Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-02-24

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A Great Snccess-Caps. Williams a.
The Opera Hat aud the society
Man. Etc.
Special Correspondence of The EVENING STAR
NEW YORK, February "a
sometimes wonder II it would be possible for
a young man who was moderately wealthy to be-
come great millionaire. 1t has not been done In
New York. The Astors for the last two genera
lions have not made money. The original Joha
JACOB Astor had one idea, which was to buy real
estate on the outskirts OF the city. He persis-
tently invested In uptown land. As the city grew
the property Increased In value q hundred fold ::
but the sons who were born with all this wealth
behind them did not increase their riches They
made money, OF course, but 1T was slowly and
surely. The Aston fortunes were almost
entirely due to the rise in the value OF real estate
But the sons have not become great financiers.
The SAM Is true OF all tie other wealthy mems
sons. But the moor boys have come to the front
peiidler In his youth, AMI Commodore Vanderbilt
was q OK hand on a steamboat plying between
New Brnswtek and New York. jay Gould, as
4 large part OF his early life 81 lifting rails. jim
kecne Was an Immigrant roy. BY the way, he is
the most popular OF the great milll0naires. He
manages TO keep out OF all the braws aud Huarrels
that make the names OF Vanderbilt, Gould AMI
Eel F Sbn'xiops s to the peSp Rpa Hatch WAS
foun led the great publishing house. began life as
the keeper OF corner grocery shop All Of his boys
naughty courage which distinguished the father
The only execution is ''D:n" Appleton, who Is a
captain IN the seventh regiment, ana very popn
mas more money than people imagine. was d
grocer's clerk in a country store. end Henry VII
lard W 8 reporter in Washington years ago
Leonard jerome, the father-in-law OF Lord Ran
after he was married. He impresses one pow as
hnon fInvyo ;.fc
run race horses from boyhood up. but he had big
stu .ggle at the beginning Of his career. H. b.
Ing school i'm Vermont and c1me to New York. He
had the r2ht sort OF stuff In him though, and
went up to tue very top OF the dry goods trade,
with a Tus... Peter Cooper made hats until he
learned how to make the glue which, In turn,
made his vast fortune. and Charles OConor, the
great lawyer, was the son OF a Suuatter What
chance has a rich mans son?
THE BALL OF THE ARIoN SOCIETY.
The ball OF the Arion Society last Wednesday
night was In all respects the most remarkable one
ever given In New York. As q masquerade bali it
was notable for the great number and extreme
beauty OF the costumes and the richness and e,e-
gance OF the fantastic toilets At one O'Clock in
the morning there were fully twenty thousand
people In the Madison Square Garden and the
place was perfect pandemonium Of yells, h0Ots,
howlS, shriekS and songs, with military band
will be about as wei to admit now that masauer-
ade balls are as popular In New York as they are
in Europe. In Paris bail with twenty thousand
people Is unknO wn. though Fl ench balls are far
lyelier than those given here: For the last ten
years the mania for masquerade balls has grown
given by the smaller French societies in Nelson
than a eofporars guard. but they have have
now they have a legitimate and we'll
defined place In the social amusements OF society.
reasonably be called great and that was the lied
erSranz; then came the Cercle L'Harmonie; after
that the LAmite Society. the French cooks ball
been successful to the last degree, not only sue
cessful pecuniarily, but socially. The fun at the
LAmtie bail, which was given at the Academy OF
Music, at the beginning OF the season, was so brisk
at times that it required the utmost vigilance OF
the police TO keep it anywhere near the bounds OF
do pretty much as they please and as at that time
only the fastest women and widest men are pre-
sent there is freedom OF manner displayed that
would make Il ciiurchman hold up his hand in holy
horror. The L'Ilarmonie ball did not possess this
feature because the police were too strict They
insisted that the dancers should keep their
clothes in the normal condition, ana not
kick higher than the waist. The LiederkranZ,
though very successful ball and the most * pen
SiVe or the season, WAS not particularly merry.
There were too many respectable people present
The TACT should be recognized that the charm Of
ban lis in It's entire freedom from
straight-laced and proper they take away all the
fun. This was the case at the L;ederkranz, though
tEere was some 1ollity at O'Clock in the morning.
The members OF the Liederkranz are strictly re-
soectable and reputable citizens; they believe
thoroughly in ball that enables them to 81 ar ten
thousand dollars In one night; but they nave
daughters and wives whom they always take and
they insist upon It's being respectable, while their
erkranz was great success financially, however,
as the tickets sold rapidly for ten dollars apiece
to one f ana am The y way So4 from apee
But the Arion ball oeertopped them all 1t opened
with procession that was model carnival pa
geant- The march started at II O'clock and wound
its way around TO the wide tract in the Madison
Square Garden, on which the chariot races were
run when Barnums show was there Every "a ce,
nationality and creed under the sun was repre-.
sented In the procession. There were half hun
dred hariequins, two military bands TWO hundred
Greeks and Romans, pages, peasants, monks,
priests, spaniards. Yankees. Russians, and, in
deed, delegations representing everything and
could think OF. There were huge charOts, on
which all sorts of allegorica signs were depleted
One was monument OF the twentieth century,
withlife-size figures In alleged marble representing
the great men OF this age. On top OF the monument
was the calm and smiling face of DR.. 1almage.
compliment or not 1 suppose that at least DR..
TalInage would not consider 1t as such, although
there IS bit OF nattery In the idea OF making him
grotesaue. After the procession the ball began.
All tn boxes had been sold at enormous prices
and by midnight the wine was flowing like water.
Everybody in town seemed to be there. There
were fully ten thousand men, and they were
drawn from the ranks OF the successful business
ten feet without meeting somebody he knew. Old
and dtgnined fathers, smiling blandly, were run
into oy their spruce young sons wearing opera
hats and bouquets. Wealthy business men met
their q. clerks; Wall street men met each other all
over the place, and politicians shook hands from
one END OF the vast hall to the other.
1t seemed to be a huge family gath
ering. except that the antics Of the men
and the fOll1eS OF the woman were not such as
exist In well regulated families. AS the night
wore on the champagne took effect, and Captain
Williams and bis squad OF police had their hands
fuii not only keeping some semblance OF reSpecta-
DlIity on the floor, but in quelling the rows that
cropped up on every hand as the wine took its
effect in mems brains. In the bar-r0Om the men
were particularly belligerent; but few knock
downs and one or two black eyes were the only
result OF the excitement.
CAPTAIN WILLIAMS
isthe only man who have kept order In the
den. He Is standing terror to any crowd whether
1t be composed OF prizs-fghterS or jewellers, and
his presence alone would stop fight that the ap-
pearance ofOther policemen would only aggravate.
People are afraid OF Williams because they know
that he win stand no nonsense, but hit straight
from the shoulder when he Is not obeyed The
man Is absolutely without fear and insists upon
being master. / shall never forget how he Kept
order in the Garden the night Sullivan tried
to knock Tug Wilson out II ever there
was crowd OF bruisers and scoundrels they were
there that night. Three hundred sporting men
came from Philadelphia, two hundred more from
Chicago. and delegations Of like uumharS fr,ro