Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-18
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.
WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR'S
VARIED EXPERIENCE.

Al
Anderson Hopeless Ang O-msntaC-
Maurice B. Fiynn's Artistic Manipui'
ton of His Pull in Politick-The Lates 81
Wrinkle in Dressing the Hair-W. Il
vanderbilt's Half-Penny Sign.
NEW YORK, July 17.-Mr. William
Waldorf Astor is, in appearance, the idea
Of a prosperous young business man
stocky, wide-awake and commonplace
looking, with nothing to indicate that he
knows anything outside of real estate
matters. He is the only Astor who has
ventured into any other field than bust
ness. and it cannot be said that he is sue
cessful outside OF the Joint real estate
office of his father and uncle. John Jacob
and William Aston, in Twenty-siXJh
street. AS a politician young Mr.. Astor
was disastrously defeated at the polls, as
Minister to Italy he was buried, and as
an author lie is far from being successful.
Now he Is at work on play. 1t is not
generally believed that he Will be the
long -looked-for great American dramat-
list. lie Is the sole male representative Of
the family, and it Is no secret that the ell
ders view his excursions into art, lltera-
ture, politics and the drama with scant
favor. They argue that with the $780,
600. 900 and 81 900 houses to look after he
has ali that he needs to occupy his mind.
But young William Waldorf goes on with
mis- artistic efforts just the same. lie has
a charmingly unaffected and direct man
ner and beautiful vile.
A man who was employed during the
past season by Mary Anderson tells me
that it is not only true that tie ac-
tress forced her stage manager and stage
prompter to sign contract agreeing to
wear dress suits every night that she
played, but that she registered almost IN
Variably in the hote S she visited as "Mlss
n. AndersOn,o of London, Eng" There is, OF
course, no doubt OF her acute attack of
AnglomaAia, but | did not think 1t had
gone as far as this, even though she would
have nothing but English people in her
company on her recent tour and displayed
a cockney accent. 1t is "A vast mistake.
Like Clara Louise Kellogg, Mary Ander-
son has been successful manly because
she was an Amer can girl. Miss hellOgg's
fate should be warning 10 Miss NJ An
derson, OF London, Eng. BY the way, how
DELIGHTFULLY."- the stalWart Americanism OF
Henry WattersOn stands out on his Eu
ropean trip com pared tOthe mOlly-coddling
and tinicky AnglOmania of James Russell
Lowell, Bret Harte, Miss NJ. Anderson
and others OF that ilk.
Commissioner Rollin NJ. Squire is re-
markable instance OF successful wiTe-pul-
ling and "bOss" ruling in New York poll
tics. lie was utterly unknown as babe
nbOrn TO the voters of the town, but he
was yanked from the depth Of ObscurIty
when the proper mOMent arrived and
placed In position of exalted power and
influence IN an amazingly short time. He
had to be introduced to every man he met.
Now more or less queer" scnemes are
traced to his cunningly manipulated
han DIS. Squire Is coming in for some hot
abuse, but no one thinks Of casting the
lash at the men who made aud manage
hin. OF these, the handsumest and per-
haps the most influential, is Maurice b.
Flynn. VINO parts his hair in the middle
aud allo rs it to fall in carefully arranged
little rinplets over his temples, who is
fond Of evening dress and snowy car
riages, affects society manners, is never
seen about with professional politicians,
but W no has, nevertheless, a pulp which
for scope, extension, variety, strength and
ii nlsh, knows no rival IN New York. And
the peculiar thing about Maurice B.Flyun
is that he is always under cover"
The yacht races this year have again
brought to the surface that unique crea-
ton OF contemporaneous craze, Mr..
j. Frederic FANS not Jimmy Tams,
AiJ ils ~ Il lthGilCs liz 10 tue DlcuS-
ant little man who remarked, in
eeniously, on looking over the
referees boat one race day: "Wby,
dean me, there are more reporters Oh
board than there are gentlemeup Tue
''gentlemen' Were a lot of loud and noisy
W all street gamblers, while the reporters
formed staff o, the best descriptive
on the New YORK, Boston and
Philadelphia press. Mr.. Tams WAS a very
large man in the newspapers for lew
weeks but he was dropped with great sud
denness one day and bias never got back
az ain. The New York IachtCub snubbed
him and there was an angry snarl at
some the expenses he incurred for the
cluD- SO his greatness was not enduring.
lad hoped that IL would be possible for
us to have an International yacht race
without Mr.. Tams, but | see now that 1t
Is hope that must remain dead as long
as MIR. Tams lives, for he Is almost as
noisy this year as he was last, though now
he mas no official position whatever.
II either has he yacht Tor that matter.
The latest thing IN the manner of dress
ing women's hair is rather "fetching,"
1t seems to have sprung into instant pop
ularlty, for though 1t appeared here after
Lent it has already been adopted by even
snOp girls. The hair is woven into innu-
mera6le little braids, which are collcd
2 Duut the mead like 50 many twisted and
writing water snakes all lying close 10
the head. II 1t be a well shaped head the
effect is exceedingly good. The fashion,
Ike every other, both masculine and fem
tniue, just now comes from the stout lit
tie island that protests SO vigorously
against home rule. Paris has been
eciipsed by London in the matter of get
ting the fashions for New York.
The ways Of great millionaires are some
times exceedingly simple. The day after
MIR. " Il. Vanderbilt, the second son of
the late w. H., and the owner of $780,
900 900, went to Paris, | happened t. be
OF mine, who IS in a banking Office across
the street, came towards me hurrledly.
''Hold on mnute,' be said, with a
grin, I'm going up TO read that paper in
Willie Ms. door. The whole once has
been wondering what it was all day"
We went up the magnificent marble
steps, between two mighty stone gutlins,
and TO an oaken door broad enough for a
double track railway. On it was bit Of
torn envelope fastened by crooked pin.
Roughly traced across II IN pencil was
this; 81 have gone To EurOpe-W. N.
Vanderbilt A half-peuny sign on a
Aanse that cost hall a million. This par
Secular son of the late railroad King is the
Sfsa using member OF the family. They are
all dull, uninterestlng and say Of display
hut William X. He weut down TO Wall
street once and thought be would specu.
late. A few weeks later 1.-THE old man"
went down there, settled S7,0OO,OO0
worth of debts and made "A low ,gnpor.,I