The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-02
LEISURE AND MONEY.
THE EXPENSIVE PASTiMES OF SOME
UNTRAMMELeC NEW WORKERS.
The Leisure Glass of the Metropolis
Growing Larger and More Luxurious,
Every Day-Various Little Trips aud
Picnics, and the Cost ThorcoE

Inc Leisure CLASS OF the nctreroiiS sa
Growing Larger and More Luxurions,
Every Day-yarious Little Trips aud
Picnics, and the Cost Thereof
"The evidences Of great wealth ia New
York said an Cd N reliant on Broadway
the other day, as ~ pul.el his armchair to
a sunny corner o. his office window and
placed his he.ls upon tho frigii steam raii-
atof, ARE So many and numerous that
one would think that we bad great
moneyed arstocracy here, just as they have
in London and Paris In point Of fact
there IL o leisure class, as it Is called abroad,
growing in New York city, and 1t il becom
inS larger every day. l remember the
time when knew every private e4upags
In tho city OF New York by sight, at that
time it was Co..Gidefel rather the proper
tbing 10 he connectsi with tn, ship
ping Office, AM every man worked for his
living in some way or another. Now thore
are hundreds of msn who consider employ
ment OF any sort as enteiliug more or lessa
disgrace, AMI it Is an unlu STONED fact that
men who earn their incomes, whether they
be lawyers, merchants or manufacturers,
aro consi icred socially beneath the little cir
cle of drones who do not soil their hands
with thu earning Of money in any way.
~ pdpSES otitI Viz lhJSt
tratioa OF the vast pecuniary resour ecs OF
oui leisure class. | ran over tho 80 icty
columns o. q leading New York paper this
morning Oh my way down town, and thsfe
was "A dozen items there 1t male my p!3
beian and economical old soul palpitata
with surprise But, to bega with, before
began reading, l was Obliged to halt sui
denly on my way across Fifth avenue to
avoid being run down by coach with four
thoroughbred horses, a lot OF spick ani !,
span English groons aud a party Of gayly.
attirei young mon and women, bowling
merrily out Of town The whole turnout
was SO magniicently lavish and exclusive
in its appointments AMI its general affect,
the attire OF the women was SO gorgeous,
and the men seemed such superior being,
that | suddenly felt like q shrivelei up AMI
unimportant oil man who had no rignt 10
exist upon the face OF the earth, whereas
the moment before l had been stepping
along briskly, forgetting all about my ago
and rheu natisn in the pleasant spriny sun
shine.
DON'T THINK 1T WAS ENVY.
! "The coaching party went rolling on to
the melody Of n guards horn; AMI th1
| laaighter Of the young men aai women who
| We're lerched aloft, and crawed weariy and
rbeumatically down Thirty fifth street AMI
took my place dc 10 tediy In the orner OF n !.
car. don't thins it was envy. It was
simply q sort of oppression at the sight OF
that merry party OF butterflies felt some
curiosity about them, for you know ] was
acquainted in my youth with most Of thu
fathers Of the leisure class OF New York. SO
turned the society column OF ths paper 10
SEQ if coula end out what was going on.
learned from sbort AMI ,areless para
graph that ono OF the best rneinbers of the
Coaching club had ma 10 up party Of eight
frienis To go on a tol'r up the old Boston
turnpike and through tue eastern country
wherever 1T might happen 70 strike their
fancy, just to ENJOY the good old sport OK
coaching with an incidental Little picnic
thrown in. They were TO be gone ten days.
There were twelve horses sent ahead Tor re-
lays, and the baggage Of the pirty, where I
il was too voluminoas t. b. packed with the !.
coach, was sent along by special express &
All OF which Il IA pleasant and clever Lite
scheme, but imagine the tremendous ous-
lay. fell TO computing it in my senis
and cumbersome way IN the coener OF the
car until il got 30 far up into the thousands
that my poor, oid-fash:oacd Lead began TO
ache. "
"The gentleman who was giving this little
excursion was ths son Of dear oil frienn
of nine There never was man in tao gen.
eral produce business IN New York who was
a more steadfast aud honest business man
than he His method of curing hams is 4
still unrivalled, though it is forty odd years
old He is dead now and his fortune,
which is very largo, is being taken care OF .
by his SON.
A JAMBoREE or A YEARS LENGTH.
~ retu ned to the society column Of the
paper ami saw that another mil ionaires :
son was having his yacht put into commis-
son for u trip to Madagascar and back.
That's all, you know; just running over to
Madagascar with crew Of thirty or forty
men and a boat full o; guests at an expanss
Of 500 10 800 day. The trip would prob
ably last the greater pant OF year, with
the time taken for a short visit to London,
Paris anu Rome. For q nom mt it seemed
impossible to me that there could bo men in
New York who could AFFORD TO go of for q
wears pleasure and leave their interest at
home, but the careless and commonplace y
way in which the paragraph Is written in &
dicates that our leisure class has many
members who think nothing OF going Of for
a iamboree OF u year in length.
Further along was the notihcation that
another society leaders party viii consist
OF twenty persons, aud travel In two cars
from here to California, Yosemite, around
spending considerably oye. month on the
way, and al at the expense Of ths host
These little things do not excite any
particular comment, apparently, and yet TO
us moro ordinary inortais they seem to DO
events OF extraordinary magnitude. In the
sanis paper there is report OF the condition
0; MIR tierre Lorillard's Tuxedo park This
is scheme involving hundreds OF thous snas
Of dollars, the laying aside of an Immense
tract Of beautiful country stocked wit.y :.
game, all for tie amusement Of a few
wealthy New Workers who care to shoot for
a week or two in the summer. still In th9
same paper it is told that DR.. Seward Webb, 4.
sou in Law OF the late w. II. Vanderbilt has I
formed a regular association 70: the purpose /.
OF giving a winter ice carnival In Burliny-
ton, and that Mr.. William X. Van .srsLt,
at the heal OF dozen brother milionaires,
has purchased an island Off the coast OF
Georgia. ON which fortunes win te spent so
that IL may be tit to receive any Of the
leisure class who may stray down thsrG
There are country clubs innum orab.e al
around New York where fortunes are ia-
vested for the temporary indeed, might
almost say the momeniary Amusement OK
men OF mean2. The rest Of Us who toll Tor
our living and consider walk up Broad
way really an event Of some magnitude in :
an amusement way, you know, read OF /.
these things and are apt 10 sigh AMI wish
that We. too, ooud sometimes gain mo-
ment from tho busy cares Of the world to
have Just little Of the good things that
have fallen in such abundance to the lot OF
our brothers and sisters New YORK Sun. i
Tho Cossacks Delight I'm Wolf Hu,ting.
| The Kirgese I'd Cossacks who dwell On
4 the Oreniury mains take 0rpat fla,iCbf fsa
wolfhuntng. They mount their feet httle
horjes and set forth with heavy clulx When
the snow is deep and d ,es not have firm
| crust wolf Is easily run down. ns he s;uks