Life — November 4, 1886 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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= : ) “While there’s Life there’s Hope. VOL. VIII. NOVEMBER 4, 1886. No. 201. 1155 BRoADWAY, NEw York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, 10 cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. I., $1.50 per number ; Vol. II., 25 cents per number ; Vol. III., IV., V., VI. and VII. at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. HAT a pain it must be to our Brooklyn neighbors that they are not voters in Gotham and cannot help us choose our mayor. With such a trio of Richmonds in the field, it is a good deal pleasanter to vote than not. However a man may exercise his right of suffrage it will be hard for him to go wrong. There is our Mr. Geo. If he gets it, we will all move into the late Mrs. Stewart's fine house in Fifth Avenue. That will be pleasant. And if Mr. Roosevelt gets it we will have the finest beer garden in Central Park that ever was. The children will like that, and so will Mr. Chauncey Depew, who has probably bet money on Teddy so sure he is that he will win. If Mr. Hewitt is elected we will — but why prognosticate when it is sucha simple matter to wait and see what will happen when Mr. Hewitt is elected. LIFE has never suffered from such embarrassment of political riches as during this race, If Mr. Geo. had not won its affec- tions early, Mr. Hewitt’s chance might have been effectual, or if the other two gentlemen had not been up how gladly could we have supported steady Roosevelt. It gives one fellow-feelings for the girl who has three beloved objects and polyandry barred by statute. Before this copy of LIFE is cold upon the news counters the voting will have been done and the result declared. Surely it is permitted here to congratulate the people of New York on their choice. * * * HOOP-LA! Liberty is up and dressed at last, and enlightens the world from Bedloes Island. Hail to her ladyship and welcome. May her shadow never diminish nor her radiance be dimmed. She stands in her own light, but so fine a creature can afford to overlook that disadvan- tage. New York is proud of her. What a great discrimina- tion Bartholdi had to put this splendid image in the spot of all the world where it belongs. When the New Zealander from the collection of the late Lord Macaulay stands on the broken arch of London Bridge, views the ruins of Lord Ran- dolph’s boom, New York will still be here, and so will Lib- erty, —if the aldermen haven't sold her for her copper. UT New York and her mayor and her new statue have not exclusive rights, even in this single week. The last day of it is the property of Harvard College. Then begins her celebration of her fifth jubilee anniversary, and a cata- clysmic celebration it is to be. It has taken a good while to make Harvard all that she is, and it will take some days of next week to restore her to her present condition. Her sons intend to gather thousands strong. Everyone of them who can command the price of transportation, and can get leave or bail, will go. There are to be games of foot-ball and boat-races, torch-light processions, prayer, praise and thanks- giving, speeches and poems, and processions, and coincidently all the time, splendid and memorable gormandizing. There will be headaches of a morning too, we presume, but surely the occasion warrants them, if any occasion can. There are times for all things, and from Saturday until the Tuesday following is the time for Harvard men to grow young. * * * T is said that the Stewart house, with all its treasures of art, is to become the property of the city of New York, to be used as a public gallery. This is good news. LIFE hopes that it may be true, and, in that glad hope, it tenders its condolences to various metropolitan clubs, who, in pros- pect, have long occupied the palace on the corner of Thirty- fifth street. It is a great boom that the people are to have that splendid mansion. The clubs are good institutions, but the public has prior claims. * * x OR patriotic reasons LIFE declines to divulge whether Mrs. Cleveland’s absence from the Richmond celebra- tion was due to the presence of Miss Davis, or not. Miss Davis is said to be a very charming young woman, and no one can have any personal aversion to her. But her father is the sole living representative of ideas which the Northern people do not pretend to admire. It would certainly be wiser, therefore, for our Southern friends not to expect representa- tive Northern people to unite in doing honor to Miss Davis as her father's proxy. * * * LTHOUGH Mr. James Russell Lowell did lose his temper and say some rather sharp things of Mr. Julian Hawthorne, it does not follow that either of these gentlemen are professional liars. If Mr. Lowell had imparted confiden- tially to Mr. Hawthorne certain secrets of the Lowell family and Mr. Hawthorne had published them in the N. Y. World, we think Mr. Lowell's letter would have about fitted the situ- ation. In view of the actual circumstances, however, it is difficult to realize the enormity of Mr. Hawthorne's crime. * * * AKE SHARPE thinks now that to the Victors belong the toils. ‘comicbooks.com