Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-13
NOTED IN NEW YORK:
Political and Social Gossip Current In
Gotham.

Gotham.
THE CUTLERY BUSINESS IN PoLrrICs-KNroHrs OF
LABOR KxP0suREs-THR RoAD-scuLLING coNTIsT-
MODEL FAMILY HorRL-AR MALLIsrRR's 90
CIErY AND 'THE" SOCIETY.
Correspondence of TEE Evzx1xo star
NEW York, october II
The cutlery business has begun 10 assume for
midable proportions among New York politicians
Its great feature Will DO general "kninng" Of reg
ularly nominated Candidates when election comeA
There is q great dissatisfaction in Tammany Hau
among certain factions whose claims have not re-
ceived the consideration their leaders think should
be bestowed upon them, and this dissatisfaction
will show itself on election day by some very
sharp and deep cutting. Judge Joseph J. O'Dono-
hue, who has long been Q faithful and laborious
worker In the Tammany ranks, states frankly and
publicly that Tammany will cut both the state
and national tickets 10 secure votes for Grant for
mayor. ODonohue Ii thoroughly disguised with
Tammany's candidates ana likewise disheartened
with the way he has been promised tat berths
from year to year which have been nnally pedded
out to Others Another Disguised Tammanyite
Is alderman l Pat Dlyver VINO mas Dig following
pcnicked and excursiOned for years. Alderman
Dugro,who has respectable following, and slevin,
ties who are said to be growing but they do little
These indictments will knife Grant on election
secured promises before then, and perhaps Judge
ODonohue's confidence In the intention OF Tam
many 70 cut tns nat,oSal aud state tickets arises
cut the rest OF the Hall will cut too by way OF re-
prisaL Then there are good many republicans
nrm and fearless administration In the mayors
chair. The cut between the mugwu.nps and the
Hin democrats cannot yet be accurately esti-
mated. Cow Hill Is openly appealing 10 his friends
TO stand by the national ticket whether ne wins
or ialis, but the governor has good many friends
among heretofore stau p democrats. ana SneS
will be mad enough by election day, The way
Things are going now, to cut ANYBODY Tor the sake
man "who pays the freight" Altogether tn pres
enL Is one OF The most peculiar Campaigns New
YORK mas ever known, and even gamblers In poll
''cs are shy OF placing money on any Candidate
The letter Of Thomas B. Barry, in which grave
charges are made az ainst the general master
workman and the executive committee OF the
Knights OF Labor, and the expose made In Barry's
lecture Wednesday night at cooper Union, in New
York, are sufficient TO Indicate the existence Of q
state or things in the body regnant OF the Knights
OF Labor which limited at In these columns a rev
weeks ago. But even Barry himself, win all his
past experience as a member OF Inc orders execu-
tive board, does not know or IL AFRAID 70 tell Just
how completely the leaders have hoodwinked the
rank and nle and played the order inlo the hands
Of capitalists and politicians A grand revolution
convention, and know that The three big assem-
blies OF New York have instructed their delegates
TO demand a thorough OverIurning OF past
methods and past officers, and q return to secrecy
In The conduct Of affairs small salaries for few
officers aud the abolition OF assemblies which
grant membership TO newspaper reporters.
The "road-sculler" contest has caught the town.
Everybody who goes once goes again, and the ex-
cttement among the spectators Is always intense.
The impression conveyed to the observer Is that
the contestants are constantly squirting and every
fnSf MT 10 10 ha dpt- NJ &no
brutality about this six-day contest that charac-
terZed the go-as-you-piease competitions, the
contestants work only certain period each day
and are allowed ample Time Tor rest and refresh
menL II Is a grand signt 70 see so many OF the
best specimens OF muscular MANHOOD bathing for
supremacy In wholesome sport, and the mana
gers may De congratulated upon introducing new
and meritorious athletic amusement OF great IN
terest
"Society" in New York is a curious thing. Mr.
