Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-18
BUDDING ARIsTOCRATs.
A Produce Exchange of Comments on
Late Ball.
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IN A MURRAY HILL MANSION.

IN A MURRAY HILL MANSION,
"NIv dear Lucy, have been dying to
see YOU and tell you about the ball at the
Produce Exchange, but caught cold
and mamma would not allow me out
until this morning. 1t was just lovely.
Why did you not come! Charley Smith
told me that he had asked you, and that
at the last moment you sent him de
clined. with thanks What was the mat
ter? Now, don't say it was another en-
gagement, because there was nothing
going on in town that night"
"What did Mr.. Smith sayV
~Say? He was as blue as he could be
all night. / don't think he danced in more
than two sets, and was his partner in
the first one. Now. don't get mad. l did
tito make George Rivers mad. You know
l went with papa"
"Did Mr.. Smith ask for meY'
"Ask for you? l had to beg him to talk
about some one or something else, dearly
as l loved you"
"Well, l wanted to go; but mamma at
the last moment would not hear it."
s'YOu astonish me. What was the mat
ter?"
''Well, you snow, the building is down
at the Battery, that horrible place where
the immigrants land, and she did not think
it was quite the thing"
"But, my dear, it was the old fashion
able centre of the city. As we drove
along, papa pointed out the corner where
your father used to live. Papa lived next
door. l think your house is cigar store.
Ours, | know, is an old junk shop. How
could they ever have lived THEREOF
81 am sure l don't know. l am not
interested in such antiquarian re-
searches"
sWeH. you made a mistake in not
going. 1t was perfectly beautiful. You
have no idea what jolly fellows the young
Produce Exchange brokers are. l was
introduced to Mr.. Brown, who, they told
me, 'cOrnered' all the lard in the country
two years ago, and made a million. Then
l met a Mr.. Greene, who | believe bought
all the flour, and made an imm ense for
tune. | danced with a Mr.. Jenkins, who
told me that he had just bought all the
wheat that would come into the market
next month, and who expected to be as
rich as Mr.. Vanderbilt. He said he would
put up the price all over the world. and
that we should not have a thing to eat
bread, l mean-unless we paid his price.
A Mr.. Black, who took me down to sup
per, declared thathe owned all the hams in
the West, and that he intended to advance
the price of them three or four cents a
pound, which would make him two or
three millions; and l have forgotten the
AGSb VI bHCills II bGCllCu W lAlC buOl wv llCt
everything that people eat or drink. |
am sure l do not understand how they do
it. What enormous stores they must have
to keep all those things in"
''Effie, dear, that is just the reason why
/ did not go to the ball. Mamma, you
know, is Virginian, and she said that it
would never do to know all these trades
people. Papa is not in business now.
He devotes himself exclusively to real
estate.''
"Oh!v
Eyes. l have no doubt your lard and
wheat, and flour and ham men are very
well in their way, but they are not eX-
actly the style. Mamma would have a
fit if l should meet one of them at New
port or in Paris. Mamma was sur
prised when she read your name in the
papers,"
swell, you know papa used to be a
member of the exchange, and he wanted
to go.''
every true; but mamma says that now
that he and papa are among the great
landed nobility Of the metropolis it is a
mistake socially to maintain these old
social and commercial associations. /
detest trade. What we want is a great
landed class, like they have in England.
Dukes are, in my opinion, lovely-I mean
Dukes with long rent rolls.'
never GuOuSub VI tuC 1OuuOC LA
change ball in that light. Dear mel"
"Did you dance much?'
ooh, yes. l was in every set. / waltzed
with the pork man, and l was in Sara
tOga with a gentleman who had cOrnered
the wheat market"
You must have imagined yourself on a
Western dairy farm. The grand chain
in the last figure must have been like
right hand to the piggery, left hand to the
dairy, right hand to the barn, left hand to
the hennery, then right hand to the
piggery again, reverse and return. Oh,
myP'
81 think you are just too hOrrid and
supercilOus. They were all delightful,
dashing fellows, and will, Pm sure, be
real estate owners some day"
''SOme dayl Well, then some day
when they are deodouzed, my dear-it
will be time enough to dance with them
care you hunting broken-down lord ?''
81 am not hunting hogs"
81 don't know; those fOrtune-hunters
are more like the animal than a good,
honest, honorable American man. Good
day, dear"
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