The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-16
CHEATING THE DIRECTORY.
Swells Whose Names are Kept in the
BACKGROUND.

Background.
New York, July ia few days ago l
desired t. call upon young friend who
is reckoned among the swells of New York.
had forgotten his address, and turned to
the directory. To my surprise, for he had
lived in the city all his life, and was well
known about town, his name did not ap-
pear there. | then hunted for the names of
several mutual friends from whom | ex-
pectad to obtain the desired information
and. to my increased astonishment, | found
tAat their names, too, were omitted. For
tunatelY, found copy of the Society
List the directory that pretends to con
tain the names of the elite of the city,
and in that discovered the object of my
search
1t was while talking to my friend later on
that loosely referred to his having been
dropped from the LIST of citizens.
why, my dear fellow" was his reply,
there's nothing accidental about that 1t
is the result of design, and l congratulate
myself on having cen clever enough to keep
clear OF those deucedly persistent fellows
that go around collecting names"
But what in thunder do you want to keep
your name out of the directory forY 1
cried, completely mystifed.
lie laughed.
Its getting to be vulgor, old fel,n he
| said 1T is considered more aristocratic
nowadays not to have your name sand
wiched i'll with lot of ordinary people
| The gentleman of to- day is a traveller He
has many residences, and prefers to have it
thought that he is moving about from one
| to another. Anyhow it is an established
fashion and rapidly growing among tue
| select"
| My friend, who would be flrst-class fell
| low II he had not been wealthy ana n mcm-
Der of a very fast set, mentioned many
| other reasons for the desire OF the dude to
! be unknown to the common herd. Some of
! them were more substantial than those al
! ready quoted. Many swellS like Mr..
Eva der Berry Wall, the ex-ling of dudes,
and young Howell Osburn, who spent
fortune almost before he had left his swad-
ding clothes, were annoyed by those horrid
| fellows, defrauled tradesmen. If their
| names were not in the directory and they
had conveniently ordered their articles to DO
sent to another address, it would be diff
| cult for the persistent creditors to make
| themselves as annoying as if 1t were other
wise.
Inen there were unpleasant acquaint-
| auces who might be all right when met
| about town-in the billiard room, the gam
| bling hall or the hotel corridors-but whom
| it wouldn't do to have calling at ones own
! quarters with the possibility of meeting
| there some OF those eminentiy high-tone1
| friends who are the leaders of society. An
! other reason, and this is really a very strong
| one, is to avoid jury service. To he com
| PEELED to serve on jury, together with
| lot Of honest every day citizens, perhaps to
| be locked up in a room with them over
night would indeed be terrible To the
| gilded youth. or even the gray-whiskered
rouuder, this would be a sore affection, full
| Of humiliation.
| Think of Ward McAllister, the self-styed
| leader of the 400 VINO are said to form the
| really exclusive tOp-no oh circle of our So
ciety, as member of jury to try a horse
thief. Think of the shock 10 that high
| strung and sensitive frame when the news
| papers recorded his daily appearance and
! speculated upon the workings of his delicate
| brainl
| After duly bordering over this new freak
| of our male aristOcracy, l investigated fur
| ther. | found that a source of grief to
many of the nobs was the fact that they
had not been able 10 keep their names from
the collectors This was especially SO with
| the most prominent. Ward McAllister, for
instance, occupying the lofty position that
| he does, was too well known to escape. He
managed to keep out his downtown address.
however, and noboay will learn through
the directory that the great society man is
like ex-hing Berry, the agent for cham
| payne house which he booms among his
| ITIeIuS III T6JlTn LOT lTlllCely salary.
! Nevertheless this is said on high authority
to be the fact. Tom Howard, Mr. McAllis-
ters rival, and the leader of that very aris-
tocratic body, the Juvenile Patriarchs
also shining light in the Knickorbocker
| and Calumet clubs, has been more fortunate.
| His connection with leading wine house
remains undivulged as does also the fact
that he is a resident of New York for his
name does not appear at all. Neither docs
that of c. Hayward McAllister, who is fast
| gaining his fathers laurels. George r.
| Fearing, who recently made a tour Of the
world IN a most sumptuOusly appointed
| yacht and who had engaged beautiful raj
aces in Japan and India as resting places
| for his party, is another of the fortunate
| ones.
Pierre T. Barlow, j. Lawrence Breeze, S.
| Crosby Carroll, Alexander Butler Duncan,
| all swells and all cluUmen, are few of the
| many who do not appear in the record Of
| our citizens. Many who nave been unable
| to keep their names out altogether have sue
ceeded at least in concealng their bust
| ness addresses, and many others have given
to the world only their country residences
| These last have to large extent accom-
| plished their object, inasnuch as they can
! thus avoid most of the evils alleged to be
| connected with citizenship in New York
| At the me time all Of them live here the
| great part Of the year. and only occasion
| ally visit country homes JOHN Hoe
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