Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-26
NOTES FROM NEW YORK.
The Famous seventh RegIment-A
Decidedly Close COrpOratIOn-The
Pride of Gotham and the Delight
of Its BelIes-A Bonanza for the
Art Museum-Rare Treasures I'm
Glass.


NEW YORK, October 24.-When the French
visitors to Yorktown arrived in New York
fortnight ago, they were escorted up Broad
way to their hotel, the Fifth Avenue. by the
famous Seventh Regiment; and when, few
days after. a review Of division of militia was
held in their honor. the military gentlemen of
the party were enthusiastic in their praises of
our ''citizen soldiers" 1t may not prove un-
interesting for those readers Of the NEWS who
have never seen the Seventh TO know some
thing of its character and history.
To be member Of the Seventh Regiment is
in New York a sort of social "open sesame"
Not that the girls here go crazy over brass
buttons and handsome uniforms, per Sc, as
silly maidens are reputed to do at Annapolis
and West Point; member of the Seventh has
much more to recommend him. He belongs to
an old, aristocratjc and exclusive association;
and in democratic New York anything border
ing on the aristocratic or the 'elect' is faint
with the odors OF Paradise. One company Of
the Seventh stands almost ready to open your
veins with the tip of a sword to see if indeed
your blood is truly blue Happy mertal if you
can prove your descent from a Knickerbockerl
Being a noUus homo, you need not apply. The
rest of the regiment consists of men of wealth
and station, though, to be sure, untinged with
anything Dutch. In short, every great family
| of the city is or hopes to be represented.
This great organization. rich in fame and du-
| cats, the observed all observers, the adored
of the fair, the paragon of military exceIlence,
| nings. AS far back 1924, the year when Gen.
Lafayette visited America for the last time, the
officers of certain New York Artillery Regi-
| ment, the Eleventh, weFe~wont to cougregate
for social intercourse in rum little tavern
| known as THE Shakespeare, - upon the corner
of Nassau and Fulton streets. Here during
| the summer months, in the doorway under the
hanging sign, in winter before the CHEEKY fire,
| Capt. Prosper NJ. Wetmore, Major Wilson and
| other doughty warriors sat, smoked their pipes
| and talked gossip, business and politics. At
/ that time. as just at the present, Lafayette
/ was the cry, and it seemed graceful thing to
| these heroes of 1.-THE Shakespeare" as Gen
| Lafav tie was commander-in-chief of the
| Gdrde NGttoTdte OF France. to cali their little
| battalion likewis National Guards desig-
| nation which has won great celebrity. In the
year 1926 the Eleventh Artillery became the
! nucleus of a new regiment, the Twenty-Sev-
| enth, which for twenty years grew in numbers
| and fame, and was indeed no less
ntutate Tlonline than the Seventh itself. For
| in 1847 there was REMEMBERING of the New
| York regiments and the Twenty-Seventh
| loath to lose its ringing name, compromised by
| retaining at least the ending, and so called
| itself the Seventh.
| The uniform Of the regiment was, is and
| old days of the Eleventh, when the
| battalion was marching once as an
escort to General Lafayette, 'it happened
| that one of the privateS Philetus H. Holt,
| appeared in the street in his gray work
| ing coat, which, being of a tidy fit. and he
| having 1.-the trim figure. caught the atten-
| tion of Captain Prosper NJ. Wetmore (who had
keen eye for trimness, and CAPTAIN Wet
more, comparing notes with Major Wilson and
others, decided that the new uniform. con-
cerning which there had been much discussion,
| should be modelled after the gray coat of this
| young -four merchant"
| For fifty years this military organization has
| been prominently before the public In all
parades drills, reviews it has been given the
| post of honor, q distinction which il has as
Suredly earned. For not only is the discipline
observed in its ranks of the highest and
pearance of the men harmoniously
| agreeable and their tactics without
| q flaw, but the duty which they have been
called upon to perform and have performed so
| nObly and honorably has more than all en-
| deared the regiment to this city for all time.
