Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-14
NEW YoRK,s CHURCHES.
The Openings for the SeasOn-Nearly a
Tragedy While Bathing - Another
EIopement with a Coachman

The Openings for the SeaSOn-Nearly
Tragedy While Bathing - Another
EIopement with a Goodman.
Correspondence of the Morning Ne,os
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-Last Sunday
many Of the churches which have been
closed the past two months were reopened,
and nearly all the rest will follow their
example the coming Sunday. AS last
Sunday was the hottest of the season, the
people who took advantage of the oppor-
tunity for public worship which has been
so long denied them, were not so numer-
GUS as they might have been. While the
richer people stay in the country until
October, and some until November, from
the first to the fifteenth of the present
month is the period of return for the large
majority of those who spend the summer
out of town. The eXpressmen are now,
therefore, reaping harvest which is too
great for the number of labOrers.
Trunks are being delivered everywhere
from early morning until midnight, and
the uptown streets are beginning to look
inhabited again. The people who have al
ready returned are repented, if not
in sack cloth and ashes, at any rate,
in perspiration and undress, their having
done so. The past week has been by far
the hottest Of the summer. Even the
nights are unbearable. The mercury rises
to from 80 to 90 degrees in the day time,
and keeps within 10 or 20 degrees of that
at midnight. Now, when Hudnut's Their
mometer, the one whose figures are al
ways used, which is less than
third of a mile from the water
on every side but one, and is out
in this comparatively cool street, registers
70 dogs. at midnight, the tempera-
Il 4, - kAs,
city, removed from the river breezes, is
many degrees higher. When l swelter at
night in my room, which is near Gramercy
Park, and is cooler than the average bed
chambers, shudder to think of the suf-
fering the tenement population is called
upon to endure. These hot nights, in
deed, their close lodgings are unendura-
BILE, and they pass the torrid hours on the
roots or in the streets. The experience of
other years should have kept people from
returning to the city until later in the
season. The thermometer registered 101
dogs. on Sept. 7, 1881, and the day was by
long odds the hottest of the year. 1t was
80 dogs. at midnight by Hudnuts ther-
mometer.
NEARLY A TRAGEDY.
What was very nearly a tragedy oc-
CURED at Quoque one day last week.
Bathing there is very dangerous, as there
is an undert0w, and the beach abOunds
in holes scooped by the waves; "sea
pushes" they are called. New holes are
continually formed, and place that is
safe one day is unsafe the next. Ropes
are stretched upon buoys to mark the
limits beyond which it is not safe to go,
but they are not always paid attention to.
Miss Nesbitt, charming girl, we'll known
in society, when bathing ON the occasion
in question, ventured beyond the ropes in
company with young man. They pres
| entity plunged into a sea push at least
feet deep, and running the entire length of
| the line of bathing houses, and the under
tow began to carry them out to sea. They
shrieked for help as they struggled to keep
| afloat, the young man supporting the
weaker vessel, and Mr.. Colgate went to
their assistance. The current was so
| strong that he proved unable to assist
them, and merely added another victim
| to the power of the waves. The bathmen
tried to rescue the struggling group with
the float, but could not get it near enough.
| One, however, sprang into the water
| to aid the young men, whose strength
was fast falling them, to sustain Miss
Nesbitt, who was by this time uncon-
| sciOus. His strength soon gave out, and,
thinking that there was no use in both
dying, he was about to cast Miss Nesbitt
off and save himself, when boat, which
had just put out, took in the drowning
quartette. The men when landed fell
painting in the sand, unable to speak. 1t
| was a long time before Miss Nesbitt re-
vived, and she is still very weak. DR..
! Stuyyesant Morris, who treated her, said
that he never met with a case where the
patient came so near drowning and yet
lived.
GREATNESS IN THE COUNTRY.
City people are fond of laughing at their
country cousins displays of greenness
when in town, but they are quite as green
in a different way when i'll the country.
A feminine guest at a hotel near Catskill
the other day, not knowing what it was,
tried to pluck a hornets nest from its
| resting place, intending to take it home
with her as a rural relic. 1t is needless to
| say that her house will remain minus that
bit of bric-a-brac. She escaped with
comparatively small punishment, how
| ever, but one hornet getting in its work.
The talk of the town is the elOpement of
| Victoria Morisini, daughter of jay
| GOuld's broker, with the family coach
man. 1t is not so much of a mesalliance
after all as it would appear. Mr.. MOrisini
is of quite as humble origin as his son-in-
law. In early life he was sailor before
the mast, and, although rich, he now has
no social position. The usual amount of
scandal is told concerning the elOpement,
and, it is said, on good grounds, that the
| cOachman, when he married his masters
! daughter, merely repaired the wrong he
| had done her, the consequences of which
| were becoming too obvious to be con-
cealed. Should the cOachman ever become
! q candidate for public Office more will
probably be heard on this point.
WOMEN AND CoACHMEM.
| Why is it that men who have to do with
| horses seem to have such attractions for
women? Not only one of the daughters
of the late Gov. Hubbard, of Connecticut,
married the cOachman, but Miss Morisini
! had for her example other girls who should
| have known better. The children in more
! than one New York family have been rem
! dered more than worthless by the guilty
! love inspired by some groom or jehu. The
! case of Mrs. John Ward is one in point.
! She eIoped with one of the employees at
| the riding school, and is now living with
| him in Europe. She had quite a hand
some property, but at the rate it is being
| spent, not much will remain after year
or so longer. When it is gone, her vulgar
lover will doubtless leave her. Her hus-
band bears her loss philOsOphically, his
only regret seeming to be that his wife's
money went with his wife.
1t is pity that Ouida cannot learn of
this phase of New York life. Already all
her heroes are horsemen, and nearly all
her heroines immoral, and she could i'm
part new flavor to her accounts of illicit
love by making her hOrsey heroes grOoms
in place of spendthrift scions of noble
houses.
Reports of the sons of William H. Van
derbilt losing money have been current
again the past week. ''CorneeFs' losses
are placed among the millions, and the
sold man" himself is said to have suf-
fered greatly bV the deDraeiat iOn of