Among the Anarchists of New York, showing Emma' Goldman, John
Most and Justus Schwab, who all made a good living out of the guff
they wrote and preached. Emma was only recently deported to
her own beloved Russia, where her theories of government were
being carried out. Her ungrateful country at once put her to
work on a rock pile as an expression of their affection, and iinally
kicked her out.
CHAPTER X
Harper's Weekly - The Astor House Rotunda and
the Famous Men Who Dined There - George Wil¬
liam Curtis - Ed^win A. Abbey - Thure de Thul¬
strup - "Dick" Davis - Billy Inglis - E. H. Blash¬
field - Editorial - The Hecksher Playground -
John H. Tennant - Sophie Irene Loeb
IT WAS an axiom that any one who was anybody could
be seen at the Astor Rotunda sooner or later. In the
side rooms were accommodations for ladies.
Just beyond Newspaper Row were the offices of nearly
all the other periodicals issued at that time—magazines,
weeklies, etc. In fact the entire publishing world was
encompassed within a few blocks for although the Cen¬
tury's offices were uptown, it was printed in De Vinnes
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