| In hours of danger vel as in those of celebra-
| tion New York has found faithful servitor in
| the old Seventh If she looks smilingly at the
| numberless balls, receptions and reviews with
which the gallant members of the Seventh are
| wont to delight the ladies of their hearts,
proudly and thankfully does she remember
| their patriotism and services on many sterner
| and less happy occasions. To one can look at
| TIL Nast's painting of the March of the Regi-
| ment down Broadway on its way to the war
| without being deeply stirred and impressed.
| The whole city is tearfully and trustfully bid
| ding goodbye to its favorite child.
The associations formed in the ranks of the
| Seventh are true and dear. There Is more in
| genuousness, more generosity here than in the
| colder and more worldly ''clubs " Witness
for example, the following words spoken just
| before the removl of the regiment to the
| new armOry: And now comrades, this is
| the last time we shall meet in the old armory
endeared to us all by so many, many ties; by ties
| IF service rendered to the nation. and to the
| State and to the city endeared to us by the
| recollection of parades and drills and meet
| ings; endeared to us by the discipline enforced
| and the lessons learned; endeared to us by the
| friendships formed, and by the memories of
| departed heroes whose faces we shall see no
| more. And so, when we leave this armory to-
| night, let us march to our new quarters with
| renewed love and zeal for our regiment. God
| bless and prosper the Seventh Regiment. God
| bless us all in our new armory home'
| These new quarters spoken of are so exten-
| sive and so elegant that description of them
| would, l am sure, prove interesting to the
| readers of the NEWS l shall accordingly re-
vert to this subject in a future letter.
! The Metropolitan Art Museum has recently
| been so fortunate as to become the posseSsors
| by purchase of the famous Charvet collection
| Of Roman glass. General di Cesnola conclud-
| ed the negotiation for the very moderate sum
of $1,000 francs. The collection is not yet on
| exhibition but l am enabled to give the fol-
lowing, which | quote: NJ, Charvet. who
! is an art-dealer, is also a connois
| seur and student, and nearly twenty
| five years ago hogan collecting specimens OF
| antique glass. Wherever opportunity offered
/ NJ Charvet or his agents were ready to pur-
chase. The complete collection, now so nan
| PLY secured for America, contains 800 speci-
mems of antique glass, chiefly Greoo Roman
| and Gallo Roman, /. g found in Asia Minor
| and the Greek islands, in Roman tombs In
| France and other portions of ancient Gaul
| The dates of these specimens may be fixed as
| between the years 100 B. G.. and 200 A. D
| They are throughout of the same style and are
| transparent translucent, and of most deli
| cate. thin structure. There are also a very few
examples of the infinitely rarer opaque Phoeui-
| clan and Egyptian glass of date certainly not
| later than 10000 B. c.
| The objects are chiefly OF domestic use and
ornament, and in forms already made
| somewhat familiar to visitors of the Metropol-
| tan Museum-veses, gobetS, ointment Guns
| and paterae. mortuary urns, tiles for mural
| decoration, TASKS and gems of glass in
relief, and also exquisitely inlaid. The Charyet
| collection contains three pure Greek goblets
| with inscrirt tons, exhumed by General di Ces-
nOla at Cyprus ct an early period of his explo-
| ration Several objects in the collection were
| found in Engand-some in Canterbury some
| in London, and several In villages in Snsss
| The places of discovery have been, in fact al
| most everywhere where the Roman rule has
| governed. Mr.. James Jackson Jarves has Civ
| en- to the museum a splendid collection of We
netian glass This has not yet arrived Its
money value is stated at $50 000 and its artistic
| worth to the museum is enormous, completing
az it does the meeting of the historic ages of
! glass manufacture. The Director of the Louvre
at Paris recently declared that with the other
| specimens now in its keeping, the Metropolitan
! Museum will have collection of antiaue glass
unapproached and unapproachable in the
| world. HORACE.