Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-17
LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS.
NIUNCHAUSEN STORIES TOLD
ABOUT MANHATTAN.


ton in the Taller of the news writers of
his day shows that they anticipated the
average New York correspondents of the
present time. After abiding to their ex-
aggerations-to call them nothing worse
he says: SIT is impossible for this in
genious sort of men to subsist after a
peace. Every one remembers the shifts
they were driven to IN the reign of King
Charles H., when they could not fur
nish out single paper of news without
lighting up cOnflagration in Germany or
a fire in Moscow. There scarce appeared
letter without paragraph on an earth
quake. PrOdigies were grown so familiar
that they had lost their name, as a great
poet of that day has it. l remember Mr..
Dyer, who is justly looked upon by all
the fox hunters in the nation as the great
est statesman our country has produced,
was particularly famous for dealing in
whales, in so much that in five months
time (for 1 had the curiosity TO examine
his letters on that Occasion) he brought
three into the mouth of the river Thames,
besides two pOrpoises and a sturgeon"
| seldom take up an out of town paper
without seeing accounts of wonderful oc-
currences in New York which never took
place. The older Disraeli once contem-
plated writing a "histOry of events which
never happened" The correspondent
who has not the fear of lying before his
eyes is continually writing such history.
More often, however, when he has not the
ingenuity to invent his facts, he bOrrOws
an account of some extraordinary hap
pening in Chicago or San Francisco, and
represents the occurrence as having taken
place here. Correspondents of this kid
ney, too, in addition to inYenting hair
raising falsehoods or borrowing wild
Western incidents, are apt to misrepre-
sent what does occur.
| often wonder what people, who, al
though they may not live here, know New
Workers., and are acquainted with New
York life, must think when they read the
New York letters which appear in some
newspapers. Chow the world is given to
lying" they doubtless say with Falstaff.
On the other hand, what must people
think to whom Manhattan Island is a
terra incOgnitd, when they read of the al
legged extraordinary doings of New York
so extraordinary as to be in
conceivable did they not appear in print?
That New York and New Workers are not
so extraordinary as they are painted by
such correspondents should go without
saying; if it does not, it's but little Won
der that New Workers are often stared at
as if they were wild animals in some
places.
A distinguishing characteristic of the
writers under consideration is their ignO-
rance of the very things they attempt to
depiet. The social mistakes which they
make cause one to the man.
ner born perpet ual wonder at their I'M
necessary capacity Tor error. Ihey seem
to be entirely unaware Ga the dlsIlnctIons
which exist between the different grades OF
n iah
laughable they may be, are as real AID
as the laws of the Modes and
Persians. People are continually de-
picted as belonging to the cream of the
cream of New York society who could
only obtain entrance to a gentleman's
house through the kindness of the cook or
butler. Men and women are spoken of
as meeting in the same drawing-room
who are never under the same roof except
when at a theatre or some other public re-
sort. But 1 am wasting too much powder
on small game,
SOME POLITICAL NEWS WAS TOLD ME
YESTERDAY
which thus far has escaped publicity, in
spite of the fact that, if true-and about
its truth there can be little doubt-it in
sures the election of Cleveland, as well
as confirms the statement in my last let
-er that the Prohibition party holds the
balance of power in this campaign. A
man who has been spending
he last fortnight in the interior of the
State found St. John and not Blaine to be
he candidate of the Republican farmers.
80 many farmers who have heretofore
yoted the Republican ticket intend to vote
or the Prohibition candidate that the
Democratic disaffection here in New York
,ity is Offset by this unlocked for break
n the Republican ranks. With the Pro-
libitionists thus cOunterbalancing the
lynamiters, Cleveland can easily carry
he State, for, in addition to the Indepen-
lent vote, he will have the German vote,
which has been hitherto principally Re
publican. The fact, therefore, that the
armers will vote for St. John means that
he election in New York is only ques-
ion of Democratic majority. My in
ormation ought to be reliable, for my in
ormant is not only Republican but he
5 a writer on the Tribune. When l asked
Tim whether his views had been printed
lie said in disgust, sit isn't exactly the
tutf l would be apt to write for the ITi-
,lne. is it -
Everywhere one meets with proof of
3laine's unpOpularity among the Ger
mans. For example: the Albany CORE
pOndent Of one of the local papers met
ecently the editor of the German paper
It the State capital, who, appointed Pardon
Clerk by Tilden and retained by Robin
ION and Cornell, was dismissed
" Cleveland, who did not think that he
justice with mercy sufficiently.
lie naturally has no love for Cleveland,
md he greeted my informant with ''Weu,
I'm eating crow with the rest" He pro-
eeded to explain that much as he wanted
o oppose Cleveland, he was constrained
o give him the most ardent support. as
10 r,T,ro,.iborc. ponJ1bliaoT uoI1
would leave him did his pa
)er take a different stand. This is but
me instance among many which are to
,e found on every hand of the German en- |
husiasm for Cleveland.
In the face of these facts the claim of |
he Blaine managers that New York State |
will give $4,000 Republican majority |
ounds more than ridiculous.
IURAT HALsTED's EVENING BLAINE PA
PER,
he NelC York Extra, is hardly of char !
cter to win votes for the candidate whose
ause it espouses. With its wide columns
reminds one of the Tribune, in whose /
flee it is printed, and for that reason it |
will probably command but little circu-
alton among the very people whom it is |
Intended to influence. Fifty enough, its |
ame permits the preparation of a fraud |
n asmall scale. The news boys can now |
dispose of their superfluous stock by |
houting "EXtrap' without fear of police |
nen arresting them for false pretenses.
/ am told that the Greedy expedition |
annibal story was known in one or more
Jews paper offices besides that of the one
which first made it public. Such certain |
Y made a mistake in allowing the Times |
o be first in the field with the news, for
UGH story could not have been sup
,ressed-it would have been revealed in
he official investigation of the affairs of
he expedition. if not sooner.
New Workers, together with many
thousands of other Americans, found
themselves in the position of Charity
oecksniff on Sunday-they had ''lived to
,e shook" The earthquake was per-
eptible enough here to be felt by every
me who was riding or walking in the open
Iir or sailing on the water. The latter
we're more amazed than those who had
cit the shock when they were told what
lad happened without their realizing it.
Absurd as it seems, the shock, slight as it
vas, afflicted many with nausea which
asted for some time. How much a new
excites New Workers is shown
" the space which was given to an ac-
count of the earthquake in the next days
papers.
That summer is nearly over is made
manifest by the theatrical announcements
or the coming week. To the Casino and
Madison Square Theatre, which have re-
NAMED open the entire season, and the
New Park Theatre, which reopened on