, 1879-08-14
Young Bennett,
How does Mr.. Bennett look !

How does Nlr. Bennett look
| met him at the Union Club Il few
hours after his arrival from Europe. |
never saw him looking so well or SO
handsome. Imagine before you Il tall,
slim man, about 45. His face is horid,
and hair prematurely white Mr.. Ben
petts eyes are very singular He has
what a horseman calls swatch eyes y
that is, the iris of the eye is a light gray,
while the pupil or central dot is white.
Walker, the tilibuster leader, had the
same restless swatch eyes," Mr.. Ben
netts white hair is like that worn by
Stokes, who killed Jim Fisk Frank
Lord, the son of the late Mr. Hicks Lord,
and young George Law, 1t is caused
by drinking champagne instead of water.
Champagne makes gray hair, while too
rich food produces gout. Bennett is q
drinker,, aud not an eater. If he had So
to buy meal with, he would spend
81 So for champagne. and Is cents for a
sandwich. Benrett is really one of the
loudest livers in this country. Besides
the big house up on Washington Heights.
left by his father, he has big double
house on Fifth avenue, house in Lon
don, u " shooting box" in Lancashire,
and now $1,000 villa at Newport. All
these things cannot cost him less than
100000 per annum. He spends his
money like king and he is really ad-
mired in New York.
Mr.. Bennett, though ~ man of talent,
has really very little to do with the
Herald. His business is simply to call
about four times week and "shake
the boys up" When abroad he does his
"shaking up" by telegraph. One of Mr..
Benefits peculiarities is this shaking
up" mania. One night, after a cham
pagne dinner, he flew down to the office,
"shook up" Connery, the managing ed
itor, and then wrote loose, slashing
editorial, putting the retail price of the
Herald down to three cents. He not
only shakes up his newspaper, but shakes
up has friends. His trouble with the
the Mays was caused by his appearing
at the May residence at IL o'clock at
night, "shaking up" the door bell, clean
ing off the hat-rack, firing shot or two
into the mirror, and then giving Miss
May a pistol to defend herself with.
Religiously, Mr. Bennett ought to be a
Shaker, though in fact he is Catholic.
The Herald is really considered the Cath
olie organ of New York. During the
fire which burned Off the top Of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, Mr.. Bennett, fresh from
champagne party, appeared ON the scene
in full dress, and proceeded generally to
shake up the tiremen, Now, apaid fire
man in New York is an autocrat while
the fire is ON. SO when Bennett took
hold Of the hose one Of the firemen
turned full stream Of water on him.
1t was O. case of the shaker shook. !
shall never forget how Bennett looked
with his full-dress suit drenched in
water. The next day, and for weeks
afterward, the Herald in long editorials
shook up the proprietos of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel and the Fire Department.
One night, about IL o'clock, l thought |
heard cavalry charge coming down in
front of Mrs. Stewards house. Horns
were footing, men were shouting, and
then, all at once, saw the leaders Of a
four.in-hand drag go sprawling on the
pavement Almost anybody would have
been afraid in such " position, but not
so with young Bennett. He sat on the
box and shook up the wheel horses with
long whip till some Union Club fellows
got up and held his hands. The party
had been up to Jerome Park shaking
up" champagne. Bennett is q man OF
impulse. We all remember when the
Duke of Edinburgh admired Bennett's
yacht which beat the British and won
the Challenge Cup, how the handsome
fellow turned around and gave her to the
Prince. 1t was a gift worthy of Louis
XIV.-Letter to the Chicago Tribune
Mrs. Van Cott on Her Dignity.