Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-03-29
ITrom our Regular Corrospondentl

Iron our Regular Correspondent
NEW York, March 2l.-The ruornini
after the many famous and fashionable din.
ners which he adorns with his handsome
/ presence and delights with his discrmina-
ting wit and pungent humor, ChaunceJ
Mitchell Depew steps brisiily into the big
| light room looking out on Vanderbilt avenue
and ADD street, whore he discharges his du
ties as president Of great railroad corpora
ton. As he passes through an ante-rooH
and gets peep through on open door at
another big room, where half dozen clerks
have been at work for couple of hours he
can't help noticing that every clerk in sight
is for the time being reading morning
paper, and, what is more to the point, chuck
ling unreservcdly over its contents. As hi
football reaches their ears down 90 the pa
pers and the pens rattle away again And
the president cannot help smiling, too. for
he knows they have been reading the report
of his last nights speech, which as usua.
convulsed the table and was 'punctuated
with frequent laughter" Before he gets
fairly down in the leather chair by his big
desk, which is in the centre of his big Office,
a door from the adjoining room opens, a
bright well-kcpt smiling face appears, and
cordial interested voice calls out: "Chaun-
coy, you must come in and tell me all about
it." 1t is one of tho Vanderbilt boys, and
Chauncey is as much boy as any of them,
if he is the best after-dinner speaker and
railroad president in the country. 1t hM
been said that the great mems great men are
not great to the outside world But one of
the greatest mon about the president Office
Of the New York Central railroad company
is undoubtedly II. G. Duval, the presidents
secretary. 1t is not to be wondered at that
Mr.. Depew preserves his smooth, calm face
and smiling gray eye under such business,
social and political responsibilities as fall on
few shoulders, as long as he has such an Of
ficient buffer between himself and the shocks
and jars of the importunate outer world.
Mr.. Duval is a sedate young man, anywhere
between % and 40 years of age, the promi-
nencc of his features indicating decision and
energy, his big brown moustacbe and bright
brown eye promising manness and intelli-
! gence. He gets big salary and has been
with Mr.. Depew 50 long and studied him so
carefully that the chief lieutenant of the
NanderbIts knows that he can run over to
Chicago and spend week at republican
, convention and his business will not suffer.
Nearly all the very rich New Workers
who have made or inherited fortunes main
tain business Office of some sort OF other.
The Aston office is on 26th street, back of
7 Trinity chapel. The Vanderbilt Office adj
, joins that of Chauncey VI. Depew in the
o Grand Central depot building The Goulds
: have their offices in the Western Union
. building The Goelets have an Office at No.
" 8 West nth street. in a very handsome
three-story pressed brick building of novel
- architectural design and arranged within
i with due regard to convenience and appear
! ance. Here their rents are collected and
receipts given out on sheets of letter-head
bearing the superscription of Robert and
+, Edward Goelet. The Goelet residence. by
: the way, at 18th street and Broadway, is
one of the most remarkable looking hoLses
in the city of New York. 1t is an old
fashioned mansion, from the doors of which
the elder generation of Goelets stepped with
stately dignity, and in the yard of which
they kept until the live stock became side
: show for Broadway's busy throng, a COW
and the rooster and hens appropriate to n
, farmyard. The younger Goelets are as well
: known in fashionable society as their cup is
, to IA ing men.
y Only the regular patrons Of the brilliant
- Hoffman House bar-room know that this
! establishment keeps "bouncer' just the
same as any saloon on the Bowcry. But in
stend of being a loud mouthed tough in
-, big plaid suit with cane half as big as
y" telegraph pole he is quiet gentleman who
- sits demurely at side table or strolls inof-
: nsivelv about the room. He is Billie
= Edwards IN expire fighter of no mean rec
=, ord. His business is to heip ''tired patrons
Il to their carriage and see them home and TO
=, pleasantly but firmly quiet any disputes
: which may occur over bottle of wine. He
" is also on hand to see that well dressed
, crooks and confidence men do no manage to
y get into the barroon. He dresses very
> quietly and few would ever suspect that MS
y, fist is like a sedge hammer when il becomes
~ necessary to use it. Speaking Of Edwards 5
- de ure domeanor reminds me Of a incident
~ Coming uptown in stage one afternoon,
~ the driver squirting through the hole where
; the change was passed up announced to him
to his surprise that he had not paid his fare
, Edwards declared that he had The driver
. swore at him. Edwards told him firmly
- that he had paid. "Get out, - cried the an
~ cry driver, "aud l will lick YOU" He got
- out the driver got down from his box.
= "Pay up'' shouted the brawny Jehu. Il
~ have paid said the mild Edwards, "Nou
10 lie: take that" shouted the whip. And
sc take that " modestly replied little Edwards.
W The big fist of the man Of wheels and whips
!? was turned aside by a dexterous counter
u and the stalwart lay on his back. sect up
= and drive said the little man. "Who in
HI are you - asked the astonished Jehu,
"Billie Edwards" was the soft reply. ''Why
didn't you say so:" said the big man. climb
ing up to his box. Then and always was
w Edwards pohte ana courteous, quick as q
gun fash and as insistent as dynamite.
.. 1t will not be long before the cutlery
:, against the designations of fashionable wo
= men win be as great as it is just now against
:. wealthy young club-men. They are becom
- ing more and more dissipated in the large
an cities every year, and the present generation
- is doing things that their grandmother
~. would have tainted at the very thought Of
,ta One of the leading physicians OF the nation
I,, al capital remarked to me one day that if {
- brand was on the forehead of every woman
~ who used opium in some form, society herr
IA would go to pieces. He attributes this
~ frightful condition of affairs to the dissipa
%. ted life led here by the women of the upper
o. tendon. The endless round of balls anc
~. receptions is such strain upon them that
ia they must seek relief in some way. They
w begin by taking soothing syrup, as rule,
~ to put them to sleep. This after WINE
,at fails to act, then paregorc is resorted to-
' From This IL il only n step TO pure opium