St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-10
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
Wall Street Waiting For a Big For
eign Row to Make Stocks Lively
Again.
Young swells Riding to Death Chasing
Anise-seed Bags Imitation ofEng-
lish Fox-Hunting.
Mrs. Langtry and Miss Fortescue to
Dazzle Society Before the Same
Footlights.
Youthful Marriages that Result in
Many Divorce Suits--Ministers
Too Careless.
Special Correspondence of the Globe.


Special Correspondence of the Globe.
New York, May Tt is a fearfully
dull time in Wall street. The brokers are
not making their salt, not to speak of pep
per. In lively times single days transac-
tons in the stock exchange amount to $780,
600 or 600. 900 shares. Latterly the average
has been about 100, 900, and one day this
week the total was only SO, 900. If it keeps
on this way some of the brokers will have
to shut up shop. All the heavy operators
are out of the market. Mr.. Vanderbilt has
been letting it alone for some time past
Gould has done hardly anything since his
Yachting trip. Field is getting ready for
his trip around the world, and not bother
ing about stocks at all. Sage is on hand
every day, as usual, but doing very little, as
nearly
ALL THE FLIES
seem to have resolved not to walk into his
parlor-for the present, anyway. Deacon
White is the only man who keeps pushing
things, but even he has good deal of spare
time on his hands. For the sake of the
Wall street brethren it is q great pity they
don't stop snarling and pitch in for good
fight. | don't quite see how Wall street is
to gain much by big foreign row, but the
opinion down there is that rOuSing, old
fashioned war would make everything all
right If it doesn't come, it is hard to see
or say what the brethren will do. They
were almost sure of it a couple of weeks ago,
and seemed quite happy all round, but their
present state of mind is quite different.
Hope deferred malleth the heart sick If
the ''Bull" and the Bear on the other
side would only get down to business the
bulls and the bears on this side might con-
slider life worth living again.
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James D. Fish and Ferdinand Ward still
keep out of each others way in Castle Lud
low. Both are much more comfortable
there than any of the innocent persons con-
fined in the house of detention. Two or
three times since the conviction of Fish the
Sun has asled-the last time in partcu-
larly pointed way-why something is not
done to find out who really got the plumber
hauled out of the big bucket shop of Grant
& Ward Fish declares that he has moth
ing left and Ward has very. little. Gen.
Grant and his two sons lost all they had,
according to their own statements. The
debts of the collapsed firm footed up some
S13, 900, 900. The question is, who grabbed
the plumber? The Sun names two lawyers,
who were tremendously active in getting
their hands on things when the collapse took
place. noted at that time the singularity
of the fact that the
ASSIGNMENT OF THE FIRM,
the personal assignment of Ward and the
similar assignment OF young Grant-all the
assignments, in fact-were made to different
members of the legal firm. One of the
lawyers named by the Sun is a member of
the same firm, and the other may be. On
that point am not sure. | believe this firm
has had professional relations for some
years with few prominent men who have
had intimate personal relations with Gen.
Grant. This may not signify anything in
connection with the question brought up by
the Sun, but it looks little similar, any
way. Some person or persons certainly got
good deal of money out Of the Office of
Grant & Ward before the smash. 1t would
be interesting to know who they were. No
doubt Ward could tell, but his lips are
sealed in prison, and there does not appear
to be any hurry to make him open them in
court. He and Fish have received good
deal of abuse in the past ten or eleven
months. Indeed, they have received all the
abuse, but it is not by any means clear that
they got all the money.
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1t looks as though we would, during the
summer season, lose some of the men whom
we wont miss. Not that they are so vi
cious that they ought to be punished by
death, or that they are without friends to
make goodly companies of mourners at their
funerals, but that they are the kind of fell
lows who serve no more valuable purpose
than to make us laugh. refer to the New
York limitations of the English foX-hunters
The season of their sport is just opening.
They are the idle sciOnS of sires who have
done something or other to accumulate for
tune, even fame in some instances, and are
perfectly willing to let all useful endeavor
in ther families stop short with their parents
Billy Iselin is a fair exhibit. He is good
natured, capable fellow, wealthy through
inheritance,
SCORNFUL OF LABOR
in any FORM and devoted to the maintenance
of reputation as swell. He belongs to
the Rockaway hunt, which is composed of
thirty fellows very much like him in all es-
sential particulars. They are going to chase
the dragger of an anise-seed bag (for that is
as near to actual fOX-hunting as they and
their dogs can achieve, in the absence of
foxes willing to be run down and killed,)
and they have also arranged for some
steeplechases. Bill went out for practice.
His horse sent him over a high wall with
out going along, too. Flung from the sad
die like stone from sling, Bill struck SO
solidly and quickly on his feet that he
hadn't time to relax his knees, but came
down 'stiff-leg," as we used to say when,
as boys, we played follow the leader. Both
his legs were broken. He is probably famed
for life. Some of his comrades of the Rock
away hunt are certain to be killed before
the summer concludes, because they are not
skillful in kind of riding in which profess
sional jockeys are frequently thrown. 1t
may seem at the first reading a cruel thing
to say but on reflection you will acknowl-
edge it's Justice, that fox-hunting and
steeple-chasing by our mimic aristocracy
ought to be carefully encouraged.
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1t is exceedingly probable that Mr.. John
Stetson. of the Fifth Avenue theater, has
secured the famous Jersey beauty Mrs.
Langtry, and the almost equally celebrated
young lady who is now known as Miss
Kate FOrtescue.
He has made propositions to both of
them to act in one entertainment, and this
Is tho Sacrat that he has kent so guardedIy