The morning news., 1889-04-27
FIVE MEN OF GOTHAM.
ONCE COUR-ED AND PRAISED BUT
NOW WITHOUT INFLUENCE

! What an Easy Thing 1t Is to Fall Into
the soup-Father McGlynn Drops
Out-Cyrus w. Field No Longer
Powerful-The Last Days of Tom
| Murphy, Minister Grant and His
Wife.
(Copyrt0ht 1sso)
| ? NEW York, April 2Q-The most talked
| of man IN New York few months ago
| was the Rev. Father Ed sin McGlynn. His
nam was in the newspapers constantly
A score OF reporters watched every move
ment that be made. Every sentence that
dropped from his lips was eagerly grabbed
up, and printed in the newspap pers He was
hero in his way because he had defied the
church of Rome. crossed sword with Leo,
and the ba tie, TO say thu least of it, was
drawn one. l. was not very diffic lit then
for him to crowd Cooper Institute with
4 4,OO) or 5000 eager and howiug men and
women who bslleve in the silvertongued
orator, ald who seened to think him a new
Crusader He was on the top wave of
popularity, and all New Yo"k, watch in-
cludas the rest of the world, from this
stand 0oint, seemed to be at at his feet.
Suddenly, however, he awoke one day and
found, to use the pdt0iS Of the Bowery that
he was ''in the SOUP" a ID to-day his name
is not even mentioned in any of the great
daily newspapers A handful of men a d
women still believe in him and attend his
lectures but there is no crush now, aud
no sting and pushing for seats He has
simply dropped out of life SO far as New
York IS concerned, and will remain so til
he gets tired of 1t, and creates q new seusa-
uon. I saw Father McGlynn on the street
to-day, broad of shoulder, deep Of chest, a
| Hercules in build, with a face beaming with
good nature, AMI eyes tnat danced like an
Irish girl in love but nobody knew him.
He had simply been pushed aside in the
great rush and hurly-burly, because be has
| had his say and his day, and has not stood
the test OF novelty that New Workers de
mand.
Right behind him followed another man
equally as weIl-knOwn, whose name is a
household word, whose contributions to
mankind have made them many times his
debtor, but w4o elbowed his way through
the crowd Of men and boys without attract
ing the sIigest attention. Just a year ago
his name was in all the newspap 5rs. He
was then at the head and front of the
Western Union Telegraph Company. He
more than any other man b ld given Ne
| York its magnificent rapid traosIt system
He was bull in Wall street when it paid
to be bullish, and a bear when the lambs
were fat and juicy 1t was nothing un-
usual to see a crowd of ten OF twenty
brokers at his heels as be hurried from one
private room to alotDer IN his oti o, while
all the time the ock-ticker kept up its
merry little me Ody of tick, tick, tick as
he iaked the dollars in. But, like the IRA
dltional pitcher, he went to the we'll once
too often, and Ia twinkling MS mag lificenU
fortune was lost, and he was reduced to
the dlrest extTe mes. This IS the reason
! that this man whO gave the best dinners
that were given III town, who specu-
lated always wildly but surely, who
owned 100000 country resi-
dence, whose yacht plowed the
North river and took the waves from no
opponent, came to MS greatness. and by
the same test he fell. He now wal ,s
through Wall street without a follower.
| The banquet halls that once knew him SO
well are now deserted. Tne Jolly Lite
broker no longer follows at his heels. The
steam yacht has been sJId. The 81 900, ,0J0
| Country re e,idence IS mortgaged for all Ii i,
worth. In tn pdtois of the Bowery, he is
| Tin the soup"
His name3 On yes! Cyrus w. Field
II you happen to be In the neghborhood
of the FO ty-Secoud street depot about
O'clock of au al ernoon, and cast your eyes
Safe Deposit Company wherein l. stored
the Vanderbilt bo ds and jewels, you will
see sitting at a desk a well built, round
snOuldered, gray haired man who a few
years ago was tae idol of the republican
politicians, and the ideal postmaster of
this city. 1t is Tom James, he who sat in
G lrfiold's caaiuet as Postmaster General
You can tell from his dress, aud from the
placid look on his face that be lives well,
aud Is a peace with all the world. But
the life he IS leading now as the president
of the Safe Depot Company is not the
one which he Graves, and which suited him
so admirably during the stormy days be-
fore Grover Cleveland's r0tund form rose
upon the horizon of our national politics.
In the pdtOiS of the Bowery ne is in the
soup" lie is no longer consulted by poll
| ticianS In fact ey pay no attention to
nun. lie has hardly enough lnfiue ICE to
get policeman on the force or a brake nan
on the New York Ceatral railroad system
Five years ag he could have placed
army of dependents in power aud his word
was law from Lake Erie to Montauk Point
New men and new measures have crowded
him Off the track. His bank account is bet
ter than 1t was five years ago, but he is not
happy. Flounderiug ''in the soup is not
| conducive to happiness in either man or
woman.
Let us turn the kaleidoscope again.
| In the crowd of loiterers who pissed up
and down Broadway last Saturday after
noon was short, tnlck set, red-faced man
OF 90 years of a e. He seemed to be out
OF place among the gaily dressed womel,
with their new spring clothes, the odor of
violets, and the Beau Brummels of our
later day. Yet, in his time he was a king,
If not in name, at least in power. 1t was
Tom Murphy, ex-coliector of the port Of
New York. He was one If Grants cronies,
a splendid machine politician, a man who
grew fat on the public service, who never
drank anything but champague-not that
he liked it, but because it was expensive a I'D
it was his boast for years that ne spent
$l0J a day, every dav of his lite for wi le,
for himself, and his friends. From bis APP
pearance now incline TO the belief that he
has changed from wine to beer. At any
rate. although he made and unma1e
| scores of men, he is to-day practically with
out friend. In the pdtoiS Of the Bowery
"he is IN e soup" Ii was NJ Irphy who
brought Cen Grant TO Long Branch, and
he gave that summer resort It's first great
boom. lie was the master there as well as
| in the custom house, and every dictate of
his will was relgiously obeyed. His income
OF 100000 year as collector was not
enough to keep him, AMI whoa his term eX
pired be was heple sly in debt, and has re-
manned 50 ever since To-day his clothes
are old and faded. His linen looks soIied.
and his silk hat has lost its gloss. None of
! the politicians kno him, or If they do,
care 10 speak e. hln, for they pass him by
without "A LOOK or a nod Hs see MS L, ba