freckled face, looked me over with equally impudent eyes and then, with great dignity, said he Was Private Clem, drummer of the Twenty-second Michigan. . '"Want a lift on my horse, bud?' I asked, and without more ado he climbed on behind me and we continued on our way. Soon we met a column of fresh troops under General. Stedman, reinforcements coming to relieve the pressure of our front. . ' " 'Say, you fellows, you'll come back a ' damned sight faster than you're

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moving now,' Johnny sang, out to Stedman's troops and they howled ' with glee. " 'Tut, tut," I said to my ten-year-old companion, shocked to hear such impudence and profanity . from a lad of bis years. Johnny ignored my rebuke entirely and yelled out once more, 'all right, go ahead boys and give 'em hell.' And I guess they did. He cas-j ually remarked that he would ' have joined their ranks If he had not been so tired. "Before I put my little drum whacking friend in an army transport wagon', at Rossville, "ten miles from' Chattanooga, he calmly informed me without any semblance of boasting, that previous to meeting me he had becomelost from, his regiment a"nd in hja wanderings had met a Confederate colonel and that he had killed him. I imagine that this officer 'was so astonished at

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seeing a mere baby walking about in uniform. that he made no effort to defend ' himself. ' "Johnny's assertion that he bad kill ed' the Confederate officer was -after wards substantiated through .an off! claj investigation, and the child, for this act,, was promoted to the rank of sergeant. He was .then less than eleven . years "old. I need not repeat the story of how (he little, impudent, freckle-faced - hero,-, drum athrobbing its war growl, led the famous charge at Shiloh. That incident ia now a legend. , ' - . . "One of my most prized possessions is a photograph of himself in sergeant's uniform., that Johnny. sent me. taken shortly, after Johnny was promoted to. that rank- As you know. President Grant sent Clem to West Point after the war." " - ..

Reflections on the Passing Show

House?" And ' how about the hotel kept by, Basil Brightwell ? Where was the ''Commercial Hotel,' kept by Mrs. Preacott and' by . the dickers family also? Who. remembers Billy Morningstar? -Was, he a .clerk in the Gait House? , Who , can . tell about Jacob Goebner and . Gotlieb Lichlenfels who

We have before. us an advertisement iel P. Sloan who, managed it ; as the built and managed the Avenue House?

Our sea couldn't be much free.

Most politicians favor woman suffering; ,- ,: u;iJ- : , Easier to coax the Dardanelles thanto force 'em. ." - , Carranza can never be anything but a Mexican outrage.

All Europe has been severely wound-' ed in the war chest.

If Taf t runs to form he'll finish third

as a grandfather. '

.Yuan may be Emperor of China if

he doesn't lose .his head.""' ---- .,' .. ...-T-T-, , - r ' .. . . If being elected lieutenant, governor of a 'state wiirnbt' seal a man's poiiti-' cal prospects he is some statesman. . If Wisconsin is wise she'll grab, that $8,000,000 before ' her Governor ' saves it. .

' Preachers say Hsdes is hotter than St. Louis. Others reverse it.Would be lawful if our steel mills had to go back to making railB. . Sunday has. of ten proved, a day of rest that has put a fellow' out of business -the' balance of. the week.': - ' r ' .: ' . if. v' t A, man can be pleasant when out In company and still act like, a circus boss can vassman-when around home.