The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-07
PERSONAL.

II. II. ARMsrEAD. II. A., is to execute the
memorial of Diuah MulocK Cralk that is to bs
placed in Tewkesbury abbey Excellent prog
ress is being made with the fund for the memo
rial, and the list of American contributors is
long one including Mayor Hewitt, Secretary
Bayard. Col. John Hay, DR.. Oliver Wendell
Stedman, Charles bud ey Warner, Bishop Pot
ter, the Rev. DIs Morgan Dix, Phillips Brooks,
w r, Huntington, R. ). Storrs and w. NJ. Tay
lor: Mrs Grover Cleveland, Miss Mary l.. Booth
Mrs. James T. Fields, Soth Low, w Hamilton
Gibson, q w Childs, and many others eminent
in literature and public affairs
THERE was O time, not so many years ago.
says the New York Graphic, when George c.
Gorham on his arrival in New York would have
been talked about and pointed out by hundreds
within an hour after his coming Then he was
secretary of the United States senate pros
pectlve senator from California, and one Of the
shrewdest directors of republican movements
in national politics. The other night he walked
into the corridor Of the Fifth Avenue hotel,
coming up from his summer home at Long
Branch and in the crowd of politicians there
not one recognized him. He is a "reminiscences
of the old Roscoe Conkling day, for to the for
tunes of the great New York chieftain George
Gorham was always faithful. When Roscoe
left the senate George Gorham's fate was
sealed, and Warner Miller SO IN made Gen. An.
son q. McCook the holder of the place which
MIR. Gorham had so long and ably filed, He has
quit politics now and is spending his later years
in more satisfactory way, for he is growing
rich and getting great deal of comfort out of
his easy and well employed retirement from the
worry and trouble of political leadership.
SENSIBLE, eloquent and witty Congressman
Cox said tho other day. in published inter
view, that under no circumstance would he ac
cept nomination for mayor OF New York
Mr.. Cox, as is usual in his public declarations,
was right in this one, for the mayors Office of
New York has been the grave Of many political
ambitions within the memory of the present
generation. Look at the list of the living men
who have been our chief magistrates in New
York: Oakley Hall, the bright, brilliant fellow
an exile in London, but still following his old
journalistic profession. Smith Ely, Jr., who
left Congress as the politicians want Mr. Cox
10 do, 10 become mayor, and with the best in
tentions made a good deal OF q mess OF things
In The office. Edward Cooper still in active
politics. but with the "reminiscences of his ono
torn in the Office weighting him down. Franklin
Edison, for whom the politicians made Official
life uncomfortable, and whoSe administration was
a continued struggle between Hubert o. Thomp-
son and John Kelly, with Dir Edison the prlnci-
pal sufferer. William r. Grace, the mild-eyed,
who docs not see that he has yet lost his place
In public confidence-and Mayor Hewitt. who
has made a brave effort to be everything that a
mayor OF this great city ought to be- Every
man Of them is as politically dead as If he were
actually cofiined and in Greenwood.
GEN. LEW WALLACE has beneath his dignifed
and soderly bearing a considerable vein of fun
One evening, IL is told. he was at a whist party,
and the company got to telling tail Stories"
until one suggested the formation OF an Ana
MAS and Sapphira Club" of which the officers
should be those who could tell the biggest
yarns. Next morning as Gen Wallace was
going down town he met several Of his friends
and they got to comparing eyesight. One OF
them, pointing 70 distant sign board, said he
above il is painted hand. Can YOU see itS'
Gen. Wallace adjusted his eyeglasses and said.
"Oh, can sec that; and can see very plainly