New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-11-23
SOCIAL sILHOUETTEs.
.r,Sa THE IMPRESSIONS Of MR. MARK MAN
h HAITIAN.
XVIII.
XVIII.
rnr nNIANIAC WIVH RkAINS.


g. Erc,and perbaps half his life. u','" .a,or.
rraduat.d at Columbia College WIN IL ~ ot OK.
=. haa crossed the Atlantic to hl''''." n'a shane
ford and from twenty till twenty io"' :" ,ho famed
,s;th Good deal of scholarly briiranos and
I, was surely most eNeop'''
0".'SS aar.er and az SoIners Cline o.'''. VI
80, .no had all held their hcaos MY" ~ 49,,
~. ,o,at least three generations OF so' .,
Ao'N .~ ..compancd his final re"Hee ih'o '"' ~
'sh;. birth He was invited every ""e'o' " ,:..,.
s..-;vs,v oourted ass dnOusly. bn' "''oi
,b,le he had failed to make hismeii pop"'"''
Wiz sa, not indeed the appearance OF seeking 10
snake himself" anything. HIS look an" " az.
,aro the very refinement of gentlenanllncss' nave
~ w. s.sp a man to whom the term OF " gentle
,on,vr 60 strk,ngly and promptly applied. III was
snmeIow the first thing you thought OF wheh' 10
90 sneak he first swan into your ken how gen.'o
..,n,v he WAS He dressed with extreme taste' pu'
.hore was no one feature Of his costume that w"
.o,,d recall as having made you pass ths jug
nos,t He had no norid excuses in cravats' ho
decorative subtlety in scarfp pins III was III ~
feet and vet Won could not divide its de'a'is ITO
was not handsome. though his hrm, p"'e-o"'
features, his blonde. curly hair his ripping mus
,,che Of slightly iarker shade, aud his tall, iithe
figure narrowly escaped the verdict OF n'''
beauty. | think he would have been cal'eu manu-
some if he had smiled more-if he had not sho" H.
in some peculiar and unexplanable way 'h"' no
was irving very decorously and dnteous'y ho. "
Lob ,orad That il how he appealed to me. and he
did appeal 81 me as soon az me. MN ,
lain, HI. hest not to look bored. Later oeea"e
oonynced that he had even pondered this question:.
a,ven a bis serious attention, and put hlmSei
ra.Le, copsoientiously upon his guard concerning IT,
perbaps il explained why certain people grew 10
a,s,;le him He was not the sort oi man VINO is
c,eolv disliked IN New-York society. He had come
ovey TO attend the management oil very large
estote left him ON the sudden death nj bachelor
,,.la and he Ind pre- vionsy been possessed o. IN
.m,ia i,c,me In city like New York, where
nancy 10 tevefenced and eenuIlected to- and where
ia s,ssession so easily slds tatnised fepnte anu
,,st, efneatinn man lihe s0iners Clihe e"nd oi
,,afss cad " shield aud bhcklef against the least
ahevil hint
Nevertheless. soon discovered tha' gossip poiieh
With ,ssata ~ him aud thfrN NJ soie oi Iva n'ost
usloioyoas fumes iie had been accused ~ sat'ns
uheash l vas certain he had tno inue' snhse ~"
t.ot ia dream Of SAYING itl that he had always 10
soa.,sd the memory Ut Washington hoea,sh ihat
celebrated pstrot had the advantage of belhe an
InqlisLinan. lie was accused OF saying Vhnhsh !
believed the charge also to be- one OF spite an"
speenj that America was very snort d's'ah'" ''o'"
England, but that Englands distance from he'
former colonies could not Justly be measured on any
known chart am confident that these and similar
cauards were all Of the most fabulous origin
have good many hard things to record against Mt
Somers Glide before | shall have done with hlm'
Int believe in giving as one might put it, Satan
the credit for shapely bats wings and symmetrical
taOns
One of his worst detractors not Satans, but Mt
Clife's-was soon discovered. a certain Mr. Amos
Rrooklvnheight OF course everybody knows the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and Amos, with his vast volubiity
and his little feathery insignificant body, does his
hest to perpetuate their ton. Privately, think that
Amos quite fails. and that it would have been
better for his race sprung from an ambitious
butcher sneers calumny, less than seventy years
agol il the volatile and expansive Amos had never
been born. wonder if the martinets OF ctVmOlogy
will permit me to coin a new word. / want very
mncb 10 coin it so much is coined, nowadays, that
though spurious passes current y and oiier hnhpe
apologies to any stray pundit whose specialized eye
might chance upon my scribbngs III gives me
pleasure. therefore, to write Amos Brooklynheight
down "a an Americomauiac. | think. with sort of
Maternal fondness, now that l have written the
word that it looks quito as correct as Anglo
maniac" which the usual newspaper Tag knows so
we'll and hurts at rs so often.
Well Amos was hat-I won't write the loved de
riyatvo again proud as feel of having created It,
lie soon made up his mind that Somers CINE was
abominabe. And he went about, with his dropping
shoulders and his short stature and his pugnose
and his ethereal sinncss, circulating all sorts OF
slanderous stories about his AYERS on.
aYou don't like Somers Chfe,' 1 said to him. on
certain evening at the supper-table OF the
Harlems. Just before one of the most unruly and
cotish cotIlOls that ever taxed my pohteness as a
leader spray, why don't you like him y
IL. a., Ita mt
standing that way when he addressed people of
ordinary slze because his gushes of feeling seemed
to demand it. He snapped his tiny black eyes at
me- and at said:
aNo. | don't like him. And guess there amt
MANY people that do" Amos Wall Street
broker by the way. l have heard many
ecceptrcites of speech from Wall Street brokers.
and many marvels of slang but 10 is my impression
that for solid vulgarity, little prattlesome Amos
surpasses them all "Look here, Mark he
rattlingly proceeded. a amt Brookynheicht
for nothin' Evrybody knows who am, don't you
make any mistake. I'm talkn' to a man that knows
me. amt "
IOh of course"
avery we'll | guess my peoples been in New
York sciety ne long as ever the Cities were there
Amt rghtf We'll. amt any soueh, an you
Just bet yer bottom dollar that wayp
This wa. enignatical u had an Udpeau flavor;
II suggested the Sphinx Pit was not sure
that nj all knew what n sonch meant. But
hazaried an assumed acquaintance with the word
Since the lively Amos had deeiated that he was NOT
IT, tentuied to think that u vas something which
correct people did not desire 10 be-
aUh, NO." aepniested. you're you're not
~ e6utse. uh, 40 ~ Source"
aweh' fe,ettea Aaos, s,i ~ ilp Tee, tt ain,
eelh W have that Teller treat ie e Il vas the d,,
aadut HE ieet aia ~ Wat q he, saYberi tamini
ever this glorious eanatiF aai sett ~ hmseif ,,e
fef 90 Ehglshmsn r.
, bops he set himself az to- an fneiishmsn ~
lsa't he You can jas het he does !" And than
followed fran the lips OF the indignant Arms lwbo