Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-08
THE DOCTRINE OF CHANCE
A SINGULAR RESULT OF AN IN
TERESTING GAME or POKER.

!
Town HOmes-The Composition of the
Society of Manhattan-An Old but
Queer story About Editor HUrlburt
I aud IA Pair of Trousers.
| New YORK, June 5.-The death Of Mrs.
Charles Tracy, on Monday, calls atten-
/ tion TO the regularity with which those
I New Workers who possess them seek
1 their summer houses on the first day Of
1 summer. Mrs. Tracy was struck with
| apopleXy just as she boarded the steam
/ boat which was to have taken her to her
country house in the highlands of the
! Hudson. She died almost before she could
be conveyed back to the house in Seven
/ teenth street, which she had quilted in
/ apparently good health not much more
than an hour before. Had the 'InsatiAte
archer" Death, aimed his fatal shaft at
all the New Workers. who were going TO
their country houses on Monday, there
would be mourning in scOres, if not hun
dreds, Of wealthy homes to-day
And Monday was but the beginning Of
the end. Every day this month will see
those who can afford il quit the hot city
for the cool country, ana by July "every-
body, will be out Of town. That is, every
body that is anybody. The number, how
ever, who will 20 away, even including
those who 20 no further than Staten
Island and other resorts within few
miles OF the city hall, will be considerably
less than 100000, while more than ten
times that number will be left behind, She
larger part in unhealthy tene-
ments, to await, it may be, the
coming of cholera in discomfort
and heat. OF the 100000 who quit the
city, the large proportion of the men are
obliged TO spend the day in their hot
| offices and places OF business in town, and
only spend the night in the country.
| Few rich men even can shake the dust OF
their feet on the hot city when summer
begins, and pass the entire season of hot
weather in cool places. Consequently
New York is very nearly as full Of people
when Everybody is out of town" AS IL is
when the social season is at it's height IN
! winter,
MRS. TRACY AND HER HUSBAND, A LAW
YER OF SOME BEPUTE,
who preceded her to the grave less than
two months ago, illustrated how New
York society is composed Of contributions
from all parts OF the country. They
originally lived IN Utica, and 50 many
other Utica people besides them have
settled in New York that one can ~
hardly anywhere without meeting some
body VINO has something TO do with Utica
in some way or another. OF course,
what is true OF Utica must be true OF
other places. The New England Society
is proof that there are good many
descendants of Puritans here. The
rracys, of whom there are two families,
are reputable representatives of Utica.
| They claim to be descended from the
De Tracy who was one of the four
murderers of Thomas a Beckett. Their
social position is excellent. A daughter
Of Charles Tracy Is the wife of Pierre
| pOnt Morgan, and granddaughter Of
his brother, the late William Tracy, is
the wife Of MIR. Becket-Dennison, a
wealthy Englishman. Considering her.
self descended from one OF the murderers
Of Beckett, Miss Lee must have noted the
coincidence when she took the name OF
Becket-DennisOn.
An aunt Of Mrs. DennlsOn, by the way,
is the wife OF the brilliant William Henry
Hurlburt, formerly editor of the WUrJd.
In England Mr.. IIurlburt hObnObs with
lords and ladies', but IN this country he Is
seldom mentioned in the newspapers, eX-
cept in connection with a mysterious
pair of trousers which scandal says he
stole from somebody.
AN OLDER HARVARD MAN THAN MYSELF
who was prOportiomtely nearer 10 Hurl-
burts Cambridge career, told me lately
that the scandal was as old AS HuTlburt's
college days. When at Harvard he was
said TO have stolen his chum's trousers,
and the story has clung to him ever since.
| Mr.. DennisOn, when In this country, was
quito Mortified to discover in what bad
repute his brilliant relative by mar
riage was held in his native land.
Speaking Of scandal in connection with
New Workers from Utica, once met at a
reception, at which some OF the best fami-
lies In New YOrk-such, for instance, as
the Monigo gomerys, ,whO have an ancestor in
the continental general who was Killed AT
Quebec In the Revolution, and who also
claim descent from the Count de Mont
gOmeTy, who, by accident, killed Henry IL.
of France, in "a mock tOurney-Were rep
resented, and was presented 10 "A young
woman, who announced that she had Of
ten visited Utica. She also told me who
was her host on these occasions, but,
as ! did not recognize the name, |
asked her il she knew Miss DO0little.
This was Just before that lady's marriage
TO Judge Coke, nephew of Mr.. C0nkling.
NV fair friend was not acquainted with
Miss DOOlttle, nor did she know Miss
Seymour, niece Of HoratiO Seymour, and
half dozen Othe.' Utica ladies Of less dis
tinguished names. Now not 10 know
these persons in a small town Ike Utica,
where everybody knows everybody else,
IL 10 argue oneself unknown, and this
made me try 20 recall the name Of my fair
friends Utica host.
/ FINALLY RECOLLECTED THAT HE WAS
AN IGNORANT MAN,
whose wiie's father was a butcher who
probably supplied the DOolittles with
meat. Could there be "A better illustra-
tiOn Of the sham society in New York;
Here was a woman at one Of the best
houses IN this city, who, when in Utica,
sOjourned with the butcher, the baker
and the candestick maker. Mrs. Coke
may meet some day at a New York re-
ceptiOn tie guest Of her butchers
daughter. / wonder how many butchers
daughters as well as their guests, 90 into
New York society. Their name must
be legion, ! fancy. Apr0pos 10 real or al
legged descendants OF historical personages
OF centuries a9O local paper Of last
Sunday said that one Of the members Oi
the Yale graduating class Is de-
scendant OF son Of Henry
w., and Nine. de Malntenon In other
words, that he Is descended from the son
OF woman who never had a child by a
man who died about half "A century before
tue childloss woman WAS born. Even IL
Henry Nv. was named by mistake for
Louis XIV, Nine. de Maintenon's
childlessness would render the Yale's
SENIORS claims somewhat ap0cryphal.
IN IS WONDERFUL HOW. WHEN n WILL