The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-14
GoTHAMs FAIR VISITORS.
Something New About Amelie Rives-
A Strange Hallucination.

Something New About Amelie Rives-
Strange Hallucination.
NEW YORK, June 1.-THE present is the
shopping season, and if body wishes TO see
every variety of Ewes descendants he can
not do better than come to New York and
stand around on Broadway. There he will
not only see New York women, but those
Of every other part of the country as well.
Theory has it that one familiar with the
signs can always distinguish the feminine
New Yorker among her companions, but If
this depends on dress it is apt to fail.
Ladies from Tennessee, Maine and Kansas
are not behind their eastern sisters in the
matter of dress, and it may be taken as
general truth that American women of to-
day, wherever they hail from, wear
very rich and very simple clothes
LADIES from San Francisco and
New Orleans, no more than New York
ladies, now never admit any eccentricites
of dress, and are so much like one another
that one wonders if the whole world
employs the same dressmaker.
Taking the theory III broader sense, it is
extremely simple to pick out the strangers
New York women never go any farther
down Broadway than Sixteenth street;
| their promenade extends from Forty-second
street to Sixteenth, and there it stops abso-
lutely and at once, and one never sees a
single fair gothamite below that part of
town.
Strangers, of course. do not know this.
nor the fact that there is not much for
them outside the prescribed limits The
best way of all to detect the strangers is by
listening to their comments on pasSers by :
it seems difficult for them to believe that
the handsome men whom they see in hotel
corridors and on street corners are not in
tluential citizens prominent in New Yorks
! commerce and politics
l had an example of this standing on
Broadway, in front of tho st. James hotel
which Prof. j. NJ Clahin was helping to
hold up. Every girl who passed admired
his striking figure but while the born New
Workers instinctively knew he was not of
the ton, the visitors were perfectly certain
of it, and said so in whispers:
"Who can he be1 Somebody too nice,
am surel"
Hush, have seen his pictures; he is the
rich MIR. -"
"Oh, no, he's too English; it must be the
duke of Newcastle"
All this time the professor of the noble
| art of self defense beamed on the young
ladies, nor suspected that they took him for
one of the city's best known swells and for
a travelling duke. Indeed, Prof Clahin
would rather be himself than either. He
never tires Of telling how he stood up for
| four rounds against John l.. Sullivan a few
years ago, and adds that he hopes to face
| the big fellow again. SO the girls passed
| on perfectly contented with him, and left
| him perfectly contented with himself
The other evening sat in pleasant par
lor on Irving place listening to the CONVEX
satlon of some literary people whose names
| are famous on both continents, and the talk
was curious enough to be remembered 1t
| turned | think on the fact that many of the
| greatest successes of American fiction WIFI
teIs have been due partly to accident and
| partly to unexpected circumstances. An
| instance given was that of Miss Louisa
NJ. Alcott, whose great hit was a chance
| one, and a surprise to her. She had been
| writing many years for the weekly story
| papers and though she received money for
| her work the fame was not great. And
when Roberts Bros of Boston, suggested
that she give them, and right away, a
story for young people, she dashed off some
| thing hit or miss at the speed of reporter
| who writes while the forms are waiting.
With dictionary on her knee for a desk
she scratched away from morning until
| night, sometimes writing so steadily that
her fingers were so stiff she could not bend
them, and bothering herself little about re-
vision or polishing. That is the way one of
the most successful of Juvenile stories ever
written was prepared for the publishers. A
hit was the last thing Miss Alcott dreamt
of when she wrote Little Women" But
it was hit that made her fame and her fu-
ture.
One of the great successes of thirty years
ago was Mrs. Mary Jane Holmes Marion
Grey" which she wrote expecting it to be
published in local paper which had given
her local reputation and some money.
But Street & Smith, who had just taken
hold of the Net0 York Weekly, were on the
lookout for a popular story, and they
bought this one for price then considered
| extravagant; in addition to this they in
Cured a debt of over $50, 900 i'll advertising
it, but the venture, which if it failed would
| have meant hopeless disaster to the young
| publishers, proved to be literary bonanza.
Coming to later topic, the HterdteurS
| discussed Miss Amelie Rives' story, 1.-THE
| Quick or the Dead" IN LippincottS. One
| author said that in personal letter to him
self, the editor of that magazine stated he
| had paid the Young authOress 81 900 { n the
| story, but took the liberty to cut out much
stra nge matter before publishing it. Miss
| Rives was furious at what she considered TO
| be an unwarrantable action, but no doubt
| she will think better of it some day. Her
warmest admirers do not deny that she
| needs a careful editor
The recent notorietY of Nine. Dis DeBar,
| and the discussion consequent on her trial
| of all things supernatural, has brought to
light some queer tales. Your correspond
ent learned yesterday of a man, who is
one of the Oldest and most prominent mem
bers of the New York cotton exchange
author Of work on the cultivation and
manufacture of cotton, which is an au-
thority, and an expert in all matters con
nected with the tariff-who is possessed
with most singular belief His constant
companion on change and on the street, Is a
white Sptz dog which no cares for as he
might care for a child. This dog, the
broker believes, is inhabited by the spirit of
his daughter who died several years ago, on
the day the dog was born When our cot
ton king and his wife go to Europe, which
they do every summer, the dog accom-
panies them and shares their stateroom, be
! ing carefully washed and combed every
day. Food is served TO it on plates and in
courses as if it were truly human being.
! | don't know whether the broker takes ad-
vice of the spirits on material things, but II
he does tho miniStrants who advise his
deals are certainlp not lying ones, for he is
one of the most successful operators on the
| cotton exchange. w. l.. S.
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