Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-04-05
NUMBER IA.
MIR. GREELEY's CLOTHTEs.

Mr.. Greeley throughout life was twitted
with his slovenliness Of person, and many
people we're made to believe that he in
CURED the risk of being sold for bag of
ancient rags whenever he passed into
Ann street. The fit and quality of his
clothes were not what Grammont or
D'Orsay would have recommended but
he was always scrupulously neat-Beeth-
oven himself having no greater passion for
the bath. His linen was ever immaculate;
his boots, though often coarse, well
BACKED his face carefully shaved, and
his hands as daintily kept as those of
fine woman. His cravat had tendency
it is true, to assume the shape of hang
mans knot, and his trowsers were often
suggestive of required continuance; but
that he was really slovenly was palpably
false. The idle tales that he disarranged
his toilet before the looking glass, and
| carefully squeezed his pantaloons into the
leg of his boot ere he appeared on the
street, was purposely to annoy him, and
Stiaisp W s"y, ticy Hau tHe cHcCt IN
tended. He was sensitive on the sub
ject of his dress, and seldom received ad-
vice thereupon with becoming equanimi-
ty. Oddly enough, he believed himself
a very well attired person, and that few
men in his station went better clad. Sar-
torial comments were won't to draw from
him sharp and singing replies.
When n city editor of the Tribune once
suggested the reformation of his neck tie,
Mr.. Greeley answered, "You don't like
my dress, and | don't like your depart
mont. If you have any improvements to
make, please begin at home."
James Watson Webb while editor Of
the Courier and Enquirer, was fond OF
criticising the costume of his neighbcr,
who, referring to the fact that Mr.. Webb
had been sentenced to the State-prison,
pardoned, for fighting duel with Thomas
F. Marshall, made this extnguishing re-
joindor: "Assuredly no costume in
which the editor of the Tribune has ever
appeared, would create such sensation
in Broadway as that James Watson
Webb would have worn but for the Glenn
ency of Governor Seward"
To another journalist, noted for his un-
tidiness, and his ridicule of Mr.. Greeley,
the latter responded, "If our friend Of the
-, who wears mourning TOR his de-
parted veracity under his fnger-nails,
will agree to surprise his system with
bath, we may attempt clean discussion
with him."
The illustrious editor was simply care
less OF his attire, though fastidiously neat.
He was always SO busy that, when he
rose in the morning, he put on the first
thing he found, and sometimes did not
put it more than half on. His clothes
never seemed to fit him, or rather, he
never seemed to fit his clothes. The WON
der with many of his acquaintance was
whore he bought them, or whether they
did not grow, so unique often were their
cut and pattern. Clothes, repeat, were
tender theme with him and he dis
played the highest breeding by never al
luding to what he wore. 1t is supposed
he got his garments ready made Il have
been told his wife was in the habit of pur-
chasing them), and to save time, he took
the first articles offered. He was the only
| New Yorker of note who repeatedly ap-
peared in the street in the morning in
dress-cont. But he made ample atone
ment for this by presenting himself up
town at formal hinners in paletot, or
some peculiar garment that dehed identi-
fcation. Whatever may be thought Of
Mr.. Greeley's quaint raiment, he was
excellently dressed according to the
Brummel canon, because after being with
and listening to him one could not re-
member what he had on. He could talk
away his clothes in the briefest space.
-JunimS Henri BrOwne, in Hdype,'s
Magazine for Ap'ft.