Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-20
LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS.
Similarity Of the Fates or DeImonico
and Lieutenant Augur.


0errssDoRdenoe Of the AoraSng Netss.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE parable
which fOreshadowed between the fate o
I De,-~0nicO and that of Lieut.. Augur, wa
carried out a more ways than one. No
only while wandering about, the victim.
OF dementia, did they both perish from
/ exposure to the elements, but the lives o
( both apparently might have been saved
had the persons whose path they crossed
4 possessed the ordinary attributes OF hV.
manity. 1t is related OF Lieut.. Augur
/ that when the pitiless rain was pouring
down on his nude body. he begged for
shelter at the doors Of several houses in
the neishbOrh0od in which bur a few
, hours. aiterward he was found dead. A
( German cObbler acknowledges that he
closed his door in the unhappy lunatic's
face, telling him to 90 back to the asylum,
and that, returning to his warm bed. ne
heard the insans mans cries for help.
until he fell asleep. Think of sleeping
when a fellow creature was perishing
within sight and hearingl
bat, you may say. ~. iunatic. whose
naturally greatI strength. for he was ~
unusnls...iy large and powerful ma was
/ increased by madness, migh.t. have acted
| the part of the viper in the fable and
Killed the cObbler mad he sheltered him.
The answer 70 this is that the cObbeT
might have left his door open to the poor
/ wanderer while he summoned assistance
4 from the neighboring police station, which
was but a few blocks distant. His sharp
| shoemaker's knife would have protected
/ him from danger when going on his errand
/ of charity.
A- A a., g,
! which lunatlC inspires, Delmonico died
/ because Of the detestatiOn tramps are
/ held in. Not far from where his body was
found he asked d farmer, who drove past
| as he leaned fOOtsOre and weary against a
/ tree by the side of the road to help him
on his way. The farmer did not wait to
| listen to any explanations, but, mistaking
him for an ordinary tramp, at once drove
on, leaving him to freeze to death. Had
the farmer but stopped to listen, the catas-
/ trOphe which overlook DelmOnicO would
have Deen prevented, for a few minutes
/ conversation would have shown that il
was no tramp who asked his aid. That d
! mill onaire's death should be due to his
! being mistaken for a beggar, shows
! how every mans hand is against
/ the tramp as his is against
every mans. The tramp would not have
! become thus Odious had he not proved
| himself on manifold occasions danger.
/ GUS member OF the community.
Although the last of the name, in this
country at least, is dead, DelmOnIco's will
undoubtedly be continued under the man.
agement of Charles I. Crist, nephew Of
the late Charles DelmOnico.
HEARD JENNIE june CROLY,
4 President of SOrOsis, make an appropriate
recognition OF DelmOnicO at the annual
dinner of the society at the dead mans
restaurant on Tuesday evening. After
! alluding to Mr.. DelmOnicO having always
been kind and considerable host
/ to SOrosis, she requested the
company to rise and stand i'm silence
! tor a moment in tribute to his memory
! Her request was, OF course, complied
/ with. The company in question, by the
way, did not contain so many lOng-haired
men and shOrt-haired women as some
/ would have expected. Gerald Massey
/ the English poet of the people, who had
/ the longest hair of any man present. was
! far from looking like Buffalo Bill, and the
/ beautiful and costly gowns worn by
/ Madame NOrdica, the prima donna, and
! other ladies showed SOrOsiS to be not above
/ the claims Of fashion. The dinner wae
/ naturally, however, more of a feast Of
! reason and flow Of soul than is ordinarily
/ given at DelmOnicO's, and, although the
/ dishes We're all that could be desired, wine
/ was conspicuous by It's absence.
/ Mrs. Langtry is still attracting almost
/ larger audiences to the Fifth Avenue The
/ atre than those which greeted her al
! her first appearance last winter. The
house was crowded when / saw her on
/ Monday evening, and she was called be-
/ fore the curtain more than once. | won.
/ der that more recognition has not been
made of her Improvement as an actress
/ She is certainly quite as good as the ave
rage leading lady ola stock company, anC
performs her part far better than COghlan
who takes the first male character, anC
who is considered superior TO the avera q
! leading man. Photographs are said to be
/ justice untempered with mercy, but was
particularly struck with Mrs. Langtry =
superiority to her counterfeit present
ments. In TACT, they bear but little re
Gemblance to her, and one would hardly
recognize her from her photographs.
! New York Will be Operaless after this
! week until the latter end OF Lent. Booth
engagement, too, closes on Saturday, 50
that there is nothing very aesthetic or in.
/ tellectual to be seen or heard for some
! time. A new play. however, is to be
/ presented at Wallack's tonight, and both
/ the Union and Madison Square Theatres
/ Will change their programmes before
/ long.
The fashionable season is now at its
height, and the usual receptions, alter
noon teas, balls and dinner parties follow
each other in quick succession. A popu-
lar New York girl will often attend
several teas Of al afternoon, 20 to Il din
ner party at Z p. m, and later in the
evening Will be dancing the cOtilIiOn at
some ball. And this she often does five
nights in the week, balls not being gwen
on Saturday and Sunday evenings, al
though dinner parties are.
THE POLICE SEE THE sEAMY SIDE
of human nature not only in the case of
the poor but also Of the rich. Not q DO
lice official but can tell score of stories
showing well-to-dO New Workers to be
professional dead heads, and willing to
do all manner of meanness for the sake of
getting something for nothing. The life
OF Capt. Williams, of clubbing renOWn,
I must be rendered a burden to him, il ali
these stories be true, for the gallant Cap
I taln's bailiwick, which extends from
! Fourteenth street to FOrty-secOnd. and
from Fourth Avenue to Seventh in
cludes the majority Of the theatres, and,
now that the Metropolitan Opera House
has become the ballroom of the metrOpo-
lis, the largest temple Of terpsich0re,
! consequently he is a target for all who
want to dance or 20 to a theatre for moth
ing, and who think they have sufficient
claim upon him to authorize their dead
head demands. Were Capt. Williams to
club every one who asked him tor pass
to theatre, he would doubtless be per-
petually acting on the principle Of the
lrishman at DOnnybr0Ok Fair: "When-
ever you see a head, hit it."
Capt, Williams Sergeants, az well
as himself, are victims to
these leeches who are continually cry
ing: "Giyc, give" you would not be-
lieYe me- said a Police Captain, who was
formerly Sergeant in Capt. Williams
precinct, to me the other day, "if | were
Che said was but no matter, to tell you
the names Of the Fifth avenue parties
who used to come begging to me for thea
tire tickets and passes to balls and the
Ike. Why, ] remembers man worth mil
lion and half, if he was worth q cent, ask
ing me for five tickets atODce TO one show
Think of q fellow with an income Of
100000 year dead-heading into a thea
tire! Men Of that sort seem to think that
the only duty Of the police is to get them
free admission into places of entertain
ment.'
The police perhaps perform that duty
more energetically than they do their
others. ! don't know exactly what they
gain by it, but apparently with the
idea that it gives them ''infooenceU and
''pull" to make friend of a dead-head,
policemen Will exert themselves strenu-
ously to open the doors of theatres and
ball rooms to people abundantly able to