Ward McAllister has teen much laughed at and
widely caricatured for his assertion that New York
'sOclety" was composed OF only 400 families, but
Mr.. McAllister had ample Justification for his
statement There q pretty large COLLECTION OF
people In this town, and there Is society and 30
eiety: The man who has made MS pile and has
he Is In society" because his family visits and
visited by a number OF otner families who also live
no doubt; but 1t isn't Mr.. Ward McAllisuers So
ctety. And Mr.. McAllister ana his 400 who run the
patriarchs' receptions at DeimonlcOs think they
are "Lne" society," They are not They are only
"a" society," more exclusive than the society OF Lne
man who has made his pill but they are not men,
exclusive, prouder, and a more refined society
still among the descendants OF the early Dutcn
New Workers which will never endure Mr.. McAllis-
ters society OF 400 except with sort OF tolerance.
They are less than 400 IN numOer, and probably
less than 200. And even above them there is q So
md among the 200 an occasional blot on the
scutcheon and 'hy bridity" resultant from inter-
haps nifty, and curls It's collective nose In disdain
at the ZOO while II Is as ignorant and Indifferent
TO Mr.. McAliister's egotistcal 400 as II they were
coal beavers or lOngsnoremen. Perhaps back OF
the nifty there may be a stu more exclusive go
ciety" OF ten, aud the progression backwards may
be finally carried out 10 the nth power, as the
the fact is, Mr.. McAllister deserved to be
laughed at and caricatured for his ridiculous
assumption that his 400 constituted "the" society.
The very assertion OF this statement branded Mr..
McAliister himself as beneath the notice OF mem
Der Of the truly refined and well-Dred nobtesse
Refinement that Is not conscious or demonsLra alive
OF itself; "true politeness, as the First Readers
nave II, that Is q part OF its possessor's nature
sensitive mothers opportunity for the study OF
art, music and poetry which only wealth permits,
and the appreciation OF them, Of which only the
inner constituted senses are capable-Jhese are the
qualifications take II. Of true society. rather
tnan the ability 70 lead the german gracefully TO
give grand dinners and follow ''fashion's" silly
And this society, I have observed, does not yearn
to see its movements spread abroad In the news
papers for the public To read In envtOus bitterness
or gaping wonder. And that Is just what Mr..
McAlllSter's 400 does crave, a fact have been
long enough . newspaper man 70 know. From
Hall 10 the ''socety" OF the Patrialchs' bali at
Delm0nicOs, all want to See themselves In pubic
print
And where this craving for publicity begins to
Cease, there Mr.. AcAIister. Is where true society
commences. H. II. SoULI.
Political Notes.
Judge Thurman arrived home from Warrington
yesterday afternoon. At several places small
crowds at the depots greeted him, and at WASH
tngton, Pa, and Newark, Ohio. he appeared on the
platform and thanked them briefly. He Is now
resting, In preparation for his Indiana trip.
Mr.. Blaine arrived 1t Evansville, Ind, last night
He was escorted by number OF uniformed Cuba
and nambeau brigade Of 200. with music and
fireworks, TO the residence or Mr.. ChaS viele
After the meeting this evening he win proceed TO
Louisville and remain there until Monuay morning.
Gov. HILL OF New York, made the INST speech Of
his Indiana campaign al Mitchell, Ind, yeeterday,
He said that the democratic party does not pro.
pose the destruction OF the tariff but It proposes
simply q modification OF it, and that the CRY for
tarih reform. winch has been spreading over this
country, has received such an impetus that It win
again place M Cleveland In the PRESIDENTIAL chalr.
The tax about the countrys prosperity being due
to high protective tarn, hs said, was clap-trap.
Gov Hill arrived at Indianapolis last night
The New York county democracy committee last
night adopted resolutions to the effect that the In.
terests OF the democratic party demand . union on
Congress assembly ana board OF aldermen nomi-
nat,ons A committee OF conference was APP
uvNsh To unVa Aal