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      The recent sudden death of Dr. J. B. Wood (who probably left more friends and fewer enemies behind him than any journalist who ever died after forty years of service) calls to mind some of the many old members of the New York press: editors, journalists, specialists, etc., who have \u201cdropped out\u201d and most of whom have joined \u201cthe silent majority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      There was old Major Noah, for example, Mordecai Mannassah Noah, whom they used to style \u201cthe king of the Jews.\u201d He was a regular institution on Printin\u2019 House Square\u2013or what answered for it thirty or forty years ago. Noah was a pretty smart and a pretty good fellow, and while not at all opposed to the human race in general, he was particularly attached to one branch of it\u2013himself. He believed in gettin\u2019 all the good things one could, and holdin\u2019 on to \u2018em as long as one could. He got an office once from Tyler, and he held on to it \u201clike grim death to a dead \u2014—.\u201d  He got Tyler to appoint him a \u201csecret inspector,\u201d and a very \u201csecret\u201d inspector he was to be sure. Nobody ever saw him publicly inspectin\u2019 anything except the notes he received for his salary. Once a month he conscientiously, in discharge of his duties, walked round the docks. A friend who met him on one of these monthly walks asked him what he was doin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \u201cOh!\u201d replied Noah, with a smile. \u201cI am seein\u2019 that the pier heads of the wharves are all in their proper places, and taking care that the rats don’t run away with the underpinnin\u2019 of the Dry Dock,\u201d and that’s about all he ever did for his salary, which he drew regularly and promptly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Noah was very fond of the theatre and opera, and took his pretty young wife to some place of amusement with him almost every night. He took pretty good care of himself and lasted a long while. He got to be nearly blind, though, towards the end. In fact he used to be led by the hand to the old Union Place Hotel which was one of his favorite haunts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Modecai Noah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      In the times I speak of James Watson Webb used to be seen down-town a good deal. He had a fine appearance, and looked like a general, which was somethin\u2019. Webb always walked and sat erect, in which points he was just the opposite of old Hallock of the Journal of Commerce<\/em>. Hallock was a regular old fogy, hated to go about any, and always sat about nearly double over his desk, seated on a high stool just like a schoolboy. His big feet were always two feet or more from the floor, kind of drawn under him, as he sat. His hat was drawn tightly over his head, his long ears were laid back, like a dog’s, and his shoulders were shrugged up. But in this peculiar position he would manage to do a good deal pretty good writin\u2019. He took quite a fancy to that poor devil Michel, who used to translate French articles for the papers, and who finally took French leave of life, throwin\u2019 himself into the East River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One of the most frequent sights down-town in the long ago, was General George P. Morris. He was always spruce, well-dressed, natty and nice, rather undersized. with a full moon sort of a face, a big jolly mouth A bright twinkling eye, and whiskers of which he was very proud. The boys used to say he was prouder of his whiskers than he was of his poetry; but then his whiskers were more genuine than his verses. He was very particular about his hat and his boots, and in his way was almost as much of a dandy, as his partner, N. P. Willis, who used to be called \u201cthe band-box.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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George P. Morris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Willis had a brother Richard, who was a sort of Oscar Wilde of the last generation. A too, too utterly artistic chap of early New York. Richard Willis was spoiled by being coddled, and called smart. Some wealthy old maid took a fancy to him when he was very young, and said he was a genius, and far too good to be kept in New York. So they sent this American wonder abroad, and had him educated in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      But he was too much of an American to become a first-class German, and he got too much German in him ever to become a first-class American, so he settled down into bein\u2019 a sort of nondescript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Men didn’t take much stock in him, but the old blue-stockin\u2019s went wild over him, and said he was the comin\u2019 man. So he was. He was always \u201ccomin\u2019,\u201d but he never \u201ccame,\u201d and there are a good many men just like him in New York to-day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One of the \u201ccharacters\u201d of this time was Dr. Dixon of the Scalpel.<\/em> The doctor was personally as \u201codd\u201d as his journal. Nobody who ever met him was likely to forget him. He was very tall and very wiry\u2013\u201dpowerfully billious,\u201d as he used to say himself\u2013very muscular and rushed along like a steam engine on two legs, or rather, four, for he kept his arms in motion, flyin\u2019 about as if they were legs. He had very small, gray eyes and was very fond of tellin\u2019 stories, though he couldn’t hear to listen to one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Edward H. Dixon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He was just the very antipodes of another man who used to be around New York in his day, Donald G. Mitchell. \u201cIk. Marvel\u201d Mitchell always walked slowly, spoke very dignifiedly and cautiously, wore straw colored kid gloves, never laughed loud, had mustaches the color of his gloves, and never looked at anythin\u2019 with \u201cthe naked eye.