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. The life and times of Col. James Fisk, Jr. : being a full and impartial account of the remarkable career of a most remarkable man, together with sketches of all the important personages with whom he was thrown in contact ... and a financial history of the country for the last three years, embracing also the lives of Helen Josephine Mansfield ... and Edward S. Stokes . ,„,,„..,ri i,j!:rS, rajrii. ,-:-i^V:^. iAE (.RANGE KIOT. JAMES FISK, JR. 309 CHAPTER XXXII. Col. Fisks every movement was now as regularly re-ported in the daily papers of New York, as if he were inreality a monarch, and they s
. The life and times of Col. James Fisk, Jr. : being a full and impartial account of the remarkable career of a most remarkable man, together with sketches of all the important personages with whom he was thrown in contact ... and a financial history of the country for the last three years, embracing also the lives of Helen Josephine Mansfield ... and Edward S. Stokes . ,„,,„..,ri i,j!:rS, rajrii. ,-:-i^V:^. iAE (.RANGE KIOT. JAMES FISK, JR. 309 CHAPTER XXXII. Col. Fisks every movement was now as regularly re-ported in the daily papers of New York, as if he were inreality a monarch, and they so many Court Journals. Itis more than probable that at this period he was unusuallyclever to the press. He was always kind to suffering Bohe-mians, although he held them generally in supreme contempt;and was on all occasions lavish with his cigars and wine—the Bohemians rarest luxuries. And the grateful triberepaid the gorgeous Colonels hospitality, by flattering himin the public prints, by giving prominence to the record ofhis daily walk. A comparison between the Court yournaVscolumn devoted to the movements of Her Majesty, QueenVictoria, and those of the New York papers which mostindustriously followed the Colonel-Admiral and Prince ofErie, will prove that the admiration of royalty is not con-fined to the other side of the water : Court Journal, London. Court Journals, Nev/ York. The Queen arose
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