Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-26
GOSSIP IN NEW YORK.
Political and Social Matters Talked
About I'm Gotham.

Political and Social Matters Talked
About I'm Gotham.
AcrrvrrT n NEW FORKS LOCAL POLITICAL ORGAN
nArIoSs-A REPUBLICAN SHALL" ooSrKn-
PIATEp-rHE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF
wAsHISeroN's INAUGURATION.
Correspondence Of TIE EVENING STAR
New YORK, Jan. Is
We are just now enjoying an era Of local po-
htical organization on grand scale. good
many people saw in the defeat of Ex-Mayor
Hewitt last fall the speedy and certain dissolu-
ton OF the County democracy as an organiza-
ton. There was. at that time, enough OPENLY
expressed discouragement among the County
democracy members to warrant such an as
sumption, but occurrences since have proved
that the assumption was wrong The County
democracy to-day is stronger than it ever was,
and after next May, when a good many Tam
manyites are sure to be displeased with the
distribution Of patronage, desertion from
Tammany to the Counties is looked for TO make
the latter still stronger. Committees of the
County democracy have been marshaling its
forces ever since last November's defeat and
now that organization can point to q full men,
bership in the working committee of every
election district and in several of the districts
the committee membership includes politicians
OF no little prominence and ability.
Tammany has not been idle lately either
1t is considered somewhat of a blow that Rich
ard Croker, for so long the backbone and sinew
of Tammany, is compelled to take immediate
departure for the south in search of health.
but he leaves a trusted and in every way faith
full ally behind him in the person Of Bis
marck" Gilroy, lately secretary and now chair
man OF the committee on organization. Mr..
Croker, it is whispered, will still be the power
behind the throne, but the counteracting of
dlssenslons an proprid persona will be attended
to by Mr.. Gilroy. The two leaders are neigh
bors and personal friends of long standing. and
they are both in accord with Mayor Hugh j.
Grant whose standing in Tammany is second
only to that of Messrs. Croker and Gilroy.
Iammany Is laying out an aggressive campaign
for years to come which promises to be of con-
siderable consequence, especially that portion
OF it which contemplates the booming of Gov.
David B. Hill in 1892 for the democratic presi-
dental nomination.
Meanwhile the local republican party, like
Br'er Rabbit, The lay low" But at the same
time there is big talk current of efforts to
build up an association like those of Tam
many and the County democracy in the other
great political party, and it really begins to
look as If the republicans mean business The
republican sages know that the exclusive
nature of existing republican organizations
has hurt the party among certain classes. That
black-balling affair at the republican club
which refused fellowship to ex-Consul Peixotto
and other republicans who happened to be
Hebrews, and the newspaper publicity which
that action attained, has done more than any,
thing else to prove the necessity of a republi-
can party organization in New York to which
the poor man, no matter what his race, creed
or calling, shall be always welcome to every
privilege. The republican Dry Goods Mems
club and the Downtown republican club are
the hardest workers for a strictly and broadly
neutrality-suspicious. organization, and be-
fore another autumn the scheme will probably
be In working order.
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Great progress is being made in the arrange
ments for the celebration Of the centennial of
Washington's Inauguration in this city next
April, and the most prominent and the wealth
lest citizens of New York are devoting them
selves enthusiastically to the task of making
the event the most magnificent thing of the
kind ever celebrated in this country. / have
already described the proposed ball and BAN
quet in The STAR. The military display will
be the greatest ever witnessed in America il
things go as they are confidently expected to-
The whole national guard of New York state a
considerable army In itself, will attend Then
there will be regiments from every state in the
Union, and regulars" from the army and navy
will be part of the great parade. The harbor
viii contain every United States vessel that
can be spared from Samoa, Hayti, or other
pressing engagements, and these vessels, to-
BelucT Will d large squadron OF SAILING and
steam yachts, will escort President Harrison
from Elizabethport, N. j., to the foot of Wall
street. New York, just as George Washington
was escorted between the same points one hum
dred years ago. Conservation services will be
held in st. Paul's church exactly as they were
celebrated In that sanctuary for Washington,
| and all the churches will hold simultaneous
services of Thanksgiving. These features with
the celebration of the Inauguration at the sub-
treasury, the great ball and the big banquet
will make the affair one to be talked about for
years to come as a companion to the centen-
| NAL celebration of American independence at
Philadelphia in 1876.
&c
friend of mine who makes a hobby of
orchid-growing tells me that he has pretty con-
vincing proof that the Duke and Duchess of
Marlborough Qately Mrs. Hamersley of New
York; are living on the best of terms with each
other, notwithstanding the widely published
stories to the contrary. The duke has long
cherished passion for orchids but his means
have been insufficient to permit him to grow
them as generously as he wished. Since he
has obtained wealthy duchess, however, he
has simply reveled in orchids of all sorts and
descriptions, and grows them in every availa-
BILE place on his estate. My friend recently
shipped to Blenheim an enormous number of
orchids, and he shows a letter from the duke
in which the latter claims to have the largest
assortment OF any private collection in the
world. If the duke and duchess weren't on the
best of terms my friend argues. she would not
humor the dukes passion for these costly
plants SO lavishly.
Delmonico's is doomed to desuetude, Ifear. as
aresort of the New York elite. The latter say this
restaurant is becoming too common. Politicians
of all varieties have come to make Delmonico's
headquarters, and vulgar people have OBJ
tanned an entree there because they have
money. Such degeneracy is perfectly harrow
ing to the self-respect of a McAllister, and
steps are to be Immediately taken for the es-
Enlistment of a resort further uptown, which
shall be kept as free from vulgar intrusion as a
Turks harem is from other men than the boss
Turk. The elegant house formerly occupied
by the Lorillards, at 5th avenue and 35th
street, is talked of for this purpose, and the
price OF purchase, $500, 600 is said to have been
sand dollars will be expended in fitting up the
mansion properly for its intended purposes.
These purposes are to include fashionable
club, with rooms suitable for the Assembly
balls and the great society dinners, and res
taurant where the 'tip-toppers," as Francis
Wilson calls them, may dine and sup without
suffering the impertinent stares of some cad
from Oshkosh or hay-seed from Tenallytown
who visits Delmonico's as he does any other
''show" when he is on a lark in New York. Be-
sides, there will be smaller rooms where peo-
pie may give private dinners and private balls.
and save all the trouble Of topsy surveying
their own houses for such purposes The plan
is to be much like the Tuxedo scheme which
has proved so successful, differing of course.
in many respects in which a town resort must