The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-01-25
THEIR JEWELS.
Tho Diamonds Worn by Prominent New
York Politicians.

momentous state occasions without
diamond ornaments. Tho decoration
that proved a citizen to be a true blue
OF the Tammany tribe was the Americas
Club tiger, with eyes of flashing bril-
liants. But if the golden tiger were
there it made little difference whether
his eyes were diamonds, rubies. opals,
or emeralds.
Diamonds have always been in moro
general use among Democratic states
men than among Republicans, aud
young aspirants for power and place
arc more partial to them than the old
diamond ornament, and in his late
years Samuel j. Tlldcn dccked his pcr-
son with no other jewels than plain
pearl studs. When q young man he
wore diamonds in profusion Of Tho most
beautiful and expensive types, but he
always kept within the limits of the
sCverest taste.
Abram S. Hewitt never wears dia-
monds. and neither does Theodore
Roosevelt nor Henry George. In fact,
the men who have filled the mayoralty
chair during the last twenty years were.
with scarcely an exception, remarkable
for tho simplicity Of their dress and the
absence of jewel ornaments of u snowy
or expensive character. Mayors Grace,
Cooper. Ely, and Havcmcyer never APP
studa Mayor Wickham displayed dia-
mono studs and collar buttons very fire.
quently, but Mayor Edison never wore
them except in full evening dress.
Roswell Z. Flower is n sworn enemy
to diamonds as articles of personal
ornament. He has been frequently
heard to say:
Persons who require jewels to show
Oil their points, or TO draw of attention
from natural defects, arc to be pitied
rather than complimented. Diamonds
are all very we'll for sporting men and
horsc-jockoys."
Notwithstanding this very positive
expression of opinion, Mr.. Flower is tho
owner of q beautiful diamond of the
purest water, which he wears every
day. 1t is set in a heavy gold ring
worn on the second finger of his left
hand. The diamond is always carried
on the inside, and cannot be seen un-
less the hand is opened out. His init.
mate friends suppose it to be nothing
more than o plain gold ring. MIR.
Flower wears it because it is q present
from his wife.
None of tho judges OF the higher
courts in this jurisdiction make a show
OF Jowelry, but it is different among the
magistrates who preside in the police
courts. j. Henry Ford has the rcputa-
ton of being the best dressed man on
the police bench. lie is n good Judge
of diamonds and owns many valuable
sets. Justice PATTERSON wears diamond
studs regularly, and Justices Murray
and Duffy occasionally.
John d. OBrien, Robert G.. McCord,
nnI Rnrnnu Iirlia ,lN l-
trio" Of Republicans, emulate ono
another in the size and quality of tho
diamonds they display. "Shed'f Shook,
the Republican leader in the Fifteenth
district, carries off the palm from them
all. Everybody who frcquents the
Morton House must have seen and adj
mired his "a. 200 solitaire, which weighs
four and q half carats.
Several of the statesmen who were
elected to Congress recently are
wearerS Of costly jewels. "Tlm"Camp.
bells shirt-front Is covered over with O
cluster IN inch square. His friends say
the cluster is composed of diamonds OF
pure water valued at &c. 700, but his
political foes declare they are paste
Jewels which can be duplicated in tho
Bowcry for SO cents.
Congressman-elcct Amos j. Cum
mings appears in very small and neat
diamond studs on dress occasions, but
Congressman Truman A. Mcrriman
thinks he is n big diamond himself and
needs no foreign adornments. Bourkc
Cochran has q liking for diamond studs,
zen. Spinola and Lloyd Bryce are salts
fed with diamond collar-buttons. Perry
Belmont rarely displays q diamond,
and then only very small studs in even
ing dress. Tom" Grady will sport
diamonds in 1888.
The most gorgeous and beautiful dia-
monds worn by public men in this city,
which cannot be classed as loud, are
probably those which deck the persons
of Police Commissioner John j. Nc
Clave and Richard M. Walters, the
Tammany brave. Mrs. McClavc wears
a pair Of diamond earrings which
arouse envy in the breast of every lady
in the house when she enters q theatre.
AS she twists her pretty head around
when the lights are turned low they
glitter and sparkle like q lantern in the
chamber Of a coal mine. They are gems
OF rare beauty and high value.
Captain Williams wears big diamonds
in the evening. rs does also ox-Police
Superintendent Kclso. Sheriff Grant
cares nothing for diamonds, but Reg
lister John Reilly, Tom Costigan, Nick
Muller, Jim Barker, Rollin Nj. Squire,
and Martin B. Brown love them dearly.
Mr. Charles Steckler, brother of the
judge. years q diamond solitaire val
ued ut $1,000. Lawyer William +.
Howe wears n cluster not quite as big
as o buckwheat cake, and little Lawyer
tlummei wears very neat diamonds.
lie received o present of n new set from
Lord Lonsdale. Joseph j. O'Donohue,
the Tammany chieftain. wears very
pretty diamond studs. Robert b. Noon
ey, the President of the Board Of Alder
mon, and Henry w. Beekman, the
presidentelect, both grace their bosoms