Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-08
THE SUMMER HEGIRA.
New Workers Already Fleeing to tn
Country-SIatrimOnia and Religion
Gossip.

age which renders each park a yeritable
oasis in the desert Of brick, but also in the
closed houses which here and there al
ready meet the eye in the more fashion
able streets. Indeed, until very recently,
with the exception Of a few days in the
third week of May, the weather has not
been warm. A week ago to-day, and the
day after, Ihad fire in my office, and last
Sunday / actually wore an Oyercoat, not
only at church. but while dining in ATOP
Mar restaurant. Winter Undertaking
has also been as necessary to comfort as
to health. The houses with their closed
blinds are therefore better evidence of the
approach of summer, as they are proof
that the wealthy birds of fashion are al
ready taking their flight to the cooler
climate of the country. In another forth
night all who can afford it will have fled
from the heat to come. Many, however.
will not 20 to their usual resorts. The re-
cent panic win cause a large number to
seek for cheaper quarters than they have
been accustomed TO frequent.
The report of an engagement which
comes from the other side of the water
has caused not little gossip in fashiona-
BILE circles. Why such fastidious person
as the brilliant journalist and wit, William
IEHIf hui lUUA = oAONANAf " 4ASAA ~ 80 AtN5N
made I'D his mind to marry, have chosen
a woman so near his own years and so far
from a beauty as Kitty Tracy, is the talk
of the town. Miss Tracy has an income
of but 50. 800 year, which would hardly
keep Hurlburt in wines and cigars, so
that the attraction is not pecuniary one.
She is bright, however, and that she has
not married years. came near saying
decades-bef0re has been her own fault.
Eba m h0pn1 hnr admirers nv the
score, and has been engaged, it is said, at
least a dozen times. One cannot envy
her her most recent conquest. Although
a Southerner, Hurlburt lacks the
Southern sense of honor. Indeed, if
all the stories which are told
about him are true, he is hardly
honest. He is apparently without con-
science and lacking in sense OF dlstlnc-
tiOn between good and evil, For all that,
his brilliancy and conversational powers
cause him to be received in the best society
in England and on the Continent. That is,
doubtless, why Miss Tracy marries him,
and he may have saved-enough out of his
profits from the World newspaper, which
he latterly conducted on principles more
business-like than brilliant, to enable him
to marry for love and not for money. Still,
the wonder is, why did he not choose
somebody youngerf But, perhaps, the
datiOn.
ANOTHER AMERICAN WHO GOES INTO
ENGLISH SOCIETY
has recently sent a proof of the fact to a
friend in this city. The proof consists of
a photograph of the Prince of Wales, with
his Royal Highness's autograph on the
back. The sender is Miss Chamberlain,
whose loneliness has caused the profess
sional beauties Of England to hide their
diminished heads. 1t is no proof of social
success in England, hOwever,t to know the
Prince of Wales. He is very promiscuous
in his associates, and Miss Chamberlain
might brag with more reason of being ac-
quainted with much less exalted person
ages. l do not mean to say that she is OF
the number, but the name is nevertheless
legion of Americans who 60 into better
society abroad than they do at home.
People who are socially unknown until
they reach Europe, when in London man.
age to get acquainted with the Prince of
Wales ,'and on the strength Of his acquain-
lance force open the social doors which
had heretofore been closed to them in this
| country.
1t would cause the ordinarily Low
| Church Southern Episcopalian to gasp
and stare to attend any of the services OF
the ritualsticechurches here. | went to
| st. Ignatius' Church, for the first time
since "Father'' Richie became the in
cumbent, last Sunday evening. Father
Richie was formerly in Chicago, where
he earned great notoriety by his imitation,
as some call it, OF Popish practices. Such
was his Iitualistic reputation that on DR..
Ewer's death none was considered so tit
as he to be his successor.
The first thing which strikes an Ordina-
ry Episcopalian on entering a "High'
church is the presence of the multiplicity
of candles, lighted and unlighted, on the
altar. AT St. Mary the Virgins these
are supplemented by seven lamps, which,
in imitation of the Roman Catholic and
Jewish practice, burn in front of the
chancel, but these are still conspicuous
by their absence from st. lngnatius'. The
next thing an unfamiliar observer notes
| is the genufleXion towards the altar
which each member of the congregation
makes on taking his or her seat, which is
followed by what DR.. Dix calls the ''sa-
cred and edifying gesture" Of crossing
| oneself.
Dy the time the Low churchman begins
to feel like a eat In a strange garnet, the
white-robed acOlytes and priests, terrible
as an army with banners, enter in slow
procession from the vestry room chanting
to the accompaniment of the organ. Last
Sunday being festival, the procession
made half the tour Of the church before
taking possession of the chancel. AS
they marched singing, Coward, Chris
tian Soldier" the congregation bowed at
each utterance of the Holy name. The
procession was beaded by an acolyte
bearing a cross, in the middle of which
was circle containing the letters i. H.
S. (Jesus HOminum SALVATORE. Towards
the middle Of the procession was banner
on which was a representation of a
bishop in his robes and carrying his pas
tOral staff. The reverse bore the words :
''Sanctus Ignatius." Near the end was a
second banner, on which a little child
bearing a cross was painted. Father
Ritchie brought up the rear of the pro-
cessiOn, walking alone. He is rather
stout, with a full, round face, which is
closely shaven. His eyes have a slight
cast.
The service consisted of singing the
104th psalm and several hymns, chanting
the Greed and Lords Prayer, and reading
the lesson for the day. Mr.. Ritchie's
reading was conducted after fashion of
his own, and was at times unintelligible.
He sometimes kept his voice up at the
end of the sentence, and sometimes let il
fall, while he read so fast that one word
could hardly be distinguished from anoth-
or without close attention. At the proper
period in the service Father Richie an
nounced that there would be mass on
Monday and Tuesday of this week, and
that Wednesday, Friday and Saturday,
being ember days, were days of fasting
and abstinence.
Mr.. Ritchie's sermon, which he pre-
ceded by crossing himself as he said the
"GlOria," the congregation doing like
wise, without being above the COM
monplace as regards matter, was note
worthy by reason of his style of delivery
and rapidity of utterance. He spoke
without notes, and his sentences fol-
lowed each other without an instant's
intermission. He preached from the text
containing Pilates question, "What is
Truth?' and told his hearers that as the
Bible, although it contained the truth,
may have been impaired by the mistakes
of copyists, who were not inspired as
were the original writers, truth could
only be found in the doctrinal declarations
of the church before it was divided. In
cidentally, he said that there was nothing
intrinsically impossible, or even improb-
able, in the dogma of any one bishop
beng endowed with infallibility. The
Bishop of Rome might be infallible, but,
as matter of fact, he was not, and never
had been, Popes having promulgated
doctrines which have been denounced by
each other and by councils of the church
as heretical.
THE SERMON OVER,
two acolytes lighted the wilderness Of
candles Oh the altar, but five Of which up
to this time had been burning. Then, be-
fore the altar glittering with light, Father
RItchie elevated the plate containing the