Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-08

and came back here with considerably
more than $500, 600. Within six months be
! was running the st. James Hotel, had es-
tablished brokerage firm in which ne
| was special partner, and WAS appointed
Street Commissioner. He was great
man then. Political heelers followed him
ABOUT the streets, gamblers bowed to him
politely, and be was as much stared at on
a race course as the bookmakers bulle-
| tin boards. He went over for his second
! English racing season, missed the luck,
lost all he had, and hit the British book
makers so hard that they sent up an agon-
lied howl when he departed without pay
ing them. The public has grown fond of
! Walton. His ups and dows are prOdigl-
Gus, but ne accepts the blessings or fog
/ gings or fate with such inimitable pla-
cldity that one cannot help admiring him.
No better illustration of the word "plun-
ger" could be found, for every move he
makes is veritable plunge, involving all
his fortune and everything else he can beg
or borrow. One OF these days he will hit
1t again, and when he does 1t will have the
effect in all likelihood OF lifting him once
more to the topmost wave of success.
Col. Tom Ochiltree can no longer be
trutniully described as OF ''TeXas." He
has become a New Yorker out and out,
and very late one at that. There is no
telling when he sleeps, but it must be dur
ing the few bouTs Immediately preced-
Ing and following noon. At all other
times he is abroad-thickest. putting and
cheerful. Everything about him is red,
from the lids OF his eyes to his neck and
hands and bristling moustache. He drifts
about from cafe to club In the evenings,
nearly always surrounded by a lot of
dashing fedglings who receive his stories
with no end OF enthusiasm. The Colonel,
fancy, is meditating flyer in the arena
OF New I DIRK politics. He is already pop
ular enough to run for Alderman.
The clerk OF the Fifth Avenue Hotel was
leaning meditatively against the desk the
other night with his eyes on the crowded
corridor. He had been at his post for
many years, and is a shrewd observer.
They are all countrymen, as the say
ing goes" he remarked, nodding his head
toward the throng, land they are a won
deriul illustration of the advance the
whole country has made during the past
ten or ntteen years In manners and attire.
These men are from every corner Of this
big continent. This is the time OF year,
you know, when the backW oodsman,
farmer, herder, miner and village mer-
chant come to New York for their annual
blowout. Look at them and you see a
body OF men who are dressed as quiet,
everyday New Workers dress, and who
do not differ in the mass from so many re-
spectacle and well-to-do citizens. Their
clothes are of the conventional cut and
pattern, their boots well and neatly made,
their hats of the proper block and their
faces composed. Three years ago you'd
have seen a dozen big SLOUGH hats in that
crowd; i've years ago a quarter of the
faces would have been decorated by open
mouths and eyes shining with surprise
and fright; seven years ago there would
hnnn hnZnn mi a ara han unit
out neckties, and fifteen years ago you
would have seen no end of awkward, I'M
couth and stumbling back country gen.
try who didn't know how to talk or what
TO do with their hands or feet.''
"!ts a great change; quite as noticeable
too in the streets as here"
"Of course, that's just the point: as
they are there before you so they are all
over America. II has been an amazing
change. 1t is due in part to the drummers
who 20 everywhere, and by example teach
young men in the country how to dress;
TO the great clothing houses that send out
hundreds of thousands of city made suits
of clothes year, and to the ne wspapers
that talk so much about the big cities
that the readers are gradually educated
up to the standard. It's a wonderful
change"
tits. | remember when the annual in
huX OF the Out-of-tOwn contingent was so
noticeable that all the comic papers fell to
caricaturing it, and the visitors were
subjected TO no end OF guying and jeering.
People used to claim that they could tell
the State man came from by the cut OF
his clothes. Those days have certainly
gone by, and but for their ruddier and
heather faces the countrymen of to-day
are not different from their city cousins.
lhave observed, too, that the much talked
OF Western accent is gradually becoming
indistinguishable, though it is noticeable
at times. The man from the West still
says Broadway, while the New Yorker
pronouuces 1t Br'd1ody. l suppose they
are equally incorrect.
BLAKELEY HALL,