The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-04
THE RUNAWAY MANIA.
People Getting Ready to go to Eu-
rope.

rope.
New YORK, June 2.-Decoration day in
New York chops off suddenly the wet end
of the indoor season. 1t is not far-fetcked
statement to say that society and arr are
standing on the docks with their carpetbags
in their hands waiting for the fog to rise, so
they can run away from their country.
Europe is becoming the objective point of
politics, polemics and fashion. Ii a man
wants to get the nomination for President
he preteuds to hide away in Berlin, where
only the foreign correspondents can find
him. II manager wants to produce
play he goes to London, whore he can work
MS country through the cable II a belle
wants to make a match she hires a pension
close to Paris, If Mr.. Ingersoll wants TO
keep himself before the public he addresses
his letters to The Right Hon. W. Z. Glad
stone, M. p
In no profession or walk of life as the run
away mania 50 prevalent as among the uric
folks. Some of our best known actresses
have been going over every season for ten
and fifteen years. They wait till Docora-
ton dav, throw a few flowers on their
counJryS graves, and then, no! for Picca-
dilly.
If you were to ask me what is going on
in New York at this moment, | should say,
packing.
The few managers and artists who will
remain over are amusing themselves suing
each other for breach of contract
Do you wonder so many Of them run
away! 1t is to escape litigation and divorce
proceedings
When the season closes up. and the ex-
element is over, Pauline yawns and
throws herself back in her cushioned chair.
"What are You going TO do now" asks her
manager. Heaven only knows" she re-
plies. II think I'll apply for a separation"
Decoration day here begins with the Star
Spangled Banner and ends with Bob In
gersoll. The town is full of Methodists and
| Quakers attending the General Conference
and the annual meeting. They will see the
Seventh Regiment in the morning, and hear
the modern Pagan in the evening. Flowers
of the field in the forenoon, and flowers of
| rhetoric at night. hey will go to the
Metropolitan Opera House with their UNI
| brellas and satisfy their curiosity
| Mr.. Ingersoll is filling considerably more
snace than usual in tae public eye. His
literary manager, Mr.. Thorndyke Rice, ad-
vertiseS him now as the man who has
| ''cro,Sed swords with Gladstone"
| always knew what long bow the Col
| onel drew, but his sword is 5000 miles long.
He has an instructive repugnance to using a
weapon that will reach some of his antag-
| onists at home.
This reminGs me that the World, in pur-
suance of its Star policy, has engaged Mr..
| Ingersoll for one occasion as police court
reporter.
| The group of Star reporters includes the
Rev. Dewitt Talmage, Henry George, and
the Modern Pagan.
The only curious part of this exhibit is
that each one of these specialists fetches his
| speciality in 0 the court room and talks
round it. Thus Mr. Talmage measured the
| police justice with orthodoxy. Mr.. George
measured it with his land system, and Mr.
| Ingersoll will probably adjust it to the mas
| sive intellect which could write a better
| book than the Bible.
Now if the World should add Felix
| Adler to its staff, he would show that wha
our police system needs is improved tene-
ment houses, and if Anthony Comstock is
asked to join the corps, he would show that
the defects Of popular justice are owing to
the influence of high art on small boys, and if
| DR.. McGlynn got in later you would find
that the police court system could never be
made perfect until the ecclesasticism of the
church was kept out of politics.
Thus the Star reporting system makes
every man see the thing he reports through
| the glasses of his own hobby, and the one
| advantage that the regular trained report
| ers of the World have over these caSualS
is, that they have no hobbies.
AS l write this Cappa's and Gilmore's
bands are making the streets ring. The
citizen soldiers are out There is a strong
odor of lilacs pervading the town. The
windows of Broadway are white with fut-
tering handkerchiefs So the summer
| comes in with hey-day C. ash. Tomorrow
| the train of life will be Oh "a side track, and
| the preparations for the vacation will be-
| GIN But the police mills will grind on just
the same, suppose.
| Charles will have on his lawn tennis
shoes and wooden shirt, and Pauline will
be in cheese cloth. But people will go OH
| getting killed by the electric wires, and Bob
| Ingersou will go on writing that same arti-
| Gle, and servant girls will pour kerosene on
| lighted Goals, and the Building Department
| will see by the light Of the burning tene-
ments that there are no fire escapes. And
the busy world will jog pretty much the
same, for men must work, and women must
| sweep. NYM CRINKLE.