The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18

Mayor Grace, Who Has Brought
CONSERVATION To the Ranks
Of New York Office
holders.
Marquis de Leuyille and Other Titled
People, Including Some AmerI.
cans Who Are So by yir-
tue Or Dollars.

People, Including Some Ameri.
cans Who Are So by yir-
tue Or Dollars.
Dan frohman Declares That Nothing IL SO
Deiusive Ones Judgment
About Plays.
Pioneer Press New York Letter.I
There 10 &C agitation here just at present
over the policy announced by our now
Mayor, w. r. Grace He threatens. not ex
sctly with flourish OF trumpets. bat with q
good deal of boldness to revolutionize cur
rent methods of dealing with city affairs, and
TO run the Office to which he has been elected
on strict business principles. Heclaims that
he was not chosen primarily to serve the
Democratic party; declares that be shall not
obey the commands of either wing of il, aud
promises to turn out incompetents without
regard to who appointed them, and to call
men to his aid without regard TO anything
except their courage. honesty and efficiency
His attitude has slrs ady created something
like CONSERVATION in some departments.
When be had been only q day In Office be
sent for William Pitt Shearman, and ap-
painted him commissioner of accounts, with
the sole Injunction. Find out where the
iesksges are. aud / will stop them up. y
Sherman had no political influence behind
MIN. he is not blower aud striker, and no
body asked to have him appointed; but hs
was recommended by the fact that he was
recently erected from Office very summsrily
by Edison for discovering some big leakages
that Edison didn't want discovered, and by
the mpanion fact that twenty years ago he
served rs one of Salmon p. Chase's most eff
cient assistants In the Treasury Department.
Grace threatens to cut down the expendi
lures of the city in almost every direction
except the school fund and IL is very likely
that, II he is really rs much in earnest as hs
seems TO be, the measures he will propose
and the things he will do within the next
three months will raise up for him an army
of friends in front and of enemies in the
rear. Grace is . rich man and has nothin.
70 hope for but the public good will; ano
Presidency still lies through municipal re-
form.
Titles. This is another matter that agi
tates New York just now, spropos of the
Marquis de Leuville, and the Worlds lively
fusiiiaoe. Ii might have been better IL he
had dropped the decorative handle on COM
Ing to this country and called himself plain
William Oliver, which Is name enough fol
anybody; ss il might be better for Lord
Vaudeville to drop his title and fall back on
the family patronymi even ii that In
VOWED bringing from obscurity unpre.
tentious q designation rs Jones or Jobson.
Ant IN a maj fop nf facto nd
me that even titled maa. if he obeys our
lawe and scrupulously pays his bills, has q
right to be let alone. As to the title, have
no doubt that the marquis has right to II,
II anybody has a right TO title; for his an.
cestors have held il ever since 1909. don't
believe it is of any Inherent value or conse-
quence. Only sterling qualities count.
Lafayette il honered and respected rather in
spite Of being marquis than because of it
But those preposterous Americans who wish
they had coats of arms or who go and dig in
the lumber garrets of the past, or give some
body else s. to 60 and rnmmage for them
and then hang upon their walls their fam
lily crest" Is II it were IF some consequence
or significance-these preposterous Ameri
caas dote on titles and regard heraldic pow
erty a. . sign of personal inferiority. AS {
matter Of fact, of ali the alleged noslemer
who have visited this coun
try during this century very
few have been impostors. 1t il not Europe
that i'm poees bogus titles ON America bu
America that mposes them on Europe Gu,
constitution expressly forbids citizons O
the United States to acce pt titles of nobility
from any source; but there are at the pres
emit moment one or two hundred OF thes
democrats posing among the aristocrac,
of Europe IS titled persons. They are from
Maine, Vermont Rhede Island, New York
Pennsylvauis, the Carolinas Ohio 10
coursel, Wisconsin and all along shore; the
are in every European country, and the
run through ell degrees of poverty and affi 9
ence. Some Of them cat quite swell.
There 10 the Duke de Campo-Selice PR
nounced "Seliechy,n accent on the middl
syiiabie) OF Paris: He Was Yankee name
camps successful tailor; hen ne got IN
European agency OF all the sewing machin
U el no s0eui,sa eA' ",~".
does-and then Mrs. Camp, who had been
quiet enough body at home, said:
Oh, George I'm dying OF ennui; let rs z
be nobility. you and me, and We will bu
N some gold coronets and 60 home wit
them in our trunks and dazzle the boys an