\u201d He always carried and used a tortoise shell glass. Mitchell was for a while the \u201cfashionable\u201d favorite of New York. The ladies of \u201cgood society\u201d all praised his works and bought \u2018em too, and used to talk to Mitchell about \u2018em, and tell him they were \u201cso sweet,\u201d and Mitchell rather liked this \u201ctaffy,\u201d and swallowed large quantities of social sugar. But he soon subsided, and hasn’t been much heard of since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One of the noted sites of old New York used to be old George Bush. He was the man who introduced the writin\u2019s of Swedenborg to this country, and was himself the head of the first Jerusalem Church. Bush was an \u201centhusiast,\u201d and one of the most \u201centhusiastic\u201d of his class. He was honest in his enthusiasm and would rather have talked Swedenborg then eat any day. He used to dine, when he took the time or trouble to dine at all, at Sweeney’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Bush was tall, white-haired, very venerable and intellectual lookin\u2019, slim, and slightly stoopin\u2019, and always wore a long black Spanish cloak, which made him look like a highly intellectual bandit. He was one of the most learned, and most simple-minded of men, and everybody liked him. He had a wonderful charm of manner, and attracted strangers at once and made \u2018em friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      There were many other men of more or less note around New York in those days who have since died or \u201cfizzled out.\u201d Tuckerman; Headley; Dr. Hempel, the first leadin\u2019 homeopathic doctor and medical writer; Henry James; Richard B. Kimball; Dr. Mayo (one of the cleverest and laziest of men); Lewis Gaylord Clarke (who was always to be seen with a cane and a bundle of papers); Henry Watson; old Cornelius Matthews (who is still living, I believe); \u201cGaslight\u201d Foster, as he was called because he wrote New York by Gaslight<\/em>; the \u201cchevalier\u201d Tom Picton, as he was styled; \u201cDisbanded Volunteer\u201d Joe Barber; Steve Masset, or \u201cJeems Pipes, of Pipesville;\u201d James F. Otis; Joe Scoville; Fred West, of the old Atlas<\/em>; Hiram Fuller; Harry Franco Briggs, and others too numerous to mention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One of the chief haunts of the literary people of New York in the times of which I write used to be the house kept by the Wellingtons in Nielsen Place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The Wellingtons have long since passed away and been forgotten, but in their day they had many friends who remembered \u2018em kindly. They were two old maid sisters, who were very fond of literary people and kept a boardin\u2019 house for \u2018em, where, if the \u201cliterary people\u201d had any money they paid, and if they didn’t have any money\u2013which they often didn’t\u2013they didn’t pay, and lived all the same. This was a fine arrangement for the \u201cliterary people,\u201d but a poor show for the Wellingtons, and it ultimately broke \u2018em up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Everybody who boarded at the Wellingtons\u2019 had either written somethin\u2019, or composed somethin\u2019, or painted somethin\u2019, or criticized somethin\u2019. Artists, poets, newspaper men, critics, all live there together in anythin\u2019 but a happy family. They quarreled all the time\u2013at meal times especially. Dinner at Wellingtons\u2019 was a regular pandemonium. There were several critics, headed by a Mrs. Ellet, and several artists, headed by an artist called Mebly, and the artists under Mebly were always contendin\u2019 with the critics under Ellet, and there was the deuce to pay. Among the artists under Mebly was a lady painter called Cuddehy\u2013Mrs. Cuddehy\u2013who attracted the notice of Peter Cooper and who was appointed the head of the Art School at Cooper Institute. Among the literary and artistic people at Wellingtons\u2019 were Mrs. Newman, the great spiritual medium, and a musician who composed a stabat mater<\/em> which \u201cfailed\u201d at the Cooper Institute. Then there were half a dozen \u201ccranks\u201d boardin\u2019 there, and altogether what with its critics, authors, musicians, artists, cranks and spiritualists, Wellingtons\u2019 was, while it lasted, one of the most curious and all together lively places in Old New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elizabeth Ellet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Melby and Pissarro in their Caracas studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But the very site of the Wellingtons\u2019 has been rebuilt, their very names have been forgotten by newspaper people, and of the old time newspaper men of New York only a very few now remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Editor’s notes: Mordecai Noah was virulently anti-abolitionist, and had several run-ins with African-American theater productions. He promoted a Zionist community to be established on an island in the Niagara River. Edward H. Dixon, though a skilled eye surgeon, held unfounded theories on sexual health and the supposed harms of masturbation. He suggested remedies which did more harm than good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One would have loved to be a fly on the wall at the Wellington sisters’ dining room. The discussions between the critics on one side, led by the capable Elizabeth Ellet, and the artists on the other side, led by globe-trotting Fritz Melby, must have generated fireworks, with spirit medium Mrs. N. P. Newman in the middle.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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