The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-01
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
An Account Of the Birthday Reception
Given 10 Octegenarian David
Dudley Field.
An Astonishing Array Of the Famous M en-
OF the Country Pay their Respects
to the Old Lawyer.
Pioneer Press New York Letter.

Cyrus w. Field, at the latter's residence oil
Gramercy Park. The odd thing about il |
that no description of the affair has yot beer
published in any paper. The local dailies
being crowded with thrilling details of tn,
usual Friday hangiDgs and the vsriou
rounds Of slugging matches that had eludee
the police, were compelled to content them
selves with short photographic announce
ment of the Field reunion aud frsgmentary
list of guests. Gramercy Park is nest o.
Presidential possibilities. 1t occupies les
than square of land, but around it are thu
residences of the Fields, Peter Cooper, ED
ward Cooper, Samuel ] Tilden, General Nc
Clellan, Horace Porter, f. B. Thurber, Clark
son Potter and Courtlandt Palmer. Potter
and Peter Cooper have been withdrawn from
the rivalry by death, and Tilden by age.
General Mcclellan has left this nest OF celeb
rites, but Joseph Pulitzer has moved into
the house, so it may be said to hold lite own
in the line. The assembly at the reception
was far the most distinguished have ever
seen. Everybody seemed to feel that the
chance of meeting four such
re mMkable brothers, each conspicuous in q
sept rate way, was like being invited by Cor
nslia Sempr0nius to dinner OF the Gracchi.
Mr.. Cry us Fields spacious house, at the foot
of Lexington avenue. and the mansion ad.
joining. stood like two over-grown elephants
asaiting the promised repast, and each oil
the m stuck a long proboscis of sail cloth out
upon the Sidewalk Into these the guests
su'ged, from 9 o'clock to II. and out OF them,
to avoid congestion, they were from time to
time ejected-a thousand or two in all.
got there early. The proboscis was empty
and expsctant. In the cloak room half a
dozen hats AND overcoats were already piled
under chairs. where they could (perhaps) be
found again While / was slowing away my
"goloshes" in my overcoat pocket, Roger A.
Pryor came In and went throuqh similar mo.
tons. General Pryor's bair still sweeps his
shou ders and it is about as black as when,
nearly thirty years ago. he was regarded as
the typical hre-eater of Congress. We ex-
changed opinions about its being possibly
too early, concluded it wasn't, and went
down stairs. Just inside the door of the
great parlors stood the hero of the Atlantic
cable, receiving guests as they came, and
passing them TO his brother, David Dudley,
Who stood at his left AT the other end OF
the inner room, seventy five feet away, was
served the collation--a punch bowl OF lem
onade al naturel, two porcelain tanks of
champagne, which, during the evening
we're rapidly emptied and filed, and table
spread with substantials aud dsinties,
served by yigilaat attendants. The guests
began rapidly to arrive; and IL was
were very numerous, almost
everybody was somebody OF leading law
yers, Chauncey Depew and Clark Bell were
among the earliest. The latter is president
OF the Saturday Night Cuban affable man,
eyes of Irish gray, melodious voice, and a
broad face framed in p .ccadlly whiskers
He told me once that In youth he was made
strong by being apprenticed to blacksmith
and that he graduated from the anvil to the
bar.
Then came In three or four OF the great
unknown then August Belmont-lame from
q duel he fought fifty years ago. Short in
stature. with typical Je wish face nez giaD-
tesque, and soowl ready to discharge itself.
he Is one of the most bitter, cynical quarrel
some, arrogant, aud best hated men in the
city. What on earth did he come for?
SOME OF THE cLERIcALs.
De Witt Tslmsge is talking with Bishop
Potter, when Henry Ward Beeaher appears
in the doorway; then the Tabernacle man
pulls his laughing face down into sObriety.
IL they happen to encounter each other dur
ing the evening they will probably bow and
say "H'are vel" but they are not friends, and
their congregations are in state OF armed
neutrality. Each church regards the other
as the support and refuge OF al ungodly
sensationalst-an ad captandum trespssser
on holy ground. Presently met another of
the Field brothers, Rev. Dr. Henry NJ whom
| saw at his pleasant country home at Stock
bridge one recent summer. He comes down
the room, glowing with the eDjoyme OF the
occasion, drags me to q lounge and presents
me to the rest of the fraternal quartet,
Judge Stephen Field, OF the United ststes
Supreme court. A good deal younger than
his taller brother, David Dudley, he IooKs
about bis age perhaps because OF his full
grey beard. Roscoe Con king comes along
and salutes the Judge. he looks even taller
and strsighter than ever, and &C he bows he
seems q veritsbls Heenan. His hair has
turned grey, and the famous hyacinthine
curl above his forehead has entirely van
ished. His voice is ricn; his words are
measured and deliberate, carrying the weight
IDENTIFY does not feel good, and does not glow
with love for the human race: for when q
journalist from Boston Is prs sented and say s,
rather effusively, SENATOR / have known
and admired you % asa public man thatI have
very much wished to meet you" the great
Roscoe answers, supeIcilliously:
"'Ah! there was time when tina. confes-
lcioh Woaao ho We NccPAy AhoFp d u4or W. III !"
am impressive, and have scarcely any
lenger, ss the Declaration OF Independence
says, q decent regard for the opinions Of
manklnd.'n
1t 10 spoken 90 II Ii were part OF an Grafton
SLOWLY, impressively, with orotund inton
ing, and the enthusiastic Boston man giggIes
as II be were quite self.composed. and soeakI
away crushed. The parlors sre ow crowded
Well-kpown heads loomed everywhere
many OF them familiar from their carica
lures. There 10 an awful jam in the vicinity
Iof the scalloped oysters and Salads the
pates and the creams, and the cham ,agne
tan Ks are the centers of solidity. At the END
of the first hour, Monsignor Cspel makes
bis appearance, covered With some sort Of ar
off rial jigser OF gold and red-the robe o
ths Pops Louise hold, suppose. He is al
suDcommonly handsome man, .sli as q gren
adler and graceful, With blue eyes, rec
cheeks and Q symmetrical mouth. he take
his stand, back 70 the wall, in rear Of tn
chief guests, and there holds leves on hi
o wn hook. A score OF people are taken al
an introduced; he smiles on them blandly
gives them pleasant words and lets them &c