The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-16
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS.
Some of the Queer Phases of Life In
New York.

New York.
New YORK, July l4,--The other day
noticed slightly built hatchetfa faced man,
in seedy clothes and weather-worn straw
hat, lounging in the stately gateway of the
great Mills building on Broad street. He
seemed to have nothing TO do but to gaze
lstlessly at the busting scene of hurrying
brokers, clerks and me ssengers and the long
line of cabs stretching from the Stock
exchange for block or more down the
street
"Do you know who that Isl" asked a
prominent broker.
"No."
His name is Baldwin. He was once
colonel of regiment and was groomsman
for Governo, Sprague of Rhode Island
when he was married TO Kate Chase, the
daughter of Chief Justice Chase He uSei
to be connected in business down here with
his brother, Barney Baldwin, one of the
swells of the Tuxedo Park club"
1t was new illustration of the dramatic
vicissitudes that come to men in Wall
street. Once this man who is dependent
upon the bounty of relatives or friends
whom he does not hesitate to aocost for
petty "loans," was handsome man, and so
prominent in society that he WAS the host
man at the wedding of a governor to a
beautiful and distinguished woman. But
though he is now only about As, he looks
ten years older; the face il sallow and
pinched and pimply, suggesting something
of which the sacred writer of old said, "at
the last it stingeth like an adder
Gov. Sprague himself fell from his social
estate partly through undue addiction to
the wine cup, quarreled with his wife,
became insanely jealous Of her and threat
ened to shoot the late Roscoe COnkling, who
was the legal adviser of the daughter of his
lifelong friend, the chief Justice Sprague
was rather picturesque figure in the early
days OF the war, but any illusion as TO his
personality or delusiOn as 10 his ca
pacity for public life was soon dis.
PEELED, and with him his old cronies
stepped down to their natural
Level. The brother of Gov. Spraglles old
fellow roisterer, Baldwin, was at one time
a stock broker in partnership with a rather
bright fellow named Draper. The late
millionaire operator, Baron WoeriShoffer,
met Draper one night down at Long Branch
before the young fellow had ever dreamed
of becoming stock broker on his own
account, and said:
Draper, why don't you go into business
in Wall streetp
"Why, haven't money enough to buy a
seat in the stock exchange was the
answer
''Oh, IL that Is the trouble" said the
operator-who had accumulated $40, 00O, 900
i'll daring stock campaigns-"if that is all
the trouble | will buy you a seat myself"
lie did. IL was not the mere ELUSIVE
talk of II champagne supper TO be coldly
ignored the next day when the blood was
less heated. Baron W oerishotler actually
bought seat in the stock exchange for
$4,000 and presented 1t TO Lhe partner of
Barney Baldwin, who is well knowh in New
Y ork society, while his brother, once a
colonel and a handsome beau in another
social world seems to play the role Of
Lazarus at the rich mans gate.
There are queerer contrasts than this in
New York business life. One of the most
prosperous brokers in the city allows his
old father to black boots for living He
makes no denial of tue fact, but says that
the old mnn is not fitted for any other work,
and is better employed than idle The
broker himself used 10 be Dootblack, and
rose by sheer force Of character aud native
German shrewdness
Charles Lambs devotion to his insane
sister was one Of those instances Of self.
abnegstion which are as silver lining 10
the darker and more sinister traits Of
human nature, but IL Is, perhaps, more
than cqualed IN some respects by an in.
stance OF un,elfi ID devotion on the part Of a
man in one Of the institution near New
York, such as Is rare outside ~ the pages of
fiction. IL is the case of n man aud wife.
They lived happily together, but by one Of
those strange visltati0ns OF fate. tue happy
wife became insane Cases are not Ta q
where husband has shown devotion 10 an
insnne wife There are others IN which the