Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-07-07

uoss-rHE NEW FEIlowcRAFr oLUs-SEwsPArKR
MIN AS FLAYwRIGRrs
corrs.p Ondenoe Of rHk EvksrSo STAR
NEw IoRk. July a.
As I turned into 18th street out Of Broadway
yesterday I saw scribbleton. and he becsoned %
me from the porch OF the new FeIlowcrau club
with an air or combined foxihess and Importance
nave noticed that air about SoribOleton some
Few times before, and &c always Detokened an anx-
iety 70 tell me that he had a Mt Of exclusive news
which would sell 10 a sy Indicate OF newspapersfo for
a mild fortune.
-well Serb. what have you got.- asked
"sh-h old man. this time q e. a sure dead strike
Tor I'VE hundred, aud IN let you IN. Now he
Whispered, ''you know that fellow McNahon that
does organizing promotes Stock companies and
Hobbies for the electric subway people. the Fellow
That got W the big demonstration at fhiladel-
phia TO Grant after his trip around the
world you know We'll I got this straight
from him, and he's the head OF the scheme.
u won't do 10 give u away now. bat whea tbs
political campaign gets little hotter i've news
papers In as many ols cities Will give a hundred
apiece 20 get it,
well. what Is ttf-
Its thls-bg scheme-knack Harrison cold n
wv ! Eet " IN print You see, Mcmahon has dick
Sred with the democratic committee 10 form red
MOI harrison republican clubs IN ali the large cities
atnohs the ChlneSe. Iul look as though the china
men dad gone into the ming IN earnest as a
'thank-you-sir' 10 Harrison Tor his WORK Against
tne , "nS-S nlhese me sures IN Congress. waen the
aus-olu. american citizen nnds John Chinaman
apparently giving Harrison this open support and
shsIss ehe Republicans washeo-money TO held
eject PRESIDENT the true-hlue American CITIZEN,
who hates John Chlnaman viii turn anout aud
vote Tor The other side. us the biggest f,O,ical
scneme Engineered since Mcmahon nNed Old Bur
Shard 10 make his three Es speech 10 BLAINE
"Can he work itG"
work IL? should say So Why. he's alreadv
secured dive Chinese secretaries 10 40 the n.ce--
sary tea-chest correspondence aud he has an I'M,
money he needs To pay Influential ChnaInen To 81
up bis hurrah Tor Harrison In the lauadrles ana
opium POINTS"
Now, my friend scrIbbleton Is given 20 EXPRESS
ing himself ID ngures OF speech and IN no ngure
40 MS taaeuts shine 50 brilliantly as IN the ny
uir on hsperoole. In plain EngllsA my Trend
scr10oletOn IL graf liar But Ia docs lapsp into
uuth sometimes when the truth j. startling
news as lie would be, ana this story may be one
ul ms lnt rmittent lousts with the truth. Al any
tate, hear from thoroughly Trustworthy source
that Chinese Harrison CLUBS have b..en formed Ia
fhHddciphia and have read Ia two different
ucmocfailc newspapers that the republicans wers
sol.lung nm nciai AID frOn the orientals 70 help
lar a. t1ey 60, anu scribbeton NAV be right.
story In pubic.
And, OF course, his name isnr Scribbleton.
would have talked TO Mcmahon himself about
H. but Mcmahon II cut OF town for a rortnicht
Wssni1 t MS chimes clubs, perhaps and was
uhaole 10 see him. But u you near OF a number
oi Chinese political clubs organizing TwiNI now
ana iaii you can begin 10 think a little about what
~N&%NNaNeSa
Apropos OF politics, some timetables have
started the old story again about Levi r. Morton
ana his ancestry. George Wilkes now dead and
gone, Was The originator OF the yarn, and claimed
10 have papers 90 prove II. wilkes Asserted that
Levi p. Morton was not truly Levi p. Morton. 1ut
Moses Z. L-vl, ana that he began life as a pack
peidleT IN The 5ackwoOds Settlements OF New
Hampshire. Here, the story gocs he gave up the
peddhng business and learned the taiior's trade
va" ", M country knlght OF the goose by The name
"a motion, whose natne he afterward adopted. OF
coutse, hoOody who knows anything about the
Morton fainily believes thls yarn and even Il were
true, am al lOss 10 understand how a. would re-
neS1 IN any manner upon the republican candidate
LOT the Nlce-pfesldcncy. IL Is no worse 70 have
been a PACK peidler than 10 have been a ga nal-
urNer, as Garfield Was, or a day laborer, As LIN
com ana Grant were, or a hangman, a. Cleveland
Is alleged 10 have been while sherin OF Erie
county, y. "; and n a man wants 10 change his
hatne Ia this country from Moses Lew 70 Levi
Morton, by all means let him chance it IN pace so
long as IL iRteFferes with nObOdy's business but
hls owl. Ihis was 70 be campaign, We were
tou' Tree rom unworthy personalities on either
side and YET here IN Its very incipiency both par
tles are saying nasty things about one anoIher's
'Andiaa'e' An a regular nsh-mArket fashion
The new Fellowcraft club. on west osth street.
