The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-21
TWO INTERESTING MEN.
A Leader of the German and Millionaire
Who Slammed Poverty.


New York Correspondence Boston Herald.
But let us contemplate more peaceful figures
in New York society. All! here comes more
beautiful young man. Part of his fascination is
due to nature and part to art If the hair now
neatly concentrated in his mustache was to be
distributed all over his face in stubbie growth
of several days. if his perfectly fashionable
clothes were to be changed into labor worn gar
ments; if his cane to become hod. and if
his walk extended up ladder, would he re-
tain any attractivenesS to the female
eye? But he is the most admired beau
In New York. His fame may be all local, but it
is very intense. He is Lispenard Stewart, whose
name is unfamiliar TO other than readers of the
dead certainty iii every column. Pray do not get
the idea that he is fop or brainess. or gro
tesque He is rich young fellow, up to the
average in intellect. and not especially tinctured
with affectat;on or birth. He owes his eminence
to the fact that he is this seasons foremost leader
of the cotion. The dancing in the Hottest of
our circles has for several years been
mainly done in germans or cotilons,
under command of leader. who devises
new figures or makes fresh combinations
of the old ones To perform this service requires
a ready address graceful carriage and an alert
brain. Stewart is the acme in these things
The beaux envy him and the bellies dote on him.
In their estimation, he is to the cotillon what
Gordon is to oriental campaigning, or Ingersoll
to nfdelty, or anybody to any big thing over
which he gains brilliant mastery. There is no
whit of exaggeration in these paragraphs. l
defy you to spend an hour in the company of
New York society girl" without hearing the
extravaganza praises of I.ispenard Stewart. He
is the lion of the town. His presence at ball
or reception is JOY and his absence is sorrow. Is
1T not reasonable that people should attach high
Importance to the only interests which they
know much about? Another man is interesting
because he has been exposed in singularly pre-
tending to be what he wasn't He came to town
nearly year ago, registered at hotel as Jose
Nerronee, brought several letters introducing
| ances He about forty, gentlemanly in
bearing, evidently we'll educated, and unhindered
by any manifestly Objectionable qualities in
making his way into good cliques Of society. He
had plenty Of leisure. and yet pretended that
business interests kept him here. That
he really had no such source of income
at length became apparent, and at
the same time he professed to be in no more
than moderate circumstances Suspicion arose
that he was something or other to be hunted
down and revealed in all his duplcity. There
was kind of conference on the subject, and one
fellow volunteered to write to the friend in
Buenos Ayres who had signed a letter of intro
duction, demanding explicit information as to
Nerronge's status at home. The answer has
come. 1t says that he is exemplary in every re
spect, except that he is millionaire several
times over. Being accused point blank of de-
ception-or at least Of hiding the interesting
fact of his great wealth-he confessed, and said
in extenuation that he disliked to be regarded
simply as rich He had hoped to spend few
years here on his personal merits.