Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-23
A NEW WORKERS. NOTES.
Things and People that Arc-Currcnt
Gossip In Gotham.

NEW YoRKs REPRESENTATIONS AT HARnrsoS's
ISAUorRArIoS-A '.PrRsoxALLY CONDUCTED"
PueRMAdK TO THE HOLY LASD-A NEW THING
IN UIsTERs--A RUSSIAN PRINCES TROUBLES.
Correspondents Of THE EVENING STAR
New YORK, Feb. 81
: great feature OF New York's contribution
to the Inauguration parade in Washington on
March 4th will be the John ]. 'Brisn associa-
ton Of the eighth assembly district. There
will be at least 400 men in line, and they will
be preceded by Patrick S. Gilmore's great
brass band as they march up the Avenue. The
400 will be a handsome. well-fed lot of solid
men, and every one Of them viii look immacu-
late in new plug hat. gray overcoat. but
toned up tight, scarlet neck-tie and tan
colored gloves. bamboo cane adorned with a
miniature national flag being borne at ''carry
arms" Fourteen Pullman buffet cars have
been engaged by this organization, and the
members will ask no favors of hotels while in
Washington, arrangements having bcen per-
fected for sleeping. eating-and drinking
aboard the cars, which will be side-tracked
during the visit. Another novel feature from
this city viii be the Dry Goods Republicans
Glee Club Of 100 trained voices, which has been
drilled for weeks past N campaign songs under
professional leader. This club is TO be
prettlly uniformed, and has perfected itself i'm
military maneuvers well as in singing. so
that its martial array and intricate marching
syoiutions will prove diyertng and attractive.
The largest body of New Workers in the line
will be the City Republicans. under command
OF Col. s. '. Il. Cruger, numbering 800 men.
In all. some two dozen or more civic political
organizations from New York and BROOKLYN
Will parade, besides the regiments of New
iorks military.
1t was an extraordinary party that left New
York yesterday on the Hamburg American
steamship Wieland. In these DAYS of agnostic-
Ism and atheism religious pilgrimage of thou
sands of miles is something of a curiosity. 10
say the least; and when 100 men and women
journey from busy America to place silken
banner upon the tomb of the Saviour in far
away Palestine, the event is one worthy of COM
memoration III history as well as of current
comment. Among the many good Catholics
who sailed yesterday as pilgrims were bishops.
priests, laymen and their wives, and even n
score of comely maidens. The pilgrims will
larry while at Rome on the way, and thence
proceed as expeditiously possible to 'Jeru-
salem, where they will remain several weeks
Then the most enthusiastically religious of the
party will make a thorough exploration of Pal
estine. the Holy Land. while the more worldly
inclined will return by way of beautiful Venice,
gay Paris, and other resorts favored by ordi-
nary European travellers. One feels like rhar,-
sodlzlng little over this first American pill
grimage to the Holy Land, but the one deter
rent against the fine religious and poetic phrases
OF the modern crusade is the fact that the whole
scheme is one of the famous Cooks personally
conducted tours which are essentially savory
of dollars and cents and advertising Fancy
Richard Ceur de Leon and Godfrey de Bouillon
undertaking the pilgrimages of other ages
under the personally conducted" cbaperonage
and guidance of Cooks tourist establishment
-.
Two Wall street brokers who drive every
afternoon on the Boulevards have just intro
duced the lates. thing in winter wear from
London. was at Gabe Cases road house the
other afternoon when they pulled up at the
hostlers horseback in great style and alighted
to discuss something hot with other horsemen
IN the hostelrys bar-room. The outer wraps
of these gentlemen made a sensation when
they entered. The garment is long
ulster, with a hood and cape, and reaches to
the ankles. When its wearer has it arranged
Tor walking On the street 1t is III appearance a
stylish-lookihy heavy top-coat, but when ar
ranged for driving or riding it is the most COM
zeal garment ever seen outside of the circus
ring. Its skirt, very long. is in three pieces
When ITS owner prepares for drive he fastens
each OF the side pieces around his respective
legs. forming a sort of extra pair of warm but
badly-fitting trousers. The middle piece of
the skirt is brought up between the legs and
fastened in front, and the effect is very ludi-
crous, however the arrangement may contri-
butte to its wearer's comfort. The gibes hurled
at these two introducers Of q new fashion by
their friends In Cases hotel were sarcastic.
humorous and hilarious, and before the brokers
resumed their drive bet of $50 had been made
that they would not dare walk down Broadway
from the post-office TO Trinity church at noon
on day to be determined with the new rig
arranged for driving.
Unpremeditated dishonesty exists among
certain class of people who never really in
tended to do wrong. but who were led into it
by their own weak natures, incapable of resist
ing temptation. Such nature is that of Prince
Georges Eristoff de Gourie. the Russian noble
man funny word that noJlen,da, eh?) who was
arrested this week for swindling merchant
out of the price of a sealskin oyercoat. some
$500 believe. / know something about the
prince. who really is a prince by birth. being
the son of Prince David Eristod de Poti in eau
casus, and don't believe he ever went into a
premeditated. cold-blooded scheme for swind-
ling in his life. although he has cut up some
very pretty capers that smack of crookedness
in more countries than one. The trouble with
Prince Georges is that he was brought up
wrong. He was bred an aristocrat of most lux
urious tastes, and when he reached his majority
he had no more idea of the value of money
than the $1,000 prize setter has over at the dog
show. If you had told him there were
whole families who lived on fifty kopecks
day he wouldn't have believed you |
He had no notion that money was
earned. He only knew that 1t was spent |
1t was very silly of the princes father to
bring him up in this way, but he did, and when |
Georges tastes became extraordinarily costly |
the old gentleman had TO hustle sometimes to |
raise the money to pay for them. But he hus- |
tied, raised it somehow, and said nothing. |
When the prince was in Berlin eight years ago |
he needed money badly. His father promised |
to send il in week or so, but Prince Georges |
wanted it Immediately. He hadn't any idea |
that his father would be inconvenienced to |
raise it, SO he conceived the bright idea |
of buying 1900 marks worth of |
jewelry on his credit, which was good, and |
then selling it for cash, by which financial 1
operation he was able to supply his immediate !
He promised, in good faith, to |
pay for the jewelry in a fortnight, when his re-
should come. But in a fortnight his /
remittances did not materialize, and Prince 1
Georges was clapped into Jail, where he stayed |
a month, being released after his father had |
paid for the jewelry. In Paris. in 1888. the
prince did the same thing over again, and
again served term in prison. Then in Lon
don, in 1885, hourly expecting money from his
father, he purloined the gold cigar-case of his
friend, the Marquis dc Lenville, pawned it
for fs, and was caught at it. The marquis
had him arrested, bus when Prince Georges ex-
planned things the marquis withdrew the
charge got his own cipar-case ont of hook and