where my fiend ScHU6let0n spends most OF his
tlme, Is the result OF an effort among men who
make newspapers and periodicals 70 found an OF
ganzatlon for newspaper men aud '.literary feI-
iefs" exclusively. IL has long been a source of
complaint IN the Press cub That men are admitted
as thcinoefs VINO are not, ana never have been
newspaper workers by profession. There are
many "a The lfading journalists OF New York ON
the Press CLUBS roll, but there are also among its
members a very host Of amateur writers wUuie-i,e
journalists, and men VINO have Joined IL Simply
LOT pohllcal or puncry purposes And the Authors
Cub, nOurishing body. confines It's membership
70 pSopie VINO make books rather than meas
papers no lew months ago a number u the
"bnght young men" on the san, Win several
gentlenen who work on the uptown magazines.
decided 10 form a cub Tor newspaper and IgrIull,
Tl..sl
formerly occupied d! the Young Republican club.
OF New York city. Htted 40 handsomely with
rcadlhg-rooms NrlIing-rooms library, dining
room, billlard-ruuf,l, and FEW living rooms ana
called ~ the FelOwcrat club. The membership
Il limited In nunUer 70 3OO. ana QndersI aud the
quota Is nearly nilec HE editor Ot the Century
Magazine, Richard Watson Glider, l. pr..sId.nf
anu tine other offices are nllei by men who have
atthnei distinction a. journalists Ny i.llOw-
members OF the Press CLUB affect TO sheer at the
fellowcrnt fellows and call tncm the '.1lt-edged
mag aziuists but In reality the Feiowcralt f. as
democratic body OF workingmen as can be found
Ia NV York, and IL Is exclusive only respect 20
the two requirements Tor admission-prolessaonal
newspaper "ork and good behavior.
The Authors Club Is exclusive In the same a.
recJlon the Fellowcraft. A few weeks ago Nr.
william Waldorf Aston, who has written a very
acceptable novel OF the times OF the Medicis.
"taientlB0," applied for membership IA the Au.
thors' Cub Mr. Aston f. In every respect a gen
llealan be has most engaging manners ana f. As
unassumlng a commoner as can b. IOund not
opened after the vote Jn his in the club there
Were three black balls IN Il. Ine Authors glun
had refused MI. AsJor's application, not because
lac was not an author, Tor he Was and Il. hut be-
cause with him authorship u diversion and not
q profession. The CLUB didn't want 90 admit %
premiership man rich enough u puy them ali
out, ana Mr.. AstoT must give away ali his worldly
goods ana grind out cOPy Tor living ~ his only
business before the Authors club " al have num-
by the way. N the Authors Club TAX : THIS
stand on requirements Tor membership there are "A
good many people whom the pubic considers en-
tilted 10 the name OF authors who may n L be
allowed 10 affiliate with these exclusive liierue,frs
Lowell, stedindn, sioddJni, Homes, Bancroft
many other distinguished authors have prtvats
writing books Indeed a goodly hunter OF our
great authors would never have been great au-
tnOrs at all had they not pOss.-sssd fortunes 10
rely on for support waile they were struggling %
make name In literature
The Sun Office Is gone daft on the subject of
playwriting. From the freshest reporter 10 Editor
Danas chief lieutenant, the whole force. reporters
editors, copy readers, every man Jack OF them Is
interested in play OF some sort The nrst any
body on the outside suspected of This departure
was when "Amanuens4s" WAS produced a lew
weeks ago, ana az bec0me brgiied about that IT'S
farcical absurdltles were cOncOcted Ia the Naa
editorial room. The dramatic edltor, 10 was said.
had done the most OF the literary work on
"Amanuensis," but he had accepted bits OF PATCH
ness" from others on Tue SIAN, 20 that the base
ball reporter, the labor reporter, the dog-nght
specialist aud the once cat had each proprietary
claim tie authofshipof the piece. Then another
play, a society DRAMA was trlel In New York one
afternoon. IL bore no authors hame, but the
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