Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-07


managed. Having discharged a score OF
its reporters, half its city staff, and also
abandoned the steam yacht which for so
many years past has collected its harbor
news, it now relies in great measure on
the various news agencies for much of its
matter, manifest confession of poverty.
The Times suffers perhaps equally with
the Herald from the reduction of its re-
ceipts owing to its reduction IN rates.
and, in addition, is now paying the pen
atty for having had the courage of its
political opinions. There is 70 doubt of
the Times having lost greatly in circula-
tiOH because of its support Of Cleveland.
1t has lost nearly all of its Republican
subscribers who did not experience it's
change of heart, without gaining anything
like a prOpOrtiOnate number OF Demo-
cratic subscribers to fill their place.
For, comparatively few Democrats have
cared to abandon their regular Demo-
cratic paper for one that had been so
radically Republican merely because for
the time it advocated the election of the
Democratic candidates. The Post is SUI
fering from a similar cause, and the eX-
perience of both papers, as well as that OF
HGrpeg'S Weekly, is not calculated to
encourage other journals to hereafter
bolt their party nominations.
What has been the Times loss has been
INC tUNNC I. SGils A5 IL Oul1 IbuucHu
its price to three cents in place of two, it
did not commit so great an error as did
the other ''great dailies," to begin with,
and it has more than made good
| what loss even this reduction
caused by taking advantage OF
the opportunity OffOrded by what Blaine
Republicans call the Times ''treasOn TO
i~tne party.N AS nearly every Republican
who gave up the Times because of its
hnl u fol fho !,
circulation of the last named paper Is
greater than it was in its most palmy
days under Greeley. With characteristic
meanness, however, it does not permit its
employees to share in its prosperity. 1t
continues to pay as little as it did when
suffering from the advocacy of it's chief
as Presidential candidate in 1872, and it
suffered then even more than the Times is
doing now, and it, therefore, still pays its
men less than almost any other morning
paper, while it works them the hardest.
The World has apparently gained in
place OF lost by reducing its price, but
much of its seeming prosperity is in spite
OF, and not because of, its reduction. Its
being the chief, in fact, the only Demo-
cratic Cleveland organ in New York is the
cause Of its large circulation, and, indeed,
even now it is said to be barely paying
expenses. Its rates of advertising, as
tie, If any, profit. Mr.. Pulitzer, however.
is evidently sacrificing the present for the
future. Thus far he has confined himself
to rivaling the Herald as an advertising
organ without getting more than q frac-
tlonal part Of the Herald rates. When he
has large circulation established on a
sure basis he will raise its rates sufficiently
to make the paper what it has not been
for years, If ever, paying investment.
While, therefore, the World may not be
putting money in his purse now. it is only
question of time when it will be prOfita-
bic property. 1t is not likely, however,
ever to yield 80 per cent. dividends, as the
San has done.
THE LAST NAMED PAPER HAS FOR THE
THIRD TIME
got itself represented in the Presidency of
the Press Club. DR.. Wood, the great
American condenser, as he was called,
! and Col. Merriam, recently elected to Con-
gress, both San men, held the Presidency
| of the club for five years between them,
and now Amos Cummings, one of the
brightest and cleverest men on the Sun
staff, has been chosen as Merriam's sue
/ cessOr. The election was conducted on
Monday in the regular political style. A
paper was circulated denouncing the
Sun as the Ohio of club politics, mas
much as it already monODolized the
Presidency for fl re years, and calling for
Cummings defeat on that score. He had
a majority over Ashley Cole OF the Herald,
however, of ia in a vote of 3I7. Mr..
Cummings will doubtless build up the
club immensely. He has abundance of
leisure, as well as the proper natural
qualifications, and is eminently the right
man in the right place.
The club, nevertheless, is not likely to
return to the principles on which it was
founded. These tended to make it mu-
tual aid organization for the relief of dis
tressed members, and the trustees of the
Evergreen Cemetery gave the club a
burial plot in which to inter its dead.
Beyond burylng a few of its members
who left no money for the purpose, the
club has done nothing towards carrying
out the mutual benefit plan, and is merely
social organization. 1t occupies the
upper stories of building in Nassau
street and boasts a library, billiard room
and a well kept bar, where wine and
liquors of good quality may be obtained
at cost price. A restaurant on the ground
floor also serves meals to members at re-
duced rates. The entertainments of a
literary, dramatic and musical character
which the club gives from time to time
are considered more than usually enjoy
able. The organization numbers nearly
400 members. Many of the members have
small claims to the character of news
paper men, but the club in future intends
to draw the line more strictly and admit
none but professional Journalists.
IT is REMARKABLE HOW OFTEN PEOPLE
who claim to be ladies and gentlemen will
conduct themselves in an ill-bred manner
in public. The loud talking ofsuch at the
opera last winter while the choicest mu-
sic was being rendered interrupted the
performance to such an extent that 1t
called forth rebuke from some the news
papers. At the entertainment given by
Mrs. Charles Watson, the Canadian reel
tationist, at Chickering Hall on Tuesday
night, Mrs. John BigelOw, or somebody
who looked like her, laughed at what was
funny so audibly as not only to disturb
the reader, but to set other people laugh
ing. One may expect anything from Mrs.
| BigelOw, however. The strangest stories
are told illustrating her peculiarities.
She is said to have once gone masked to a
ball at the Astor's and when she greeted
the hostess she accounted for her pres
ence with the remark: 81 did not get any
invitation, dear Mrs. Astor, but knew it
must be owing to some mistake, and that
you had sent One." 1t was no mistake,
however, and Mrs. Astor had sent no in.
VitatiOn.
The pretty wife of young stock broker
maze a mistake OF inherent KIND the
other evening when leaving Delmonico's,
where she had been having post theatre
supper. She got separated from her hus-
| band without knowing it, and made an
attempt to take the arm of a man who
happened to be next to her, thinking he
was her husband. She continued her at
tempt to thrust her arm into his without
| looking to see what she was dong, and
was about to eXclain at the difficulty she
was meeting with when the stranger said
81 beg your pardonl' The absurdity of
his begging her pardon, when the offense,
such as it was, was on the other side,
caused her to join in the undisguised
laughter with which her husband was re-
gardIng the scene from behind.
The revival attempted in England Of the
Old.fashioned top coats with capes has ap-
parently reached here. Many men, both
young and old, go about, so far as their
outer gear Is concerned, in the style of a
century, or, at any rate, of generation
ago. SO large a proportion Of the men
who attended the Irving performance at
the Star Theatre on Tuesday night wore
capped coats that the style may be con-
sidered to be fairly inaugurated.
1T rs NOW SAID THAT THE REASON
Joel W. Mason was not appointed to be
his own successor as Police Commissioner
was because of his habits. With too good
reason, he has among his political friends,
the reputation of being a hard drinker.
While this Is true. it does not explain his