Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-17
MISS CnENELANp,s BooK.
The entire sale not Expected to Exceed
30 600 Copies.

said to-day that they did not think the en-
tire sales from first to last would exceed
10000 copies. An illustrated edition OF
the book is now being prepared, and
trauslations are nearly ready for sale IN
Russia, Italy, France and Germany
Miss Cleyeland's income from the book
has been variously stated to be from $780,
GOO to 500, 600, but the publishers laugh at
any such figures, and while they VIII moi
give the precise amount it is intima ted
that the Presidents sister viii receive
not more than 100. for every copy sold.
WHERE THE ITALIANS LIVE.
The Italian quarter is curious. Groups
Of men in their greasy native costumes
ornament their rapid talk with character
istic gestures. The smoke from their
cigarettes rise above their heads, and gold
and brass earrings bangle from their
ears. Little tots of children, In dresses
that touch the ground-for there Is no
babyhOod in the dress Of ltallans-play
at their parents feet. The women nave
bright kerchefs around their heads and
gilt ornaments in their black hair. open
doors give strangers glimpses OF court
yards where mothers sit with babes IN
their laps.
Bright flowers are in the windows OF
tumble-dOwn houses, and bits OF brilliant
color everywhere. Many street musicians
dwell hereabOuts, and IL is worth men
tioning that at home, they sometimes
play their harps, but never hand organ.
A rich though uncultivated voice may
frequently be heard in snatch OF an
Italian song. At night the workers re-
turn from their toll and the streets are
thrODged by chattering, smoking, laugh
ing idlers, while the cheap wine and beer
saloons are crowded. On a summer
night it is very late before these Italians
care to 20 10 bed. Some sleep in the yards,
but where the rest find room in the mar
row limits of the settlement is more Than
car tell.
II was during my inspection Of this re-
gon that | went eXploratiyely INTO one OF
the concert saloons in the adjacent
Chatham square. A brief look indicated
that the place had no novelty, and | was
about TO quit, when sort OF drosYen0r-
and-idoliZing maidens' scene stayed me-
The 9rosvenOr was no such pretty fellow
as we see in "Patience," but an eVii-yis-
nged, flashily-olad fellow; and the girls
were far from aesthetic, being Mattresses
OF the bleary, unenchanting kind, usually
seen in the worst Of these resorts. Never
theless, the group presented the same
characteristic Of hero worship by enrap-
tured young women that were caricatured
In Gilbert g. Sullivan's opera. So | waited
TO find out the nature Of the charm which
the lOafer exercised over the pOstulants.
My expectation was that he would prove
to be a lavish spender of money. On the
contrary, he was the treated individual,
not the treater. The puzzle was too
strange to be left unsOlYed. The pianist
&c Ba a -. intallfU. Mt fDAl u ~
German, who seemed TO be there for his
wages alone, and was not in sympathy
with the gOings on.
''What is 1t about that chap" l asked
of this musician, "that makes the women
liOnize him p
"Oh, be has Just come from serving five
years in State prison. He is a burglar.
The girls wouldn't have noticed him be-
fore be did time,' but now he's a dandy"
WAR BETWEEN THE CHURCHES.
There is war between the churches he.
low Twenty-third street and the liquor
saloons. The former Obiec to having
three or four saloons in the same block,
and the la tier plead-usually successfully
that they have right to ply their voca-
ton where they choose. The liquor in
terest usually triumphs over the ecclesi-
astical. and New York now boasts 1000
saloons and considerably less than 1000
churches and missions. The church peO-
pie argue that the result Of this 'Irrepressi-
BILE conflict" between the two interests Will
be the adoption of the high-license system
and tie consequent reduction Of the liquor
saloons to less than half Of their present
numher-a contamination that is greatly
u be desired. Meanwhile the Prohibit
tionists have been trying TO hold County
convention, but they got into a fight,
4 T.. 4
after recommending ParsOn Talmage, OF
Brooklyn, as the Prohibition candidate
for Governor. However, New York
though 1t makes quite howl for temper.
anoe at. times, seldom casts over 1,00C
votes for Prohibition State ticket.
THE GRANT MONUMENT.
The collection of money for the Grant
monument progresses slowly, aud il is re
ported that there are serious differences
OF opinion 10 the committee. 1t looks as
If the original pattern had been cut Ou
TOO big. After our disheartening expe
rience with the make-shitts and peddlina
by which the Bartholdi statue money wal
raised it was idle to talk Of raising a mil
lion or half a million for a Grant Pan
theon. Most of the committee hav,
already reached this conclusion. A dOzer
Of our millionaires, who were thought L
given 81, 900, and others $500, 80 that in
stead Of the quarter Of million expected
10 be subscribed, by this time not more thar
So, 600 is raised. Now the question beinl
debated in committee Is whether II is no
best to build a Sl00,0 600 monument. con
1ining subscriptions and solicitations I,
this city, and have the structure erected
at Onee-s0 that the city which hold
Grants ashes shall be the first 10 erect
monument to his memory. This seems {,
be a sensible course TO pursue. aud a
present is likely TO be adopted. After
the time lost and money spent IN funerA
decorations, and directly or indirectly n
connection with the obsequies Of Grant
New York business men say that they ar,
too poor 90 do much in the lin,
Of granite and marble. Indeed, many
prominent and wealthy persons 20 30 I'M
as 70 express regret that Grant was no
buried At West Point or AZ Washington
and even hope that the transfer may We
be made; and they give this as an excus,
for not being willing 10 subscribe 10 ID,
proposed Riverside monument. As
have before had occasion TO remark-thii
cosmopolitan city viii never be ruined by
its patriotism.
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