Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-05
VISIONS OF MANHATTAN.
ERRORS OF WHICn THE GREAT
DAILIES ARE GUILTY.

FHght-TOughs Who Have No Eye for
Fine Furniture-BIAine's Trip Through
I the State Not Particularly Profitable.
| CorresI 0ndence Of the Morning Netcs.
NEW YORK, Oct. "a little Latin is a
dangerous thing. Forgetting that an ad-
! jective should agree with its noun in gen.
der, number and case, the World of last
| Saturday talked of ''thOse people of the
United States who are cOmpOS mentiS.''
People who are cOmp0tes nseRtiS ought not
to make use of language which they don't
understand. 1t is extraordinary the man.
! ifest mistakes which the New York papers
that, judging from their oracular tone and
dOgmatic utterances, deem themselves
infallible, continually make. No only do
tney fall into grammatical errors, but
their anachronisms and geographical and
historical blunders constantly cause the
critical to gasp and stare. One Of the
| great dailies, for instance, headed an an
nOuncement of the death of the pilot of
! the Shannon in her fight with the Chesa-
peake with San American Victory Re-
called" Now, in view of the fact
that we whipped the British in all
but two or three naval contests in the war
of 1912 it was certainly stupid to call one
of our few defeats a victory, especially
when the contest between the Shannon
and Chesapeake is so famous. The same
paper recently spoke of a war ship be-
longing to the Spanish armada escaping
the guns of Nelson! An anachrOnism of
over two centuries is certainly unpardOn-
able. These very fallible journals are
equally ignorant of contempOraneous
human events. The Times once spoke of
Charles Eliot Norton as the President of
Harvard College. His present political
attitude has rendered President Eliot so
prominent that he probably must have
Prof. Norton mixed up with him soon.
The above mistakes were made in three
| instances by editors and in the fourth by
correspondent of reputation. The num-
Der of the errors committed by reporters
which constantly appear in print are, of
course, legion.
A YOUNG WOMAN MORE OR LESS KNOWN
IN NEW YORK
not long ago met with an adventure with
a highwayman which is worth recording
now if her name and the locality are left
unwritten. She was riding alone on a
| lonely country lane towards dark, when
man suddenly jumped from the bushes
which lined the road, and seized the
bride of her horse. The lady had been
often warned by her friends against her
solitary ramblings and told that 1t was
only question of time when she would
have cause to repent her imprudence.
| She had laughed at their fears, and, dis
playing her revolver, which she always
carried on those occasions, professed her.
self able to take care of herself If danger
threatened, AS she was an excellent
! shot the remonstrances of her relatives
| did not result in a prohibition of her pere-
| grinatiODs. When, however, she met
Bombastes face to face, in other words,
when her horse was stopped by the high
wayman and ne made the stereOtyped de-
mand, ''YOur money or your life," in
| place of drawing her revolver and shoot
| ing her assailant, she was so overcome
with the ludicrOusness of what had been
so often prOphesied coming true, that she
| simply laughed in the fellows face. The
tramp, as he undoubtedly was, was so
startled by her laughter, which he evil
IDENTIFY considered maniacal, that he
dropped the bride and ran away, or, as l
should perhaps say, disappeared in the
| darkness.
The same man about town who told me
| this story was witness of a ludicrOus
scene which occurred when a political
| procession was marching up Fifth avenue
| the other evening. AT both the upper
! corners of that thOrOughtare and Four
! teenth street are furniture establishments
| which have practice of displaying their
! goods on the surrounding sidewalks un-
| der the glare of numerous electric lights
all night long. At any hour of the night
! you 90 by you will find the avenue there
| abouts literally as light as day, and the
| sidewalks covered with carpets like
! Joseph's coat of many colors, and more or
! less gorgeous furniture. There is, of
! course, Watchman or two to guard this
magnifcence from the hand of the spoiler.
| The watchmen were unequal to the emer-
| gency, however, when the procession in
! question came ON the scene. A gang of
! halfgrown men OF the class which in San
Francisco is called hoodlums, and here
! tOughs, preceded the procession, march
ing in time TO the music, with their hands
| locked on each others shoulders in
line that extended from curb
to curb. They thought the process
sion intended to march straight up the
avenue, and accordingly they kept on this
course after passing Fourteenth street
until they discovered the procession turn
ing into that thoroughfare towards Broad
way. Breaking their line they made a
rush to get again at the head of the pro-
cessiOn. Like torrent they swept over
thefurniture displayed on the sidewalk
on the northeast corner of the street,
trampling over the carpets and knocking
down and breaking the sofas and chairs.
| The furniture's guardians spent tie rest
of the night in removing the debris and
putting things to rights.
This point being so we'll lighted, no iu-
! convenience as to the names and numbers
of streets is caused by the substitution of
the electric light for gas, but elsewhere it
is very different. The street names being
on the unlighted lamps cannot be seen
even when they are near an electric light,
and consequently everywhere the electric
system extends, a person, unless he knows
the neighbOrho0d, has to continually ask
xxyho ba fo no
have their labors rendered corresponding
ly more Onerous in consequence. When
the electric light takes the place of gas all
over the city this will become a great
nuisance unless a different mode of la
belling the streets is initiated.
A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT WHO
ACCOMPANIED BLAINE
on his tour West as far as Buffalo, and
who wrote glowing accounts of the en-
thusiastic crowds which greeted the tat
tOOed statesman, told me on his return
that he started thinking Cleveland had no
chance of election. He is now Of an en-
tirely opposite opinion. He says that the
very fact Blaine is swinging around the
circle is proof of the desperate condition
the Republican canvass is considered by
its managers to be in. Blaine would have
liked to remain in dignified retirement at
Augusta, and have been called by the
cinnatus, without effort on his
part, but Jones, Elkins & Co.
found the current setting so strongly
against them that they forced him to take
the field in person. The experiment in
this State was not particularly success
full. The demonstrations" along the
route were, my informant says, all ''put-
up' jobs, the local leaders in every case
ordering their followers to attend, and
even alluring Democrats to do so.
Wherever the correspondent stopped over
night, he was told the next morning that
the town which had seemed the evening
before so enthusiastic for Blaine would
give a majority for Cleveland. He
learned, too, that st. John counted his
followers in the western part of the State
by thousands.
ACCORDING TO FRIEND OF MINE
who has been interviewing the head men
of the Brewers Association, the great
mass of the Germans throughout the
country are pledged to vote against
Blaine. 1t was the vote controlled by this
organization that contributed largely to
beat Maynard, the Democratic candidate
for Secretary Of State of this common
wealth, last year because of his being
temperance man. AS Gen. Carr, the Re-
publican candidate, ran about 10000
votes ahead of the rest of the Republican