Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-01-18
GOTHAM GATHERINGS.
The Gay Season At It's Highest-GouId's Latest
M~o,e-Trsps for the Unwary.

<Aiionp otner things we are having lots
of weddings this frosty weather. Church
weddings are the rule. The churches
or chapels are beautifully decorated
with flowers, the ladies wear elaborate
costumes and there is an entire absence
of the vulgar crowd of which we were
wont to hear so many complaints.
Fashionable people are becoming more
and more exclusive every year and resent
the presence of what a sublime little ass
in the Knickerbocker Club has the i'm
pertinence to call 'commoners.' Only a
few years ago and any respectfully
dressed man or woman
FELT QUITE JUSTIFIED
in wandering into n church wedding
and taking a seat. Now. everything
is changed, and only those whose cloth
ing stamps them as members of the ex-
tremely fashionable guild are admitted.
The less %pretentions people are stared
at by the ushers when they present
themselves at the door and asked coldlv
what they want. If this does not repel
them they are told it .was hoped to
make the affair somewhat exclusive
So they are driven Out and the swellS
smiles contentedly because no com
moners' are present.
Sometimes it seems as if jay Gould
invited hostilities and hate. He always
acts without The slightest consideration
for the people, and sneers when they
protest. Recently he found running
trains on the 9th avenue elevated rail
road after midnight did not quite pay.
OF course the railroad pays immensely
at other times in the day, but from II
midnight to 4 a. m. the trains
CANNoT CLEAR THEMSELVES.
So Mr.. Gould said, 'stop all trains and
close the road at midnight" The gen
eral manager, the vice president and
many of the stockholders protested
against this move as being very unfair
to thousands of people along the route.
Fully fifty thousand people had been
led by the establishment of the elevated
road to move up to 100 and 150th
streets and in that nelghborhood. They
believed that the elevated road would
run all night, as they had agreed to
when their valuable franchises were
granted them. Now the trains are stop
ped at ~ and these people are debarred
from attending the theaters or evening
entertainments because there are no
late trains. But the rule has struck the
newspaper men the hardest. OF the
thousand of men employed in one eapa.
city or another on the night staff OF the
great papers, fully one-half live uptown
These men have only one thing to dc
now-move downtown. 1t is not prac.
table for them to drag four or five miles
in the street ears or cold winter nights.
The row raised by the new rule is al.
ready beginning to take shape in n pro-
posed petition to the legislature.
VANDERBILT'S ''PUBLIC BE DAMNED
and Fields monument to Andre, the
spy, and now matched by Could early
closing movement. The last named
millionaire, by the by, is becoming quite
an hdbitae of the theatre. He and his
son, George, went to see Modjeska's
Camille, a few nights ago, and both Of
them were very attentive. People
stared at them a good deal. 1t made
the elder man somewhat nervous but
his fat and unsympathetic son seemed tc
find it very amusing. Young George
is very discreet when with his papa.
He wears a plain business or morning
suit to the theatre, when under the pa.
tcrnal eye, and never feels thirsty once
but when he goes alone the ease is alto.
gether different. Then he appears witt
great effect, in evening dress and strik.
ing jewelry. He looks like a Cuban, SC
dark is his face.
What pitfalls there are for pocket
books in a great city like New York.
The
SwINDLING SCHEMES
that are develop ed almost daily ar,
enough to strike one dumb with amaze.
mcnt at not only the effrontery but the
ingenuity of the thieving operators. A
man who sold dolls at what every one
considered dirt cheap-most probabl,
1t a loss was induced recently to Civ,
up business at the urgent request of tn
police, who noticed that the cheapnes
of his dolls always caused a large GROVE
TO collect, and that some ono in tha
crowd always lost his or her pocket
book. The dolls were sold at a loss il
order that the crowd of pushing buyer
might give a chance to clever pickpock
cts ready for the opportunity offered
Speaking of thieves and swindles. | wa
given a glimpse Of the portraits in In,
rogues' gallery. at police headquarters
the other day. They were a queer 10
of faces. Some of them looked like borl
rogues. but others would have passet
anywhere for born gentlemen. Tn
shrewdest villains of the lot are givel
the distinction of having their portrait
hung ap near the door where the detect
ives pass in and out. so that each MAJ
on the force may know their features
as well as those of his own father. Thi
is the secret of the dispatch of polio
captures. If Inspector Bynes, who is a
the head of the detective bureau, has
description of a confidence man or
thief. he can send his men out and TAX
him in a few hours. But the detective
do moi always detect, and sometimes W,
have good reason TO suspect that the,
let robber RS escape for the share of thei
gains. KNIcKERBocKER.
b. L. Babbitt has been tackled TO
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